JRO comments

I still don't understand why tourists would come here for golden week (not a week), why would someone choose to come to Japan during a time when everything is very busy?

They don't, if anything the sakura tourist boom just ended and now is a down period. Of course with the restrictions getting taken down there will be more coming though, but other than that foreigners that end up coming during golden week are just very unlucky as they have no idea what it even is.

Went to the one in Aichi back in 2005. Pretty nice, but the queue times were worse than Disneyland for way less impressive stuff.

I'm sure they aren't lying about only using them for defense, not a hard thing to do when the Chinese border seems to have legs.

So the illegal activity was him working as a catcher, which I hear has become illegal in many parts. As for the host part, stop with all these grey area stuff, either you make it illegal or it should be just as okay as anything else.

They have already invested heavily in Korean dramas over the last couple of years to great success, so I'm sure they know they know not to touch something that's already working. Also it's not only about the internationally popular shows such as Squid Games, most months of the year Korean shows are dominating every Netflix top 10 list in Asian countries, that's a lot of people, not every show needs to be aimed globally to be worth it.

Pathetic..

What's pathetic is that a country like Japan have a hard time holding on to their domestic audience because of their unwillingness to pass responsibility and power to the people with actual talent and skill.

Basically they are just giving up on the lie that the "trainee visa's" purpose was to teach foreigners Japanese working skills so they could bring it to their own countries, when in reality it just existed to get cheap unskilled labor. The 5 year limit was there to make that look believable as well as to keep "un wanted" non Japanese Asians from settling down.

From a business perspective though it's horribly stupid to send home the people you have finally trained up to replace them with new workers that you have to start all over with. Companies lobbied to get this changed, and out of the two evils money won against the nationalists.

Working in a similar entertainment industry and having my own stuff pirated I don't see lightly on piracy, but if any medium should be happy it's a thing it should be anime/manga. It would never have gotten close to it's current popularity if it wasn't for piracy. only thing we could really see legally in my country when I was growing up was Dragonball and Pokemon, and everyone that didn't watch the pirated stuff just assumed it was just any other childrens show. That's where it would have stayed if they didn't get the PR boost from piracy. They really shouldn't be the medium most aggressive against piracy.

I hate when people start talking about respecting other cultures when it comes to this issue. This is not about allowing some kind of western side hobby in Japan. people just don't turn out gay because it becomes accepted, gay people exists in the same amount all over the world, just many can't or don't want to tell anyone about it because of how they will be treated.

People only talk about respecting other countries cultures about this matter because they feel it's a choice and not the way they were born, I don't imagine you would say the same if Japan singled out one race and said that they don't culturally accept them to be the same class of human as other races.

They are too stuck in the past, if you are already earning 20m a year getting a visa was not something you would worry about either way, in Japans current situation you would expect them to roll out the red carpet. Allow dual citizenship if you want to keep talent long term, that is a must if you are seriously looking for people to make this their home and keep investing in you.

Although a confession in Japan isn't worth much based on their methods. It wouldn't surprise me if he just confessed to everything right away, this was probably a suicide or revenge on my boss kind of situation, so either way he didn't want things to go back to the way it was.

Heard a lot of bad things about working at Konami, and after having an interview with them about 8 years ago I just got overall bad vibes.

He had so much power of the Japanese entertainment industry and probably all the way up into politics, it's easy to understand how he could keep it under wraps. I found interesting that right as he died a lot more kpop companies and productions started popping up in different Japanese media, and the radio became 50% kpop, and not those Japanese versions.

Ever since China slid towards the Hard-Left of politics, it's been on a downward spiral. When will people ever learn?

Americans are probably the biggest reason for needing a change to the left, right wording of politics, as they just throw everything in the same basked thinking one thing leads to another. The most free and happiest countries in the world are left governed social democracies. What ever countries such as China, Russia, North Korea are doing is the total opposite of the main definition of the word left leaning, but since they get recognized as communist, they get put in the left corner. In reality it's more of a fascist dictatorship mixed with controlled capitalism, way closer to the right than to the left.

The countries themselves will just use what ever word that enables them to control their people so the elite can get rich and stay in power. The definition of the left is wanting less status and class differences between people and more equality. There is of course extreme variants such as Communism, but I don't think there is currently any true communist country, Those that are labeled as such, China for example definitely isn't a classless society, more towards the opposite.

It takes a Japanese university to think this is a good PR move, but I guess Japanese in general will just look at the name and title. What will he teach them? how to be able to keep a top job without doing anything of value?

They will just rename it and a bunch of grandpas get to write off a years worth of work.

