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CapuchinToday  07:39 am JST

One theory that security analysts have is that explosives weren't planted in the devices but instead software is being used to cause the lithium batteries to explode.

That is not the case. Just like in the uranium sentrifuge - case, explosives were hidden in the devices before shipment. In this case, the place where it was done was already pinpointed by the news.

1glennToday  08:49 pm JST

Reminds me of the time I got dragged by the feet, while sleeping on the ground, by a Grizzley Bear in Yellowstone Park. 

Kicking, screaming, and running like heck worked for me.

So basically in a panic you did everything wrong but were extremely lucky? If you don’t have bear spray or some long guns, play dead is the course of action for brown/grizzly. Never ever try to run away.

ClippetyClopToday  07:05 pm JST

What animal do you think she mistook 3 bears for?

Bears don’t hunt in packs, if it is a mama bear with cubs she will fight to the end. So most likely in the dark it was shika. It’s the most common mistake and accounts for half of all”bear” sightings in the dark.

ツキノワグマと見間違えられることが多いニホンカモシカ

elToday  06:44 pm JST

100 meters is nothing. She should have driven it? Much of Otsuchi is now clustered together after being destroyed on 3/11. 

The big problem with bears in Tohoku is they’re now coming right down into inhabited areas too.

The lady has mistaken some other animal as a bear, so take the whole story with a big grain of salt.

After the long period of deflation, we have been told that rising prices are good, but as you can see, no it isn't, and now we will suffer from them.

Deflation is the best time for the people. Inflation is needed to show ”continuous growth” (even when in reality nothing is growing), erode value of money so that debts of government pay for themselves, and so on.

The average Taro always loses in inflationary situation.

And is this a good thing? Nobody lives forever and this puts a tremendous burden on the young people to pay for their care.

toraToday  05:48 pm JST

Yeah and if this continues, expect an end to the tourist boom just as new tourist taxes etc come into place.

Despite what you read in Japanese news, the exchange rate does not affect the incoming tourists. Nobody cares or picks their holiday based on currency rates.

obladiToday  04:57 pm JST

The easiest way out of this mess is through immigration

No and definitely NO. Immigration is not a solution to anything unless the people coming are willing to assimilate to Japanese way. And we already know that it didn’t work in Europe or the US, so please stop the nonsense about immigration being a solution.

midwicketToday  09:41 am JST

What surprises me at the convenience store is that you can pay by card for most things but when you want to pay your ward tax, sorry, that is cash only. The store manager was telling me that even they were confused by it.

This has an easy explanation: you cannot pay tax by accumulating more debt (credit card is debt until it is paid). It’s the same in many cashless countries as well, but there you can pay by debit card..

dbsaiyaToday  08:39 am JST

Yes, and the recently re-elected governor of Tokyo, Koike will once again decline to send a eulogy to a memorial service on September 1, for the Koreans who were murdered in the pogrom after the Kanto earthquake in 1923. She has not sent one in the past eight years of her tenure. Did the good people of Tokyo think about this when they voted for her

No, the good people of Tokyo did not think about it as why would they? It is in no way relevant fact to leading modern day Tokyo.

These diseases are mainly carried by other animals spreading the virus around. Human hikers and people wandering the woods carry a few of them but not enough to make a difference.

What you can do is cover up and after a hike, check your body. Small black things protruding from the skin are ticks. Cut them as close to the skin as possible when pulling out.

> The number of foreign visitors to Japan totaled 3.29 million in July, up 41.9 percent from a year earlier and hitting a record high for a single month, boosted by the weak yen, government data showed Wednesday.

This is called “pushing the agenda”. I am pretty confident “goverment data” does not show “boosted by the weak yen”, that is useless addition in the sentence.

RakurakuAug. 19  07:54 pm JST

06:58 pm JST

The plutocracy at work in this country yet again. Privatisation has been a failure everywhere else it's been done. What could possibly go wrong!

Do you think the privatization of JR was a failure? Everyone recognizes that the Japanese train system is probably the best in the world.

Rakuraku, do you know why it worked? All the debt due to track construction is held by the government. They essentially got free tracks to start collecting profit.

sakurasukiToday  07:08 am JST

Not sure about this particular case, however in Japan in many cross roads in Japan, 

pedestrian won't pay attention with their surrounding when crossing.

