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I have been “mistaken,” “misled,” “misrepresented,” and been “unaccountably in error,”
and am sorry if you have been offended

Showing posts with label and the law won. Show all posts

Showing posts with label and the law won. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

As My Drinking Binge Continues, I Stumble onto…

Parental discretion advised… … anal sex was akin to “shoving a straw up your nose to drink.” … Hmm … Hey, the professor may have a point—not...

Saturday, April 18, 2009

…and Then the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Arrested Him…

Yesterday, Canada granted citizenship to some people who had lost their Canadian citizenship or never had had it in the first place. Watch t...

Defendant Tells Judge Where to Blow His Toke

A 20 year-old former tobishoku —a skilled construction worker somewhat similar to a “spiderman”—was brought before the Gifu District Court o...

Monday, April 06, 2009

Where’s Nikai?

Toshihiro Nikai, the LDP faction leader and current METI Minister, had been looking like the yin to Ichiro Ozawa’s yang, Chip to Ozawa’s Dal...

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Elliot Spitzer

I had dinner last night with several people from New York working closely with the financial industry. You know what? Eliot Spitzer must be ...

Friday, November 23, 2007

Have a Beef with Sidewalk Cyclists? That’s Easy, OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!

Not quite. But almost as satisfying, you can make an on-the-spot, citizen’s arrest. You see, under Japanese traffic law, a bicycle is consid...

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About Me

Jun Okumura: After graduation, Jun Okumura promptly entered what is now the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and stayed in in its ecosystem most of his “adult” life. Along the way, he had pleasant stops in an assortment of Japanese quangos (Japangos?), overseas assignments and government agencies. After thirty years, though, it dawned on him that he had no aptitude whatsoever for administration and/or management. Armed with this epiphany, he went to the authorities and arranged an amicable separation; to come out, as it were. He is completely on his own IYKWIAS, but he and the METI folks remain “good friends.” He currently holds the titles of “visiting researcher” at the Meiji Institute for Global Affairs (no, that MIGA) and counselor at a risk analysis firm that dares not speak its name. This gives him plenty of time to blog or make money on his own. His bank account says that he does too much of the first, and insists that he do more of what he calls “intellectual odd jobs”. He wants to be paid to write fulltime, or better, talk—where the easy money is—but that distinction has largely escaped him. He really should not be referring to himself in the third person; he is not that famous.

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