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There are no remains at the site. Names are written on paper.

It looks like they may have got lucky.

No temperatures higher than 30C predicted for the next while.

70 used bicycles-airfare. I just don’t see the risk reward ratio here. 

To a value of 4,000,000 yen. I see the risk reward ratio.

A Japanese commentator had an article a month or so ago saying that Mizuhara's replies must have annoyed the judge. He usually just answered 'yes'. Apparently it's conventional to say 'Yes, sir.' 'Yes, ma'am.' 'Yes. Judge.'

Brownie points for 'Yes, your honor.'

I think the 'exposing himself' is a mistranslation. The original report is 'waisetsu kōi' which isn't specific as to what exactly - touching, kissing, trying to remove clothing etc.

To protect the victim it may make sense to avoid details, (even if the braying mob would like them.)

One problem is that they give the figure for voting up to say 5 pm but they don't count postal votes, continually rising as a proportion of total votes. In the case of Nagasaki this time though there really was a collapse in the number of votes. Only 34.45% of voters voted, 25.48% less than last time!

Watch all those LDP voters reappear at general election time, I'm afraid.

The book comes out on April 3rd.

It's currently number 1 on amazon.co.jp.

I'm glad to see this.

A lot of those stories of executions end up being wrong.

Suddenly the guy who was killed reappears in an even higher position.

That Guardian report has:

In April last year, Hyon Yong-chol, a former defence chief, was executed after falling asleep during a military rally attended by Kim.

This was untrue. From wiki:

[Hyon Yong-chol] was also mentioned in the North Korean newspaper Rodong Sinmun the day he was supposed to have been executed.

I'm no friend of North Korea but this kind of stuff is dumb:

The entire team has probably succumbed to anti-aircraft fire

For years people thought the 1966 team must have been sent to camps for losing.

The reality is they were treated as heroes. Check out "The Game of Their Lives" (2002).

It's a myth that Japanese teachers are poorly paid. Their salary steadily increases up to the age of 60.

And they get a huge bonus at retirement.

Only a third of their hours are actual teaching hours.

Reform is needed, but informed reform.

leaving a trade surprise

Not your mistake but AP's.

A "trade surplus" surely?

Moderator: Thank you. It. has been corrected.

Heck, when you hear the Imperial March and Indiana Jones' theme songs used constantly in shows (for up to ten seconds) do you think they paid for rights? Nope.

You can be sure they did pay for rights. JASRAC negotiate clearance for most foreign music.

Voter turnout was only about 70%.

A very high turnout!

Because Japan has never exactly had a preference for boys and has always had more girls than boys

For the years 1920 to 2020 in Japan always more boys have been born than girls.

Men die earlier than women for a number of reasons. They smoke more, they eat bad diets and drink too much; they retire from work and don't have anything to live for.

I think Japan was really the first country to be honest about how many marriages were sexless.

Similarly it may be the first country to be honest about families. Many families don't really work out.

University spots and/or multiple job offers for each and every one.

Look at the positives.

Not a positive if you're a teacher at a low-ranking university.

How does Samit Basu know it was a same-sex marriage? Very unlikely it was.

It's an unfortunate fact that it's often the worst people who get to the top.

Willima Blake's simplistic blaming of the victims is not useful.

The first sentence of the Japanese version of the Kyodo article clearly states it was a third party donor.

Children's rights, which should be paramount, mean that much of this fertility treatment should not be allowed.

I feel like you didn't read the article or make note of how it mentions the phenomena of taking back words that have been used to demean or insult them, making them their own, and using them in-group as a way of resisting the insult.

Not the case at all. She's just kept using the term since her teens.

My oldest sister, on the other hand, is ready to pounce at anything that doesn't fit in with what we enlightened are supposed to believe.

If you are talking about someone over 18, they are not a "girl".

My sister, in her 50s, will talk about herself and friends as 'the girls'.

3.2% of elementary and junior high school students missed more than 30 days,

up 0.6% over the previous year. That's big. Those commenting that the students

are learning stuff at home need a reality check.

Just watched the highlights on TVer. Shouldn't have been a penalty. (Not what I expected.)

I'm no fan of North Korea but the comments about 'off to the gulag' are BS.

Scientology operates in Japan but they were unable to register as a religion.

I always found him hard to listen to. Annoying, self-entitled git.

It's no surprise if he's guilty - but principle of innocent until proven guilty still stands.

Unfortunately many of these people are in poor health and being merely kept alive by unscrupulous medical institutions.

No real need for Japanese cops to be carrying guns as standard procedure. It's a legacy of the US Occupation and the high crime rate in the late 1940s.

I see an explanation that 'essential' here is an abbreviation of 'quintessential'.

"(T)hese natural liquids are drawn from the very essence of the plant" Jordan Rubin.

Wait a prosecutor create false confession to build a winning case against justice minister?

It's not a false confession. Kawai gave Kido money to buy his vote.

Reporting who is committing the crime is important for understanding the crime.

Political correctness may be such in Canada that you're not supposed to do this, but fortunately Japan hasn't gone down that route.

There are Chinese gangs in Japan in active competition with yakuza (who are usually a mix of Japanese and Korean), such as 'doragon', with perhaps 800 members.