Friday: Metropolis day

Ogni venerdi in pausa pranzo ho l'abitudine di comprarmi un 'obento' al piano B1, passare all'American Pharmacy a prendere una copia del Metropolis, rivista per gaijin in Giappone di cui non so piu' fare a meno. Mi colpiscono sempre le chicche della prima pagina, come queste:

Two government ministers who were busted for watching TV on a cellphone during a Diet session said they were tuning in “to see what (the session) looked like.”

Police in Aichi ticketed five motorists for running a stop sign before discovering that a prankster had actually moved the sign to the intersection from a different location.

From the “Oh, the irony” Dept.: After five firefighters in Chiba stripped naked while singing karaoke at a colleague’s sayonara party, one of them “singed hairs on his body with a lighter.”

Dopo 3 anni e 3 mesi di permanenza posso dire che questo Paese tragi-comico mi piace davvero...