Word: yen
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...chose a sex partner from the guys who wrote back. It wasn't hard. Guys who want sex and dinner, guys who just want sex, guys who just want dinner - they're all out there. They leave messages like, "Any girl who will have sex for 50,000 yen [$420] send a message here," and stuff like that. I just had to say that I was a high school girl, you know...
...reasons the Japanese send e-mail on i-mode instead of simply calling their friends. DoCoMo charges i-mode users according to the amount of data they receive or send, not the amount of time they are online. One message with 50 characters costs 1 yen. A 1-min. phone call? Twenty yen...
...write better stories; I don't believe meth really helps you in any way at all. But in those months, it became arguably the most important activity in my life. Certainly it was the most fun. And I looked forward to Haru coming over with another 20,000-yen baggie of shabu, the drug resembling a little, oily lump of glass. Then we would smoke, at first only on weekends but soon we began to do it on weekdays, whenever I had a free evening. At first only with my friends. Then sometimes I smoked alone. Then mostly alone...
...committed blunder after blunder, starting with his inability to perform the proper deep bow at Obuchi's funeral. Later Mori spoke favorably of Japan as a "divine nation," an unappreciated and embarrassing nod to the nation's militaristic past. And then there are those envelopes stuffed with 10,000-yen notes that keep turning up?or going missing. At the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, for example, the travel office is $5 million short. Scandals have forced three of Mori's cabinet members to quit. Adding to the aura of sordidness, magazines have been publishing photographs of the Prime Minister drinking...
...hard to go broke overestimating a boy's yen to see stuff get smashed to hell. Climb Arnold Schwarzenegger's money pile sometime and ask him. Cousins Trey Roski, 35, and Greg Munson, 34, knew this desire well as kids. "We collected remote-controlled helicopters," recalls Roski. "Greg would put them together, and I'd break them." Says Munson: "Whatever we built--Legos, Lincoln Logs--the end result would be destroying...