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Personally, I can't wait for prices to drop in Japan so that the companies that have been raking in the dough with higher profits these past few years while decrying "hard times" and an inability to give workers salary rises can then lower wages to ensure profits do not drop. It is only up for companies!

They are both overpriced - no debate necessary - and everything else was just misinformation.

I, for one, am shocked!

I mean, yes, the world moved the majority of it's manufacturing to China.

Yes, we continued to buy our own items from them after we had already moved everything there voluntarily.

Yes, we pushed for them to raise labor costs and improve quality by paying their workers more.

Yes, we allowed them to pass those costs onto us.

But after all that, who could have possibly forseen them having all our stuff and making a bunch of money off of it?

Inconceivable, really.

"We are very concerned with this military build-up of yours."

Chinese soldiers in background hurriedly throwing tarps over ICBMs

For this work, the think-tank was likely compensated 15 billion yen.

What did he say? I can't find it anywhere in the article, but it's quite long, so maybe I missed it.

Suppose the U.S.A. had the same problem as China has with Taiwan. Would China sell weapons worth a billion and a half to the Island off the American coast for use against the U.S.A.? Would China send its top politicians to the Island to stir up feelings of the Island against the U.S.A. and prepare it for war with the U.S.A.?

Of course.

I love my kids with all my heart, but seeing how the world is today, and specifically, how difficult it has been to raise them the past few years in Japan, if I could go back in time, I may have strongly considered not bringing them into this 5#!+show

She should be able to cover at least the first seven million. I mean, she hasn't done anything else with it, right?

Meanwhile, my spouse visa have stacked up as 1 year, 1 year, 3 year, 5 year and 5 year and the latest was issued as a 1 year. Why? Because due to salary loss thanks to COVID, I was late on ONE MONTH of pension during that period as I would rather my kids be taken care of. So, of course, with money trouble, the best thing to do is issue us a 1 year visa so we can pay the fee for a new visa again next year. What a scam...

Deuterium can be extracted inexpensively from seawater, and tritium can be produced from lithium, which is naturally abundant. 

Great, I cannot wait for those massive price cuts in energy to come my way! /s

Bobby Testicles Dec. 11  04:25 pm JST

r/things that never happened

Two for two in Kansai.

I have a paper already made up for this.

I only speak English with them, and when they try to get me to sign the paper, I tell them to sign mine first which requires them to pay for the private English lesson they just received.

The lesson is "only" 5000yen, but of course I need to charge for registration and administrative fees and such which, unfortunately, brings the total to 25000yen.

Invariably, they say they didn't want it, but I say, well, I provided it already, so you need to pay. It's not really my fault that you had ears capable of receiving my signal.

So far, they have always gotten pissed and left.

OMG, I feel so bad for them. Do they have a GoFundMe setup?

I watched it. I didn't hear or see anything hateful. It was comedy. I thought he made that pretty clear.

Does the EU know something about the numbers we don't? Cases seem to be gong down recently. Why add Japan now?

My wife got her first dose Sunday. I will get my first in 12 days. This is still a problem. People that have wanted to be vaccinated for months are only now finally making it onto the lists.

Anyway.. Count us in the fully vaccinated club in a bit over a month.

I went to the doctor. He said I wish sick and needed three days to recover.

I was still sick theee days later and he extended my recovery time three more days.

I was still sick theee days later and he extended my recovery time three more days.

I was still sick theee days later and he extended my recovery time three more days.

I was still sick theee days later and he extended my recovery time three more days.

How worthless is this scheduled end time when they have no clue? WTF is the idea of scheduled end dates every single time?

Sometimes Japan drives me nuts!!!

This Suga guy sure is putting a lot of time and effort into trying to secure victory for himself.

I am certain that the drive and determination he is showing bodes well for any future COVID endeavors!

Let's elect him instead of whomever is currently in charge, because they seem to be doing absolutely nothing.

Are there any real reporters in Japan?

I'm tired of seeing articles that lack important information.

Additionally, why do reporters never seem to ask any tough questions?

These are not blog posts.

Getting the facts and providing the facts (or, at the very least, expressing how and why it is impossible to do so at the moment) is literally your only job. Try doing it.

I've said it often - they test until a certain number threshold is hit and then just stop. That's why the number of tests always vary, but the positives seem to always be just barely contained. It's a performance.

I should run for government.

I think even communicating in solely English, I could have accomplished more in 18 months than the current regime has.

How can they STILL be planning for every single thing as if they had no idea it was possible? Does no one at all understand forethought?

I simply don't understand the creation of an end date for every SOE as if you can plan a pademic.

Snowymountainhell

I don't disagree with some of it, but calling the AoC "time-honored" is a bit nutty. It is barely withing the last 100 years that even half the world thought 15-16 was a fair starting point. Just before that, most places with an AoC law of any kind were from around 10-12 years old.

In any case, not saying this was a good situation or trying to excuse it, but time-honored is a huuuge stretch IMO.

Vic.M

You must not know what deadly means.

Woder if they can reschedule to an even worse time like the last rescheduling situation?

Fantastic! By "never abandoning the athletes", as Bach put it, they have now only given them false hope of competing while others can simply because of dumb luck.

Yeah, I am sure they feel muuuch better wasting their time, money and health for nothing.

Didn't they expect none?

Don't be alarmed, we have everything under control. We have your best interests at heart and will take absolute care of you. No need to worry, it will all be fine - safe and secure.

What? Why is no one alarmed?!?!

Why are people downvoting math?

I didn't even do any "fearmongering".

I just thought a 10% increase in severe cases in a single day was notable!