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Posted in: London court backs extradition of 2 men to Japan over Tokyo robbery See in context

Not sure the evidence is as strong as they are claiming. Witnesses memories of events are questionable and proven unreliable. Not fully clear what they mean by facial recognition report but biometric evidence can if there is no contamination and it has been handled correctly can be quite strong.

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Posted in: Japan to halt funding for U.N. women's rights panel over call to end male-only imperial succession See in context

While the male only rule seems daft to me I recognise it is solely for the Japanese people to decide. As to the UN contribution, it’s their money, they have a right to determine where it goes. It has to be said the self righteous arrogance of the UN and its feather bedded bureaucrats is unbelievable.

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Posted in: Film reveals human side of exonerated death row inmate Hakamata See in context

Have the police who beat and tortured a false confession out of him had any action taken against them? Have the police who were responsible for such an incompetent investigation had any action taken against them? Have the police reopened the case to find the real murderer of that family?

Or are they trying to hide and hope it all goes away!

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Posted in: Are you financially better off than you were this time last year? See in context

Income taken a knock, one off costs and everything getting more expensive.

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Posted in: Ramen restaurant etiquette reminder follows altercation with angry couple: One person, one bowl See in context

The customers should have more respect for the restaurants and the chefs work. A dish is composed with skill and love and should be treated with respect

Why can’t the customers respect the restaurant and chefs work while sharing?

Sounds like an overbearing, arrogant and self important little Hitler, drunk on their own power.

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Posted in: How to avoid financial stress during the holiday season See in context

Don’t spend what you haven’t got.

Credit cards are great so long as you pay them off at the end of the month. I put aside the money as I spend it in to a high interest account, so I get the interest not the credit card company. So I spend only what I have/can afford but use the benefit of a credit card.

Also buy in sales earlier in the year.

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Posted in: Japanese government will check and judge new baby name pronunciations See in context

Talk about intrusive!

While the Japanese bureaucracy is famously difficult, this takes it to new heights, howsoever the root problem in this case is the unsuitability of the Chinese derived writing system for the Japanese language. The only long term solution is a complete change to a system specifically designed for the Japanese language with flexibility built in for loan words.

Never going to happen of course though with the will and good planning it is not impossible.

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Posted in: Japan unveils new passport with plastic photo page to prevent forgery See in context

Glad to see Japanese passport photos are jus as ghastly as ours!

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Posted in: 2 JAL pilots consume alcohol before flight, causing 3-hour delay See in context

No excuse. Alcohol is not a necessity, they can stay off the booze when working and between flights. On leave or if they have a long layover if they wish but I agree with the suggestion of no alcohol of any kind for 48 hours before testing time.

They are highly trained professionals, if they can’t control themselves what makes you think they are fit to control an aircraft. If they can’t do the job without recourse to alcohol they are in the wrong job and should either resign or be fired.

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Posted in: Ecuadoran workers accuse 'monster' Japanese company of exploitation See in context

Meiyouwenti

I’m curious why the Ecuadorian court singled out the Japanese company. I suspect employers from other countries are treating their workers just as badly or even worse

Whether they do or not doesn’t change what has been done by this company. The company must pay up for its heinous acts and modern slavery.

If other companies can de shown to have behaved in a similar fashion no doubt they will be brought before the courts.

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Posted in: Putin lowers threshold for using his nuclear arsenal after Biden's arms decision for Ukraine See in context

The demented dwarf in the kremlin bunker is frothing at the mouth again, someone forgot to give him his medication.

Same threats and sabre rattling as for the last 1000 days of the 3 day invasion.

Like Peter Neil said above:

russia launching missiles from russia into ukraine - ok.

ukraine launching missiles from ukraine into russia - not ok

Usual Muscovite hypocrisy.

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Posted in: Italy, Japan, Britain discuss broadening jet fighter project to other countries See in context

There are advantages and disadvantages to expanding the participation in such projects. It spreads the costs but can become overly bureaucratic and conflicting needs and operational requirements lead to delays, cost over runs and different versions so upping the cost anyway.

Keep it simple and work with people who are easy to work with and have similar strategic needs. Japan has a similar requirement to the UK and Italy is a proven and good partner in the field and has worked successful with Britain on more than one occasion.

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Posted in: Japanese poet Shuntaro Tanikawa, who translated 'Peanuts,' dies at 92 See in context

I remember Astro Boy, it was shown on British TV when I was a child.

Having read Gabriel García Márquez’ One Hundred Years of Solitude I had never heard of Two Billion Light Years of Solitude but now would like to read it if it has been translated to English.

The man obviously had a long, full life.

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Posted in: Why do you think Christmas decorations and illumination displays are put up so early in Japan? See in context

To sell more products.

It’s got as bad in the shops here as well, right after Bonfire night the Christmas products appear, and more and more it’s after Halloween now. At least the decorations generally don’t go up quite so early. Christmas has become just a marketing exercise here as well.

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Posted in: Japan reaches its lowest-ever ranking on Education First’s 2024 English Proficiency Index See in context

藤原

おめでとう, English is not my native language and Im pretty bad at it too. My Japanese which is the same level as my English.

I'm not afraid to make mistakes and fail

Bravo, well said. Not being afraid to fail is fundamental, you lean nothing from your successes only from your failures.

