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It's nice that Mr. Kim always looks well fed and freshly scrubbed, no matter when or what.

Also ever noticed how he makes a point of making everyone around hold their little notebooks for the photo op? The guy is always ready to pass his unmatchable wisdom to all the specialists around him.

https://en.yna.co.kr/image/nk

I was so busy last week that I had no idea Obon was "valid" until Wednesday so I came to the office this morning.

Streets are empty in Tokyo. Took me 14 minutes for a route that usually takes me 30 on a monday morning.

Commuting on unofficial holidays is a bliss.

Imagine if every other day of the week was like this.

The government does have some good ideas on work-life balance. The problem is trying to convince employers that holding their workers hostage for 10 to 14 hours a day is damaging to society on many levels.

Couldnt agree more.

Its actually depressing going anywhere on a weekday by 3pm and see all the beautiful places completely empty, except for pensioners and housewives.

It was a great idea that could have eased quite a few problems in this country, including depression and birth rates.

I'm the living example of Premium Friday.

Every week is Premium Friday for me.

It doesnt matter how busy the week was, 3 full days to slow down and actually enjoy things and places at your own pace including 1 weekday to solve any pending issue anywhere is a bliss.

Trump is a crook.

Rent free forever since 2016.

damn, poor mod can't have a 5 min toilet break these days what a zoo

The project comes as new apartment prices climb to record highs in Japan's capital

Meanwhile entire cities crumble, hundreds of thousands of houses are left unoccupied.

Almost every single japanese capital I've been was very clean, rich, full of beautiful landscapes and a whole new universe to explore throughout the prefecture.

But it seems every inaka teenager's dream is coming to Tokyo.

If you want to scape the harsh winter: Tokyo

A tsunami struck your town: Tokyo

Broke up with someone: Tokyo

Almost like a knee-jerk reaction and I only blame the media for this.

Its 90% Tokyo area, 6% Osaka and 4% the rest of all other capitals.

There is nothing special about Tokyo.

You can barely see Tokyo Tower these days.

Article: Card shop refuses to buy cards from vietnamese people

10 seconds later...

..........nazis!

Cant make this up.

No wonder everyone in this site is broke lol.

Thats a great business idea with an endless potential target that is the tired and overworked japanese.

If you commute to central Tokyo and dont have a car, you won't have anywhere comfortable and dark enough to even take a 15 min. nap until you come back home. You'll be dragging yourself for the whole day, craving for some rest.

I had the same idea some few years ago (cheap & no frills sleep pods close to a busy station) but I gave up because I don't like having to worry about staff management, but I'm definitely sure it would be a success.

"N" spelled sideways is "Z".

Doh!

I saw what you did there.

Reality is, people are used to diss these kei-cars a lot for no reason at all... perfect cars for people who drive with only 1-2 people max or just their pets and dont travel on highways every weekend. I see very old people holding down the traffic with their long and powerful sedans, cant imagine how they even manage to drive in narrow residential roads. Unless you're driving through a typhoon, N-BOX is one of the safest and useful cars to move you around.

Fukushima rice has always been so cheap when compared with other prefectures I had to give it a try.

Not bad for the price (¥1,200 for 5kg) but I still prefer Tochigi over anything, all Top 3 yummiest rice I ever bought were from there.

Local chinpara or older driver using kei car suddenlyi being turned upside down in normal road, that's more less Japan's inaka way of life.

Couldnt agree more. Actually how do you even achieve that stunt in the picture without the help of a typhoon?

The photo is of the failed Honda Z-Box model. Sales were low

N-BOX, one of the best selling vehicles of all time in Japan. I owned one. It has every feature to help you drive safely.

Total disregard of speed limits, seat belt laws, and red lights is coming home to roost.

Read again:

Of the 1,182 total people who died, 417 were walking

pedestrians here are lunatics, they seem to expect drivers to stop immediately when they cross the red light and even they are in the wrong, drivers are expected to pay for the damages.

I'm not sure about the other prefectures, but here in Tokyo no one knows how to walk or cycle properly, probably because no one ever bothers to get a drivers license so they spend their whole lives walking around without the most basic knowledge about traffic signs or how drivers see (or cannot see) them.

This and the selfish zombies that dont bother being aware of other people around.

For gods sake, even without a smartphone some japanese simply refuse to look to a car coming from the opposite direction in a very narrow road, always giving that typical japanese cynical blank stare, creating a very dangerous situation if you're not patient enough to actually stop the car and wait for the zombie to pass, where there was plenty of space for both of us to go through.

