The Adventures of a Foreign Salaryman in Tokyo

Ooops...

We did it again.... This one will be our last one for sure (?!) but now Ms. Salaryman Jnr. 2 has joined the family. The first nine months...

2014/09/25 23:32

Getting a Japanese driver's license - Part III, passing the driving tests

Doing the right things or doing things right... One of the first things that you need to mentally prepare yourself for when starting to d...

2014/06/29 14:46

Getting a Japanese driver's license - Part II, passing the theoretical tests

(for the first part see here ) The Theoretical Test Wow, that's smart! To begin with, one thing that could be good to know from the b...

2014/06/06 20:43

Getting a Japanese driver's license

Only if you got a license! Work and managing the offspring has taken a lot of energy away from my blogging again despite my intention to...

2014/06/05 17:22

Aligned Family

Dungeons and Dragons Alignments applied to our family: Mrs. Sunshine - Lawful Good "A Lawful Good character typically acts with compas...

2014/03/25 22:10

Shotgun Meeting

...a quick business advice... Bringing a certified legal rep to a meeting is the same as bringing a shotgun to a meeting. It will be diffic...

2014/03/17 05:07

A Review

One of these is mine... Earlier in the week we went to see a performance put on by little Ms. Sunshine and her Kindergarten class. In c...

2014/03/07 20:23

The Future of Entertainment is here!

The future of gaming, in the past! When think of it, it strikes me as a little odd that I haven't really posted more on the topic , but...

2014/02/26 20:11

Help! My Children are Japanese! Episode I

Typical Japanese children The Salaryman family live in our little housing community in the outskirts of Tokyo in an area populated almos...

2014/02/16 20:40

The Top 3 Most Annoying Kid's Shows in Japan - Number Two

You might have thought that things were bad enough with Happy Crappy, but believe me, there are worse things out there... Today we have reac...

2014/02/12 12:57

The Top 3 Most Annoying Kid's Shows in Japan - Number Three

As you can imagine, I am nowadays more often than not exposed to Japanese kid's TV shows. There are shows that I might not find particularly...

2014/02/11 12:49

I'm back!

How can it be?! I have given it long a thoughtful consideration and have decided to once again revive the blog! However there will be ...

2014/02/10 15:36

Groping by proxy, great idea, great execution - poor outcome

It's OK, he's in on it, go ahead! I know that I promised to retire, never ever post again and all that stuff. Don't worry, I won't make ...

2013/06/17 20:49

The end (for now at least)...

This blog was always intended to mainly be about absurdities and funny stories from working as a Salaryman and not a "life in Japan" blog. U...

2013/05/01 21:03

The Cleansing

Burn those books, you'll feel better afterwards! As I in the quite near future will start working a lot more from home (assuming toddler...

2013/03/24 21:47

Hitting The Motherlode

"War Outlawed!" - Why didn't we think of this before?! Ooops, it looks like it's been over a month since I last posted again... Well, no...

2013/03/07 21:03

It kills everything

Even Superman mixes things up sometimes I work with health care and have done so basically all of my career. One of the pillars of healt...

2013/01/27 21:02

...no baby, but not too far off...

Daddy? Is that you? The other day, I was sitting in the sofa with the iPad reading the comments on my latest post with 2 1/2 y.o. toddle...

2013/01/20 20:23

The year of the snake 2013!

That's not a normal snake? Is it a cobra? Considerably later than other years so far on this blog, but I thought I should give it a shot...

2013/01/14 15:01

Japanese New Year's TV

Last year's "Stewardess training" version! ( This time I'll keep myself from apologizing for the long time between postings, the little ...

2013/01/13 21:27

It's just not funny anymore...

Who will best represent MY interests? Maybe that little guy... If I wanted to, I feel pretty certain that I could get Japanese citizensh...

2012/12/01 22:02

A $2 dollar ambulance

Our ambulance wasn't this fancy Ooops, I just realized that it's been almost a month since my previous post... To my defense I can say t...

2012/11/15 21:31

Commuter Terrorists - The Dive Bomber

When he comes crashing down... One of the most valuable things that you can hope to achieve in the commuter hell is an available seat. H...

2012/10/17 21:39

The true face of fear...

You shouldn't have gone on the slide before the change! After I became a father, first to toddler Sunshine and then Baby Salaryman my pr...

2012/10/11 13:51

Kim Jong Un Sends Autographs to Officials and Workers of Various Units

( First of all, again, sorry for the lack of posting! Some travel in work resulting in over two weeks of continuous jet-lag made the blog su...

2012/10/08 14:37