Lindsay comments

You only had four years to prepare for something that only took a couple of hours to ‘almost’ fix.

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.

Throw your baby in the trash and run away. Life is cheap.

I guess it’s hard for the teachers to run the apps on their twenty year old computers running Windoze XP.

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.

Simply throwing money at the problem will not solve it. The main problem lays within career and financial security in the future.

I’ve had it and it’s very unpleasant. Hopefully they’ll find the source.

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.

No words!

“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.

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.

“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?

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.

Being to drink to remember should be part of the offense.

The workloads forced onto teachers is ridiculous. At least 50% of it has nothing to do with teaching. They are administrators and proxy parents.

Some people shouldn’t be allowed to have kids. Everybody in the car should be facing charges.

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.

Another TEPCO plant in trouble. Glad this one is not nuclear.

I first moved to Japan in 2001. I recall every prime minister since then, of which there have been many, making the same promise but it has only gotten worse and worse over the following two decades. The middle class of Japan has all but disappeared. It is heading back to the way it was 200 years ago with the ruling class and the peasants. I packed up my kit and got out of there a few years ago. Japan is a great place to visit but it’s getting impossible to live there.

I have to admit, I have been a victim of this too. I nabbed a creep for taking photos up the skirt of one of my high s hook students at the train station. The cops held the creep for twenty minutes and let him go. They held me for three hours. They called my employer, the school I worked at and my wife. They did immigration checks on my permanent resident status and generally just rang me through the wringer. After three hours of being detained at the train station one of the Japanese cops said to me in English, “Stay out of Japan business.” and they let me go. A-holes!

There are a lot of things I miss about living in Tokyo but the earthquakes are definitely not one of them. Glad no one was injured in this quake.

Tell me again how nuclear power is cheap and safe.

So, if they can’t get it going are they going to do another mission to retrieve it? Or, are they going to spread their garbage to the moon.

It’s far beyond time Japan instigated penalties that would deter these creeps. This creep won’t do any jail time. He probably won’t even lose his job. He’ll make a deep bow apology and have his salary cut for three months.

Break and enter, sexual assault and robbery. It’s a shame he will only face charges for the most severe offense in Japan. In Australia he’d be facing them all and be doing some serious jail time.

Politik Kills - Holden Colorado?! I can remember when Holden was Australian

The Colorado is an Isuzu D-MAX with a smaller 2.8 liter motor.

im curious if Japan will lift its regulations on diesel vehicles to accommodate all these RVs.

What’s next? Mandatory sterilization? If this demand is not a breech of human rights I don’t know what it is. Keep up the good work Japan. Now everybody will hate your human rights stance.

We saw 40’c on the mid-east coast today.

It’s far beyond time Japan started to prosecute these creeps as the perverted sexual deviates they are. Start with mandatory jail time and then add them to a national child sex offender’s list.

Only in Japan would her gender make the headline.