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Not only Nissan. Some of Japan’s largest companies are now giving big base-up increases (up to 15%) to its regular employees, but much smaller increases (a few %) to its Muki/Yuki (indefinite / fixed term) employees — extending the wage gap further.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XJjcxP7kEI

”Don’t touch my mustache.”

Hilarious!

Yesterday, I was walking through Kokyu Gaien National Garden, located between Tokyo Station and the Imperial Palace, and those blossoms were still mostly in the bud. Not surprising, because Tokyo’s had so little sunshine over the past week.

… the lack of legal recognition of same-sex marriage is in a state of unconstitutionality … but did not amount to unconstitutionality at present

What does that mean?

SpaceX prices just went up.

This is the kind of thing that can be cleared up in joint custody hearings.

No family court officer is going to encourage any distressed parent asserting domestic violence, real or false, to choose joint custody. And rightly so.

If you’re the left-behind parent facing an unverified accusation, I doubt you would consider the matter to be “cleared up.”

Many men gripe when women complain about the pain

That has not been my experience. Nor have I ever seen that occur or heard of it occurring.

Good luck enforcing that.

At the upscale Sembikiya cafe in Omotesando yesterday afternoon, a European family let their two children run wild throughout the establishment, causing one Japanese woman in her early 50s to finally scream 「うるさい」 (Urusai! (Be quiet!)).

I think many in Japan are tired of seeing their peaceful corners disrespected by discourteous guests.

It's their right, perhaps they try to really enjoy before things really hectic for raising a toddler for coming years. That's not for us to judge.

First, I would argue that the first year of raising a child is the most hectic. Second, simultaneous parental leave is not an inalienable right. We in society determine what is best, and adjustments can be made if we feel abuses are common.

In Japan, parents receive 67 percent of their monthly salary through employment insurance for the first six months after taking child care leave and 50 percent afterward, basically until the child turns 1 year old.

I know of one Japanese woman married to a Belgian man. Upon the birth of their only child, she took a year of maternity leave. He simultaneously took a year of paternity leave. According to her, he provided zero assistance raising their daughter during that time off (and even now). How did he spend his paternity leave? Apparently frequenting pubs, spending days at the beach drinking with friends, etc.

All this begs the question, “Is it really necessary for both parents to be off simultaneously for a year?”

you're defending 

This is the problem with politics in America — it’s always “us” against “you.” Our team against your team. “We” need to defeat “you.”

Just like the CIA used to pit foreign countries against each other to weaken both, America is weakened by all the political infighting, some of which is incited by foreign players.

Americans need to unite by stepping around the garbage political pundits and online influencers continually use to repeatedly flame factionalism.

There is a Japanese Overseas Migration Museum in Yokohama, and in 2010 the National Museum of Japanese History (in Sakura, Chiba) held a special exhibition titled “Japanese Immigrants in the United States and the War Era,” but Japan sadly does not appear to have a museum dedicated to recording and remembering its own wartime atrocities.

Salacious headline. If the men were “naked,” they wouldn’t be wearing white loincloths.

I have discovered great merit in partnering with someone who can understand your full self. For example, if you are half and you date someone who cannot fully relate to all that you are, the relationship becomes difficult because you essentially have to repeatedly explain yourself or oftentimes keep quiet instead. If you partner with someone who can fully relate to your multicultural self, communication becomes so much easier and life becomes so much more enjoyable.

she ran prostitution and drugs businesses

We shouldn’t celebrate violent women who run prostitution and drug businesses and extol self-amputation.

I support the proposed plan to preserve the vista of Yoyogi’s ginkgo-lined street, limit the height of buildings around those trees, and transition to three stadiums/grounds (from the current number of five), thus increasing open space and greenery percentage.

And guess what? Even now that I'm older, some men still try to do this to me when I'm wearing a skirt.

I am not intending to be impolite, but I question the truthfulness this statement. If @girl_in_tokyo Is not an outlier, we’d see skirt-lifting happening occasionally in everyday society. And we don’t.

Why not have Tokyo host a Winter Olympics?

Tokyo has all that new infrastructure created for the 2020/2021 games. Since the city did not get much benefit from those games, perhaps it should launch a “low-cost, for-profit bid.” If we can virtually guarantee a profit, I would support a bid. But only if a profit would be nearly certain.

