Posted in: Japan society on transgender issues to drop 'disorder' from name See in context
@Strangerland
@ nabelito
You need help. You seriously need help.
Japan society on transgender issues to drop 'disorder' from name
This is insane. Thery are trying to suppress the reality in order not to hurt the feelings of a minority who have clearly mental disorders and are unquestionably sick. They need to be treated instead of trying to impose on us, the sane people, and on the whole society their insanity.
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Posted in: Biden opposes plan to sell U.S. Steel to Nippon Steel, citing need for 'American steel workers' See in context
Steel production is crucial to national security. Foreigners should NOT own our steel companies. FULL STOP.
Absolutely, anybody would be flat out crazy to sell that to the Japanese. On top of that they have no idea what they are dealing with. I have been working with Japanese professionally for over 20 years in Japan and it has been a real pain. No way this merger will work with people in US who have no idea how to deal with them. The Japanese will end up just acquiring the assets of US Steel and fire everyone in US for « cultural difference ».
And let’s be real here, there is no way the Japanese government would accept the foreign acquisition of a big Japanese company on the short or long term. Look at what a happened to Renault. They ended losing most of their control of Nissan after saving them from bankruptcy. Japanese behaves like mafia in business, they are just no trustable.
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Posted in: 'Dragon Ball' creator Akira Toriyama dies at 68 See in context
when he created "Dragon Ball", which he said was inspired by Chinese-style kung fu movies.
It was not. It was actually largely and heavily influenced by a Chinese novel from the 16th century. So although the manga adaptation was entertaining, it was not an original creation.
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Posted in: Joy, envy in Japan as baseball star Ohtani speaks more about marriage See in context
So grotesque, so intellectually limited to even care who this dude being paid big money for doing a boring « sport » is getting married to. Japan is so intellectually limited this is sad
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Posted in: 163 get norovirus after eating sashimi and sushi rolls at Tokyo restaurant See in context
Unfortunately good hand hygiene is not enough to prevent this kind of outbreaks.
BS! Stop to spread misinformation. Hand hygiene is crucial (as also advocated in the link you put yourself, learn to read the links you post), to avoid this kind of norovirus outbreak. The hard truth is that Japanese have terrible hand hygiene. I have been living here for 22 years and the vast majority of dudes I see going out of toilet don’t wash their hands. This is disgusting and troubling.
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Posted in: More Japanese women buying Valentine's Day chocolates for themselves See in context
What the point of this silly article really?
To say that it’s very easy to make Japanese believe anything (the chocolate given by women during valentine thing), from greedy people totally willing to sell overpriced low quality chocolate?
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Posted in: COVID patients again rising in Japan; experts warn of 10th wave See in context
@virusrex
Paranoia is a serious illness. You should seek help fast.
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Posted in: 'We don't give a damn about the feelings of Japanese concerning the so-called Northern Territories:' Medvedev See in context
Wouldn't expect anything civilized from fascist Russia and their yappy little mouthpiece Medvedev. The Japanese peoples image of fascist Russia is one of contempt. Nothing but a land-grabbing regime that murders innocent people.
This post is the perfect illustration of how bad the education system is today. People just believe and say nonsense because of their poor education. Do you even know the meaning of the word fascist? Or I guess by labeling ideological opponents as fascist, regardless of their actual values or actions, irrational people like you are able to frame their own vision of the world and claim the moral high ground, right?
And US is not stranger in mustering «innocent people» if you want to go that route.
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Posted in: ANA plane taxiing for departure clips Delta aircraft at Chicago airport See in context
It was not immediately clear what caused the incident on Sunday and whether it was related to a manufacturing flaw.
What a load of nonsense. No it’s pretty clear that it’s not related to a manufacturing flaw whatsoever. And it’s pretty clear instead that the commending crew of the hitting plane was not top notch.
