Sendai Sendai is the largest city in eastern Japan about 2-hours by Shinkansen (bullet train) from Tokyo central station. A lot of the recovery efforts from the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake, as it is called here, and the tsunami are centered here along with the recovery office of the Japanese Workers’ Co-operative Union (JWCU). Sendai …
Month: October 2012
Brokers Gone Wild Again! This Time Reverse Mortgages
Tokyo We have been a broken record about the fact that not only did Wall Street largely get away with their shenanigans the precipitated the US and worldwide housing crises in 2008, especially for their subprime fast dealing and dodging, but so for the most part did the wheeling and dealing mortgage brokers. Over and …
Yukon Men and the Last Frontier in Alaska
New Orleans Getting ready to fly to Japan, Korea, and then Canada, I find myself watching Yukon Men and Alaska: The Last Frontier on the Discovery Channel on the elliptical machine at the gym. I find these shows magnetic in their own way. I can do without the endless father-son baloney, but they are not hokey and repetitive …