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@theFu

True but that is American military might that came to help, was worth far more than any plain money.

Silver days or Golden weeks?

I am not leaving home (Nagoya), now crowds everwhere.

Only Police should have firearms, guns. Nobody else, like in Japan. No permits, no gun shops. No guns stored in family houses.

The only country in the world where mass shootings routinely happen, says "It could not be avoided".

Where were the stores? Ina war ravaged arreas or just "close the stores"?

"Expire date" means when the shops stop selling the items. Does not mean the products have rottened away.

When I retired in Japan, September 1. 2024, My National health insurance became 90,000 Yen per month + 24,600 Yen a month because I am over 65. And the state pension is 140,000 Yen per month.

Luckily, I have another pension from the private pension fund, otherwise, the family would have to live under the bridges.

The news about Thailand re-criminalizing cannabis is from February 2024.

I was in Thai 2 weeks ago, cannabis shops are everywhere.

True, the question is optional, not mandatory to answer.

At the end of the day, the results from the census will be published. Then, the results about identity and sexual orientation may be used and abused.

I am an Australian, witnessed last year (failed) dummy referendum about "Yes" campaign, the referendum Australia has never needed to have.

Australia is the world leader when it comes to minimizing paperwork, I wonder what and why it is happening now.

Toothy load on the carrier. F15s. How do they move and take off? There has to be some way.

The picture is from before October 2009 when the castle was closed for 5 years for renovations. It is much whiter since.

Been there 5 times, 1 month ago last time, just to take pictures from outside.

From 16:00 to 17:00, maybe 2,000 visitors passed by me, I think 90% Caucasian foreigners.

"That ecosystem has also spawned the online shopping app Temu -- while it is frequently compared to Shein, it acts as more of a discounted Amazon-like marketplace offering third-party home goods, tools and gadgets."

TEMU prices are about 10% of what established department stores offer. Delivery is max 3 days, to my door.

True, the apparel is not the quality of Victoria Secrets (they also make their products in China and Bangladesh) but who cares? 500 Yen for a sleeping gown would keep their customers, free shipping.

Regulating it, what does any government know about fashion?

Nothing will happen with this initiative. Been in Japan for 23 years, a local hire, rocket scientist, I can not see how anyone would even think of coming here. Bar adventurers , English teachers, hooked to Japanese girls.

The land of smiling and compromising people who avoid conflicts. Never participated in the wars of 20-th century.

The only nation on the planet that has no word for "NO" but they always get it their way. The only nation in South East Asia never occupied, colonized nor enslaved.

As if Thais care about democracy. A strong leader, like Thaksin, whatever he might be. He was harvesting votes, only military could stop him, not a lack of popular votes where he would lose elections.

Rural Thais (50 of 70 million nation) elect who they want but Bangkok reactionaries replace them, with unelected military who carry guns.

I would not take a NISSAN car even if given for free and all the maintenance and cost paid for 5 years.

What a stink of a company with ledaership from the typewriters era.

"At least 130,000 bank accounts to receive state benefits and linked to My Number national identification cards have been found to belong not to the cardholders but their family members"

That is nothing, most people who took their own MyNumber did not take it for their children. The reason: the picture remains forever, when a 5 years old kid is 60 still the same picture. That rule has been scrapped but early adopters are probably those 130,000 who gave their own MyNumber instead of (non-existing MyNumber) of their children.

"It could not be avoided" says the only nation in the world where mass killings routinelly happen.

@Asiaman

"Why should visitors pay less than residents? Why should JR, a private company, subsidize visitor travel?"

Because that J-Pass is for uninformed idiots anyway. No residents will go on all stops shinkansen (railpass does not apply to Nozomi) and visit places they had never heard of just because all-stops shinkasen stops there. Who in their right mind would take shinkansen from Nagoya to Mikawa Anjo(30km)?

Backpacker level of knowledge can not tell that Nozomi,Hikari and Kodama shinkansens,although look the same, have hours of difference from start to destination.

The article might have been generated by software.

Look at this nonsense: "and depending on where you’re staying and whether you’re splitting hotel costs with a traveling companion".

What splitting cost? Hotels are paid per person, not per room.

What nonsense it is. Had not a Japanese company recruited me on 20 million yen, I would not even know where Japan is. Not even if I were on 1/3 of that money would make me give a toss about Japan.

Total rubbish is that this new measure would attract anything but a laughter. Nobody would even glance on the map to see where Japan is.

People are attracted to the lands of opportunity, not to what a slew of clerks Kishida continues to represent.

From "The Onion": The only countryin the world where mass shootings happen routinelly, says "It could not be avoided".

@mammamiaToday  06:43 am JST

What about jailing all the TEPCO responsible who were at the helm of the company in 2011? That will never happen and who knows why eh!They caused so many death and suffering for their negligence!

Where did you hear of one single death or anyone dangerously exposed on and after 11.march 2011?

@Awa No Gaijin

"Okinawa has the largest birth rate in the country"

Possibly. Remove the air bases, it may drop to an average.

@cleo I did nok know that, thank you

Why is the baby on the cover picture blond, does not look like a Japanese child.

Until my daughter, an Australian citizen on PR, turned 16, we were receiving 100,000 Yen every 3 months from the city council. Never noticed that money (it went to a different bank, to a familily account), must be still stitting there, never bothered to check.

I wonder how would someone start up their engines with a promise of 80,000Yen one off.

Low birth rate - a legacy of Junichiro Koizumi.

To suck up to Americans, he established so called "flexible work force", not jobs for life.

The result, the men in such jobs, contracts and temporary, can not marry, no woman wants them.

There could be 20 million "working poor" like that in Japan.

In Australia, back in 2005, there was a 5,000 AU$ bonus for a new born. The biggest household goods retailer, Harvey Norman, noticed a big uptick in sales of plasma TV sets (then top of technology).

That is where the money went - on TVs, the whole goverment initiative was mocked as a "Plasma TV bonus".

Ridiculous!

Parents would go for extra 80,000 Yen if the baby was already on the floor but would never think of setting one for that.