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Posted in: Man dies after his jacket gets caught in escalator at Mito train station See in context

I guess it had power enough to pull the jacket to strangle him but not enough force to make the machine stop and no one around at that moment to press the stop button.

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Posted in: Japan accepts record-high 303 refugees in 2023 See in context

Although Ideally their home countries would become stable so they could continue living there, sadly that's not the reality. For those saying they should go to neighboring countries, they are, in the millions. Rich countries in Europe, America and Asia have for a long time used these countries for cheap oil and minerals, which is why we have a responsibility. Countries like Japan is just taking the benefits but none of the responsibilities, and like always Japan gets a pass, while European countries are angry at eachother when ever one country takes in 100k more than another. Logically Japan should do just as much as countries in Europe are doing, it's not about being nice or if it's good for the country or not.

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Posted in: Tokyo hopes AI app will spur marriages See in context

That has nothing to do with AI :P, just the standard dating app algorithm. If this was released 2 years it would say Tokyo hopes Meta universe app will help spur marriages. Companies jumping on what ever buzz word to get investments, I guess they managed to trick the government into giving them our money this time.

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Posted in: China vows to safeguard its territorial integrity after South China Sea incident See in context

The CCP will just continue to claim stuff until anyone takes action, showing force is the only way. Have warships escort ships and if this ever occurs again, give 3 warnings and sink it.

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Posted in: Chinese coast guard hits Philippine boat with water cannon in disputed sea for 2nd time this month See in context

No. That is what China hopes will happen but its aggressive activities will keep turning more and more against China. Nobody outside a small circle of vassal nations are buying into Chinese lies. We know what has happened, but many Chinese dont. Ask the young Chinese about Tienanmen Square massacre, they dont even know their own recent history as it is hidden from them. The CCP fears truth and openness, and lies about everything it can.

I'm not talking about the one's directly affected by it, I'm sure they are a lot more aware. I'm talking about Europe and America that would need to get involved to get it under control. Ask the average American and I'm quite sure 7 out of 10 would say what islands/waters? while two would probably think you are referring to Taiwan, while maybe one have a good grasp on the situation. I'm not saying this for us to give up on the situation, just that leaders need to get more aggressive, especially when the Orange guy have a high chance of getting into office, then it's lost for sure, they won't give up that chance again.

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Posted in: Chinese coast guard hits Philippine boat with water cannon in disputed sea for 2nd time this month See in context

Yes, that's why China does it (also with the Senkakus, Indian border, etc. too), but no, I don't think anyone is under any illusion that this is some "equal" dispute. Even those countries that are under China's yoke and that support it in the international space (Russia, Cambodia, Pakistan, etc.) are fully aware of the reality.

Sadly the average person, if they even know about the disputes only know the headlines, which went from "China is trying to claim territory that doesn't belong to them" to "Chinese coast guard hits Philippine boat with water cannon in disputed sea" This is what most will see, and many will be too young to know the real facts and old headlines. As the dispute will seem less and less one sided, people will care less about those topics, then people vote for people that think that these disputes don't matter to their country.

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Posted in: Chinese coast guard hits Philippine boat with water cannon in disputed sea for 2nd time this month See in context

Feels like the CCP already succeeded in what they are trying to achieve with all this. The news and people now word this as disputed waters etc, a couple of years ago it was the Chinese being ridiculous trying to police international water or other countries territory. Now after all these people have started to think it's a normal dispute between two equal sides. This is why they do it, the more they push the more people will start to think that it's actually theirs. Countries needs to stand up now, countries like Russia or China don't care about anything but power and violence, showing restraint and sending angry letters is just seen as a weakness and will embolden them.

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Posted in: 60 dead, over 100 injured in Russia concert hall attack; Islamic State group claims responsibility See in context

Didn't ISIS already say they did it?

Civilians should never be targeted, but Ukraine is probably losing the same amount of people everyday, and none of those people wanted to be at war.

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Posted in: Higher share prices lift Japan household assets to record in 2023 See in context

This is one of those times the median value would be more interesting, the average Japanese person is not benefitting of what's happening on the stock market, because they are not participating. A rich maybe 4% is probably overjoyed though.

