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I remember fondly my 2 week trip to the 2008 games in Beijing, where I saw 13 major finals, including Men’s Team Gymnastics, judo, Women’s volleyball and watched Phelps win 1 of his gold medals. Tickets were only the equivalent of ¥5,000.

Another internet fraudster it seems

@Taiwan

well when even Boeing employees are saying they wouldn’t put their families on those planes it makes me worried too

Last time he was in the home run derby it really screwed up his swing and he was in a home run drought for a long time after that.

i’d love to see him in the derby, but I’d rather see him do well throughout the year

@Chico3- Mori uses “Hills” (Roppongi, Omotesando, Toronomon, Azabudai Hills) while Mitsui corporation uses “Midtown” (Yaesu, Hibiya, Roppongi Midtown). Just branding for them

This has nothing to do with hungry people. This is some criminal organization making money.

People have to understand there are two completely different scenarios. It’s interesting how much false information has been claimed in previous comments.

If you were born a Japanese citizen, and later in your life take another nationality, you are automatically stripped of your Japanese citizenship whether or not you tell any authorities. Sure, you can hide this situation, but the moment they find out, you will have your Japanese citizenship automatically removed. This has been tried in court several times including by the people in this article.

If however, you (or your children) were born with Japanese citizenship and another citizenship, you can effectively keep both. Yes you are requested to make a decision as to which one you will keep by the time you are an adult, but in that case, you just tell the Japanese government you will keep your Japanese citizenship.

They will ask you to “endeavor” to renounce your other nationality. You say something to the effect of “sure I will”, and then do nothing. There is no requirement to show any proof. In the future when applying for Japanese passports etc., there is a question asking if you have other nationalities. It is important to tell the truth and say yes. Again the most that can happen is an official asking you to “endeavor” to renounce your other nationality. Give the same response and rinse and repeat forever

Ohtani already showed by coming to the US at age 23 that he valued playing in the MLB more than money. If he had waited two years later he probably would've gotten $200 million more than he did.

He showed disregard for money again these couple of months by pitching while injured, jeopardizing his free agency contract. Great players are like this. They want to keep pushing, but it's the team's responsibility to protect the players from themselves sometimes.

The Angels, knowing that he has free agency looming, just allowed him to pitch as much as possible, when they should have told him no, protecting him.

If anyone can come back from a second Tommy John surgery it's Ohtani, but it's sad we won't see him pitch for a while.

Saw a documentary about this company. To keep up with the times and drop off in general sewing, they made this kids sewing machine, another sewing machine designed for seniors which runs slower and makes it easier to thread the needle, and they made a special one targeting men who like to make leather crafts. Interesting.

@sven. There was never any definitive connection between the "knocking" sounds and the submersible. It could have been anything around there. There was one sound, then another one a few hours after.

Finding that sound was compared to hearing a snare drum in a stadium full of cheering fans

So he was trying to join the GSDF because he was trying to get his hands on some ammunition? Maybe he was trying to pocket some and got caught? Another person who can't tell what is reality.

Reminds me of that guy who killed the ANA pilot in the cockpit because he wanted to take the controls of the plane and fly it under the rainbow bridge like he did in the flight simulator video game back in 1999

Nobody posting on here has to buy them. Good for the organizers that they offer a variety of options. There's always going to be someone to buy these. Cheap compared to that submersible ride to the Titanic for ¥35.5 million. I guess people get angry when they read these things because it reminds them that other people have more money than them

The video's already been out for 12 hours at least. The car behind the bus had a dash cam. Clearly shows the truck going straight into the side of the bus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biVYl7hwAm8

Obviously not suitable for the military when he can't take even any ounce of criticism. In the military more than any other organization, you have to accept that you are going to get orders or yelled at from superiors

I wonder if the people on here complaining about the head of beer are British? In Britain the beer is served much warmer, and barely has any head at all. Not acceptable in Japan or in the US. Of course nobody wants a half filled glass of foam, but two or three fingers worth is appropriate. Different beer, different style.

I wonder how many calories they burn every game? Definitely a good way to get a work out

Besides adding health insurance information to this stupid card, there are talks of incorporating drivers licenses to this, and for foreigners our ID cards.

For those of you saying you are going to avoid having this card, you're going to end up having to get it anyway. I totally agree, it's ridiculous.

How can we protect our "my number/new my number" if we have to carry it around with us as our ID, and rental car companies make photocopies of it when we rent a car!?

Diablo 4 for me now. I could never get into these fighters when I was younger at the arcade. Too many button and joystick combos to remember. My partner used to play Streetfighter, I used to play Qbert or pinball

Already a mess and the government wants us to put our health insurance information, drivers license, and for foreigners our ID cards on there too. Ridiculous

Well like any technology there are good and bad uses. Good uses of this are for example to allow mobility to people who are now paralyzed, a bad use would be a divide in society between those who have implants and those who don't. I'm not sure which would be a better group to be in

I made sure to go to the 2008 Olympics in Beijing because tickets were set unbelievably cheaper than those before and since. I went to 16 events, mostly finals. For example, my swimming final's tickets were about the equivalent of ¥5000 (face value), whereas for the 2020 Tokyo games they went on sale for ¥108,000. I saw finals in judo, track and field, volleyball, gymnastics, etc. Table tennis was impossible due to huge demand understandably

Calm down people! No matter what the reasoning for building these toilets, the problem was not with transgender people, it was with straight people, mainly due to prostitution.

Most of you wouldn't be able to recognize a transgender person in the first place. Many transgender people exist in our society and go to whichever toilet fits their identity without anyone knowing with no scene being made.

The main problem with these toilets from my own personal viewing experience, and from what I have read in Japanese media, was that straight women and men were mixing in the toilets. Because anyone can walk in, and there are so many stalls, it became a very convenient location for prostitutes to do their business. Men and women going into a stall for a quick one. Add to the fact that it's in Kabukicho and there you go

Regarding the website version, I found it quite helpful to plan an itinerary for my upcoming trip. I told it the exact dates I was going and the location and asked it to plan an itinerary for me. Of course I will make adjustments, but it was an excellent base for me to build on.

3 million bananas and 15,000 athletes. That's 200 bananas each! Wow that's a lot of bananas

Probably like the Luffy case previously, ringleader recruits idiots to commit the crime and the ringleader benefits. That guy is somewhere with the watches, meanwhile the idiot teens are in custody

People need to read a bit better. It never said that he paid ¥20,000 for a massage, it says he demanded money and she handed over ¥20,000. Stop insinuating it was something sexual.

The standard hourly price for a massage is ¥6000/hour. It's easy for a place to have ¥20,000 in cash. The legit place where I go has an average 4-5 customers at a time. My partner and I have a 2 hour foot and body massage each 1/month, that's ¥24,000 right there, though we usually pay with a credit card.

The benefits of cashless are clear for shops in this case

Activision hasn't been "saved", they wanted the deal to happen. This is due to heavy lobbying by Sony. We're talking about Sony's protectionism here

When Michael Jackson's things went on sale, Lady Gaga ended up buying dozens of items including thriller jacket, sequin glove etc. She keeps them in a temperature controlled facility with her own items. I wouldn't be surprised if she tried to get some of Freddie Mercury's outfits as well, particularly seeing where the profits are going

@3Rensho pitchers and catchers all use Pitchcom now. It can be set for various languages including Japanese, so there's no language problem on the field

There are lots of regional only passes that are still available. Some of them for foreign residents but most of them still for tourists only. These will not have price increases at the moment

@zizi. Paris not looking very nice at the moment, and the Olympics and corruption always go hand in hand no matter the location