Congrats on your 2000th post :p
And congrats on sticking it to them.

So useless that that night bus has now been cancelled as no one was using it.

Really? Well that sucks for just me and a few others who rely on it then :p
I used it last night (or this morning), in fact.

You've got a few weeks left to make the most of it. The last day of operation will be 31 October. The early closure of the trial was only just announced http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/local/tokyo...YTNT50054.html

Looks like only 50 people were using it a night.

That's unfortunate, but I guess part of it is the lack of expectation of night service; that and it has really only been useful for people who live between Shibuya and Roppongi/Shinbashi

According to today's news, the government is to ban utility poles for new roads.^

that's wonderful. Where did you hear about that?

Too bad they're not building any new roads .... and what about 2 million kilometers of existing roads?

I found that on Asahi, Sankei and Huffpost. All in Japanese. I couldn't find English translations yet.
http://m.huffpost.com/jp/entry/6001038?utm_hp_ref=japan

Looks like the law will apply to new housing or commercial projects, too.
http://www.msn.com/ja-jp/news/nation...65;/ar-BB9m7sq

So like when they renew a road like Yamate dori in Shibuya-ku (and several kms north) in conjunction with the Yamate tunnel then utilities have to go under ground? I don't think there will be many completely new roads built anywhere in Japan. I am also pretty sure that there are no above ground utility poles on the renewed Yamate dori... Yes, looking at Google maps there are no utility poles on the renewed part but 100 meters down from my old side street intersection with Yamate dori then they you have the ugly old utility poles. (The renewal ended just beyond my old street corner).

So in practice they already doing this, but it's unlikely to ever happen on side streets.


I have a house in rural Sweden out in nowhere and they buried electric and telephone there in the 1990s.

change the rules as to how the climax baseball series works. i mean, honestly, best of three and you win with a tie after 12 innings after game 2??? full disclosure, i have been on the maeda bandwagon since 2012...i just hope the redsox or yankees dont get him being in the ALE...i would have to cheer against him.

Well, I think it's reasonable since it gives some advantage to the teams that did better in the regular season.

Not that it is doing the Giant's any good.

As a Tiger fan, its all quite entertaining. :)

huh? Sort of makes play offs pointless. Then again, bye bye gaints. Hey hey, goodbye. Versus tigers and giants, I was a tigers fan after the carp.

% of underground utility wires
London 100%
Paris 100%
Jakarta 47%
Tokyo 4%

It's practically the stone age in Tokyo.