Daniel Neagari comments

There are so many commenting in here, but as a person who regulary walks in Tokyo (work related) and around my house (45 mins in train from Tokyo Sta.) with my dog... bike riders for most of the time are awful.

Kids will be kids, and their dangerous way or riding bikes are one thing, another is gron ups riding bikes, some people have no regard for a person walking nor for road rules.

Earphone are prohibited when riding a bike, is also prohibited driving a car. By the way some here seem to have trouble to understand the difference between listening to music though speakers and earphones....(there lies the reason why is OK to listening to music in your car). I am not going to explain it.. since if you think a little you should be able to understand it (and there is a desibel regulation for cars too).

As a car driver... some bicicle riders are horrendous too, specially those guys who have little to no knowledge of what a bicicle lane is, or those who enter a non-bicicle roads and bridges.

And about the bone conduction earphones, there is no legal regulation for that specific type of earphones, but regulatorly speaking since those earphone do not plug the ear canals allowing to hear clearly the surrounding (considering the earphones volume is within normal levels) they might be allowed, but that depends on not only the law but also of the local regulations.

...sorry to let you down but there is no "Inaka cop"... all cops have experience working in the city as well as rural areas and they are for most of the time up to date on new equipment and regulations.

...also, "spaeking out" about speach impediment and the need of vocalization classes

Who has in their Bingo cards "Eugenics" you can check that now.... remember to rise your right hand 45 degrees up and shout "Sieg heil!!!" when you Bingo

Forget Whisky leaks... this is Moonshine (engine cleansen grade) leaks.

Dumb guy will do dumb things no matter the title

I saw a comment about mentioning something about the "neighboring countries"... the thing is if Yasukuni is so bad, why then have a Mao's mausoleum, Lenin mausoleum, Pac Chung Hee memmorial?

What they did was as bad as the Japanese Military Head during WW2... but they have dedicated, enorumus, fancy graves just for them.

I share the same question as GuruMick in this matter.

mmmm... Yasukuni does not "idolize" anyone burried in there.

I give it that there are some far right loonies that go there, but generally speaking Yasukuni is a shrine were all those who fought to make Japan a better country are resting.

Making no distinction if what they did was good or bad, only from the point of view that they did what they did for the country.

And there is a lot of people that are not even related to WW II in there.

The shrine as a whole is an entinty, as any being, it has good thing and bad things. But the spirit of it is in making Japan a better place.

To those who say "they don't have My number" if you live in Japan (meaning you are not here as Tourist), you have a bank account, you have insurance, you have a credit card, you are paying taxes, you have a job, you have a car, you are rentinga or bought a place to live... if you have just one of the above, you have a My Number.

The card is just the physical comprobant of that number.

If you don't want to get the card... you are just making stuff more complicated to yourself.

@sakurasuki

you keep yapping about the imaginary 700% to rice...but the reality is totally different.

https://www.customs.go.jp/tariff/2025_04_01/data/j_10.htm

If Japan is forced to raise the cost related to US bases... I think the option there will be, to just stop giving money to the US and use the same amount to build a Japanese Military force (not feasible to be honest, but cost wise is another matter)

Kids remember the rule, that when you have "intelligence" and "Trump" in the same phrase, the former always is in negation form.

@Japan Glimpse

Your thought process is baffling

I doubt he knew he was stealing, he probably thought it was FREE at this event!??

Ignorantia juris non excusat

Babyboomers at its prime...btw, I am neering 50... so basically boomers are my parents generation.

So yeah... the "me-me" generation is having its last spotlight time

Why is it that the Japanese constantly seem to need a high amount of affirmation? 

Because it feels good.

But funny thing most other countries have some similar tendencies. But thank you for focusing all your attention to just Japan to the point to be blid sighted to similar situations in other regions and countries....

People you don't understand Trump is playing "5D-chess"....

The only way to defeat him is to make him say Pmurt Nhoj Dlanod three times

@Finally rich

Yeah... I know... to be honest if the singularity ever comes, I will be happily be integrating myself on "the Matix" hohoho.

But there will be always part of the population that will not want to be digitalized and stay in the step before that though.

And not to mention the theory that we are all a simulation.

Either case they are all just theories as in ideas (not in the scientific Theory just to be clear).... in the sense that we have not much evidence for any ot them... in the best of cases we have an evidence body of only one...

The Dark Forest theory is a nice schizofrenic idea.

That eveyone is keeping quite because of the big bad wolf is out there to eat you??

First of all, for a civilization to reach the level of technology to be concerned of the Dark forest theory, will by that time leaked a bunch of radio signals (as we have done it). So if the big baddies are out there to kill the nacent civilization they will have already done it (we are sitll here so they haven't).

Second a predatory civilization, will by its nature either destoy itself or wil have actevly be doing a "cleaning" of the universe and not wating for some potential civilization to randomly appear.

