Quadrupled charges
Written by: adekun on 14 July, 2010 4:06 pm - Filed under: blog — 3 Comments »
The children started nursery earlier in the year. As the charges are income based, we had a letter from the city office beforehand. It was a bit of a surprise months later, to get another letter to say the fees have been increased c. 400% and will be applied retrospectively. Continue reading
Sounding out the dying voters
Written by: adekun on 9 June, 2010 8:31 pm - Filed under: blog — No Comments »
Three years ago I posted about the self-seeking election campaigning that pervades all: Waking babies everywhere. I had hoped the politicians would have changed tack to become all the more civil. True to form, there hasn’t been any change during the recent wave. Moreover, they have supplemented their nuisance with impromptu audience free addresses. Continue reading
Hatoyama is history
Written by: adekun on 2 June, 2010 2:55 pm - Filed under: blog — 3 Comments »
The forth consecutive ‘heredity’ Prime Minister has announced he will resign. Although the electorate could be described has fickle, the complete switch in approval is not without reason. In the eight months since Hatoyama took the helm, there has been money scandals, dithering, garish shirts, the reneged pledge to remove the Futenma US base, and the loss of a coalition partner.
Robots not people
Written by: adekun on 28 May, 2010 10:13 pm - Filed under: blog — No Comments »
There was an interesting report on the BBC website, documenting both the rise of the medical robot and the lack of nurses in Japan. Despite the shortage, the immigrant workers face a difficult test to remain beyond three years. The fail rate is 98%.
Japan may pick robots over immigrants is a good question to ask. Almost everybody I put it to ranked robot care/treatment over that of a foreigner’s.
A new hope
Written by: adekun on 31 August, 2009 7:18 am - Filed under: blog — 4 Comments »
The red team wins the election. Minshutō (DPJ) has unseated Jimintō (LDP), gaining toward three times the seats of the incumbent. The change brings an end to an almost unbroken half century reign. It also signals a real change in voters attitude; content to choose the untested in the direst of times. As a result, Taro Aso resigns as party president.
Election Day
Written by: adekun on 30 August, 2009 8:37 am - Filed under: blog — 2 Comments »
It is Election Day here in Japan. The month long ordeal of maddening speaker vans has come to a close. Turnout is expected to be high. Who will the people choose? The grandson of a former Prime Minister or the grandson of a former Prime Minister. A political and industrial elitist or a political and industrial elitist et cetera.
Taro Aso election
Written by: adekun on 13 July, 2009 11:38 pm - Filed under: blog — No Comments »
Beleaguered PM Taro Aso has at last set a date for the general election. However, not much earlier than the mandatory date. The news follows his party’s crushing defeat in Tokyo’s municipal election yesterday. Having survived several attempts to oust him, I suppose that if his party wins, he gets to keep his job.
Also brewing in the news is talk of the possibly of drink giants Kirin and Suntory merging. If it were to be realised, the resulting company’s revenues would exceed that of Anheuser-Busch InBev and Coca-Cola. Beer consumers in Japan are already faced with just four choices.
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