Posted in: Japan's August rice price soars 23% on summer heat, quake warning See in context
I have ordered 30 kg of new brown rice delivered in October. ¥8500. Half the store price. Organic and no chemical from a young farmer.
No chemicals? He's pulled the wool over your eyes!
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Posted in: Driver's license info to be integrated with My Number cards from March See in context
Good. About time.
I would prefer just one card with everything integrated.
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Posted in: 9 get sick from fumes after Hiroshima clinic accidentally mixes drugs See in context
What's with the cop's ridiculous stance?
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Posted in: Japan wants its hardworking citizens to try a 4-day workweek See in context
The issue in Japan is that, for most people, working insane overtime is the only way to make halfway decent wages. Until wages rise from their current pis*-poor level, workers will continue having to "work" overtime.
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Posted in: German far right set for wins in key elections after attack See in context
Excellent news.
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Posted in: 6 people hurt in a knife attack on bus in Germany See in context
That should help the AfD in the upcoming elections. Good.
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Posted in: South Carolina prison director says electric chair, firing squad and lethal injection ready to go See in context
Scumbag deserves all three.
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Posted in: 3 missing after landslide as powerful typhoon nears southwestern Japan See in context
Panic buying at the local supermarkets is utterly ridiculous.
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Posted in: Over 2 mil customer records leaked in breach of Japanese insurers See in context
Information security is ridiculously amateur in Japan, so this sort of thing isn't very surprising.
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Posted in: How important a part of daily life and Japanese culture would you say convenience stores are? See in context
I like the changing craft beers that Lawson and Family Mart often have.
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Posted in: Having Orbán in charge of EU presidency raises key question: Is Hungary for or against the EU? See in context
The EU hate Orban because of Hungary's sensible immigration policies regarding Muslim economic migrants.
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Posted in: Foreign tourist, companion arrested for having sex on Japan shrine grounds in broad daylight See in context
Imagine being such a miserable, goody-goody two-shoes git, that when seeing this you decide to call the police and tell on them like a little school kid.
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Posted in: Oasis to reunite for tour, ending 15-year hiatus during Gallagher brothers' feud See in context
Great band, from back when the UK was a much better country than it is these days.
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Posted in: Strong typhoon heading toward southwestern Japan See in context
980hPa isn't strong. 920hPa would be strong. This one will be mostly rain.
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Posted in: Tsukimi moon-viewing season to begin with new Yoshinoya gyudon beef bowls See in context
They don’t sell Stella and it’s crap these days anyway, they reduced the alcohol content.
Yes, but some people still like it regardless.
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Posted in: Japanese woman, 116, to be named world's oldest person See in context
And there are hundreds of more elderly people over 100 years old, proving once again that Japan is one of the best places in the world to live..
Hmm, but when you dive a little deeper into these stories, you quickly realize that these people are not really living; they're surviving, despite Japanese doctors, but not really living. Most are curled up like pretzels in bed and fed through a direct tube to the stomach.
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Posted in: Do you consider the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to be war crimes? See in context
Nope. Don't start wars you cannot win.
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Posted in: Kobayashi Pharma to exit red yeast rice business amid health scandal See in context
Products like this are all pure quackery anyways.
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Posted in: Fumita wins 60-kg Greco-Roman wrestling gold See in context
Why are there four people on the podium?
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Posted in: Shared taxi driver arrested for sexually molesting woman in her 80s See in context
Some kind of extreme 熟女 fetish?!
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Posted in: What's behind anti-immigrant violence that has exploded across Britain? Here's a look See in context
It's already too late for the UK. There are still some nice areas, mainly rural localities, but most large towns and cities are unrecognisable as anything remotely "British". There are whole neighborhoods where these people dress like they're in Kabul, can't speak English, push for Sharia Law etc.. Each time I go back, I can't wait to get the hell out. The UK needs a Geert Wilders, but UK politicians are too spineless.
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Posted in: Nikkei closes up 10.23% after Monday's record fall; dollar trading at ¥145.94 See in context
Can Japan get with the rest of the developed world in using green for + movements and red for - movements?
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Posted in: Flag bearers See in context
I see they’ve allowed the introduction of yet another non-sport which is essentially just “messing around”.
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Posted in: Japan's population falls for 15th year in a row See in context
If you’re a foreigner and you have a child here, they’re not granted citizenship.
Well that’s 100% incorrect.
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Posted in: Mos Burger chain operator to start recruiting foreign workers See in context
Oh look, another story from JT about the mythical "labor shortage" in Japan.
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Posted in: Don't drink too much See in context
The sad thing is, for millions of Japanese people working jobs they hate for a pittance they cannot live on, getting boozed up in the evenings is their only relief.
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Posted in: Trump rally shooting being investigated as an assassination attempt, officials say See in context
Glad he’s unhurt.
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Posted in: Japan keeps mum on forex intervention as yen jumps See in context
Why all the secrecy? We all know they intervened.
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Posted in: Factbox: Biden makes a series of verbal gaffes at NATO summit See in context
Please keep in the running Mr. Biden!
Trump will walk into the White House at this rate!
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Posted in: Tokyo residents seek to block building of massive data center See in context
We've got TSMC moving into Kumamoto with associated, similar problems, but at least its facilities will provide some 5,000 jobs. Data centers? - Nada.
5000 jobs mostly paying less than 280,000 gross per month. Isn't outsourcing and dispatch wonderful?
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Posted in: China approves plan to raise retirement age from January 2025
Posted in: Hearts, tails and blubber at Japan fin whale tasting event
X needs to burn like a Tesla on fire Lol
Posted in: Australian PM hits back at Musk after 'fascists' quip