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Tesla exemplifies engineering excellence, they have redefined how to make a vehicle and virtually singlehandedly made the EV segment viable. I feel sorry for the engineers who worked so hard on acheiving this. The damage done to the brand by Elon will be hard to recover from.

Tomi seems even more fragile than Abou Diaby. And that's saying something.

Ensure you get your fair share by becoming a shareholder yourself. Anyone can buy shares. The growth of my index funds over the last few years has been phenomenal, far outpacing any salary growth.

Big thank you to Bill Gates. He has a huge net positive score in terms of making the world a better place.

How are they "verifying" exactly? Anyone can claim any amount of loss. The whole point of the safety deposit box is that you can secretly put anything in there.

The sheer amount of water involved in ensuring the on-land salmon farming pens are clean and fresh must be astronomical. Businesses will be incentivized to cut costs, and thus will be incentivized to use poorly recycled water, or chemicals to "clean" the water, and will also gravitate towards smaller pens with more fish in each. Result: filthy, unhealthy fish. Enjoy your 120yen salmon sushi at the cheapo places.

The replica was made of plastic and molded from the original screen-used version, then finished off with metallic paint and jewel embellishments. 

Wow, someone paid $1.5m just for a plastic replica?

Given the almost complete transparency in wages here in Japan, it still amazes me that people willingly sign up to work for companies, intending to stay for life, even despite knowing that their maximum possible wage is going to be paltry.

The underlying presumptions here are just the typical ethno-supremacist views that are often heard in Japan.

"Japanese know what's best!"

"Foreigners have no idea what they're doing! They'll surely mess it up."

Do they really think Couche-Tard (or any buyer) would be incentivized to devalue their investment by ruining what makes it good?

0.3% rally! We're all rich!

Pretty impressive they caught this guy so quick, and way up in Yokohama. Just goes to show how easily they can track someone nowadays.

While it sucks to be grinding for these sorts of wages, Japan can be a great place to live if you're smart enough to get above the fray and save/invest a decent amount. You don't need to be an expert in personal finance to know that 1oku (100m) yen here will go a lot further than $1m in the US ever would.

How is it in a free market economy that all these prices go up on the same day? Collusion anyone?

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High cost of living?! Japan has the lowest cost of living in the developed world.

Why does everyone assume this is about Chinese hating Japanese? The attacker didn’t say anything before he attacked. Unfortunately all the posters immediately blaming Chinese people increases the feeling of hate between races.

Assumptions are made based on past precedents, not to mention a long-held culture in China of racially demonizing the Japanese. The implicit government sanctioning of that mentality (i.e. choosing not to censor such inflammatory remarks) certainly doesn't help their case. And no, outraged posters on an internet board do not "increase feelings of hate", rather, it's unprovoked attacks on innocents and the apologists who defend them.

"Harm reduction activists" have caused more harm than they can imagine. 30 years ago I was very wililng to argue that these methods be given a chance, but it's clear now they don't work. During the years these activist's have had sway over policy, drug addiction, lawlessness, and homelessness have all gotten worse. Time to acknolwedge that the experiment was tried but failed, and move on to an alternative approach.

The Chinese propaganda machine is insidious. Sorry to hear this guy was forced to resign over this, but glad at least one agent has been rooted out.

Regulatory efforts to stop this are a joke. Japan can't bitterly complain about US Steel on the one hand while continuing its own long history of preventing foreign buyouts.

A tragedy indeed, especially as it's self-inflicted on the men and blameless on the daughters. And all so avoidable. At the end of the day, these men have no one to blame but themselves.

Aeon should pull out of Myanmar and not prop up the Military Junta directly or indirectly.

Do you actually think Japan sides with the West on Myanmar?? Not even close. The Japanese have been one of the biggest backers of the military government in Myanmar, providing billions in ODA money while keeping quiet about human rights issues (except when one of their own happens to be nabbed), and Japanese businesses have been falling over one another to try and get a foothold in the market.

Probably another one of these 'pickup artist' losers who was encouraged to come up with a novel new way to get a woman's attention.

Why is a Japanese company choosing to run a business in Burma?

Because the Japanese government has always supported the regime there. Japan doubled down on foreign investment during the heyday of the sanctions years.

Admitted murderer of 3, strongly suspected in 48 cases, seems pretty lenient of them not to put her on death row. Not to mention it's taken 7 years just to get to this point. We had a grandmother in a neighbouring hospital right at the same time in Yokohama, and it was pure chance that she wasn't sent to this one.

120km in a 50km speed limit, yet they cite the dead girl's car for not checking the road as a mitigating factor to reduce his sentence so he doesn't have to serve jail time.

Japanese legal system is a complete joke.

I still occassionally listen to FEN (AM810) while in the car. The ads targeting financially unsavvy young enlisted men are quite amusing.

come on guys tell us lay people what is the perfect rate?

JPY100 = USD1, pegged.

Pretty sure that the raise, for 99% of these people, will comprise of less than the amount shown in the picture, on an annual basis.

Quite spendy, though. My horrible lime-green lid from Don Quixote was about 2000 yen. Hopefully it does the job when needed.

A helmet is one of those things that you really shouldn't cheap out on.

This is one of Miyazaki's worst movies IMO. The plot is difficult to follow and makes little sense. And don't make the mistake I did and take kids to this movie... this one is not that great for kids. In addition to the nonsensical plot, their patience will be tested as the pacing is extremely slow, with nothing really happenubg for the first 45min or so.

No remorse, no cooperation? then make him pay fully for his horrible crime.

Are you trying to suggest that remorse or cooperation would be grounds for reducing his punishment?