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Posted in: Visa overstayers in Japan face stigma of criminality See in context

 woman had emerged from a second-floor room of the building carrying a garbage bag. The moment she descended the stairs, Gunma prefectural police investigators and officers from the Immigration Services Agency rushed her.

Not all people carry their wallet with zaryu card when they throw away their garbage, careful folks.

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Posted in: Visa overstayers in Japan face stigma of criminality See in context

@Meiyouwenti

Because that’s what they are: common criminals. They broke the law of their host country.

Not all crime are the same, this kind of activities is considered as victimless crime, which also considered as non-violent crime.

https://www.usf.edu/student-affairs/victim-advocacy/types-of-crimes/non-violent-crimes.aspx

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You'll be safer with those people sit next beside you then stressful salaryman that ready to attack any person nearby.

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Posted in: Japanese schoolboy killer in China executed See in context

@Mr Kipling

You do know that the "99% conviction rate " has been debunked long ago. Japan does have a higher conviction rate, the main reason being that so many fewer cases actually make it to court. Any doubt and the prosecutors tend to drop the case.

Do you aware that not all people are guilty? Even those innocent being included in "fewer cases"

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Posted in: 70 lawmakers make cross-party visit to Yasukuni Shrine See in context

By doing that, someone just expected that will solve all Japanese current problem such as stagnant economy, declining population, labor shortage. That's really make sense right?

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Posted in: Visa overstayers in Japan face stigma of criminality See in context

Visa overstayers in Japan face stigma of criminality

Not only overstayers, all foreigners in Japan that doesn't look Japanese, face stigma everyday.

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Posted in: Oscar voters required to view all films before casting ballots See in context

Oscar voters will be required to demonstrate that they have watched all the films in each category before they cast their final ballots

How you evaluate if you don't really see that movies?

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Posted in: Central Tokyo condo prices top ¥100 mil for 2nd straight year See in context

While people salary in Japan stuck in the same number, that's really some achievement.

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Posted in: Mother acquitted of defrauding co-op by starving child See in context

Japan has economy problem, so mother willing to do that, really?

While Condo price is rising from to time in Japan.

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Posted in: Nvidia CEO meets Ishiba See in context

The CEO of 2.36 Trillion dollar company will to come and talk, not only that willing to look someone in the eye. However the counterpart is looking to the ceilings?

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Posted in: Trump renews attack on Federal Reserve Chair Powell; Dow Jones tumbles 1,000 points See in context

So man made recession is coming now?

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Posted in: Japanese schoolboy killer in China executed See in context

At least Chinese caught that perpetrator red handed, so they executed the right person. Unlike Japanese that use confession for making someone guilty just to get 99% conviction rate.

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Posted in: Japanese society as a whole is sinking, and society is becoming one where it is not easy to feel motivated, but coming here makes you think that the future can be bright. See in context

Japanese society as a whole is sinking, and society is becoming one where it is not easy to feel motivated, but coming here makes you think that the future can be bright.

Don't forget to mention about Japanese economy, is there anything new that Japan Inc and JGovt being done lately?

but coming here makes you think that the future can be bright.

Here's something bright, learn foreign language and go abroad.

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Posted in: Police appeal for help 10 years after arson-murder of woman in Kanagawa See in context

was wearing a black long-sleeved shirt and white face mask.

That's really useful "clue" anything else that can be useful?

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Posted in: The awful working conditions of factories that slaughter bird-flu-infected chickens See in context

tend to get contracted, sub-contracted and sub-sub-contracted out, the final responders being small businesses struggling to survive in an economy absorbed in bigger things.

 – were foreign, mainly Vietnamese, Chinese and South Korean, perhaps inured to tougher work than most Japanese will willingly accept

Middleman just get more more juicy money, at the end foreign cheap labor who need to do the job with minimum pay.

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Posted in: Tariffs could lift Boeing and Airbus plane prices even higher See in context

even higher

Even higher, isn't that airplane all about, fly even higher?

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Posted in: Ishiba sends offering to Yasukuni Shrine See in context

That will help inflation and current global tariffs war

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Posted in: Social media helps fuel growing 'sex tourism' in Japan See in context

JGovt try to make money from tourist now there's a niche market where those tourist spend their money, what JGovt done about that? Instead JGovt, taxing people who want to climb Fuji.

