konnichiwa, bitches

holy hells am i tired today. I'm on my 5th cuppa joe, and it's pointless. Was out drinking with the publisher's group from 20:00 on Saturday night until 05:00 on Sunday morning. I have noticed that I'm not in college anymore, nor do I have a college student's liver.

whatchoo sayin' about my neighborhood, homeslice?

Worst Place to Live in Japan: (warning: linked page is mildly NSFW)

The above is a screencap (note: not included to avoid hotlinking) from a TV program with a list entitled "statistics which show the reality of Osaka." The figures show that Osaka comes out tops (worst) out of all the cities in Japan in the following categories...

* Theft
* Car vandalism
* Murder and other violent crimes
* Number of homeless
* Death by Cancer
* Number of offices declining
* Unemployment rate (2nd worse)
* Bankruptcy rate (2nd worse)
* Number of primary schools that don't serve food
* National learning proficiency test
* Child abuse deaths

Even so, with all of that against it, it still feels a lot safer here than in the USA.