wanderlust said...

wanderlust at 05:07 PM JST - 14th September

From friends who work in the Kasumigaseki Ministries, they are the last efficient of government departments. Tired, old men sit in front of laptop computers all day, eyes closed for hours, while temporary staff at minimum wage do most of the work. Contracts go out to cronies' companies, at rates…

Posted in DPJ eyes pay reduction, job cuts for national civil servants at 05:07 PM JST - 14th September
wanderlust at 12:57 PM JST - 14th September

Lying, cheating, betraying friends, consorting with enemies, sacrificing your own people; have always been part of Kipling's 'Great Game', and the British have been playing it longer than most...

...there should be no surprise over these revelations.

Posted in British Foreign Office denies secret Libya deal at 12:57 PM JST - 14th September
wanderlust at 11:52 AM JST - 14th September

Boasting about the body count is starting to sound exactly like the 5 o'clock follies of the that other conflict in SE Asia, which was never even a declared war, just a conflict...

And timorborder - the Special Forces Support Group who took part are made of the 1 Para,…

Posted in Dozens of Taliban killed after U.S. deaths at 11:52 AM JST - 14th September
wanderlust at 09:30 AM JST - 14th September

With these almost daily reports of whom JAL must be talking to, they seem to have contacted every airline, in their desperate search for cash and a gullible partner.

Wonder if any of these potential partners would conduct a due diligence survey on JAL?

They are definitely circling the drain...

Posted in JAL in talks to strengthen ties with American Airlines at 09:30 AM JST - 14th September
wanderlust at 09:25 AM JST - 14th September

Often seen cars and occasionally trucks use the hard shoulder (emergency parking area?) for "overtaking", passing on the inside, one of the most dangerous manoeuvres that you can make. Drivers here are just so impatient...

Posted in Man killed while changing tire on expressway in Yamanashi at 09:25 AM JST - 14th September
wanderlust at 01:17 PM JST - 13th September

And then they'll go back to the 3LDK rabbit hutch where they live; and either pull a pan of boiling water over themselves, set that lovely paper hat and their hair alight in the gas ring, or slice off parts of their fingers with mama's fruit or vegetable knife.

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wanderlust at 01:02 PM JST - 13th September

The skeletons are beginning to be dragged out from the DPJ cupboard, and as often stated the DPJ appear to just the same as the LDP; but then again, that's where most of them came from in the first place.

Posted in Newly elected DPJ member involved in bankruptcy proceedings at 01:02 PM JST - 13th September
wanderlust at 10:41 AM JST - 12th September

That must be a dream job for a Filipino - issuing visas to people to come to Japan. They should check his lifestyle with respect to his salary.

Only job higher on the scale would be issuing US Green Cards to fellow Pinoy and Pinay...

Posted in Staff at Consulate General in Manila inappropriately issue 97 visas at 10:41 AM JST - 12th September
wanderlust at 10:06 AM JST - 12th September

But they were NOT threatened.

They just imagined they would be..... pre-pre-emptive response?

Posted in Yale criticized for pulling Muslim cartoons in book at 10:06 AM JST - 12th September
wanderlust at 09:53 AM JST - 12th September

Looks like a fund raiser for 'Save the Children Japan", an organisation that seems to do...nothing. Very few Japanese "Charities" seem to do anything other than provide jobs for ex-bureaucrats, with an extremely high percentage of their funds being spent on "administration", and little on their targets.

Posted in Fujiwara stresses importance of breast-feeding at 09:53 AM JST - 12th September