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Just like one episode of Narcos series.

The more talented researchers are, the more likely they will leave Japan, resulting in a decline in the country's academic standards.

Start with salary first, for the same position salary is better in other G7 country and check what are Japanese culture that need to be changed. Also it's common in Japan daily job can be really different from actual initial role.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Cheap-Japan-Low-wages-for-tech-workers-delight-foreign-companies

He did not ask for money and left the store empty handed, police said.

What is his motives?

unfriendly countries" - those that have imposed sanctions 

That make sense, friends won't imposed sanctions, Japan did right. Also did some embargo, so this is what happen. Japan can protest and pledge and then what?

was heading to work in plain clothes when he used the convenience store’s toilet at around 10:20 a.m. on Monday, Kyodo News reported.

Must be a nice morning glory in that convenience store, feels really good with air conditioning during this summer inside convenience store. So it make sense he forgot his holster.

record ¥7 tril budget for FY2024

Does Japan really have society problem? Aging population, price of daily items that increasing, stagnant economy, declining birth rate, single mothers who struggling and many others?

Not in the eyes of J govt

However, another employee chased Watanabe and with the help of three passersby, caught and subdued him until police arrived.

Just another amateurs that finished watching Money Heist series and think they can do it.

No Mario Brothers effect after eating those mushrooms for this family.

Some people just really bad at map no matter how good technology can guide them, in that case all they need is a good hiking guide or mentor, and follow that guide.

The amount of radioactive tritium in wastewater from Chinese nuclear plants, recorded at 13 of the nation's monitoring points in 2021, surpassed the maximum allowable annual amount

Now it's time for competition to show the world who can really pollute ocean water even more, is it China, Japan or someone else.

Shin Sawada, 63, issued a statement apologizing to Yukiko Kuwazuru, a 35-year-old rookie ward assembly member, for his "inappropriate" posts that "severely damaged" the municipality's reputation.

63 year-old that just to young in Japanese politics to do any sort of gaffe! Especially in local progressive place like Shibuya, not in some remote rural area.

What makes less sense, though, would be an assumption that all of the 400,000-plus Vietnamese people living in Japan are involved in some sort of criminal card activity.

Now Vietnamese in Japan being identical with illegal things?

But faced with a looming labor shortage and a trend for more people to buy food before boarding the train, on-board snack cart services between the cities of Tokyo and Osaka will reach the end of the line on Oct. 31.

Just keep hearing this over and over again about labor shortage. In the past those cart will give experience as if riding a jet even it's only Shinkansen. Now we need to spare 5 minutes prior to buy things for supplies before really jump in the train.

In July, the agency also requested financial institutions via the Japanese Bankers Association to enhance their security measures.

That just saying please cooperate and spend your company profit for this matters.

While doing nothing that really matters and just keep busy checking for bicycle license registration on the street.

What’s wrong with them not even in uniform. There’s girls there too, surely they should be in the Girl Guides.

Those uniforms are outdated, today we have more clothing that are more comfortable which can accommodate extreme heat, they just choose to stick with that uniform.

Whatever the next way it won't be from Japan, while the whole world already move away from physical media using streaming, Japan still stuck with DVD rental, places like Tsutaya and Geo are still doing business in Japan.

This map really shows how distorted China's claim over disputed water. It even go south to Malaysia.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-33518673

The 37,000 Scouts, who hailed from 156 countries and were mostly teenagers, folded up their tents before boarding over 1,000 vehicles for the evacuation that began Tuesday morning

37,000 people will learn that climate change is real and earth have more tornadoes and typhons in recently.

https://www.greenpeace.org/eastasia/blog/6988/how-the-climate-crisis-is-making-typhoons-worse/

Need to look for the cause of addiction before one can fight it.

There's no cause of addiction, all you need is to try it once. Why people try that once in the first place, it can be just to show to their group that they belong. Can be just having bad day, try once and end up become addicted to it.

That's why country like Singapore forbid those substance with strict penalty because once you try it, high chance you become addicted and ruin your life without turning back.

https://time.com/6299116/singapore-death-penalty-woman-executed-drugs/

https://singaporelegaladvice.com/law-articles/what-are-singapores-laws-on-drug-consumption

Firms using facial recognition in China will be required to obtain consent or legal permission before collecting personal information, draft regulations released Tuesday said, while stipulating the rules would not apply to some bodies.

Only China Central Government who really can do whatever they like, not private firms. Please remember that.

Make Alaska Great Again!

Japan to host 2025 int'l African development conference in Yokohama

2025? It will be too late by that time.

Even if Japan, want to have influence weaker yen just won't help that ambition.

Cooperation with African countries is "essential for the peace, stability and prosperity of the international community," he added.

While Japan just keep discussing in diplomatic term and making pledges, the Africa situation already being more dominated by China.

https://www.dw.com/en/chinas-belt-and-road-forum-does-africa-need-new-funding-options/a-48502797

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/aid-and-influence-china-s-great-leap-into-the-heart-of-africa-1.1073266

battles said Tuesday they were considering changing dates for the gathering next year, after sunstroke affected 111 animals, killing two of them.

It's more than battle reenactment, it's actual battle for those animal to stay alive.

 Fukushima prefecture from July 29 to 31, after temperatures touched 35 degrees

 That place as one prefecture of Tohoku that considered cool place but not anymore.

features more than 400 participants dressed as medieval samurai warriors fighting on horseback over flags 

Organizers is fortunate enough that no life is missing suffering from heat stroke.

Major Japanese companies offered wage hikes of 3.58 percent

Consumer inflation, however, accelerated by more than 4 percent

Wage increase 3.58%, inflation 4% so that mean their wage still decreasing for buying things, even with wage increase.

the rate was 58%, down 5 percentage points from fiscal 2021, the lowest among comparable data available since 1965,

Less working people which produce less food that another achievement of J govt, lowest one since 1965. Japan just increasing of importing food, which is really dependent on currency exchange, weaker yen means more expensive imported food.

Toshiba announced a 2 trillion yen tender offer on Monday in a move that would take it private, 

If it become private than who will give them oversight?

The personnel authority recommended a more generous raise for younger employees by increasing starting salaries by over 10,000 yen per month for the first time in 33 years to attract more young talent to government jobs.

That 10 thousands surely will make young talent choose government sector despite all paper and bureaucratic things that happens inside that includes multiple hankos.

affirmative action, basically just a quota system for company or university need to meet to accept someone just based on certain race, gender, sexual preference and other things, not based on actual quality, skill or intelligence.

UK version of Ellis Island, except it offers no hope.

Just go to net cafe or manga kissa, you'll find more comfortable position to rest.