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Wow, a lot of socialists on this board. If there are enough people who don't put up with crap salaries, then the tide will rise. The problem is the apathetic "shoganai" attitude of the worker. If you're underpaid, do something about it. Change jobs. Then market conditions will then dictate that they will need to raise salaries. This exact dynamic has already happened in the video game industry in Japan. But if you have enough workers that stay, then nothing changes.

Japan has a problem finding scalable niches. This ain't one.

Thank God Japan is a kind place outside of Tokyo, where everyone's fighting for an inch of space

And how are things in Sapporo then?

A fool and his money are soon parted.

For the people on this board baying for blood like an outraged internet mob from China, here's hoping you never get into any accidents here in Japan. While it's tragic that this accident happened, compounding it with injustice is not the answer.

Elite tennis is no place for the mentally weak.

well, the article is not completely true. I work for one of the companies mentioned here, and we have a portion of our bonus directly tied to the profit level of the company. Given these record profits, all of our bonuses will be going up quite a bit.

Perhaps this was just one part of an elaborate Saul Goodman type plot to defame.

You lost me at "Japanese cafe".

Wow, no mention that average salaries at Itochu are around 14-15m yen? Meanwhile average salaries in Japan are under 5m yen. You don't think that could be a factor at all, Itochu?

China proving yet again it's an illogical nation not to be trusted.

Japan loves to trumpet its own efforts to help super niche marginalized groups, as a feel-good measure, to paper over the fact they don't do a great job of tacking the needs of non-niche marginalized groups. But hey, if you have a stutter, you can order a coffee.

Local residents had long protested that the expressway spoils the view...

There are local residents? That area is chock full of nothing but office buildings.

The type of woman a typical thief might want to steal underwear from, and the type of woman who frequents laundromats, usually do not overlap.

Even before the Russia thing, that has got to be the most unimaginative tail logo ever. Somebody literally just typed a Z in Times New Roman. Have some pride in your business people!

Yoshida loves talking big but quite often fails under pressure. He should left to grease up his hair on the bench. Tomiyasu would be much better in the middle of defence.

Plenty of Japanese girls willingly do porn because the money is so good and they have no skills.

Money is not actually altogether that great, but certainly, too many looking to make some easy money utilizing the one asset they have, their body.

Need context... there's a world of difference between taking a willing 17 yr old to your apartment vs. taking an unwilling 12 yr old to your apartment.

That's not how it works! Once it is out, it's murder.

What's murder?

Another minor groomed online to meet with a sexual predator. 

Groomed... really? Does swiping right count as grooming now? Drugging someone is most definitely a crime, but let's not insult the capabilities of teenagers now eh?

when Golden Week actually arrives we sometimes feel overwhelmed at the seemingly infinite time off we’ve been given.

Uh... no. We're not all Japanese salarymen here.

Wow, shocked at how many people seem to think 9m yen is a lot of money. It is, of course, too much to keep in cash at home, but most 51 year olds have vastly more than 9m in savings.

Hope that underwear was worth the social and family embarrassment, not to mention career loss. Boggles my mind how people risk everything for such low stakes gains.

Was this picture originally meant to be an amusing shot of a Japanese guy catching a gaijin urinating in public, that just happens to have the building in the background?

This guy is just bringing the Japanese salaryman mindset to sports. Like your typical salaryman, he probably can't even fathom a life outside his job.

@JeffLee -- Short term stock price performance is not one of the criteria for listing, nor should it be.

Ah China, the lengths you will go to "protect" your reputation, yet too stupid to realize you are sealing it.

Interesting in the 1952 group photo that, despite the rule about being "of the white race" as mentioned in the caption, the Hawaiian candidate is clearly of Asian or Hawaiian descent. Also interesting that there is a representative of Canada in the pic too.

Was there really a need to detain them for almost a year while investigating? Absolutely not. Japanese business execs feeling the hostage justice system as well.

Oizumi? Isn't that the place where 25% of the people are from South America?