Magnus Roe comments

If I recall correctly you're only required to inform tenants about deaths on the property for one year. Most people will probably not be aware of this case in a couple of years.

They use revolvers, not very complicated to discharge.

GoodlucktoyouOct. 19 02:18 pm JST@Magnus. How about researching thermo nuclear bombs, especially those in easy range of Tokyo.

A 100KT bomb is the same whether it's a plain old nuke, a hydrogen bomb or even the 100 000 tons of TNT. KT rating is an estimate of its power (in terms of equivalent power in tons of TNT), not the physical size. Obviously there would be nationwide effects, but not in the form of blast damage or strong radiation. A bomb in in Sapporo would have zero direct effects on Tokyo, or even on most of Hokkaido itself, depending on prevailing winds.

Additionally it isn't confirmed that NK even has a hydrogen bomb, let alone that this is bomb they are capable of delivering with a missile.

Good luck with your shelter, I would stock up on respirator filters though unless you intend to sit there for a few years!

TorafusuTorasanOct. 17 05:36 pm JST@MagnusThat works out to over 200 visits to various European countries for you. Either they are such not bad places, or you continue visiting because you really need the work.

Thank you for the tally, yes I need to work. Did you have a point somewhere?

Even the largest hydrogen bomb ever designed wouldn't obliterate Hokkaido and the ones likely possessed by North Korea (250kt) have a limited damage potential. Roughly a 7-8km diameter urban area could be mostly wiped out, but for anything beyond this getting under tables and covering yourself with something soft would make a huge difference if windows are blown in by shockwaves or debris. The US used cartoons to promote safety routines (which, by the way, were the same as the ones suggested here).

On one side people in these comments criticize Japan for being all doom and gloom about the likelyhood of an attack, but then suddenly they're too light hearted?

I don't think there's any point in painting a too dark picture, especially as children are the most important group to get through to and there is little sense in traumatizing them unecessarily.

I visit all those a couple of times a year, and have been for the past 15 years. I would dare claim Japan has had a more positive development, but of course I wouldn't dream of speculating in why that may be.

I'm amazed he is able to rush past these grannies without getting a random umbrella in the face or have her suddenly step into the road, he must have very fast reflexes

They'll leave him with a warning because they're so pleased they can skip the two week interview where he says he can't remember because he was drunk.

Once the breakdown of the applicants' nationalities is released I'm sure you'll find the vast majority aren't from countries you'd typically consider "war zones", namely Turkey, Tibet and Sri-Lanka.

This is why they're not granted asylum status, no country recognizes people from these countries as refugees.

Fairly obvious where the density will be.

Tokyo also hosts 50% of ALL medium and large sized companies in Japan and 75% of foreign companies' Japanese head quarters.

I think it could find its way to restaurants. It's difficult to get a hold of shika deer now unless you are a hunter or have contacts, so many restaurants source their venison from New Zealand etc.

I would love for wolves to be reintroduced, they have only been gone for around a century. I think the issues would be of a limited scale, wolves are much more shy than most carnivores, certainly than the Japanese bears and human fatalities are practically unheard of.

The deer population would be much improved with the wolves culling vast amounts of old and weak animals.

Is this a memo from 2005? I hardly know anyone who downloads music.

Oh cry me a river!

Once Johnny's talent agency figures out what a computer and streaming is they'll be pushing their "talents" to streaming services and tv stations will be left hoping for another missile because that'll be the only reason anyone would ever tune in :P

There are care homes for people with dementia, public ones as well. I have visited people at them and they don't really compare negatively to similar institutions abroad.

Certainly not ALL companies require health checks, but they often pay for them.

I've seen results being sent to management, they are sent to the address you register with, or to your office. They obviously aren't opened by your management.

Once I was an on express train and it accidentally slowed down almost to a halt at a station it wasn't supposed to stop at.

I think the automated robo trains are generally on elevated lines without a lot of junctions and light signals, not to mention without any crossings for cars or people.

Also they are lower speed trains.

I just hope the people traumatized by this lecherous riceball can ever make it through it and function in society again.

Takata was just absorbed by a Chinese conglomerate.

Also this article is quite late, the brochures for this car were distributed weeks ago..

AndyJuly 20 02:08 am JSTJapan is the only country I know of where such an asinine excuse who actually be taken seriously by the courts and justice system. Bravo Japan, Bravo.

What do you mean? Practically all murder cases in the US start with an insanity plea, which is what this is.

"I was drunk" or "Can't remember" is less hilarious than "I was out of my mind for exactly 2 minutes while I butchered my neighbour."

Since the husband went to the length of setting up a camera I'm sure this wasn't the first time she's been behaving oddly.

Harry_GattoJuly 19 05:19 pm JST

Would have been much worse had she used bleach.

You'd be rather hard pushed to drink much from a bottle of tea with enough bleach in it to kill you, and even then it's not like you wouldn't notice right away and it isn't particularly lethal with treatment. (Drinking milk basically)

LudditeJuly 19 05:44 pm JSTAs for getting a seat in a cafe before you've been served - I hate that selfish behaviour.

I also find this annoying, but many cafes request that you do this so it's not necessarily people being selfish.

I find it ties up each table for several more minutes than necessary and probably costs a couple of sales per day but I guess the theory is to avoid people grooving about with trays trying to find a place to sit down.

Toasted HereticToday 08:59 am JSTWhat is the attraction with hunting? Hopefully there will be an interest in disrupting such cruelties now.

Heretic, Japanese deer have no natural predators and, 200 000 are culled every year, yet they are still causing a lot of damage. Overpopulation of deer doesn't mean the weak animals will necessarily die off and leave the stock stronger, rather you get a huge population of low quality animals and disease. If hunting ends, the countryside will be overrun.

Just out of curiousity, do you disagree with wolves as well because they are cruel?

Not really notable news and I think it's in poor taste to publish the name of someone who might've had a breakdown.

So lgbt is an adjective now?

The actual news in this article is that someone actually got busted for a traffic infraction.

Koga is a small town with little traffic, by the way.

Chop Chop

Saikyo Line has women only carriages in the morning, it's the first car on trains going downtown.

There are also cameras in every carriage, although I doubt they would show anything but everyone's heads due to the overcrowding.

It would be nice with a GP system, but mostly it would be nice if company management didn't expect all their staff to run to the doc (to infect everyone else) whenever they have a sniffle. Preferably to pick up five different kinds meds, unfortunately including, more often than not, an antibiotic.

I wonder what this kind of school's true contribution to Japan over the past two or three decades really has been. Surely this obsession over pin-point memorizing is at the core of the lack of creativity currently strangling the nation's tech corps.

Distasteful.

Disgraceful. Take your hat and go.

So all these adventures of his have been swept under the rug by the rest of the staff?