David Brent comments

Certainly not declining here in Kyushu.

To be successful, schemes like Premium Friday require monumental shifts in Japanese culture and thinking; shifts which need to happen from elementary school up.

But these changes will never happen here due to Japan still very much being a feudalistic gerontocracy.

And yet they’ve just broken ground on a brand new semiconductor fab here in Kyushu! They aren’t cheap.

Khanun isn’t even a typhoon any more!

Oh, really. Then It should be no problem at all for anyone who speaks decent English to get any English teaching job at any Japanese university or private high school, right?

It’s so easy to get hired. I know a guy whose job title is Professor of English at a national university. It’s a total joke. Nothing “professor” about him. They just gave him that title because he’s been there longer than other fresh off the boat “teachers”.

The last thing Toshiba wants is to sell to non-Japanese. If they did, they won’t be able to get away with all the financial trickery and fraud endemic in these huge Japanese conglomerates.

Wages are so bad in Japan, it has no business being a member of the G7.

Imagine being so scientifically illiterate that you actually think this water being released is dangerous. Says a lot about the education system these days.

I got fed up with talking with photos of cakes, backs of heads, flowers, dogs….I mean, why bother joining a dating app if you’re too scared to even share a photo of yourself?

How about “let’s build a house with proper insulation”?

Might finally be a thing in Japan by the year 3000.

China is laughing their heads off.

Imagine an American-born guy naturalizing to China and then being allowed to join the Chinese military. It would never happen.

Expect more of this.

The Japanese dude on the left is only wondering how on earth a woman got to be vice-president.

It might be when someone gets a hold of your personal information and uses it to obtain a credit card and runs up a lot of debt or perpetrates some other form of ID theft.

More scaremongering. Would never happen. They wouldn't have my inkan for one thing. They also wouldn't know where I work; both necessary for getting a new credit card.

See, this is why you can't have nice things from the government in Japan, widespread fraud and tax evasion as an everyday thing. My Number shouldn't be postponed just because too many Japanese and gaijin like their fraud and evasion and kid themselves it's right because it's 'chotto'.

Spot on. 99% of the Japanese people who don't want MyNumber are just petrified of anything "new" in their lives. One reason why the country is still stuck in the 1970s.

hi, do you know where can I get a train to Asakusa?

No native English speaker would ever phrase the question this way.

Except when you are one of those few thousand and you have lost money

Nobody lost money. A MyNumber card isn't an ATM card.

If you stole my MyNumber card right now and even if you rightly guessed my PIN, you would at best be able to get a some forms from the convenience store machine such as a 住民票. So you would know my address. Oh no, it's the end of the world!

Stop scaremongering.

So your health insurance will become cheaper when you have gold driving license

Sounds good to me. I have zero problems with that. Then again, I'm a safe driver.

In the US, Toyota workers make more on average than GM workers.

Not being outsourced three times over probably has something to do with it! It's insane the amount and levels of outsourcing in Japan; a true cancer on society here.

I personally think the MyNumber system is great. I want just one card for everything. I hope they incorporate the drivers license into it as well. There have been, what, a few thousand data breaches amongst the tens of millions of cards issued? It’s no big deal.

Amazing what your profits can be when you pay your army of haken and ukeoi worker peanuts day in, day out. Trebles all round!

Many years ago when I was an ALT, I got scolded for teaching the elementary kids "I like dogs", and "I like cats". The flashcards I was using showed only one dog and one cat, and the classroom teacher (zero English ability) said that I need to stick to "I like dog" and "I like cat". I told them that "I like dog" sounds like you enjoy eating dogs, but they didn't care. I quit the job shorty after, as I refused to have any part in teaching kids incorrect English.

It's so stupid forcing kids to learn English here. The vast majority will never need it in their lives. The vast majority also have zero interest in leaving Japan or in anything non-Japanese. Make it an optional subject. Also, the decades of JET and ALT "teachers" have clearly made no difference to the outcome.

This is a lose-lose for the Angels. They will lose Ohtani to free agency, and fail to make the play-offs.

He can moan all he wants. Japan will never do the right thing and follow the law.

"We just cannot find any workers".

"Nobody wants to work any more".

....hourly wage 1000 yen....ten hour days....

We need to think about what kind of world we’re leaving behind for Keith Richards.

It's so funny how all the moaners actually ended up helping this song get to #1 and make Aldean even richer than he already is!

I'd rather live in a small town any day than Detroit/Baltimore/St. Louis etc..

Gotta get out there and earn that ¥950 per hour!

The BOJ will do whatever the bureaucrats tell it to do.

Imagine paying good money to see Barbie over Oppenheimer.