JustAGoodOleBoy comments

A new favorite one that needs to stop is wearing a fat backpack backwards for the sole purpose of carving out your own space in order to hold your smartphone on top of the backpack so you can play games or whatever on the phone.  Removal of backpacks and holding them while on the train used to be taught as the good manner practice.

Exactly why NHK has to be crushed.  No small fortune is being confiscated from the populous and paid to these entertainers for them to appear on the show.

Awesome.  Increased supply puts downward pressure on prices.

Yeah Jiro quit accepting reservations due to the growing number of no-shows from Chinese tourists who had made reservations.

Ploy to drum up purchases of tickets for Air Pistol and Speed Walking.

Of course she can't mention anything about US Tax law being a factor, while certainly is. HUGE penalties from the US if that is deemed to be a factor.

Let's Go Cardinals !!!!

Increased due the consumption tax increase and the retired population drawing down their savings.  Not factors that position Japan for long-term economic improvement.

And this doesn't include the fake tickets they will print up and sell on line to suckers.

Let's Go Cardinals !!!!!

Hhmm...really thought those two love birds were going to make it.

The whole thing is a sham and a joke. This new lottery is simply a way to entice frustrated applicants into buying tickets for Air Pistol, Handball, and Race Walking. Tickets for Opening Ceremony, Gymnastics, Swimming will absolutely not be available in any material quantities in this secondary lottery. Despite all those statements of fairness in opportunity, if you want tickets for the popular events you will have to buy an all inclusive travel package from the official resellers and pay through the nose.

The agency is offering packages that combine rooms with Olympic event tickets, but they don't come cheap.

For those who applied for Olympic tickets but didn't get any, now you know where your tickets went and why.

Sounds like Maverick is still "dangerous".

Shame no poster for NHKから国民を守る党 on that board.

The whole thing is a sham and a joke.  The biggest "sponsor" of the Tokyo Olympics is the Tokyo taxpayer and they are not getting the tickets.  This new auction is simply a way to entice frustrated applicants into buying tickets for Air Pistol, Handball, and Race Walking.  Tickets for Opening Ceremony, Gymnastics, Swimming will absolutely not be available in this secondary auction.  Despite all those statements of fairness in opportunity, if you want tickets for the popular events you will have to buy an all inclusive travel package from the official resellers.

Meh...   MotoGP on its worst day is waaaaay more exciting than F1 on its best day.

To all those who applied for Olympic tickets but received none, you know where those tickets went.

To be placed in a plastic bag for carry from the cash register to the rubbish bin.

I want to see the same outrage and protests as if this had been a US Army chopper.

More mindless people staring at their phone not watching where they are walking or riding their bicycle and abruptly stopping or moving abnormally.  Pokémon Go turned our local walking/jogging path into an obstacle course.

No lack of excitement and overtakes in MotoGP.

From now on for all Japanese language applications, forms, etc that bear my name in Katakana I will demand my given name be listed before my family name, as is customary in my mother tongue, per Kono-logic.

The cracks "told" officials to grow the rice in the ancient capital of Kyoto and in Tochigi Prefecture.

That sure is some fortune telling when it tells you to hedge your bet.

That is a relief.  I was worried about that.

Let's Go Cardinals !!

Don't know a single song she sings.  Intending for it to stay that way.

Family Mart seems intent on capturing this Smoker market.  Yesterday went to a Family Mart and had to walk through a fog of smoke to get inside.  Tons of heavy smokers hanging out outside all around the entrance.

I so wish eBay could take on Yahoo Auction and create more competition in the Japan market.  Yahoo Auc's seller's fees are ridiculously high.

Still waiting for some anti-Trump'ers to walk the talk and take up the Open Door Challenge.