Daninthepan comments

That police car gets everywhere. It was in Shizuoka last week.

If AI is learning from what I said, we are doomed.

Sounds like a nice way to go to me.

A really irresponsible article. Nowhere does it explicitly state the knife attack was not a result of anti-Japan sentiment. It goes even further:

In the latest of a series of knife attacks nationwide, a Japanese mother and her pre-schooler were injured in the eastern city of Suzhou

Why not say "In the latest of a series of unrelated knife attacks nationwide...

The very next paragraph continues:

Anti-Japanese sentiment in China stems from bitter memories of the neighbor's World War II aggression, leading some to celebrate the targeting of its citizens in the attack.

Most of us know the background of this story but people reading this for the first time must surely be thinking a series of anti-Japanese stabbings have taken place all across China.

Well done the teacher.

I have a lot of sympathy for the man but to not go to prison for murder does seem a little strange.

Mr KiplingToday 02:43 pm JST

This crime makes me exceedingly angry!

This is a very good joke that people from the UK would understand.

Well-intended morons doing more harm than good.

Smartphones should be banned for all children under 18.

The ALT subcontractors are just as bad. Gave my GF a full time contract for the first year to fulfill the visa requirements then shift her onto what is basically a zero-hours contract for the second year.

A dream date. He sure knows how to show a gal a good time.

Grisliest headline of the year.

Funny, I've seen a number of escalators with signs warning about the dangers of wearing Crocs on them but none about walkers. Perhaps they care more about divorced, salarymen with pachinko problems than the elderly.

Why does the headline say she is a "high-school girl"

It's more concise. We get two pieces of information for the price of one.

going from two in 2021 to four in 2022 and 20 in 2023.

The sky is falling in.

They need to pull down Fuji - it's just causing too many problems.

If you are self-employed like me you only get half the pension you would working for a company. I didn't pay mine for years then they came after me so I had to back pay a few years. Basically I'm paying 34000 a month for about 5 years then pay 16900 for the next twenty. They estimate my pension will be 27000 a month. By my calculation, I have to live until I'm 84 just to break even assuming they don't up the entitlement age.

(This country owes me way more than I owe it).

probably for a Japanese audience

Exactly!

The number of murderers who say, "I did it because I wanted to be executed", makes me think the death penalty might not be such a good deterrent after all.

We are all going to have to learn to adapt.

The fact is translators aren't totally redundant yet but their jobs have to change from spending hours translating Japanese to getting AI to do the grunt work so they can do the final checking/rewriting.

Fact is jobs will be lost but those who are willing to adapt and swallow some pride, will survive. They certainly won't live on sour grapes alone.

Just put a sign on the bridge that says "It's inconsiderate to take pictures if you are annoying local people" big enough to be visible in the desired photo. (Same for the convenience store place).

Mizuhara faces numerous consequences including possibly being deported to Japan, Estrada said.

A fate worse than a fate worse than death.

How did the conversation with her family escalate from "I don't like him making videos about me" to "Let's team up to murder him"?

I feel there is a growing anti-foreign sentiment in this country at the moment and it's affecting me quite badly. So much so, that when I opened this article I just scanned for the word foreign and breathed a sigh of relief when I couldn't find it.

It's a sad state of affairs that will only get worse. Should we rejoice in the Japanese failures such as this for clearing our good names as "the foreigners"?

drawing opposition from some supporters of foreign workers.

Who the hell are they?

I'm guessing it's pretty difficult to get a divorce on mental abuse grounds here so getting slapped in the face with anything could be her ticket to freedom.

Stick it in the police records to build a case against him - he sounds like an abusive bully at the very least (we all know one).

Ninja Bear is back! I knew they'd got the wrong bear. You can't keep a good bear down.

Disorganized crime seems easier to fight than organized.

What if I call crying and emotional? Does it neutralize this too? What if I call and I'm jovial? Will my jokes be ruined? (No great loss there).

It's an insult to both gold and weeks to call it that.

People still use Linkedin?