Nippori Nick comments

I really don't understand why so many resources are wasted on such a small item.

Go after wholesalers and big places selling these items if you wish, but seriously? At a flea market? One item?

Look like the real thing? Not to me.

Ever eat at Saizeriya? Once is about enough.

It is low budget, but it serves a purpose. Kind of like their little side salad with shrimp, then get a pasta you like.

When I tell people at home I can get small shrimp salad, pasta, small glass of cheap wine or maybe a beer for about 1000 yen all in, they can't believe it.

Brian Wheway-- a few suggestions for your first place? M Jackson--Beat it or Devo-Whipit

> kohakuebisuJan.

They had these on the Sapporo cans sold in the UK in the late 1980s

Still sold in Canada that way..pretty sure in the USA as well

My wife made cakes like this decades ago....and her grandparents before that. Always called them a Napoleon.

No it is not troubling.

You should not be able to spout off anything you want at all times without repurcussions

I have actually made a hasty exit from some of the stores that play those relentless jingles. I would not classify them as elevator music at all (which is usually barely noticeable and soothing).

Surely I am not the only one that gets irritated by these jingles and the relentless noise (especially in electronic type stores)

You guys are right---Santa/Father Christmas gets letters, but let's face it...those are in essence small kids asking for gifts

Why give this person any publicity at all?

And the average cost is how much? (Scared to ask)

Better Recipe- cooked ground beef or similar instead of chicken. No mushrooms. Good qualify tomato sauce stirred in with the cooked beef. Whole pepper with top cut off. Top with cheese and put in toaster oven or similar.

I just find it very strange that a fictional character would get any postcards.

Does Paddington Bear or Mickey Mouse get them?

Money at the pachinko parlor? I though all you could win are some balls.

Umm, the customers bring money to the pachinko place and spend it. That's how the money gets there. The Pachinko parlour has to deposit said profits in bank.

> It’s impossible to help people that won’t help themselves. Let’s wait until next week when 1300 new cases becomes 3000.

And then 5,000 then 7,000 etc.

Fuji-Q is the best!

Best for long line ups too.

There is already a professional women's baseball league in Japan...the games can be fun.

Look again. Everyone is wearing masks.

It is not wear a mask and all is good. You also should be social distancing..they are not.

The Japanese government has more pressing issues to work on right now. How about putting this perennial issue on the backburner.

How long would you suggest? Another 30 years?

the price of tombstones themselves which can cost up to seven million yen

Wow. That seems a ludicrous price

Like many, I love onsens..but sometimes I seek out an old school sento..just something about those that I like (unless they heat the water way too much)

Anyone from the UK of a certain age certainly knows Babs....and her great scenes in Carry on Camping

I find those dog robots (dogbots?) very creepy. Somehow I have visions of them prowling around prisons and gulag type camps.

Boris is leading the UK into economic oblivion.

"All we are saying is give masks a chance"

Elvis couldn't have written better himself

Appreciate you are a fan of Elvis, but Elvis did not write any songs at all. He sang them, but never wrote them.

3 older relatives (not in Japan) had it, all in their eighties. Spent some time in hospital, all recovered.

Wife and I tested several times (it was required if we were visiting a retirement home at the time). All negative.

His lawyers, and his wife, Camille, have called the women gold diggers and their testimony lies.

Well of course they would say that. They are hardly unbiased spectators.

Sounds crazy to me.

I don't think most of the word will be enamoured with Shochu.

Telworking is great. Been working at home since March. Banned from going into the office (along with the rest of my team). Weekly conference or zoom call once a week.

Far as I am concerned, it does not get better than this. Wife is working from home also.