kurisupisu comments

I’m in Kobe and this city has a great mix of people.

I get to meet people from all over the world and my family members are involved with international companies.

We don’t get the general dislike of foreigners found in Tokyo or Kyoto but get a harmonious balance between tourists, foreign students workers and Japanese.

Not a fan of frozen food but I guess the poorer Japanese are….

I guess Japanese people will pay the same ?

Speaking in parliament, Ishiba said he used "pocket money" to hand out gift certificates to the lawmakers before having dinner with them on March 3 as a "show of appreciation" for their hard work getting elected.

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So, the steak dinners were included in the mix!

Isn’t it time to move on?

Kyodo always comes up with ‘sky is falling’

So are nukes but yet russia has the largest number of them

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The article is about missiles in Kyushu not Russia…

Your comment is superfluous!

Food containing vast amounts of sugar.

City dwelling SE Asian kids are well overweight.

The article’s journalists are using terms incorrectly.

It’s an offence to enter and stay illegally in the US.

These are not ‘immigrants’ but criminals!

A disaster response for tourist boats?

Long range missiles are an offensive capability.

What is the ‘emergency’ that long range missiles alleviate?

Seems a bit suspect…

The old wooden houses in Japan are very stout and strong but the newer houses or not.

I know as I live in one of them. The frames warp and cracks appear, water egress anppears they need rebuilding after 50 or 60 years at the most.

Maybe scotch whisky will get a reprieve in the US – that seems likely to me

The plaintiffs would have used scientific experts to add credibility to their action.

Not all scientists would have agreed with the ‘government experts’

https://www.inrag.org/publications-and-meetings/risks-of-lifetime-extensions-of-old-nuclear-power-plants

The article appears to be biased as usual being from Kyodo.

They said the standard used to check the aging of the reactors' pressure vessels was unreasonable and that the containers face the risk of collapsing if cooled rapidly during an emergency

And what a convoluted headline lol!

Yesterday, I was hanging out near a station close to Osaka and watched a transaction take place.

It’s a lot more open than one would imagine…

@wallace

If I can’t find products I want near my home then I’ll just buy pasta or potatoes.

Gotta keep that money train going…

Next stop, steak dinners!

DT is many things but he is not an historian…

Increase rice exports 8 fold?

Where will that leave the Japanese consumer?

Paying more I expect.

I am happy to eat imported rice but it’s as rare as hens’ teeth…

After construction delays, they now can't get enough staff to operate the pavilions. Many countries have left it too late to install equipment and secure staff.

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I made a half hearted attempt to work at one of the pavilions but having done a long psych test and having set up a telephone interview I was told that ALL vacancies had been filled

I was then asked if I wanted to put screws in boxes in Himeji, in a factory but it required standing during all the shifts-I declined…

Even the businesses that are booming like hotels still treat staff with little respect.

Some of the staff are Japanese and some other staff are foreign but the turnover at even 4 star hotels is high.

The program has been criticized as simply being an avenue for Japan to import cheap labor.

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Because that is what it is!

It states that skilled foreign workers, if they cannot work due to pregnancy and childbirth, can have the period spent outside the workforce exempted from their five-year residency time.

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If it’s not law then the workers will be abused

Next time,on buying something from one of the ubiquitous convenience stores in Japan, simply, ask the clerk whether they want to stay in Japan in the future or not-the answers are illuminating…

@isabelle

With reference to the link below: From 1979 it became apparent after Long Mile Island that robots were “imperative” in disasters…

It is clear that Japan failed to foresee problems with its nuclear sites and failed to develop necessary tech.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149197018302750

It seems that the US has forced Zelensky to see sense and guns are now silent.

What a positive development!

If I had more money then I don’t think I’d be holding back on spending and millions of Japanese are exactly the same!

Mr Espinosa is certainly very brave or very foolhardy…

Trump will probably call that a win after backflipping his way to the markets being down 10%.

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It’s a win-no mistake!

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Trump ruling with chaos.

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No. Getting the best deal for the US!

So, the deceased wife had divorced and no longer had a marital relationship at the time of applying for the passports?

And with regard to the below, it seems that passports could have been issued.

Now the children have no mother and the father is incarcerated in a foreign country-I have great pity for the children.

According to a Foreign Ministry official, the Hague Convention -- an international treaty to which Japan is a party -- does not include provisions specifically addressing passport issuance to a parent in jurisdictions that recognize dual custody.

How many miles do these ‘defensive capabilities’ travel for?

Enough to take out Beijing?

The workers' highest individual radiation dose was more than the overall average but still far below anything approaching a 100-millisievert five-year dose limit.

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These workers are the present day heroes of Japan but hardly mentioned nor lauded.

It is also extremely surprising that remote machinery has not been a standout in the debris removal.

This omission shows how much Japan has fallen in technical ability.