JRO comments

As long as it's for all tourists including Japanese I don't see a problem with it. It's the "you don't look Japanese so you get to pay more" kind of price hike that's shitty. I doubt if they did that it wouldn't be like they would require Japanese to prove that they are Japanese, so it would become a do you pass as Japanese entry test, would definitely have told them I'm Japanese and see what they would do.

Starting to feel like I need to fix my Aircon that broke 2 years ago.

More about pride now, can't give up on Taiwan now after saying they will take it back for so long. If it was just about land then they would have a much easier time just taking over parts of Russia, especially now.

Would be chaos if it was actually enforced. drove past around 10 cyclists on a 2 min ride yesterday and about half of them were on their phone.

They should just make dual citizenship possible, and erase all weird name rules, then most of us here with permanent visas would have Japanese passports.

Yeah, the weather in September is always beautiful for swimming, I don't understand this either. Kids don't care if the water is a bit cooler, they have fun regardless.

Has more to do with kids going back to school, older people just stay inside with their AC.

Feels like they left out the part explaining the crime. I don't believe just using the same name as someone would do that, probably he also used her images and tried to intentionally make it seem like it was the real person that was uploading his pictures.

Used to have big roach problems as my family tends to not live very cleanly. What worked for us was moving to into an apartment on a high floor. Haven't had a gokiburi inside since we moved here 8 years ago.

I don't feel like grinding through previous articles to try to find it but remember this 4 months from now that you said all foreigners get treated the same on here because I definitely don't see that very much with what happened in the UK. Maybe their comments ended up getting deleted but they didn't hold back in how they wanted to put blame on immigrants rather than the individual even though he was born in the UK

If you go through similar articles here on JT then yeah there is always the same kind of discussion no matter of the foreigners origin. This is not because everyone in here is a nice person and no one is racist, but because they know it makes them look bad as well, Japanese just see the word foreigner.

Of course though there is the usual suspects on here, which are also a couple of Japanese that tend to bash on foreigners in these articles, even more so when they are Asian foreigners.

I don't really think much about disclosing country of origin if the crime was news worthy and would have become news no matter if he was Japanese or not, I understand why a news paper would like to mention that. The problem is when the crime only becomes news because it was done by a foreigner.

The main point she is making is if it was a person from a third world country you all would say "immigrant this immigrant that blah blah blah" And for that reason I think it is important to put their nationality. If the person that committed the crime didn't want to look bad to other foreigners and Japanese maybe he shouldn't have done anything bad

Absolutely no one is saying that, we are all foreigners here no matter our color or origin. When they make news about a crime that happens hundreds of times a day only because the villain is a foreigner it hurts us all, no matter how he looks or where he is from. The news do this very often and it has set it's marks. The Japanese around me thinks that foreigners on average do a lot more crime in Japan than Japanese do, while the reality is that a foreigner is less likely to commit a crime then a Japanese based on the stats, but that's not what they see, they see all these cherry picked cases that news likes to highlight.

The twist could be that he was getting scammed and asked to pay 20man for 3000 yen worth of food and drinks. The police don't do anything about the scammers but if the customer don't pay or retaliate they will.

If the 33-year-old guy was a native Japanese from Kanagawa prefecture, the press should not report the fact? Or are you suggesting that light-skinned people are entitled to more privacy than those who are not?

That's the thing, it wouldn't be reported, There was probably multiple such cases in Kanagawa yesterday alone, by Japanese men, it's just not special enough to write about as it happens multiples times a day. Meaning that it wouldn't be reported about if it wasn't because he was foreign born. Do you see anything else that stands out in the reporting that makes it different?

Ask JT.

HIs nationality, age, relationship are just facts. Seems some people have a prblem with a news article containing facts,

Tell you what guys, if you;'re really concerned aboiut your nationality being mentioned in a news artcle, just don't commit any crime that might become news, Much easier than trying to censor news to suit your tastes.

Since they had an article about a similar arrest there has probably been hundreds of these cases, some of them probably ending up with the spouse dead or in the hospital. This one being very mild even if all of those things were true. I think it's safe to say that it's being highlighted because the husband was foreign, and especially from a country that is not as common.

Not even saying it was JTs decision, probably another Japanese newspaper that choose it because of that reason, JT just copied and translated.

There is probably at least 30 domestic dispute/abuse arrests every day in Japan, I wonder why just this one had to be highlighted hmm.

I think everyone is misunderstanding this, this is not a trans athlete, this is someone born a woman but with naturally high testosterone levels.

Most skilled athletes are born with some natural advantages, that's how they get to the level they do even when they do the same training as others.

Problem is that we don't allow someone to for example raise their testosterone levels artificially, so it does feel like an unfair advantage, but that's basically the same case for every athlete, some more than others.

We could ban everyone that goes over a specific level, natural or unnatural, but that would be unfair for those born that way, it's not an easy decision.

Israel was attacked and Hamas knew how Israel would respond. They wanted Israel to respond as it has because they knew they'd get bad press for it. Hamas didn't care about those living on the Gaza Strip, they are just pawns in the game. So here we go, Hamas is getting their way because a feeble minded Mayor in Nagasaki is falling for it hook-line-and-sinker.