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Posted in: Passengers' cooperation in deadly JAL crash made for 'miracle' escape See in context
What are grotesque article. Would have not been Japan and the world would have moved on and nobody would be commenting on the affected people being this or that. And if every body in the plane would have died in this accident, everyone would be saying that Japanese are cowards idiots who can’t take action to save their life. This grotesque nationalism fueled by some silly foreigners is stupid.
"Everybody survived on the JAL plane. It's very possible that that may not have happened if it was America or a Western country because everybody would be trying to grab luggage," Justin Quitadamo, 40, who was visiting Japan from the U.S. state of Idaho, said at Haneda airport.
"Japanese people...follow instructions and they consider people around them," he said. "Every time I come here, everything is very orderly" as exemplified by people waiting in line for public transportation.
"I think those characteristics of Japanese culture contributed to the safety of every single one of those people getting off the airplane," he added.
What a little puppet of Japan. So silly comments which have no ground in reality. Did he really see the public transportation in Japan at busy hours?
And his statement that if it would have been a western country the outcome would be worse is not even backed by reality since people choose to pick the events that fit their narratives. For example all 309 passengers of an Air France plane which crashed in 2005 in Toronto could escape with only a few injuries even though the plane bursted in fire and the accident was way worse than the JAL one.
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Posted in: Quake survivors, without power or water, seek news on rebuilding plans See in context
What does humanitarian help for Ukraine have to do with any of this?
Money does not grow in trees and Japan is already massively in debt. Does it help you answering the question about prioritizing tax payers money or do you need a cartoon with colors to help you?
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Posted in: Court only holds TEPCO responsible to compensate Fukushima evacuees and reduces damages See in context
judge Hiro Misumi said the flooding of the plant because of the tsunami wasn't preventable even if the industry ministry used its authority and ordered the utility to enhance a seawall based on a tsunami estimate at that time.
This is factually not true as several investigations including from a so-called independent panel named by the gouvernement itself concluded otherwise. Including the fact that several risk assessments concluded that the power plant was not well protected enough against tsunamis, a risk which was known for years before the event.
This decision just approves that the justice system is not independent in Japan and that it often if not always sides with the government to protect its interests.
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Posted in: Kishida asks firms to achieve larger pay hikes in 2024 than this year See in context
Larger?
i have got none this year as the majority of employees in this country. What is he talking about this fool?
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Posted in: Sour grapes: Japan battles to protect premium fruits See in context
The variety of juicy grape that Yuki Nakamura is harvesting as the sun rises over his farm took scientists 33 years to develop and can sell for 15,000 yen a bunch in Tokyo department stores.
What a bunch a nonsense. They are so delusional. I can get in Europe for a few euros better grappes which actually taste like grappes instead of the Japanese overpriced and tasteless grappes.
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Posted in: Japan, France unveil new road map to boost defense, economic security See in context
Good for Japan- good for France.
Two freedom-loving democracies who believe in Rule of Law - a concept sadly becoming less common. May they both prosper.
What a grotesque statement. Japan and France are too typical countries going the path of collapse for various reasons specific to each country but producing the same results. They have been both suffering for decades of inept people put in charge who have kept taking mind blowing bad decisions without the beginning of accountability for the bad consequences they imposed on the population and the country.
One of the big difference between these countries though is that France is a far better democracy than the oligarchy ruled Japan which is having the exact same political power with the same oligarchy controlling the country for almost 80 years. Japan is a fake democracy, a democracy more of form than substance.
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Posted in: Shop employee fights off three robbers with polearm in Tokyo's Ueno district See in context
Japan comedy.
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Posted in: Japanese workers took 62% of paid leave allocation in 2022: gov't survey See in context
Japan's notoriously punishing work culture
Yet Japan ranks 23rd for labor productivity among the 36 nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development according to OECD data. Worse, Japan has remained at the bottom of the productivity ranking for Group of Seven nations since 1970! Makes you wonder what are those people doing when they say they are «working».
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Posted in: Mouse embryos grown in space for first time: Japanese researchers See in context
we are all going to have to pack up here and find a new planet - or perhaps a space station - to live on
When I read this kind of nonsense I immediately wonder at what point the education system screwed up so bad so that even very very basic science is way above the head of people.
