wanderlust comments

They have already started on the infrastructure for the Integrated Resort (aka Casino) to be built afterwards. This is a great subsidy for the casino operators and local government.

The party factions have just been renamed to 'research groups', they still exist.

No-one expected the LDP to conduct real change, did they?

The current models are pretty much automatic, with some input from the driver, who constantly calcuates the speed required to main the schedule. The trains also decelerate automatically, but drivers control the brakes manually as they approach stations, with the speed dropping below 60 kph, and they can take over in case of an emergency.

Stop including cheese in nearly every sandwich, pastry or pie on sale, not everyone eats the stuff. Organise the drink pick-up areas properly for both to go and inside drinkers. No need to have such large displays of goods and souvenir cups for sale, use the space for customers to drink. Prepare stronger coffee, that at least tastes like coffee.

My local MOS Burger has always employed staff with a variety of hair colours, it has never stopped them cooking tasty food, and every burger to order, fresh off the hot plate.

Suica and Pasmo seem quite reliable, I use Pasmo mainly for travel and sports club. But the Smart Phone devices too often don't work, and the sales staff and customers try to sort out the issue with a line of angry customers behind them. And the customers can be young or old, it does not matter.

Michishita only got 3rd place because of a technical disqualification, when the 3rd place runner Congost let go of her tether for a couple of seconds to assist her guide who was having physical difficulties. She had been more than 3 minutes ahead of her, so the compassionate gesture would have had no impact on the placing but rules are rules.

... several criminal investigations into organizing committee members, including one targeting the salary of Games supremo Estanguet, could also tarnish the image of the event as a national success story. A public audit into the cost of the Games, as well...

This is getting to be SOP after any event that the IOC is involved in....

And that is why they were so desperate to have the Osaka World Expo. The casino will benefit from the tax-payer funded site development. Some of the casino infrastructure is already being built.

3 gm to be removed, 894,121,299 gm to go...quite a challenge.

I wonder if they will number the pipes in order this time?

Would it include phones mounted on the handlebars, being used as a mobile navigation map?

At least they are not being waved around the air. They should also look at the use of headphones on bikes, which isolate cyclists from the environment; you'll never hear a Prius or EV coming up behind you.

Kanda, Shinagawa, Gotanda are all quite user-unfriendly, but if you include subway lines, I would include Sengakuji, Higashi-Ginza and Kayabacho.

Surprisingly they did not develop an AI-containing model, that could learn your preferences, and even talk with you! Though maybe the last part was not required!

A rare photo of officials without their little notebooks and pencils, recording every utterance from their leader.

Reading between the lines ... 'Just make sure you don't get caught...'

It's just a complicated game of musical chairs, calling in debts and favours from the past 10-15 years, as they negotiate and jostle for these positions. Factional politics still rule, despite changing their name to research groups.

Prepare.

Don't prepare.

Covers all eventualities!

Both the Japanese Army (Ni-Go) and Navy (B-Research and F-Go Project) were doing research separately into their own atomic bombs, but a shortage of uranium, both domestic and imported led to the programmes being abandoned. If they had succeeded, would they have used them to try to turn the tide of the war?

And it happened - Magnitude 5.3 around Odawara.... 19:57.

The rich get richer, and the poor get poorer.

In the meantime, around 10,000 daily household shopping items have either increased in price or diminished in quantity over the last two months. Miniscule pay rises do not cover the reality of life.

Down 12.4%, now back up 10.23%. Someone will have a made fortune from this....

No image to go with the article? Unable to comment on appearance.

Not such a big issue in Japan yet, but elsewhere donors have become disgusted at the massive salaries paid to 'CEOs' and executives to run charities and other programmes, with only 5-10% of donations reaching those intended to benefit.

The police are very optimistic if they think that people can remember anything from 6 years ago.

"Destroying a village to save it"... a quote attributed to Associated Press journalist Peter Arnett, summed up many of the horrors of the Vietnam Conflict.

Yonemitsu said the restaurant has had to hike wages to hire English-speaking staff and also faces costs training them to serve foreign customers.

Would they not also have to face costs to train Japanese staff to serve customers? Lame excuse.

A quick search on issues at Tsuruga NPP reveals that in 21 March 2012, it was revealed that the results of sonic research done in 2005 were ignored by JAPCO and that this data was kept secret in 2008 from a NISA research team of experts...

In February 2020 the NRA accused Japan Atomic Power of modifying geological data used to determine whether the fault was active or not. The NRA had found that part of the data was deleted and rewritten in documents recently submitted to the NRA.

The NRA halted the restart Unit 2 because of tampering with data showing a seismic fault line is active.

Such is the contempt with which the nuclear power plant operators have for regulatory authorities, and the population in the vicinity of the plant.

And note that Japan Atomic Power have already appealed the ruling. Thicker brown envelopes on the way!

Nikon Df from 2012, similar. Steel body, mechanical dials and levers, digital innards. Great camera, and can take virtually all of the Nikkor lenses ever made.

Should at least be 'Dogeza' position, on their knees with forehead on the floor to demonstrate sincerity.

Even execs from a foreign drug maker managed that years ago.