inkochi comments

Still have my はんこしょうめいしょう from 1985 - never used it once in property settlements, contracts, post office and government transactions.

Lost the Hanko too, but still have the card.

POTUS as biohazard - do your jobs, people!

Satire is overrated regarding Trump

He satirizes himself anyway.

COVID-carrying Trump as threat to Secret Service-protected persons anyone?

Yeah, the mist is cooling, but so is the shade.

Not anti bad, just anti coercion-by-hysterics.

Eg. I don’t have flu vaccine, but do gay pneumonia vaccine at own expense.

Why? Flu (and COVID) are viruses - vaccination works with antibodies from bacteria. Anyway, these viruses mutate rapidly making any vaccination (if there actually were any really possible) useless after, say, 3 months.

So, basically I don’t like idiots telling me what to do.

Three fingers or four?

How do you know it is a man, blue face-covering notwithstanding?

Well, a place with its own army, navy, currency, list of trading partners, de facto Olympic and other ‘country’ sports team recognition, public institutional recognition in numerous nations and one of the top 15 biggest economies in the world, not to mention autonomous internal and external political infrastructure, can be on a list for any government as a place to visit and deal with.

Part of China’s Monroe Doctrine I suppose.

Reminds me of masks on nurses at the Boston flu hospital in the winter of 1918-19.

Koran is God’s voice though the prophet - different from Bible which is just God-inspired message (basically a guide - even Old Testament), and Buddhist mantra, sutras, Talmud, even the Book of Mormon.

So don’t even bother with secular arguments. Divergent interpretation just makes it worse.

Always the option of just using local rules in Japan where laws seem not to exist until they are applied.

Personally I like the old Farsi custom of leaving the bodies around the temple for the vultures, out in the open as in some cultures in Africa.

Then there is the ‘Soylent Green’ option - the unpalatable solution to world hunger problems.

Just don’t disregard the proximity of people in mega cities and other large population centres who have a different view of what to do after death, and hysterical uninformed ad hoc responses that can follow.

Clouds around Fuji appear and shift so rapidly

Even 10 second is not enough margin

Good shot!

Doing it properly, customer too.

Irritating for me was not being able to get the jobs to move to Tokushima from Kochi - it was always life, not job.

Still I could live in Kochi, and in Shikoku (once in Tokushima before 平成), and LIVE I did.

Just constant reminders of aspects of human nature.

No, Cyprus, not Crete,

Sorry!

fund the costs, Japan will issue an additional 31.9 trillion yen in government bonds under the second supplementary budget for the current fiscal year ending in March 2021, according to the draft.

That will push new bond issuance for the current fiscal year to a record 90 trillion yen. When including issuance to roll over debt maturing during the year, Japan's total issuance for the year would hit a record, exceeding 200 trillion yen and further straining the country's already tattered finances.

There are always the PostOffice savings accounts - lots of cash there. Well, it happened in Crete and Iceland

But Japan is different, and the Japan scenario in the end still works.

Ordinary people’s tax and 年金 could well change up and down respectively though.

Glad I don’t need to take that thing apart and put it together in the dark.

Too many purple switches too.

hurting the feelings and dignity of the Chinese people

Which Chinese ‘people’ is that?

More than one if the Beijing lot would actually listen to themselves, Norishige lot that they are.

Exam question wording not withstanding, letting candidates write may turn up a few surprises for critics and supporters both.

Already happening ’Educations ain’t educations’, anyway.

Prac and tactile stuff are not like memorizing or applying knowledge, ideas, principles theories and vocabulary items.

Or as one teacher I know complained, typing is slower than speaking, and voice to screen still ends up as gibberish.

Still some work to be done there.

Anyway, the new education world is yet to produce all its new unthoughtof effects yet.

Unsubstantiated or wildly selective reporting, rumor, blatant lies.

Basically anything from News Corp/Fox, most politicians, infotainment

Oddly propaganda is not always fake news, also selective or biased opinion spun into shape.

Usually I realise I do have a life, while many others seem to have less of a life.

FB groups can be different, depending on the group. I am in 2 or 3 professional groups (not really active) and 2 hobby-type groups (art- a bit active). The professional groups offer pressure, the hobby ones show quite a few people doing something with a passion.

Unsaid preface is if any second COVID strain or simple winter don’t bowl a goodly (ie. a curve ball)

Yeah, a bit of threshing going on.

Though some people and societies too, needed it, I think that for a generation or so social relations among people become more complex - online and proximal both.

Um, school or local Education Committee should think entrepreneurially-

Interesting to think of all the seeds and stuff you high actually make it to and can thrive in those dust bowl school sports grounds

Aust & NZ - 2 island countries

Japan is too (Taiwan too for that matter)

Easier than continentals, all things considered, besides Japan’s laggardly COVID strategy ( and China having something bellicose to say if Taiwan gets included in the flight club and they don’t).

Work and non-work blending - oh well!

No commute - yay!

No pants necessary - hmm!

Beautiful and atmospheric is the point - we get that.

Not sure that getting out to walk around the beautiful countryside riding fluid emotions is the right message just now.

Winter is coming

Once drove a taxi picking up George at Sydney airport. Half way between bearded and clean shaven, didn’t recognize him, even with his Scouse.

Nothing pretentious there, easy conversation which may have been a cab-ride holiday for him.

Even got a big tip from the minder at the other end at Sydney Uni International House.

Probably pretty different if I had recognized him, which I did the next night on the news.

Get ready for finding people passed away days/weeks before.

Already been happening with old people.

The scary thing is all the single occupant apartments - millions all over Japanese cities.

individuals staying home and online ostensibly their only outside connection.