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Ueda told a parliamentary session that the BOJ will examine upcoming data to confirm the strength of wage growth

Outrageous! What wage growth???? The inflation adjusted wages have been falling for 23 consecutive months as of now!

70.5 percent of victims being women and 29.5 percent men

So the third of the victims are men. And still, all DV pamphlets show shouting angry men, most of the protective shelters to flee an abuser only take women, and still the court will almost automatically grant custody to women in a divorce even though it's clear women are abusers themselves (in large numbers!!!)

From the sister article published today:

Japan's real wages, adjusted for inflation, in January were down 0.6 percent from a year earlier, marking the 22nd straight month of decline, as salary gains continued to fall short of price rises, official data showed.

Just keep rising those interest rates and see what the average Taro thinks about that

The central bank's policy shift "has stepped into a new phase to generate positive economic outcomes"

Japan's real wages, adjusted for inflation, in January were down 0.6 percent from a year earlier, marking the 22nd straight month of decline

People get poorer for 2 years straight every month, and then this joker declares victory.

That's what you get with LDP and trickle down economics.

I second the commenter who pointed out that the proposal does not say anything about visitation rights, which are just as important as having a say in education and medical treatment, which is odd since that was the source of necessitating the whole change in the first place I believe.

while opponents say it may not necessarily benefit a child in cases where abuse or domestic violence is involved.

Well that's a good reminder how much those opponents are out of touch with reality: at least in 50-60% of the cases the sad reality is that in Japan both parents are abusing the child and both parents are committing domestic violence. The latest incidence was reported on this site yesterday!

So in all those cases giving sole custody to one parent is the most irresponsible thing to do. (Which Japanese lawmakers and courts give zero damn about at the moment and they do it anyway exposing those children to endless misery by their sole custodian)

If there is suspicion of child abuse by one parent or domestic violence, a family court will choose one of the parents to have sole custody, said the report.

Yeah, but what if both parents are abusers and violent??? Will they do something about that?

https://japantoday.com/category/crime/parents-arrested-in-fatal-poisoning-drugging-of-4-yr-old-daughter

Also as it was commented above, false claims in Japan require no evidence, so this wishy-washy way of writing the law makes things even more confusing than before.

Also: this does not really make it clear what happens when one parent does not adhere to the agreement? Will that parent be punished? Will his/her custody right be revoked? ????

I hope they find survivors under the rubble. This is a terrible disaster.

I am sick of hearing about the shunto negotiations. Shunto only has 6.8 million members so it's absolutely irrelevant how and what they negotiate for, wrt most of the japanese workers. In fact their negotiations won't even move the needle when it comes to average or median YoY real wage growth statistics.

All the suck-up Kyodo news pieces are using shunto as an example because that's the only example that makes looking the LDP in favorable light to some extent.

While all the news articles are comfortably excluding how the macro numbers are looking:

the country’s nominal wage growth lagged behind the 2.9% core consumer inflation rate in October, leading to the nineteenth straight month of decline in inflation-adjusted real wages which was reported at -2.3%.

I don't understand this judgment. So the company was guilty? And that is all the punishment? Or the managers are serving jail time as well? Is this how in Japan? I can just randomly kill people by negligence if I have a firm and I just have to hand out a few millions here and there? That sounds pretty comfortable to dodge responsibility.

I see such news reported in Japan each day! Wifes killing their husbands, husbands killing their sons, and kids killing their mothers. Japanese society is absolutely disgusting in this regard for this reason.

For comparison I don't see such news so frequently reported from European countries (although they have their own mafia, migrant, etc crime related killings and that's similarly bad)

parents are too scared to step up to them, either

This made me curious, why? Why would parents be scared? Not that I don't believe that's the case, but it made me curious about the reasons.

Honest question: does Japan have food banks or similar? What might be the reason that she had to resort to stealing food? I find it sad that she ended her life for such a smallish thing (I don't condone what she did, I just think stealing food does not deserve to die for).

Another example of the problems associated with a system that never prepared itself to handle an aging population.

Yes. In a country where the LDP was almost continuously in power fore more than 60 years! So this systematic failure is no-one else's but their fault. They had the chance, they had the money, they had the power and they did nothing. Even though this problem was clear for decades now.

Given the desire for policy continuity, Kishida retained Digital Minister Taro Kono

Yeah. Because policy continuity such an undesirable thing in other areas. LOL A grade schooler kid could come up with better policies.

The scandal, which has been widely reported over the past few months, has sent a shockwave across the country

Sent a shockwave where? In the backyatd of the local nursery's summer pool?

No charges either. It's a joke.

Congratulations Roy! You found the dumbest proof ever. A non peer-reviewed non-replicated report authored by three Japanese nationals in the journal of The Japanese Society of Psychiatry and Neurology which claims that Japanese have a superior gene and they are somehow superior than the whole world.

