For Ken Joseph Jr.'s latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
Death row record ST is a member of Amnesty International. Now back in the U.K., she spent several years in Japan, and was horrified to read in a recent issue of Amnesty Magazine (issue 61, May/June 2010) that a Japanese man is believed to be ...
Reader KS is having a hard time and doesn't know where to turn. "I have been working for years but suddenly find myself unemployed, over 60 and unwell. I didn't know about the pension program so have not paid into it at all. What can ...
Judy Mintze, who contacted us in search of her long lost mother, is on cloud nine. "I'm so pleased to inform you that I was reunited with my mother for the first time in over 40 years in early April at the Medical Corp. Okeikai ...
Reader SB was working for Nova and his visa runs out next fall. "I would like to stay in Japan and have been teaching a number of private as well as company classes. However, I think it will be difficult to get any of these ...
Reader TS writes: "I return to the U.S. next week and I was supposed to receive my final pay check from a really bad ALT company . . . last week, but did not receive payment. I've called them but the secretaries say that ...
Some quickies: In reply to the reader looking for a bread bin, ML says that the Tokyu store in the JR Shibuya Station complex on the 7th floor can meet your needs. "You have to order from a catalog, and they come from Germany, but ...
Reader A.B. is concerned that he has been driving on an International Driving Permit and is getting mixed messages as to its legality. "While I'm hearing from some that I need to get a Japanese driving license, others are telling me that I can drive ...
In reply to a computer user seeking advice on "Going wireless on the move" (Lifelines, Jan. 5), M.H. wonders why Bic Camera ( www.biccamera.com ) and Emobile ( www.emobile.jp/en ) were mentioned, but not UQ WiMAX ( www.uqwimax.jp/service/trywimax/ ). "When I visited Bic's Shibuya store, ...
Two recent inquiries have come in from Canadian fathers who have suddenly lost contact with their children. "Every day I take my daughter to school and pick her up and take her home," writes B.Y. "I went to pick up my daughter and she was ...
Scuba source In reply to the inquiry about scuba diving (Lifelines, Oct. 6), Matt writes on behalf of Mar Scuba, the oldest foreigner-run dive operation in Tokyo ( www.marscuba.com ). "Mar Scuba serves the foreign community by providing education and instruction in English, PADI scuba ...
