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The shrine was on its last days of its restoration, they were working on it , there were people preparing for an upcoming festival on the grounds - there were activities inside, outside the shrine before the fire. How can there be no possible lead on how the fire started?? Where are the insurance inspectors? or wait... don't tell me the building is not insured?

A passport is the property of the government of the country it represents.  You'd think Japan knows and respects that - well, surprise!

Marshall SaintsToday 10:10 am JSTThe conditions required by the new system are so outrageous I cannot figure out if the people who came up with them are really that clueless about ordinary human reality or just intended the thing to fail all along.

 I have observed this to be true, where Japanese policies are too intricate and complex, one will eventually give up - know that it was designed that way.

Just have one and be good at it.

I think Japan should do away with any Visa where they cannot effectively control it -  the "Training" visa  was and still abused by JP companies as cheap source of labor, the Student visa is abused by JP "language schools" and foreign students as cover up for part time employment. Now they introduce another Working Visa without proper framework and ignoring how they failed on the existing two.

One has to consider the influence of the female biological clock over all these 5 attributes:

Intelligence and Fashion sense might be hard to fake, but it can also come with age.

But kindness, maturity and sweetness (1.2,3) - those can be manipulated , especially when needed.

Ghosn can take advantage of this situation - he can echo the same alibis that Saikawa and Nissan will use , let's see how the JP prosecutors and courts react.

LudditeAug. 17 09:01 am JST

Marinade. The text veers between marinade and marinate. Just choose one and stick with it.

Marinade is a noun, Marinate is a verb.

The Kameda's ... are they really good? I've seen their fights and it seems the media hype them up - more than they can really do in the ring.

Brian Wheway

After reading the above links to accidents with these carts, it looks like they have had a few bumps and scrapes, 50 if I recall in 11 months, but lets put this into some sort of perspective...

Ratio and proportion would help your analysis... The number of cars and other vehicles that pass through the area over the number of accidents from these vehicles could easily be more than that of the carts simply because there are more of them  - vs -  the number of carts that drive the same route and its ratio of accidents.

Jeff HuffmanToday  02:39 am JST

No one "gave" the U.S. the power it held at the end of WWII. It naturally filled a military and economic vacuum with Europe and much of Asia in physical ruin and unable to feed themselves. 

Please provide your reference. That is a flat out superhero claim . Nations occupied by the US were never given a chance to decide for itself - because the US believes they are incapable, just like how it sees other nations that need to be "saved" from military and economic ruin. Fast forward now, China at least enters the world stage building, not bombing.

What makes this a different case from Ghosn?

The airline industry has mastered this craft - and their cancellation policy is based on numbers - not ethnicity. Data Analytics can show the rate of cancellations on a given number of bookings on any given day - if they are sly, (they can even use IP address) to see where the booking came from. Point is, the technology is there to fix this issue without being racist. At 200billion yen losses a year they could have created an IT team to provide solutions.

The vocational School Visa loophole is also the underlying issue here, much like the Trainee Visa , it is just being used as source of cheap labor.

From a consumer's perspective - If Nissan can risk throwing all this $#%T on the fan, then they also take the same risks to their products and services, at which point, they lose customers.  Their stock value will plummet and drive the business down - That is not what businessmen do. There must be something more happening here - or it is just plain incompetent leadership.

sensei258 08:21 am JST - And this coming from a country whose government is rife with corruption

Don't throw rocks when you live in a glass house

Just when i thought I'm immune to Japanese family murders, this one shocks anew.

Non-American reader here!...and i know what Tailgaiting means... but going down some rabbit's hole and 16th Century Hartlepool slang ??...oohhh lets just go back to the puffy-ego Tailgaiting soldier!

If Nagayo hit the man or made a counter offensive move - would her professional license be affected?  Being that her action was a defensive response and a means to stop a crime? This a question, not a statement.

Not from the US,  clueless on what gun ownership means, but I can see that the interpretation of it is so diverse, cluttered and links to so many ends. If there is an institution that supposedly represents gun ownership, isn't that entity responsible for crimes committed from the cause they promote?

This sort of action is borne out of depression and mindset. The social services, health care, even the media should have done more ( if there are any) to address all this family-member killings with an information drive or support program.