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Japan Post says the rate increases come as the number of mail items has been decreasing due to advances in digitalization and other factors

What the hell does that even mean??? Due to advances in digitization and other factors? Can you be even more vague?! Digitization should bring prices down, not up. Freaking liars and morons.

Isn't the olympics also a time and place where copious amounts of something something takes place? I hope the olympic village has prepared plenty circular shaped reservoir bags for the occasion.

Pieces of scum. But then again, that's why they're working at a dry cleaner because they have nothing better to make of their miserable lives.

I saw one of these some months ago in Tokyo at a busy intersection full of people trying to cross the street. No idea what I was really looking at at the time. Why do these exist anyway? What's the point in having a suitcase that can double as a scooter???

The woman purchased the suitcase on a Chinese website and said she did not know she required a license, according to the police.

Then do some research before you buy, you simpleton.

Talking about not being able to cancel a contract, or when they make it so complicated so that you give up, DoCoMo, Amazon, Yahoo Shopping, SoftBank are doing exactly that.

These so called Consumers Friendly are the masters of all thieves were they get you to sign up to Prime Plans or discount plans for a monthly fee as low as 500 JPY/mth. but when your try to cancel you need a TECH guru to do it.

Also the so called Basic Charge is another SCAM practiced by many companies where you pay for something on monthly basis regardless of usage like all cell phone providers, People should ONLY PAY for what they GET, USE or CONSUME without basic charges.

I blame cell providers and telecom. companies for providing the life line to these thieves and scammers.

MVNOs have been around for nearly a decade now. Why don't you use any of those? You'll pay exactly what you use and no more. I've been using them for nearly 10 years and never looked back. 1500 yen per month, but I do pay more if I use more. I even think that 1500 per month is on the expensive side nowadays since the big provides have also caught on to the trend over the years.

Useless middle aged loser. Learn how to strike up a conversation with the opposite sex instead of being a damn parasite.

Any reason to apply small companies in Japan now? Less pay, less facilities, just skip those companies.

It's more nuanced than that. Some start ups like gaishi IT start ups can pay more. As for large Japanese companies regarded as prestigious like Toyota, Mitsubishi Trading etc, know that there is a lot of competition to get into those so a lot have no choice but to work for smaller firms.

The usual, "I don't remember" due to alcohol.

In these cases it might be more like "She wouldn't stop crying so tried to discipline her"

 disgusts me that there is a crack down on showing wealth when we all know that the elites and those high in power pork themselves with the best life has to offer. They are fine with living at a level that the rest of the population is not at but forbid the "pleebs" to have money and homes. Why is that. Why does the populace have to live at a sensible level meanwhile their wines and car collections cost more than people's homes or far exceed the salary the public brings home.

The article is about cracking down on people displaying wealth on social media. If they weren't flaunting their possessions on SNS there probably wouldn't be an issue. Do you see the elite flaunting their wealth on social media? No. Why? Because they know better than to attract unwanted attention. They don't need to prove themselves.

If you are going to lead a life of crime, could you at least rob someone rich instead of preying on a poor taxi driver?

What a weird comment to make. Rich or poor, he shouldn't be shooting any innocent person. If you were rich I bet you wouldn't be too happy if other people hoped you would get robbed.

Isn't this a private matter in which the police cannot intervene? That's usually what you hear from the police during such payment disputes.

"...and we will strive to prevent this sort of incident from happening again.”

And yet, it keeps happening again and again, and again and again and again and then some....you're not striving hard enough. Or, you just don't give a toss and say what people want to hear and then it's all back to business as usual. Useless bloody muppets.

So this fool gets off with a fine....yet in an article further down the page of this very website, a doctor gets 18 years for voluntarily murdering someone with ALS. Riiight, makes perfect sense.......NOT.

This amount just looks like peanuts compared to Otani's 700 million.

Japan's population of 126 million is rapidly aging and shrinking,

To the author of this article, Mari Yamaguchi, you need to do some fact checking before publishing your articles. The Japanese population is at 122 million as of 2024, not 126 million as you incorrectly claim. In fact, it hasn't been 126m since 2018! Shabby reporting is what this is.

They also instruct traffic control not use numerical terms such as No. 1 suggesting takeoff and landing priorities to avoid confusion.

I thought these terms were decided on internationally. Didn't know a country could unilaterally change terminology like this at their own discretion.

