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Posted in: Plunging births push Japanese diaper maker to switch to adult market See in context

@wallace

I’m sorry to hear that happened to you. How old were you when that happened? Cancer can partially be down to lifestyle choices but, I may be wrong, it’s ultimately down to genetics. The Japanese may live the longest but their quality of life is poor and maybe their DNA is cancer prone. Every other person in my ex Japanese wife’s family had cancer and some of them died. I really worry for my son from that marriage if he inherited that from his mom’s side. At any rate it’s still depressing because babies need diapers too.

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Posted in: Plunging births push Japanese diaper maker to switch to adult market See in context

I’m not an economist but the fact is every single baby needs diapers. Not every elderly person needs diapers. I’m American but have relatives in Italy who are well into their 90’s and alive and kicking. I mean, adult diapers, even with the low birth rate, should still not outsell baby diapers unless every single elderly person in Japan needs them. Am I missing something?

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Posted in: Yen falls to 34-year low against dollar See in context

forex Trading is a fools errand and is just gambling. The yen was 140 to the dollar in December because of BOJ offhand remarks that they were ready to exit negative rates. Now they did and the dollar surges. Thanks BOJ. Just made 3 million in two weeks after converting my dollars back into yen. But I lost 3 million in December so in the end I made no money and am feeling lucky I finally broke even!

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Posted in: Woman arrested after 2 bodies found in burned-out car See in context

So if you go to a bridge and two of your friends jump and you don’t, would you also be arrested? Probably not. They arrested her because of the burnt out car, which she probably owns.

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Posted in: MLB launches investigation into Ohtani interpreter Mizuhara over gambling reports See in context

Does Ohtani even have control over his finances? He seems like a nice naive kid who has no personality or discernible skills outside of baseball. He’s a good player. But he’s not going to be pitching into his late 40’s like Roger Clemins or playing shortstop like Derik Jeter. And $700 million for a pinch hitter is unbelievable. Hope the dodgers can make it up in merchandise and marketing sales.

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Posted in: 25-year-old man arrested for abducting minor after meeting her online See in context

Wasn’t the age of consent raised to 16 from 13? Not agreeing at all but it doesn’t sound illegal in terms of Japan’s sordid laws at least. Am I wrong?

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Posted in: Japan society on transgender issues to drop 'disorder' from name See in context

Yeah almost everyone on here, as usual, has no understanding of the issue and this lack of empathy is just depressing in this day and age.

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Posted in: Spouse-seeking market saturated with fraud See in context

300,000 yen registration fee? I thought the 1,500 yen or something a month they started charging men on Bumble and tinder years ago was expensive! Just maybe those apps are only good for meeting single foreign woman in Japan? Worked out for me but I didn’t care about nationality. But any self-respecting woman probably wouldn’t want to marry a man who is foolish enough to waste their money like that anyway.

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Posted in: Why are so many voters frustrated by the U.S. economy? It's home prices See in context

I love Japan. Banks will give a housing loan to anybody with a full time job making minimum 3 - 5 million yen. They don’t even care about how much money in savings you have.

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Posted in: Japanese table tennis star reaches agreement with ex-husband in high-profile battle over custody of 4-year-old son See in context

So the moral of the story is that Japanese court orders are only effective if jail time is involved for noncompliance. That’s the only reason she returned the son to the father.

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Posted in: 'Manhunt,' about hunt for John Wilkes Booth, may make you wish you paid attention in history class See in context

@factchecker

Most democratic places in the world do include US history in their world history curriculum. Most kids just don’t pay attention. And in the US kids have to learn about French enlightenment philosophers and don’t pay much attention either.

But John Wilkes Booth being on the run for 12 days after shooting Lincoln should be common knowledge in the US. The more exact details of the search are not clearly explained in public schools though. At least when I was a kid.

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Posted in: Ito left out of Japan soccer squad for World Cup qualifier amid sexual assault claim See in context

Being “investigated” doesn’t mean a lot. Japanese prosecutors throw out more than 99% of cases anyway unless they are 100% sure they can get a conviction.

This guy should stay in France, because his reputation and career in Japan is already ruined and the French seem friendlier to men in similar situations than the rest of the west.

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Posted in: Is the all-you-can-eat KFC buffet in Tokyo really as good as they say it is? See in context

I actually hate lunch tabehodai at any place. It’s a scam unless you are morbidly obese or just have a bottomless stomach. All you can eat is only a good deal if it is at an actual restaurant for dinner where you actually do save money instead of ordering a la carte. And at any KFC you can get 4 pieces for 1200 yen if I remember correctly which is more than enough for two people at lunch.

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Posted in: Ohtani's wife seen with him in photo on social media See in context

I’m going to get downvoted but Japanese celebrities, for the most part but not all, living overseas are so boring… if it’s true love that’s great but the US is so big, so many people from everywhere so are there no non-Japanese who can speak Japanese to date or is that they just don’t feel comfortable getting out of their bubble just a little bit?

