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

No problems with any flagship or even most mid range and even some entry level phones these days. Don't be fooled by this. The poster above is completely correct. Amazing how many people still think phones will die if immersed in water.

And in the very unlikely event you have an ancient phone that succumbs, bake it in an oven (or open function of ya microwave) for 4-5 hours at 40-40oC. And repeat again for another 2 hours just to be sure and you're all good to go. Back in the day this trick saved many a phone and even a laptop or two.

Ride-hailing services (a wolf) in a sheep's clothing. This is nothing more than continued protectionism and keeping the status quo.

The article states spending is down for the 12th consecutive month and then attempts to spin the reason why. But we are not so easily duped now, are we, Kyodo?

Expect a similar article next month when it becomes 13 consecutive months.

Not only the anime industry.

But, but, those workers are always so lovely and polite. I'm shocked, I tell you.

Only comes out to 1 million USD? The yen really is weak.

Nonsense. Guns and safety never deterred them before. It's the astronomical costs these days. Japanese just don't have the money.

Apple stick to what you know. The Apple Car also didn't work out now did it?

Yep. Few actually want them.

Would it be considered “excessive burden” on the railway company if a hundred disabled people in wheelchairs.....

The World Wheelchair Basketball Tournament....

It isn't Bill Murray, but rather Japanese whisky that needs "more intensity." Drinkable but lacking in complexity.

And next on this bandwagon is gin.

Never understood the need to so much tissue paper in this country. Don't use it and never have. And got those washlet thingamajigs on the toilets so don't need so much toilet paper. And yeah, time to go local as much as possible for necessaries, or grow my own, especially the basics like fruit and vegetables. Supermarkets mostly seel junk these days anyway.

All of the women in the photo will be married and out of the workforce within five years or so.

No they won't. Marriage rates have plummeted and continue to fall. The average age of marriage if (and that's a big if) choosing to get married, is around 30 in Japan. Single is the new normal.

Yeah until they are all banned when one tiny thing goes wrong after a foreign home caregiver does something they not supposed to do that doesn't follow the manual. Watch this space.

Might be time for the dude in the photo to pass the mantle to the younger generation.

As I've said before, these are vehicles made with forced labor and zero regard for the environment, which send all your data back to the CCP. Anyone who buys one is directly contributing to these problems.

Yet you have no issues buying stuff made using slave conditions from all over the world. Most consumer goods probably have something in them that originates from somewhere that employs slave like conditions. You can ask Apple or Tesla or Nestle or any other US corporation about that. You'll get no comment, or course.

Except good luck contacting your wee ones. Then what about going shopping, paying for things, traveling, or doing any other multitude of things these days --even for 10 year olds. No phone, no life; almost literally now. By design. And it sucks.

Medical drugs are tested for ten years and certified.

Except when they are not. Look go what happened during a certain recently pandemic, for example.

Gosh with all these issues with interpreters recently; isn't it time that Japanese leaders took the initiative and learned to communicate by themselves in English?

Team Ippei all the way

What's that?

Go Ippei, go! I'm on your side! Etc

The timing of this is suspicious. As other posters have said, "We're not stupid, Mr. Kishida." And, you're no Koizumi, or even Abe.

What are thy going to do? Stop exporting salmon?

Not getting confused with Norway or Chile by any chance?

One of the few good things about being poor is that news like this means nothing to me and has zero impact on my life!

Why are you poor, man? By choice? You sound pretty intelligent, so should be no problem bringing in the dough.

Just another nail in the coffin of the increasingly irrelevant tech industry here.

The posters above are on the right track. It is that highly processed cheap, bleached "salt" and refined sugar they put into highly processed foods that will kill you.

Will be spending exactly zero yen. You know what they say about fools and their money.

Yeah yeah and happened in multiple countries at the same time. Sorry Maccas, not buying it.

Nothing should happen unless he is tried and convicted in a court of law.

Unfortunately that's no longer the world we live in today. His career is ruined now, either way. Guys: have to be careful and never give in to those urges, especially if a person in the public eye. A single rumour can ruin you.

Noise and bright flashing lights have always deterred me from entering a pachinko parlor.

Watched the Pachinko scene in Lost in Translation and that was enough for me.