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Jay,

Japan signed up to The Hague convention more than a decade ago. Where have you been?

And you got it backwards. It’s probably because Japan is a member of the convention that the Japanese embassy refused passports without the father’s consent as the children’s habitual residence is Hungary, not Japan I presume.

If Japan had never signed The Hague convention then maybe the woman would still be alive.

He was arrested for filming and uploading it, not for killing the pigeon.

So she’s trans and anti woke, anti-diversity, etc.? I find that interesting. People just can’t win can they? Her old posts are no more offensive than the those of the folks on here calling her a man. Give trans people a break. At least they use a pronoun! It’s the people who refuse to identify as any gender who started the whole “woke” thing and incited all the anger in the first place by insisting on using “they/ them” as a pronoun!

The convenience store thing is actually really annoying… elderly Japanese hold up the line long enough not knowing how to use the touch screen, let alone Chinese tourists buying 3 full baskets of garbage in one go! I always thought as a common courtesy, people should limit themselves to 10 items or less at these places since everything is overpriced to begin with

Funny… I read an article on the BBC about how over-hydration is dangerous and can be fatal in rare cases and that modern bottle water companies have duped people into believing they need to drink more than the human body actually needs. Nobody needs to drink 2 liters of pure water per day… as you get most of what you need through coffee and the likes. Look it up. I’m not BS’ing.

Hope this helps others in a similar situation? Asinine comments disguised as altruism are not helpful.

I thought these places encouraged the girls get the customers to order them drinks, which unbeknownst to the customers, would be non alcoholic like tea or something? Scam the customers into paying exorbitant prices for nothing and the girls don’t get drunk. Not great for the guys who are dumb enough to visit these places but a win-win for the bars and their employees.

I think “falls to death” in the headline would suffice since it’s not known if it was suicide, accident, etc. yet.

They really should have more designated smoking areas and increase the price of smokes similar to Singapore. Seems they removed a lot of them and now people just smoke on the street after work instead and litter the ground. Every morning in Ikebukuro I see elderly men with armbands cleaning up hundreds of cigarette butts. And then in Minato there are hardly any smoking areas, and I just see people on their lunch breaks smoking in non designated areas and throwing the butts in the bushes.

Nothing wrong with a little porn in moderation, like everything. I guess the problem with porn for some individuals is that you get desensitized and move on to more and more hardcore/ extreme stuff to get your “kicks” and then start to search that stuff out in real life?

Banning porn would probably make society worse. Just look at all the Muslim countries where porn is actually banned.

All the sexual abuse they were subjected to as children, I doubt any of them are capable of having a normal relationship with anyone and are trapped in a perpetual state of their warped childhood.

That’s because Japan has been host to nuclear weapons via the US for 80 years. So they are always vague and “noncommittal. Anyone think I’m wrong? Technically, the nuclear weapons are not on Japanese soil anyway.

And the extended family living on the first floor wasn’t home downstairs, didn’t hear anything? This isn’t just a Japan thing. The thing that dad did to his child in California a week or so ago actually made me throw up in my mouth a little bit… people are just terrible in general. Country, nationality doesn’t matter.

Authorities told us we can’t drink in Shibuya or have fun so why not tell the elderly to refrain from eating mochi?

Also, 2025 will be my 20th year in Japan and I do not appreciate mochi at all and nearly choked to death eating it drunk on new years 18 years ago!

Men can suffer postpartum depression too but nobody mentions that ever. So stop the BS excuses about women who kill or attempt to kill their kids and postpartum. Psychos are psychos and gender is irrelevant.

@falseflagsteve

Any suggestions on what Japan could do better to prevent these types of tragedies from happening in the future?

Air traffic control is always in English, regardless of the country. Maybe they didn’t understand the English spoken?

@browny1

I’m almost 40 and Dylan is just somebody I knew of because of my parents, who were bigger Beatles and Stones fans. I still don’t know that much about him, other than he’s Jewish and Dylan is his stage name and that his knocking on heaven’s door song was written for a movie. Anyone younger than me is going to have less than a fuzzy image of him.

As it stands, you don’t even need to be resident of japan to buy property if you pay for everything upfront.

The anger is understandable but would be better directed at the US government than at CEO’s of evil organizations. The US is still the richest nation on the planet but they don’t care enough about their citizens and residents to provide universal healthcare. Of course I’m oversimplifying the problem. To really fix it, the entire constitution would have to be rewritten.

Sumo… the only “sport” to my knowledge that encourages morbid obesity! This guy might make it to 70 if he looses 100 kilos…

I’m not going to fact check but isn’t he the guy basically responsible for putting corporate names in front of sports teams names? Basically turned Japanese teams into jokes in the west. Nippon Ham, Yakult swallows, list goes on. I really don’t know but are there not enough Japanese billionaires who want to buy a sports team or is there some legality issue in Japan that prevents individuals from purchasing teams? At least he wasn’t exactly a revisionist I guess. RIP. Sure had a long eventful life!

Great. How does this help the Japanese economy?

Isn’t it an unspoken rule in Japan for men if you want to increase your chance of getting lucky on your first date, to foot the entire bill? Then get married and hand your salary to your wife each month and loose all semblance of financial independence? It’s a redundant question but the answer is, yes.

Anti Japan propaganda has been SK’s MO for its entire modern existence every single time one of their presidents is impeached/ jailed. Don’t know why anybody wants to be president in that country. Every president either ends up in jail or commits suicide.

Fighto,

Kind of hard to have good dental health when parents don’t take their kids to orthodontists to fix severely crooked teeth. Then you get adults with a jumbled mess in their mouth, that is impossible to floss or properly brush and teeth that basically rot. First world country, third world problem!

Japanese Doctors will prescribe anything, even if you don’t need it, if you specifically ask them to. Sounds like this will make it easier for people to get their hands on cannabis derived drugs… hopefully with THC;) Stoned people would be so much easier to deal with than the drunks everywhere on any given night in Japan!

Has same sex marriage personally harmed or affected any of you on here? Has it negatively affected your life in a tangible way other than simply thinking it’s wrong? Do none of you have any gay friends or is it just because I grew up in a rich liberal suburb on the east coast?

And Netflix didn’t pay this guy enough to live comfortably for the rest of his life… didn’t pay him much at all according to the BBC, the competitive nature that is SK filmmaking.

Sorry, I was talking about Otani.