I'm not surprised with these numbers.

I actually believe one of the main factors of the yearly decline in accidents is actually population aging/decline.

JT could have used weeping Rapinoe's picture for this article, she had been the key athlete in the team for all these years, and the one ending her career with a missed penalty kick that costed US the World Cup.

She must be very furious and disappointed with herself right now.

After losing the World Cup today, Megan Rapinoe was asked what her favorite memory of playing for US soccer was.

Her response was "equal pay".

That blue haired rapiweird was never interested in playing soccer as a team member anyway....

That "I deserve that" moment tells everything you need to know about that narcissist.

Sad for the other players though.

Better still, just get out, take your totalitarian CCP with you, and give the country back to its long-suffering people.

Nonsense. Communists just don't walk away. Never. Like asking a hyena to be quiet and go vegan.

My son will be 2 years old soon.

He already understands all the words for vehicles, food, house objects etc. in 3 European languages + Japanese. We saved him from a life of studying the same basic english over and over but at the same time I'm a bit worried if he'll be too bored during his engrish lessons with japanese teachers

Bummer, if I was bringing up a child and I wanted them to learn English, I'd want the option to have my child skip this nonsense so they don't learn weird English. I'll do it myself.

Japanese students be like: ok words of the day: intrinsically, lucubration, introspection, impecunious ☑☑☑

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

EEttooo.. massug, streito, and right?, no, lefuto. ... tasukete!

Zine culture. Hello early 90's.

That's what I thought lol I knew that term a few years before really getting into Japan, around 1998 or so

I once picked an English grammar/vocabulary book intended for japanese public schools.

For every page you'd get a single english phrase on the top/middle of the page, followed by a sea of kanji and very complicated formulas, explaining in full detail the physics of that single phrase.

Next page, same thing.

And the next. And next.

I was 100% sure that was definitely the way to teach japanese students how to vocalize their ideas and express themselves in a very natural and easygoing way. Shocked.

The name says it all, this "rat race" is dehumanizing.

Once you see the light there is no going back.

No one should work more than 4 days a week.

Guy surely looks very gay, but who doesnt in Japan?

On another note, this is the first time I see someone named "Atae" in Japan, the kanji itself 與 looks like a pacman maze or something

This is a human rights violation that only seems possible in Japan.

These students flooding Mac Donalds and Saizeriya by 3pm are noisier than a flock of crows, I go to Mac at least 3x month as they're the most readily available 'oasis' to take a break and cool down after you finish your job somewhere out in the sticks but sometimes you can hear the screams from the 2nd floor the moment you open the goddamn door, how can someone stay there for even 1 minute, I just take my order and eat in the car.

impossible to eat, talk on the phone, much less read or work in some of these stores

real life "The Guilty"

Foreigners are walking around without masks but the elderly Japanese aren’t and the virus is actually on the rise again

its been like this for ages, actually mind boggling how many japanese elders erase their own existence whenever they step out of the house, fully masked and wearing their bucket hats in a way you can barely see their eyes.

The numbers include burglaries linked to yami baito, or "dark part-time work," where individuals are often recruited via social media to commit crimes for money.

Only someone raised in a fatherless home can attest about how dangerous it is to grow up without anyone to actually hold you and educate you during these most challenging years..,these youngsters actually believe they can earn ¥100.000 in a single day without any repercussions to their future just because they call it a "baito".

Suspect mugshot

https://www.portlandoregonmugshots.com/show.php?id=tRubzP4dX9s01nC&name=arissa-robinson

Yep. Another puzzle solved.

Yuzo Yoshioka, 62, head of the Consular Office of Japan in Portland, was pushed to the ground by the woman while walking alone

There is absolutely no doubt about what kind of savage commited this act, similar episodes are all over Youtube. The same types who invented the knock out game. What a curse!

Surely the "left" isn't one hulking mass of people who all think alike? Same with the "right." 

Problem is not about left x right, its just this bunch of hipocrites that cant miss a chance of always holding the humanity back, same people who demand everyone to say 2+2=5 or else...normal people have been enabling these lunatics for probably too long.. who'd have imagined it would turn into this madness.

Instead of invading the DORKS, just parachute a bunch of Big Macs on them.

Even the soldiers they proudly show in those parades (theoretically "their best") look hungry if not malnourished