Saw "Million Dollar Baby ( Read more... )

"A government panel said that arrangements should be made (such as shortening working hours) so that women with a family to care for could participate more fully in the work of the nation. The panel will hold public hearings on this matter in Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka, Akita and Okayama, with the idea of recommending to the Council for Gender Equality ( Read more... )

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So the question is: does anyone still read this, so long it's been since I've properly updated? Those of you who have me on your friends list don't count, because you don't have to pay attention to see when I've posted anything. If this journal belonged to anyone I knew, I'd long since have stopped paying attention to it. Eh, well ( Read more... )

DAMMIT, I just typed an entry and lost it all to the combination of a small LJ glitch and the fact that I'm typing on an unfamiliar computer ( Read more... )

( the missing entry )

I am a moron ( Read more... )

( Alllllllllriiiiiight )

I've been meaning to update this thing for awhile now. I guess at a certain point, you settle into your daily grind and things stop feeling remarkable enough to want to write about. Life continues to treat me well in Tokyo, but I was glad to have the New Year's break to go home for awhile and enjoy such luxuries as the ability to order a coffee ( Read more... )

So. New coworker came; new coworker went. We no longer have a new coworker. She came out here with her husband and they apparently had some big grief with the company having to do with living arrangements. Actually, it wasn't grief with the company, they just thought it was. It was actually grief with a Japan/US cultural difference. In the US ( Read more... )