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Has anyone looked at the cost of a pack of diapers in the US? Before anyone complains about the cost of diapers here in Japan go on the US Amazon and cost them out and one will be surprised at how cheap diapers are here. I heard in Indonesia diapers are far more expensive than Japan. For baby food, go to the vegetable markets, buy potatoes, daikon and carrots boil mash them up and or put them in a blender add milk and butter cheaper and healthier than the crap in jars.

Food prices are still cheaper here especially fruits and vegetables and I count my blessings for safe and functional transportation, and I don't need a car, that comes along with insurance, gas and upkeep that is another huge savings. As for rents, I looked at prices across Canadian cities they are no cheaper and or more expensive than Tokyo and again when you take out the car and the cost of that you are further ahead in Japan.

Still all quiet here in Tokyo the calm before the storm.

This is good for us foreigners living in Asia and not China. China doesn't charge as much as other airlines and though we may have to transit the cost could be almost half. At the moment, other airlines have raised their prices to almost of the world records from Asia to America and so this will be a nice break for us folks living in Asia.

Unless Japan raises their interest rates to bring inflation under control like the rest of the world, I can see the yen going up to 200 against the American dollar. Unfortunately, the government is being ran by a bunch of old men who forefathers were politicians and many of those old men inherited those lifetime jobs and where it takes forever to get anything changed because these old men don't like change.

I have been in this country 25 plus years and compared to when I first arrived when people walked down the street with a cigarette in their hand and blowing that stinky crap in your face a HUGE change and grateful for it, too.

Only by chance a few summers ago I kept my air con on 24/7 and thought OMG my electricity bill is going to be through the roof, but to my surprise it was no more expensive than turning it off and on. What I heard that the air con, when starting up each and every time takes a lot of power and so that is why there is not much difference in the cost. I also only use one A/C for my entire place, and I cut down the use of my lights in my house not only in summer but all year round and so my bills run between 3,000 yen to max 10,000 yen but it will be interesting to see what my bill will be this month will the rise of power.

This was a single mother, and probably expected to raise 2 children on her own with no financial support. Where was the father? I can almost guarantee he was not providing child support leaving the entire financial burden on the mother. Unlike in N. America there are severe consequences for those deadbeat fathers but not here in Japan.

Of course, my heart bleeds for the loss of those children lives but more needs to be done to go after those fathers who run off many times to another woman and start another family leaving the last family to struggle.

Really, did this story need to be published. First and foremost, this man needed to be taken to have a medical check to see if all his marbles were fine. Second, if they were or were not, the family should have been contacted if there were any existing and have him treated.

A lot of elderly acts out, because they want to be arrested and so they can be locked up in order to get free medical care, lodging and food. The stats show a high number of elderly persons are locked up and found for just the reasons I laid out.

The government needs to stop giving money away to other countries and start investing in health care for the aging and society. and their families. Also, they need to address the issues of bullying in schools, and with many mixed families now in Japan consider providing public schools designated for mixed race children that will cut down a lot of bullying, removing stress on teachers, parents and children that will help these children blend into society with security.

Wow, the US minimum wage in most States are so low that most people need to work a second job and so make life more miserable they raise the interest rates and so people can lose their jobs. There is something wrong with that madness and should be made illegal.

Yet, they like to travel here and spend their money at baby stores purchasing formula and other baby supplies because for safety reasons and other products, too. So, if they don't like Japan and or the US they can stay home and lock themselves up in their own country and leave us alone.

It’s too bad they can’t suffer the exact same they fished out on this little boy. Scalding water poured water on them and whatever else they dishes over and over plus video tape it and let them watch the horrid crap they are guilty of.

In this country you are guilty if arrested and it is nearly impossible to get an innocence in the Court the police have more power than the judges this, I heard from my friend a Japanese lawyer. Had Ghosn stayed to fight the charges he would have absolutely no way to have proven his innocence because he would have needed access to his office, and he was cut off even from his wife. It truly appeared he was being railroaded and it was good he could escape because he would have been in prison here for many years innocent or not.

