DeepAir65 comments

h'mmm wonder where they got that idea from? iMac possibly?

yeah - only in Japan. If a trainspotter gets on your carriage in the UK you would probably want to get off without being asked due to the smell!!!!

Never did get train/plain/etc spotting - weird!

key money still exists because the realtors charge one months rent as a fee - for renewal as well... This when you have probably done all the work for them!

A state that outlaw the WC - there is hope for the world. Should really change my name to "BoredOfTheWC" and I have not even watched any of it yet!

must have been a slow news day yesterday - and my first thoughts after reading the headline was someone must have been drunk...

good job the escalators down to the hibiya line at ginza are short or he might have taken more out.

It's a LOT more practical than what they currently have going on airlines. If they have ONE problem with the current entertainment system it affects EVERYONE on board. If you have an iPad with a problem they can hand you another one.

On Jetstar they already do something similar where they give you a console so this make perfect sense for them as the current console is about 3 times the thickness of an iPad so it will give them more storage space. But they would get even more if they gave everyone a seatback system like other airlines...

they must have read my posts elsewhere - this is about the only way I can see an iPad being useful and I am a big Apple fan

I think it's important to remember that it's just a game

which is why they have already lost.... Try telling that to the Brazillians, Argentinians, French, English etc

Japan simply does not have the population base to be able to produce winners.

But doesn't Japan have one of the largest populations of the competing countries? What am I missing?!?!?

I left the UK 10 years ago and there were 5 channels - come back and with digital there appears to be hundreds! Guess that will happen too in Japan.

When I bought my last TV in Japan 7 years ago they were warning about the need to buy a digital compliant TV. Seeing as most gadgets like TV's have an intended useful life of 5 years I think they have been reasonable in their approach to the switchover.

Wait till after Japan flop out of the WC and TV prices will reduce significantly again.

I'm with tkoind2 - I am a big apple fan and will always promote MacBook, iMac etc but I really do not see the point in the iPad.

Even if I had the money, which I don't, I would not buy one.

the first guy is so funny - I the conman gets conned!!! :-)

wow! where does she hang out that she does not see Japanese men screaming at their wives? But worse than that is a Japanese "fishwife" going for it.

She really should try getting out of Ginza and Omotesando and discovering the real Japan

nothing new - these kind of things have been around for years

Cleo beat me to the punch - too much salt in it for it to be healthy for me, not good for my blood pressure!

Instead of banning smoking in all sorts of public places with plenty of space, they should ban smoking for drivers of vehicles. It is dangerous, period.

Smoking should be banned at a place of work and in the UK where it is that includes your lorry or your cab etc as that is your place of work.

Never understood why smoking is allowed whilst driving - if you smoke enough you are going to cause a problem some time or other whilst paying more attention to a live flame than the road.

Was lucky enough to be taken to a matsuzaka beef restaurant in shimbashi a few years back. Delicious and not as pricey as I thought (even though I was not paying)

Can't for the life of me remember the name of the place as I would happily tell you all.

Yum!

Very.

Maybe not as safe as it was but still very safe by comparison to most (if not all)

I suggest we all refer to it a 'Adidas Park' or 'Puma Park' or ...

If I remember rightly Adidas did bid for the park as well. Actually I am not sure why people call it a park as it is mostly the roof of a car park and seriously shabby. I think the only people truly put out are the homeless who will have to find a new park to ruin

Wow!

I have never ever seen anyone go up to a smoker and say hey, there's the sign, no smoking here please. Are people actually doing that? Has anyone seen that?

Next to my son's school there is a playground and an art college. Once a bunch of art students where using this playground as their outdoors smoking area. In my pigeon Japanese I pointed out the children and asked if they could not smoke there. They apologetically moved on - so yes it can be done.

Sensing a shift in the way the wind is blowing, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has proposed a bill in the National Diet to ban smoking in the workplace, which it hopes to get enacted by next year. It’s entirely possible this may lead to an eventual ban on smoking in commercial areas such as restaurants and hotels.

most sensible thing to come out of any ministry in years. Due to it's addictive properties I don't understand how tobacco is not classified as a drug and outlawed.

she was certainly looking great after Jenson's win in Melbourne

but when will it open?

As the group arrived, a truck of right-wing nationalists blasted slogans, saying Japan should not be singled out for whaling and dolphin hunts because Westerners “are killing cows.” They also demanded President Barack Obama apologize for the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Was this in Japanese as usual? In which case I am sure the protesters welcome the translation here - maybe they thought they were being welcomed!

I went through taiji by accident and it is a beatiful area but well off the beaten track for western tourists.

JAL is still flying? I was hunting round for tickets yesterday in the UK and operators here will not book JAL or BA at the moment. And JAL did not even show up in my expedia search.

We had a great flight to the Gold Coast last year on Jetstar - much better than our JAL flight to Cairns a few years before. I don't think JAL customers will be too unhappy if they are flying on Jetstar planes. The JAL customers we saw on our flight were all getting served first and their more expensive ticket price included food etc.

She's a trilingual university graduate and she was a secretary making tea for visitors - what a waste! I hope this opportunity opens some more doors to her - other than the talento rubbish...

good luck to her

there was an SDF museum in shibuya?

actually sounds more like a typical recruitment centre from the description given

I support their decision to make a stand against the bullies. Someone needs to do something to educate Japanese institutions that all sorts of bullying no matter who you are will not be tolerated.

But as benhur suggests I recommend they send her to an overseas boarding school.

because they enjoy taking holidays all together when prices are hiked

I am not surprised that some people are trying to take advantage of the Toyota situation to shift the blame of their reckless driving.

The above article said the data was investigated in the presence of the police - so hopefully they are experts and not just a plod watching them. What am I talking about? This is Japan!!!!! If wishes were fishes...