DanteKH comments

Personally, I don't care if is a woman or a man.

It all depends what she/can can do for the community, but most important, if they keep their word.

Also, not to be bought or "sponsored" by any corporation, to their own interest, like is done everywhere. But that's just wishful thinking...

As always, Japanese tend to invent new words, for things that already have meanings established.

There is no "bocchi" culture. That's just the kawaii name of Introvertism, the appropriate name used by everyone else.

Which btw, not sure why JT keep promoting this like it's a good thing? Especially in a country with such a sharp population decline, overly shy people, Hikimoris, where people do not know how to interact one to another, etc.

Japan has the most polite and friendly customer service in the world by far. That's not an exaggeration. But as always, there are some customers who abuse this kindness and still follow the mindset "Customer is God". This is now a cultural thing and is so deep rooted that it can never change.

However, as a customer who had dealed with both Softbank, Docomo and similar overpriced mobile companies here, sometimes I can understand where the abuse and frustration comes from.

Those mobile companies support in Japan, but not only, are the most incompetent and cold I have ever got a chance to interact with. For all my queries or inquiries, the only questions I was receiving was "we cannot", "we do not", "I don't know", "this is part of the contract's details", "we cannot help because...", etc, etc. The tech support is actually that bad. But very polite. :)

And from November 1st. be ready for the Christmas decorations in full force.

Everything is so comercial and comercialised, that the Holiday's meaning and spirit is totally lost here sadly.

I don't. I just go outside for a walk, read a good quality SF book, hit the gym,etc.

Or just go for a run.

Too many mental disturbed people walking around freely in Japan.

If I would've been the little girl's father, the news would have had a different title...

Sadly, we keep hearing the same nonsense over and over. It is NOT the declining birthrate and working force getting lower, the main cause of the Economic decline and deteriorating living conditions. That's just a callous excuse for the politicians cease incompetency, and especially voting the same corrupt and gerontocratic Party over and over again for the past 30-40 years.

If one can deeply look into the root case of this, is the uncanning inability of Japanese people to change, the cultural deep rooted fear of change, of trying something new.

Even if they totally lost the leading in IT, technology, the Japanese companies still refuse to change, refuze to take risks and innovate, the fear of failure is 10x times bigger than the hope of success.

Unfortunatelly, as long as no cultural revolution is on sight, things will only go from bad to worst...

Another proof that the patient confidentiality is non existing in Japan and Japanese hospitals.

As far as it goes, a doctor, or a hospital should not discriminate any person despite their social status or beliefs, not to mention race, ethnicity, etc.

But that's all theoretical only.

I know is a rule, but can they prove she comunicated to bookies for tips regarding the races? What the extreme ban from the sport? A heafty fine should be enough, not ruin her entire career and life.

I guess all whose who down votes the comments regarding dual citizenship do not have kids with mix heritage.

If they would have, they would understand the absurdity and the crime Japanese gob impose to those kids to choose one parent over the other, to be forced to choose one culture, one citizenship over the other's parent.

Most of the modern and civilized countries allow for dual citizenship, so it's not like a specific thing only to Japan.

Just imagine politicians in Germany going to pay respects to the WW2 war criminals...

That's a great ideea to put all eggs inside a single basket.

Until that gets hacked that is....

Weekly news.

And "He told police he "injured himself" in an attempted suicide after killing his parents" really?? Taking own life is the simplest thing one can do, he is just an attention seeker after murdering 2 people, in order to get some lenience from the persecutors.

They doubled their products price, for the same quality, and also installed a lot of self checking machines, therefore reducing the staff number.

Guess greed never changes...

Exactly what is needed for the introvert Japan.

Promoting more introvertism and loneliness. How come those ideas only come from Japan, ever wondered?

Unemployed, murderer and pedophile.

How many times did we read similar article this year?

Most likely he didn't want to give her the money for the service, so he murdered her instead.

None.

Nobody cares about peace. It's all about the good business that war brings to the corporations backed by governments.

Taiwan is only important to US, Japan and China due to the semiconductor fabs and their technology there.

If that country would be something like Madagascar or Tasmania, nobody, including China would not care of it at all.

Human hipocrisy is something fabulous.

Even if the system was broken (resetting the media box should have actually work, if they would have follow the instructions manual), the screens can be easily turned off, or switched to something else, like flight details, outside map, etc.

Seriously, too much exaggerated drama.

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OK, so a simple question.

Why "foreign tourists" and not just tourists?

30,000JPY for 1 kilo of meat?? Funniest think I've read this week. :))

Plane comfort is the worst from all forms of travel, even if ironically, takes the longest too.

But greed, greed never changes for those Flight companies.

I have noticed, not just the rice, but the grains got 30 to 40% more expensive compared to a couple of years ago.

The price of bread (the good bread from bakeries, not that squared cut junk from supermarkets) also got quite a price hike too.

There is no such thing as laber shortage. The Media has to stop with this nonsense.

There is only extremely low salary jobs. I never understood why business in Japan refuse to pay any more than the minimum wage?? Nobody wants to work for that miserable salary with the lowest pension in all developed countries.

Pay the workers more, and you will have people aligning for interviews in no time.

Agreed. Japan is one of the best place to be as a tourist, especially if you are rich.

But here is a big difference, a huge difference, between being a tourist, and actually working and living here, being in their system.

180 degree opposite.

But one thing is certain. The Japanese propaganda for best country, best this, best that, is one of the most advanced and developed in the world.

Not only is not OK, but also is not OK to sound pollute the whole neighborhood with their noisy propaganda since very early in the morning.

Seems like the unwritten nuisance laws don't apply to politicians at all.

Unpopular opinion:

I'm completelly against the Death Penalty, except for those who murdered and rape children, or similar atrocious cases.

However those have to be 110% clear proven guilty, with undoubtable evidences, not just based on a forced confession under torture, by the Japanese hostage system. Forced confession doesn't mean proof.

And yes, the executioner should definitely be a family member, preferably the father, if he desires so.

When there are so many tards people still thinking and believing that the Eart is flat, The Moon landings are fake, or there is a big conspiracy regarding the Covid vaccines, naturally their voice are lauder and even have the audacy of creating and promoting their dumb ideas over other... And since most of the world is made out of easily influenceble people...youndeduxt the rest.

No problem with this, but how about some other serious issues, such as, African tauts aggressively pulling you into their scam bars, very noisy trucks advertising prostitution bars, etc

I guess that's tolerated,no problem.

There was a story a couple of years ago about a foreign national doing exactly the same thing to a thief. When the police arrived, they arrested him too, and kept him for hours unde interrogation, worst than the cryminal suspect.

I think even JT had this article.