Working from home I don't really get out much, but I was walking through Shin-Osaka station yesterday and it was interesting to see 99% of Japanese wearing masks while 99% of foreigners were not wearing one, while All Japanese seemed to be starring at me for wearing one as a foreginer. I have been here a long time so like most others I just wear a mask to not stick out, but now it feels like I stick out for wearing one as a foreigner :P. I'll probably skip it once it starts getting hot.

enforced bicycle helmet laws has only resulted in less people choosing to use bicycles in the countries which do has such laws. Of course it's more safe to use a helmet, same goes for pedestrians or people riding cars. Bicycles are for convenience and ease of use, having a helmet messing up your hair and taking up extra space totally messes up that aspect. I rather see the police enforce actual laws, people riding on the wrong side of the road or ignoring red lights seems like a 50/50 for the average rider.

It's a risky take, but I'm guessing all these "It's already equal" folks are Americans? It seems to go the same direction regarding any topic "doesn't affect me so why should I care". Maybe lets make interracial marriages illegal as well while we are at it, it wasn't that long ago people held that in the same regards as gay rights.

Since most of us live in Japan (I'm guessing) wouldn't you know the real age of consent isn't 13? there are local laws overriding this so there is no place in Japan where the age of consent is actually 13, Mostly it's 18.

Also lets stop putting the "west" into one big pool on morals. From what I can see Malta is the only place in Europe where the age of consent is 18 the rest is from 14 - 17 so most of what we call the west has lower age of consent than Japan even before this change, because it's not actually 13.

Of course if you have a 3 hour commute then that's on you, but a company having their office in Roppongi for example shouldn't be paying people 400万 a year and think that their employees can have a family and live 10min away. I'd say if you place your office in such a spot and still pay close to minimum wage then you can pay for up to an hour extra for the commute.

@JRO: Investigate changing your field of work then in all fairness.

No I'm fine, I'm just not doing business with Japanese companies.

People who only want to work their 38 or 40 hours in my opinion lack any kind of drive or ambition anyway, and then have the cheek to say that salaries are low here.

Salaries are seriously low though. Whenever any company here sends me an offer and includes their annual salary range I just send back a mail with "thanks, for that amount you can get me for 16h a week. With salary ceilings set so low in Japan I can never understand people putting so much extra time in, the return they can get on it is basically already set.

I doubt it's only 1 in 4, I'm guess young guys and old people will be the first to drop them, the rest will follow what ever the majority does, at least in public. When the heat starts though I think the 1 in 4 could be true.

It would be okay if the one's paying were also the one's profiting off of it while it was profitable. My guess though is that most profit were privatized while the unexpected costs are paid with our taxes.

I don't really blame the pilots, most were just victims of their government, but that a country can glorify such a thing to this day, even if it was for a good cause (which it was not) is disgusting. People willingly giving up their life without question when they have no idea for what they are fighting for is someone you should strive not to become.

I’m guilty of binge watching a number of Korean series on Netflix. I’ve tried Japanese Netflix stuff, after like a decade of refusing to watch anything Japanese. Alice in Borderland was mildly entertaining but it was just a watered down version of squid game. Japan is unique and that’s Japan’s problem. Japanese programming has absolutely no universal appeal. It’s unrelatable and translates poorly.

I have also watched both Korean and Japanese entertainment for the last 25 or so years, and yeah especially Korean dramas is miles ahead in quality, but it's not so much about the story, Japan has a goldmine of good manga to take stories from, they just can't compete in quality. Production companies here are probably run just like any other Japanese company, same old people making decisions, and because of the senpai system they never have to yield to younger talent. I think with Japanese Netflix top 10 constantly being filled with Korean dramas they might be forced to change at some point though, but as always things change slowly here.

Sad to see such backwards thinking in 2022. Honestly I don't understand the reason for having marriage/partnership be sexually locked at all. If two friends want to live together and be responsible for each other why not? Always laughed when they wanted snapshots of my wife and me together at visa renewal. I promise there won't be more or less babies made just because you allow people to be together with the people they want to be with.

I think that is a stereotype. Death shootings are taken very seriously in US.

Well the US has 28 killings by police per 10mil a year, Japan has 0.2

It might be taken seriously, but cops often get out of it without having to take any responsibility, as even a hint of feeling threatened is seen as a reason for them to use deadly violence, in many cases just saying something looked like a gun will work. In most countries using your gun or even pulling it out is almost unheard of, and anything but getting directly shot at where a deadly shooting happens will end up in court. Of course it has a lot to do with that in the US anyone can have a gun on them at any time, so it's understandable that police is a bit on the edge, but yeah wouldn't want to have kids on the spectrum living over there.

Having someone with similar disabilities in my family it always scares me how people are so unaware of that people can look "normal" but be far from it. expecting people to act in a certain way around cops although it can be a stressful situation even for a "normal" person. I guess at least they are not as trigger happy as in the US.

We really need to stop playing nice with countries such as China and India, we don't hold them to the same standards as the rest of us but still let them participate by the same rules. Because of this they have grown increasingly confident. Need to set up some rules if they want to participate.