Garthgoyle comments

Good job, mainland Americans. Defending those immigrants in need who come to the US illegally and encouraging more to break the laws, encouraging more looting, more vandalizing and more violence including murder. Burning the flag of the country that gives them "freedom" but leaving waving the flags of those countries immigrants don't want to go back to.

Way to American. Just like Black Friday in Walmart. Demonstrations for George Floyd back in 2020 and all the looting by one specific group of people, plus others taking over police stations. All the violent events when protesting for Free Palestine, including murder of Israel embassie's staff. And now this.

It's like Americans just want a reason to go and take all that rage they have inside.

What was it that Obama say back in April?

"This has to do with something more precious, which is who are we as a country, and what values do we stand for?"

Some years when I first came to Japan, this ALT in the same went out for some drinks and decided to take a nap on road at night. Car passed by and went over him. I think he died before even getting to the hospital.

And now this guy. Just another charlatan.

The end of the world is in the year 2000. No wait, 2012. No wait, 2020. No wait, earthquake on 2025. No wait, this guy named Sun Myung Moonie is the second coming of Jesus Christ. No wait, Asahara. No wait, Ryuho Okawa.

Charlatans. Every single one of them.

They better check Rakuten and Mercari often. I'm sure people will try reselling the rice there. Probably Amazon as well but there's more control on that platform.

From the religion that dresses women like potatoes. The middle east will never know peace, a very sad reality.

John-san

Mate, do you enter all countries and disregard the laws of the land?

The law in Japan states that Japanese nationals are not required to carry any sort of ID. Your discount card at Yodobashi Camera is not a legal ID and cannot prove any identity. Driver's license are for drivers; if you're not a driver, you don't have one. Only 17% of Japanese have passports issued; they do not have a residence card (tho the government tried in the 90's) and the new mynamba cado not everyone has one yet.

It's not about respect, it's about following due procedure and the laws of the state.

The article is about discrimination that Japanese citizens face against cops due to their ethnicity. Not about foreigners refusing to show an ID, which is by the way the law in Japan. I've read trough all the comments and I couldn't find anyone refusing or complaining about showing a zairyu card when asked by police officers.

JohnSan

This is not about respect. Japanese citizens are not required by law to carry any sort of ID. And if by the Japanese law they're not to carry an ID, how are they supposed to present an ID they don't have?

That was his last fiasco before pulling a "hagwon midnight run". I still wonder which of his friends got the contracts for those useless pieces of cloth.

Also, I still have mine. Never opened, still in its original plastic bag with the flyer it came with.

Japan has flaws like every place but is still a great place to live and raise a family, but ignoring the flaws doesn't help, despite being a great place to live some things need improvement

And here is the problem. Like Antiquesaving mentioned, Japan is great but apologists refuse to recognize that there are still improvements to make. They say just ignore it and be nice but refuse to acknowledge that there's people who go through this often.

Antiquesavings, you can refuse body checks. Cops know they can't pad you down unless they get consent from you. Every time I've refused and so far I've not been arrested.

Good on them. I wish them the best of luck; they'll need it.

I've been racially profiled several times in my years in Japan. Cops want to pad me down because "we do this with everyone". That has happened several times while I'm walking in Harajuku, Machida, inside the train station going from platform to platform, Ota-shi and other places.

One of those times, they wanted to see if the credit cards I have in my wallet matched the name on my ID. That turned into an argument.

A different time I'm driving while at work and get stopped by the cops at a traffic light in Roppongi area. I asked what the problem was and he said "we" just want to ask you some questions. When I look thru the mirrors, I have four cops surrounding my van and the questions were like "where, are you going, where do to live, when and why are you driving?" Etc. Nothing traffic related.

Maybe it is my brown skin color and facial features. Or maybe they're just doing their job as they should. But when it happens more than often, it feels a bit different than "just their job".

A different time, a co-worker who's Japanese but who also has mixed heritage and doesn't look Asian, had a similar situation and cops wanted to see inside the trunk of her car. No reasons given other than "they just do this often with everyone".

I hope the plaintiffs at least succeed in making the public aware this happens.

Digital interchangeable-lens cameras and lenses.

Their top place in the cars industry is long gone. Kia and Hyundai surpassed them some years ago, as well as other European models. This can be attributed to Japan being culturally averse to changes.

Original is always the best! They can come with all kinds of flavors and sell them at premium prices. But the reason umaibo is still popular after all these years, as well as Black Thunder, is the simplicity and the fact it is such a small and simple delight.

falseflagsteve

If you feel you can't enjoy the simplest pleasures of life, then I would suggest a lifestyle change is in order.

He's not wrong and he's been very realistic about the fact of having kids. People calling him selfish for been realistic are the same people who will be calling on him "people like this shouldn't be allow to have kids" if things went south in the future.

They're very good at making computers that last, best tablets in the market with most color accurate screens and a great OS, and they make the iPhone. They're also good at convincing people to spend in their insanely overpriced gadgets like their VR sets. No need to shine in the AI sector as well.

Do not blame him for the comment, blame Japanese culture and its people for having different sayings across prefecture about women, people, etc. Just as apparently women from Akita are the most beautiful because Akita bijin whatever, or Utsunomiya in Tochigi has very delicious gyoza and "cocktails".

Besides, people need to stop being sensitive, and b, the media tends to overblow things out of proportions.

Trump made the right call. If they want to protest, good. It's their right to do so. But do it orderly and in a civilized way.

Blocking highways, revolting and mobs turning to violence, destruction of property and looting Arrests and jail time is what they deserve.

Honorable humans don't

He most likely grew up with a silver spoon up his behind.

We all, except the MAGA cult members, see his point. But $400 is the weekly wage of someone working 40 hours a week.

Did she push him off the car or did he jump off the car? Forcing him off the car sounds like a real difficult, almost impossible thing to do while holding the steering wheel and feet on the pedals.

To stop it? Absolutely nothing unless you can turn off the switch to every AI image generator. And even the, people will just use Photoshop and other editing software.

They could make it possible for the affected people affected to sue those using their images.

Just take your trash home/hotel. Also, there are hundreds of public garbage bins all around Tokyo. They're at the conbinis.

What is really annoying in Tokyo and most bigger cities, is the lack of benches to take a break.

I've eaten rice almost everyday since I was a kid in the four different countries where I've lived, including Japan.

It's too dang expensive to have kids and things aren't getting any cheaper. That's worldwide.

How much is it for rice again?

Impossible. This is the USA's Golden Age of manufacturing and big beautiful things. Their liberation from oppression...

It is common knowledge that if Russia stopped invading and killing civilians, attacking them apartment buildings, schools, hospitals, buses with passengers on their way to work, bringing soldiers from a different nation to help in the invasion, the war would end.

But Ukraine attacks the same bombers Russia's been using to kill everyone, oh, Ukrainians are terrorist that don't want peace...

American jobs...

Coca Cola, Harley Davidson, John Deere, Caterpillar, Walmart, Nike. Stellantis!!! They're all leaving the US, firing employees and/or increasing prices across the board.

Seems like tariff are having an exact opposite of "reviving manufacturing".

bass

Triggered because someone criticized your cult's leader?

blacklabel

The left does none of this, just insults and political games

That does sound exactly like you and all the right-wingers for the past 4 years, including a riot in the White House and chanting to unalive the vice president Mike Pence.

He was the stepdad and responsible for those kids. But instead, he decided to leave them in a crashed car, into the expressway and didn't bother to even look after maybe calming down. Holy cow!