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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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Posted in: Sony to cut about 900 jobs in its PlayStation unit as layoffs in tech, gaming sector continue See in context

As someone working in this field, these layoffs don't really have to do with AI. During the Pandemic the consummation of media, particularly movies and games went up drastically, and as always when it comes to capitalism everyone only thinks short term and started pouring money into game dev, many of my friends smaller companies got investment offers left and right. Now that boom is over and things are starting to normalize. This is also a snowball effect where every big tech company is taking the chance to layoff people, as when everyone else does it, it makes it easier to do it yourself and escape the limelight and bashing that would normally occur.

What AI currently does though and what these companies want investment firms to think is that you will be making personalized games and movies in a year or so, but in reality it's nowhere near that kind of usage, but as they are not experts they are more likely to hold back on investments or just put that money into AI instead.

It's coming though, and in the future the only use we as humans might have is very custom manual work, so we either let humans die out or we make a support system so we don't have to work to live a decent life. Sadly this shouldn't even be a thing since it's all made on stolen content, but laws are slow, and these companies purposely scraped the whole internet of centuries of art and media content before it was even a thing, put it out there for free so even if it was deemed illegal there was no going back. In the meantime artists and creatives are the first to go, having to compete with software that wouldn't work if it wasn't fed the work of those same artists, crazy that not more is done about it, but everyone is just enjoying it until it comes for their job.

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Posted in: Japan inflation falls to BOJ target of 2% See in context

I must have been very unlucky with what I tend to buy, most things are up 10 - 50% compared to a year ago.

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Posted in: Hungary's parliament ratifies Sweden's NATO bid See in context

Are you proud of that change?

The Swiss are still neutral. They are the smart ones.

Sweden haven't been neutral for a long time, we have just felt safe with Finland in between us and Russia so never felt the need to spend the money. Same with Swiss, they are only neutral because they are in a safe spot, and also because they hand out passports like candy to the rich and elite of all those dictatorships, so at this point it would be hard for them to get a vote through even if they wanted to.

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Posted in: Hungary's parliament ratifies Sweden's NATO bid See in context

Are you proud of that change?

The Swiss are still neutral. They are the smart ones.

Sweden haven't been neutral for a long time, we have just felt safe with Finland in between us and Russia so never felt the need to spend the money. Same with Swiss, they are only neutral because they are in a safe spot, and also because they hand out passports like candy to the rich and elite of all those dictatorships, so at this point it would be hard for them to get a vote through even if they wanted to.

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Posted in: Japan to boost child allowances to tackle falling birthrate See in context

Why do I have to buy a special bag for my elementary aged child that costs 8 - 10 man?

Because LDP friends and family happens to own that special bag store.

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Posted in: 39-year-old man arrested for luring 13-year-old girl on social media to watch movie with him See in context

Well it says he admitted to the charges, so I guess he admitted they had done something more than watching a movie. It does feel like there is more to the story though, that in the span of 3 hours the family would call the cops, and the cops would find and arrest the man. It's not weird for a 13 year old to go out for 3 hours, even weirder for the parents to worry so much that they would call the cops within that time. Even weirder for the cops to track him down and find him within those 3 hours, they would probably still be explaining stuff on the phone at that stage.

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Posted in: Japan to boost child allowances to tackle falling birthrate See in context

Maybe stop raising taxes that cancels out every incentive you add? Also maybe not try to make it harder for people trying to freelance and work from home? With both parents home in our household we are in a good spot to have many kids, but due to the constant additions of taxes and annoyances to people freelancing I don't feel safe in doing so.

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Posted in: Japan slips into recession, becoming 4th-largest economy, behind U.S., China and Germany See in context

Japan has done badly in many sectors and things will get worse, but what has happened these past years is not really that profits has gone down, it's just that the profits are more and more going to those with already big pockets. The weak yen favors global companies, they are able to pay less for the same workforce while getting paid more for those products and services in other countries, while the negatives of a weak yen are put on the average consumer through higher prices.

Like many other countries money is just moving up the ladder further and further until you have a super rich 0.001% while the other 99% are struggling or just scraping by.

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Posted in: Number of cyber scams in Japan up 8% in 2023; overall crimes increase to 703,351 See in context

More people with financial problems naturally lead to more crimes committed, many people see it as a last resort. As for sexual offenses, it just shows that more people are willing to go to the police about it, which is a good thing. I know so many people here that has in some way been a victim to a sexual offense but they either thought they were to blame or didn't see a point in doing so.

