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Maybe they could rent some painted Chow-Chows instead.

At least they found a great date for it :D

And the plot, ... who's lined up for collecting the kickbacks from the helmet vendors?

... we see people with bullet-proof vests get knocked off their feet

Thankfully, bullets in japan are mostly delivered by postal envelopes but such a suitcase may come in handy anyways if somebody would attempt to attack with their 6cm long knife blade.

To those mocking the "bag" guy, ... I think that's a "ballistic suitcase", basically a portable bullet proof shield.

A wild guess: that ABC Radio interview probably said "... we had multiple layers of protection", not "players".

Driving 'n drinking issues are surely something he should have understood at this age.

As was shown on the TV as well, other new "adults" were save while observing Mickey Mouse at some special event. Welcome to adulthood!

"Japan sees no impact" ... on many things sadly.

I'm not an English expert but that spelling looks a bit Engrish to me.

Since it was questioned several times on this page if "Japanese have to quarantine" ... YES, I think so. On July 16th, a Japanese friend who came back from Germany did enter "voluntary isolation required by returnees" before heading to Tokyo. He spent two weeks on some dedicated hotel secured by the government.

unique seal

*picks one from the shelf ...

Another emptying-spray-cans incident, it seems :/

Confused by "feline". If I recall correctly, Sanrio stated in the past that "Hello Kitty is not a cat".

They'll probably hold him long enough, so that they can finally get him on a real charge, VISA overstay :/

...an octa-core chip that can process 5 trillion operations per second ...

Great, that will make their Candy blush and Dragon thingies work much better, I guess.

... it had anything to do with the 2104 Sony incident ...

But evidently, they took the Almanac!

This person is a great sample of the relics still in place with power and I find it very positive that Japan is exposing them and tearing them apart (which will happen to him soon).

Similar personalities in the school business, insurance and real estate hopefully get instinct too.

I never heard of "Grab" before a recent trip to Kuala Lumpur. But it was very convenient to use. Besides knowing the final price of the ride in advance, the cars were much more comfortable than their stock "Budget" taxis. Drivers were very friendly too.

Reminds me of "Singapore Duck Tour", which was also around 3000JPY.

as japan is the only country to use japanese ...

Well funded CN hackers are quite active in JP cyberspace.

Too bad, the Tokyo event was on Saturday, Oct. 7, 11 a.m.

No grasshoppers for me :/

By that description, I'd think it's about these "one-click" fraud sites. They indeed demand horrendous bills (around 99,000 JPY) for a three months contract, that was "automatically activated" by visiting the site.

This stuff is around since more than 10 years in almost unchanged form and hard to shut down because of missing legal basis and lack of engagement by the JP police and other organizations.

This stuff is nasty indeed and proper detection by security software can take time, which offers opportunities for infection during that delay.

@bosphorus: If you do a websearch for "linux ransomware", one of the top hits might be from two days ago, mentioning a company that paid 1M USD because of their infected linux systems. The same counts for mac by the way :-D

One of the first things I learned when coming to Japan was exactly this - how I should properly hand over paper bills. Face up and facing the other person, "it's manner here", the wifey said. Since then it is "common sense" to me and - mistakes as the one stated above (handling wrong bill) - can never happen to me.

I can pay with closed eyes, 'cause the wallet content is aligned/sorted properly by default :-)

I remember driving on the StadtAutobahn in WestBerlin when the "Trabant" flood begun. Opened the window and shook hands with random people in these vehicles - full of joy.

That'll fill most Japnese people's homes!

My thoughts exactly. Even if I'd want to follow that advise, there simply is no place left to stash anything in my home.

They should restrict car access and even invite more crowds.

Steeling metals

Nice pun, even if unintended :-)

eggstremely immature lads.

"Go to Blackjack table now. Bet all! " ... we`re getting closer.

I experienced both sides of such in Tokyo (Machida). I once found a swollen wallet on top of a public phone inside a department store - handed it to store staff without even looking inside.

And last summer my own wallet fell out of my pocket, only to be found by a kind soul minutes later. It was delivered to a police station and I had it back the next day. Some 50.000 Yen and several other valuable stuff (Yodobashi, Yamada point cards, residence card, drivers license etc.) were all returned without anything missing. That is the Japan I know and would wish it'd be everywhere like that.