Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!CALA-MUZIK!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!nntp.gol.com!203.216.70.8.MISMATCH!not-for-mail From: B Robson Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Shinsei Bank... Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 11:45:02 +0900 Organization: FusionGOL - Global Online Japan Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <1124213704.640254.95600@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> <3mfb6oF16r7mnU2@individual.net> <1124289535.268332.179750@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <4303D517.5010206@yahoo.comm> <3ct7g1pg7u57cmam5n1u5lsktmnjtmm7c6@4ax.com> <1124343119.047250.69400@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 203-216-000-091.engineering.gol.ad.jp Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: nnrp.gol.com 1124678477 18432 203.216.0.91 (22 Aug 2005 02:41:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@gol.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 02:41:17 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050331) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:28967 CL wrote: > declan_murphy@hotmail.com wrote: > >>jwb@csse.monash.edu.au wrote: >> >>>Michael Cash dixit: >> >>Last time I visited Cambridge (the other one) I went to 4 or 5 banks >>trying to change yen (cash) into USD. Same "do you have an account with >>us" BS. I'd only been in Sepponia 6 hours or so. Everytime I gets the >>shits with the staff at UFJ I find the easiest way to relax is to >>remember that at least it isn't a sepponian bank. > > > Many years ago, when I worked for a major motorcycle manufacturer, I > needed dollars and stopped off at the branch of Union Bank closest to > the US headquarters of my employer. While I sympathise, imagine trying to get rid of Austrian Schillings when they had just changed to plastic and word hadn't filtered out to remote areas like Tokyo.