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Does Japan has the exports of rare earths to USA? Otherwise how to press Trump dropping the tariffs?

Some simple statistics show that Japan, not only has the lowest Pension system in the world for the 1st World Countries, but even lower than most of the 2nd World Countries, which means it's ridiculously low.Basically, even if you were a CIO or a CEO, if you didn't save money, you are condemned at a poverty life, with a monthly amount that cannot even cover a monthly house or apartment rent or mortgage.

In ANY other countries in this world, people went out to protest against those kind of things, for the lower pensions and benefits, while in Japan is always the "shoganai", accept and swallow everything your Govnmt does and says. Only people that do not know how ridiculously small the pension is here, will not understand the struggle of the retired seniors to barely live day by day with this callous income.

get the president to drop the 25% tariff he imposed on Japanese cars, as well as a paused 24% across-the-board levy that Trump calls a reciprocal tariff, without making concessions

All you have to do is bow and say yoroshiku onegaishimasu. That’ll usually do it. I don’t why it takes six trips by Akazawa.

Why are you showing the number plate of a private vehicle? They're always blurred or pixilated in other media.

Go on YouTube any night and you can watch many Japanese women live streaming getting drunk or drunk.

What a dumb and pointless article.....the xenophobia from Japan Today is incredible.

Jump in my car

For some of us it would be easier to jump over it rather than jump into it.

If it was really a "smart car" the entire roof would be a solar cell returning power and mileage for free for the life of the vehicle.

A little dumber than some thought.

Kiplung......you shuddup ! You thin you bedda than me doncha

Seriously though, some Chu Hais are like soft drinks and go downlike a cold Fanta until......

Kiplung shows up and ruins the moment

Good job. I always appreciate people taking affirmative action like this to reverse human damage to the environment. A tiny ray of hope in an otherwise dark world.

Starpunk....the west hated Gaddafi for a number of reasons ....a big one being he sought unity of African states and a move away from the US dollar in inter country trade.

He was never the bogey man the simpleton neocons portrayed.

How many presidents of the US did he see come and go ?

Longevity....until NATO began their astro turfing of "opposition groups ", none united with each other by the way.

So Gaddafi goes, and these groups raid the military weapons barracks fermenting more civil war.

And, by the way, an influx of migrants from Africa transiting to Europe through Libya , something not occurring during Gafaffi time.

"Slouching towards Sirtre "is the academic analysis you havent read, and clever readers will see the word "slouching " as referencing a WB Yeats poem....the one that begins .....

"Turning and turning in the widening gyre, the falcon cannot hear the falconer "

There is a lot people dont know.

Both his goals were great. MVP award for sure.

The main opposition Conservative Party offered a swift response.

But they didn't support a national inquiry when they were in power.

With people being required to have a my number card, why doesn’t the government just make it mandatory for all workers to pay into the system. How many people are on various kinds of part time contracts, gig contracts, free lance contracts, independent contracts and so on.

The more the government takes baby steps towards this end, the more businesses find loopholes to keep from having to match pension premiums.

It's not just AI tools, it's everything. People should just assume that everything they say and do is being monitored. It is apparently necessary for them to know every nook and cranny of eveyone's psyhe. Surveillance capitalism is just as bad as communism.

My dog will not go to sleep in the night without me near her. At times she wakes up barking in the night because of nightmares and I have to comfort her.

A few nights of bad sleep are worth the love and loyalty that we get in return.

> stickman1760Today  02:41 pm JST

Pathetic display of performative masculinity by the the sad orange draft dodger

'Masculinity'? As in 'manhood'? I think not!

Brilliant. Love sleeper trains. It's a great and relaxing way to travel, made even better when you wake up in a new destination.

I hate this Kpop or J pop but why is a company policy on working condition a problem. No one are forcing these employees into the industry. They choose to enter the industry on their own decision. Police have a policy of if you do crime you loss your Job. Prison Guards have a policy of no sex with prisoners loss your job Army have a policy of not shooting a fellow soldier or loss your job Most job disallow drinking alcohol or loss your job. Come on spot light you can do better for a topic. then finding a problem on occupation and company policy.

What utterly freaks me out is the FOUR LITRE plastic bottles of whiskey and shochu that are sold at my local supermarket. And amazingly some people actually buy that (yes they do). This is insane.

Following the Sean Spicer and Propaganda Barbie tradition of shameless lying, Steven Cheung claimed that 250,000 people attended it. He'd be lucky if it was one tenth of that.

@Mr Kipling

Asahi, Sapporo and Kirin all use rice in their beers. Have a look at the can next time you drink one.

I think one of the Kirin ones does not (一番搾り). But it's pretty rare, almost all the other ones do. I taste tested it alongside a freshly made home brew, and the Kirin one had an aftertaste of water, compared to the prolonged aftertaste of the homebrew. But it's OK in a pinch.

Pathetic display of performative masculinity by the the sad orange draft dodger

The age pension system in Australia is the world best practice which started in the 80's. Now the government pays very little on aged pension as 4 in 10 retirees receive an aged pension where before the 80's 10 in 10 use to saving billion a year of taxes. Now these saving are spent on keeping the aged socially active in the community allowing to better life outcomes. I tottally enjoy to saying this that it was left initiative and was hated by the conservative. But today the conservative side of society fully indorse this system and would not dear alter it. Back in the 80's a law was pass the the employer had to pay 7% of the employee wage into a supperannuation fund. Not 7% from their wage but 7 % on top of the workers wage. The conservative went ape S*&^ at the time and promise to rescind the law. Today the % is now 12% of the wage weather you work one hour or 40. the worker can only access the fund at the age of 65. It been 45 years and even a minimum wage earner of 40 years can now retire financial comfortable.

That's some serious omotenashi

https://www.japan.travel/en/au/experience/culture/omotenashi/

Well done Kyoto.

There is a good business case for lower priced 1 or 2 star hotels to cater for locals with less disposable income.

When traveling around other countries, I have often seen some very cheap places that locals stay in, as they can't afford the nicer hotels that the international tourists can. SE Asia has loads of them, so they could be built in Japan too.

Nice hotels are looking to get the best paying guests they can of course.

This may solve the price concerns in some case and locals may find Kyoto to be worth visiting for the cultural sites after all.

Can't drink champange on a beer budget, but many historical sites are free or quite cheap, even on a local's lower salary.

Violence on both the extreme left and right. White supremacists have killed people for their color.

Yep. Religious extremists don’t mind lashing out either.

Extremists are the problem.

The idea that all violence comes from one particular group is extremist nonsense.

Just…silly.

Something good from Musk, who stuns his trans daughter, Vivian Wilson.

Saying Israel has the right to self-defence but Iran doesn't is not logical.

Who is hell bent on annihilating the other? Who declares about its will and plan to annihilate a whole other nation - Women and man, elders, children, babies? Who lobes giant ballistic missiles at population centers?

Iran has been employing the Fattah-1 hypersonic missile platform to decent effect.

Haifa refinery hit hard - supplies some 60-70% of fuel in the country and pretty much all the military grade refined fuel.

Turns out IDF strikes in Iran hit many decoys.

No one can claim American healthcare is more accessible from Japan.