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Posted in: Man arrested for cutting high school girl’s skirt with scissors while on bus See in context

Scissors? I guess that’s better than the pocketknife keychain every dad in America always had conveniently on them when I was growing up.

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Posted in: My experience with Ramadan in Japan See in context

I’ve never met a Muslim Indonesian in Japan who actually will only eat halal certified food and I was married to one. They usually just stay away from pork. But I’ve seen some halal yakiniku places recently so I guess there are more options now.

And I’ll probably get downvoted but the mosques in Japan coexist peacefully with their communities probably because they don’t blare calls to prayer from loudspeakers at ungodly hours.

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Posted in: 45-year-old man arrested for arson after argument with mother over breakfast See in context

@finally rich

Seizures. That actually made me laugh.

I get what you’re saying. I start to go crazy if I have a whole week off too but that’s mainly because I have young kids and actually have more things to do at home than at work.

Anyway I’m not gonna judge living with mommy well into middle age but setting fire to tissues kind of speaks for itself! At least no one was killed.

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Posted in: Wife of slain foster home head still fighting for truth 5 years on See in context

What ever happened to that American guy who slashed and killed his wife in front of the Tokyo family court? He was not guilty because of paranoid delusions and voices. Canada did something similar with the Chinese bus cannibal for delusions of god or something. Seems worldwide if killers exhibit classic signs of schizophrenia they are let off and medical treatment for years is there only punishment. Not unique to Japan.

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Posted in: Ceremony held to mark 79th anniversary of U.S. firebombings of Tokyo See in context

The fire bombings of Japan killed more people than Nagasaki and Hiroshima combined and the US was always open about that fact but few in the west or Japan know that. Wonder why that is? Every city in Europe was fire bombed, nothing unique about war, but Japan loves to play the victim and as the only country to be nuked, Hiroshima and Nagasaki makes a better narrative.

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Posted in: Japan's new female 'role models' seek to empower other women See in context

Well she’s better than her predecessor(s) in the sense that she’s not an indicted crook or a blatant racist. The bar for Tokyo governors isn’t very high regardless of gender.

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Posted in: Japan eyes up to 800,000 more skilled foreign workers over next 5 years See in context

So 800,000 unskilled workers who receive 3 months of training in their home country before getting on a plane. I kind of think Japan is overestimating how many people actually really want to come here and do this kind of work. But hey, I could be wrong!

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Posted in: Former Canadian embassy worker wins battle for Japanese employment benefits See in context

How is this news? Sounds like the embassy HR personnel made a mistake. Probably confusing with the different rules for diplomats vs foreign staff hired locally in Japan. Japanese company did the same thing to my wife when she took maternity leave. Took her about 40min at hello work to sort it out.

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Posted in: Woman arrested over mother’s death at home See in context

Maybe so many people in this country shouldn’t be living with their parents into their 30’s and beyond. Not that hard to get a lousy job with a lousy salary and lousy apartment.

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Posted in: Kishida pledges strong determination in repatriating abductees from N Korea See in context

Maybe Pyongyang was actually telling the truth that they have all died already? I don’t think people over there have a very long life expectancy anyway as sad as it is.

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Posted in: Tokyo police mistakenly arrest Filipino man for allegedly overstaying visa See in context

As a foreigner being racially profiled and randomly asked for ID is part of life here. But I’m curious. This man was “arrested” how? Did they actually cuff him and put him in a cell or did he just go to the station and they questioned him in a room for an hour? If it was the latter seems like more of an inconvenience/ misunderstanding but if they actually cuffed him he should lawyer up and ask for more than a hallow sorry.

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Posted in: Haruki Murakami unveils his new short story at Tokyo literary event See in context

I don’t get what the hype surrounding him is… his books are really hard to get through and the only one I found halfway enjoyable was Kafka on the Shore and even that book was strange. Maybe it’s the English translations and maybe his books are better read in Japanese?

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Posted in: More than one billion worldwide now afflicted by obesity: Lancet See in context

According to the BBC this study also showed that Japan is the only 1st world nation in the list for percentage of undernourished individuals.

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Posted in: 2 Filipinos face murder charge over bodies found under Tokyo home See in context

My wife came over from the Philippines originally as a trainee. Filipinos are some of the best workers here in Japan and are some of the most honest people I’ve ever met. This case is unfortunate but really unusual.

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Posted in: My first time getting tattooed in Japan See in context

Lol. A tattoo that small will only look neat and clean for maybe a week before it heals and the ink starts to disperse a bit under the skin. Then you won’t be able to know what it originally was and it will look like a colored blob. Any decent artist would warn you against something like. That’s why small lined butterflies are popular because you wouldn’t have that problem.

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Posted in: Joy, envy in Japan as baseball star Ohtani speaks more about marriage See in context

@Protestant

That’s why they say never meet your idols!

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