The past few days have been spent in business meetings and on buses. I’ve spent like ten hours on buses in the last three days. Buses beget buses. Go figure.…

Did you know that FedEx actually has FOUR official FedEx Box sizes? Small, Medium, Large, and unmarked. The unmarked size is larger than all the others… and the very existence…

I received the jacket part of my company’s uniform this week. Oh my. Photos are of course forthcoming, possibly tonight. It depends on if Hello Kitty is in the mood…

There’s this special needs/mentally challenged/invertedly endowed/lugubriously entertaining/whatever the fuck the PC demigods are calling it this month (I’ll just use “retarded”) guy working in my building who worships me because…

… for I will never eat sharkfin soup again. Yesterday I was in Himeji on a business trip. After our meetings, we went to the top of Himeji castle in…

Today I wasn’t allowed to correct the phrase, “for you apploval,” on an official letter because it was “written by someone on the board of directors.” The guy who told…

Because today did not start off so well (I almost got in TWO accidents on the way to work, where I was promptly chastised for not buttoning down the button-down…

Awash in pink sea, Workers in new uniform, Banzai off a cliff. // Explanation: Today the Nihon Keizai Shimbun leaked that my company is laying off 10,000 employees! Can’t help…

And so it shall be. Tomorrow, July 1st, is the beginning of my end. Yes, tomorrow I will be wearing light bluish-gray trousers with elastic waistband, and a short-sleeve pink…

Gatson came by the house last night to install the English version of MS Project, and he told me about our new work uniforms, which we will be issued around…

In today’s interoffice memo, the official English language nomenclature was revealed: CONCENTRETION TIME. This filled me with great joy for some truly inexplicable reason, and I was immediately tempted to…