Daninthepan comments

I was looking at mental health clinics in my area and none of them had positive reviews. Tough crowd to please, I guess.

He'd rather stab himself than go on holiday with the friend? Must be some friend. (Suppose we've all got them).

Just the first kick of a very small can down a very long road.

It'll be a small step, indeed.

Philosopher's StoneMar. 8 07:41 pm JST

Would like to see those three greenhorns trying to rob me, a Mixed Martial Art street fighter.

And a philosopher; and a stone.

So where is my piece of the pie?

As soon as I read the headline, I thought "another scoop by Shukan Bunshun". Why are Japan and the Japanese police relying on them/other media to do their work? When are we going to see "police investigation leads to..."?

Just the tip of an enormous iceberg, I fear.

Well done Asiaman7 for finding that. Why would anyone down vote that?

What a bizarre case:

Kuzuo was a closed mountain village where only 25 families lived.

Seems to me 25 families know exactly what happened and are keeping tight-lipped.

Why would they deny anyone's request to see a doctor? It's just a power trip, I guess.

When a kid in my English class says can I go to the toilet I just think "Yay! 5 minutes I don't have to do any work" "Off you go son". Who cares if he genuinely needs to go or not? What's the alternative? "No, you will not go. You will stay here until the end of class and you will suffer like all the other toilet-needing kids until I say you can relieve yourself"

Why is it only models, celebrities, (and sportsmen) paving the way for Japanese of mixed ethnicity? Oh yeah, because that's their role in this society "Ahhh, mecha kawaiiiiii!"... Do me a favour!

Do I think a person who is not of Japanese descent should be a representative of a society that does not accept anyone Japanese who does not look Japanese? No, it's a token gesture/slap in the face and does more harm than good.

Do I think anyone of any ethnicity should represent the UK, for example? Yes, we have a multi-ethnic society and are 100% willing to look past a person's outward appearance before making a judgment on their nationality.

Anyone can say they belong to a any group but it's a two-way street: If the group says you don't belong then to hell with them, make your own group and be proud of your individuality.

A minibus crashed into a telephone pole in southwestern Japan on Thursday, injuring all 19 passengers, 18 foreign nationals and one Japanese, and the driver, police and firefighters said.

The driver is neither Japanese or foreign - interesting.

This wouldn't even make the slow day on local newspaper in London.

Tokyo is incredibly safe and unless you have some stats or proof to prove otherwise, you are deluded.

Back up your assertions with statistics please.

The police suspect that Maetani and Ishikawa knew each other and were involved in some kind of trouble.

That's why they get the big bucks.

This is brilliant! It's so hard to get discussions going when everybody just wants to agree with the first opinion that is raised for fear of causing offense. Why stop at classrooms? Get one in every boardroom. (Just power it by chatgpt).

Names seem to be so generational in Japan. Every five years or so a new set of names will appear in my school register.

from my lost past, "Akemi" will always be my favorite.

You haven't met my ex.

Spending money on forecasts = bolting the stable after the horse is out but telling everyone you are going to do so.

18??? If you can't tell the time, don't do the crime.

An alternative headline:

Johnny's agency and the media do too little too late in a desperate bid to salvage any kind of credibility whatsoever.

Japanese riot squad? Must be rushed off his feet.

C'mon guys! Band together and at this rate we'll take over the country by the end of the decade.

Don't lose sight: 20% of not very much is still not very much.

Cooking oil? What was he trying to do? Make people slip over?

Lighter fluid? As a kid we used to pour this on our trainers and run around pretending our feet were on fire. It burns out in about 30 seconds. Unless he had two gallons of it, it's hard to say he was going to kill anyone with it.

There must be a lot of angry cats now - people getting the app and kicking their cats just to see if it works.

Chatgpt is finally levelling the playing field for foreign people like me who want to work independently in Japan. I speak intermediate/advanced level Japanese (JLPTn2) but my correspondence with my customers has always looked amaturish at best. Now I'm able to run my messy emails etc through Chatgpt, check the output and get super-professional emails in return (as well as advice on best practices).

I'm able to get business advice that was just unheard of before in a matter of seconds. Two examples: 1) Is it legal to show prices excluding tax? 2) Can I sell alcohol from my eikaiwa? Previously I would've had to sift through unreliable gaijin posts on reddit or something or spend hours translating pages that turn out to have nothing to do with my question. Now I get clear, reliable answers in seconds.

It's the gamechanger I've been waiting for.

(btw the answer to 1 and 2 are no, if you pay consumption tax, and no, you need a license).

The ticket pricing is markedly higher than usual, as last year's most expensive tickets cost around 5,000 yen.

The gift of understatement is alive and well at the JT.

No mention of a motive?

106 million, according to who? Insurance job?

Cool is in the eye of the beholder: Some of the best roads, paths etc for riding a motorbike and the home of Ichiro's Malt Whisky.

If they want to double their number of tourists, just ask Ichiro's to do their bit and start giving distillery tours. You get a pretty decent caliber of tourists with those who can afford Ichiro's.