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All this is great for us foreigners. We all hold our funds in US Dollars and Swiss Franc accounts. Nobody holds any funds in the pathetic basket case “currency” yen.

Unless you are employed by a Japanese company, like MOST of us foreigners here (tears rolling down cheeks emoji).

Japan is rapidly losing it's status as a developed country. For 30 years or more they have been in the doldrums. It had to happen. And with demographics the way they are, anyone betting for a return to 1:1 to the dollar anytime soon is deluded.

Jaoan has lost literally 8,000,000 of their entire population. It peaked in 2010 I think. At now around 120,000,000 and in exponetial population decline, they still can't feed their populace. This means they have serious systemic issues. Stop blaming tourists for your woes Japan.

No it is not, the climber had a long history of hearth problems not just a couple of them, covid is the well described cause of the increase of cardiac risk on young people.....

Umm he had it since 2021. That's not a long history at all. 2021.

A lot of people don't know they have heart disease. A quick search on line shows he looked really fit.

In the last couple of years, numbers of perfectly fit young people keeling over due to heart issues seem to be really increasing. This is just the latest example.

The Chinese not so concerned since they been doing their bit. While western countries just continue to bicker.

And how about stopping all these wars? That would make a massive difference. But no, they continue to focus on cow flatulence.

If I had to goose, I'd go with Renho. She has children. At least she practiced what she preaches (kind of). She did chose divorce to prioritise work though.

No need to investigate whether they related or not.

Umm it's all speculation. And based on nothing tangible at all. Just belief. Remember that, Japan.

A kangaroo court. No suprise here. Follow the money and the weapons too

Ok a mate of mine did some digging around. Seems the hotel manager was not Japanese. Here is a link with screenshots of the exchange. Absolutely wild.

https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2024/06/e558aec2503d-update1-kyoto-hotels-refusal-to-accommodate-israeli-man-illegal-city.html

Most of us who have experienced similar discrimination just tell our friends and family members in disbelief, and we generally don’t have documentary evidence.

Might be. Somehow I doubt my embassy would get the same results though.

Asiaman7

Thanks. You're dead right. And my original comment somehow gone (I wonder why).

(Part of my original comment):

The hotel is only in trouble because the guy was an Israeli. I know plenty of foreigners who have been turned down for apartments (as people mentioned above), onsens and hotels. In fact it happened to me a few years ago and I speak fluent Japanese. I think many foreigners who have been here for some time would have similar stories.

Very true. However, in this case, the hotel manager actually wrote the rejection in a text and explained his reasons in detail.

The traveler simply forwarded that text over to the Israeli Embassy, which then took action.

Most of us who have experienced similar discrimination just tell our friends and family members in disbelief, and we generally don’t have documentary evidence.

Thie is code for "Prepare for the Replicas".

The hotel is only in trouble because the guy was an Israeli. I know plenty of foreigners who have been turned down for apartments (as people mentioned above), onsens and hotels. In fact it happened to me a few years ago and I speak fluent Japanese. I think many foreigners who have been here for some time would have similar stories.

I am under no illusion that I would have been brushed aside immediately if I had complained to the authorites regarding ANY of the discriminatory practices that have taken place against me or people I know here over the years. And my cases would certainly NEVER have made national news.

That's the power of Israel and it's truly global reach. It's actually frightening.

Kyoto is already overwhelmed. And Mt Fuji is limited to 4000 visitors or something a day and you are charged for climbing it. Small towns are putting up barriers to block tourists and this will just increase.

And on top of it, they are going to be charged more than the locals under a two tier pricing system.

This is not a policy of "welcoming" tourists at all. The government out of touch with reality.

High quality? Apparently you haven’t bought much off Temu or AliExpress.

Absolutely rifgtm, most of it is junk. However when it comes to green technologies, China is far, far ahead. 50% of cars that are sold in China are electric and they are on track to phase out ICE cars conpletely by 2025 and now is the world's biggest car exporter too. BYD has overtaken Tesla as the biggest electric car marker and is way better quality now. Meanwhile, the west are backtracking on phasing our ICEs. There was no way they'd meet those targets without China.

Top German car engineers and even Musk has also admitted it's game over. And think it was the west that began mandating green technologies be shoved down our throats. Then when China obliged they are snubbed.

All tarrifs will lead to is a system where western companies will stay inefficient and lethargic and move further behins. See high speed rail for example.

And watch China retaliate with their own trade barriers and they'll just sell their technology to the ever expanding BRICs, which countries are clamouring to join.

There are trade barriers being put up all over the world to combat China's product dumping, WTO rule-breaking subsidies, forced labor, and environmental degradation.

See also solar panels, wind turbines, and many, many more things.

It's not product dumping. It's producing all the things they said were going to save us from global warming at high quality, efficiently and cheaply. Something the west refused to do, or did so inefficiently or at very high cost or just not at all. Now we can have all of these cheaply, they don't want them since it doesn't fit their political narrative. Instead they focus on preparing us for WW3.

The A/C 19°C and electric fans have been on full since last week at my place and will stay on 24/7 until at least late October.

I'm assuming this is a joke, or you live alone. And your electricity bill? Also not good for your health to do that since body won't be able to regulate its temperature. You'll just end up getting sick.

Might finally encourage people to get out of Tokyo and decentralisation. And people are realising that living in the equivalent of a shoebox at exorbitant prices and wasting your entire life paying for it working for a pittance is not "living".

It's funny how the market will determine the fate of Tokyo. The establishment and politicians choose to keep their heads buried in the sand.

Ummmmm.

Smartphones should be banned for all children under 18..

Reasoning being? Know plenty of addicted 40 somethings. Also you might want to look into numbers of Generation Z (hate the term personally) who are actually going fill retro and snubbing "smartphones".

It is pretty obvious that Japan is happy to keep it's version of the Kafala employment system that is used by many Middle Eastern countries, where employers import foreign laborers on a contract for a specified time period.

They're happy with the status quo. Except word is getting around.

Nah never any problems whatsoever, Japanese or not. /s

What a weird question to ask.

Pity OpenAI had to get rid of it's Scarlett like voice. Found it to be so comforting. The new default male one just doesn't do it for me.

A powerful Japanese business lobby is calling on the government to allow married couples to keep dual surnames...

Why not just mention the Keiranden in the first sentence? Is it be because it's a dirty word and they're basically a branch of the LDP in sheep's clothing?

The time line and details of the latest measures to halt the decline of Japan are vague, as per usual. And the 40,000 yen tax reduction is for June only, as per my undestanding. Temporary fix? It won't change a thing, apart from increasing the national debt, since it is printed out of thin air.

This is just political theatre before the election.

Hey Siri can you create me a yawning half-eaten Apple emoji?

They are called zombies, companies so laden with debt that they are just stumbling by on the brink of survival, barely able to pay even the interest on their loans and often just a bad business hit away from dying off for good.

I think you'll find this applies to entire countries as well. The capitalist system is rotten to the core.

How many were militants. I wish we could get numbers on the militant to civilian ratio.

They're all militants in the eyes of the Israelis, so the kill ratio was 100%.