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Posted in: Man arrested for attempted murder found hanging inside public prosecutors building See in context

Just another victim of a system that try to push 99% of conviction.

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Posted in: Bus driver who pocketed 1,000 yen in fares denied 12 million yen in retirement money See in context

Too bad he drove all passenger safely so he can work until his retirement, at the end they just take his hard work retirement package.

He also should aware there's dashcam all the time in many buses route in Japan, should think that before taking 1000 yen.

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Posted in: Organizers, visitors bracing for hot weather at Osaka Expo See in context

Organizers, visitors bracing for hot weather at Osaka Expo

Wait until end of June, July and August there, it will be many people saying atsuidesune.

That expo supposed to show latest technology from over the world including Japan, however Japan come up with make visitors uncomfortable, that just Japanese way in doing things. Make things uncomfortable and complicated.

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Posted in: Mount Fuji climbers to be required to wear proper clothing See in context

@GBR48

Plenty of options to raise the bar. You should not be allowed up without a sherpa, adequate supplies on your mule, fluency in medical Japanese in case of accident, Fuji climbing insurance, and Kendal Mint Cake. That'll get the numbers down. And no paragliding.

Exactly, Japan won't run out of idea to make things expensive and difficult, that insurance things that you mentioned can be just one example that might be added in the future, it also can be a climber e-tracker that must be rented with deposit money for "safety" purpose. Or it can be specific glow in the dark scarf for easier to be seen in case of emergency that must be rented with deposit money, or mandatory supply that need to be purchased on the spot for "emergency and safety. The list just getting longer and longer.

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Posted in: Mount Fuji climbers to be required to wear proper clothing See in context

@John-san exactly, that just the fact based on past incident.

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Posted in: U.S. Navy to ship home radioactive waste from carrier at Japan base See in context

Great they learned what happened in Okinawa, any toxic material should brought back.

Good for Japan and good for their all their service member.

https://features.japantimes.co.jp/agent-orange-in-okinawa/

https://www.militarypoisons.org/latest-news/veterans-administration-and-department-of-defense-continue-to-ignore-suffering-caused-by-agent-orange-in-okinawa

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Posted in: Widow of Japan ex-PM Abe links Taiwan's safety with that of Japan See in context

Can someone tell what is her credential to make that statement?

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Posted in: Vocational schools that once trained young carpenters are disappearing. Without better pay and stability, younger generations are avoiding the trade altogether, leaving behind an aging workforce. See in context

Japan should stop blaming young people that become uninterested for rigid structure and low payment. Not only that if anyone walk across construction site, not only those people need to lift heavy items, they also being yelled at. Who really want that kind of job? Only foreign cheap labor.

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Posted in: Can Japanese government make AI-generated Ghibli images illegal? See in context

If OpenAI just another Japanese startup, Japanese media will love to see bust their office by law enforcement because copyright infringement. However since OpenAI so huge and not based in Japan, got many backup from Govt, there's nothing Japan can do.

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Posted in: Japanese warships dock at Cambodia's Chinese-renovated naval base See in context

Japan can sail and harbor in China developed port, however can Japan really go to war?

Especially with newrecruit shortage.

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https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15337395

https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3270174/japan-military-hiring-hit-low-birth-rate-pay-many-reluctant-give-good-life

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Posted in: Mount Fuji climbers to be required to wear proper clothing See in context

growing concerns about overcrowding, with many lightly dressed climbers seen on the mountain last year

That's so Japanese, Ok there's concern however what that concern really about? It caused what? What are actual numbers for that?

Actual concern should be really placed on elderly climber many of those elderly climber end up couldn't make it to the top and end lifeless.

Fatalities and missing people, half of them is occupied by elderly over 60s, that just the fact.

https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/society/general-news/20240712-198263/

https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h02025/

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However lightly dressed people should become less for the concern, should concern about climber age instead.

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Posted in: Ishiba wants to see specific progress in next U.S. tariff talks See in context

wants to see specific progress in next U.S. tariff talks

People of Japan want to see specific how Japanese can do about Japan's own tariffs so people can get affordable price, so far nothing happened. Just check it by yourself when you do groceries this weekend.

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