Nippori Nick comments

The looks like a plastic doll.

 7 Billion jaws dropped around the world when Abe-san popped up as Mario.

7 billion people did not watch the closing games. In fact the IOC themselves estimate 3.5 billion in the world saw at least one minute of the games. One minute..so how do you come up with your 7 billion number?

The old fashioned way is the best way..the natural way.

Does anyone think mammals rule the planet because and at the same time can't nurse children the natural way.

Saw a test of this while on a trip to Australia a couple of years ago. Looked interesting.

How can a 12 gram chocolate bar be considered "too large for customers"?

It just boggles the mind that anyone can leave a one and 3 year old for up to 5 days. The one year old would be wearing diapers/nappies....terrible.

13.5 hours to find a bear in a mall?

Ever think of using a dog to track it?

Hopefully more and more big Japanese companies will keep relocating their production away from Commie China to Vietnam,

China and Vietnam both have communist governments.

Kind of looks like a casino

t's great being a commodity to be bought and sold on the stock market.

Well, now they are very rich. If anyone wants to list me on the stock market let me know.

Japan’s shinkansen are all fast, which is how they earned their English-language nickname “bullet trains.”

No-they earned the name from the bullet shaped front of the original shinkansen trains.

I think it's interesting that they can do this, but it would not work in all countries.

In some I could think of concerns of what those disgruntled prisoners' might do to and with the food products.

My friends and family tell me they are living in a concentration camp.

You actually dare to make the comparison of life in Australia to life in a concentration camp? Better study up on WW2 and learn the difference.

Looks like fun, but Joshi would be better.

What's next. No Male or Female toilets?

There are no Male or Female toilets on planes. No one seems to get worked up about that.

We would like to welcome everyone aboard.

There, that wasn't so hard, was it?

18,000 yen for a knicknack?

t looks vile, disgusting, creepy.

Blecch

Maybe, but it tastes delicious. I mean all kinds of foods don't have the best look, but judge by the taste, not the look. It's food, not art.

Thermal paper? Who would want to print on that? Fades away quickly in the light just like a cash register receipt.

"It's not economically viable to do socially distanced gigs," he said, urging the music industry "to fight with me on this".

That is his real complaint. Cuts into his money suppply

Those robo dogs look very creepy. Imagine a pack of them chasing you.

I would think most animals would be happy to move out of Tennoji zoo--it's a pretty sad looking place

I have lived in places colder than Hokkaido so cold does not particularly bother me , but even so, I would never pick it as the number one prefecture to settle down in.

I was in that department store in Yamagata a number of years ago and was astounded by how many luxury brands they were selling in a city as small as Yamagata. It's like many smaller cities in many parts of the world..the people get buy but they are not exactly the types to flaunt their wealth with Tiffany diamonds and the like.

I am sure a more "down to earth" department store would do ok, but selling high end goods? Maybe in Tokyo, but not in small town Japan.

So what happens when you are wearing a mask?

Why do they put the ages of the two people? 

Because it is a news story and you typically say something about the people involved..age is often given in news stories to set context.

Presumably if he could afford beer on a regular basis he could afford to get a toilet fixed.

Welcome to the 1990s

As if Trump knows much about Japan's history.

Since when do those arrested get to order people what they will and will not do or tolerate?