I love Japan. it is a great place to live and to visit, but no place is perfect. Last week I gave my personal Best Ten Things about Japan. Today I give you my bottom ten. based on my five plus years in Japan, here are my personal ten worst things about Japan.

1. Nartia Airport. So far from town, driving to Nartia and flying from Narita is like taking tow trips instead of one. At least when you get to the airport, the shopping is lousy.
2. Second-hand smoke. So many people smoke, so often that Japan is the only country with a third-hand smoke problem. Just walk by a designated smoking area to experience instant headache and nasal shutdown.
3. Tatamae. Everyone here is really nice to you. Everyone here agrees that Narita should be closer to town so you could leave sooner.
4. Crowded Trains. You think it would be nice to be pressed up tightly against some lovely Japanese woman on a crowded Den-en Chofu line train. But, chances are high it will be a 50-year-old Japanese salary man with bad breath and dandruff instead.
5. Wimpy little dogs. The Japanese aptitude to make electronics smaller and smaller regrettably also affected pets. Ruff-ruff!
6. Drunken Japanese. Beware the train platform on a Friday night between 10 PM and midnight. In addition to watching out for bad breath and dandruff, be sure to watch where you step as there might be a "platform pizza" at your feet.
7. Drunken Foreigners. The only thing worse that a local drunken crowd is the foreign drunken crowd. It seems that as a foreigner, them ore you drink , the more invisible you become. Try it!
8. Doing business in Japan. I am so tired of hearing about Carlos Ghosn. The Nissan renaissance must be a total accident because no foreigner can make a difference here. That Nissan job must be a piece of cake Carlos, come on down to my office and experience some real world action.
9. Medical Care. The most sophisticated medical technology in the world. But go into a local hospital to have knee surgery and walk away with one less kidney.
10. Cell Phone Addiction. Japanese are obsessed with cameras. Now there are phones with cameras. If only you could smoke your phone too, how perfect that would be!
11. Bicycles on Crowded Sidewalks. Next time you are walking behind a horde of pedestrians and Granny Suzuki rings her bell behind you, just ignore it.
12. Recycling. Could it possible be more difficult to do something nice for the environment? I have to put my burnable trash out by 8AM on Saturday. Put it out the night before and I am ridiculed by my neighbors who are operating a garbage sting operation.
13. Local Phone Service. Start dialing a phone number from one of those Japanese meishi with really tiny numbers and hesitate for just a few seconds taking your eyes off the meishi, and you will get one of those sweet messages telling you to try again. Disconnected.
14. 1-yen and 5-yen coins. You can't use them in vending machines and the coins just accumulate like household lint. By the way, as expensive as things are in Japan, when are they going to introduce a 50,000 yen note?

Like I said, nobody's perfect. I hope you had a good laugh relating to this, as I had a good laugh writing about it.