Jozef comments

I was given another visa, had a successful business but choose to leave the most racist country in the world.

it had become unbearable to jump through the hoops. Of course those married to a Japanese can avoid many obstacles.

the intolerance against foreigners will only grow

The guy is a very faint copy of James Blunt.

nothing more

It is the usual Japanese solution to all problems. Do nothing. In the end the problem will solve itself. That might be in the form of a global disaster but that can’t be helped. Us or European experts would have already solved it but we can not loose face. There are priorities.

Only useful for pork barrel politics and taxpayer paid trips.

a completely outdated format and concept.

For the Japanese , Osaka, taxpayers in particular 20 years of loan and interest payments.

but Dentsu and friends will rake in a few billion again.

just a delay again of a final unavoidable bankruptcy. Toshiba is now a near empty shell but Japanese false pride leads to this temporary rescue.

and old fashioned rescue for an old fashioned company. Palliative care. 2 years maybe ?

I agree to let Russian and Belarusian athletes compete again in all sports.

transgender man should never be allowed to compete against women.

it is just logic

Credit Suisse was also the bank offering up the loan for the Nagasaki casino( oeps IR resort).

not one newspaper mentioned that yet in Japan.

Game over for the Nagasaki license as it was an important part of their application file

It’s the foreigners fault again. We are to stupid to appreciate and correctly handle Japanese products. While the Japanese are so knowledgeable in storing wines in Japan.

Seriously, the problem is that there is no brand identity with Sake, the Japanese restaurants abroad prefer to charge huge markups on cooking sake rather than offer the good products.

marketing is non existent with ugly packaging and outdated promotional campaigns.

Another 2 years and Nissan is back in the hole where Mr Ghosn got them out from.

bankruptcy is the future for Nissan

Really ? Is that why I pay 160.000 yen to Shibuya ward just to change my address and 38000 a month in local company tax ?

i really felt welcome

A guaranteed disaster scenario. The project will be scrapped after more than a decade of delays and finally US jets will be bought. But first many pockets must and will be lined

Hit him again but harder.

the only mistake Mr Smith made was to apologize

What a joke. For the old Okura ok. But this is an average hotel in an office tower. No character. Just some left overs from what was once a great hotel. Even the bar is a characterless far cry from the original. Next the Imperial will be destroyed.

shame on Forbes but no doubt they enjoyed a nice suite upgrade.

in my book, not even in the global top 1000.

Utter disgust for Japans inability to stop senseless killing. It is just to try and proof a misplaced sense of stubbornness . Childish almost if it wasn’t so cruel.

Whalemeat from a vending machine. Kafka at its best.. or should I say worst.

medieval.

Should have waited a bit. Bankruptcy is imminent for this junk store

This is out of necessity, as room occupation keeps dropping and the Chinese do not return as the majority is out of money.

not because they suddenly care about pets. Japanese do not care about pets and treat them as toys. To be played with one hour a day and locked up in a little cage for the other 23 hours

Dentsu is a criminal organisation which can continue to commit its crimes of corruption, embezzlement and theft unpunished. It has been doing so for decades. I have moved my sports marketing company after 7 years out of Japan as my investors, staff and myself did not find a level or fair working platform. Even though we were a continuously profitable company I would not stand by anymore seeing federations and companies continue to hire Dentsu in return for kick backs. They were and are fully lined up again and hired for this years swimming WC in Fukuoka, for the 2025 WC Athletics by JAAF, by the Asian Games Nagoya 2026 and of course the Sapporo bid committee. Disgraceful. For all concerned

Of course “ students “ should be included in these statistics as the majority actually come to work under the cover of a student visa.

I would not call the vast majority foreign workers but foreign slaves. Underpaid, abused, mistreated.

if Japan wants people to work, they have to start paying them correctly.

Don’t be angry at Honda please, not his fault his brains are in his feet

Good, nothing but fastfood junk journalism these days. Saying or writing what they think sells themselves. That is a journalists only worry these days.

