Geeter Mckluskie comments

it's rare to see man pouring tea, Japanese consider that female responsibility.

It's not rare anymore. Your article is 2 decades old. Things have changed

if this continues, expect an end to the tourist boom

Japan saw 30 million visitors in 2019 when the yen was 104 to the dollar

Sorry, in the above second paragraph I mean to say "they can not in fact speak the English..."

This brings to mind how many foreigners working in Japan can't read and write at a grade 3 elementary school level, yet expect to advance in the workplace.

The author of the article on how to quit X is Kelvin Chan who can be found @chanman..........on X

As a licensed high school teacher in Japan, I get paid overtime from 15 minutes past 5:00. I clock in at 8:30

The retirement age should be raised to 70 asap.

LOL, you post this on 'Respect for the Aged' day?

I concur. As someone who is 63 and will be forced to retire in 2 years while I still have a son in university and a daughter in high school! At the very least, retirement should be optional at 65. If one is healthy and can perform his/her duties then being forced to retire is an infringement on an individual's right to make a living

So seeing most serial killers are white Caucasian males, then your logic means all white Caucasian males are serial killers or support serial killers.

2 things. First, not all Japanese are "bosozoku". That doesn't mean that there are no "bosozoku" in Japan nor that "bosozoku" culture is not specific to Japan. Secondly, when white Caucasian males begin forming groups to systematically kill people and those groups can be found throughout the UK or North America, then we can call it a "culture".

OK I am sensing a little Islamic phobia here!

A modicum of research into the grooming gangs in the UK would justify such phobia

I don't know how most of young people feel about this

Young people don't know a world without the Internet. Dating apps are just a ubiquitous part of life that they don't even reflect on. They just use them...as a matter of convenience.

As the father of a good looking 20 year old son in university, I'm genuinely concerned about his "activity" on dating apps as he is "dating" 3~5 girls a week! This is the case with his friends as well. While reports of young Japanese people abstaining from sex abound...they are mostly regarding the shy, introverted type of guys and gals who didn't date prior to the advent of the Internet. The good looking ones are out there having at it like rabbits! I've become a broken record with the STDs/pregnancy warning...

Using that "logic" then where are the protests on general criminal gangs culture, street gangs culture, drug gangs culture, etc....

There are, in fact, such things as gang culture. "chinpira" are vastly different from those "striking" for the Satan's Choice, for example. "bosozoku" wear gang specific clothing and have their bikes modified the same throughout Japan...It's a culture whether you think it is or not. Just as those grooming gangs in the UK who have the same MO and target the same victims and often for cultural justifications such as "they are kafir" and as such are open season for rape...

Rape culture is an invented thing trying to vilify all men as if men all think this is OK.

I don't think all men are on board with the grooming gangs in the UK...but it clearly is a culture

161 Trump lies during the Trump-Harris debate.

According to "fact-checkers"...Y'all

So then who was he talking?

I saw groups of people at that rally providing assitence to those injured in melees. Those groups were comprised of both black and white people. I'm sure he saw that, too. What he did say explicitly was

"I'm not talking about the neo-nazis or white supremacists...they should be condemed completely"

Why do you suppose the MSM and people like yourself omit that bit...just as you like to omit the "peacefully protest" bit on Jan 6

 that "some" Neo-Nazis are fine people

"I'm not talking about the neo-nazis or white supremacists...they should be condemed completely" Donald J Trump

It's high time all zoos, aquariums etc. become a thing of the past. If you want to see wild animals there's a big wild world out there...have at it

Sounds like a recipe for WW3

I love beef. I'd try the ostrich if it weren't ￥1,683 a serving...that's très cher

These surveys are notable for their information gap...like neglecting to cite the number of hours worked per week by sex

In Musk's case it was his mismanagement of X. He even said to advertisers to "go f yourself".

Yes, he rightly told advertisers to stick to advertising rather than gatekeeping public discourse. Do you want Disney or Pfizer to determine what you can and can't say?

How do you explain the billions Musk as lost since buying Twitter what happened to his resources?

Twitter was never a money making venture for Musk. He bought Twitter to guard free speech and allow the shadow-banned a place in the public space of ideas...good and bad

let’s be fair and point out that trumpster opposes it also.

The article does

"If the parties can act to protect children from a deadly virus...surely they can and must act to protect children and all innocents from the horrors of war," U.N. spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said.

The UN is complicit in this war

Something also counter to law is blowing up children....

Not in war

I'd kill 210K to save 5M any day.

Unless that 210k includes you and your family

A nation's population should never exceed its ability to sustain itself in terms of its food production. Food for thought for those clamouring for population/immigration increases.

Kept them free didn't it?

No...It made them dead

Nuking of Japan was 200% necessary to end the war early and save 5 million Japanese lives.

The bombing of Gaza is necessary to eradicate Hamas and save the people of Gaza from being run by terrorists that have no concern whatsoever regarding the safety and lives of the citizens it has calcualated as being fodder for international sympathy.

See how that works?

I'll be looking forward to your next post heralding the IDF as saviours of the Palestinian people. Cheers!

Don't forget the dozens of cities that were firebombed with incendiary bombs that had flamable jelly designed to stick to the wooden residential buildings of those cities...hundrends of thousands burned alive.

Six more hostages were "killed"...