Posted in: Protestors block New Caledonia roads as French police pour in See in context
France has no right to be there anymore. Pay up and leave.
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Posted in: Teacher arrested for indecency on Tokyo Disneyland field trip See in context
Legrande
Another day, another pervert in Japan.
Yes, yet another one.
Yet no one pauses to ask how this perverted mindset takes root and develops in Japanese young men.
Sir, the way it takes root in Japanese young men is exactly the way it would take root in your and any other of uour countrymen’s minds as well.
Selah
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Posted in: Teacher arrested for indecency on Tokyo Disneyland field trip See in context
Wow, I am speechless.
Keep this guy away from elementary children please.
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Posted in: Japan gov't again ordered to pay damages over Cameroon detainee death See in context
1.6 million with no apology or admission of guilt is a slap in the face!
Thats literally peanuts for a life.
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Posted in: A new bill currently being discussed in the Diet would give the government the authority to revoke the permanent residency status of foreigners who don't make the required payments into the country’s mandatory pension system. What do you think about this? See in context
Fighto
I know of people who committed crimes and did not lose their PR and also likewise, those who did.
I think it takes a lot to overturn PR as some have family and new lives here, but it is a warning of intent from the government.
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Posted in: A new bill currently being discussed in the Diet would give the government the authority to revoke the permanent residency status of foreigners who don't make the required payments into the country’s mandatory pension system. What do you think about this? See in context
Lol, so as soon as I use sarcasm instead of logic I get upvotes?
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Posted in: Over 80,000 foreigners working at convenience stores in Japan See in context
There are many foreigners now staffing the convinience stores all over Osaka. I appreciate them, they are obviously needed.
I don’t expect them to be exactly the same as Japanese, and they usually speak it well. Why the negativity?
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Posted in: A new bill currently being discussed in the Diet would give the government the authority to revoke the permanent residency status of foreigners who don't make the required payments into the country’s mandatory pension system. What do you think about this? See in context
Peter and Wallace
Thanks for the insight guys.
I’m gunna stop declaring taxes on my business now and hopefully it was all just us making a mountain outta a molehill.
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Posted in: A new bill currently being discussed in the Diet would give the government the authority to revoke the permanent residency status of foreigners who don't make the required payments into the country’s mandatory pension system. What do you think about this? See in context
Wallace
I am aware of the rules and threshholds man.
We hire accountants here and back in the states too annually and its a pain.
Whats ur point?
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Posted in: A new bill currently being discussed in the Diet would give the government the authority to revoke the permanent residency status of foreigners who don't make the required payments into the country’s mandatory pension system. What do you think about this? See in context
Sounds fair.
My wife is American and is double taxed by the States and us here.
Deliberate tax evasion is illegal and u fair to those who pay, so whats the problem?
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Posted in: Dying salmon trouble Norway's vast fish-farm industry See in context
I avoid farmed fish whenever I can.
Infortunately thats pretty much all the salmon here. Amberjack and shrimp are usually sold farmed here in Osaka as well.
A lot of healthy things are now actually full of chemicals and are probably bad for you
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Posted in: Japanese opt for short, cheap overseas trips for Golden Week holidays See in context
I think the situation is different for everyone.
If you make in the 300s a month and have regular expenses you cannot save much and that has been made even less in the last few years.
I’ve never liked getting ripped off during GW personally regardless of my income at the time. In a week my friend will be traveling for about 1/ 3 of the cost of now.
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Posted in: Bears designated as animal subject to subsidized culling in Japan See in context
Tom Selleck
As someone who occasionally identifies as a bear (while hiking) I like your idea.
A BBQ in the woods could complete the vice and the versa as well.
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Posted in: Inflation dents budgets for cherry blossom viewing in Japan See in context
You can go for a walk, take a train or other transport, head out to the mountains at any time, and see cherry blossoms at no cost.
Everything is so overly commercialized, theres an average cost on flower viewing
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Posted in: 2 dead in Hokkaido avalanche identified as New Zealanders See in context
Sad to hear of this!
Its always a awful tragedy to lose lives in an avalanche. Kinda horrible to hear others assigning blame and all that.
They were not hurting anyone else.
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Posted in: Japan business lobby chief supports separate surnames for spouses See in context
My wife and I were married over ten years ago and we never faced this in any form.
She kept her western name and I am Japanese and kept mine.
It was up to us and was never even brought up.
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Posted in: Plan for Europe's huge new particle collider takes shape See in context
I wouldn’t wanna be nearby that.
Sudden booms and whiff of orange smoke…
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Posted in: Ukraine-born Miss Japan relinquishes crown after reported affair See in context
Everytime someone needs to be taken down, they find the smallest things and then criminally print their own stories for everyone to read.
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Posted in: Kishida grateful to N Korean leader for quake sympathy message See in context
Sort of odd to accept earthquake condolences from someone who states on other days they want to nuke you.
I mean what is that?
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Posted in: Suspect flees from scene of double stabbing incident in Osaka See in context
Quo Primium
Japan actually has very strict knife and weapons laws. What are you going on about?
Its not the nations fault a crazy person stabbed others.
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Posted in: Man sentenced to death for Kyoto Animation arson attack See in context
Mass indiscriminate murderer.
He is getting off easy.
Throughout humankinds history this kind of crime towards your fellowmen usually doesnt result in 3 meals a day and a civil ending.
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Posted in: Japan goalkeeper racially abused online after Asian Cup errors See in context
Samit Basu
I am absolutely a gaijin to people here until I show them my ID :)
Then I explain my mixed blood.
I dont call myself a double, or flip a lid when someone says I am a hafu.
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Posted in: Japan goalkeeper racially abused online after Asian Cup errors See in context
Well Roy I am half Japanese as are hundreds of others that I know.
Why aren’t you half then? Its because you dont like the term right?
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Posted in: Japan goalkeeper racially abused online after Asian Cup errors See in context
Downvotes…love it!
People coming here from abroad and trying to tell me I am not half Japanese.
I am indeed HALF Japanese, as I am also American. It really don’t matter if you don’t like it.
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Posted in: Japan goalkeeper racially abused online after Asian Cup errors See in context
There is actually 100% mixed and half Japanese, like me and my whole family.
Its always some westerner telling me that I am not half but a double or something else like that.
I most definitely consider myself mixed blood and part Japanese because I am also part other nationalities and have affinities to those places.
If you have no skin in the game, keep ur opinions.
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Posted in: Landfill work resumes at new U.S. military site on Okinawa despite local opposition See in context
The timing couldn’t be worse for opponents of this.
Everyone is militarizing and arming and threatening each other. Scary times in my opinon.
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Posted in: Japan earthquake estimated to cost insurers $6.4 billion: report See in context
Insurance companies….they can pay out. They force us to pay everyday.
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Posted in: Gaza war's staggering toll reaches a grim milestone: 20,000 dead See in context
Zibala
And who was living there before Israel took it forcefully from them?
You have to be able to look at things objectively without automatically defending all behaviors.
I am against all the violence btw and not hoping for anything bad toward either nations.
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Posted in: Gaza war's staggering toll reaches a grim milestone: 20,000 dead See in context
Zibala
Or not!
I’ve lived there. Certainly that is not the case in its entirety at all.
You are pretty dense for believing it hook, line, and sinker.
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Posted in: Window washer falls to his death at business hotel in Osaka Prefecture See in context
The work being done at my company now and what I see all over…a lot of construction workers don’t put on a harness even though their on an edge, or up very high.
Feel so bad for this man, wish he strapped himself in.
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