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John, both Hyundai and KIA have had acceleration problems.

Body language. Touching or covering the mouth or throat, for example.

Better late than never.

Sorry, not sorry.

Seems to be getting along fine with his new teammates

His nick-name was "Crash Kobayashi".

No, he was called that by Jenson "drama queen" Button who got all upset because he didn't win a race

sighclops, allow me to explain. I was referring to full-time employees. If you are hakken or itaku, you must pay for national health insurance, residence tax, pension, etc by yourself along with transportation. However, tedori (take home) and disposable income are 2 different things. If kurusupisu's friend is a full time employee, by law there is no way the company can automatically deduct 60,000 yen from her paycheck. If she is indeed a temp staff, perhaps she means she only has 120,000 yen in spending money after paying for taxes and transportation.

Her gross pay is 18k yen a month- take home is 12k

kurusipisu, that is impossible. For a salary of 180,000 the amount reduced for pension, health insurance, etc is less than 30,000. http://e-kyu.com/muryou/tedori.html

A problem with negative rates is that it discourage people from depositing money in banks

We're talking about firms, not individuals.

Daitohak, where do you live? Adachi?

Good for you, Leo.

samwatters, that's the funniest post I've ever read on JT. As for myself, I refuse to hand over my bank book and ATM card. However, my wife is my accountant so she knows exactly how much I make and how much I have.

What's sad to me, though, is that in Nishikori match you almost never hear these guys praising him anymore

According to Washington Post, Nadal said Nishikori was "hitting all the balls very well, very aggressive, and serving great." Well, with a 89% first serve rate, Nadal deserved to win.

These crimes are increasingly common

Not doubting you, but stats please.

That was one amazing goal.

Great idea. 1.16 kilometers at 80 meters per minute (walking speed used by real estate companies) is a 15 minute walk. On a rainy day with a small kid, that will turn into 20 minutes. Much better to pay 460 yen for a 3 minute taxi ride.

This article fails to mention that a big part of Goromaru's benching is his lack of English speaking ability. Rugby requires a lot more on-field communication than, say, baseball.

It was a 5 hour match. Otsukaresama to both competitors.

I asked a couple of my female friends if they ever had bad experience on the train (chikan), of which 70% had.

I think you asked more than a "couple" friends ;)

ATM's only take about 500,000 yen

They accept up to 1,000,000 yen in one go. Trust me, I've done it before.

stay the hell home or get some allergy medicine.

As someone suffering from hay fever, I can assure you that just taking medication is not enough. I need to wear a mask when I go out or else I will have a sneeze attack.

I like the efforts to shorten the game. NPB should follow suit.

Heartless

to boost their morale

Judging by their expressions, it seems to be working.

stores served around 50% more international duty-free shoppers ... but each spent 15% less than a year ago

That's still a 28% increase in sales

So you're saying Zebras had nothing to do with this crazy idea?

Please read up on dazzle camouflage.

there is no way that McDonald would sell this s... in Europe as they know that nobody would eat this

I don't know. They dip their fries in mayo. That's pretty disgusting.

Japan breaking the rules of the TPP by manipulating the market again

Your post makes no sense. The Nikkei average went down 2000 yen over the past week. It was bound to go back up. When stock prices fall sharply, there is always a correction as some investors tend to overreact. Last Friday I told all of my Japanese coworkers to invest now because stocks will rebound next week. It's a good time to make a quick buck.

he claimed the yen would be 150 on the US$ by now, so where is he?

I hope umbrella has changed his job because he claimed to be an FX trader who made "millions."

I'm not a huge fan of Becky but I do hope she makes it back. I think the backlash was not from the initial news, but the "follow-up scoop" which revealed that Becky and the married singer had exchanged LINE messages that "maybe it was good this came out because now we can be open about our relationship (LOL)." I am concerned about the legality of obtaining said messages, but the damage has been done.