Sandoval comments

There is liability in cases like this one and that’s why I always purchase one day insurance when I go skiing. I am always nervous when skiing in Japan because there are lots of people who just sit in the middle of slope when they fall and they are just calling the incident to happen. I am not great skier by any stretch of the imagination, but at least I tend to move to the side when I fall.

I don’t know what actually happened and can’t blame the poor little girl since it was obviously not her fault. I just wanted to give my experience from the slopes.

Personally I don’t care about nationality, race, gender, sexual orientation as long as that person is the best fit for the role. I would not care if I had to hire a cat if it would fit the job. I strongly believe in meritocracy. If someone is minority they should have an equal chance entering the workplace, not a priority because that kind of priority is just discrimination.

I will sound like a broken record every time this topic is mentioned. Bullet climbing is not an issue. People climbing without any skills and proper equipment are. And as long as people working at the gates are not using their heads but constantly only following “bullet climbing bad” rule nothing will change the situation. During the approaching typhoon they were letting people in jeans and everyday clothes up the mountain which is highly irresponsible from their part. But at least those people were not bullet climbing

I have some anecdotes regarding the topic.

I was walking around my neighborhood and some elderly guy fell while riding a bicycle. Some people were closer to him and went to help him out so I would be just in a way if I tried to help as well. Then that old guy told them that he was drunk and my immediate thought was “serves you well”. It was not that late and him being drunk could hit and injure a toddler for example so I agree with high fines for drunk driving.

Another one is regarding one T shaped intersection with traffic lights. Cyclist on the main road often ignore red light for them and just continue going downhill which can result in either pedestrian injuries or they could get hit by a car coming from the side road.

My final one is about unknown cyclist who was ringing like crazy and screaming at another cyclist girl who was texting while driving. Unfortunately because of morons like that girl people have a bad image of cyclists and I applaud him for trying to make others to follow the traffic safety rules. Definitely wish that majority of cyclists were like that guy.

Technology failures happen. There are no exceptions. It unfortunately happened there and the result was partial cancellation of the rides for the day. No derailment, no injuries, no infrastructure or vehicle damage. I would consider that as a win in my book.

I tried it and it was just subpar to readily available meat like beef, pork etc. Most of the people that I know that tried it have the same opinion. This feels like a niche industry pushing to get the bigger market share by force.

I hope this and traffic lights ignoring by cyclists will be actually fined in practice. Just this year I almost got hit several times because of those reasons

I went to Shizuoka side this month and there were multiple signs against bullet climbing. During my climb weather got rainy and they were letting people in jeans and regular sneakers up the mountain. Or even with vinyl 100¥ shop rain ponchos. And they still consider bullet climbing to be the issue…

I don’t know why are they pushing 3 saddles bridge which is terrible when it comes to intonation when there is 6 saddles bridge which is much better when it comes to the intonation and setup.

I am completely fine with the idea and supportive to transgender people and I personally know several of them.

However, I strongly believe that in professional sports competitions only biological gender should matter. In some sports biological males are way stronger than females which is giving them unfair advantage. Also, what is stopping countries like China to abuse the system and forcefully make some of their athletes female and send them to compete.

Will they ban people without adequate equipment eg. trying to climb in sandals or flip flops (I personally saw people trying to climb Fuji like that)? Bullet climbing is not an issue, unprepared people are.

Even in EU this is common practice. But, you can’t find the information online and you have to ask staff for the details. Sometimes it is even free for the locals who live in the same city or county.

I watched interview with her before she was arrested and interestingly she spent all the money at host clubs. That is just insane.

Their shares are overinflated to start with. Then their fully autonomous driving is coming “next year” since 2014. Not to mention flops like Semi, that android thing etc. So many promises and so little stuff done. No surprises there.

And at the same time review process duration for permanent resident visa went from 2 months in average to more than a year.

Japan can manufacture a great piece of hardware. But when it comes to software it is completely different story.

