And here is a picture of such a non-betraying Boyfriend’s Arm Pillow.
I thought for a while about attempting a witty comment. But looking at the picture again, does it really need one?
Pillow talk
Welcome
A warm welcome to the new home of Tokyo Times. After a few days of adjusting to Movable Type (ok, a week or so of head scratching, shouting, and incredible frustration), the site is now working something like it should. I hope.
If I’ve done everything right, pages should be noticeably quicker loading. And fingers crossed, the comments system will be slightly faster. Although during testing it wasn’t exactly what I’d call quick. We’ll see how it goes.
Yet despite the new surroundings, the content I’m afraid will be of a similar nature and quality. You can’t have everything you know!
Hospital horror
An assistant nurse was arrested over the weekend for her mistreatment (to put it mildly) of some of elderly patients. The incident occurred in Kyoto’s Jujo Hospital, and is of such an unsavoury nature that it made me wince both reading and writing about it. So I should say that before you go any further, what you are about to read is not pleasant. Not in the slightest.
Akemi Sato, the 30-year-old assistant in question, was arrested for removing finger and toe nails from 5 patients. The victim who suffered the worst treatment was a 76-year-old female convalescent. She had 3 finger nails peeled off by the sadistic Sato. Not only that, but the pensioner was fully conscious when it happened, yet was unable to resist due to her age and physical limitations. The unfortunate woman’s condition after Sato’s attack is said to be particularly serious, and her fingers are expected to take at least 3 weeks to heal.
Needless to say the hospital was apologetic, although it was quick to try and divert the blame. The secretary-general was quoted as saying, “It’s indeed regrettable that such an incident occurred at the hospital even though she is a staffer dispatched by a temp office to work for us.”
Pretty in pink
The picture below could be construed as a gratuitous shot of a young lady in a (relatively) short skirt. But that I hasten to add, couldn’t be further from the truth.
Partaking in my hobby of photographing speeding trains, the young lady in question just happened to step in front of the lens. And with her skirt being such a lovely shade of pink, I thought the picture might be worth sharing.
Next week, pictures of other short-skirted women standing in front of speeding orange trains.
Railway robber
A man was arrested in Kobe earlier this week after being caught stealing 2 pairs of trousers from a railway office. However 39-year-old Kenji Hishida wasn’t exactly what you’d call desperately in need of any leg wear, especially not of the railway uniform variety.
Mr. Hishida it turns out is obsessed with trains and planes, and an integral part of his hobby it would seem is stealing uniforms. After his arrest, the trouser thief admitted to stealing clothing from railway and airline companies over a 15-year period. Claiming that by wearing the stolen uniforms he could enter railway facilities, where he was “able to get a close look at trains from close range.”
Perhaps not surprisingly Hishida-san is unemployed, as after what the police found at his home it is obvious that he had no time for something so distracting as work. In his (presumably quite large) apartment, a staggering 10,000 uniforms were recovered. Prompting one surprised officer to claim that it was a haul “even a 2 ton truck could not carry.”
A disgruntled looking Hishida-san on his way to court yesterday. Perhaps.