Posted in: Japan's foreign workers hit hard by pandemic See in context
The driving license center is in Tsu, 10 minutes on food from a Kintetsu station. The written test is in English.
17 years in Japan? Got to try harder.
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Posted in: Japan's foreign workers hit hard by pandemic See in context
Maybe she would have to go to Tsu, then she could go to their Office. Maybe they have the test in English.
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Posted in: Why are some people in Japan paying big money for an old cassette tape? See in context
I remember having little money but taping albums on the radio, like Beatles Anthology 2 or a Counting Crows album or having the radio on and a cool song was on, I would tape it and make a cool compilation. I could tell what bands were the best if the tape broke, since I played it so much. You could share with others. I remember liking the Charlatans and lending my tape to a neighbor after I had taped one of their early singles in the early 90s. I was getting music for free, just paying for a blank tape.
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Posted in: Kremlin foe Navalny faces arrest as flies back to Russia See in context
I read that he outed Putin as gay along with two other things.
Obviously Putin has enriched himself but I forgot what the other thing he said was.
If he stayed in Germany I don't know what he would do or what visa he could get.
Russia kills people overseas so he probably thinks it does not matter where he lives.
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Posted in: Imagine: John Lennon shot on his doorstep 40 years ago See in context
I was ten. My teacher was sad that day. I asked him what was wrong. They shot John Lennon, he sighed.
In 2002 In August I was walking on Houston street in New York. There was a small woman between two tall men walking down the sidewalk in the other direction. The woman looked familiar but why I thought.
Oh it was Yoko Ono. Two bodyguards? It makes sense.
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Posted in: On Japan's stretched frontline, doctors and nurses face long fight against coronavirus See in context
There was a government plan to have 9,000 beds in Tsukuba as an emergency hospital.
The government had a plan to do it, as it is close to Tokyo. Tokyo can't cope well now, and the patients must go somewhere.
If the Chinese can build hospitals in Wuhan, why can't it happen here?
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Posted in: ‘Lean On Me,’ ‘Lovely Day’ singer Bill Withers dies at 81 See in context
Bury him in Arlington, Virginia
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Posted in: 'Past Lives,' Lily Gladstone win at Gotham Awards; Robert De Niro says his speech was edited
Posted in: 'Past Lives,' Lily Gladstone win at Gotham Awards; Robert De Niro says his speech was edited