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It's a very big problem. We need to take it seriously

= we need to takes steps to increase our ability to hide our usual (corruption) activities.

Why do so many US women celebs / artists feel the need to dress like strippers in a cheap club?

Why don't they try to out-class one another instead of trying to out-sluttiness one another.

Whatever happened to being modest. Sighs :(

Just another mindless 'Nippon Kaigi' far-right and ultranationalist drone. She'll be devoid of independent critical free thinking.

Out of interest, is Sanae Takaichi trans gender?

Must have dinosaur JR train staff as timing officials. Hence 3 minutes late in unacceptable :)

Crown Prince Fumihito, the emperor's younger brother, has said he approves of his daughter's marriage to Komuro but suggested it has to be welcomed by a so-far skeptical public.

skeptical public haha...

Pssh - the public doesn't care. Only the IHA cares about this nonsense.

@Kaermashita I too hope he'll be able to stay.

But... If he refuses to leave he'll get deported, or locked up for a long time then deported. Japan has no feelings or compassion towards those who seek refuge.

How does that work? Does the race only contain swimmers with one arm and one leg? Is that how events are planned based on number and location of limbs?

Is there a separate event for swimmers with one limb missing?

If I have one leg missing and you have one arm missing, do we race in the same event?

I never thought about this until just now.

70 year old with a saw.... A taser would have been more than enough to take him down. Like in most fatal shootings of crazy people.

Give the food away to the homeless...

Remember, this is Japan where EVERYTHING is unnecessarily overcomplicated and inundated with rules and interfering bureaucratic nonsense.

Which means it's probably forbidden to give food away unless you go through a very lengthy application and approval process.

Hence throwing it away is easier. Welcome to Japan :)

If the fun police (prefectural and federal authorities) get there way, they's close them all down :(

Classic Japan. 210,000 happy people, but it's going to be watered down because of a few. Sort of inverse Darwinism :(

What about "Excessive food, bento and snacks/gifts packing"....

Tokyo’s Kabukicho district isn’t just about the nightlife – it has traditional festivals too

That's like saying Adult porn magazines also have great articles.

What an incredibly stupid and dangerous idea. The true (lack of) heart and compassion of certain people in power is on full display.

If any school allows just one child to go, the head of that school should fired for incompetence and forever ridiculed.

Which is more popular in Japan: British English or American English?

The word 'British' is not necessary in that title.

There is English, then all other variations of it. i.e. American English, Australian English etc, etc.

Japan's systems are designed to support those in government and big businesses, especially those affiliated with 'ahem' government projects and 'amakudari'.

The woman, who is of Chinese origin

Japanese people originate from a mixture of Chinese and Korean, so why is this relevant?

Meanwhile in Japan... The few that try get locked up for months (even yers) and treated like a lower species and criminals until denied then deported.

What was the point of the recent long war in Afghanistan?

Is FB aware that atheism is rapidly growing in numbers where as all other mythical based belief systems are rapidly reducing.

Anyway. Even if you do believe, isn't asking for prayers the same as asking for people to do nothing? Therefore was a prayer request even necessary?

Since the footage covers nearly two weeks of her life at the immigration center, the agency will show only selected parts. They are believed to include scenes immediately before her death and those mentioned in the report.

What a complete BS and infuriating statement.

Give all the footage. I'm sure the family would prefer to see it all rather than an edited and white-washed series of clips :(

@tooheysnew: they spent 90% of it just bouncing up & down.

That is so true and so funny :)

1,325 less Japanese people per day. That's a lot of people.

It is good news from an environment point of view. The global population growth is way too big and getting out of control.

If you thumb me down you are demonstrating your ignorance to the current state of global population growth and the devastating affect it is having on our plant and natural resources.

He had a mobile phone but his passport was kept by the Ugandan team...

I never understood that. Why would you give up your passport for someone else to look after.

I remember many years ago the Japanese H.I.S. holiday rep in Saipan got perplexed when I refused to hand my passport over to her. She said: "We will look after it for you until you leave". No thanks, i'm more than capable of doing that myself.

If he has lived here for 15 years, he should know that the Japanese government and all official governments bodies such as the family court and the justice system has zero empathy or compassion. They only know how to blindly follow and enforce rules. Old rules, outdated rules, new rules, unfair rules and uncivilized rules, it makes no difference. Rules are never questioned and common sense is never applied. Add to that he is a foreigner. If he dies, the authorities will claim they did nothing wrong and that committing suicide was his choice. Nothing will change and everything will carry on as normal.

I feel for him and all parents forcibly separated from their children in Japan. It's a zero empathy cultural thing :(

Utter selfishness. Hubbard should be the first person (in a very long line) to say no, it's unfair. Tells you a lot about his/her personality.

We have to stop this plague of 'snow flakiness' that is trying to infect and poison everything..

Same old inequality.

If a 14 year old boy got off with a 23 year old women, 99% of men would be thinking 'you lucky boy'... No charges against the woman I suspect too.

Fathers day doesn't carry the same importance because men don't need to be constantly 'pat on back' to reassure them. It's not an insult either. Men and women have different emotional needs.

The Japanese "Hostage Justice & Forced Confession System" is the cause of this. If it were modern civilized system, probably none of this would have happened.

Hmmm, if a child is born with such serious medical conditions that prevent the child (and parents) from ever living a normal life. I think euthanasia at birth should be offered as a compassionate option.

I know that sounds cold, but the child's and parents whole life will be filled with stress, misery and alienation. Let's be honest, who wants that?