Lindsay comments

Do Japanese ever get tired of being told what to do? If it’s too hot just say no.

Once again we see the J-Gov throwing money at a problem in the hope it will fix it. Child aid payments are very far down the list of reasons why people are not having babies. A lack of daycare facilities, no job security and zero salary growth for over twenty years are the main reasons people are not having kids.

Fighto! - I'll never cease being infuriated at suicidal adults murdering or attempting to murder precious and innocent children. ZERO excuses for harming children.

Getting angry about it doesn’t help anyone. You should only feel sorrow for the child having to grow up knowing that her mother tried to kill her and pity on a society in which this scenario is repeated all too often.

Jind - How do you steal 600 melons without anyone noticing? They have to be harvested first and then packed. Takes time

Exactly! Hence my comment about insurance fraud.

Insurance job.

That should read, “for 23rd year.”

That’s classic Japan. Reduce the intake number so they can kick them out quicker.

They have passed their indoctrination and are ready for a life of servitude. Welcome to the hive.

It’s not really much of a revelation considering there has been no wage growth for nearly 30 years but the cost of living keeps increasing. You don’t have to be an economic genius to realize it’s a downward spiral sending everybody broke.

Of course they will extend their life regardless of safety concerns because they can’t afford to replace them.

This kind of thing happens way too often in Japan. There have been many similar cases in the last decade or so. People are still seeking compensation for that face cream that bleached peoples faces. You’d expect this kind of thing to happen eating street food in India but not in a country with so many world renowned pharmaceutical companies.

But! Are the incidents increasing or just the reporting?

Was the mother not aware?

Redemption - Horrific! How could that possibly happen???

Poorly maintained or faulty escalator. The design of the belt is to stop fingers or clothing getting caught.

I’ve always been suspicious of the myriad of powdered concoctions sold in Japan as dietary supplements. It’s impossible to be sure of what is in them. Eat healthier and get off the booze and ciggies and all your health troubles will disappear. You don’t need magic potions.

This is theft from a private residence. The only punishment he got was three months suspension and he quit anyway. Has he been punished just because he lost his job?

"The widespread use of smartphones has led to greater exposure to incorrect information about marijuana, potentially reducing the psychological barriers to its use," an agency official said

This cracked me up. These buffoons will make up anything to avoid the truth. Pot has been popular in Japan for decades, long before smart phones. It’s not the use has increased. It’s just the cops are paying more attention and catching more.

Yubaru

However, sex offenders’ databases are only prefectural.

Currently, yes, but this bill will make it nationalized

Where do you get this information from? There is no mention of it in the article. Every prefecture would have to approve such a disclosure. This would be more work than setting up the bill. I can’t believe you.

However, sex offenders’ databases are only prefectural. There have been a few cases of teachers barred from teaching in one prefecture because of child sex offenses and they reoffend in another prefecture while working as a teacher. This move means nothing until Japan creates a national database of child sex offenders, like other countries have had for decades.

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.

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.

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.

Japan continues to come up with weird and whacky ways to keep the news entertaining.

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.

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.

Does this include Japanese tourists or only foreigners?

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!

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.

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.

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.