2 Year Old comments

… and let the average people eat rice cake…

Russia has turned out to be a paper Tiger….

Their Black Sea Fleet was rendered ineffective by a country with no navy.

The European arm of their Air Force couldn’t even gain air superiority over a country they had a 10-15x numerical advantage over who was using near obsolete aircraft for defense.

There are more Soviet era ships rusting away in Vladivostok than ships that are sea worthy for the Russian Navy.

Nukes are the only worry…

Swimming “lessons” At most schools in Japan are a cruel joke.

They give false confidence to kids and parents. Most kids can’t swim 25m if it were a difficult situation like a rip at the beach, falling in a river with clothes on and so on.

I have pool and beach bronze medallions in life saving. Just saying…

Some nosey neighbor calls the cops and ruins these 2 people clandestine get together.

The lady probably panicked and that was the story she made up… and he didn’t want his “other” (who he may not live with) finding out either, so he denies knowing her…

The designs are nice but the font used for the number is poor, and does not match the nice designs at all.

But… will the 1000 yen note work in vending machines that don’t take the new ¥500 coins?

@smithinjapan

You are wrong.

I live dead smack in central Tokyo, and (mainly) Chinese tourists are buying everything, and this includes even bags of rice from the small ‘My Basket’ Aeon stores that now dot central Tokyo.

I am in those stores shopping when huge groups (seem like family groups) arrive and look at nearly every product.

if it says made in Japan or produce of Japan etc, it is fair game. You can watch them get on their phone, call some one, I presume in China, talk about the products and then Laos the entire stock on the shelf into their basket…

Could be rice… toothpaste, Thoth brushes… snack foods… alcohol especially.. and so on.

And so the Chinese owned suitcase store that just opened up is selling literally hundreds of suitcases per day for tourists to help take their purchases back. This shop

is 50 meters from my apartment and I I see their truck offload suitcases many times per day they sell so many.

(I am seriously thinking of opening a suitcase store as their competitor) #BigProfita

One aging LDP voting rice farmer has a “farm” about the size of 2 or 3 tennis courts, and because of LDP subsidies this supports him…. But these guys are dying off, and no one will take over such a small “farm”.

His district has 900 or so Eligible votes to elect the LPD politician but my area in Tokyo needs 90,000+ votes to elect a politician of equal level (NHK showed the stats on screen during that election)

The laws also prevent one farmer or company from owning too much (as in 6-8 tennis courts or more) of farm land in one area…

So the grossly inefficient rice framing, LDP vote buying system staggers onwards… but screws over the rest of the country.

Tweedle-dee… Tweedle-dumb…

Round and round we go.

Something so silly gets so many responses.

If you like her music, great. Enjoy the ride, enjoy the fantasy/thrill of shaking her hand.

If you don’t, why bother posting at all? Do you think you get some kind of big D energy by being negative?

if you think you can do better.. go out there and be a huge J-pop star.

… the LDP is the LDP… doesn’t really matter who is PM.

Just look at their hundreds of “pledges, promises, goals and arrows” since the Yen-USD gravy train collapsed in 1991… all hot air!!

The LDP don’t have a clue… but so long as they are their mates get the free money from tax payers, do they even care?

… and how is this any different than the past 30 years?

The system as a whole is a mockery.

How does a bunch of mainly grumpy men’s faces make anyone want to vote?

Some in my area, the guy looks flat out angry… but angry at what? The gravy train he has lived his life off for barely doing anything?

Or angry at the smiling lady poster next to his? (I have no idea what policies either is pushing by looking at their generic posters)

And will it have any different results than the LDP has produced in the past 50+ years with their hundreds of pledges, promises and arrows etc??

I think not.

Get the adult minimum wage up to at least the level of Australia… which is more than double Japan, for the lowest skill level basic jobs… then other jobs will have to pay more.

there is no shortage of cash in the business bank accounts, they just don’t want to distribute it to the workers for a fair and decent, livable salary

Why not make all the politicians back pay what they owe to the pension fund first?

He probably read mangas for the past 20+ years that “taught” him, that is how you get a girl. You force yourself on an unsuspecting school girl, who has zero interest in you, she will resist at first, then she will fall in love with you.

As I live just up the road, very different to the original ideas going back ten years or so when final go ahead to move the market was given.

If it means we can have 50,000 seat or more concerts for the big artists even when the other venues are occupied by sports, then cool. That will make it easier to bring big bands to Tokyo at least without juggling sports events at Tokyo Dome (which is awful acoustically for concerts)

… still waiting 15+ years for the replacement cherry blossom trees in nearby ‘shopping street’ that were ripped out to put in new parking meters… we only need about 20

They were promised to be replaced as soon as the work was done.

Read the story…

the 13 year was a thug who was there to rob him.

the guy who died went to meet the girl, and who knows what she said to lure him there. But here intent was evil along, as with the two boys.

My car has full surround bicycle and pedestrian LiDAR/sensors.

work’s fantastic in tiny Tokyo streets when mama-chariots come blasting around blind corners at top speed the wrong way down a one way street etc, and people walking looking at their phone who almost walk into the side, or even back of my car as I am driving slow… and more instances were some nutter was driving like a lunatic and nearly hit me. The roads in Japan… it’s a jungle out there!

This technology is available now and it works very very well. It needs to be mandatory for any car a person over 70 drives. It would have stopped this before it happens.

My car’s “auto pilot” self driving works wonderfully too.

Actually should be mandatory on every car on sale now.

They want more staff than 19 years ago because the number of flights have doubled in that time period… imagine that?

They want to keep people safe? How dare they Peter Neil! The shame on them!

Yes, pay a decent salary/wage, treat staff with respect and you (any company) will have no shortages.

Pretty simple.

@Chico3

yep… he knows WAY too much about WAY too many people and “business activities” at the company to be fired.

This kind of thing is done on purpose. It is not an accident. Those who approved it need jail time. That is the only way to root out this kind of corporate corruption and greed. Make others think twice if their actions result in 5-10 years in prison for endangering the life’s of hundreds of thousands of people.

The unusual warm weather may have thrown off his timing for hibernation, and even more probable, a lack of food in its natural (and possibly dwindling) habitat is driving it closer to humans.

Many/most Japanese bears are thought to hibernate from Dec to March/April.

@tamanegi read the article

He will do a deep bow and say “sorry”

but he really means is “sorry we got caught”

and “restore trust” means we “will endeavor to not get caught again.”

everyone knows every single one of them is corrupt as can be.

Hey!

… hence the low productivity

The other night the last two in their ‘convoy’ had no functioning lights at all, at 6:30.

The leader went through an orange turning red light, so the last two went to stop but I presume thought they would be left behind, then decided to cross the intersection as I legally through in the “blue” light nearly cleaning them up!

get this off the streets!