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Send us your commentsFebruary 3, 1999
netgarden@psdosaka.com says
Does anybody living in the Kansai area know where I can buy western-made condoms? These Japanese ones are cramping my style ...
February 3, 1999
xvq@yahoo.com says
I have an idea that MIGHT be good for Kansai foreign residents. Why don't you put some part of the page that lists(according to other people's feedback) for competent doctors and dentists that actually don't use ice picks on people's teath. Just a thought, thanks
Editor Note: This is a great idea. If anyone knows decent dentist, kindly let us know and we'll pass along the information.
November 23, 1998
(Regarding KansaiNow.com) -That's a good page you have right there. I find it informative and makes for very enjoyable light reading. Keep it up.
Filemon V. Elefante
Editorial Assistant
Mabuhay magazine
Philippine Airlines Inflight magazine
November 5, 1998
I think the idea of the language section is great. However it is debatable whether or not teaching GAIJIN phrases such as how to abuse taxi drivers is going to improve service for the rest of us. Its more likely to give us GAIJIN more of a bad reputation than we already have. Their pronounciation is a problem, Especially Americans for some strange reason. Americans remember this: pronounce the "r" with a slight role of the tongue, in similar method to Spanish. You should teach more practical phrases such as:
1) please drive more slowly! I am only in Japan for a week, I don't wanna die!
2) watch out for that bike! that obasan! that bike.... that bike, and that....aaagghhh! *CRASH%$^$##%^!!
3) where is the nearest hospital? Can I have a refund?
- tora@poboxes.com
November 3, 1998
I just moved from Tokyo on business. I'm Japanese man but I don't understand Osaka-language. So It's good for me that" Speak Japanese". And I like that Osaka-ben girl. I need to learn Osaka-ben, please make more.
October 26, 1998
Good work! These pages are loaded with useful info. Keep it going! SUGGESTION: How about creating a system that can tell a person the best way to get from here to there. For example, which subway or train to take, where to transfer, etc. I know it's not an easy thing to do but, as you know, those digital "car navigators" do it for drivers so, it must be possible. For example; you should have two boxes, in the first box a person would choose "from where" (pull down menu of locations in Kansai) then, "to where" (pull down menu of destinations in Kansai). After both boxes had selected locations, a route listing trains, subways and transfers would appear on the screen. To finance this work-intensive effort, you might probably seek sponsorship from someone like JR, KDD, KIRIN, etc. A service like this would make your page an absolute necessity to check before planning any trip from here. ALOHA Kamasami Kong kong@compuserve.com
October 14, 1998
There used to be a new zealand restaurant in Suita City , I think. Do you have any information about it, or any other New Zealand style restaurant that may be in the Kansai area. thanks, Robert - Robert.Maran@ma1.seikyou.ne.jp
October 14, 1998
You got a really nice thing going here. I've been thinking of something like this (specifically Kansai) for a while now, but I could never have done such a nice job. Good writing, too!
I do have a couple of ideas that you might be interested in considering for your site.
1) How about expanding your food and drink guide by soliciting people to send in their reviews of the places listed as well as for new not-yet-listed places? I can always find a place to go to, but I don't know if it's a good place or what it's even like. Actually, applying this idea to everything (events, love hotels, etc.) might be nice to if you have the server space.
2) A subway map might be useful for some and maybe some maps of Osaka and Kyoto etc.
Keep up the good work!
Sylvain Primeau
October 14, 1998
VIRUS WARNING!
PLEASE READ CAREFULLY!
The Good Times Birus (sic), Japan version 2Yk3.8 will completely re-write your hard drive to go straight to naughty places on the Internet when your partner is watching. Not only that, but it will scramble or translate into Japanese any disks, tapes, videos or even books, that are close to your computer and subscribe you to the Daily Yomiuri for five years. It will order milk from Yukijirushi for delivery at midnight. It will wipe loved ones from photographs kept within 15 metres of the hard drive. It will recalibrate your refrigerator's temperature so all your ice cream goes melty and you have to keep going to Lawson. It will demagnetize the strips on all your credit cards so Citibank can screw you even more. Worse...it will give your bank account details to Nigerian oil companies.
This virus is evil. It will screw up your VCR and lose the bilingual section so you have to watch everything in Japanese. It will automatically set your TV to show only Beat Takeshi TV programmes (AND record them). It will use subspace field harmonics to scratch any CD's you try to play, except Puffy and Glay. It will give all your ex-girlfriends your new mobile phone number and E.mail address. It will mix Oolong Tea into your fishtank. It will drink all your Asahi Super Dry and leave its socks and yukata out on the kotatsu when the company president is coming over. It will put a dead baby tanuki in the back pocket of your good suit pants and hide your JR pass when you are late for work. It will keep giving you tissues in the street and send receipts from love hotels to your mother's address.
Good Times Birus, Japan version 2Yk3.8 will make you fall in love with a penguin, and enjoy it. It will give you nightmares about Japanese schoolboys with knives creeping up on your parents, while they're eating Wakayama curry takeaways. It will pour sake in your gas tank and shave off both your eyebrows so you look like you come from Himeji, while dating your girlfriend behind your back and billing the dinner and tickets to your now screwed-up Citibank Northwest Worldperks Visa card.
Good Times will give your kotatsu Dutch Elm disease and your cat BSE. It will leave the toilet seat up and that cute little washerette thingy that washes your oshiri will turn itself on at inopportune moments. It will make a batch of crack cocaine in your bathtub and then leave miso soup cooking on the stove while it goes out to chase Japanese schoolgirls on your new mountain bike. It moves your car randomly around car parks, and your bicycle from station exit to station exit, so you can't find either of them. It will kick your dog. It will leave naughty bilingual messages on your boss's voice mail in your voice! It is insidious, yet subtle. It is dangerous and terrifying to behold. It will force you to go to Vissel Kobegames.
It is also a rather horrid shade of mauve.
By samurai@gol.com
October 12, 1998
Great start. Hope you can keep it up ! edowado@luice.or.jp
October 5, 1998
I really enjoyed visiting the site. The love hotel page is extremely well-written, very funny indeed.
September 30, 1998
I live in Hong Kong.I will go to Osaka in Mid-October. Somebody told me that there is an indoor Hot Spring Pool in Osaka. The pool is inside in building which is more than 10-floor. There is swimming pool, hot spring spa inside the building. I will stay at International Hotel Osaka within that period. I have no idea about the address of this place and how I can go there from the Hotel. I will be greatly appreciated if you can send me some information about this place by e-mail. Derek Lau email -> dereklau@springfld.com
September 27, 1998
Keep up the good work! Suggestion. Why don't you make a kind of community board instead of mixing all the classified together?
September 24, 1998
have you ever been to bar soul flower? (shinsaibashi, america mura)
September 23, 1998
I have heard that there is a Greek restaurant somewhere in the Shinsaibashi Area. I've checked the telephone directory, but didn't find anything. If you have been there can you write in and let me know where it is.
September 16, 1998
Congratulations on starting KansaiNow. Funny - with lots of potential. Do expand your spellchecker's capacity, however.
September 7, 1998
Regarding Are You Going Bald? - I've heard a kind of that story before. My friend told me... If foreign men date Japanese girls, most of them are going bald. Especially American men. On the other hand, those girls are going to be powerful and beautiful women and will have more pheromones. I think this is scary story but some is true.
September 6, 1998
You could really use a good copy editor. At a glance, I found a whole whack of punctuation errors. I hate to nit-pick, but I thought you might like to know.
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