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Just watched this on the 7pm news.

They interviewed 3 Japanese people in Shibuya - of the 3, one said, regarding the name, they don't care about it at all, and another said, regarding the whole sex abuse scandal and name change discussion, as long as they can continue to support their favorite Johnnys idol, they don't care.

After living here for 20 years, these types of responses do not surprise me anymore.

IMO, most Japanese people cannot feel sympathy for others suffering, unless they are impacted in some way - just total apathy.

Lining up, holding hands in front of some trees won’t accomplish anything. You need to make it uncomfortable for Keiko and the developers. Protest outside their offices, follow them around and your displeasure known. Make some noise!

LOL - you haven't even seen it.

What a waste of time.

which started on Aug. 24, threatens citizens' right to live safely

How to you measure the safety of water? - you sample it, then measure for contaminants. This is exactly what has been done (and not only by Japan), and is being done, every single day, which clearly shows the water is fine. So unless you want to argue the measuring equipment is faulty, or there is a more accurate way to measure, then people who believe the water is unsafe should be quiet.

Yes and no. This is offset by the fact that most Japanese people want to live in Japan.

If you are in the scientific field, I think you'll find most want to be where the best access to resources and research is located, AND where you credit for your work.

The rugby women's WC last year had consistently packed stadiums, with the semis/final totally full houses.

That being said, the standard of women's rugby especially amongst the top teams, I would say is considerably higher than football. The NZ football teams (both men/women) are pretty poor and nobody wants to watch low skilled athletes in any sport, especially in a country where that sport is not popular anyway.

i work for a big financial firm - like all other similar firms, all the IT infrastructure that serves the various sub-businesses are being moved out of HK to Singapore/Japan. Some cannot, as they need direct connections to the HK exchanges, but everything else is being moved out of HK. Everybody wants to reduce their business exposure to HK to near zero.

Carrying his entire team

as usual.

Japan is a perfect example of overtaxing it’s populations.

Totally agree - is the main reason I plan on leaving next year actually.

I’ll buy it for a giggle. It’s something different.

It was 478 feet.

If you transfer your crypto from an institution to your private wallet and then to another institution it simply bypasses the mechanism, or am I missing something?

You are exactly right - from an exchange, if you register a private wallet, all it asks you is to enter the owner of the wallet, and thats all thats required. Obviously you can enter name you want - pretty pointless.

It was reported this morning it failed.

Attempted murder for slashing someone’s hand?

I live across the road from an old people home - the care staff are all young Filipina girls. Apart from then I only see ambulances regularly arrive and depart…

There is non alcohol bar in Roppongi that just serves fancy fruit juice cocktails - mostly female clientele. Nothing wrong with that of course, but they charge 1200yen per drink which is just a scam.

I see.

Once again, Shohei is denied a W 

The Angels won.

Just stop reporting the numbers - now that hospitals/clinics have permission to not report cases if they don't have the time, there is no point in reporting any numbers. The are now completely meaningless.

Whats the point in reporting the numbers anymore, when then government has already given its blessing to not having to report non serious cases? At least before the number indicated the absolute minimum of infections, but now they it doesn't even represent that - they might as well pick a number out of a hat.

My primary care doctor says that if/when I become infected, he will put me on Paxlovid straight-away. I hope you and your partner have easy access to this antiviral.

I've heard good thing about Paxlovid - I wonder how difficult it is to get prescribed though?

In the US it's pretty easy, but here I'm not so sure of its availability - can a clinic prescribe it or only a hospital?

Pretty misleading headline.

NZ classifies covid deaths as anyone that dies within 28 days of testing positive.

This means if you die of a heart attack, stroke, some type of organ failure, etc, its classified as a covid death, even if they had no symptoms.

If there are only 15 severe cases in Tokyo, then why , as we constantly hear on the news, are hospitals full and why is it taking ambulances hours to find a bed for patients? Oh thats right - severe here means on an ecmo machine - if you are not connected to one of those, you are not classed as severe even if you require oxygen to breathe. If you are unable to eat or drink because you can't swallow, thats not severe either. What a complete farce.

Doctor says it was from the front - all the reporting was wrong.

last time she have said that they want vaccinated people only...so far no trace about this 

yes, when their population was not highly vaccinated, of course they didn't want unvaccinated people flying in - now they are highly vaccinated and hospital numbers are coming down, unvaccinated can come.

If the captain was instructed to sail, then we will never know because he is dead and the people who instructed him won't admit it (unless an email trail is found).

On the news, another tour boat operator said he told the captain not to sail as it was too rough, but the captain just said "yes" and carried on.

Personally, it's hard to believe an experienced captain, seeing the weather, and knowing much tougher fishing boats had returned because of the conditions, would put his/passengers lives at risk unless he felt pressured some how.

well, that sucks - I have quite of bit of yen in the bank and no wish to spend it here - should've sent it back home 6 month ago. Oh well.

smart lady

Rising prices, stagnant wages, little savings, small pensions, a one party political system - what is a Japanese person to do?

something about the geography of that beach which seems to confuse whales.