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Posted in: Asian shares rise after Wall Street rallies; Nikkei ends at record high See in context

Too many people tend to think that a record high stock market is a good thing for everyone in the country, especially the Japanese since so few invest or do any kind of research into it. More often than not it's the opposite and a good day on the stock market usually means the yen got weaker. If you are not actively trading yourself or you work in one of the big global companies it's probably not a positive thing for you.

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Posted in: Japan’s exports rise nearly 8% in February on strong shipments of cars and machinery See in context

Because the yen is cheap all global Japanese companies are pushing out products as hard as they can, while they can, the same companies and almost the only companies to raise wages by a noteworthy amount, which then the BOJ used to justify the interest rate hike which they hoped would strengthen the yen, which in that case would make those companies that raised wages lose money and make them probably cut bonuses of those same employees :P.

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Posted in: BOJ rate hike may help exit of unprofitable 'zombie' firms in Japan See in context

This is the first article where I see this being shown as a good thing. There is a scary amount of these companies in Japan, most of these companies hire people. What Japan wants most is for people to start consuming more, but what happens when a large portion of the population loses their job.

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Posted in: China tells U.S. to not take sides on South China Sea issue See in context

There are no sides, the judgement about what belongs to who as already been done, Only one still fighting this is China.

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Posted in: Easy does it: The Bank of Japan's experiment See in context

I guess that explains why Japan currently has the world's hottest stock market.

The stock market is not the financial system. With so many Japanese just putting their money under their mattress instead of investing it's quite bad for the average Japanese.

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Posted in: Easy does it: The Bank of Japan's experiment See in context

On all foreign news sites and sns posts everyone is talking about Japan having been in a good spot with an average pay rise of 5% which led to the interest rate hike. Japan once again manage to fool foreigners into thinking Japan is all good :P, all english information manage to delete the fact that the 5% pay rise was just a very small % of employees at global companies that have made huge earnings due to the low yen. The real average is probably more to the negative, I haven't talked to anyone that has gotten a raise since Covid, and many getting less or no bonus at all the past year.

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Posted in: Dollar tops 150 yen as BOJ ends negative rates See in context

Any Westerner living in Japan now is making a bad life decision and is coping if you think otherwise

Not that bad if you get paid in USD, nenkin money is a bit of a waste though.

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Posted in: Bank of Japan ends negative interest rate policy, opting for its first hike in 17 years See in context

Plenty of JT contributors (not me) over the years claimed that the BOJ was trapped, unable to raise its rates or otherwise tighten. Oh, well. The BOJ will also to scale back its asset purchases including the ETFs. Let's see if that crashes the TSE, as so often predicted here (not by me).

It's true that they were trapped, the effects will be negative whatever they would have chosen to do, basically they have just been running from their problems by keeping the negative interest rate, no one wanted to be the guy in power when it was time to tackle it.

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Posted in: Bank of Japan ends negative interest rate policy, opting for its first hike in 17 years See in context

I assumed this would boost the yen but instead it weakened, is it because people were expecting a bigger change?

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Posted in: Japan's unions find surprising allies in push for higher pay See in context

It's just the big international companies doing these "big" salary increases, reason is that they are making 30% more due to the low yen. So they are not really hurting by giving back 4%. You won't see the same from companies not doing as much export, even worse for the companies that are relying on import.

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Posted in: Japanese high court rules same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional See in context

I have written this many times, but why does it matter at all what kind of relationship or gender two people have that want's to create legally binding partnership? why does it have to be romantic at all? Just two people that want to be responsible for each other in case something happens etc.

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Posted in: Truck driver arrested over fatal hit-and-run of 23-month-old boy in Saitama Prefecture See in context

Parents don't need more punishment then they already got. In some cultures it's not really that weird to leave kids alone when they are asleep, even encountered it with Japanese parents. Of course I wouldn't do it for a minute myself though.

As for the truck driver, it's pretty obvious he was trying to cover things up by causing another accident.