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Posted in: Japan to give $10 million in emergency aid to Gaza Strip civilians See in context
This is a disgrace. Gaza is fully controlled by the Hamas and there is no way just no way that the aid money is not being collected by them. At this point Japan is funding terrorists with tax payers money. Shame on you!
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Posted in: Troubled Toshiba to delist after takeover by Japanese consortium succeeds See in context
A leading brand behind rice cookers, TVs, laptops and other products once symbolic of Japan’s technological prowess,
BS! None of those products were extraordinary in any shape of form and were more a sad representation of how Japanese tech firm were producing bad products. If their laptops for example were any good and attractive to the international market, they would be still in business and make billions of dollars out of their computers like Apple does. But no their products were terrible and nobody bought them more over when the competition was delivering truly good products. So stop the ridiculous nonsense.
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Posted in: Japanese driving school holds special drunk driving lesson See in context
As we experienced first-hand in our series on getting a driver’s license in Japan, the test course is no joke
It is a joke otherwise the Japanese wouldn't be so bad drivers. Even elementary rules like fully stopping at a stop-controlled intersections are not respected. Instead of this grotesque circus they should better improve their driving schools teaching and tests to make sure that people really understand (and not pretend to) the driving rules before giving them a driving licence so easily.
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Posted in: Kishida meets fishery group head over Fukushima water release plan See in context
There were no full meltdowns
There were full meltdowns. The nuclear fuel rods completely melted, formed a corium which went through the pressure vessels and it’s believed that some parts of it sit at the bottom of the containment vessel and the rest went through the containment vessel itself and ended at the bottom of the building structure. No fuel rods are believed to be present in any shape or form inside the pressure vessels hence a full meltdown occurred on all operating reactors. The rods in the cooling pools of the reactor 4 have also melted and sinked at the bottom of the pools.
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Posted in: More Japan tourist hot spots imposing hotel taxes to fund promotions See in context
Accomodation taxes are not a concept unique to Japan. Why is everyone so shellshocked about this? Because the hotels and the cities tell you about them?
Take the time to think about it for two minutes, it shouldn't be difficult to figure it out even for you. Instead of being triggered every time people dare to have a critical point of view of Japan.
I spoke to quite a few during the Covid years, and most were unaware that not just tourists but foreigners/nonresidents in general were barred from entering.
BS! Your anecdotical circle of people does not make a fact. The fact that the borders were closed were heavily covered by the Japanese media during their COVID circus moreover when they opened them, they made another big circus of it like they were opening the borders to some aliens or something. Typical grotesque stuff here. No way most of the population didn't know about it. A lot did not the details around it, but they certainly knew the country was closed.
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Posted in: Study highlights limitations of BMI in predicting death See in context
What a load of nonsense moreover based on self-reported weight and height therefore on totally unreliable data. The BMI is a perfectly adequate tool to assess the risk of being overweight for most people who don’t do strength training and have a larger than average muscle mass. The woke imbeciles are trying hard to excuse a certain population and portrayed them as victims instead of making them face their responsibilities and life choices.
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Posted in: Japan's tallest skyscraper, at 330 meters, completed in Tokyo See in context
Yeah another ugly piece of Japan architecture. It's incredibly that they can build such ugly structure that does not fit whatsoever with the surrounding environment. Japan modern architecture is just chaos, nothing is done with a coherent vision. In fact similar to most cities in US.
Sapporo Kobe Osaka etc
Sapporo is a better place to live since it has less people and it's obviously cheaper than Tokyo. The weather is horrible in Hokkaido though. But boy it's also an ugly city. Ugly buildings everywhere, boring parallel streets, chaotic architecture, it's just ugly in most of the city. In terms of architecture it's a mini modern Tokyo, it's also very similar to Chiba. At least Tokyo has still some historical places that look much better than the modern developed areas.
I would argue that all Japanese cities with the industrial architecture Japan adopted post-war are awfully ugly. Rural towns are also very ugly and they look all the same. The only nice looking cities in Japan are the ones with some major historical areas.
