The Eternal Gaijin

... and I'm not particularly pissed off at anything specific, so here's a couple of links Human evolution | Moral thinking | Economist.com Abu Ghraib prison turned soldiers evil by design: researcher - Yahoo! News And a reminder that I am still in Japan, though sadly not in Tokyo any more. Top 10 cheap eats in Tokyo | Travel | guardian.co.uk I used to live just up the road from number 8 on this izakaya list. And finally a picture of my dog lying down on the balcony:

These pics are for Philly Chief at You made me say it . Showed you mine. Gotta show me yours.

Ken's getting a bit more animated. Mostly so he can get himself trouble. Or on my nerves. It's darker than it looked on the camera, but I'll post it anyway. I don't know if my youTube account has a space limit. I'll find out eventually. So the countdown is on. I leave the UK on the 2nd of March and arrive in Japan on 10 Mar. Just to complete the circle of life that's 13 years to the day after I first arrived in Japan. So I will have the exact same visa day as I did for the first 9 years I spent there. How do you like that? While there I'm hoping to post a few videos a week to give an idea of what's up in the Okamoto area and Osaka in general. Stay tuned.