Tales of recession

[thomas]

Tales from Japan's 'golden recession'

BBC News Online interviewed a cross-section of people from Japan and discovered conflicting undercurrents of feeling.

=> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2305639.stm

[moyashi]

The foreigner

Steve Koya, aged 33, is British but married to a Japanese woman. He works in Hokkaido as computer systems manager for a concrete producer.

The guy who got my job :eek:

Seriously though, I teach Steve's Boss's son every Tuesday, ahem tomorrow night.

If you look close enough at the computer screen you'll see the company's logo. A buddy designed the logo and I did the English quote underneath.

Strange things do happen.

I didn't know anything about linux at the time also it seemed like that my students father wanted to keep me as his sons tutor. Oh well, I work at a high school now.

:p

[thomas]

Isn't that a small world? Oh, perhaps he's got your job, but he looks 5 years older, hehe. [j/k]

Unfortunately, the logo is only partly visible.

[moyashi]

ugh, I find the link. I'll dig around for it.

[deborah gormley]

@ moyashi, thats a bummer!:sorry: but you are great without the computer systems manager position anyway:bow:
forgive my lack of knowledge but what does "Muraski" mean? (just curious moyashi):bow:

[moyashi]

Murasaki = purple

... I was playing around with my signature but couldn't come up with anything more snappy.