Posted in: Man arrested for kicking police car outside koban in Mie Prefecture See in context
news worthy?
First time of the year visiting this site. Well, bye.
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Posted in: Japanese government will check and judge new baby name pronunciations See in context
If rare kanjis weren't hard enough, now narcissist parents make up their own kanji, giving a lifelong ordeal to their own children.
"No one will ever able to figure out how to call my son but at least its original so that's ok"
Having to explain your own name to pretty much everyone who will ever read it at hospitals, schools, workplaces, city halls, what a completely avoidable pain in the arse.
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Posted in: Germans mourn the 5 killed, 200 injured in attack on Christmas market See in context
"Diversity is our strenght"
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Posted in: Putin ready to meet Trump to talk Ukraine deal See in context
Trump is only coming in at the end, claiming he did it
please keep entertaining us :)
why no one wants to negotiate peace with biden or kamala?
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Posted in: Putin ready to meet Trump to talk Ukraine deal See in context
Trump is a genius in terms of making people do exactly what he wants.
Remember when made quite a few people support MS-13? (gasp)
With this last move, its just a matter of time before the left take the streets to protest against....peace!
can't make this up!
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Posted in: N Korean troops suffer 100 deaths, struggling in drone warfare, S Korea says See in context
colonize your culture
all your points conveyed in english, congratulations, you've been "colonized" ✓
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Posted in: Foreign visitors to Japan top 33 mil in Jan-Nov, breaking annual record See in context
You'll need a Type 2 Driving License and a Hi Ace, but yes, there is money to be made moving folks around.
I've discussed this with my high schooler son, who likes cars and motorbikes but hates studying.
You gotta do what you gotta do If you want to maintain your lifestyle and actually own your own time and spend it everyday wherever and however you want.
There is plenty of money to make from this tourist boom and staying in a office is not an option. Transportation + real estate + export business, all in 1 day and you can get ¥150.000~/day very easily and get home before 3pm.
Hopefully the number of tourists will double in a few years.
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Posted in: Foreign visitors to Japan top 33 mil in Jan-Nov, breaking annual record See in context
Time to make money.
Plenty of opportunities.
There is absolutely no reason to languish in a japanese company if you have a good command of Japanese and a few foreign languages.
¥50.000 in just a few hours in the morning bringing a big group of foreigners from Asakusa to a Ski resort, Fujisan, etc. and come back home to enjoy your day.
Do the same next morning and you already got that cash to buy your round trip to Hawaii :)
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Posted in: 'Not paying any dating expenses at all' listed as domestic violence by Japanese gov't agency See in context
Good times in my little, snowy capital of less than half a million people where it was completely acceptable to bring your date to dine at Saizeriya, stop by the big Don Quijote (a must for everyone going out on a saturday night in that city), lunchboxes by the river, drive all the way up to watch the city lights from the top of a small mountain..... manga-like simple life still exists in other parts of Japan.
Try asking someone out in Tokyo and bring her to Jolly Pasta before enjoying the night, she will disappear before the ravioli is served
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Posted in: Trump picks China critic Glass as Japan ambassador See in context
Good job Mr. President!!
I actually don't recollect this nationwide if not worldwide anticipation months before a new President takes office.
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Posted in: 80-year-old man dies after car plunges into sea; 54-year-old woman driver arrested See in context
I suddenly panicked while driving and felt that I wanted to die
this is so common in this place, apparently everyone regardless of age just thinks about dying, disappearing, etc. one of the highest IQ people on earth.... they think very little of their own lives
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Posted in: Trump reportedly considering businessman George Glass for U.S. envoy to Japan See in context
Why not Kobe-born Jared Taylor for Ambassador to Japan?
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Posted in: Character for gold (金) picked as most symbolic kanji of 2024 See in context
Good pick, the Golden age for America and worldwide peace is about to (re)start.
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Posted in: Trump invites China's Xi Jinping to attend inauguration, CBS News reports See in context
I wouldn’t be a bit surprised. This is how Trump works. It’s actually brilliant. Invite your enemies and take the wind out of their sails.
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Posted in: Parents of chronically absent kids turn to support spaces to vent See in context
The beautiful, respectful, polite Japanese culture is sick.
This contradiction never ends, no matter how long you live in this place.
Kids afraid of going to school because they don't want to be bullied, ostracized, ignored.
This is pretty much the only thing I fear when living in this place.
Giving all the love, attention and discipline of this world to our son..... so he might end up stuck with a sad kid with inferiority complex in his class.
Reason #1 we started wrestling on the futon since he was 2, 3 years old, he might get boxing classes next year as well, "don't take sh from anyone, you hear me?".
That's the advice I'll be giving to my son.
From what I hear, japanese bullies are pretty much spineless, so the moment you fight back (it has to be done from start) they all recoil and go find someone else to bully.
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Posted in: Elon Musk warns Republicans against standing in Trump's way — or his See in context
This picture though... Palpatine's half away transformation into Darth Sidious
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Posted in: 4 men arrested for coercing co-worker to walk into path of train, making it look like suicide See in context
It's good to know the law is actually applied to prevent this kind of bullying.
But I've been reading and watching tons of cases in schools the people in charge simply turn a blind eye, a foreigner parent goes to a school to complain about their son being bullied and the school does nothing!
It almost makes you think bullying is actually an acceptable part of japanese culture and they punish bullies every now and then just for show.