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Posted in: Osaka Prefecture eyes collecting fixed fee for inbound tourists from 2025 See in context

Here's an article giving details on some of the other countries that charge some form of tourist tax.

https://www.euronews.com/travel/2024/01/05/tourist-taxes-all-of-the-countries-you-will-have-to-pay-to-enter-in-2022

From what I see it's either a tourism tax aimed at everyone staying at hotels etc, not specific to foreigners, or that it's charged when entering the country. Only one I see that is different is the Venice one, where people living in Venice and their relatives don't have to pay. I think the main point is that it's weird to tax someone based on nationality once you are in the country.

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Posted in: Osaka Prefecture eyes collecting fixed fee for inbound tourists from 2025 See in context

The prefecture currently levies an accommodation tax of 100 to 300 yen on room fees of 7,000 yen or more per night, whether the guests are Japanese or foreign nationals

They don't actually mention anything about foreign specific fees, so not sure why it says it's targeting foreigners. Either way trying to hand pick foreigners is discrimination on another scale. I can understand having some kind of fee entering the country etc, but trying to make people pay more or less based on their nationality while they are in the country is absurd, which of course will be based on looks, so you have to prove that you are a resident unless you "look" Japanese. Making foreign looking people feel even more unaccepted than they already are, at the same time as Japan is hoping to attract more foreign workers, stupidity at it's best.

People often target Europe or America when talking about racism and inequality but Countries here in Asia and it's people are the one's that have had the least amount of exposure to racism, most haven't lived abroad and they have no idea how it is to be treated differently because of their looks and race, so when they make rules like this they have no idea how it might affect the people it's targeting.

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Posted in: 3 in China found guilty of operating Japanese anime piracy site See in context

China allow foreign agent to operate in their land successfully?

They do care about copyright when a Chinese company holds a license for the media that is pirated. Which I guess they do for many of the titles on the site. In case there is no money lost for China they wouldn't care.

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Posted in: Tokyo police mistakenly arrest Filipino man for allegedly overstaying visa See in context

For people wondering if he will get a nice payday because of this, In Japan the small guy rarely get anything over 50万円 and that would be for things way worse than this.

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Posted in: How many married people with children in Japan admit to cheating on their spouse? Survey says… See in context

Strange how many condone cheating here, mind you it’s the usual suspects that I would expect it from.

If two people promise each other something and one breaks that promise of course that's a shitty move, but that's not something that needs to be dealt with through the law, if you don't like a person anymore just leave. What needs to be normalized here is co parenting, instead of forcing themselves to stay in toxic relationships.

Also "the usual suspects"? based on your plus and minus ratio would that be everyone?

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Posted in: How many married people with children in Japan admit to cheating on their spouse? Survey says… See in context

Adultery should be a criminal offence as a deterrent. People who cheat on their spouse cannot be trusted in any aspect in their lives. It’s a dishonest act like theft and should be taken more seriously by the authorities to improve the morals of the nation.

Although I'm married with kids myself I think the idea of someone basically owning someone's body is really weird and medieval. I think officially marriage should be changed to a flat partnership agreement, so there is legal agreements on who is your guardian etc if needed, this would apply the same for any kind of relationship or gender, really weird to lock that kind of legal work behind a romantic relationship.

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Posted in: How many married people with children in Japan admit to cheating on their spouse? Survey says… See in context

kind of surprised so many were honest, although of course the real number is a lot higher. Compared to most countries it's more understandable and accepted here, also way easier to get away with in big cities. Do the same thing where I originally came from and half the town would know it a day later.

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Posted in: Zuckerberg discusses AI risks with Kishida See in context

in a world run by AI, there will be no need for billionaires like Zuckerberg.

Sadly if we continue with restrictionless capitalism it will be the opposite. Many industries will be taken over by AI services, and instead of thousands of different companies and millions of jobs there will be a few AI service providers making all that money, and those few will be people like Zuckerberg. All the big companies are seeing this, which is why all of them are going all in on AI, Google, Microsoft, Meta etc. They know it's the only way to stay at the top. The top 0.001 will get richer and richer and the other 99% will get poorer, until there is not enough people left that can afford to buy their products and services.

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Posted in: Zuckerberg discusses AI risks with Kishida See in context

Ah yeah discuss the dangers of AI with they guy having everything to gain by pushing AI. We are doomed.

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