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Posted in: Japan to use navigation systems to alert wrong-way drivers See in context

@DizLass

Of course it will help, immensely. It can't not be of help.

Who said anything about the alert being a 'few seconds before direct collision'?

A few second is based on actual cases that just happened recently in Tochigi this August, some news outlets even identified when that car did U-Turn from other cars that pass nearby, and tracked until collision spot. It only take really quick to accidents. So any future system that being designed need to be handle this.

https://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/26995677/

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Also if you ever went to expressway, they do have camera all over places, they can't have that camera every single mile, they do have in same parts but not all parts. That future system rely on camera to detect collision, so expect some limitation.

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Posted in: Japan to use navigation systems to alert wrong-way drivers See in context

In an effort to prevent head-on collisions, nearby vehicles driving in the right direction will also receive an alert warning them of a wrong-way driver in the vicinity.

Alert won't help especially it only need few seconds before direct collision will happen. That's what happened last week in express way.

https://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/26995677/

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Posted in: Blinken says Israel agrees to U.S.-backed proposal for cease-fire and calls on Hamas to do same See in context

So the world should make them.accountable by any legal mean 

There's thing that currently is on going.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/26/uk-wont-challenge-icc-arrest-warrant-request-for-netanyahu-gallant

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Posted in: Poll sees ex-Defense Minister Ishiba favored as next Japan PM See in context

So that will mean, defense first?

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Posted in: Can AI truly replicate the screams of a man on fire? Video game performers want their work protected See in context

Look now, how really scream for their job?

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Posted in: Mexican man found stranded on Senkaku Islands referred to prosecutors See in context

Which episodes of Narcos is this?

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Posted in: Japan reassesses anti-war actions of woman labeled 'Mother of A-bomb' See in context

Japan reassesses anti-war actions of woman labeled 'Mother of A-bomb'

Does it matter? Whatever she has been done, she contributed in stopping the war that Japan started in Pearl Harbor

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Posted in: Fukushima nuclear fuel debris retrieval to begin on Thursday See in context

Finally after waiting for, 13 years.

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Posted in: High court overturns school decertification; questions abuse evidence See in context

@Cephus

That's what justice entails, it doesn't matter about Nationality. And the article doesn't explain the reasoning , why was the student chained.

Little bit use a google won't hurt.

https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14713005

In 2021 a Vietnamese students stated his intention to quit the school and changed to other school, instead granting his right. Staff from that school locked him with metal chain and a padlock. After that he was locked in room and monitored to prevent his escape.

J Govt punished that school by decertifying that school, which right thing to do.

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Posted in: High court overturns school decertification; questions abuse evidence See in context

 he was only Vietnamese, right? Now, if this had happened on an American base to a Japanese student, for example, or a Japanese overseas, there would be demands for the death penalty, not just a school being stripped of its license for literally abducting and chaining people up.

Japanese teacher doing that to Vietnamese students, everyone in Japan try it to make it as if that negligible. Imagine if opposite happen, or foreign teacher did that to Japanese students. It will be over on the news over and over again.

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Posted in: COVID-19 on the upswing in U.S. See in context

Estimates are that over 80 million Americans are unvaccinated.

I'm glad to hear that predictions that they would fill up hospitals have turned out to be wrong.

You are right, they won't fill hospital, some of them lead to confirmed deaths by Covid, so far there are 1 millions Covid confirmed death in US.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1101932/coronavirus-covid19-cases-and-deaths-number-us-americans/

Also not all Covid death being asses properly, people can die misdiagnosed to another death cause.

Even those unvaccinated and recovered, how much does it cost? Using medicare, using tax payer money?

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Posted in: Japanese companies look to jump on 'neurodiversity' bandwagon See in context

Amid a labor shortage, this approach creates a positive cycle where companies gain new talent, and individuals are able to contribute to society in a work environment that suits them.

Japan Inc really willing to change? No, that happened because labor shortage. Otherwise they'll continue like what they've done previously.

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Posted in: Defense Ministry eyes record ¥8 tril budget request for FY2025 See in context

Isn't that Japan have been done, increasing defense budget record.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/12/22/japan/politics/record-defense-budget/

Where those money come from? Tax payer.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Defense/Japan-likely-to-put-off-raising-taxes-to-build-up-defense-until-2026

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Posted in: 4 men arrested for stealing copper cables from solar power facility in Gunma Prefecture See in context

So far there are 9000 cases and many more.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/08/01/japan/crime-legal/japan-solar-cable-thefts/

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Posted in: Japan ruling party looks to elect Kishida's successor on Sept 27 See in context

Will Japan really change after election?