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Posted in: 150 arrests in overnight unrest in France after teenager killed by police See in context
The video starts after he tried already to flee the police. The prosecutor has indicated that before he was stopped as it appears in the video, he tried to flee already multiple times almost hitting a pedestrian and a cyclist. Once he was stopped they asked him not to flee again, he refused to obey their commands and decided to flee again while the cop was standing literally against the car. At this point when the vehicle started to move, the cop decided to shoot probably because he got scared for his life and he thought that letting him go and speed up in an urban area would put again in serious danger innocent people. France has seen recently multiple events of innocent people (including kids) dying from being hit by a car or motorbike because an idiot decided to flee the police or after stealing a vehicle.
The guy had no valid driving license and was arrested in the past for multiple cases of fleeing from the police as well as procession of drug. For some reason he was not prosecuted (the justice system in France seems to be incredibly tolerant for this part of the population) even though fleeing from the police can get you to two years in prison and a fine of 15,000 euros. In fact this dude was arrested for the same offense as early as last week.
He had multiple chances to stop his behavior, he paid the price of his stupidity. So stop with this police brutality nonsense. He had one simple thing to do. Listen to the cop and stop putting the life of others at risk.
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Posted in: Japanese researchers develop robot arms to unlock creativity See in context
Ridiculous nonsense. I can’t believe that he gets funds from tax payers to do such silly things. This is silly, useless, poorly thought, grotesque and just plain weird. This country keep wanting to do useless things that will never never have any impact whatsoever.
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Posted in: Kishida unveils new measures to reverse declining birthrate amid election rumors See in context
Japan is showing the world that economic growth can be achieved with a falling population. The world is taking notes - and many nations may well follow suit.
How is that tell us? Japan hasn’t see a significant economical growth for 30 years with a working class that hasn’t seen any significant wage increase in that period. Nor it has seen a significant increase in quality of life despite people being overused all their life to the point of having a miserable boring life working for boring outdated Japanese corporations and paying outrageous taxes to a corrupted cast called government here.
How is that an example for the rest of the world? What about you come out of your ridiculous fantasy world you are living in?
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Posted in: Yokosuka adopts ChatGPT after favorable trial results See in context
which is driven by a machine learning model that works much like the human brain.
No they absolutely don't. Such a silly statement from the hysteric media lacking technical knowledge. Those model are essentially applied statistics. In fact LLMs are really just models solving probabilistic problems in finding what is the most probable succession of words in response to a prompt using neural networks trained on a vast collection of data which are themselves optimization algorithms using gradient descent methods to minimize cost functions.
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Posted in: Japanese get trained in smiles as masks slowly come off See in context
Even before the pandemic, donning a mask in Japan was normal for many during hay fever season and around exams due to concern about getting ill for a key life event.
That's enough with this nonsense! I have been living here for 21 years and the mask was never prevalent here among the population. Never! One can argue it was more used (often for ridiculous reasons) in comparison to Western countries, but relative to the total population it was anecdotical. Enough with this fallacy. Never Japanese went into such a bizarre and grotesque behavior with the mask. The COVID circus and the hysteria around it pushed them into a totally new area of ridiculousness. Never so many people were seen wearing this ridiculous mask outside or inside at any time of the year, regardless of the fever season or any other nonsense excuses given by the media to give a pass to this grotesque behavior.
Japanese get trained in smiles as masks slowly come off
Yeah sure keep continuing to be grotesque and awkward.
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Amazing BoJ taking risk to ship it's short term rate from -0.1 / 0% range to 0 /0.1%. It is…
Posted in: Bank of Japan ends negative interest rate policy, opting for its first hike in 17 years
The US has the most advanced military in the world.
Posted in: An expanding NATO uses its diversity as strength
Thank you putin for uniting Europe!
Posted in: An expanding NATO uses its diversity as strength
Posted in: Chinese professor at Japanese university missing after visiting homeland