Recent content by cks2k2

some places have been declared off-limits dues to seismic activity... 1. Owakudani (Hakone) 2. Okama crater (Yamagata) - lol i was just here last year

the angry ones are not me.

they're not running the thing, just investing in it. what's the problem with that again?

you definitely came from a privileged background to have clean drinking water and proper sewage back in the 60s. i dont have to google... plenty of my older gen relatives lived in squatter housing without running water or even electricity.

um... recent tensions in South China Sea? border wars (3 i think) with India? incursion into Vietnam?

they did try with bringing in brazilians with japanese ethnicity sometime in the 90s, but that didn't work out too well. will they try again - signs are they might be a softening of their stance. the survival of their economy depends on it.

and now they have to.

saw this last year... u not up to date mang

you kinda missed the part where during the Meiji era Japan brought in a lot of FTs to help develop their economy and military. heck they were abducting Korean artisans back in the sengoku period to kickstart their own culture.

mid to end october for the northern regions i.e. tohoku november for regions further south i.e. kanto, kansai etc i was in tohoku in end oct last year, leaves had turned red/yellow while still green in tokyo.

anyone know the operating hours of the midori-no-madaguchi in KIX? i might be arriving pretty late and thinking of sleeping in the airport or paid 24-hr lounge until next morning, then get out as soon as i exchange my rail pass. the only hotel inside KIX is ridiculously expensive.

i heard hokkaido is nice in summer. not too hot, not too cold just ngam.

you mean expats leh anyway ppl missed out on a crucial part of the report: 1. COE 2. this survey was done before the recent appreciation of the swiss franc, and switzerland would have been most expensive if the survey was done now

i have a colleague from indonesia who did his post-grad in germany about 8-10 years back. i think he still had to pay for his tuition fee though at a highly discounted rate (undergrads get it free both local and foreign), but what really impressed him was: 1. free healthcare, even for foreign...

in japan where you grad from is more important than what you grad in. i.e. it doesn't matter if you studied something obscure in Tokyo University, you will still be hired by big MNC/govt just because you are a Todai grad. many unis run their own high school, primary school and kindergarten...