Paul Scott comments

I really have wanted to try doing this kind of work for a long time but thought I wouldn’t be able to, so I never really actively tried to

Life-long dream attained!

Aim for the stars, kid. Oh...you already were a star.

Is it only in Japan that this happens? Or is it that we only hear about it happening in Japan? It seems utterly bizarre and even more strange, not that uncommon here!

Has blockchain found a use beyond crypto trading?

This is a very long article that could be replaced with the word 'no'.

This article implies that had they simply been better at hiding they never would have been caught. Are Japan's border detection methods really so horrible?

But art "should be shared so that it can be a part of everyone's lives," he added.

Now that I've made my $13m.

It's interesting that you would create an article like this but not list the 29!

I think it is Americans who mostly get upset about the NHK fee. In Europe and UK this is normal for us! I just paid it when they showed up. I can't be bothered to hide from the NHK man and deal with all the stress every time the doorbell goes.

They do provide the news in English and Sumo in English and some other shows too. So for me I'm ok with it.

Have they ever actually seen a spaceship? It looks like...a subway train with the corners flattened.

I had a trip home planned for the first time in over 2 years. Now I am scared that if I leave I won't be able to get back in even though I have PR status.

Yes, I am in the same situation. It's such a stressful situation. Just when we thought there was some light at the end of the tunnel.

If this variant was found in Europe and not Africa I wonder if the response would have been different.

Mishima is somehow a Japanese company despite making Scandanavian-styled furniture in Silicon Valley with a Vietnamese CEO!

https://www.treehugger.com/more-trees-than-there-were-years-ago-its-true-4864115

Why people are downvoting these types of answers with sources is beyond me!

What?! But things are going so well! #Baffled

There's an awful lot of questions raised by this story!

How did they get to Sapporo? To drive would take more than a day!

Also very strange that they found them at the airport, but I thought the man had the girl at his residence?

Oh for follow up reporting in Japan (which never happens).

Japanese automakers seem very reluctant to go all electric. We have a solar powered house and an 'eCar' would be essentially free to run for us, but finding one in Japan is no easy challenge (the Nissan Leaf excepted).

I tried to see this in Nagoya 2 years ago but didn't get there in time!

Are there 3 comfort woman statues? I know there is one in Berlin and one in Korea...is this one different or the same?

I think there should be a campaign to mass produce these and drop them at various parts all over the world!

But. disappointing that this article makes no mention of the artist's name! The creator of this statue is completely forgotten...

Perhaps in another country the ruling party would be fearful of political fallout from this and of losing their place of power. There is an election coming up this year after all. But, we can simply expect to see some deep bowing, an apology for the dead, and then everyone will be voted back in.

The Japanese people are just as much to blame here, because they have given their politicians carte blanche to do what they want.

by adding checkboxes to a document that doctors are required to submit 

More faxes!

I used to post a weekly virus status video online where I commented continuously on the lack of testing. I was repeatedly attacked, bullied, harangued, whatever you want to call it, by Japan Inc supporters as me over-reacting. This was from March to June last year, and then I just gave up. It wasn't worth the hassle.

To say caught off guard is ridiculous.

he choose a slender knife, used for slicing sashimi, called a Yanagiba hocho. Its blade is unsuitable for stabbing humans.

Seems to have done the trick though. What a bizarre thing to say!

Japanese cyberattack countermeasures = fax machines

If the trains ran better between Yamanashi and western Tokyo, problem solved.

But the trains have never done that, and as we all know, the most important thing in Japan is to do things as they have always been done!

Surely the title should be 'Turns owning an overpriced Tokyo Mansion into nightmare'.

All we are seeing is the inevitable from the Japanese lack of demand of quality housing. Living in a dog-kennel was always going to become a problem. I'm so tired of hearing 'but Japan is a small island, that is why the places are small'. The places are small because developers build them and people buy them.

I am building a new house (not in Tokyo) and it is literally a daily battle with my wife and the builder who want to make the house smaller and smaller. It is utterly bizarre.

There is definitely something fishy here. I find it almost impossible to believe that their system is as fragile as they are claiming.

To me there is a clear pattern on hacking happening in Japan's (seemingly insecure) financial systems. First the DoCoMo app was hacked, then the trading accounts were hacked, and now the exchange. All in the space of 8 weeks.

I look forward to the hard-nosed investigative journalists of Japan getting to the bottom of this.

Will they ban ads that mock foreigners too?

No international business in their right mind would relocate to Japan - unless they had a contract with the Japanese government that required them to have a presence here - because you have to look at the history of a country and how receptive and accommodating they are to your business and your workers.

There are a HOST of reasons why Japan is a BAD CHOICE to locate a business in. HK was a much better option until a few months ago - much better tax rate (read: 0% on non-HK sales if you qualify), and cheaper local workers who actually speak multiple languages that are used around the world. Singapore is becoming a better option now (though a lot more expensive).

Maybe the Japanese government thinks that no one will look into the past, but unless they take concrete LEGAL steps to correct past issues then of course past behavior is still possible in the future.