tamanegi comments

Very sorry to hear of Mr Hoshino's passing. Deepest sympathies to his loved ones and colleagues in Japanese baseball. Sad day.

Well good luck with that…

After seeing the antics of one local in Okinawa this morning on the TOKUDANE morning show I think many in the land of Wa still strongly dislike having foreign tourists literally on their shores…

This guy was charging foreigners and more specifically Chinese beachgoers ￥20000 for daily beach umbrella rental from his beach hut.

The locals are charged only ￥2000 for a day's beach umbrella rental.

His rudimentary sign specifically said Chugokujin ￥20000.

His reason for the markup?

"Foreigners are bad mannered"

ie；Laughing and happy when having a good time.

But good on TOKUDANE for exposing the guy and the sign was removed…

Slow news day?

No apology

No inquiry

Forget about it, nothing to see here.

I met a lovely young family from China here on holidays around the Imperial Palace gardens last weekend. All four were pretty good at English despite never living abroad and the couple's son and daughter were well on their way to speaking Japanese despite their ages of 12 & 9.

We talked about our mutual interest in things Japanese and its many wonderful cultural and scenic attractions for about 20-30 minutes while I helped them out with some photos and a little local information.

They said that they had been in Tokyo for three days and had two more to go. I had been the first person to make any form of conversation with them. I'm not from Japan.

When I related this enjoyable experience to my Monday morning Japanese housewives English class the only response was from two students that said they hate Chinese people.

Good luck with that!

Cue guys in suits with barcode hairstyles Apologize for being troublesome/causing any confusion (tears optional) Announce 50 member in house panel "Cockroach watch" to be formed to discuss the issue. Bow

Agree with igloobuyer. It's a Freakshow.

I think it should have been "usotsuki" (liar) due to the continuous role call of liars in the Japanese news. Eg: Obokata, Tomita, Nonomura, Beethoven of Japan, etc.

I am still feeling disturbed and saddened by this terrible news. My family's hearts and thoughts are with Mirei and her family. We all need to watch out for children more in this world no matter where or when. I am strongly of the view though however that given the number of child abductions recently a six year old girl should not be walking the streets alone.

This is is disgusting but really nothing new here. Most Japanese men wouldn't be irked by these comments.

The Japanese lads must carry a lot of hair tone coloring in their kits!

Say you were stressed or drunk, bow for causing others trouble, take a 10% pay cut for six months and carry on.

There is no third arrow. Abe is a nationalist not an economist. Always was, always is and always will be.

Another thought bubble. A bit like PM Abe's 3rd arrow. Mr Masuzoe will be a one term governor if he runs with this.

Ice

Gotta love Saitama!

Make an apology, bow, forget, move on, nothing to see here

250 pairs in 40 years? This guy is small fry.

This story makes me glad that I gave a local obachan picking up garbage in the neighborhood at 7am a big arigato and otsukaresamadesu!

I'll never forget how Obama laughed off Mitt Romney's belief during the pre election debates that Russia would pose big problems for the west in the near future.

SenseNotSoCommon Spot on

Idiotic. So punish the players, the opposing team, 99.99% of good fans, sponsors, people with part time jobs at the stadium, caterers etc...? I'm dumbfounded. Surely the perpetrators are the ones who should be solely punished and a warning placed out and inside the stadium.

Well the rest of Japan told the region to ganbatte, so ganbatte ne.

This wasn't on NHK news today or last night.

Beginning of the end for Abe. His so called third arrow is a pipe dream but he made the LDPs business pals rich and his nationalists happy.

Only due to foreign pressure.

New building contracts will not go ahead in this business climate because construction companies fear if they take on big projects with lots of temporary and contracted workers they will have to lay them off and abandon the work when the economy tanks (and is beginning to tank again).

It's only the yakuza and their homeless recruits who are getting any of the real cleanup done around Fukushima.

They need a mascot if they want to be taken seriously.

Knowing Japan there will be nothing on the shelves at 11:59pm on March 31st anyway