Smoker’s Paradise

22Nov07

 

Often, I think Japan is the most ridiculous place on planet earth.  Then I remember the White House press room.
I learned something very exciting the other day. My city has banned walking while smoking on city streets. I know this doesn’t make sense to most of my friends from America who’ve never been to Japan, [...]

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4 Good Lies Analysed

15Oct07

*a good liar

Situation 1)
I had a conference call with a VP and my manager the other day. We were talking about my branch office budget and revenue stream. My manager had some issues with the terms, so he fed the VP some lies about Japanese import laws to get leverage.
I think that this was a [...]

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Great places in Tokyo to get sauced

04Oct07

OK so Tokyo has interesting people who come up with interesting ways to drink alcohol. As Gaijin Tonic puts it, “Japan is a pisshead’s paradise! It’s a land of happy drunks, relaxed alcohol laws, and hilarious novelty bars which are open all night.” The latest top 10 list on his blog details the weirdest places [...]

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Oasis, what horrors!

20Sep07

I am a member of Oasis.
What’s Oasis? An exclusive nightclub in the center of Ginza? An arabian-themed massage-parlour in a back alley of Roppongi? No, actually it’s a “Sports Club” as they say in Japan or as we say in English, a private gym. It’s a place where I can swim laps in a [...]

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