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I'll just go to a regular kisaten myself. Don't get the obsession with watching masses of concrete and steel monstrosities.

Of course, since she (my partner) drives to work and often has to buy lunch or dinner if she is working late or can't make and take it with her.....

You can't help out with the bento/yu-han making?

What was the crime?

Tax evasion (lol).

One of the "victims" must have had connections in the right places.

They said the radioactivity levels are below the levels of drinking water after dilution. Even though noone would die drinking it, it is still industrial waste water.

Independent nuclear experts have offered to drink water and eat fish from the Pacific Ocean after Japan dumps its nuclear waste water into the Pacific.

Source: RNZ News (2023)

What I thought the treated water in the tanks was basically drinkable. Now the are saying it's not?

10 eggs back down to 199 yen.

@ /dev/random:

They=the powers that be.

What they knew=it was airbourne.

When they knew it=from the beginning.

Oh, they knew.

Made a mess of it. Why June and not July?

Why June and July?

Antarctica? Snakes are ubiquitous world wide except maybe in the polar regions.

Not true. None in Ireland or New Zealand, at least

Why did the snake catch the bullet train in Japan?

Because it wanted to get to its destination in a hissterically short amount of time.

Vietnam, a small country....

Last time I checked Vietnam was a similar size to Japan. And the population is over 100,000,000.

Another one. At least in sparcely populatied area. The big one coming for Tokyo one is going to be horrific.

“Once electric vehicles get going, costs will come down compared to the internal combustion engine. They will also be so convenient. For one, you won’t ever have to go to a gas stand,” Executive Vice President Hideyuki Sakamoto told reporters at a tour of the sprawling facility southwest of Tokyo.

Wow. I think he has been on a different planet for the past 10-15 years.

Yep, anything by the big multinationals like Starbucks or Nescafe, etc certainly feels that old to me. Disgusting.

BYD would be nothing without the help of the Chinese government.

And Tesla would be nothing without the Chinese market and US subsidies. One of the reasons it is tanking,and EV sales in general is the end of subsidies.

And by the way most big US companies (Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, any big bank, etc) would be nothing without the US government.

But domestic violence victims worry that the new system could hinder them from severing ties with their abusers.. ETC blah blah

I'm getting the concerns (and one is that the sky could fall on my head) but but the positives (for the children) far outweigh the potential negatives. Japan: welcome to the Club of Enlightened Countries.

Gone are the days of children being basically kidnapped by one selfish parent (usually the mother) or for dads being told to basically bugger off.

And where is all THAT talent supposed to come from? The level of computer literacy and English ability here is appalling. I am guessing mostly expats being paid in USD?

See many old Japanese men living out of convenience stores.

Unfortunately a sure path to financial ruin and ill health, especially at that age. There should be free home economic classes available to the elderly.

In an age of so called over tourism, these long holiday periods need to be rethought out. There is no way people are going to come back invigorated and ready to work after going through such a stressful ordeal

Mr. kishida, how about leading the world with the the establishment of a four day workweek, or so some other visionary policy that will really kickstart the economy and allow your people to live more stressful lives? Will be good for the birthrate too.

Good on Russia for snubbing it. In line with the wishes of most people and companies not connected to infrastructure or in bed with the LDP. I wonder if Israel will also boycott it?

/s

I always make the first bow and go as low and deep as possible. Never had any issues. Apart from a sore back.

Oh the irony.

What a mess the world is in since Biden came into power and the scary thing is that he is oblivious to it all. And the American people accept it. Anyway, they will BOTH be gone in a bit. Bring on the respective elections.

The U.S. authorities think they have evidence that Mizuhara was able to change the settings on Ohtani's bank account so Ohtani would not receive alerts and confirmations about transactions...

I'd like to know what bank this is. I have tried to do the same to stop my wife getting alerts from my account, but it's impossible.

So many people dying before their time recently. R.I.P big man.

Many are figuring out they can make more in Australia etc as a cleaner or checkout operator than your average salary person here.

The "working holiday" system is overwhelmed and I hear that many young women are looking for husbands in order to get PR. Then there is the problem of prostitution now with young women being denied entry.

Expect rules to be tightened up. This is about to get political.

600? That's greedy. Just two firm ones is enough for me.

To operate a taxi company one should be compelled to offer a 24/7 service. What is this stopping services at 7pm business???