Japanese HousingLived in Tokyo for 11 years before it started to wear on me...high cost of living, crowds, urban sprawl, etc... Granted I could put up with most of it anywhere being a city kid, but the insularity of the place can be trying. I too speak and read the...
National ServiceThere used to be many Iranians in Tokyo who gathered at Ueno Park back in the 80s. Some of them said they were taking advantage of the work visa lottery system to work in Japan but mainly to avoid military service in the Iran-Iraq War going on at the...
Japan Tornadobandit35, I think your assertion about engineers and scientists vis a vis theory and empiricism can be improved by invoking Gödel's Incompleteness theorem where he questioned whether any given statement could be provable or non-provable. In other wor...
Anime VS American DramaI vote anime but is it really possible to get accurate results for a poll like this on an otaku site? I'd be curious what a similar poll would be on fansites for US dramas would be.
Gundam and FiguresHeh, I live near Seattle and don't seem to have a problem with Gundam availability at least. The store I go to gives you punch cards so that subsequent purchases are like 10 bucks off. Other than that whenever I visit family in Tokyo, I stock up on a...
