  Yes, I know it has been a while since I have written anything and I just started this post.&nbsp; I'm too poor to buy a laptop and my hubby is&nbsp; a computer hog - haha. Life is always greener on the other side, ne?&nbsp; I wish I was living in Mainland Japan.&nbsp; It's is absolutly beautiful.&nbsp; I've been to Fukuoka and got to take the train to Sasebo.&nbsp; I only spent three days there about a year ago and I want to go back!!! Election time (Japanese senate I think) has come and gone.&nbsp; Thank god!&nbsp; No more noisy vans driving by with cute young Japanese women waiving white-gloved hands.&nbsp; No more Helicpoters circling around shopping plazas telling you to vote for so-and-so.&nbsp; No more pictures of old Japanese men on light posts holding fruit bowls.&nbsp; LAME! Next rant: American men who marry Japanese women.&nbsp; A cautionary tale. 
