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ThubanToday  06:42 am JST

 looking to fight flood of Chinese electric vehicles

Err.... so you want "eco-conscious" consumers to have lower selection and pay higher prices.

That is not the point. Point is protecting European jobs as the EVs from China are made at staggering losses covered by the Chinese government. It’s the same way companies have tried to take over markets for ever, flood the market with stuff made at a loss to drive out competition. After that hike up prices.

PayPay is another such example.

Anyway, agree with the ”eco-conscious” as there is nothing green about EVs.

They are believing his story? That is a double murder, no way it can be three year sentence? Or even suspended. Should be life and/or the death penalty.

Corruption runs rampant so for sure he is “loyal to the olympic charter”. If he wasn’t, he would reform the whole organization.

According to Kenichi Takeda, an associate professor of animal behavior at the Faculty of Agriculture of Shinshu University, it is common to raise large numbers of livestock in cramped spaces in Japan. This is part of the reason why meat and dairy products are able to be sold at relatively low prices.

Another “professor” .. where in Japan can you buy dairy products and meat at relatively low price? The prices are ridiculous even with the cramped space, with “animal welfare” it would go into the highway robbery - category.

ChabbawangaToday  12:57 pm JST

150-147 is a plunge ?!

You clearly know nothing about forex

Nothing to do with Forex. If the price of milk goes from 150 to 147, the price does not plunge. Just calculate the change as a % and you can see for yourself.

A whole single yen per dollar plunge, nice intervention! /s

A nice “plunge” indeed, who comes up with these articles? 150-147 is a plunge ?!

LindsayToday  07:06 am JST

They can cite whatever legal mumbo jumbo they like but this all about the pension scam. I was told I had to choose nationalities for my kids before they were 12 because they couldn’t be part of the pension with dual nationality.

You were told by whom? And you didn’t do any fact checking before action?

No, you don’t need to do that at 12. Also I want to know why you would tell anyone if your kid has 2 or 3 different nationalities. There is no place for this information in any form so it would be interesting to know how.

This system is crazy. For 2000 yen you can get a lot of free stuff. The higher your salary is, the more of these free gifts you can get.

Of course I have used it as it would be stupid NOT to get the free (2000en) stuff.

kurisupisuToday  09:00 am JST

As we all need food for sustenance and have to purchase it and bring it home then how simple it is to be part of the solution by reusing plastic bags or by switching to a cloth bag.

In a word, no. This will do nothing to reduce plastic production. Also where you will put the trash? That’s right, in a plastic bag.

theResidentToday  08:25 am JST

This is referring to visas other than than tourist visas.

No, this article specifically states that it is about inbound tourism. You cannot apply online any other visa type.

Mr KiplingToday  09:06 am JST

Japan's tax system is designed for father to work in a big company and mother to stay home in a house they have bought. Women are encouraged to become full time housewives. 

This is not the case. Only one person working and getting 12M a year vs 2 people getting 6M a year, the latter wins in every aspect due to the taxation and system that only head pf house hold counts when doling our child support or other benefits. The former is basically in a hole and has leas take home pay and gets zero benefits.

There's no other way to improve different cultures and improving language except by sending students to school trips using subsidy?

Minato is the richest city in Japan, with average salary for its citizens at over 12M. They have more money than they can ever dream to use, so why not use some of it for children?

”They” say a lot of things that make no sense and are not true. Do not live in fear.

It’s another geriatric cabinet. There should me mandatory retirement age set at 60 like for normal japanese people. Why do they have to keep on leeching and leeching?

Idiots fighting for climate change by punishing the poorest. News flash, the population of the earth is expanding so fast that nothing they do in London will affect anything in the global scale.

Prevents deaths? Like lockdowns and masks? News flash, nobody lives forever.

If you rely on ”social media” for news or ”what is real or not”, means you are already doomed. Why on earth would anyone do that?

All the news outlets in Canada have their websites that provide you with all the information you need about the fires.

Social media is entertainment! Trolls and what not.

EFDToday  03:31 pm JST

Multiple meters? Where would the water come from? Maybe learning basic science first would be a start.

The Ice sheets of Greenland. The Ice currently trapped on the continent of Antarctica. 

ANY land-based ice sheet that melts (as Greenland's is doing now at an alarming rate) is going to put more water into the oceans. More water in the same basin is going to cause the water level to rise. 

Melting of all ice in the world would not increase sea level by multiple meters. There is not enough water for that to happen.

You were saying something about learning basic science?

Please check how much ice there is estimated to be in the whole world. Then check how big the body of water is and how much is needed to increase global sea level by even 1m.

EFDToday  02:56 pm JST

4 mm SO FAR. Sea levels could rise by multiple meters over a relatively short period of time. 

Jesus, how thick does one have to be to have one's head this obtuse regarding science and physics?

Multiple meters? Where would the water come from? Maybe learning basic science first would be a start.

Of course it shows growth due to the high inflation. Selling less for higher price produces higher gdp as it is not inflation adjusted.

Again, arrest warrant for “intimidating”? For real? These cop have no real crime to solve?

Fear mongering starting? Nothing in the article points to the Oz virus as the cause of death.

YubaruToday  03:38 am JST

Writing a fiction story about your life? You friends waited around all night for you to come back? They knew you were climbing the mountain? If it was too cold in the car, I guarantee that the top of Fuji was a hell of a lot worse, and how in the heck did you meet other climbers in the afternoon, on a closed trail?

The trail is never ”closed”, it’s a mountain. You can hike it anytime you want. Just because some idiots put up a small fence does not mean anything.

If the weather is good, there are always hikers on the trail. Seen more than a 100 people on a ”closed” trail on Mt Fuji.

You get what you wish for! Wages have never and will never keep up with inflation. Still so many people believe the official mantra ”inflation is good”. Stop the nonsense! Japan’s best years were the 30 years when prices didnt change.

The only right choice in his economy. Why increase inflation by hiking up the costs when it does nothing to help it. Go BOJ GO!

Japanese currency to sink to around 140.75 yen per dollar, from around 140.20 yen earlier.

Who writes these news? “Sinks” for a such a small change.

And where exactly in the article those “measures” are written?

Aly RustomToday  08:53 am JST

Wing- that happened to me in my trucking company. Due to harassment I tried to quit many times and I got promised that things would change but they never did. It was awful. But I managed to get out, but it wasn't easy. They really try to latch onto you.

Quitting does not require an agreement between worker and the boss. So cannot understand why it would be “hard”. You tell them you quit and don’t show up after that. It’s very easy.

CrashTestDummyToday  03:01 pm JST

Really surprised the cellphone company says they have no GPS information from her phone because it is in a cell network in Japan. Doesn't make sense to me. I thought all cellphone if connected to any network were always pinging location via GPS.

That is incorrect, gps is not involved at all. Cell phone networks determine the location based on the distances to different towers. In the 5G era this locationing has been improved and can give accurate location.

BUT as many people have stated and you can check the coverage maps for operators online, IF there is no coverage then there is also no trace.

Sorry There is a typo in the link and edit is not possible, the date should be 20230528 and not 20230538. Anyway easy to find by searching with the flight number AF 291.

You can see the flight path at

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/AFR291/history/20230538/0145Z/RJBB/RJBB

No unnecessary loops are visible. They reduced speed to half after turning back.

"We have a lot of work to do. We've made progress but we need better players to compete for the highest level."

Most idiotic comment from the team coach saying his players are not good enough. It’s his job to make them better and play better.