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"showed flagging sales" should it not be, "showed lagging sales"?

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As long as this country keeps promoting aging oyajis to positions of power, nothing is going to change. People need to step up and put progressive and forward thinking individuals to these positions.

But who am I kidding...

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Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Musk is a prime example.

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CCTV?

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I thought dolphins were supposed to be the friendliest and the most intelligent of all animals.

Some people would say the same thing about humans when speaking of "intelligence."

However with supreme intelligence comes supreme stupidity.

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Sounds familiar. Here's one that sometimes occurs: you are with your Japanese spouse in a department store and ask a question of the 店員in perfect Japanese (after 35 years here, I am fluent), and they then ignore you and respond while looking at your spouse (as if to say, "this gaijin will probably not understand what I am about to say, so I will address the spouse to be sure.")

More than sometimes, sorry to say.

Whenever this happened whether in a restaurant or some other place, I would usually speak up and ask why they are responding to my wife and not to me directly? This was often followed by a blank stare on the staff's face. However, this was causing a lot of tension whenever we as a family would go out to eat. My wife did her best to understand my reasons for being frustrated but was having a hard time dealing with the tense situations. So I decided to bite my lip for the sake of my family and not take it to heart when this sort of thing happened. Most Japanese do not even realize that they are being rude (microaggressive) as this is a sub-conscience response to speaking to someone who does not look "Japanese".

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Yasukuni also includes a museum that portrays Japan largely as a victim of US aggression in WWII and makes scant reference to the extreme brutality of invading Imperial troops when they stormed through Asia.

This.

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I do it sometimes... but usually unintentionally.

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There is definitely something to be said about excessive heat being linked to having a short fuse, but to actually pick up a knife and kill someone is a whole different thing all together.

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on suspicioning of

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Probably the man was never at home and the wife simply couldn't manage everything alone, leading to this conflict and conclusion.

There are many families around the world living in this same scenario but to connect it to the conclusion of killing your wife and children is inaccurate to say the least. This is an extremely rare outcome and takes someone with deep rooted psychological issues to carry out.

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Stop buttons might be a good idea. However for the people riding the escalator when the button is activated, their momentum would carry them forward causing potentially more injuries or worse. Especially for those going down.

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Having staff placed at the top and bottom of the escalator to help with customers may be an idea. Especially with the aging population. It seems like a win win situation. People get jobs/ people get help.

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Interesting how people blame the ones trying to stop the thefts instead of the ones that are perpetrating them.

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In my experience, most residents living in these areas tend to take the "tourist attractions" for granted as these sites are a constant part of their everyday environment. It may be up to the municipalities to come up with alternative commuting options for the locals during high seasons.

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As much as I agree with using initials, I disagree with listing the employees position/ rank as that may encourage a degree of "looking down upon" to the clerk. A potentially irate customer may think that this "crew" staff has no power and will want to speak to someone of a higher rank. I only think it may add fuel to the fire.

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Potential retaliation to a bullying incident?

Either way... he carried it way too far.

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Did he stalk her in Gifu? Then went back to Yamagata? Is he from Gifu and went to Yamagata to stalk her?

I get more confused the more I try to make sense of this article.

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People here treat their minivans like their living room; TV on, kids unstrapped and climbing over and between the chairs and the car is in motion. I see this kind of thing every week. If something happens it is 100% due to parental negligence.

As much as I agree with you. The parents are not the only ones to blame. The government and law enforcement have been woefully negligent in enforcing the law. Proper law enforcement would eventually change people's perceptions as it has with driver seat belts. And not properly securing children in a vehicle is only one of many laws that are not enforced.

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The traditional working model is so ingrained into society that it will be difficult to change or modify.

The data shows that teleworking and a shortened work week both increase productivity, promote a healthier work/life balance and reduces the carbon footprint. Seems like a no-brainer that this is the direction all societies should be following. However...

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Maybe they should have replaced all those various creative items with a single apple instead.

Oh wait... they did. Metaphorically speaking.

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Interesting that there is not one person on the poster with dark brown or black hair. Just sayin'.

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I bought one of these "akiyas" just over a year and a half ago. We were fortunate to find a house and land that were meticulously maintained by the deceased owner's family. A diamond in the rough per se.

I can go for a 15 min walk in my neighbourhood and see no less than 10 empty houses. So I can understand that this is a problem that is only going to get worse before it gets any better. And btw... most of the people living in my neighbourhood are 70+ years old.

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Funny how they bestow light custodial sanctions on theirs, usually, but they try to deflect on me when I pass by the "12" box, for nothing, but as this section indicates, they continue to extirpate thier society....eventually making it intolerable.

I'm sorry but I cannot understand wth this statement means.

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She was also arrested in November 2022 for stabbing her daughter in the back, but later released without charge.

WTF!?

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Worst mascot ever.

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At least he was smart enough not to use a weapon. But unfortunately he was not smart enough to know not to return to the scene of the crime.

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When in Rome...

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It's possible that this rule goes against the constitution. However, for those in the know, written law tends to not have much relevancy when it comes to being enforced.

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Simply shoplifting the food would have been the better choice of two evils. Unlikely the clerk would have challenged him.

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