You mean the drivers are not paying attention to the road? Don’t forget who has an obligation by law to stop if a pedestrian wants to cross. Every day I see drivers who are not stopping, their licenses shouls be revoked on the spot.

With the rapidly aging population, this will happen more and more in the future even if the temperatures stay the same.

The main point she is making is if it was a person from a third world country you all would say "immigrant this immigrant that blah blah blah" And for that reason I think it is important to put their nationality.

My point was that you cannot guess ethinicity from nationality.

But I agree, in Japan it is always listed for non-japanese passport holders

Nilkin FannieAug. 5  08:54 pm JST

Lol, some of the Caucasian Gatekeepers of Japan are unhappy with the article letting it be known the suspect is cacasian. I've seen countless articles where the foreign suspect is non-white nationality that is pointed out and the comments bash that nationality/ethnicity. Now that it is a nationality that is obviously white, "oh no, you shouldn't point that out! This is harmful" had the suspect been from Pakistan or Congo, comment section would look a lot different.

Nowhere does it state that the man is caucasian. You obviously have not been to Sweden during the last 20 years? If you find a caucasian in southern Sweden you should put in a lotto.

What does the “stocks plunging” have to do with economic stagnation? That’s right, absolutelu nothing.

This whole idea of “carbon credit” was just a design to make money out of nothing and completely useless, Waste of resources. It is amazing that in 2024 these fake organizations have not been put out to pasture and that there are still people who believe in the system.

Again, who writes this stuff?

That strategy has proven controversial. It did help to end a prolonged bout of deflation, or falling prices.

NO, the policy did nothing of the sort!

The olympics have bloated so much only to fill the coffers of Bach and the like.

This ”sport” should also implement age limit like figure skating has done recently, no-one under 18 should be allowed. Same should also be enforced for gymnastics.

Or organize a kid’s olympics after tha paralympic.

Bach should be in jail for life, face of corruption. I hope the FBI does not back down but jails these IOC clowns.

JeffLeeToday  11:56 am JST

The CEO of Blackrock recently said that the upcoming artificial intelligence revolution will favor countries with shrinking populations. 

It is his job to milk billions into the hype. That bubble is going to burst spectacularly in the next few years. There is already a 400 billion deficit in AI revenue vs investment and that will just grow as the “AI” hype dies down.

This facility is not ”for Ebola” as stated in the title, it is for any deadly pathogen, not limited to Ebola.

Yes, viruses can and do escape these facilities but anyway research must be done to be prepared. Like the latest corona outbreak, it could have been natural as well.

MeiyouwentiToday  07:43 am JST

I don’t get it. I don’t see what’s attracting so many foreign tourists to Japan. There’s no Versailles, no pyramids, no Great Wall. A stronger yen will drive those tourists away.

I get that it is a small sampling, but I personally don’t know of anyone who chooses their vacation destination by the exchange rate of the local currency.

Does anyone know anybody personally that came to Japan due to weak yen?

The Japanese government has been urging the military regime, which has ruled Myanmar since ousting its civilian leadership in a February 2021 coup, to release him as soon as possible.

Why does the Japanese government care about this particular person? He is friends with someone at the top?!

It doesn’t make any sense that lawfully detained and indicted person should be “freed as soon as possible”. Hold him until he confess.

Hold all of them until they confess, isn’t that what is done to normal people?

Why is the embassy involved at all? If it were a layman from Japan, nobody would come visit him. Why is this “executive” so special?

AntiquesavingToday  10:13 am JST

From the official Fuji website 

Anyone who climbs Fujisan is personally responsible for his or her own safety. Before beginning the ascent, however, to aid rapid response for rescue in case of distress or disappearance, you must complete and submit a Climbing Plan that lists route, schedule, equipment, group members, and who to contact in case of emergency. Be aware that, even after submitting a Climbing Plan, you may not receive permission to enter the mountain.***

https://www.fujisan223.com/en/three_rules/

You need permission off season!

No you don’t, it’s a national park and people are free to roam it anytime and any day of the year. There is no law requiring a permission to go into the nature. Just because they write it on a website does not make it a law.

You are requested to submit a climbing plan with the police but that is also not a requirement.

That is a right move and every city in the world should follow it. Nothing good came out of air bnb, it’s just a rush to the bottom by circumventing laws regulating such operations.