Also, and far more likely, a civilization that advanced will not fear nacent civilizations, becasue if those "new" civilizations technology level will be far far inferior than what they have... as there is no need for humans to fear a chinchilla. If anything, they either be just watching, or if they ever see necesary they will just integrate the new civilization to their own.

Finally not to mentioned that if there is a possbility for civilization capable enough and psychotic enough to kill other civilizations to appear, it may still be much more in the future. Albeit, this is in part using my favorite theory that the human civlization is an early civilization (sort of one of the old ones) in the galaxy.

@Ossan

The problem is... that (and since we are in Japan) many Japanese companies make their products for the US market in China.... for example, Nintendo, Sony, Panasonic, etc.... tariff wise, those are "Chinese products" but the blunt will affect Japanese companies.

And moving the production to other countries... many Japanese companies had done that but many are not feasible or decided against it. Those that did so went to Thailand, Viet Nam, Indonesia... whom also got a big Trump tariff hit.

Companies from other countries are somewhat in the same situation.... so over 100% tariff to China hits not only China but basically all big companies (that includes US companies)

As if Mango Musolini administration care about "rules" and "laws"

Point being.. @TaiwanIsNotChina... is that by this order and how was implemented it sound more like a violation of human rights of the US personnel rather than a "punishment" to the Chinese government.

The US is basically doing the same type of violations and limitations of liberties that you would expect from China, Rusia, Iran.

@TaiwanIsNotChina

OK... then why not give the same type of order to the dependencies in Rusia, Cuba, Nicaragua, Afghanistan, Iran??...

Oh.. sorry Rusia is a US ally now...

@TaiwanIsNotChina

before "banning" dating to diplomat personnel, I think, making sure that the tops of every brunch regarding diplomacy, defense and commerce, etc., of the US government are more tech savvy, know the basics of deiplomacy and avoid inflamatory comments, etc., is a much more needed action though.

Dating your chinese (or any other nationality) partner is not a priority. Specially, considering that most poeple going outside on a diplomatic mission usually knows what is on stake, what they can say or not, etc.... you know, what makes them carreer diplomats or liason personel overseas....

But if the US needs take this kind of actions that either means, the people sent to those countries are inepts (whisky leaks levels) or the US govenment seeks to control every thing

So many "experts" commenting here about Japan tariff towards US products.... although, I must say, as a person who has been closely working with the Ministry of Agriculture in Japan and of another couple of countries and also knowing what Japan produces rearding Agricultural goods... The opinions from the "experts" and the reality I have seen differ a lot.... then again, I was just a lowly white collar attache and I have since not working in that area fof years any more, so perhaps the "experts" are much more knowledgable.

hmmm... well diplomats, unless they all are working as active spies, do have freedom to go on dates and so on with local people... I know, because I have dated diplomats and worked in a diplomatic dependency, and know a lot of diplomats (japanese and other countries) that have dated and married locals.... so there is freedom in that.

But no more for the US diplomats it seems, today is China, tomorrow will be from another country of the "dirty 15"

"Land of the Free".... sure

There are many empty rice fields that could be producing, but seems the government is incapable of fostering policies that could invigorate the local agriculture sector.

As far as I know, is the other way around. the govenment has been very effective in "reducing" the rice production by giving money to the rice producer to NOT to produce rice.

The reason for that bonkers policy are mainly 2.

1) To promote the production of other types of foods and not only rice (This is the sound good reason).

2) To keep internal production down, keeping Japan food produce short and dependant of carbohidrate (rice, wheat) imports available.... Mainly wheat import for US... so to keep US happy. (This is the real real reason).

Yes, make all those donations to politicians public. You bought them now expose them.

That will be almost everyone, though.... in Japan, in South Korea and in the US too.

I don't know from where some commentators here get the information that the rice prices are up because of "foreigners consuption"...

As Asiaman7 already said, the reason for this price is probably due to distribuitors holding and speculative purchasing. Rice producers have been producing normally, there was some lost of production due to heavy reains and floods in certain areas in Japan las year but still that is not enough cause for high prices.

For some reason (that i suspect I know why), want it this to be "the foregners fault" and do they can say that the Japanese are blaming it to foreigners becasue of racism.

Basically the same thing regarding the Shinto shrine news of yesterday.... they need it to be so the narrative is "Japanese are racist"

You have to admit, Putin at least is honest on what he wants to do... put a pupet government in Ukraine so "every thing is Rusia".... and ofcourse the pupet administration run by Mango & Cash will say "aye aye, skipper!!"

Japan is the largest foreign investor in America.

Sadly, Trump does not care (or probalbly even know) about it and even if he did, if Mango Musolini does not get a share of the pie nothing matters.... To be fare, most US presidents didn't acknowledge that so much either.