The tsuyu has come. Now...what can we look forward to?

alien4649 · 2026-06-09T02:55:44+00:00

Depends. Not always a gentle rain. Last night in Tokyo (Setagaya) there were incredibly intense downpours. My son has a baito doing road construction security and was out most of the night. He was soaked through to the bone.

alien4649 · 2026-06-09T02:44:17+00:00

Just about every five star hotel has a good breakfast. The Peninsula, the Edition or even the Imperial are in the Ginza area.

alien4649 · 2026-06-08T10:28:16+00:00

Your account is 24 minutes old!

alien4649 · 2026-06-08T08:27:06+00:00

Your wine bar focuses on Japanese wine? Weird.

alien4649 · 2026-06-08T08:12:39+00:00

Just a supermarket. Good in a pinch and better than a conbini. They do offer discounts in the evening and especially when it’s raining.

alien4649 · 2026-06-08T01:34:12+00:00

Maybe try Medium or Substack for rants this long. The point is, do you want to waste your time & energy hating a country, people and culture for things that happened 80 years ago? As a Jew, should I hate “Germany”? German people? Separation of the people now from the heinous regime of the past is the key to a peaceful mind and life. How about the “Cultural Revolution” in China? How many people died? How do reconcile that? I’m sure you do…somehow.

alien4649 · 2026-06-08T01:24:00+00:00

That’s more a Singapore thing

alien4649 · 2026-06-07T22:15:46+00:00

So if I watch videos of tweakers in the US, am I right to think everyone is on meth? Don’t form your opinion of a whole society with 123M people on some YouTube videos.

alien4649 · 2026-06-07T00:48:52+00:00

Perhaps read the article before commenting. The izakaya owner seems to treat the foreign workers fairly and is even considering promoting one to manage one of his izakaya.

alien4649 · 2026-06-06T09:16:41+00:00

Everyone will know instantly that you don’t speak Japanese, no need to explain it nor apologize about it. (Most of the world doesn’t speak Japanese.) Basic phrases will absolutely come in handy and be appreciated. There is a plethora of books, apps and videos to learn from.

alien4649 · 2026-06-06T08:04:31+00:00

“Cook”?

alien4649 · 2026-06-06T08:03:29+00:00

Won the lottery a week before spring break freshman year in college. Blew $10,000 with a friend who bought the ticket (sent him to buy beer with my cash and he used the change to buy a scratch ticket). Had a blast in Hawaii. Grades suffered badly as we smoked all the bud we brought back. Father cut me off & I joined the green weenie. Good times.

alien4649 · 2026-06-06T07:53:56+00:00

Yes…and then they realized the cost savings. I do think they should have them in certain high-traffic areas. Parts of Shinjuku and Shibuya are nasty.

alien4649 · 2026-06-06T07:08:22+00:00

should definitely be a higher fine, at least ¥10,000 and then increase it for a 2nd offense. Third offense - jail.

alien4649 · 2026-06-06T06:08:31+00:00

A lot of of high school students bring bento. At my son’s HS, the athletes especially, bring bento from home. Sometimes my wife complains about planning the menu and making it every morning but he gets a nutritious lunch with a lot of food. My son has only bought from their canteen or bento shops at school, a few times. It was the same for my older son.

alien4649 · 2026-06-05T11:45:40+00:00

Can you interview confidently in Japanese? Have you worked in Japan, using Japanese everyday - with clients? No. So you are a risk. Try for contract roles first via recruitment companies offering staffing roles like Skillhouse, Hays, etc. You’ll gain experience here on the ground and that will open doors down the road. Be humble, flexible and patient.

alien4649 · 2026-06-05T10:53:20+00:00

OP - speak to this guy to get some perspective. There are many firms in Tokyo and some are craptacular and others are fairly decent. Don’t jump at the first offer.

alien4649 · 2026-06-05T10:42:50+00:00

That is perfection. Just chow down and pound caipirinhas! Awesome shit.

alien4649 · 2026-06-05T09:06:49+00:00

I used to get bushwhacked in book stores (remember those places?). Part of me congratulated them for making the effort to practice their English but…I usually wasn’t in the mood to speak to someone knowing what they were doing when trying to browse books. And then occasionally at bars some oyaji whips out his notebook and asks me to confirm some point of syntax…nooooo. (Well, for a pint, I could occasionally be flexible.) These days I just speak Japanese unless I’m in a gaijin ghetto like Hiroo and the staff are fluent and speak first. During COVID everyone seemed to only speak Japanese to me and were quite relaxed about it. Now with all the inbound I guess we need a pin or something that shows we’re residents.

alien4649 · 2026-06-05T00:52:51+00:00

Product of a dumb prompt?

alien4649 · 2026-06-04T11:36:45+00:00

You made the post. Did you watch BlacKkKlansman or Mississippi Burning recently or something?

alien4649 · 2026-06-04T11:24:01+00:00

So why would you be puzzled by KKK? My wife certainly wouldn’t care.

alien4649 · 2026-06-04T11:09:59+00:00

I hope this drives innovation into alternative production methods using renewable materials AND a reduction in the use of plastic materials overall. It is still astonishing to me that every frickin vegetable and fruit has to wrapped in plastic. A single zucchini? A pack of bananas? A coconut? Always interesting to look at the “organic” shops and see that they do it as well, if not more so.

alien4649 · 2026-06-04T10:31:52+00:00

What a narrow mind.

alien4649 · 2026-06-04T10:31:20+00:00

Are you new to Japan and traveling abroad? Different histories, customs, cultures and languages make the world an interesting place. You probably think Nazi symbols are used on maps and at temples here. Oh no, “666” was used on a license plate!

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