Joanna comments

Mount Tateyama, not Mount Toyama.........

My favorite are the Japanese doctors I know who tell me they slept through classes or skipped them all together.

Finally a photo of a place outside of Tokyo!

I am sure that "glooms" all over the world will enjoy this.

In university students do two weeks of "internship" ie student teaching to "learn" how to teach. When I got my teaching credential in California I spent the first SEMESTER teaching one class in high school. The second semester we had to teach 3 classes. All of this was under the supervision of a "master teacher" who assisted us along the way. Knowing how to teach is way more than a "test."

"The other day I went to a nail salon in Tokyo, and was assigned a nail technician who had recently returned from a working holiday in the U.S"

Considering the US doesn't have a working holiday visa.... not sure how this could be correct.

I flew JAL in Sept. JUST because they allowed 2 bags.

Same Aeonpet that sells dogs from "breeders?" Dogs that are too small and too young to be taken from their mothers? Stop selling animals, Aeon, then maybe I'd trust your retirement home.

"The data from our research in the U.S. on the natural life of a dog or cat in the wild is that it would be a very short life because raw food can be contaminated...."

and yet if you look on the HIlls website:

http://www.hillspet.com/our-company/hills-voluntary-recall-of-science-diet-adult-small-and-toy-breed-dry-dog-food.html