Harry_Gatto comments

The third September in Japan is a public holiday.....

The third Monday in September in Japan is a public holiday......

Moderator: Thanks for spotting that. It has been corrected.

Police said Nozawa and the victim were acquainted.

Obviously much more to this than is known or has been reported so far.

diagonalslipToday  02:52 pm JST

you can probably find one on the interweb.....

Yes, I can but I know where Mosul is, in fact I was there 45 years ago.

The article is about a tragedy in Mosul, a good journalist or editor would have included a map showing its location with the article.

Couldn't you find a map showing the location of the city of Mosul?

Just what else did you expect when the construction companies have 0893 as their telephone area code.

sakurasukiToday  07:42 am JST

@Harry_Gatto

check again those links.

I did and replied pointing out that those links have nothing to do with the topic of this story, Chinese tourists, but the moderator removed my comment for some reason only known to him/herself as they didn't offer the courtesy of an explanatory email.

"steers his car"

A very strange expression indeed yet you always use it, I wonder why. I have never seen nor heard it used in such a way before.

@sakurasuki

Just where do you get this nonsense from?

Thailand were used by transit area by mastermind, we also never know whether tourist guide is proper tourist guide. They can easily lured tourist for few extra buck they can be in other countries, Cambodia, Laos or Myanmar only to find themselves being kidnapped.

sakurasukiToday  04:52 pm JST

He got it right! JICA foreign aid just can't shut his consciences for his people! Well done Sogavare !

Never miss an an opportunity do you.

It is really take place, people are being lured to countries that have land border with Thai, countries like Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar. Lured to decent job only find themselves being captivated and sold multiple times.

All of which has nothing to do with the normal tourists.

Going to Thailand is a damn sight safer than going to China.

The off switch is one of the best solutions, where appropriate.

TrevorPeaceToday  06:38 pm JST

The story says a 15-ton beam collapsed. Before blaming the construction company, ask these two questions: Where did the beam come from? Who made it?

A 15 ton beam does not collapse, it falls. There is not enough information here to do anything more than speculate but I would bet that the slinger didn't secure the beam properly and it slipped whilst being hoisted and knocked other beams down before they were properly secured or, chains/wire ropes failed. Who knows?

China should be totally shunned by the rest of the world.

Don't buy from them, don't sell to them, don't go there, pull out if you're already there, ban their airlines from landing, deport all their citizens from your country on some trumped up charges, isolate them completely.

Sadly, impractical.

wallaceToday  08:29 am JST

Many American cities still have lead water pipes.

I was quite surprised by this so I put this question into Google:

which American cities still have lead water pipes

Lots it seems.

Aren’t tweets called posts now?

Actually not. They are called X now formerly known as Tweets.

It's rather sad that conversations such as this are taking place.

wallaceToday  12:07 pm JST

I have been using the iPhone 12 since it was issued. Ran to the bathroom to check my ears. Gosh, they are still there.

Your ears may indeed be still in place but what is between them is getting a little fried every time you hold a radio transmitter next to your head, particularly if you are some way from the nearest cell tower and the 'phone has cranked its power up to the max to compensate.

For your own safety keep the handset away from your head, hold it in front of you on speaker mode if you can.

BertieWoosterToday  08:53 am JST

Americans could solve most of their cardiovascular problems by changing their diet and quitting the ultraprocessed industrial garbage they consume. That would probably help alleviate some of the cancers too.

Ah but that would make people more irritable and bad-tempered resulting in more shootings.

Sompo Japan, which has been sending a large number of employees on loan to Bigmotor

To do what? Wash cars? What qualifications and experience do insurance company staff have that makes them suitable to work in a car dealer?

 an almost unimaginably huge

Understatement of the year.

The bubble spans a billion light years

With one light year equalling approximately 6 trillion miles or 9.7 trillion kilometres that certainly is huge and unimaginable.

What is "frugily"? What does it taste like?

Weekly food bill of 5,000 Yen in Japan? I don't believe you.

SpeedToday  04:51 pm JST

Super Crazy Kun : D

Japanese government descending lower and lower and lower.

He was not a member of the Japanese government. I suggest that you read the whole article.

tamanegiToday  06:01 pm JST

It was a foreign reporter, Mobeen Azhar, at the BBC who revealed the enormity of this criminal and his organization. Shame on the Japanese media, police and government to not investigate what appears to now be the worst kept secret in the Japanese entertainment business for 4 decades.

Quite right. It's been common knowledge for donkeys years that Johnnys was dodgy and the old man was the worst of them all.

I never thought I would read the words "Yoshinoya" and "French food" in the same sentence.

LondontimeToday  09:26 am JST

For those posters complaining about the design, have you seen the RR SUV? It is total joke, The Toyota is way better. Take a look for yourself:

Quite so.

If you are being chauffeured around in one of these, RR, Bentley or Toyota, you are either relaxing or working and couldn't care less what the car looks like from the outside, you only care about what the car can offer inside.

Owners of these cars do not park them on their driveways and admire them every time they leave their home, they do not wash and polish them every Sunday morning or drive round to the local gasoline stand to check the tyre pressures. Owners are in a totally different demographic to most of the rest of us.

CuteUsagiToday  05:17 pm JST

If you have no mortgage debt, You only need about ¥80,000 a month to live well here.

Define "well". I assume you mean having food, electricity, heating/AC, go out to eat and drink occasionally, own a car, etc.?

Few would agree with you, I certainly don't.

PhtevenToday  01:24 pm JST

If the water is so safe, why don't they make beer from it? Think about it!

Beer from seawater, that would be a first.

kintsugiToday  03:45 pm JST

Cannabis is not addictive.

".........while fewer people are addicted to marijuana than cocaine or alcohol, marijuana addiction is very real. The National Institute on Drug Abuse states that 9% of people who use marijuana will become dependent on it, and that number jumps to 17% when use begins at younger ages (notably, teenagers)."

Not everyone agrees with you, I certainly don't, I've known a few cannabis addicts.

opheliajadefeldtToday  12:24 pm JST

I use cannabis 2/3 a day for medicinal reasons, that's it. It relieves me of the constant pain I have and makes me calmer. My doctor prescribed me some very strong pain killers many yrs ago, and although I am allowed 8 a day, I will only take 2 in the morning and this is because of my fear of addiction for them.

Do you consider yourself to be addicted to cannabis?

The discovery sparked a desire in him to be surrounded by dolls,

That's something you don't read very often.

https://www.macrotrends.net/2556/pound-japanese-yen-exchange-rate-historical-chart