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Posted in: Expenditure on New Year travel in Japan set to reach record high See in context
travelers are likely to take a longer holiday, as Dec 28 and 29, and Jan 4 and 5 fall on the weekend
Fair, this compensates the very short Golden Week of the last 2 years!
Our holidays will start from Dec. 20th and we're back to Japan on Jan. 5th, only 2 weeks to rest before flying back to DC to attend the Presidential inauguration.
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Posted in: Australian PM blames antisemitism for arson attack on synagogue See in context
I've been thinking..how can people come up with concepts like diversity ? It never existed throughout history yet over the last decade we are told this is the only way a society can survive.
Great question!!
Mr. Taylor has been talking about this for a while.
Some cultures are simply incompatible, no matter how hard you try!
https://www.amren.com/?s=diversity
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Posted in: Head of influential Japan opposition party suspended over extramarital affair See in context
in a country you get literally mocked for rushing home to your family after work instead of going to "fuuzoku" and "girls bars" with your coworkers, hypocrite Japan in a nutshell
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Posted in: Japan museum named 'world's most beautiful' at French award ceremony See in context
Even the Global Seed Vault in the arctic is more appealing to the eye than.. this.
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Posted in: Trump says he will block Nippon Steel from taking over U.S. Steel See in context
US Steel will go bankrupt with a total loss of jobs.
Trump says he will block Nippon Steel takeover of US Steel. This is why we should all be glad Trump won, another 4 years of democrats and the entire country would be owned by foreign governments.
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Posted in: Trump says he will block Nippon Steel from taking over U.S. Steel See in context
Economists across USA America shake their heads collectively in confusion.
The business of America is…. Business . That’s how you talk and DICTATE to a smaller vendor / partner who has been taking advantage of a prior corporations CEO. New Sheriff in town. Fix the issues Trump has laid out, and you’ll be his BFF. Fail or ignore them, tariffs are coming.
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Posted in: Trump says he will block Nippon Steel from taking over U.S. Steel See in context
Trump uses humor and threats together to make his points clear. He is an experienced negotiator. The left doesn’t get it. Tariffs are a tool for negotiation. The problem for those he negotiates with is that he is unpredictable and they fear him.
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Posted in: Ex-Olympus CEO Kaufmann indicted on drug charges See in context
He's not being detained after getting cocaine and MDMA? Don't common people get detained merely for having pot? Seems like a double standard.
I've seen people with eijuuken living for +20 years in Japan getting deported after spending 3 months in jail + slapped with a suspended sentence.
Crime: pot in urine test
If you really value the whole life you built in Japan, you'd stay away from these things like the plague.
You won't receive the death sentence but this will be the end of your life in Japan + you'll run the risk of being turned away at airports at any given moment, 1 pot and you will have a hard time leaving your country for any purpose until you die.
I wonder if Mr. Kaufmann will be blacklisted and banned from Japan forever or if this only applies to us commoners.
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Posted in: Mount Fuji convenience store becomes 'lawless zone' as tourists hurl abuse at security guards See in context
It might be time to place a permanent riot squad there on site 24 hours a day as some have suggested. Arrests and incarceration would be the following procedures.
No need. Believe it or not there is kouban right next to this Lawson. What are they doing??
https://maps.app.goo.gl/vnCpGnn6bBciML716
no Japanese or Non-japanese Asian/foreigner will yell back the simple phrases like “I’m Japanese,” or “Idiot, die, go away” to security guards.
This happens pretty much anywhere else in the world, it almost makes you wonder if the Chinese actually memorize cursing words before going visit a country.
"Idiot" "go away" and "die" are all monosyllabic words in mandarin that can be written with a single kanji, they are used everyday in China.
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Posted in: Mount Fuji convenience store becomes 'lawless zone' as tourists hurl abuse at security guards See in context
They walk among us. Just drove through Meiji Jingu Gaien this morning and I was very relieved I was the 3rd car passing through after the lights turned green, the first 2 cars were honking viciously, that's when I saw some 5, 7 people all unknown to each other standing in the middle of the road as if its no big deal, not even approaching cars were enough for them to get the hell out of the way, my gingko picture first. They all looked like they come from the same country.
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Posted in: Australian police officer who tasered 95-year-old woman, causing her death, guilty of manslaughter See in context
after the officers told Nowland 21 times to put the knife down
what an underpaid profession
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Posted in: Japanese, South Koreans at bottom of global love life survey See in context
A shame given all the personal beauty in these two places and how much they do and spend to cultivate it.
A waste it seems.
I've always loved the contradiction, girls spending hours choosing and using all those products intended for head-to-toe ..... just to go to a cafe completely by themselves, or go out with their girl friends.... walk around Shibuya or Shinsaibashi on a saturday evening, strangely rare to see any young couple holding hands, they're all with their peers.
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Posted in: Japan reaches its lowest-ever ranking on Education First’s 2024 English Proficiency Index See in context
English = a mind numbing joke here
"Let me impress my pals by shouting any nonsense in english in front of the foreigner"
Not even in the smallest villages of Vietnam people have this kind of mentality.
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I will believe it when I see it. So round 1, Modi 1 vs Trump 0 then. India wasn't a…
Posted in: Trump calls India tariffs a big problem; agrees to trade talks with Modi
What about the 83.5% of workers in Japan who are not part of unions? Join one!
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Posted in: Japan to release 210,000 tons from rice reserves due to surging prices