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one that rights groups say exists in few other liberal democracies.

Japan is not a democracy. That’s the all point.

What is described in this article is torture plain and simple. And Japan should be made accountable for that. Japan is clearly not a civilized country.

Don’t try to save someone from water if you are not perfectly sure about your swimming capabilities and endurance.

Totally useless and it’s pretty sure that this will never see any mass production.

On top of that, it tries to solve a marginal problem as there are any more solutions for plastic pollution including biodegradable plastic with already proven scalability. The people reacting to that so positively just shows how the Japanese are trying to hold to any rope in order to convince themselves that Japan is relevant.

So people do vote with their stomachs it seems. As long as the belly is full with cheap rice, it doesn't matter the economy is drawing under the LDP leadership, or the births are abysimal, rice is what matters...

Yep, it tells a a lot about the intellectual level of the population here. Just give to the populace some old totally tasteless rice and the populace is happy.

The head of Japan's meteorological agency on Friday dismissed widespread rumors of a major earthquake in Japan this summer as unscientific and a “hoax,"

Yes sure this is stupid rumors. However listening to the Japan's meteorological agency speaking about spreading hoax is funny given that last year they spread a similar scientifically unproven information that a major earth quake was imminent after a series of temblors. Given the nature of the population here, that triggered notably a rush to stock rice. Japanese are so hypocritical in often calling out something they do themselves and never reflect about it.

This dude is a buffoon, he is very stupid and had no mental capacity. People already forgot how disastrous his previous tenures in the government were and how many utter stupid things he said and decision he took then. Now he is selling to people 4-year old rice at a disgraceful price.

This is Nobel Prize stuff

No this is not. The chemistry to achieve this are well understood. The problem has been to develop a compound that can be industrialized at large scale and at acceptable cost. RIKEN and The University of Tokyo are not the only labs having this kind of rapidly degradable plastic working in labs in controlled experiments.

Disgusting individuals.

People’s stupidity is mind blowing.

@MarkX

Yes exactly. As I told yesterday, seeing people lining up for rice, moreover old rice, tells a lot about the state of this supposedly super power rich country.

And the price they are selling that 4-year old rice is offensive.

People lining up for rice like it’s third world tells a lot about the state of Japan.

And uh, actually, if you’re not physically active, then no, you DON'T need carbs. That’s just a fact. 

No it’s utter nonsense. It’s baffling that people would think such a silly thing. You don’t need to be «physically active” to need carbs as they provide a source for energy for brain function and basic body metabolism together with other key functions.

Grotesque!

Japan's health insurance system, praised globally

You have to be an American to write such BS. Nobody coming from most of the European countries is impressed by Japanese hearth insurance system.

Your sales tax suggestions are far too complicated for store companies to operate. Who decides what is a highly processed food? Way too complicated. What about the small stores, trying to work that out?

There is nothing complicated about this. Several countries in Europe have low tax rates on fresh food and essentials and regular tax rates on junk and processed food. Japan itself does actually have a lower rate for food since it is at 8% instead of the regular 10%. They could just for example set it at no more than 5% like again in many European countries. So I am not sure what you are talking about here.

Typical price fixing Japanese are known for and it affects many other industries. This is not a news or surprising.

@Cephus

Tepco was warmed from the scientific community for decades not only on the blatant weakness of the design used in that plant but also of the potential of an important earthquake generating a catastrophic tsunami dangerous for this design. Tepco spent decades covering up technical deficiencies and incidents before the Fukushima disaster. During the event itself, the plant staff didn’t even understand correctly how the condenser and water gauges worked which made the reactor core melting even worse as it happened quickly from their poor decisions.

An investigation from an independent commission mandated by the government itself concluded that the disaster was man made and resulted from negligence. But of course nobody is now responsible because precisely Japan is an oligarchy with a protected class

A Chinese visitor remarked that while it was not cheap, the prices were reasonable considering how expensive things are in Europe.

Europe? Where in Europe this buffoon is talking about?

Japanese crying about things getting expensive is hilarious. They should be better complaining about the greedy also Japanese who increase prices to rip off tourists.

So grotesque.

What a grotesque pointless article describing another bizarre nobody cares Japan thing.

You don’t know your own strength versus a one year old. Not violent but ignorant.

What a grotesque comment. No adult mentally sane would pinne a 1-year old baby between own thighs with a blanket covering him to make him stop crying and think it’s ok. The baby literally suffocated. This is not ignorance, this is evil violence.

I don’t mind the thing although I think the thinking and motivations behind it are grotesque. But boy, the dudes should also wear cloths, that’s a lot of very ugly bodies in display in one place.

In which respected medical journal can I find this amazing, incredible statistic?

> Check your numbers

According to WHO, there are billion cases of seasonal influenza annually, and it causes 290 000 to 650 000 respiratory deaths annually. That’s an case fatality rate between 0.029% and 0.065%. The total worldwide death rate is between 0.0036% and 0.0081%. So what’s your point here?

Iconic Japanese who made iconic cars for the world. He should have got a state send off.

Nobody normally sane would consider Suzuki cars iconic in any form or shape. They are crap, this dude made shitty cars that’s why their existence outside Japan is basically null. So stop it, you are grotesque.

Japan is showing the world that it is possible to have a declining population AND economic growth. Previously thought impossible.

I am absolutely against mass immigrations for economical purpose, it just does not work in the long term. But saying that Japan is in economic growth is crazy. The economy has been stagnant from the 90s or in decline. There is no way that Japan can achieve any significant growth with a population with such low productivity, a population also in decline. The best they can try to do is to change their silly mindset and be more productive. I doubt it will happen.

Sometimes I wonder how far Japanese stupidity and madness can go.

Meanwhile, Japanese respondents with a bad or relatively bad impression of China declined 3.2 points to 89.0 percent.

This precisely means that both nations have nearly 90% negative views of other. So what’s the point of this article?

"We are studying how to offer optimal seating arrangements based on how reserved seats are used," said an official of JR Central.

What a grotesque hypocrite corporate salad of words. What they actually want to do is to increase the prices since more people will have to pay more for a seat.

What a disgusting hypocrite. The Japanese justice system the way it is has ruined the entire life of this man. His entire life. Apologies will never give his life back and they are moreover disgusting since he is only doing this to save face. This is just for show and fake. Disgusting.

This is very unJapanese

This is actually very common among people here to have bad manners like that particularly among men.