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Still all quiet here in Tokyo……

That’s because it ain’t anywhere near Kansai or Korea, where whatever’s left of the storm will head to next.

German and Italian citizens were not interred. 

Read up on your own history first. Over 11,500 German Americans were interned, (not interred). But unlike Japanese Americans, they never received a dime in compensation.

Virtually unlimited sums for promoting tech education; scraps only for tackling the appalling standard of water safety awareness. Not helped by city swimming pools only being open two months of the year, shutting them at 5pm, nor their charging non city residents double, which discourages those not from the same area gathering together. In a place not known for thinking outside the box, there’s a crying need for not simply throwing the responsibility back on parents, a blind leading the blind approach if ever there was one. How about free trains to pools and beaches, and free swimming lessons. Pay for it by reducing the 300 billion yen for 111 schools tech splurge by 10 billion yen.

As the economic situation deteriorating there will be more accidents like that.

It wasn’t an accident, but premeditated. With at least another two months of silly season remaining, stay safe people.

…. controversial comments suggesting China, Japan and South Korea should establish an alliance based on cultural and racial similarities in order to exclude the U.S. and other Western-style democracies.

Someone needs to point out to this Mephistophelian schemer the tremendous danger inherent in such zero sum game civilizational relativism. It’s appallingly tone deaf, not to mention jaw droppingly arrogant to lecture us untermenschen outside the charmed circle that we need to be quarantined. Listening to his diatribe, how can we feel anything but animus towards the millions of Chinese immigrants who have made their homes among us. Presumably, his belief in Sinic civilizational superiority is such that we should only be too happy to have our ethnic displacement gifted to us by these superior beings.

The J authorities unwillingness to deal with the garbage problem is an open invitation and opportunity for civic minded foreigners to step into the breach by emulating those jet-setting locals who can always be relied on, especially when the world’s attention is upon them, to organize foreign stadium clean ups. At least they wouldn’t be depriving anybody of work, unlike the aforementioned.

Also it’s most decorated soldier is a war criminal.

All we’re saying, is give peace a chance.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_man_killing_contest#:~:text=The%20hundred%20man%20killing%20contest,people%20the%20fastest%20while%20using

Do you not appreciate that Japan is a heavily export weighted economy?

In terms of exports share of GNP, among G20 members, Japan ranks way down the list.

Their in excess of one trillion US dollar bond holdings has appreciated in value enormously from the yen they used to pay for it. Partially liquidate these and use the profits as a buffer to mitigate the effects of a weak yen. Simultaneously, signal to the speculators that interest rate rises are a policy option, with an immediate 0.5% shot across the bow. Japan’s has strong fundamentals, that are only getting stronger. Tourists are flooding back in and wage and price stability is conferring a huge advantage vis a vis its trade competitors.

I'm certain that the vast vast majority of gun murderers in this country have not gone through the process of getting a hunting license or joined the SDF just so they can kill someone they hold a grudge against.

You’re probably right. They go to all that trouble just in case they develop a grudge sometime in the future when it’ll come in handy.

There is an obvious parallel between the massive amounts of drug precursors emanating from China and the situation when the Chinese were pleading for the Gwailos to put an end to the opium trade.

Getting hammered is probably her coping mechanism, a way of dealing with the cognitive dissonance.

A convicted arsonist who was residing in the building has been questioned. Same person?

Well deserved ban, but I'm always wondering how such bans are enforced.

The name of the game is feel good virtue signaling for people who’ve convinced themselves that the far truer ‘there but for the grace of God go I’ doesn’t apply.

Stray cats; runaway boy.

One of the cheapest first world holiday destinations, if you’re not Japanese and can therefore take full advantage of the engineered currency depreciation and prices which, in many cases, are where other places were twenty years ago.

Syntactic structure fail; same as back in ‘41 when, in a triumph of Schrödinger’s cat inexactness, the J Govt’s press attaché subsuming past and present into one, left the assembled foreign press none the wiser about the chronology of the attack on Pearl.

Xie genie, let yourself go! And I was thinking to myself this could be Heaven or this could be Hell. Such a lovely place (Such a lovely place). Wake you up in the middle of the night, just to hear them say, what a nice surprise, bring your alibis.

"We are all just prisoners here, of our own device". Last thing I remember, I was running for the door, I had to find the passage back to the place I was before. “You can check-out any time you like, but you can never leave!"

have to focus on developing systems that function in spite of such error.

People on that doomed train entrusted JR with their lives and were sadly let down. When put to the test and when it really mattered, whatever safety margins existed simply weren’t up to it.

the four executives did not have proper opportunities to recognize the danger.

Not easy from the back seat of a chauffeured limousine.

"Utterly bleak”, said Germaine, of that vanished Australia she so eagerly decamped from when opportunity came. Be careful what you wish for.

This only plays into the hands of the silent “I told you so” majority, previously cowed into submission, but now, increasingly, finding their long silenced voice. As Bruce Banner used to say, “don’t make me angry; you wouldn’t like me when I’m angry”.

The yakuza should understand that in this time of surging raw material costs, jacking up 所場代 ain’t the smartest idea in their tool box. Caught between those pressures and ramen’s elasticity of demand, the poor shop owner didn’t stand a chance.

In both this and the case of the 29 year old Japanese woman who buried her newborn in the garden, contrast the heavy handed guilt shaming and faux outrage with the police response to a baby abandonment case in Sydney this week.

“Childbirth can be quite traumatic and we’re worried for her safety and wellbeing, both physically and mentally. We’re trying to help her. “It’s very concerning, but she’s not in any trouble from police. I want to stress that. “We’re appealing to her to come forward, to get some help, and let us help her.”

………so don’t you dare look at what’s inside of it.

Language usage here is deplorable. Whatever other punishment prescribed, a refresher course in elementary courtesy will help their chances of not sliding into recidivism.

You won't see massive queues for popular ramen shops - which is great news in itself!

Along with the population decline, the number of ramen shops will go into free fall. Those remaining will be even busier than now, catering to the burgeoning number of new poor grateful for the artificially sourced Soylent Corporation goop that, by then, will have replaced the ramen of old. Ramen is people.

In today's world, country matters not, everything's connected, global technology, borderless. Those that hang on to the old model inevitably fail.

Not so fast! The reality is more nuanced. Nationalism, no matter how much you abhor and wish for its demise, isn’t going away anytime soon. Deal with it.

It’s not only Japan, true. But the chances of it happening here are so much higher. So long as denial holds sway, nothing will change.

Nationalize pachinko already and you cut off one of the North’s main revenue raising streams. This is money that can then be used for improving the lives of people here .

If the Chinese ever do decide to damn the torpedoes and invade Taiwan, they’ll be banking on the collective West not having China’s tolerance for casualties likely to be in the tens of thousands.

for 1st and 2nd jabs it’s under 80%; for 3rd shots 68%.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1239927/japan-covid-19-vaccination-rate/