Suzanne Starr comments

I'm very fond of green tea, as it would be a staple of visiting my grandmother daily in grade school.

In Los Angeles we have a matcha specialty store that sells matcha/hojicha soft serve and many other tea products. Today I will open my bag of ara-cha, so I'm very excited.

yokohamarides

Thank you for posting sources, I agree.

I'm not sure how many of you think she's not a victim.

A child having sex with an adult for money, that indeed makes her a victim. She is not an adult.

Some failed to raise her. Someone failed to look out for her. Many took advantage of her. And yet it's the child's fault just because there's a slight chance that she wanted the abuse?

The coward chose to hit the children instead of the other car.

Blinded by light is a poor excuse.

Absolutely mortifying. I don't know the death penalty laws in Japan, but in the US it's very expensive for tax dollars because of legal fees involved.

https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/costs-death-penalty

I don't think I'll ever be able to agree nor disagree with the death penalty.

Andy

So it's the children's fault that they are prostituted? It's still a crime for the other party to partake. Besides, where are your numbers and sources that most of them weren't victims? By your high standards.

I've been to many theme/amusement/rollercoaster parks and these incidents are very common. Not newsworthy, except in Japan maybe.

Tofu, salmon, and sardines have more calcium than milk.

Regards to te family. Rest in peace

Here is data. Use it.

https://ethics.journalists.org/topics/withholding-names-and-information/

Anyway, young children were still ejected from the vehicle and the child-seat had torn itself apart in the crash.

While it is highly probable that the child was unrestrained, what many people do not know is that most child-seats protect efficiently only up to 48kph. It is not advertised and only found in the manual.

There are multiple tragedies where vehicles had crashed at 80 kph

People here are placing quite a bit of blame on a 16 year old minor.

After reading the memo, I find it incredibly misleading. It sounds like the writer was simply butthurt that his political opinions weren't wholly welcome in the workplace. Thinly veiled with some science, he attempts to push his own political agenda based on social right-wing biases.

The biggest problems with his little memo are that 1. it did not provide any applicable suggestions to use in the workplace. Meaning he complained and stated what he "wants". 2. if this memo was meant to be used as critical thought to improve the workplace it should have been submitted to HR and/or his supervisor not other employees. Which means he did not intend to improve the workplace but spread his opinions, hoping they'll be taken as facts. 3. his language relies on social media buzz words to explain his thoughts and was not the language of a Harvard graduate.

"De-emphasize empathy.... relying on affective empathy—feeling another’s pain—causes us to focus on anecdotes, favor individuals similar to us, and harbor other irrational and dangerous biases. Being emotionally unengaged helps us better reason about the facts.."

What, we should become cold robots?

"Be open about the science of human nature. ○ Once we acknowledge that not all differences are socially constructed or due to discrimination, we open our eyes to a more accurate view of the human condition which is necessary if we actually want to solve problems. "

He's shifting the concentration from discrimination to nature in an attempt to make it seem like discrimination isn't a large factor in the lack of women in the technological workforce. Which is incorrect inherently.

I give this memo a thumbs down.

My friends worked 35 hrs/week while enrolled full time in college. It's possible and the kids probably needed the money to survive.

On the other hand though, if you can't afford to live and go to college in another country without working full time you probably shouldn't be studying abroad. It looks more like they wanted an easy visa to work full time illegally, which is the problem.

Bernie O'Mahony

No I completely agree. I'm in opinion that the purchaser of the property is responsible for researching the location for common nuisances. Especially since the base was definitely built before a bulk of the residents purchased the property. Regardless whether the property is near train tracks, an airport, an airforce base, daycare, etc.

Now if the seller did not communicate such a large nuisance before signing the contract, that's a problem I can get behind.

Yubaru

While I agree, this story was not written by JT.

It was pulled from SN who pulled it from YNJ.

sensei258

Neither do I...

jcapan

I agree, lived in Florida for 20 years. My calf was eaten up one time and the pain was mortifying.

We also have the "cow killer" ants as well in the countryside and thankfully I have never come into direct contact with one.

These ants spread quick and will instate their own, new queen. I'm glad they were found before irreversible damage was done.

Of those deaths, more than 40 percent involved people deemed non-obese -- indicating that being overweight, even without being obese, is leading to millions of premature deaths.

I have issue with this statement. There is conflicting evidence indicating the opposite in 2016 studies.

Meaning, that weight does not directly influence the rate of disease and this statement oddly proves that. There is also conflicting evidence concerning BMI, it turns out to be an ineffective measurement of excess weight.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106268439

Horrible, I hope the best for her.

That conbini was my favorite spot for sandwiches every morning after my run, while in Tokyo for 2 weeks.

Juyoh, down the street, is a nice little cheap hotel.

dcog9065

I consider studying for one's job IN the workplace as "work". For example, why is it required for an employee to study for a job on his or her own time?- Is how I take it.

She was not a student but a trainee, more like an assistant. So, she had way more than 48 hours of overtime.

Looks like something Osomatsu would do.

Blattamexiguus

By "new in town" I think GW meant as in the JT community.

If you read JT often, you'd obviously notice the pattern of crime reported in Saitama, which has become a JT inside joke.

So yes, you must be new in town.

thepersoniamnow

Are you insinuating that he was wrong in believing that barriers would prevent the blind and drunk from accidentally falling onto train tracks at stations...?

He could have simply fallen asleep.

> There's your medical condition! He was tired!

Undiagnosed narcolepsy is a medical condition. Some people never know they have it until it hits hard.

I know someone who has it and didn't know until he hit the guard railing on the hwy and flipped his car. He was unharmed.

Good for Bombardier. It's said that the company isn't doing so hot.

Disillusioned

People do not deserve to have their things stolen if they fall asleep on a train. Victim blaming is not appropriate for crime done to them. Or did you have a point in your rant of those with bad breath?

You do not put a child in the front seat due to airbags being lethal. RIP, I feel so bad for the father who will have to bury his wife and youngest daughter, while the oldest daughter is in a coma.

In my experience, taxi drivers in Sumida and Asakusa were very pleasant. Hope the best for them.