As for creating a new role specifically dedicated to monitoring unauthorized entry and take offs, that should surely be the job existing traffic controllers.

There are 3 fire/smoke detectors on an aircraft: the engines (which were not on fire although there was fire around them), the cargo hold and the lavatories. If none of these smoke alarms is going off, the pilots wouldn’t know.

In addition, the windows are forward facing with pretty limited lateral visibility. When the planes block in, there is a ground staff on each wing checking the separation from other obstacles because it is quite difficult for the pilots to check themselves.

So for “some” indeterminate period of time, it’s perfectly plausible that they would not know the aircraft was on fire.

Thanks for clarifying this.

But according to national broadcaster NHK, the Japan Airlines pilots in the cockpit did not know about the fire until being informed by the cabin crew.

I haven't seen anyone bring up or discuss this in the comments yet. Is it normal that the pilots had to wait to be informed by the cabin crew? That sounds rather fishy. One would think that in case of an emergency situation like an engine fire, the cockpit would immediately be made aware through a warning in their system, no?

To all those sh#tting on the low wages for new grads, don't forget that this likely does NOT include bi-annual bonuses and other benefits like housing allowance. At my first job in Japan I was in a similar situation. I joined a Japanese manufacturing company as a shinsotsu, and my salary was about 220k per month. But with all other benefits, it amounted to about 4M yen per year.

What a poor excuse for a man for abusing alcohol and using that to justify his extremely poor judgement

Instead of daily showers, many Japanese enjoy a weekly deep soak in the ofuro,

Really? They only wash/bathe once a week? Not a great idea in terms of hygiene, especially in summer. LOL.

*Instead of daily showers, many Japanese enjoy a weekly deep soak in the ofuro, a deep bathtub **complemented by quick body rinses on other days***.**

Jail time for this cockroach NOW. ZERO EXCEPTION.

Who’s paying legal fees for this hapless Myanmarese man? Lawyers never work free of charge.

Ever heard of 法テラス? You should check it out.

they had long refrained from wearing them for fear of appearing intimidating to locals

that has to be one of the dumbest reasons ever recorded

I agree, only in Japan. I used to work for a Japanese company, and when I was having lunch with some team members one day, I mentioned wanting to get some sun glasses and a hat as it was the month of May and getting hotter recently. My boss who was there promptly looked at me and said I should not do that because nobody else at the company does it and those accessories are just fashion items. When I said that a hat protects against the sun, the reply I got was that it will look like I'm on holiday. I was instead suggested to get a 日傘 instead. God....

Arrests? Jail time? Convictions? Heads rolling? No? Any form of proper punishment? Cockroaches.

Greg Kelly was stabbed in the back by a thoroughly corrupt and dishonest, cough cough, "legal" system in Japan. Greg Kelly did absolutely nothing wrong and was tricked into coming to Japan by dishonest prosecutors so they could arrest him and run him through their kangaroo court. . 

Just a small correction: it was nissan management who invited both of them to Japan, not the prosecutors. The latter merely arrested them once they were there.

That's the definition of a shoebox on many other developed countries man. Hopefully your one is at least insulated with double glazed glass. For millions in the large cities here the reality is different.

That certainly is not my definition of a shoe box. That would be more like a 1R 10 square meter run down place that was built in the 1970s.

Now how about you answer my question? If, like one of the other posters mentioned, you have a family etc. and you are the only bread winner, I might be able to see where you're coming from. But as a single person I still must disagree with you.

@tora

How about you explain to me why you think making less than 600k a month means living in a shoe box?

I assure you I was not living in a shoe box buddy, but in a regular 1K apartment like most other people.

@larr flint

As I said before, if you make less than 500 000 a month in Tokyo your will hustle but now with inflation I think your target should be at least 600 000 a month

I remember you making that silly comment the other day, and I responded to it. Did you read it? I said your claim of needing that much in Tokyo was a huge exaggeration. Although most working class people including myself in the past didn't make that much per month, it's still possible to live a very decent life. Stop spewing nonsense like this.

it is difficult to maintain a comfortable lifestyle in Tokyo, where a minimum of 600,000 yen is required

600k per month is a requirement? That's just plain rediculous mate. That's 7M a year after tax, so 10+M before tax. Most Japanese don't make that kind of money. I don't know how you define a comfortable lifestyle, but I have lived on about 300K~350K a month in the past and I was fine.