From time to time, I will select a product that is available in both US and Japan and compare a price for you based on the current currency exchange. LEXUS LS 460 Base Model US Retail $66,000 JP Retail Y7,960,000 = $94,761 The same car costs $28,761 more in the US than it is in Japan. This is 43% more. This is becau...

Mayumi Nakamura, president of PSPINC, flew to Long Beach this morning. She will have over 10 meetings in 3 days with several Japanese corporations headquartered in southern California. I think we are expanding our web hosting business to southern California where there are more than 70,000 Japanese people. Mayumi i...

Since the release of the new bloguru admin we are effectively dropping support for our classic skins and by the end of September any users using a classic skin will be automatically moved to a new skin. To avoid being caught by this move, please log in to the admin panel and select a new skin. If you have any questions...

Travelex ... You have seen them at airport. They say NO FEE foreign currency exchange. This is a rip off. The current Japanese Yen to US Dollar is about 86 yen to 1 dollar. At this stand they sell Japanese yen at 73.99 yen to a dollar. They are making 14% or 12 yen profit every time they sell 1 US dollar. Where in that t...

I took this picture this morning at out side of baggage claim at SEATAC this morning. This area used to be smoking area for the airport but it is not more. However, it is used as a smoking area anyway as you can see on top of the trash bin and the lady smoking sitting down. I used to smoke so I know how difficult it is n...

100 players participated in Seattle Executives Annual Golf Tournament last Friday. What a great day - the weather was perfect and good times were had by all! It looks like Ken Uchikura and Mayumi Nakamura of Pacific Software Publishing and Kent Brady of Financial Services Management Group certainly enjoyed the day!!

Today, PSPINC deployed the new rule for detecting SPAM email on our SPAM Filter. It should detect another 70% plus SPAM coming to your mailbox. Please let me know if we stamp any valid email as SPAM. We are trying very hard to eliminate as many SPAM as possible without stamping a valid email.

I was at the SEATAC airport waiting for people on DELAT 182. The arrival notice said it is arriving little after 3pm. Originally it was supposed to arrive at 11:30am. I waited until 4:30pm and found out that the flight was cancelled. The online, arrival information and Delta rep. on the phone never said the flight was cancelled....

Today I attended Seattle Executives Association Golf Tournament. It was really a nice day. Although we shot 9 under par (scramble format), best team shot 4 strokes better than we did. We did not win but Mayumi got Longest Drive and Nearest to the Pin. I won two ruffle prizes and those were tickets to Boeing Classic Senio...

All States, Counties and cities are having budget crisis. They are short of revenue and forced to cut services ... or are they? There is a small part near out office called Highland Park. There are two baseball fields and little play area. I walk my dog here every morning. It is groomed very nicely. On any weekday, there is...