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Posted in: Japan’s easy foreign tourist tax exemptions may be getting harder in order to stop fraud, resales See in context

So what they want to change by next year, instead the special counter from those shops doing the check which one is eligible, which one is not. In 2025 they want to change only officials can check that prior departure instead shopkeeper.

Another change is tourist need to pay for those tax when they buy those items and ask reimbursement in the airport. Currently tourists are exempted to pay those taxes in the first place after shopkeeper check their visa status.

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Posted in: Two killed in head-on collision on Tohoku Expressway See in context

Footage shows deliberate u-turn. What a pr%@k.

Some recorder caught that driver doing U-turn deliberately, that car basically was in the same lane with victim car and suddenly U-Turn, which finally lead to crash.

Not only that other driver also already warn the driver but blinking the light, and that car reply with light and still continue.

https://news.tv-asahi.co.jp/news_society/articles/000366226.html

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Posted in: Matsuyama, caddie, coach victims of robbery during stopover in London from Paris See in context

his caddie and coach after they were victims of a robbery during a stopover in London from the Paris Olympics, Golf Digest Japan reported.

London, Paris all the same.

https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2024/07/3826523e5c8e-olympics-japanese-athlete-says-jewelry-cash-stolen-from-room.html

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Posted in: The Geneva Conventions at 75: Do the laws of war still have a fighting chance in today’s bloody world? See in context

The Geneva Conventions at 75: Do the laws of war still have a fighting chance in today’s bloody world?

The real problem is the double standard that many countries are currently adopting, say no to some cases but say yes to other cases.

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Posted in: Foreigner climbs onto FamilyMart roof in Shibuya; yells 'I did it!' before police step in See in context

That's only few meters above, not that really impressive.

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Posted in: Greenland court orders anti-whaling activist Paul Watson must remain in custody until Sept 5 See in context

Oh no! It means I can't go around endangering others' lives at sea, as I please? Can't play pirates anymore? Really "sad" for him.

That also meant more whale meat will be available in Japanese supermarket. You like that?

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/24/asia/japan-whale-meat-vending-machine-intl-hnk/index.html

https://japan-forward.com/premium-whale-meat-at-tokyos-toyosu-market-commands-popular-interest/

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Posted in: Japan's economy grows at annual rate of 3.1% in April-June period See in context

Japan’s economy grew at an annual rate of 3.1% in the April-June period,

Remember that's only three months out of twelve months, so at the end it need to be counted as the whole year. Last year Japanese GDP only 1.9%, because it already counts all twelve months.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG?locations=JP

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Posted in: Battle to replace Kishida as PM kicks off See in context

Anyone still believe there will be a major change in Japan?

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Posted in: Two killed in head-on collision on Tohoku Expressway See in context

@WoodyLee

Simple, check the blood alcohol level first, if that was normal then the driver must decided to travel backward to get something he/she must have forgotten bcz. the next exist was just too for to drive to.

You assume that there's an intact body, the problem fire already involved.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MziWnMNRAA

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Posted in: Two killed in head-on collision on Tohoku Expressway See in context

@Antiquesaving

It could be 2nd, especially after seeing the speed. If that driver motives is the first, then it already passed several cars before actually hits.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TslXocgT2Kw

Also it's not first time wrong senior driver went wrong way in Japan and cause accident.

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20221013/p2a/00m/0na/006000c

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Posted in: Japanese worried and confused after first-ever megaquake advisory See in context

How's Japan preparation status for mega quake?

https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14575046

https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Natural-disasters/Tokyo-risks-over-6-000-untreated-deaths-in-major-earthquake

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Posted in: China public concerned how next Japanese PM will handle treated water See in context

This is Japan so everything will be same as before.

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Posted in: Man arrested for uploading obscene images of himself to SNS under name of real woman See in context

@JRO @Muramurahachibu exactly,

Police said the woman told police she doesn’t know the man.

She need to know that Japan has many people with similar name.

https://soranews24.com/2014/01/10/family-name-researcher-discovers-the-most-common-full-name-in-japan

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Combine First Name and Last Name, so many of them are not unique

https://gogonihon.com/en/blog/common-japanese-names/

https://soranews24.com/2017/07/17/government-statistics-reveal-the-most-common-japanese-surnames-makes-mr-sato-sad/

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So even that person post obscene pictures online, very unlikely he doesn't have harm intent to the person who report him.

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Posted in: Mother, child hit by car on pedestrian crossing; driver arrested See in context

@WeiWei

Driver are also human, they are prone to error. Need to have both pedestrian and driver to avoid accidents. Once accidents happen, lives are gone, what you gonna do?

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