sakurasuki comments

7 Japanese nationals in Cambodia arrested over alleged fraud

The era of Japanese abroad consists only honest businessman or tourist that try to spend money, those era are over.

78th anniversary of World War II end without mentioning Japan's wartime aggression

Japan always be a victim when it comes to World War II, other country attack Japan for no reason at all from Japan's perspective. That's why there is always movie Michael Bay's Pearl Harbor or Chris Nolan's Oppenheimer to remind the actual world history.

Most of those people have no idea about Pearl Harbor, that's why movie like Oppenheimer can help them with their lost history.

And then men get migraines from woman, that's how this cycle works.

No wonder Taros and Yukis are using condoms. They can't afford the consequences.

Taro and Yukis just having fun in love hotel using contraception and never married. Those weekend activity for fun only and will not contribute to population increase.

Diapers, formula and other baby items have seen greater price surges than other consumer goods since the beginning of this year, causing a heavy burden on child-rearing households as Japan battles a declining birthrate, a recent think tank analysis showed.

The prices of baby-related goods were up 9.3 percent in June from a year earlier,

Japan strategy to fight declining population, increase price of baby goods! Make sense right.

were first arrested on July 24 on suspicion of mutilating and abandoning a corpse.

fresh arrest warrants on Monday for allegedly murdering a man

From one charge to another so suspect can serve longer detention, typical Japan. It can be used for not only for real criminal but also innocent person.

Again? This one still this year in April

https://japantoday.com/category/crime/19-year-old-man-dies-of-apparent-illness-while-in-police-custody-in-Tokyo

The prosecutors generally only pursue cases where they are fairly sure of getting a conviction. According to Wikipedia, " If measured in the same way, the United States' federal conviction rate would be 99.8%."

You talking about federal conviction not just state conviction which usually really serious, and federal prosecutor will have strong case when they brought someone into federal felony. Also remember, lawyer can be present during those interrogation times unlike Japan.

@Kazuaki Shimazaki

If Japan really have same or even higher standard that EHCR that court must easily agree with extradition but that court decision just said the opposite.

Also why innocent people keep confessing for crime that they didn't commit while in detention? How long they can meet with lawyer while in detention? How long investigator and prosecutor can grill them on daily basis?

https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/2176360/predetermined-justice-carlos-ghosns-arrest-highlights-japans

(3) Long interrogation that can be up 12 hours per day without lawyer present and back to solitary confinement after interrogation finished on that day.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-47113189

Is true that there is 99% conviction rate in Japan?

Yes, they are under pressure to get 100% despite the person innocent or not, that's why they rely on confession even there is no actual proof.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Nissan-s-Ghosn-crisis/Ghosn-faces-Japan-s-99-conviction-rate-if-charged

A massive earthquake and tsunami in 2011 destroyed the Fukushima plant’s cooling systems, causing three reactors to melt and contaminate their cooling water.

Put blame on Tsunami? Why that plant and cooling system is designed and put in a way that can be impacted by Tsunami?

https://news.usc.edu/86362/fukushima-disaster-was-preventable-new-study-finds/

Osaka Expo ¥1,000 coins go on sale for low price of ¥13,800

You pay 13 times for something that has face value 1000 Yen?

 he might be made to confess under duress. Japan has argued that police interrogations in principle are recorded.

Recording only happens under certain circumstance which make only 3% of all cases. They just don't want to have recording, if that happens it will shows in what stress condition which make people confess.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/01/national/crime-legal/recording-interrogations-serious-cases-becomes-mandatory-japan/

Was he inspired by Akihabara tragedy from the past?

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2010/01/29/national/kato-sorry-for-akihabara-massacre/

Controversy? It just Barbie doll!

How come this is being news? No one can escape that kind of crime. Especially when they store body part in their home.

U.S., China agree to double weekly flights between countries

Is that include flight with balloon?

The Bon holiday period in mid-August is one of Japan's main vacation seasons.

Those hotels and shops not only open during obon holiday. Even current holiday season their result are good, there still the rest of the year where they need to open their business.

Higher education always move slow with current change of society and technology.

After hitting 145.00 yen, the dollar was quoted at 144.90-145.00 yen at 5 p.m. Friday, compared with 144.72-82 yen a day earlier. The dollar traded at 143.80-81 yen late Thursday in Tokyo. Financial markets in Japan were closed Friday due to a holiday.

Nothing stop dollar, Japan will be in Obon holliday, and be surprised when they go back to work.

The worst performer was Tokyo's Shinjuku station, down 21.4 percent from 2019

Why this is worst, this good, nobody want to be stuck inside Shinjuku station.

Due to a shift in drinking culture, fewer people are staying out late at night as they did before

Again this is good, less people stay late at night and drinking. So they have more rest without overloading their liver with liquor.

How did the Hawaii wildfires start? What to know about the Maui and Big Island blazes

Aloha, does it matter now?

Equal workload but not equal pay

https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Society/Gender-gap-persists-in-Japan-as-women-earn-74-as-much-as-men

Japan just want more, not only tourist group ban but also Fukushima ban being lifted from China. That just won't happen.

took away candy and chocolate, as well as beverages produced in Fukushima and two other prefectures on July 7. They also ordered the company to improve its business practices, the report said.

Fukushima tainted product slipped overseas, thanks for this local authority react quickly.

Should have class about Pearl Harbor and Nanjing too.

Student participants had been chosen by their prefectural and local school boards, but some were unable to attend due to a powerful typhoon that has rocked southwest and west Japan.

Those students life are more valuable than just attending government propaganda in the middle of typhoon.

One person in 100 suffers from hidden mental illness, says magazine

In Japan the number should more than that, especially many people pretend in Japan. So they are being undiagnosed.

Once a home is more than 10 or 15 years old, its value is worse than nothing because of the cost of demolishing it. Land without anything on it has a higher value than land with a pre-owned house on it.

That's actual excuse building houses with very poor isulation for noise, heat and cold.