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We all have to die of something. Why not radiation poisoning?

So we are supposed to believe that making prices artificially higher will help boost consumption? Look at my user name.

Can we volunteer to be surveyed?

"The number of foreign residents in Japan has increased in recent years but their ratio to the total population is still low, standing at below 2.0 percent, according to justice ministry data."

I remember when it passed the 1% mark.

A candidate for this year's Darwin Award.

I have to agree with eye and others in that the women's team, NADESHIKO Japan is much better than the men's team.

I love the concept. I, too, felt my eyes starting to tear up. But I've never paid for an app, and don't expect to anytime soon.

I must be doing something wrong.

I've been playing Pokemon GO every day since it was released in Japan and have yet to be involved in an accident.

Silver and Bronze medals represent losses. The only medals that represent wins are the gold. That is all.

If ghere going to amend the Constitution, I suggest starting with getting rid of the anachronistic imperial system. Modern countries have no business wasting taxes on a useless system.

Yeah. Uh-huh. Good luck with that.

No way I can take two weeks off of work to get to keep a uniform.

To Mike L:

I am right there with you. Japanese campaigns are farces.

Yeah. Good luck with that.

And I mean that sincerely. Wouldn't it be nice to see Japan be more progressive than other countries on something?

In other words, don't get married, because life is much more thrilling without a spouse, and life is much more cumbersome with one.

I don't understand why the victim didn't consult a lawyer, or the police, at the first threat of being told she would face severe penalties. Seems this could have been dealt with much earlier.

i wonder if these people are apologizing to China, Korea and other Asian nations for the atrocities Imperial Japan wrecked on them. Not to mention Pearl Harbor.

The Japanese government certainly has not.

I am no fan of President Obama, but I thought his speech was spot on.

Who the hell cares who Fitch is or what they have to say? Those of us living in Japan know that raising taxes will send Japan into not a recession, but a depression.

The Japanese government loves to ignore foreign assessments when they don't like them (日本だから) and to embrace them when they agree (他の国はそうしている).

Can the parents at least be charged for the financial costs incurred by the search?

Personally, I think it should be taken further, with criminal charges and putting the children in protective custody, but since the police have apparently dropped the ball on that one (日本だから - what a lame excuse), can we at least get the parents to pay for their idiocracy?

The only real choice this year?

Feel the Johnson!

Gary Johnson, Libertarian Party nominee. Why vote for someone who has 55%+ negative ratings when you can go for a two term governor with a solid background?

Let's put an end to this ridiculous two party system and show the powers that be that the People are taking back the power!

I notice that this article didn't mention the "stimulus package" is to be funded by bonds with negative interest rates. Who in their right mind would buy into an investment where they know they're going to lose money. So we've got a rising taxes, a stimulus package to spend money on unneeded work projects to construction companies who donate to LDP candidates, all to be funded by bonds to put the government even deeper in debt, except that no one in their right mind would ever buy them.

Forget recession, they're looking to drive the country into a depression.

Raise the sales tax and issue bonds to get the country even further in debt. Who in their right mind thinks this would help improve the economy?

So the main question is, should it be taught to those first learning the language? It felt really weird to me when a Canadian high school exchange student used it with me. I ultimately answered back in kind, but it just didn't feel right.

Accelerate inflation.

Just what we need to improve the economy.

Higher prices and higher consumption tax.

Do they even think about what they are saying?

This is news?

Justin Smith beat me to the best idea.

Twenty-first century and the Japanese are still pushing "royalty." How absolutely anachronistic. For all its modernity, Japan is still, in many ways, set in the past.

And not in a good way.

The most boring sport in the world is the marathon. Talk about monotony! No. 2 is soccer and No. 3 is basketball, basically for the same reason. Both teams run up and down the field ( or court) and shoot. The only difference is that in one of them them shooting rarely results in a score, whereas in the other it almost always results in a higher score. Nothing to think about, just point and shoot.

Give me a sporg that requires intelligence and skill over mindless running any day!

The only real reason for these laws is to legally steal moneycfrom riders. Oh, sure, the police can say it is for safety, but when laws are selectively enforced only when the coffers are nearing empty or when the Keystone Kops feel they need to provide a reason for their existence we all pay the price.

Big Brother continues to live in Japan.

I was in a 23 degree, 60% humidity classroom today with 16 女子高生, and they all insisted it was cold.

Damn, but I hope I collapse of heat exhaustion so that people will understand the plight of 暑がりの人！

So much for O-MO-TE-NA-SHI.

This is SOOOOOO true.

The only way I will ever get married again is if the woman is extremely wealthy, has no other heirs, and is about to die.