HiJapan comments

Will he also be charged with stealing police evidence? A very serious crime that shows the fallibility of those in positions of power.

Wild to see Americans on here with such a small understand of trade. You have a trade deficit with so many countries because you are rich. It’s literally like complaining that you pay the cleaning lady but she doesn’t pay you.

This man has threatened the sovereignty of a G7 allied nation. He will not negotiate with Japan in good faith.

Was anyone hurt? Was the train delayed? Why is this a story?

Who comes to gloat over a %5 turn? People who don’t actually trade, that’s who.

Well the prosecutors are only asking for five years, so it won’t be longer than that. But he will be deported back to Japan when he’s done. I imagine the shame he will have to carry for the rest of his days here to be the real sentence.

Wild to see so many complaints about the pricing, you have not idea how much worse it can get. I am just back from three weeks in Japan from Canada, and the food at the Konbini was so cheap in comparison to what I would pay back home it felt like it was free.

This summer I was in the green car on my way to Tokyo from Osaka when an older man in the row beside me began to clip his toenails. Guess he’s lucky this doctor wasn’t there!

Under half of the English speaking world says “soccer” (333 million) while the majority says Football (471 million) but nearly all English speakers understand both terms and the only English speakers who care are British.

Agreed, it’s a good system that allows for some really great rosters across the league.

I feel like she has missed so many business opportunities here. Rather than seizing the moment she has chosen to sulk and complain.

The laws in place already should be enough to solve this problem. If people are jay walking ticket them. Taking photos, while possibly annoying to some, is not illegal.

Sounds like this young officer has watched too many action films.

Overpaid by about 70 million yen. Yikes.

This is literally and figuratively a “new idea”

Freddie Freeman was the best player. This will be though series all the way to thru. Shohei and Teoscar need to show if the Dodgers hope to finish the job.

Based on the available information we must assume that the driver was indeed driving dangerously and that the parents were not at fault since the driver was the only one arrested.

Gary

Jennie is right, a Yankees/Dodgers series would be amazing. For starters, the LA Dodgers have only faced the Yankees three times in the World Series since the move to LA, and the last time was in 1978 (nearly FIFTY YEARS AGO). In addition to that we would get to see a Judge and Ohtani match up. It is always a treat whenever the NL mvp and the AL mvp meet each other in a World Series. Finally, LA and NY are the largest markets in the MLB, and has the potential to be the most watched World Series of all time — which is all pretty exciting.

An excellent show but disappointing that they were unable to film in Japan as it was very obviously BC Canada in many shots.

Nothing is more cringe than adult men complaining about “woke”.

Only the very wealthy with a lot of time on their hands can afford trips to Africa.

That is totally fine, but to call a Zoo a “Night Safari” out of context in a news article is confusing.

Sort of like saying “I am going to India” when in reality you are going to an Indian restaurant.

What MLB records is he going to break?

He has already broken Babe Ruth’s achievement long thought unbeatable: Most strikeouts by a player with at least 100 home runs.

According to other news reports the man suffered from Schizophrenia and Type 1 Diabetes.

Truly shameful treatment of a human being in medical distress.

Any allegation that harms another person's reputation, whether it is true or not, is defamation.

Only in Japan. In the west in order to “defame” someone, the allegation must be false.

This is like the color black calling a shadow dark.

Every bad dog has first had a bad owner.

Scorsese is famously short at 5’3”.

In western English anyone 19 years or younger can be referred to as a “youth” regardless of their legal status as an adult.

There is no modern country that holds 8 year olds criminally liable. That’s just not rational.

The USA is a global outlier, with 24 states having no age limit on criminal responsibility.

I recently got married in Canada — my wife and 8 would have loved to return to Japan for our honeymoon. Instead we spent our 20k budget traveling all around Europe, mask free, with ease, and without spreading or contracting Covid.