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Posted in: Man arrested for filming up woman's skirt with smartphone at shopping center See in context
Why is this news?
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Posted in: Shibuya’s Hachiko statue will be covered up for New Year’s Eve, pedestrian barricades installed See in context
My god, this city is SO lame.
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Posted in: Bruised PM Ishiba scrambles for support from other parties See in context
"It is difficult to say that sufficient discussions have been made on a mountain of important issues, and it has to be said that issues have been postponed," the head of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives said.
This must be a bad translation… it is difficult to say? And it has to be said?
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Posted in: Tokyo fish market opens seafood restaurants, spa complex to attract more visitors See in context
Yeah... as others have said, it's more fake, sanitized, fantasy-land Edo history-worship... Why can't Tokyo ever just keep the real thing? Tsukiji was interesting, and this is just depressing. Another food court, another boring shopping mall.
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Posted in: Canceled domestic flights due to Tokyo airport collision strand many See in context
Seems many of these passengers could have been rerouted to Narita with minimal trouble to the airlines…
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Posted in: Japan hospital denies LGBT woman support for IVF pregnancy See in context
Silly barbaric hospital
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Posted in: Construction of Japan's tallest skyscraper begins near Tokyo Station See in context
Another thick, boxy, dumb building for Tokyo’s skyline. Why can’t we have any elegant buildings?
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Posted in: Princess Kako tests positive for COVID-19 See in context
This is not newsworthy.
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Posted in: Prince Hisahito tests positive for COVID-19 See in context
People catching COVID is NOT news.
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Posted in: Prince Hisahito, 2nd in line to throne, turns 17 See in context
Why aren’t they allowed to wear interesting clothing?
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Posted in: Over 7,200 Japan firms employing foreign trainees broke law, gov't says See in context
Wow! That is a lot of companies!
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Posted in: No drug test for 'Rust' movie armorer as her trial looms in fatal shooting by Alec Baldwin See in context
Do you mean her ‘trial’?
Moderator: Yes, that was a typo.
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Posted in: Kyoto merchants want city to install more trash cans to fight litter in historic neighborhood See in context
This whole country needs rubbish bins. It’s ridiculous!
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Posted in: Japan reports 18,654 new coronavirus cases See in context
Yes! The ski slopes are crowded again and the apres is back in Hakuba again! For those concerned, I've had no stinkeye going maskless on many JR shinkansen train trips the last three weeks. Enjoy what's left of winter!
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Posted in: Japan reports 41,438 new coronavirus cases See in context
Done, done done done… done!
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Posted in: Japan reports 15,612 new coronavirus cases See in context
Numbers so low I don’t even need to comment!
oh wait…
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Posted in: Japan reports 38,581 new coronavirus cases See in context
Nice numbers, ne?
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Posted in: Japan reports 55,537 new coronavirus case See in context
Nearly half a million people still hospitalized from the 8th wave .!.
Steven McCarthy, setting aside your COVID mis/disinformation, where did you come up with this unique punctuation?
.!.
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Posted in: Kishida grilled in Diet over son's excursion during overseas trip See in context
ShotarI looks cute - at least below the mask - in other coverage of this “scandal”
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Posted in: Japan reports 79,354 new coronavirus cases See in context
When the report was so late in posting yesterday, I was hoping we were done with the Covid-19 numbers.
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Posted in: Heavy snow warnings issued for parts of Japan; flights canceled See in context
Just got SUPER windy here in Minato, Tokyo!
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Posted in: Japan reports 64,450 new coronavirus cases See in context
Wow! These Covid numbers are certainly numbers!!!
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Posted in: Japan reports 78,954 new coronavirus cases See in context
Wow! These Covid numbers are certainly numbers!!!
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Posted in: Japan to lower COVID-19 to flu status in spring See in context
Hooray! Time to celebrate - hanami maybe?
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Posted in: Japan reports 82,614 new coronavirus cases See in context
Wow! These Covid numbers are certainly numbers!!!
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Posted in: Should governments alert people to every new coronavirus variant that shows up? See in context
Covid 19 is now endemic. Do governments regularly alert people of new influenza strains? How many people had even heard of RSV before this winter?
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Posted in: Foreign visitors to Japan in 2022 up 15-fold to 3.83 million See in context
Look how silly people look wearing masks outdoors! Who would want to tour like that? At least it's not summer... yet!
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Posted in: Japan reports 96,392 new coronavirus cases See in context
Wow! These Covid numbers are certainly numbers!!!
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Posted in: Japan reports 125,108 new coronavirus cases See in context
Oh yeah, Stephen is right - Korea is getting over Covid before Japan: https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2023/01/119_343849.html
I wonder how that makes "Fighto!" and friends feel!
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Posted in: Japan reports 125,108 new coronavirus cases See in context
Wow! These Covid numbers are certainly numbers!!!
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