Los Angeles is the only host city that realized a profit from the games, mostly because the required infrastructure already existed, according to “The Economics of Hosting the Olympic Games” by the Council on Foreign Relations.

What about the weather? Sochi was the warmest city to have hosted a Winter Olympic Games, with overnight low temperatures of 4 C on average in February, and average daytime highs of 10 C. Tokyo’s February low/high averages are 2 C and 11 C, respectively. Like in Sochi, skiing and other outdoor events could be placed at higher elevations outside the city — Nagano perhaps.

Why not have Tokyo host a Winter Olympics?

Tokyo has all that new infrastructure created for the 2020/2021 games. Since the city did not get much benefit from those games, perhaps it should launch a “low-cost, for-profit bid.” If we can virtually guarantee a profit, I would support a bid. But only if a profit would be nearly certain.

Los Angeles is the only host city that realized a profit from the games, mostly because the required infrastructure already existed, according to “The Economics of Hosting the Olympic Games” by the Council on Foreign Relations.

What about the weather? Sochi was the warmest city to have hosted a Winter Olympic Games, with overnight low temperatures of 4 C on average in February, and average daytime highs of 10 C. Tokyo’s February low/high averages are 2 C and 11 C, respectively. Like in Sochi, skiing and other outdoor events could be placed at higher elevations outside the city — Nagano perhaps.

The price was set between 7,000-9,000 yen.

A much cheaper and less invasive option for those with high sex drives and good communication with their partners might be a free period-tracking app, like Flo, to alert you of days when the chances of getting pregnant are high and low. Has worked well for me!

Larr Flint

WHAT WAS THE CARGO? 

WHAT THIS SHIP was CARRYING?

then you will get your answer why it was taken by Iranians. 

Of course the ship will be released after the CARGO will be looted.

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Desert Tortoise

Based on what I can find on maritime websites it was carrying cars and trucks from Korfez, Turkiye to Pipavav, India.

No cargo was on the vessel.

The apparent toxic culture inside Takarazuka Revue is one reason I don’t attend their shows.

@itsonlyrocknroll, @Peter Neil

So surprised to see these comments opposing political satire, which has been around for at least 2,400 years. The ancient Greek dramatist Aristophanes, sometimes called the father of comedy, satirized Athenian leaders and their conduct of the Peloponnesian War.

As @aaronagstring emphasizes, “People need to lighten-up.”

Hiroyuki Fujishiro, a professor at Hosei University who specializes in social media, said, "It is difficult to see through a shrewdly made fake video at times of emergency such as during war or natural disasters."

Professor Fujishiro, we’re not at war or suffering from the impact of a natural disaster.

@ Leo T

13 years is quite a bit for a crime like this

Really? And the guy below did not even have the rank and responsibility of a police officer.

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Apr 25, 2018

*A court sentenced on Wednesday a 29-year-old former reporter for public broadcaster NHK to 21 years in prison for raping three women.*

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/25/national/crime-legal/former-nhk-reporter-sentenced-21-years-prison-series-rapes/

Only 13 years!?

He not only raped these women but he also brutally attacked them with a knife and threatened to kill them. He abused the public trust accorded police officers.

A longer sentence would have been more just.

restricting the number of visitors by making the mountain only accessible by a yet-to-be-built tram system

And how much is that going to cost the taxpayers to build? — while the fees eventually charged are likely used to fund some newly created oversight organization headed by retired politicians and government ministers.

I support the proposed plan to preserve the vista of Yoyogi’s ginkgo-lined street, limit the height of buildings around those trees, and transition to three stadiums/grounds (from the current number of five), thus increasing open space and greenery percentage.

@Strangerland

… the stated reason was to get rid of the black market, …

Again, they could have gotten rid of the black market by simply legalizing it without imposing taxes. They basically used the black market fear to capture gullible suckers like you while creating an additional revenue stream for themselves.

Right now, there are two plans. I support Plan 2.

(1) Keep five adjacent stadiums/grounds in the Yoyogi area (two Jingu stadiums, a rugby stadium, a rubber-ball baseball ground, new National Stadium)

(2) Transition to three stadiums instead of five. This will increase open space from 21% to 44%, greenery percentage from 25% to 30%. Additionally, the vista of the ginkgo-lined street will be preserved for the formation of a shady green pedestrian space. Any buildings along the ginkgo-lined street will not exceed the height of the trees from any vantage point in order to preserve the scenic corridor of the stately ginkgo trees.