Meiyouwenti

The Dutch language, linguistically belonging to the West Germanic group, is one of the closest languages to English. So the Netherlands’ high proficiency is not surprising. It’s no use trying to compare what cannot be compared

Have you ever tried speaking Dutch, from personal experience I can assure you that regardless of the roots of the language it is in no way similar to English. There may be some words that have a degree of similarity but not enough to make any real difference, the Dutch proficiency is down to good teaching and practice, and yes they are damned good.

By the way English and German come from somewhat different roots, Anglo-Saxon which is the main root of modern English was derived from Low German, modern German derives from High German. The only language in the world that has a similarity to English is Friesian, and that isn’t very close.

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Posted in: Japan, UK to hold regular economic security talks See in context

Cooperation by the two countries be it on economic or military security can only be of benefit to both and to the security and balance of the world.

The rise of anti-democratic regimes around the world necessitates a greater weave of cooperation from the liberal democratic world to both protect its peoples and push back against the burgeoning threat they pose.

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Posted in: EU slaps Meta with a nearly 800 million euro fine for engaging in 'abusive' Marketplace practices See in context

GBR48 if it’s free, then you are the product. Your information which they garner free makes them a fortune and you benefit not at all.

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Posted in: Ishiba, Xi agree to forge mutually beneficial ties See in context

WoodyLee

Congratulation, looking forward to see the two nations work together towards Peace and prosperity for their people

Entirely concur, such an outcome would be wonderful. Regrettably the likelihood of it happening in the real world is negligible to nonexistent. Judge China under the CCP by its actions not its words and it is patently obvious they can not be trusted to even keep formal treaties let alone meaningless waffle in some side meeting.

OKuniyoshi

covert racism? yellowphobia?

Always a good move, if you haven’t got a cogent argument, throw in a spurious and unprovable claim of racism.

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Posted in: Japan, Britain to start economic security talks before Trump's return See in context

Sensible move by both nations, best get your safety belt on before the orange idiot crashes the car.

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Posted in: Is Donald Trump's re-election as U.S. president good news for Japan? See in context

denpmocracy = democracy!

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Posted in: Is Donald Trump's re-election as U.S. president good news for Japan? See in context

It is to no democratic country’s benefit nor any individual on the planet to have an oversized Oompa Loompa as president of the USA.

He was a disgrace and a disaster last time and will be even worse this time. I find no pleasure in watching the USA slowly slide in to fascist repression and possibly cease to be an effective denpmocracy.

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Posted in: This year marks the 30th anniversary of the QR code. How often do you use them in your daily life? See in context

Once, and the drafted thing didn’t work.

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Posted in: Samurai ritual suicide contest cancelled by organizer in west Japan See in context

Pity they banned fake blood, that would have been so tasteful! Unbelievable.

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Posted in: South Korean actor Song Jae-lim found dead at 39 See in context

really wish every time this kind of news is reported a small note with information about how to deal with self destructive thoughts is added to the article

Pretty standard in most places I believe so can’t understand why JT doesn’t do this. Costs nothing and could help save lives.

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Posted in: Timothy West, acclaimed British actor and lover of UK's waterways, dies at 90 See in context

Brilliant actor, great couple and Great Canal Journeys was both a visual delight and a brave and honest acceptance of advancing disease.

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Posted in: Australia will require social media platforms to act to prevent online harm to users See in context

Sounds perfectly reasonable. They take responsibility for their actions, isn’t that the basis of the USA’s much vaunted “freedoms”?

Hefty fines based on their gross global profits will quickly incentivise them to clean up their act, though no doubt the techbros will whine as it reduces their obscene profits from permitting this activity.

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Posted in: S Korean court finds ex-lawmaker guilty of misusing funds meant for wartime sex slave victims See in context

Anyone else committing this list of fraudulent activity would not have got a suspended sentence. However as she is or was an MP and anything to do with the comfort women issue in SK is a holy cow there was no way she was going to gaol.

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Posted in: What food or drink do you recommend for helping get a good night’s sleep? See in context

spinningplates

Bottle of Red wine with a nice dinner of your choice, then triple vodka's with a splash of orange juice and a bag of potato chips until you can't walk to make another drink (5 usually does the trick). Have a pint of water then pass out

Thank you, that had me chuckling over my breakfast mug of tea!

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Posted in: Ultra-processed foods: We have the technology to turn them from foe into friend See in context

So you process the nutritional value out of the food, then have to process it back in. Sounds a typical food manufacturers solution.

Education, including educating children on food, nutrition and how to cook healthy food would resolve much of this without further interference with the food (not that I object to limited targeted fortifying of foods to deal with a problem but generally it should be a short term solution until a more sustainable solution is implemented).

The attitude of “saving valuable time” is part of the problem not part of the solution.

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Posted in: Japanese job-hunters reportedly dismayed by requests for 'photos showing who you are as a person' See in context

Utterly pointless in assessing a candidates suitability for a particular post. Most leisure activities relate not at all to the skill sets needed in work, so youngsters will start adopting or appearing to adopt what they think will look good. And so Japans toxic work culture invades what ever personal space they may have.

Neither variety of curated photograph will tell you anything useful about a candidate. Mind you most of the asinine questions that HR come up with are about as useful as teats on a bull as well.

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