JonathanJo comments

Puzzled why it's an "app". Is it for everyone to use?

How do they plan on moving all that water from Tokyo Bay to another location?

I know where there are many large tanks full of water, a couple of hours north of Tokyo, and probably with nothing bacterial living in them.

It's not just tech firms that are collecting personal data. I read my local supermarket's online privacy statement and discovered that my shopping habits would be analysed, my religion and other attributes inferred, and sold to third parties.

No thanks. I'll do my shopping there in person and pay by cash.

Adorable. But a heck of a journey if you want to 'collect them all'.

Just weird.

Shoplifting problems solved, at least.

Oh dear. Plastic, I presume.

I guess there wasn't a copy of the guest list on a PC, either.

Presumably he is hoping for a free comfy bed and hot meals while incarcerated.

Wouldn't it be nice if the banks asked each customer whether they would like to opt in for these services. Maybe if they offered a financial inducement, some people would accept to have their data analysed and traded.

What I use my cards for, should I think be between me and the bank.

At most interchanges it's very difficult to enter the wrong way. But at service areas, such as the one north of the accident site, a driver only has to ignore a couple of white arrows on the road and one small no-entry sign to be driving against the flow. Maybe put up more signs saying Stop, Wrong Way, Turn Round. Wouldn't cost that much.

carbon is carbon

But cremation will have turned the carbon into CO2. The ashes will be minerals from the bones, presumably from calcium and other elements, that don't combust in the process.

I expect they could be used towards making the lead in harder (2H- 9H) pencils though.

I hope those without a smartphone will still be able to travel.

Strange that Uber operates in 18 other UK cities. Maybe London's black cab lobby doesn't like the competition.

From the picture on their website, it seems the dress code is diamonds and pearls for the ladies. That might be a tad overdressed for eating sausage and baked beans, I would have thought.

Being obese and physically inactive doesn't seem to have stopped a certain 73 yr old American male. Yet.

It surprises me that cities like Soma haven't asked to be moved into an adjacent prefecture.

Motorists do it too, by filling their tank to the top rather than just putting in a few litres every time the low fuel light comes on.

Move it to Meiji-Mura open air buildings museum near Inuyama.

Only river fish and wild mushrooms have on just six occasions been found to exceed the limits

OK, but how many were tested? Six or six million, it makes a big difference.

It's just the right marathon distance to run from Odori Park to New Chitose Airport.

First three onboard get to fly to the medal ceremony in Tokyo?

Er, finger's in front of camera lens. Artistic, though.

Put them in the stocks and pelt them with rotten vegetables. Not enough humiliation these days.

It's perhaps no surprise that the concept of gay relationships is not mentioned at all.

Let's hope this gets rolled out before the affected populace reads the anti-vaxxer twaddle on social media.

I wonder what the guy in the photo is thinking / doing.

My vote goes for the open air views from the roof of the Mori tower in Roppongi Hills

Ah_so

voluptuary

I must add that word to my vocab!

The index looked at more than 100 indicators including transport

Do I prefer the Tokyo subway or the New York....? Hmmm

A trial of a similar no-checkout store failed in the uk.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-49652026

Doesn't it need to be plugged in? How long is the cable?

And 55 Celsius - is that to help train for next year's Olympics?