The following are a selection of the winning submissions in response to last month's Zeit Gist competition to win copies of "The Very Best of Neil Garscadden's Alien Humor," a collection of many of the pieces Garscadden wrote while editor of the humor section of The Alien magazine.
In response to Garscadden's column, headlined "Living and loving The Alien from Nagoya" (July 26), readers were invited to share their memories of The Alien, Nagoya then and now, or life in Japan in the 1990s.
Japan in the '90s was a golden age, so much so that Monty Python's "Four Yorkshiremen" sketch works in reverse: