Screenshots updated
Aug 14, 2006
There are some Japanese ideas that just won't fly on this side of the Pacific, no matter how much we might wish otherwise. Sidewalk vending machines that sell beer, f'rinstance, or vertical malls with entire floors devoted to naughty schoolgirl comics. Sucks, but what can you do?
WTF (it stands for Work Time Fun, see) might be one of those Japanese concepts that simply gets lost in translation, coming as it does from a country where long hours at thankless jobs are part of the culture. But ...