Hmm. Sounds plausible. LOL

Not to mention that almost the whole paper is based on self-reported surveys.

Even the authors hint at that this is bullcrap. But yeah. There always were, always will be deniers of reality.

The later Japan realizes that millions of hikikomoris are not normal, the worse the mental state of the general population gets.

Please get decent social services and help for those that need help.

Are you talking to Kishida? Because the whole damn nation needs help by now.

This article mentions at least 3-4 abusive behaviors which are clearly against the law and punishable for that reason. I just don't understand why don't Japanese sue their employer's ass in that case?

and when the man usually takes off he leaves all the financial burden on the wife and her family and or these days the single mother just struggles alone and where the father gets off with no penalty

I know many Japanese women who divorced for completely childish reasons. Like the father's salary being too small, or the father is not doing enough housework or some such ブルシット. Now these women got what they deserved and because their life is even more miserable then before, they feel entitled to support from the government, from their family and everyone because of their childish stupid decision.

It's a typicial female mindset shouting "penalty for the men!" when women can't take responsibility for their own decision.

Not to mention the practice of the court here that in 90% of the cases the judge gives the single custody to the mother who cuts ties against the father's expressed desire to stay close to the kids.

So no need for misandry. Women should take the heat too for their role in ruining families.

(Obviously there are couples who can divorce in agreement, or the reason is justified because of domestic violence, but I am talking about the large group of selfish women outside of those)

Let's take care of the children who are being raised by single mothers who get very little or nothing from fathers and these children are many times being raised in poverty.

Or stop the single custody madness and introduce joint custody so that fathers can also participate in raising their children instead of treating them as walking ATMs

The thing which bothers me when I read such news that there is usually no oversight over how the money is being spent.

Let's take the childbirth allowance. Since it's a one-time targeted payout which never meets the payee's hand, it basically becomes a free money scam that all the birth clinics participate in.

Since the lump-sum payment is decided to be ¥500,000 no questions asked, guess what is the base price of all birth clinics? Yes! It's exactly ¥500,000.

Typical LDP scam. I guess this is how the increased child support will play out too.

@yubaru

Never understand the logic or thought process of a person who takes an employer to court

It is called standing up for your rights. Is this a new concept for you? Probably the mindset that you display here is the reason that they had to go to court to begin with. Because in Japan it is assumed they will just comply with any ブルシット what Japan Inc and his cronies in the LDP come up with.

Seems to me the other two plaintiffs in the case understood it better.

We don't know what the other plaintiffs were seeking to achieve and this article does not clarify. For what it's worth it very well could be their reinstatement to the company.

The only fact we know based on the article is that:

two of them reaching a settlement with the company in December last year

@ifd66

Nice trolling. Though you didn't understand what 15 minute cities mean and what impacts the EVs have.

The whole EV playbook depends on an enormous capacity of the electric power grid spent on charging.

If we focus on Japan we can see that Japanese buy 3.5 million cars each year. And there are probably 10s of millions cars in active use. So tell me how will you charge that many cars with the current capacity?

Also trans continental train lines? Really? Good luck with that when you travel to Australia.

That was true until the 1980s but isn't true now. Nobody would demolish a twenty year old house built in 2000.

That's not my experience though. I visited many secondhand properties recently and in my experience a lower middle-class or middle class house in the median price range made about 20 years ago is made of cheap non-insulated windows, zero heat insulation on the outer walls, and cheap treatment against termites and other parasites to protect the foundations. Plus all of them came with the same cheap kitchen cupboard and injection molded boring quickly molding bathroom.

I saw some nice properties too which I wouldn't tear down. But those were the exceptions not the norm. And they were definitely not in the median price range.

The japanese land market is just simply stupid. Buying a land for outrages prices just in order to build a shack which the wind blows through and deteriorates in 20 years so bad that you have to tear it down and build another shack, makes zero sense.

Yes. It is more frequent. By large. By magnitudes.

Wholesale fuel prices have been stagnant for a year now all around Japan:

https://www.enecho.meti.go.jp/statistics/petroleum_and_lpgas/pl007/results.html

https://www.enecho.meti.go.jp/statistics/petroleum_and_lpgas/pl007/xls/220930o5.xls

I will approve this if all participants are forced to wear those ridiculously small abemasks.

This article does not make any sense. What shortage, what drought? Playstation 5 could be easily ordered throughout the last 2 years since it's release. Just go to Mercari or Kakaku and you can buy your PS5 in 5 minutes (As you could for the last 2 years).

Stop dreaming about a Playstation for 55,000¥ though. You will need to wait forever to get one for MSRP. But that has nothing to do with the availability of the consoles themselves.

@TokyoLiving

You do understand that the couple who challenges the law is Japanese, do you???

Get used to it people..

Getting used to what exactly? Reading articles about how even the Japanese people hate their own legal system? I guess we can all do that.