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Look no further than the $2.5 billion debacle that is the new Tokyo Olympic stadium.

Great when you're stranded in Tokyo and relying on Google Maps and Translate...

For Japan, Tokyo is certainly another mega city as a strong contender.

If I could 'hack' an extra return flight to SF, NY or Tokyo once a year it'd be great however.

You're not going to live anywhere near a comfortable life in Tokyo on 2 million JPY a year, much less 1 million JPY a year.

There are some in the FF community who fly first class to Tokyo and then return the next day but they're a very small minority.

Been wandering around Tokyo and Japan for a while on vacation and I've never once felt like I didn't know where I was going.

> + Wages at Tibbanne (which provided 100% of employees for Gox) were consistent with prevailing wages in Tokyo startups i.e.

If a doctor living in Tokyo breaks an old-timey municipal law against joking with a patient in Blahblah, Iowa while using one of those telepresence broomsticks, could he be held liable?

Now tell me about the dozens of assholes who said we'd be terraforming Mars by now, or be flying between Tokyo and LA in 2 hours on hypersonic planes.

At higher end apartments in Tokyo (which is ridiculously well-served already with regards to delivering packages -- ask me if you're curious), this is often solved with a series of electronically controlled lockers in the apartment foyer.

(I'd be interested in seeing their math for this; that was not the conclusion I reached in a napkin calculation in mid-2013.) + Wages at Tibbanne (which provided 100% of employees for Gox) were consistent with prevailing wages in Tokyo startups i.e.

There are appeals in the Tokyo metro to buy Japanese bonds as a "patriotic duty", which is a form of voluntary further taxation (and just look at who owns the majority of JGBs).

So if it's illegal to kill someone, I don't think any country will be like "well you did it outside of here so we're cool with it." Usually extradition is more linked to the fact that if you kill someone in Tokyo, chances are Japan has more detectives in place to prosecute you "fairly" (since they have all the evidence in place) than the US would, for example.

I agree with you - the only really "unique" Murakami works I've read are Hard-Boiled Wonderland (a mix of SF and fantasy), his non-fiction (especially Underground is good, a series of interviews with victims and perpetrators of the 1995 Aum Shinrikyo Tokyo gas attack), and After the Quake (even that one walks straight into "typical Murakami" territory sometimes).

Therefore, open two Citi AA cards and you can redeem for a free(ish) business class ticket to Tokyo.

Last November, Tokyo, Taipei and Hong Kong over two weeks.

Just compare Tokyo’s train system to Paris’ subway).