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Norovirus is usually a fecal-oral transmission route. One of the cooks or servers have been scratching they crack during orifice hours.

AI couldn't do any worse than us humans.

The only thing that's is going up is the price of the yen against the dollar.

Whaddya know?

Science works!

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame means nothing until Milli Vanilli have been inducted.

Two of the pictures look like copies of typical Ozu scenes.

It's not surprising. He made the Tokyo-Ga documentary in 1985 about Ozu.

https://youtu.be/LyD5ePbdIdM?si=MzhyQsuG5YY9Eml5

Wenders is also a photographer. Pause any Ozu or Wenders movie and you have a well composed photograph.

We should be glad he is still filmmaking at this age.

As others have mentioned, this happens way more than you realize. Nothing to do with Japan

Sounds like somebody forgot to pay off the right officials...

The guy is a duck looking helmet tool.

People say 'the big one' is coming. Which one? Tokai? Tonankai! Full on Nankai? Sagami trough? Boso Hanto? That's just the subduction mega quakes. There are thousands of other smaller faults like in Ishikawa or Kobe that can cause major damage.

To put the icing in the cake, historical data shows any major quake in Kanto or especially Tokai has a high probability of causing an eruption of Mt. Fuji.

https://youtu.be/sxqvwkmTNy8?si=xeJhNVj0XBKTaSPQ

To displace Indigenous peoples from their lands is a grievous sin against them, their lands, their ancestors, and God (Proverbs 22:28; 23:10-11)

Very christian of them.

No matter what the crime, governments should not have the ability under law to put citizens to death.

"Listen son, you can tug yourself off all you want to porn or sex in the movies as long as you remember real sex is just a couple of uncomfortable minutes of sweating and squelching followed by days of emotional blackmail, regret and the bouts of syphilis."

Bought it for 4 million yen. Sold for 40 million yen. Donates the money.

Tax relief - noice.

PR boost - noice.

It's a win win for Mr Yoshiki

@Laguna Magnitude is measured using the Moment Magnitude Scale. The Richter is outdated.

Of the many countries I have visited, I have to say it would be between the Turks and Pakistanis for people who are just out right nice people.

What this guy is doing is amazing and should be praised. I hope the Turkish guys arranged this through some rescue charity. As he has done it before, I am guessing he did, but as others have mentioned, there is the factor of unorganized help at this stage in the disaster.

My brother-in-law was in the SDF and his unit was on maneuvers close by when the Chuestsu earthquake occurred in 2004. They were drafted in almost immediately. He was a missile engineer, but over the years they had done a lot of disaster relief training. He said of his 30+ years in the SDF, that was the hardest job he ever did, both mentally and physically. In Ishikawa currently the SDF will be doing the majority of the footwork along with other emergency services.

But I remember one thing he also said was, people, with all the goodwill in the world, came to try and help, but in the end they mainly got in the way. Blocking already difficult to use roads and using up resources.

I am guessing there are several Youtubers already rushing to the area - cameras switched on of course, and no doubt there will be tales of the 'brave and wonderful' Yakuza giving out help as they did in Kobe and other disasters - they always manage to put a nice spin on their tales even though they are scumbags who you wouldn't say hello to on a lonely day.

The Turkish guy's actions make nice news report, and what he is doing is praiseworthy, but the organized relief efforts of the SDF and other emergency services are doing the majority of work. We just don't see it because the scale is huge.

Also known as a Glasgow kiss.

Social science surveys have shown that research on the origins of sexual orientation has a strong positive influence on people's attitudes of acceptance and inclusion of LGBT people

This is why the religious right starts squawking against such studies.

Oh no! It's built into nature. We have no basis for our bigotry because god made everything.

It's funny to watch.

It was great to hear the news that they got everyone off the JAL plane.

The experts are all saying the most likely cause was a miscommunication between the flight controller and the coast guard plane. It was taxiing onto or waiting on a runway with a plane landing.

The Year of the Dragon is starting out like Smaug on crack.

It is the appropriate reaction that most people will accept in a positive way.

You can't have lived through the pandemic or any other natural disaster and not learned about Jishuku.

自粛 (jishuku), a Japanese term that means self-restraint or self-imposed restraint. Jishuku is often observed in the context of natural disasters or other national tragedies, where people voluntarily refrain from public celebrations, entertainment, or other festive activities out of respect for the victims and their families, and to show solidarity in times of collective hardship.

It's just what people do.

And to me it seems like a perfectly elegant way of expressing support.

7.6 is a strong quake. The Kobe quake was a 6.9, so this was had 5 times more power.

I hope they extinguish the fires soon. They look terrible in Wajima city. It was fires that caused to most damage during the Kobe quake.

It's a little known fact that Pierce Brosnan's real name is Fionnghuala Órlaith Nárbhflaith Ní Mhaoldomhnaigh.

Well done to Japan. Keep weed a class A drug.

Potheads are not required here

They should be celebrating the real spirit of Christmas. After all they are closer to the Virgin Mary in name and action...or lack of action.

A decent actor, but he was no Schwimmer.

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

God bless America...

Probably not.

What a bunch of cults.

This is nothing.

They just cast Wesley Snipes as Winston Churchill.

The Tories playing to the lowest common denominator crowd to win the next election.

Nothing changes.

Played the flute along side him at a Fleadh Cheoil one year. He couldn't sing in tune, but the sounds he made were beautiful.

Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam