MiuraAnjin comments

It was a cliché for the upper middle classes. Most families wouldn't have enough room in their houses to get behind a sofa.

Nonsense. Plenty of space in a 1970s council house/flat's living room for that, and to recreate the best scenes after.

And are being eyed by vulture capital private equity for extraction.

And scam artists

And the government themselves, who will take 40%+ of those hard earned savings in inheritance tax.

Biden struck a welcoming tone aimed at showing respect

Then publicly branded Xi a dictator. Again.

I don't see many young Japanese.

I've never understood the idea that shooting a warning shot straight up can kill folks on the ground.

A bullet leaves the muzzle of a Japanese police revolver at 850kph - a very lethal velocity. If fired straight up it will slow down due to wind resistance and gravity until it reaches its apogee, about 1km up. It will then fall at 9.8m/s/s until it reaches a much lower terminal velocity (again due to wind resistance) of about 150kph.

e=mc2 so the bullet now has a lot less energy.

Essentially, if you dropped a small 9g piece of metal off Tokyo Tower, it could certainly hurt someone, but probably wouldn't kill them.

Japan absolutely should not voice "steadfast and united support" for Israel and "unequivocal condemnation of Hamas." There are no good guys in this conflict; Israel is just as despicable as Hamas. Anyone taking a side is encouraging terrorism.

72.8% of the electorate did not vote for Trump in 2016.

68.8% of the electorate did not vote for Biden in 2020.

This is a poor facsimile of democracy. The system doesn't work, but Trump is not the man to overhaul it.

2,700Yen per hour, plus tips.

Is this nationwide or just in big cities?

Only 60%?

As alluded to above, this is what happens when doctors get paid a paltry amount per consultation but make most of their money from kickbacks from pharmaceutical companies. Quite literally, the more they prescribe, they more they make.

Personally, I think they should be mandatory as standard equipment on all new cars sold in Japan, not optional add-ons.

They have been mandatory on Japanese cars since November 2021. All new imported models will have to have them from next June and currently produced imports will need such systems from June 2026.

Hey Japan, DO NOT repeat the mistakes of the Western countries. 'Multiculturalism' and 'diversity' are a failure. Western countries are paying the price for it

Should we all start packing then?

It is possible that, if identified, the sperm donor may be asked to legally accept recognition as the child's father.

I was a donor in college. I certainly wouldn't have considered signing up if this had been a possibility back then.

Japanese talento have been vacuous puppets for so long now. This is logical progression.

Meanwhile Japan soldiers on with CHAdeMO. Protectionist policies that ultimately just drive up prices for consumers.

Great news for Palestinians, Syrians, Somalians, and Yemeni, right?

Right?

The govt will:

allow operators to raise railway fares

relax rules around introducing express bus services

...as long as they have the permission of local authorities

Why does the govt. have such powers in the first place?

The Senkakus are Japanese. If China disputes this fact it should make a case to an UNCLOS tribunal, with concrete evidence of its claim.

I wouldn't be so sure that the claim would go Japan's way; for once China has some basis for their claim to these particular islands. However, if Japan lost they could just ignore the ruling in the same manner as the UK and USA are ignoring the International Court of Justice's decision on Diego Garcia.

Where is Saitama on the list? It deserves to be last, tied with Aichi.

Third from bottom, just ahead of Saga and behind Gunma.

I can never understand why the Norks would think that anyone would want to invade their territory?

Experience?

They actually distributed printed manuals to their dealerships detailing how to illegally "maximise profits".

I'm sure the shredding machines at Autobacs and Yellow Hat have also been well employed since this story broke...

Can you imagine a publication like Private Eye existing in Japan?

Only if it has a schoolgirl in a miniskirt on the front cover

This cracked me right up.

Thank you Chabba.

Can you imagine a publication like Private Eye existing in Japan?

Shukan Bunshu, Friday and even Playboy (not that one, the katakana one) do a pretty good job of digging where the dailies would not dare. They're not held in the same high regard as Private Eye though.

Anyone who attended the conference and did not make that blacklist should hand in their notebook and pens.

The shame.

Well, duh, just because you get a Japanese passport, you don't suddenly turn Japanese over night! I know a white dude who took on Japanese citizenship and he goes around telling Japanese people that he is 日本人!

Well, that would be because he is.

There once was a time when people of a different race or country of birth were not considered truly British. Thankfully those days are behind us.

Mitsubishi was the first major manufacturer to bring an EV to the mass market, but since the iMiEV they've pivoted to plug in hybrids. This may yet prove to be the right choice for growing economies in South and South East Asia where pure EVs really don't make sense.

Italy is still smarting after only getting 21% of Typhoon and 15% of Tornado.

At least with no German input this time we have a better chance of building it without leaking designs to the Russians.

I got caught by a spin off of the *Why You Come to Japan" folks at Fukuoka airport.

Their eyes lit up when I said I'd come to meet my fiancé who I'd met on the Internet, but my acting skills soon ran out and they quickly sussed I was having them on.

Ford could have done so much better in Japan if they'd concentrated on higher grade Fiestas and Focuses (ST, RS etc.) thus taking the fight to VW, Renault, Citroen and Peugeot, rather than trying to go head to head with the locals with base models. Importing US designed and built cars was always a non-starter for obvious reasons.

However the F-150 will keep on trucking in the USA (but nowhere else) thanks to the outrageous 25% Chicken Tax that still protects it from far better vehicles imported from overseas. That bit of overt protectionism has done more to stymie American vehicle development than any other piece of global legislation in the past 60 years.

As much as I despise the groundless Chinese ban,

To ease the pain of losing that seafood demand, Japan will spend more than 100 billion yen to support the domestic fisheries industry.

this is the LDPs solution to everything.

Just sell the stuff to new markets! Japan has free trade agreements with Australia, Brunei, Chile, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Mongolia, Peru, the Philippines, Singapore, Switzerland, Thailand, the United Kingdom, the United States and Vietnam. And we all like sushi.

Well, it was not a 9.0 magnitude in Tokyo....

It was a magnitude 9.0 tremor full stop. Magnitude is the amplitude of the seismic waves at the epicentre. You're thinking of Shindo - a very different measure.