Baradzed comments

I had the impression that Russians and US of Americans are friends again (or as soon as they share some minerals).

I am sure that a quarter of the tourists in France are just those who got stuck there during their travels to other places due to some strike. The way to create more “tourists” in France is to make the strikes more frequent and longer.

What is the big deal if the work is done anyways? I do that too and its great: gyms and pools are less crowded during the day.

The problem with the Nobel prizes is that they have to be given to someone even if there are no really good candidates.

According to my observations, most of the ‘improvements’ in Japan never make anyone’s life easier. Usually, it’s over engineering, or substituting one ridiculous system with another ridiculous system, or both.

Waste of money and human resources. Japan should just make a few dozens of nukes and live free of worries for the rest of the time.

I had an impression that weak yen is very good for J corporations. Apparently, J corporations are getting weak anyways.

Just sake-brewing? Not sake-drinking? I am disappointed. The first is useless without the second.

Again, what makes you think you understand more of the situation than the full scientific community of the world that say this is is a very serious problem that needs urgent action?

I am not a climate change denier, but I don’t recommend to blindly trust climatologists either. The entire field is inflated by grants fueled by climate change fears, making it unlikely for any publication that goes against the trend to be accepted.

Import might be more but exports are much higher and that’s where companies make their money. In addition the tourism industry is booming and so many are feeling much better about 150 to 170 range. 

Of course. Ideally, the yen should be 1500000000 to dollar, so the J workforce will be free for companies so they could make even more money, the number of tourists will quadruple, and locals will be totally happy to live on domestic products, which make Japan strong and prosperous country ;)

Why bother. People don’t learn from the history anyways. And the ones who learn would not use social media as a credible source of information.

Hm… With the accelerated shrinking population and economic collapse around the corner Japan is so picky with nationalities, passports etc.

With the same efficiency they could also be against all the weapons in the world. The reality is that Japan could be easily bombed again at any moment by any of a dozen nuclear countries. What a waste of time and money not to make nukes until now and depend solely on US which is always happy to rip Japan off for ‘protection’.

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.