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 We will provide thorough instructions to our personnel to prevent a reoccurrence.

Gosh, that makes me feel a whole lot better.

It feels like high school.

3,869 yen, the highest increase in 26 years.

Just pathetic. At least the cost of living has stayed generally low.

I can't imagine what leverage Japan has over Iran other than money, which is not actually leverage at all.

The entire jpop industry feeds off of old men and women's appetite for innocence and youth.

where do you cut out the cancer?

naturalbokeToday  

Some additional information from Japanese language media:

The grandfather was incredibly candid and added the following information. Runa rarely attended school when she was young and had issues communicating with people. She did enjoy cosplaying and met Ura at a cosplaying event. Ura liked to cosplay as a female and Runa became a friend him without realizing he was a man. Runa apparently had a deep mistrust of men and avoiding speaking to them. At some point they ended up staying in the same hotel and during the night Ura allegedly sexually assaulted Runa. Destressed and angered by this she told her parents what had happened. The family then decided to hatch a plan to kill and behead the victim with Runa and her father planning and buying items for the murder. The mother has now also been accused of being a coconspirator.

That's going to be an interesting trial.

How about actually creating and enforcing bike lanes? There is currently no safe and legal place to ride.

Ura (62) involved in previous violent incident with Runa (29).

Ura's head filmed in bathroom of Osamu (59), father of Runa.

It's a bit confusing, but Runa and Osamu probably have to answer some important questions.

"top" is a conveniently vague word

I'm ok with Perv Hunters. Chikans (including police, teachers and government workers) are way too common in Japan.

So, my perspective on this is that

a) when a non-Japanese marries a Japanese person, this law (or lack thereof) should be known (at least be now, given all the publicity)

b) therefore, in the case of a divorce, the legal route (so popular elsewhere) is not going to work

c) therefore, you have to appeal to the ex-spouse's reason and, yes, humanity

I know very well that divorce can get really ugly really quickly. But if you know the limits of the law, you can sometimes go easy on the financial and other issues that often drag people into court in order to do what's best for the kids. (ie. put the interest of the kids first and don't threaten your ex).

I know lots of cases where the above approach worked out. It's not a legal battle. It's an appeal to the other party's better self.

@Asiaman7

Do we really need to overspend by nearly 25 billion yen every year for tourism information centers? — particularly when so much information is freely available on the internet these days.

I seem to recall that, during the pandemic, large travel agencies (e.g. JTB) were tasked with keeping tabs on visitors. This was unpopular, of course, but at least it has some basis in reason. I'm not sure if this has anything to do with the tourism information centers, but it might.

Like Russia cares what anyone else thinks. That ship has sailed.

cashing in on one of the few industries that generate profits--tourism. I don’t like it when I need a hotel, but I can’t really blame 'em. The last few decades have been an economic free fall.

China only has itself to blame. The government pays people to steal technology from countries such as the US so they can sell it back to them as cut rate prices. Maybe that was tolerated for commercial products, but defense? That's a bridge too far.

@JeffLee

I come from the country with the highest immigration rate in the OECD, and the place has become unlivable to a significant percentage of the population over the past few years It boasts the world's least affordable cities.

As @theResident correctly pointed out we are not talking about Canada.

Vancouver is overpopulated (you guys invited all of Hong Kong to stay, remember?).

Japan is underpopulated, and has not much immigration at present.

These things make a difference.

told police that her friend who was visiting her had lost consciousness.

Well that's one way of putting it. Anyone want to bet she "was drunk and doesn't remember anything"?

Know what tends to fundamentally improve the economy, raise birthrates and generally make a country a more innovative? Immigration. Without doing something to fundamentally change business as usual, Japan's a sinking ball of mochi.

Mainichi Shimbun is not a left-leaning newspaper. This might really mean trouble

Hank Steinbrenner doesn't spend like his late father "The Boss" George

All I know is what Wikipedia says:

Yankees 7.1 Billion

Dodgers 4.8 Billion

Sounds like the Yanks are still living pretty large.

They should focus on getting more young women interested. The imbalance of men-to-women makes science class/lab in Japan feel kinda weird.

So, Ohtani probably goes to the richest team, which is, as always, the Yankees.

Minagawa’s mother was weeding the garden when she found the baby’s remains at around 10:15 a.m

Whatever the backstory and whatever your views on the law, finding a baby’s remains in your garden has to really suck.

Ed King from the climate-oriented communications firm GSCC blamed Russia and Saudi Arabia for a lack of progress at the meeting.

What exactly are Russia and Saudi Arabia's incentives? Other than oil, I don't know what they own.

"inspections" sounds perfectly reasonable. "banning" not so much

watch the recording(s). Probably a serial chikan.

will not be switching my citizenship any time soon

The radiation from eating seafood from the affected area is less than that from flying in an airplane or from eating a banana (https://oceana.org/blog/worried-about-fukushima-radiation-seafood-turns-out-bananas-are-more-radioactive-fish/).

The real problem is that people have lost faith in their government because of all the stupid coverups surrounding Fukushima.

@MarkX

Isn't it a little late to carry out the psychiatric evaluation? Shouldn't they have done one before he was able to join and then murder two people because of his love of guns!

Indeed, the GSDF seem to have much looser background checks than police.

This is good news for overseas investors, who are continuing to drive up prices. Not so good for people who actually live in Tokyo.