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This guys has played every samurai or salary man in almost every Japan themed Hollywood production of the last 20 years. He was in Lost. Anyone remember that? Before him it was Ken Takakura in the 70’s and 80’s. There’s a lot of good actors in Japan but unfortunately Hollywood plays it safe and sources from an incredibly small pool of talent. Talk about beating a dead horse. There is nothing special about this guy. Sorry.

Numbers haven’t changed in 20 years I’ve been here. Always been the case. In abusive relationships, moms here are more likely to abuse their children whereas dads abuse their wife. It’s a loose-loose situation.

Indonesia actually makes US politics look functional. It is one of the most corrupt countries in the world and Jokowi is leaving it a much more religiously intolerant country than when he started and his successor is a war criminal who lead death squads in the 70’s. The loan is isn’t even a drop in the ocean compared to what he gladly accepted from China. To boot, he even changed the constitution to allow his son to be the next vice president and eventual president. Duterte in the Philippines did the same thing but he was too dumb, openly cozying up to China. I’m pretty sure this guy, Jokowi, not Putin, is Trump’s idol. Creating a political dynasty without actually becoming a dictator.

She wasn’t sentenced for murder. That’s why 10 years. Not sure what the sentencing in western countries for a similar case would be. Does anyone know?

Wish I could commute with a company jet. The C02 omissions from his daily commute totally justify the paper straws! People complain about low pay in Japan but I would argue that pay in Japan is actually proportionate to your worth.

Huh… not sure about most Japanese banks, but Prestia temporarily froze my account a few years ago when I tried to transfer 1M yen and wouldn’t release the money until I gave them more details.

And SK doesn’t have an aging society? It’s not the elderly, it’s the government’s fault.

From what I see, it’s mostly younger people holding up the lines opening apps on their phone and then the clerk having to scan their phones multiple times.

The only cashless payment method in Japan that is actually quick is credit/ debit card payments… and don’t start commenting that debit card payments are not accepted in most places. They are unless there is a sign that says cash only.

@Fighto,

We don’t know the facts and he denied the allegations and it’s innocent until proven guilty, unless you would rather have the Chinese in Okinawa.

Besides, more Japanese police officers are indicted for the same charges than US servicemen so your “not sending their best” shtick is getting tiresome.

For what it is, Kpop is much better and more bearable to listen to than J-POP and you don’t need to cringe when they sing in English.

Abe123

What do you expect? JT and Gplus media are a business and survive on ad revenue and they don’t charge us anything to read or post our opinions.

I’d suggest paying for a Japan Times subscription… but they print a lot of the same stories, suicides and family murders and so on… so it’s a waste of money if you’re not interested in the where, how, when and possibly why.

Correction: TUJ is the fastest growing university in Japan*

TUJ is the only university in Japan that is growing, so that says a lot about the state of Japanese higher education. I didn’t go to TUJ but when I came to Japan in 2005, my university did the opposite and charged Japanese students much more and they also reduced prices even further for anyone from an occidental country because 90% of their international students at the time were from China and Vietnam and I guess they thought the non-Asians made the campus look more international.

You guys obviously don’t read. He’s being detained for a separate extortion case, in China, unrelated to the Yasukuni incident. Nothing to do with Yasukuni. Don’t know why JT words their articles the way they do. Very misleading.

It doesn’t help that the Japanese government has been pursuing a policy of rice acreage reduction for the past 50 years… purposely incentivizing farmers to reduce their rice yields with subsidies so as to push up the prices. Thanks Japan, real smart!

@CoconutE3

The BBC has services in Chinese and Russian so that speakers of those languages can get propaganda-free news. But then again, the BBC actually has credibility and doesn’t employ gangster like tactics to coerce people to pay.

@TokyoLiving

Your pro-Japan/ anti-Western agenda has been well known for some time lol. Efficiency aside, can you name me one station in Japan that is prettier than the Grand Central Terminal in NYC? Or possibly any of the stations in Paris?

Asiaman7

I think your numbers are wrong. Not even gonna look up the exchange rate at the time but 97,000 yen/ 265 to the dollar would be about $366. I’m more surprised that the average starting wage has only increased by about 80,000 yen in 47 years while inflation has significantly outpaced wage gross!

That’s a love bird, not a parakeet. They don’t need to be in pairs but, in not, the owner imprints on the bird which explains why this bird was comfortable with people. And good pet owners don’t clip the wings and let them fly freely around the house. They’re intelligent so I wouldn’t be surprised if the owner was hanging laundry and the bird followed and got blown away and disoriented by the wind. Nice they were reunited because I had a love bird that did the same thing years ago and never saw her again unfortunately.

Well, in Muslim majority countries the prayer rooms are always next to the resroom. Not even making a joke. They need to wash their hands and feet before prayer so it kind of makes sense.

Personal circumstances aside, I’m sure the police, convenience store owners, etc. would be more sympathetic had he stolen food, not cigarettes, and had not brandished a box cutter at the clerk.

I understand wanting to stockpile bottle water but I tried to pick up a normal 5kg bag of rice yesterday and the shelves were empty… if a major quake of that magnitude happens I doubt there would be electricity to cook the rice. I’m just glad there are no babies in this country because I had no problem picking up some baby formula for my infant daughter. Japanese sure have their priorities straight!

She’s not transgender and she’s from a Muslim country where, if she were, it is a punishable crime. People really are ignorant.

@ Samit Basu

I don’t think South Korean talent agencies are any less stringent with dating… they’re probably worse. And aren’t most of the non Korean idols in Korea from Thailand and China?

I do not support the death penalty. But to compare, Indonesia probably has one of the most humane methods: death by firing squad. The US probably has the most inhumane method by means of “botched” lethal injections. Japan is in the middle but the psychological torture of uncertainty beforehand for the inmates and their family seems unnecessary.

Not as bad as the story a while back of the Japanese guy who stayed in a hotel for months on end without paying.

My wife is Filipino so these are her words, not mine. Filipinos working abroad in Japan and elsewhere are decent hardworking people who keep their economy afloat and the people who remain in the Philippines are shameless bloodsucking leeches who keep procreating even though they can’t afford the children they already have and create a perpetual cycle of poverty. RIP.

@comanteer

I don’t agree with everything the US does throughout the world and certainly not it’s blanket support of Israel or other evil’s that serve its domestic purposes but you cannot compare US forces to the barbarism/ genocide of what is happening in Gaza. No country should ever be created solely on the basis of race and religion. Israel has more in common with Nazi Germany than they’d like to admit.

They didn’t name the alleged perpetrator like they do with so many Japanese suspects. I guarantee if he was from the third world and didn’t have access to that world class Swedish embassy consular service they would have. But there can’t be that many Swedes in Japan so my question is why did they have to report the exact ward where he lives in Sapporo? Sapporo is small and it’s easy to put 2 and 2 together.

I converted most of my yen to dollars in January. Converted back to yen last month. Made nearly 3 million yen doing nothing except casually checking the daily charts. Think I’ll wait until the exchange rate goes back to where it was in January 2023 before buying dollars again. It’s cyclical people and a strong yen is good for us paying our mortgages in yen.

They should be allowed separate surnames but, cynically speaking, most Japanese women progressive enough to want it marry non-Japanese anyway to get around it.