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Posted in: Putin, in rare U.S. interview, says Russia has no interest in wider war See in context

Looking at his ratings, Tucker is definitely no sucker.

It only shows there is an alarming amount of suckers out there.

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Posted in: Putin, in rare U.S. interview, says Russia has no interest in wider war See in context

The size of the table reflects the importance of the meeting for Putin.

The size of the the table only reflects on how deep he's inside Putins pocket. Only reason the interview is allowed is because the Kremlin knows he is there to make Russia look good and Ukraine bad. The US has like always made a very serious thing that concern us all of us into a party fight, doesn't matter what it's about, as long as the democrats wants to help Ukraine the Republicans will be against it.

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Posted in: Putin, in rare U.S. interview, says Russia has no interest in wider war See in context

The size of the table reflects the importance of the meeting for Putin.

The size of the the table only reflects on how deep he's inside Putins pocket. Only reason the interview is allowed is because the Kremlin knows he is there to make Russia look good and Ukraine bad. The US has like always made a very serious thing that concern us all of us into a party fight, doesn't matter what it's about, as long as the democrats wants to help Ukraine the Republicans will be against it.

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Posted in: 1 in 5 Japanese university students do not want children: survey See in context

I have never come across a woman who was only interested in a man's 'wallet'.

I know they exist, but I'm sure they would be a small minority. I think a lot of guys who get rejected think this because they don't have mush of a wallet but I can tell you from many years of dating and marrying Japanese women that money is seldom their priority (of course, a man with no money is a bit of a challenge).

Not saying that is the only type of woman you have dated, but Japanese women that is looking to date a foreigner usually have other priorities than money. When you date someone that don't specifically have an interest in foreign guys money and work usually comes up in the conversation a lot earlier.

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Posted in: 1 in 5 Japanese university students do not want children: survey See in context

This is why so many people choose to work for a company they hate over being self-employed. The fact that my company covers half my health insurance and pension costs is one of the main reasons I don't go self-employed.

Yeah they definitely do their best to cut down on self-employed people, even worse now with the invoice system. I guess they find it easier to control people that are already used to having their lives controlled by their companies.

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Posted in: 1 in 5 Japanese university students do not want children: survey See in context

3/5 university students dont know how to make a piece of toast, so it comes as no surprise that they may not feel up to parenthood.

To be fair I don't know many Japanese that have ever owned a bread specific toaster, so honestly I think 3/5 is a very high number, I'm guessing 2 out of those 3 that said they could probably have never used one but just assumed they would be able to.

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Posted in: 1 in 5 Japanese university students do not want children: survey See in context

I honestly don't understand how normal people are able to have a family here, I have one kid and a house wife on a higher than average salary. All I do is work, I have one night out once every two months and that's about it for non necessary spending and I'm barely able to go around. I feel that unless you are making extreme money, taxes and everything just scales with you so it doesn't matter how much you make. Just my kokumin kenko hoken is 9man a month. I feel they need to add more tax brackets, too many super rich boomers just sitting on money, raise taxes for the super rich and make it more manageable for normal people.

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Posted in: Award-winning author's AI use revelation roils Japan's literary world See in context

The use of AI in many fields are inevitable, but what needs to happen before that is strict rules on machine learning, These companies would need to have a list of all materials used, and all data that has been used would needs to be properly licensed. Before that there is no question whether it's ethical or not, It's just a smart way to launder what you have stolen.

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Posted in: People in the world’s ‘blue zones’ live longer – their diet could hold the key to why See in context

JRO, I agree that having more wealth gives one more time to choose and cook healthier foods and be more educated on it, but Okinawa, one of the Blue Zones, is the poorest prefecture in Japan, so I think wealth has some impact but not a major one.

I didn't really mean cook healthy, although that helps as well, wealth is more about having free time in you older years and having the money for better and more frequent healthcare. For example I don't think Japan has a high life expectancy mainly because they eat healthier but because old people here tends to use local clinics as community centers, the average person here goes to the hospital more in a year than I did in my whole life before coming here, mostly it's unnecessary but it does help in finding serious illnesses faster, which I think is the main reason for people here living longer than most countries. Then of course having a less stressful life where money is not a problem probably adds a couple of years as well.

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