This Kuroda has been paid 11 years to do nothing. He has no clue what to do so the Japanese solution is to do nothing.

Japan Inc is finished. I left. Moved the company to Singapore. The disconnect between politicians, the old money clans and the people is complete. 99 % of Japanese and of course, us foreigners, are just expendable commodities for them. Nothing has changed since the times of the Shogun.

but it will soon be all over. Nothing works in Japan anymore. Not economically. But also socially it is dysfunctional. Mikitani and Son can also no longer keep up appearances. Rakuten will have to sell out or sink. Only Yanai still holds out but even Uniqlo, will go under without him.

Actually Japan can only go back to a complete isolation policy or get ran over by the better educated, more competent and less xenophobic Asian and south East Asian neighbors.

China and HK are also finished. South east Asia will take over.

Tokyo’s populAtion is declining and will decline further rapidly because of a shrinking population overal in Japan and less migration from rural areas to Tokyo as less people there. And no real immigration growth. So it is a no brainer that the Kanto population will decline but of course the useless government will claim success for this useless non-policy in a few years as numbers will inevitably keep declining. Depopulating the useless Diet would make more sense.

my wife and I left as I moved my company to Singapore because of taxes, increasing racism and xenophobia, corruption and lack of policy. 2 down for Tokyo

If it is privatized it should cost nothing to government.

if it is only an operational management contract ( given to Dentsu ??? ) they will of course make government pay and collect the revenue. The usual.

cost for government and taxpayer income for private operators.

no surprise. The corruption and bribe culture continuous unabated

The man is clueless. No connection with reality. On the other hand, politicians do not live in the real world but in privileged virtual one. We are just the replaceable and disposable parts in their machinery

3rimes I asked the consumer affairs agency for help. The last time I went in person to their Shinagawa office only to be told they do not accept complaints from… consumers

They stole all my mileage while my wife and me had numerous business flights with them between Europe and Japan.

A sad selfish organisation

China is a dictatorship and oppressing other nations or regions such as Tibet and Hongkong. All said.

but Japan is also lying and understating covid deaths with a factor 10 or more. We are again at around 350 deaths and have been over 300 for a while. That is a ratio of 9000 a month. This was the case in other waves as well. But Japan still maintains it has only about 70.000 covid deaths. That is ridiculous. I know of course over the 3 years since the start recorded deaths are sometimes in the tens per day but many remain unrecorded.

Japans Real covid deaths will be around 750.000 and that compares correctly with numbers in other countries when keeping total population numbers in mind.

lies as always. Japan lives on lies and corruption

I find myself in agreement with nearly all posts or reaction by Amy Rustin concerning Japans society and economy.

Japan has past the point of no return and is beyond recovery. It is a socialist state where government keeps all the non performing mastodont holdings alive. Toshiba a case in point but just one of many.

I left having no intention to go down with the ship.

the biggest problem is denying reality, ignoring facts and cheating on just about everything. Even on clams as it appeared in a jt article a few days back.

i would advice all foreigners except those married to a Japanese to get a one way ticket out

the problems are well know, the solutions too but Japan prefers to keep its head in the sand and live in the past.

first the education is ridiculously bad also because kids hardly spent time in school. Learning English is still seen as unnecessary. The last generation speaking English in any numbers are now in their late 60’s. The so revered work ethic and productivity are just myths. Hours spent at an office do not mean hard work at the office. Xenophobia and nationalism and protectionism are increasing while the opposition should be happing. The disconnect between politicians and real life is stunning. There is no justice in Japan for foreign companies or individuals. Corporate taxes are 10 % higher than in competing Asian countries and no country has more “ unofficial “ holidays than Japan. The coming New Year holidays will show that again. While the rest of the world will restart on Jan 03 in Japan, for all practical purposes , it will be Jan 12th.

shall I go on…

My wife and I left Tokyo in November for Europe, the company to Singapore. 2 less