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Age of consent is 16. It was 13 and they raised it to 16 in 2023. You are wrong on that.

Doesn’t sound like there is any more to it other than two kids who have a 2 - 3 year age gap. Legal age is 18 now right? Age of consent is 16 and the article states the girl is in her late teens.

Not as dumb as that Chinese student who needed to be rescued from Fuji on two separate occasions because he went back a second time looking for his phone.

I don’t like Trump at all… but he is not a mass murderer.

A broken clock is correct twice a day, so yeah…

Japanese people don’t even want to live in a brand new house that was built upon land where an “unnatural death” occurred because it makes not only the house, but the land worthless!

@jeffb

Unless we’re in middle school, I think I just proved my point.

Should be a no brainer and kind of embarrassing that a country like Thailand offers its people more civil liberties than Japan. Unfortunately, on JT, about half of the commenters think Japan should be more like Korea, traditional family values and all.

I would gladly pay 2,000 yen for 5 kilos of California rice.

I know very few people with PR who don’t have a Japanese spouse and are actually here on their own merits. Probably about 10 people in total. Everyone else would not be here if it wasn’t for their spouse, ex spouse, or some kind of extenuating family circumstance.

Ito is not a Russian surname to my knowledge. Were either she or the estranged husband Russian - Japanese Nikkei? Because JT is either using her maiden name or her married name.

Is he trying to blow out his shoulder?

BigP,

What is it with supporting something that goes against one’s own self-interest?

This isn’t anything new. These sentiments have always been simmering just beneath the surface. Japan has always wanted only white foreigners from first world countries, nothing else. I remember 20 years ago when I first got here and seeing the black trucks with the loudspeakers. I was looking curiously and an elderly Japanese man came up to me and said “Japanese terrorist”.

Hippocrates. The CCP didn’t even have a hold of “China” in 1945.

I bought some the other day. Anyone else a little pissed off? It’s old rice and is literally crunchy and it’s still considerably more expensive than the “fresh” rice a year ago. Ridiculous they’re actually charging us for this garbage. The Japanese government would be better to just distribute 10 kilo bags to each household instead of cash handouts!

Right… inbound tourists have money to spend while the average Japanese Ken Tanaka doesn’t.

And Jay, while you’re at it and since I know this is dear to your heart, heterosexual marriage is also an imported western concept.

I’m not going to get into right and wrong, just looking at what is written. They overstayed their visas. They broke the law. I’m surprised they were awarded anything at all. That’s probably why the lawyer said it’s “significant”.

Whereas the US charges its citizens and makes them sign a big I.O.U.

Are they too young to know Better than Ezra?

Alcoholics are habitual problem drinkers and alcohol dependency is like the final stage of alcoholism and the only way to safely get sober is inpatient medical intervention. Shakes, hallucinations, not being able to walk, DT’s, scary stuff. I’m speaking from experience and most of the inpatients were women. They should really ban the sale of Strong Zero. Nothing like getting in the habit of drinking 8 large cans a day after a divorce, because it’s cheaper than beer, to put you halfway in the grave.

The US still has nukes in Okinawa. The bases are not “Japanese soil”. Anyone naive enough to believe otherwise really doesn’t understand geopolitics.

Nah, there’s another pizza maker on Amazon for 20,000. Or better yet, I can use my 100,000 yen oven which has a pizza function.

Must be hard. Minority within a minority. Not even the mainstream Hindu Indians in India are very sympathetic towards the Sikhs.

People really are selective as to where they direct their outrage. Negligence is negligence and just because the kids are physically ok doesn’t make it OK.

The Chinese suspect will be tried and executed without due process soon. That’s a fact. I don’t know because I don’t have experience. Does this kind swift retribution bring the victim’s family/ loved ones solace, closure or does it just leave them more confused and bitter?

I bought a playpen for my kids at toys r us for about 20,000 yen. It took up almost all the space in one of my downstair rooms but it keeps them locked in and they can just have fun with their toys if you need to take your eye off of them momentarily. I’ve never seen one in a Japanese homes with children ever in 20 years here. Don’t know why because they are easy and relatively cheap.

Get Him to the Greek… Diddy was in that too, right?

I’m generalizing but Indonesians, at least the Muslim ones, are incredibly honest. Anyone ever hear of Indonesians in Japan scamming people or stealing farm produce? Not really.

It would be interesting if she actually gave birth in New York… US birthright citizenship and all.