Pleasure is all mine, I’m probably one the very few Japanese here, anything I can do to help.

Hi Kat, this new segment you got here is cool! いいね！

I do understand that it was Fourth of July weekend, and with ISIS, sabre ratlling with China, Russia overseas, the police brutality, mindless shootings, and all the rainbow and confederate flag debates, and whatnot, it was a great way to get everybody on the same side and chanting USA-USA-USA ‘Murica!! for a change.…

She’ll be out by tomorrow, July 8th.

Yomiuri Shimbun via Yahoo Japan

OK, it’s just been announced that she has been acquitted. She will be released and probably deported. She has already resigned, and the number of pills was small, and the “intent to distribute” factor was non-existant. Nothing to see here, moving along now.

thanks for catching that, it was rather embarassing being left high and dry like that...

Kevin, YES (I don’t know about the proxy for war part though, USA-JAPAN are not enemies here), that’s why he agreed to do it. But what he is afraid of is like what happened with the WWC final (Japan vs. USA) a few days ago. There was no trash talking before, or afterwards, and the game was clean. Japan got banged up…

Suidobashi is a tiny company with only a handfull of employees. The builder, Mr. Kurata (hence the naming of the robot) is basically a metal worker/welder, and this whole Kuratas thing is more of a hobby than business. I see him like the dude who built a Lambo in his garage. That being said, Mr. Kurata is a pacifist,…

You mean DERPA and their drunken master kung fu robots, right?

JHC, someone please reassure me that the top photo is a still from Days of Thunder or some Michael Bay flick, ‘cause that looks horrific!!

I’m one of the few Japanese to have known this... Alot of the Japanese don’t know much/are not interested in/ hollywood gossip etc, only the movies. I made my wife watch the original Mad Max (which is on Hulu Japan) and she was wondering why the guy from Lethal Weapon looked so young. She doesn’t know that it was his…

It’s short for 原動機付き自転車, a motorized bicycle. 50cc and less. I like the term glorified moped myself.

You’d be surprised at the mind lapse old people, which there are crap load of, and their zippy little kei cars are capable of. You know of the many going the wrong way on highway deaths recently, right? In this case, it’s there to deter people trusting their car nav to the t, fromtaking the turn at the intersection a…

CP right? Now where’s that damn beacon?

The barrier poles in this case is to deter people from driving into the sidewalk by mistake.

It’s the yellow manhole cover you see in the background.

No, this sign is telling scooters of 50cc and less that 2point turns at this intersection is prohibited.

Oh chute!

where do I sign-up?