It will be very interesting to see what his lawsuit will bring to surface and if it proves his innocence there are going to be a lot of heads rolling for sure.

Waste of money those elections, because it is the same old individuals that are there shouting into those bullhorns driving around in cars breaking everyone's ear drums. There are no debates on tv and so the public can hear what these individuals really have to say and have mercy on our daily lives. Really, it is a merry-go-round where one individual gets off and goes and sits in the corner and the other gets on until they do it all over again, unfortunately.

People should be given a choice. I don't want my personal information on this card, because if the government messes up for myself and many other foreigners who cannot read Chinese character could be in a whole lot of financial mess and we will never get reimbursed. The government's response will be guaranteed "shoganai" "gomen nasai" and they will move on leaving us holding the bag.

Nothing will ever change until the old geezers who are running the show leave willingly or unwillingly nothing will change in the government and that means their kids, too, who usually automatically inherit their dad's or mom's seat in the house.

I am dreading the bullhorns out in front of my home from morning to night as I live right by the station and it there is nothing that blocks out that screaming and yes, I mean screaming.........uggh.

Harry's IDIOT, has ZERO talent and when she speaks her voice is a grinding one and her interviews were horrendous for the exception of Mariah Carey who called her out and threw the Idiot off her mark and the IDIOT who can't act if her life depended on it was like "what" "me". UGGH....good for Spotify for cutting their losses while are still ahead. Harry and the IDIOT are the 2 laziest individuals, who want people bowing to their toes and tell them how great they are, and they are not.

The yen once again crashing against the dollar, and it will not change until the old men are eliminated running this country.

I teach from my home; however, I file my taxes every year, pay health care and the list goes on. Had he filed taxes on the income he was bringing in my bet he would not have been bothered. For myself in all the years I have worked from my home there has never been an issue and yes never missed a tax season and there were years I did not owe and there were years I did.

He is lucky it is only 16 years he should have gotten double and the mother, too. Mothers are supposed to protect their children at all costs.

Forget that the other day a Japanese man deliberately ran into the back of me on the station platform there was so much space he could have walked around me. I was so infuriated I yelled at him, but he never even turned around and it was no accident either.

I loved his acting and there is not a show where I didn't enjoy his work. Condolences to his family and friends.

How can any sane individual want to vote for him and or any republicans at this time it is madness. Liberties are being stripped, racism at its best and gun violence because of lack of laws and republicans to scared to stand up to the NRA and or the NRA has so many of them in their back pockets.

I only read the word tourists. Does this mean all tourists? Does this mean tourists from all parts of Japan that includes me a foreigner who has made home for many years? Is Kyoto going to be biased to one set of tourists over another group based on skin color and race?

This 28-year-old man, unemployed man turns himself in and says he is suicidal, instead of getting medical attention for him they turn him over to his 60-year-old father. With all the murders of parents by such individuals like this man what were the police thinking?

When an American woman who happens to be black goes to confront her racial ignorant neighbor about breaking her child's iPad and gets shot dead there is a real issue in America. In Japan, I think this could be a real issue, too, if there were not a strict gun law in place.

Here is a concept raise minimum wages and so this permits people to even think about the concept of marriage and a family in the same breath. Just an idea.

Unfortunately, they are not free like other Royal families to make decisions at their will they are locked up behind those Royal walls. The previous emperor had to go on the sly and make a public announcement he wanted to step down and forcing the governments' hand with the people of Japan behind him and supporting this desire. It is no fairytale to be a royal family member in this country.

When I read this headline, I believed this was an act that had been done at multiple restaurants and causing havoc on more than one occasion.

Regarding the safeguards that this restaurant is putting in place it should have been done a while ago after the COVID started with their COVID subsidies because that is one of the reasons, they were given large multiple government subsidies especially to these large chain restaurants.

There is no excuse for the prank and or the egging on I am absolutely sure by the other kids, but this lawsuit is overkill by this LARGE chain restaurant.