Carl Smith comments

Just have to look at that car to know the children were most likely not wearing seatbelts. Rear passenger is fully intact.

Do I need to show my gaijin card every time I eat out?

How about foreign tourist who speak Japanese? Third payment tier?

This area has a long history of bullying.

More effective if they put the tarp on top of the Lawson

Kakukakushikajika

Yeah, after watching John Oliver’s piece about cocoa production this claim seems dubious.

name_not_importantToday  10:05 am JST

Japan is the final bastion of public smoking in the developed world.

developed world ?

stretching it

Grow more wheat, grow less rice.

slow to vaccinate because we allowed all the countries being ravaged by covid to vaccinate first.

If your going to include these Bach says, Suga says, Koike says articles please state paid advertisement at the top.

Paid advertisement?

Depressing photo.

he’s giving her a good pounding.

I’d be more worried about all the bed swapping.

"Field Cast" volunteers, who were recruited by the organizing committee from over 200,000 applications, were expected to take various roles, such as serving as guides at venues and helping out at the athletes' village.

Are they all vaccinated?

they will be kept in a bubble environment with their movements primarily restricted to transit to and from their venues.

Unvaccinated volunteers helping out at the athlete’s village ain’t no bubble.

Sneaky. Exiting the ballroom and heading to the lifeboats before anyone notices.

Is it the barge from The Simpsons Movie?

For a long time in Japan, gargling has been touted as a preventative measure for seasonal colds and flu. About 5-6 years ago the recommendations were dropped as research showed you would need to gargle every 20mins to have any sort of benefit. Old wives’ tale.

23km traffic jams heading out of Tokyo in every direction is not cautious.

There are usually less than 2000 tests per day. Yesterday there was 1883 tests. Sunday under 300 tests.

the reason that activities like hiking, fishing, surfing etc are frowned upon is due to the unnecessary strain they might put on our rescue services. Let’s remain sensible.