telica comments

haha yeah, looks like a photoshop job, those people don't look like Japanese people.

Even Satan can appear as an angel of light, there are many religions that have some aspects of truth in them but are not the way to life.

I saw the article about jetstar's new low fares from Japan to Auckland via Gold Coast, I rang AirNZ to see if they would price match because I would rather fly AirNZ but they said "No". Guess that means I'll just fly JetStar to save money even though I hate JetStar's budget service.

Went a few times while was in Japan, got the legit deal Japanese girls not some gaijin like described above (shudder). Got out of there when it turned 6pm and everyone started smoking, not sure why that was, must be changing to night time zone or something? Need to get better at language so can communicate better. Anyone know what a typical conversation would go like in there?

Love it how he bailed when they started crying. Who was the real wimp here?

Yeah the answer is not providing daycare in the pachinko palour, that would only encourage more mothers to play pachinko, probably not something you want to encourage.

Pretty sad, I have heard of the same sort of thing happening in New Zealand when mother's go and play the "pokies" (poker machines). I feel sorry for the mum and of course the child in this situation. It is really sad that her addiction got that bad that she didn't mind leaving her child in the car. Was this the first time or had it happened before? I don't think it is the pachinko palours responsibility but that being said the cause of this is probably problem gambling... it seems as though pachinko/slot halls are not really that regulated in Japan and its a bit of a grey area, due to this I wonder how much help is available for problem gamblers in Japan?

Sounds good but it will obviously take a bit longer going via Gold Coast. I would be interested to know what sort of time the journey would take compared with the 10hour 30mins odd time for Air NZ Tokyo to Auckland. I would also be interested in the price. What other airlines do people use to fly to NZ?

The meat at Japan mcdonalds, burger king tastes bad/strange compared with in NZ. The kfc is also quite weird but I am have accidentially ordered the hot and spicy so im not sure. My favourite western fast food in Japan is Wendy's, the burgers and chilli there are pretty much the same as NZ and really tasty. I have found them in Ikebukuro, Shibuya and Harajuku.