With President Trump reportedly casting acquisitive glances toward Canada and Greenland, the world has been reminded of a long-lost genre of geopolitics: the real estate brochure. Borders, it turns out, are just zoning suggestions, and sovereignty is merely a lease agreement waiting to be renegotiated by someone with enough confidence and a very large Sharpie. […]
Tag: Japan
Would you like fries with that?
This is the typical question at McDonald’s employee would ask you when you are placing your order, isn’t it? well, maybe not in Japan these days. It turns out in the country of the rising Sun the common spud is in short supply. As a result, and to make sure that everyone gets at least […]
Job opportunities in Japan
While a huge number of jobs are going to disappear in most of the Western Hemisphere on the back of the Covid-19 and its economic fallout, there is one exception: Japan. Japan is sporting currently a ratio of jobs to applicants of 1.39, a historic low, made since even worse by the Coronavirus induced lockdown. […]
The grumpy older man 