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It appears that they don't know how social media works, and how it is used - for good and bad. Bolstering the nation's capability to discern the good from the bad information from social media is hard, so they are taking the short cut and making the social media firms accountable. Classic!

This is the Japanese problem-solving method called しょうがない

Its because Japanese people would have solved population decline and have achieved immortality by then from eating rice on miso soup for breakfast.

The film looks like a cinematic depiction of Japan's lost generation's lives. Might be worthwhile to see...

Just another publicity stunt for the election.

China has already surpassed Japan in autoexports as of 05/2023.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Automobiles/China-surpasses-Japan-as-world-s-top-auto-exporter

Lame. Tell me about it if this vending runs on its own solar or wind energy and is not plugged in on a wall socket.

Is it bad to pee on the pool, Japan?

Makes me wonder how much love the mother gave the son for him to grow and become a monster. Is the son too ill mentally to be able to contain his stress and not to put an end to the root cause of his stress? Love from both ends would have prevented this, and it's apparent that there wasn't enough of it.

The program should look at qualifications, not only by the foreign interns but by the companies hosting the so-called training. Companies and its executives must first pass an Organizational Inclusion Assessment conducted by labor professionals before they are allowed to host foreign trainees. If companies can teach its managers and workers to be civil to foreigners (and not think that they are better human beings), the 'cheap labor' and 'slavery' issue won't look so bad.

I'm honestly fascinated by what the J-gov has been trying to do. No testing, no statistics before the Olympics. And now free testing, daily statistics, and up-to-date reporting.

How much control does the Japanese government have over the Japanese media? Is it likely that the J-media is just doing what the J-government wants them to tell the J-people?

This is starting to feel like humanity is still in the 10th century medieval struggle to separate the church and the state.

They could have at least tucked their shirts in. Really sloppy for a ceremony.

@Fighto! Those are traditional ceremonial shirts called 'barong tagalog', and are not meant to be tucked.

"We want to expand our customer base. I would like for (the two companies) to develop various services together so we can offer a futuristic financial experience," Kazuyuki Anchi, general manager of SMFG's corporate planning department, told a press briefing.

For a society with an aging population and negative birthrate?

Hmmm...

Novac Novak

Legalize it, so they can regulate it; legalize it, so they can tax it. Anything so money changes hands.

But Rakuten platform is still in Japanese. So it'd be Japanese sellers to Japanese buyers for the most part. Sellers will have to figure things out by themselves if they want to reach out to buyers globally; buyers globally will have to be enthusiastic enough to navigate their way in to buy NFT on a Japanese platform. I'm sure Rakuten knew this from the start.

A Japanese coworker asked what I'm reading, and commented: "..'just as they really are' would mean they will talk about the only 3 things university students in Japan can talk about--their part-time job, their club activities and their travel experiences".

We are witnessing a real-life modern-day ‘game of thrones’ here.

@Reckless, I know your story! And the 3rd husband died of blunt force trauma because he wouldn't do away with himself. I think I know where you're from.

I agree with Middleoftherocd, some people just really enjoy taking care of others. My mom is one. She worked as a nurse at a government hospital for 47 years. She's now 82 and still does volunteer work helping out at a carehome looking after residents, some even younger than her.

"Experts urged organizations and companies to immediately update older Microsoft operating systems, such as Windows XP, with a patch released by the company."

This can logically be considered as 'motive' behind the attack, right?

Hmmm....so how can we make the world a better place for both the abled and the differently abled if the society where they belong is having a hard time accepting their differences? We have to recognise a problem for us to be able to solve it, right?

Japan and the Philippines are not enemies in WW2, JT. It was the US and Japan fighting over the Philippines, in the Philippines.

The opening night was fun. When the gates opened at midnight, the race to the top began; not with other climbers but for the spectacular sunrise at the summit. The trail of headlamps looked like a trail of luminous ants marching on. I just don't understand why there's a need for others to carry a 40li backpack for a day climb, when I feel I already overpacked with my 22li. Everybody seemed to be enjoying though, so its good overall.

I wonder why she seems alone here. What ever happened to uchi no soto; where are the sempai and kohai? This is Japan, I have reasons to believe that she didn't do this by herself. I also wonder what they are trying to accomplish here while a lot of sick people could still be saved if they just get on with their job.