Things don't need to be and usually never is 100% black or white. Hamas definitely did something horrible, and Israel had the right to defend itself, but the amount of justified damage passed around day 1. At this time it's more like evil vs evil with a huge number of innocent stuck between.

I'd feel a lot safer if every Japanese with a bicycle exchanged it for one of these. Start to actually enforce traffic laws for things like bikes and cars instead of something that is basically slower and smaller than an electric wheelchair.

Yeah I think if we are arguing about judge based sports then for example Judo should probably be the first to go, I'd say that's the Olympic sport that relies the most on the referees personal judgement. For sports like snowboard and skateboard it's very clear why people get the score they get, surprises are very uncommon. But I guess if you watch it as a new viewer it can all feel very random.

It's crazy that Japanese are among the world's best skateboarders. My Tokyo park is festooned with about a dozen signs saying "No skateboarding!" And it's about the only place for miles around that offers any potential skateboarding terrain.

There are couple of huge skate parks in Osaka and Tokyo were all these people basically live, it actually works in a positive way because they always get to train with the best and push each other. In other countries it's more spread out.

Don't really see how Skateboard doesn't belong, just a sport like any other extreme sport, snowboarding, bmx etc.

Breakdancing, figure skating, some type of acrobatic dancing stuff I don't think belongs though.

I don't really have a problem with it if they market and label it as a English service charge, not a you look foreign so you pay more charge. Like if they notice someone speaking in another language they can go up and ask them if they need the English service plan and that it will cost a bit more.

They get to compete while we throw out 19 year old's for smoking.

See, I think the opposite I think people in Tokyo and Osaka are much colder than the people in the Fukuoka, everything is just so relaxed over here, but I guess it just depends on the person and the overall experiences.

I guess it depends on what kind of coldness we are talking about. Honestly now I would probably prefer what I experienced over there, they kind of just left you alone. In Osaka or Tokyo as quite a big foreign guy, for example on a night out it didn't take many seconds inside a bar before the first drunk male university student started feeling up your arms, or someone trying to talk to you in general. In Fukuoka I think I never had a conversation with someone that I didn't start myself. This was when I was younger and in more of a party mood, so wasn't favorable to me then, and it didn't help that they had those strict dance/noise curfew laws back then as well, (not sure if that's still a thing) so there were no real legal clubs.

Older now, so sounds a lot more appealing. especially nice with a car and a Motorcycle to drive over to Kumamoto or Oita with. Actually if I were to make that move I would probably choose Kumamoto or Kagoshima over Fukuoka.

Says the person that was born into a political family which was probably their only substantial appeal in the eyes of their partner

I have lived there for a short time, and definitely a nice place if you own a car. I did however feel people were a lot colder compared to Osaka and Tokyo, especially as a foreigner, I guess it's normal since people there are less used to non Asian foreigners.

Nope. That is not my experience. I have lived in several countries and visited many, and it was only in Japan and China that I experienced microaggressions.

Think about it: back home in Canada, the UK or NZ, you wouldn't say to a Japanese person;

'your English is so good!',

'Oh, you are not wearing your kimono today!

'you are really good with a knife and fork!',

Japanese are not ignorant children and they can do a lot better.

Yeah I think people too stuck up on the word micro aggression, basically most of those comments if done in the west would get you cancelled. Imagine you are eating together in a group, and someone said "I'm happy you like our country" or "You are so good with the chopsticks" to someone from a different race that has been living in that country for 20+ years. Without a doubt it would be seen as extremely racist.

I think what makes it extra special in Japan is that they still say these things after they know you. They can know that you have basically spent the same amount of years in Japan but they still continue to make comments like you are here traveling.

Better than the hyper-mega-super-ultra aggressions in the west

Honestly I often wish racism here was more aggressive, all these small comments and gestures made to keep us at us and them length causes a lot more long time damage, because people that haven't experienced it for decades don't understand the problem, and there is little to no understanding you can get from others. If racism here was more aggressive more would have been done about it.

Getting the standard "You are so good with chopsticks" "I'm happy you like my country" "Your Japanese is so good" from people that weren't born at the time I set my foot here gets surprisingly annoying, and I can't imagine having to live through that actually being born here.

Some say just go home. For some of us that is even more foreign than here.

4 minutes of people in the crowd telling Trumps security team about a shooter on the roof and yet they let it all happen is just weird!!!

Imagine the average sanity of people traveling to attend a trump rally, I'd guess they get hundreds of weird comments and allegations towards people they don't think should be there, so I'm not surprised they didn't start running at the first comment about a potential shooter. Still at that distance he should have been spotted the moment he went on the roof, I thought they had drones for that stuff.

Problem is that it's learning on our stuff to replace us at what ever we are currently doing to make a living. All this to transfer the money we are making to a few rich elites. Training on unlicensed content should absolutely not be legal, that's basically getting a non exclusive resell license to our content for free. I actually do have a contract where a company is allowed to train on some of my content which they pay for, which I'm totally okay with, every person part of the process need to be paid, otherwise it doesn't work.

Even then at some point there will be a need for some type of UBI, not everyone can become a plumber.