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Fueling speculation that gift-giving is a common practice among lawmakers in power.

speculation? lol

@GuruMick

And nobody deserves to be stabbed to death over a small loan.

Now this is where the criminal law will apply.

Got it now ?

Can you read? How about the part where I specifically said she didn't deserve to die?

If you want to go on a rant that's fine, but don't misquote people.

Jeez...lots of victim blaming here from posters.

The perp. obviously a psycho who went crazy in a stabbing frenzy.

Yeah, I say the victim is 100% innocent.

This isn't your normal victim blaming, as the court obviously ruled that she was guilty.

No, she didn't deserve to be killed, but young women scamming older men is a common trend.

So every once in a while someone is gonna scam the wrong guy and pay for it. And let's admit it, anyone that takes out loans to lend money has at least one screw loose to begin with.

disgusting

Will be interesting to see if the prices ever go back down. Seems to me they've figured out Japanese will buy rice no matter the price.

As long as he's not a couch tard, I'm sure he'll do a good job.

Of course the price won't go down because they figured out people will buy the rice anyway. Even if rice consumption went down a little, they're making bigger profits from moving less bags of rice. Why would they want to change that?

it is just casual sex, Deal with it.

I heard some Chinese come and spread diseases on purpose.

In general graduating junior high students will have a private school as their backup, with the public school as their first choice. But yeh, I'd imagine private schools would have better facilities for sports, etc.

Good. But why are sexual assault sentences so inconsistent...

This guy obviously had no connections.

As I have noted before, if she really wants people in Japan to actually see the movie, stream it on You Tube or some other media outlet, and do it for free!

Seems to me she is more interested in making money than actually getting her message out!

Yes, on top of getting raped and ridiculed, she shoud now work for free. Sounds fair...

While some might argue that Kyoto City should employ security guards at the site full-time, with so many popular tourist sites scattered around the area, there’s only so much the city can do.

There seems to be an endless supply of old dudes standing outside building parking lots, directing traffic. How about hiring a few of them?

Perhaps a more feasible solution to the problem would be to post signs at the crossing to indicate which side of the road pedestrians should stand stand, to prevent foot traffic from colliding with each other.

At my local crossings, there are always a line of people walking and riding their bike on the wrong side. So I think they need to teach Japanese to follow the rules, first.

The rest of the pipes that have not been maintained should be identified and checked asap. 

That's almost all of the pipes in Japan. The number of pipes passing the standard service life of 50 years is rapidly increasing. So ideally they need to be fixed before these incidents happen, but they're not gonna allocate money for that..

I was never a big fan of the mound of plain cabbage strips, tbh.

Went to the supermarket after the year changed and it was a coughing fest. Luckily most of them were masked up.

Mate I would really enjoy sitting down with Takeshi and hear about his life story. Seem like a real character.

I'd just like to read a little more information on this guy, considering we hear more about people committing petty crimes every day. Even the Japanese articles refer to him as エビサワ・タケシ, and don't have his name in Kanji, or what syndicate he supposedly belongs to.

 It’s kind of ridiculous.

Not at all. 9 hospitalized just in Tokyo. What other foods cause that?

If anything they need bigger warnings.

Don't drink Starbucks much but in general I find paper straws disgusting, so this is a welcome move.

Not going to speculate if they were drinking, but when adults gather together it gives them a false sense of security and makes these tragedies more likely to happen.

Japan revised in November its guidelines for the program to enable trainees to switch workplaces more easily by clearly stating job transfers are allowed if interns are abused or sexually harassed or there has been a malicious violation of laws and regulations.

Wow, how nice of them.

Positive surprise in a way.

Not really. Shows if someone is tough enough not to confess they can dupe the system.

Remember, she is already a convicted criminal serving 3 years in prison. The judge also acknowleded he never used the drug before, but somehow that worked against him instead of in his favor. There is no doubt in my mind that she killed him.

Its not healthy for grown men to be living in a dormitory like that. People need time and space to relax by themselves. That situation is a pressure cooker.

Yes, and I read that many of them are in debt, as they pay around 6,800 USD on average to companies that set up these trainee programs, even though the limit is supposed to be 3,600 USD (which is still a lot for them I'd imagine).

One thing I would like to know. If the call came in at 5:10 what time did the ambulance get there. I’ve heard people would bleed out waiting for one. Wonder when the police arrived also.

From my experience the ambulance usually comes pretty quickly, but then they don't start moving for a long while.

2034 obviously, not 3034 :-)

What happens to the money if he is forced into early retirement due to injury or wear & tear and can’t compete the 10 years? He doesn’t have a good track record of not injuring himself and seems to abuse his body to the limit.

He doesn't have to complete 10 years, just the yearly payments are (mostly) each delayed for 10 years. Basically he makes $2 million per year from 2024, and then $68 million per year from 3034.

When you add all the money he makes from endorsements, he's still making much more than most athletes each year.

In any case, I always find with cases like these that if the person who takes/gets the money is caught, they should be forced to return it, but that should be the end of it -- it should be a wake-up call for the person who left it,

I could see if the money was just laying there, but this "company executive" had the nerve to go through the bag and then pull it out of the wallet. This jerk deserves a wake-up call himself.

There is absolutely no defense to Japan’s continuing use of poor interpreters in investigations and judicial matters, particularly in a day and age when quality interpreters can most certainly be sourced.

Nobody said it was a poor interpreter.

If you are talking about the customs official who needed to call an interpreter, do you think it would matter to him whether she knew she had drugs or not?

Nelson’s lawyer Rie Nishida said that customs officials' limited English-language ability might have led to mistranslations and the accusation that Nelson knew what she was carrying.

But, domestic major media silence and never criticize or correct no matter how many problematic campaignings on the excuse of "political fairness" during election campaign, its attitude assisted Ex-governor resultantly.

Lol, the mass media has been talking about his power harrasment nonstop for months. If they helped him, it was because their one-sided reporting led voters to believe they were being fooled the whole time.

The reality is none of us know what went on there as both sides acted before any evidence was brought forth.

This just shows the distrust people have in the old media, who only report things when it suits their vested interests. They now have egg on their face after months of tearing Saito down.

In addition to what was already mentioned, it's been said that Saito takes a salary cut and works hard on improving public schools, etc., while the old guard just want to use the money for themselves and rebuilding their own government offices.

In fact, there was construction work going on in the bathrooms at my daughter's school, but that stopped after Saito was removed from office.

That said, this could be a coincidence and I don't know if the info they're spreading on SNS/YouTube is true, but people certainly bought it.

Let's not forget that the opponent was mayor of Amagasaki when the entire city's personal information was compromised, so that didn't go down well, either.