john b comments

the headline says, "3 killed in expressway accidents caused by driver traveling wrong way". sorry, no! TWO were killed by driver traveling wrong way; one was killed by a truck driver probably 1. using a keitai; 2. tailgating; 3. driving too fast. not just being stubborn here, but insurance and police (at least where i'm from) won't blame the wrong way driver for the truck ramming.

the truck ramming is also much more scary because it is an everyday risk. wrong way drivers on the highway are surely horrible, but thankfully rare.

"...and a third person was killed when a truck slammed into traffic that had backed up after the first incident."

such things should never happen. in order of likelihood the cause is 1. using a keitai; 2. tailgating; 3. driving too fast. it's likely to be even two or all three. all are rampant and deadly. only police enforcement could make the situation safer.

"Ignoring a traffic light, regardless if on foot, riding a bicycle or driving a car, should not be considered to be a 'minor traffic violation'. It's dangerous and a serious offence."

different thinking for sure, but when i'm standing in front of the red don't walk signal and i look right and left and no car is coming and i cross and the twenty or thirty odd people remain waiting i just think 'sheep'!

"Pillion is considered a violation, but little babies in front and back are not. Make it make sense. Make it make real sense."

do you really want to live in a country where mothers can't ride around with little children? move to america! (i'm american, so no offense!)

"what should i do? what should i do?" seems a bit strange. i hope they checked her for alcohol, but i bet they didn't.

at the time i write this, it seems six people disagree with you. on the other hand, the other 124,999,994 probably agree.

The cars are going too fast, the drivers aren't paying attention, and a lot of the school routes I have seen are chosen with no consideration of that. Bad results will follow.

at 89, sadly he'll be giving nearly half of it back in inheritance tax before too long. japan is a world leader in that.

time to codify, amplify, and apply the monroe doctrine. it's strange nobody is even talking about that.

carnegie had inscribed on his mantle:

he who can't reason is a fool

he who won't reason is a bigot

he who dare not reason is a slave

it would be unreasonable to abuse the first, a waste of time to abuse the second, and very difficult not to abuse the third.

a lesson will be learned here:

if you do something the ICC won't like, you can't let an election remove you from power.

overall, the world will be worse off for this.

my comment got cut off:

i'm trying to wrap my mind around what i quoted above. is this possible?

Some 1.2 million residents in a total of 12 cities and towns in the prefecture have been urged to refrain from using the sewage system since Tuesday, according to the prefectural government.

the only losers here, and sad it is for them, are the 1700 workers. amazon and all its customers (essentially everyone) win. i would have done what amazon did without hesitation.

the only possible mitigating factor i can imagine is that there are other initials carved there. can anyone nearby verify that there are NOT? if not, hang 'im high! like with graffiti, a culture can tolerate it all over or demand it be totally absent; good luck trying to navigate a middle ground.

that there is only one other comment suggests that everything will be fine, at least with respect to public relations.

to anyone who is against dual nationality, try living half the year in two different countries for a few years. it is very complicated. also try being married to someone from another country and planning for the future. it is very complicated. then imagine the same scenario with children, in a pandemic, and all the other permutations.

people should be able to marry people wherever they are from, spouses should be able to have the same citizenship, no one should have to give up their birth citizenship, ergo dual citizenship is a human right. throw in children, and the argument gets only stronger.

the US is 50 separate laboratories of democracy. when you have no state income tax and few regulations, like Texas and Florida, businesses and rich people will flock there. similarly if you decriminalize drugs, like Oregon did, drug users will flock there. advocates for the law surely hoped to benefit the current drug users in the state, but they probably ended up attracting drug users to the state. common sense would dictate not making your state the easiest place to buy or use drugs or the easiest place to be a criminal or the easiest place to be homeless or the easiest place to be sick or the easiest place to be chronically unemployed. people will go where they get the best deal, and each state will get the people they offer the best deal to.

maybe someone could call the UN for assistance

'Sounds like a defect in the steering."

maybe you meant:

'Sounds like a defect in the person steering.'

i lay on the horn whenever i see a car cross the center line. i also lay on the horn when i see an oncoming driver using a keitai. if everyone did this, the place would sound like india. perhaps the third world noise levels would suggest to people that we are heading toward a third world safety situation.

" It is also believed that he had developed an adjustment disorder just before his death."

can anyone translate this all the way into english for me? this may be how 'they' try to shift some of the blame.

"but it's just basic common sense that wheels and legs do not belong on the same paths"

if you have only road and sidewalk and you have a pedestrian, a cyclist, and a giant truck, do you really think the cyclist belongs on the road with the giant truck?

i think you're on to something

this should be or is illegal; i wish i knew which. if businesses can't make money from the extra business, and i guess many of them can't, it is because they are so INEFFIECENT. productivity here is laughable and the cause of many problems like low salaries and a weak yen. punish the visitors, watch them flee, then tell me if that solves your problems.

this makes a big difference where i live, if it is enforced. i have have no problem calling 110 EVERY DAY!

"He said tourists, not local tax payers, should pay for local projects like air-conditioning schools."

well, of course!

if i were running the us or israel, i'd be firing on the houthis for FIRING at me, not for HITTING me.

"Japan plans to increase jet fuel production and imports to address a pick-up in demand from flights amid a boom in tourism, according to a draft government plan presented on Tuesday."

"The draft was presented by the industry and transport ministries to a panel of specialists discussing the fuel shortage issue."

language like this might cause one to forget that this is a capitalist country.

Japan plans to increase jet fuel production and imports to address a pick-up in demand from flights amid a boom in tourism, according to a draft government plan presented on Tuesday.The draft was presented by the industry and transport ministries to a panel of specialists discussing the fuel shortage issue.