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The average is the most annoying and misleading metric. Give us at least medians.

If you create a rare and exclusive item designed to last for many generations, the market will eventually become saturated, and these craftsmen will be left behind. Businesses long ago shifted to producing extremely cheap, short-term products, and I don’t see any way out of it.

Sounds cool. But I am wondering what would be the consequences for Ryo or convenience shop worker if they accidentally killed or handicapped the thief?

Its interesting that oftentimes politicians are getting on the peak of their careers at the age when most men are retired. Sounds like its not so mentally and physically demanding job, which is a bit surprising.

BTW, how Japanese kids can read real books if they first need to spend multiple years to memorize sufficient amount of kanji?

As it often happens, the article forgot to mention important piece of information: how many trainees were employed in each of these years. If number of total trainees is growing, it is natural to have more people quitting. However, it doesn’t mean the percentage of dissatisfied is growing.

But her dad is just one of the most prolific drummers in our lifetime, a true legend.

Nah. Popular due to his playing in popular genres, but too slow and monotonous for a legendary level.

Ideally, these tech giants should be split in quarters or more. Too much power in one hand is no good for anyone.

Actually, Japan is not very friendly to meat eaters too. Most of the dishes here are only about 1-5% of meat or fish with rice or noodles or other cheap highly processed vegetarian stuff occupying the remaining 95% of the plate.

I bet they are just laundering money acquired by their parents from shady CCP schemes.

Whatever. Some jobs will disappear while other jobs will appear. People will work more for less no matter how productive they are.

Please excuse my ignorance, but how would that work? If Japanese companies are paying their employees in yen, where exactly does the foreign exchange rate come into play?

Well, most of the profits of JCorp like Toyota etc is from overseas trading which is in dollars.

"High-voltage contracts" used by business buildings and factories are exempt from the subsidies.

Yes, I am wrong here. But anyways it is a hidden expense for general population… to avoid the additional pressure on JCorp to increase wages.

It’s cool for corporations to enjoy weak yen to have cheap labour, and also to have discounted energy prices from the taxes paid by Japanese people too. Double profit.

Same old story. China will be slowly suffocated by the US in the same manner as it happening now with Russia. Meanwhile all other non-nuclear nations will pay fortunes to buy tons of outdated weapons from the US in fear of being occupied by crazy dictators.

Work life balance is important but whatever the rules may be, those who work the hardest are usually those who succeed.

The ones who work the hardest are usually on the lowest pay grades in the society.

It's weird that this wasn't the case by default.

Most of scientific publishing was junk long before the AI. So nothing really new here.

IOC keeps introducing more ‘sports’ because less and less people interested in it. In the end its just stupid waste of money and a chance for propaganda c-rap for dictator regimes like China etc.

The voting system in Tokyo promotes "stability." In reality, the majority of the population either doesn't care or wants Koike out. However, these votes are spread across dozens of alternatives. If there were a second poll with the top two winners from the first voting, Koike's chances would be slim.

CCP and Taiwan situation is equivalent to North and South Korea. The only difference is that CCP successfully sold their population as a cheap labour for Western industry, while North Korea became isolated state.

People choose Uber in other countries because ordinary Taxi service there is really bad. I don’t see any advantage of Uber in Japan.

I've been a regular visitor to Shizuoka for about 30 years. I know spots where you can take amazing photos of Fuji-san and you won't see another soul as most of the locals are either dead or have moved for economic opportunities. I'm not blaming the tourists who are on their bucket list trips -- the JNTO needs to think outside the box and find ways to get more visitors to these areas.

Oh no, why do you want to destroy peaceful beautiful place near Tokyo? I would never share with anyone a nice calm spot whether it’s just a little garden or cozy coffee shop.

an industry defended by the government as an integral part of Japanese culture

Harakiri is also a part of Japanese culture, so how about that?

I don’t think Germany or any developed country needs these type of plants. Especially, there is nothing technologically crucial in making cars except maybe software. Consumer cars should be made in countries with cheap labor, energy and low environmental standards like China etc.

Btw, net barrier is no problem to erase from any photo with current basic smartphone camera tools.

It will be real funny if that lawson will be closed and demolished soon due to the lack of shoppers.

It’s all about high-skilled migrants. They are making the real economic difference in the long run. For these people Japan is by far easier to migrate than into the US or even EU etc. However, Japan is not attractive for them due to low wages and, most importantly, its rigid hierarchical labor structure with little incentives for initiative and creativity. Xenophobia has nothing to do with that.

Why would them getting more yen for their own currency cause them to spend less yen?

They spend less in dollar equivalent. Of course you will earn a bit more in yen, but it doesn’t compensate the depreciation of the yen.

11.6-percent gain compared to March 2019

But they spend 50% less due to the weak yen. I.e., Japanese tourism industry works harder, but earns less. Not to mention the additional strain on indirect services and infrastructure which operates from taxes paid by locals.

Israel now is basically a terrorist state.