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Now the question is when to hold

I believe NBC have purchased the right to answer that question.

I suppose pretty soon the white animators will have to stop drawing Dr Hibbert et al.

@expat

Technically, they invoice the estate of the deceased person, which means it comes from what the family would have inherited.

@kurisupisu

The problem is that even the places where they are installed, such as Rokkomichi, they are only installing them on the inner side of the platform where the local trains stop, not the outer platform where the express trains rush by.

@gokai_wo_maneku:

No, in this case it was he who hit the train. Your version makes it sound like an accident.

Some people are asking why this is newsworthy, but that’s because part of the story is missing from this article.

The local news has reported that one of the injured passengers had his arm broken, because the jumper went not only through the front glass of the train, but also the glass at the back of the driver’s cabin and head butted the poor passenger just minding his own business on his way to work.

Now that’s surely not something that happens in Tokyo every day.

BritloverOct. 24  02:54 pm JST

P.S. Listen to what Pence says about C19. THAT didn’t age well.

Yes! One of my favourite parts of the movie.

Dare I ask what a "dive hotel" is?

This must be one of those wasei eigo terms that doesn't quite translate the way it was intended.

runner3

It has nothing to be with being free, what a ridiculous comment. It's about respect for everyone around you. Even if you don't respect your own health. Respect everyone else's health

I think you misunderstood El Rata's comment. What he is saying is that he is the most important person in his world. Everyone else's health pales in comparison to the importance of his freedumb, which we have to respect first and foremost.

Vanessa CarlisleToday  04:23 pm JST

The Aussie government has a serious fascist bent, maybe even more than the U.S. government.

Whoa, that's a mighty claim! Care to provide a little evidence for it?

I just recently ditched SoftBank for Ymobile. Had to pay the MNP fee and a cancellation fee

The perverse thing is that Ymobile is owned by SoftBank, so they were not losing a customer.

I faced the exact same problem when switching from AU to UQ last year. But like you said, it is worth it in the long run.

A Japanese politician actually went over to the island specifically to deface a comfort woman memorial but apologised after

Just to clarify, that clown never has been a politician.

Pray tell, just exactly what could possibly be the legit alibi for stabbing a elderly woman several times. I'd be very interested to read your legal explanation.

I'm not going to suggest there is only one answer that is "the" legitimate alibi, but off the top of my head, "working in an office 30km away at the time of the victim's death" is an alibi that could be legit if he has witnesses to confirm it.

Does that satisfy your curiosity, or would you like me to think of some more?

girl_in_tokyo July 6  04:35 pm JST

And if you’ve been here a while and have yet to achieve fluency? Why, that’s criminal - they shouldn’t be allowed to live in a perfectly nice place that would otherwise be rented by a Japanese speaker, preferably a native.

Yesterday I overheard a conversation (if you could call it that) where a person who has been in the country for 25+ years did not know the Japanese word for "doctor". Language acquisition might not be everyone's cup of tea, but a little bit of effort wouldn't go astray.

Two days after a Sunday, when less tests were likely conducted.

One data point such as this is entirely meaningless when taken alone.

A sign not quite ready for the Olympics. Pictures are nice but they don't tell you what it is your eating. They need Japanese and English printed under each picture.

If the top left corner of the sign is true, they seem to be doing alright with Japanese customers, so perhaps they do not need English printed under each picture.

As for the Olympics (if they happen), only 30% of the tickets are reserved for international spectators, so I assume this means that about 60-70% of spectators at the Games will be Japanese. Therefore, the restaurant seems to have the majority of the market covered already.

The average household has less than 2.5 people, so sending out three per household would be too much.

If you live with more than one other person, you're in the minority and one of your neighbours is bound to have a spare.

The photo's caption should be changed to "People sort of wearing face masks walk in Yokohama".

For those that say studies show masks are ineffective, the lad on the right is one of the reasons.

@kohakuebisu

The guy was at an exhibition in New York. Did you expect him to say that the US market is not important to his prefecture?

@daito_hak, I do not consider myself a moron, nor am I attempting to defend Japan, but there are some portions of your post which cannot be left to pass without comment:

Put in jail for three months without any valid charge.

He was first charged on 10th December 2018, which was 21 days after being arrested on 19th November. After that, he was held under various pretenses, but it cannot be said that it was without any charge.

Accused without giving him any possibility to explain his version to the media.

Why does someone need to be given access to the media? A public figure might want to talk to the media to try and protect their public image, but it is irrelevant to the judicial process.

However the prosecutors with the complicity of the Japanese media has constantly thrown out brick of vague accusations in order to raise the public opinion against him and therefore fabricate a false accusation.

The media coverage of Ghosn's case has not been constantly against him. At some points reporting leaned in his favour, for example when similar accusations against Saikawa came to light.

Again this was done for a man who was not accused of anything yet. Therefore still innocent.

He was accused of offences at that time. The presumption of innocence applies exactly because he was accused of committing crimes.

Not given any right to defend himself.

He has that right, in the courtroom. He has instead left the country before the time came to exercise the right.

This is Orwellian. They passed a law to deal with the problem of overwork by teachers which.....makes them overwork even more.

I believe it is Kafkaesque, not Orwellian. But absurd in any sense.

@Luddite, unless your proposed test involves being locked in a room with a crying baby for 24 hours when already in a month-long sleep-deprived state, then a test will not be able to predict how a new parent will react to the stresses of having to care for a baby.

The story is even better when explained in full.

One of Darvish's teammates, Anthony Rizzo, had hit a home run and autographed the ball. Rizzo wanted to make sure that one of the Japanese little league players received the ball, as Rizzo was impressed with how the kid had played earlier in the day.

So Rizzo asked Darvish to act as translator to make sure the right kid (the team's shortstop) received the ball.

There is no justification for racism, regardless of the behavior of the victim.

I assume that is directed at me.

At the risk of repeating myself. it is very unfortunate that my first post was edited by the moderator. If my first message was published in full, it would be clear that my point is that calling the student an idiot may have been justified, but that does not excuse bringing race into it.

Unfortunately my message above was moderated and a whole sentence removed, because it contained a quote from the Mainichi article which included a censored profanity.

The point that has been deleted from my comment is that, if the student was called an idiot by the teacher, it is possible that it is because he was indeed acting like an idiot.

@ shinhiyata, thanks for the link, it is very helpful.

It would also be good to know the background to the incident quoted in the article. There are two sides to every story.

Of course, making such generalisations against an entire nationality based on the actions of one person is inexcusable.

The defence of provocation exists in criminal law for a reason.

It is unfortunate that the nuclear plant had the same name as the entire prefecture. For example, imagine if the Three Mile Island reactor was instead named the Pennsylvania No.1 Generating Station? Or Chernobyl was called the Northern Kiev Power Plant?

By way of comparison, the distance between the baseball stadium in Fukushima is quite similar to the distances separating Newark, New Jersey from the Three Mile Island plant and Kiev from Chernobyl.

There is also a mountain range that separates central Fukushima from the power plants on the coast.

My office conducts the last round of interviews for new recruits at a restaurant, partly as a test to see how the interviewees behave towards staff.

Why don't you be a sport and tell us what are you hinting at Mr Hasegawa?

Glad to see Uncle Abe taking care of important business so soon after the election.