Sad news for the sport :(

Few points here:

2000¥ fee

Personally I don’t see the problem. I climbed Fuji during the season twice and out of season once. During the season I always paid 1000¥. If the 2000¥ is too much for someone, Shizuoka side is free and of season climbing is free although not for inexperienced.

bullet climbing

Japanese media is vilifying doing this kind of climbing. I agree that some inexperienced and unprepared people doing this can result in injury or worse, but for anyone else who is familiar with hiking there are no issues whatsoever IMHO.

“not interesting mountain”

Fuji is indeed not that interesting hike, but I still strongly believe it’s worth doing it. Especially if you’re tourist from abroad. It can be done without much fuss, while other mountains are not as accessible by public transportation.

Why would they do it? I think this would diminish Godiva's image more than it would raise Mister Donut's. Maybe that is why I am not in marketing.

And having Godiva branded products in konbinis is doing well for the brand?

Anyhow, I am looking forward to try them.

I am looking forward for this. As a pedestrian I had several close calls with cyclists who are driving on the sidewalk while texting on the phone or with those riding on the road and almost hitting me on the crosswalk while they had red light and me having a green light.

Proper way how to do work from above aka rope access is to use two ropes at all time. Your descending device is on one and backup device which activates during certain speeds is on the another. Of course, wearing safety harness is a must. Piece of wood between two ropes is not remotely enough. Poor guy fell to his death before of the negligence.

I’ll be honest and say that I am probably spending too much time on my phone while in transit. However, after exiting the train and until the exiting the station I won’t look into my phone. Some people are looking into their phones like zombies. Lots of them are either playing games, watching series/anime etc. and they are making congestion. Why is such a problem to stop looking at your phone, exit the station and continue doing whatever you were doing before? I personally have 0 considerations for all of those phone zombies when trying to get out of the station.

Interestingly that no one mentioned a scandal where all Rakuten employees were supposed to sign up friends and family members to Rakuten Mobile. Basically engineers working at Rakuten HQ got a memo that whatever they were doing there was secondary, signing up new people to Rakuten Mobile was their primary task.

Increasing from 5,500 yen to 7,500 yen (36-percent increase): Hibiki Japanese Harmony

Increasing from 4,500 yen to 7,000 yen (56-percent increase): Yamazaki Hakushu

Increasing from 5,000 yen to 6,000 yen (36-percent increase): Suntory World Whisky Ao

Increasing from 4,000 yen to 6,000 yen (50-percent increase): Chita

Except for Ao and Chita good luck finding the others with those prices.

FailWork

When I was kid my father used to work overseas a lot and he was always telling me that he is guest overseas and that all people going overseas should respect customs and wishes of the natives. Let’s be honest, most of the people commenting here are non-Japanese. Our wishes do not matter here. It seems that locals don’t want Halloween on the streets of Shibuya. However, there are still lots of alternatives although in much smaller scale like clubs, bars etc. if one wants to participate in it. Some are even calling Shibuya mayor to resign. Well, if this is really huge mistake as some people in the comments want to point out, he should be outvoted in the next ward elections.

Calling radioactive contaminated water "treated water" itself is also deceptive despite containing many kinds of radioactivity such as iodine129, strontium90, ruthenium106, technetium99, cesium137, plutonium239, carbon14 or cadmium113 even after filtering.

This is top level scientific illiteracy.

ALPS system can successfully remove everything except tritium. Use muddy water as example. Mud is dissolved in water and can be filtered out just like those isotopes. However tritium behavior is the same as hydrogen and it can form a water molecule and that is why it is so tricky to filter out.

I would also like to add that running nuclear power plants are releasing way more tritium than Daiichi one

I would like to know how much investment and inferstuctre Japan has made into wind, and solar power, also methane gas generator from waste food and human waste, let's face it oil is running out and we all know the problems with nuclear stations.

Japan is in top 5 worldwide solar energy producers (easiest to check is Wikipedia). Speaking of nuclear energy the biggest problem is old technology and lack of investment into newer one. It is the same as if we judged cars being unsafe based on cars produced in 60s.

We have helium in finite quantities on Earth and why should we waste it for stupid reasons like this?

He was predicting that self driving cars (Teslas) will be the thing “next year” since 2014 and we still don’t have any fully autonomous driving vehicles on the road in 2023. So I am calling this prediction BS.