Posted in: Convenience store manager arrested for filming up skirt of customer See in context
This crime is way too common in Japan. The penalties need to be more severe to deter these creeps. A mandatory year in jail would stop these creeps.
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Posted in: Japan business lobby chief hopes for gov't efforts to end deflation See in context
Same old guff. They have been on about this for two decades and nothing has been done. I doubt if this round of pleas and pledges are going to make any difference.
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Posted in: Man arrested over sexual assault, robbery of woman in Nagano See in context
This is the kind of scum that prisons are made for. He’d be facing 10-15 years in jail in Australia for break and enter and sexual assault. Sadly, I fear the most jail time he’ll see in Japan is a couple of years, if at all.
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Posted in: Man arrested for pouring urine on pachinko machine in Sendai See in context
Japan continues to come up with weird and whacky ways to keep the news entertaining.
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Posted in: Truck driver arrested over fatal hit-and-run after woman dragged for 400 meters See in context
He panicked? He murdered her! She likely would have survived if he stopped. Nobody is going to survive being dragged 400 meters under a truck.
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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
So many things wrong in this death. The parents left a not quite 2 year old kid at home alone who got out of the house and was wondering around the streets at 5:30 in the morning. That is a crime in itself. Yes, the truck driver should have stopped but the kid shouldn’t have been wondering around at that time of the morning.
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Posted in: Tourists banned from private alleys in Kyoto's geisha district See in context
Does this include Japanese tourists or only foreigners?
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Posted in: Japan gov't to cease COVID-19 treatment subsidies at end of March See in context
Petty Japan at its finest! Treatments for covid should be fully covered by the government. This move will result in people dying because they can’t afford treatment. It will also increase the amount of cases for the same reason. Shame on you petty Japan!
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Posted in: City in Saitama Prefecture to require multilingual trash rules posted for foreigners See in context
This is a positive thing. Hopefully, they will go further than just using Google Translate and have them proof read by native speakers of each language. Very often these kinds of instructions are just incomprehensible copy/pasted gibberish.
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Posted in: Japanese teacher beats up student for making fun of his body by calling him anime character name See in context
So, is he going to jail for assaulting a minor? Will he be banned from ever teaching again? Highly unlikely! He will get a pay cut and be back at work next week. Hopefully his parents will pursue criminal charges against the thug.
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Posted in: Woman returns home from work to find man hiding under her bed See in context
The woman told police she had left the front door unlocked when she went to work on Wednesday.
I’ll bet she locks the door in the future.
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Posted in: First drone probe of melted fuel inside Fukushima Daiichi reactor halted due to equipment glitch See in context
After 13 years they have made their first attempt at sending a drone in to inspect the radioactive debris and it failed. This is what happens when you have the clowns running the circus. I’m not saying it is an easy task but aren’t they supposed to be experts?
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Posted in: Leap year glitch disrupts driver license issuance in parts of Japan See in context
You only had four years to prepare for something that only took a couple of hours to ‘almost’ fix.
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Posted in: Teacher fined over 2019 deaths of Japanese teens in Australia See in context
This is a sandy bottom lake in the middle of the island. There are no rips or currents or obstacles in the lake. It’s about 4m deep at its deepest point. It is a very popular swimming spot for families. It is famous for its population of tortoises. It’s difficult to understand how these teens got into trouble in the calm waters. I can understand why the teacher has been fined for breech of duty of care. Most Japanese kids are not strong swimmers and they should be strictly supervised when in the water.
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Posted in: Body of newborn baby boy found in trash can at Osaka hotel See in context
Throw your baby in the trash and run away. Life is cheap.
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Posted in: Digitalization drive proving tough for Japanese school teachers See in context
I guess it’s hard for the teachers to run the apps on their twenty year old computers running Windoze XP.
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Posted in: Japan, now world's No. 4 economy, on steep road to reverse low growth See in context
With a persistently weak yen blamed for making the size of the economy look smaller in U.S. dollars
bwahaha! Trying to blame the weak yen is clutching at straws. The reason is, there has been no economic growth in Japan for thirty years. Salaries have been stalled and reducing for decades. Japan is still trying to hold onto manufacturing markets that no longer belong to Japan. The Japanese economy thrived in the 70’s and 80’s because it had no real competition. Now, it has a lot of competition for international markets and it is failing due to not being able to adapt. This trend will continue and the worst is yet to come.
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Posted in: Japan to boost child allowances to tackle falling birthrate See in context
Simply throwing money at the problem will not solve it. The main problem lays within career and financial security in the future.
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Posted in: 163 get norovirus after eating sashimi and sushi rolls at Tokyo restaurant See in context
I’ve had it and it’s very unpleasant. Hopefully they’ll find the source.
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Posted in: Taxi, bus driver's license tests in Japan to go multilingual See in context
Not really much point. As soon as you get out of the city any multilingualism stops. If you can’t read kanji you’ll be driving around in circles. It’s highly unlikely the bus or taxi company will pay for multilingual software for their navigation systems either. Making the test multilingual is only part of what they need to do.
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Posted in: High school girl killed, likely after being dragged 5 km by car See in context
No words!
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Posted in: 41-year-old man arrested for assaulting 2 elementary school boys See in context
“I lost my temper because I thought they were calling me bad names.”
The whacko of the week award goes to this violent loon. Hopefully his sentence will include some therapy.
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Posted in: COVID patients again rising in Japan; experts warn of 10th wave See in context
If you have had a couple of vaccinations Covid is just like the flu. It’s only those with underlying health issues and immune system problems who are at risk of severe symptoms. I had Covid a couple of months ago. It was done and dusted in a week. I’ve had cases of the flu that knocked me around more and lasted much longer.
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Posted in: Japan OKs new foreign trainee program to attract more workers See in context
“The government seeks to create an inclusive society, and we want to make Japan a country that foreign workers will choose,”
Does that include the mandatory contraception rule?
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Posted in: Snowfall leaves more than 130 injured in Tokyo See in context
The worst is yet to come as the snow turns to ice. Be careful out there people. I used to wear cleats over my shoes for the ice.
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Posted in: Man arrested for assaulting female restaurant employee in Nagasaki See in context
Being to drink to remember should be part of the offense.
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Posted in: Teachers on leave for mental illness in Japan hit record high See in context
The workloads forced onto teachers is ridiculous. At least 50% of it has nothing to do with teaching. They are administrators and proxy parents.
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Posted in: Parents charged over death of 10-month-old son they left in car last summer See in context
Some people shouldn’t be allowed to have kids. Everybody in the car should be facing charges.
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Posted in: New Zealand strippers march on parliament for legal protections See in context
In reality, club owners often dictate the terms -- deciding pay rates or dishing out fines when dancers ring in sick
The gentlemen’s clubs in Japan are just as bad or worse. They treat their employee like slaves.
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Posted in: Explosion occurs at thermal power plant in Aichi Prefecture See in context
Another TEPCO plant in trouble. Glad this one is not nuclear.
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Posted in: An expanding NATO uses its diversity as strength
whether you are spy or not, the commies need not proves, they just open the mouth and say, you are…
Posted in: Chinese professor at Japanese university missing after visiting homeland