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Posted in: Japanese table tennis star reaches agreement with ex-husband in high-profile battle over custody of 4-year-old son See in context

It’s interesting, and sad, that this whole joint custody issue always comes up with a foreign father. So, basically Japanese fathers are totally fine with never seeing their kids again.

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Posted in: China demands Japan start Fukushima treated water compensation system See in context

hmmm, let’s think about that: nah

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Posted in: Nagoya elementary school students caught defrauding classmate for nearly ¥1 million See in context

I disagree with all the people throwing shade on the victim and his parents because he saved so much money. It’s common for kids to receive money for new years and even birthdays from parents and lots of relatives. But 1,000,000? Yeah, seems high, works out to be an average of around 800,000¥/year. It’s not unheard of though in Japan for grandparents to give loads of cash to their grandkids. There’s a whole generation of grandparents that got wealthy during the bubble years and are jettisoning cash as they get to the end of their lives.

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Posted in: Tourists banned from private alleys in Kyoto's geisha district See in context

Kyoto should be careful because the city would crumble financially without all the tourism.

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Posted in: Osaka Prefecture eyes collecting fixed fee for inbound tourists from 2025 See in context

Probably should pick a city that inbound tourists at least want to visit.

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Posted in: Doctor gets 18 years for consensual killing of woman with ALS See in context

Wow, this doctor got more prison time than all the parents who kill their children.

The system is broke.

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Posted in: Sinead O'Connor's estate asks Donald Trump to stop playing her music at rallies See in context

It’s kind of sad that no musician is willing to have their music associated with trump. Albeit, well deserved.

Trump is too broke to pay any music royalties anyway.

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Posted in: Haley wins DC Republican primary and gets her first 2024 victory See in context

A LOT of republicans do not like trump.

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Posted in: Japanese teacher beats up student for making fun of his body by calling him anime character name See in context

A kid at 14 or 15 should know better. I bet he won’t do it again.

I am now curious to see what all the fuss is about, no picture of the teacher??

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Posted in: Trump is not isolationist, former U.S. envoy to Japan believes See in context

Trump is a narcissist and that dictates everything he says and does. He has no experience or idea how anything actually works, he will just do anything for attention from his magat base.

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Posted in: 4th Fukushima treated radioactive water release to start Wednesday See in context

Can they just repipe this straight into Russia?

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Posted in: Elderly driver hits 2 pedestrians, killing one, near Nara temple See in context

I was at the DMV I’m Tokyo for a renewal and the elderly woman taking the eye test before me failed miserably.

The DMV staff told her to take a break and she can try again. While it was a nice gesture, this woman clearly should not be having her license renewed.

With more and more elderly people driving these days, they really should be required to take the physical driving test more frequently.

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Posted in: Most Japan fishing groups hit by China import ban over Fukushima row See in context

My question to the Chinese. Why do Chinese fishing boats fish in the waters around Japan? Isn't the fish they catch tainted as they claim it is when importing?

Because Chinese could care less about the safety of their citizens, it’s 100% political propaganda to try and hurt the Japanese economy and paint Japan negatively to their citizens.

Their cities are totally polluted, yet they take no action.

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Posted in: Russian appeal against Olympic suspension dismissed by sport's highest court See in context

So Israel and the US must certainly also be suspended, right?

Israel = YES

US = NO

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Posted in: Russian appeal against Olympic suspension dismissed by sport's highest court See in context

Russia, North Korea and China should just have their own Olympics. They can take all the steroids they want.

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Posted in: TSMC diversifies out of Taiwan with new Japan plant See in context

American workers are not suited to work with the needed precision, and with US salaries it’s simply cost prohibitive to manufacture anything in the US.

I say this as American who has worked in manufacturing in both the US and Japan.

This was a good choice by Taiwan.

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Posted in: Women take part in Japan's 1,250-year-old 'naked festival' for first time See in context

I totally support women joining this festival, but they need to follow the rules.

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Posted in: Starbucks Japan apologizes for overcharging Frappuccino customers, offers refunds See in context

Hardly seems worthy of a news article.

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Posted in: 39-year-old man arrested for luring 13-year-old girl on social media to watch movie with him See in context

It's kidnapping at best since she is a minor so an adult can not be with a child without the knowledge of the guardians.

Can you reference this law you are referencing? I’m looking at the kidnapping penal code in Japan, and your statement is not actually listed as kidnapping.

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Posted in: 39-year-old man arrested for luring 13-year-old girl on social media to watch movie with him See in context

While the situation looks nefarious, is it technically illegal for an adult to watch a movie with a teenager?

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Posted in: Japan, now world's No. 4 economy, on steep road to reverse low growth See in context

The top countries US, China and India have major poverty issues. Being at the top is meaningless for the health of the country and quality of life.

I’ve lived in the US, China and Japan, and Japan by far has a better quality of life for a much larger majority of its population.

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Posted in: Japan to boost child allowances to tackle falling birthrate See in context

Switzerland is number 20 and they seem to be quite healthy. The US is number 1 and has major poverty issues.

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Posted in: Japan to boost child allowances to tackle falling birthrate See in context

Basing a countries health on the idea it needs to increase its population and GDP every year is not sustainable, and is a metric “economists”, wealthy people and corporations use to scare people into working harder and buying more stuff they don’t need.

The only other wealthy countries that have increasing population is based on mass immigration.

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Posted in: Kim's powerful sister says N Korea, Japan can open 'new future' See in context

pressing them into service training its spies in Japanese language and customs.

They couldn’t have just bought some Japanese language books?

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Posted in: 'You need to calm down': Swift-mania hits Australia See in context

I want to like her, she is known to do great things through donations and supporting local businesses on her tours. But, her music is just so sterile and boring. Beyoncé blows her out of the water as a singer and songwriter. But Swift’s “image” is tough to beat, great publicist!

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Posted in: No lunch in Ginza: Japan's scaled-back spending helps push economy to recession See in context

This is just doom reporting and regurgitating the NYT article. Tourism is booming, the stock market is soaring, unemployment is very low, exports fairly high. Walk around Tokyo and restaurants and bars are bustling, hotels are full.

I travel all over Asia and the US and those countries look much more bleak than what I see in Japan.

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Posted in: Trump appears at federal court in Florida for closed hearing in his classified documents case See in context

Trump has strong political support over documents legal issue, as President has legal rights to possess. Biden had none as Senator or VP. Trump had serious security detail, Secret Service, Biden, empty offices and garages.

Your point is moot here. Trump took classified documents intentionally without going through the process to declassify them. He then lied about it, asked his team to lie about it, and then when he got caught and realized his team had turned him in, he started threatening witnesses to try and silence them.

The only thing he has going for him here is that he elected the judge on the case and she has a history of bending the law to meet her personal political agenda.

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Posted in: Trump appears at federal court in Florida for closed hearing in his classified documents case See in context

Innocent people don’t spend every week in court for things such as defamation, financial fraud, rape, trying to overturn an election, and stealing classified documents, repeatedly lying about it and trying to cover it up.

Trump is a criminal, just like he’s always been.

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Posted in: Republicans blast Trump over threat to abandon NATO allies See in context

Trump is mentally and physically sick. He should stick to the golf course.

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Posted in: Woman arrested for assault after punching 77-year-old mother in the face See in context

I think everyone can relate.

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