MarkX comments

I think UNext carries a lot of HBO content here in Japan, but it is not cheap! Y2,500 a month!

I wonder how much of the tip Dinii is skimming? Also, as the article says this sounds more like the otaku crowd, who go to their favorite shop to see their favorite idol waitress and throw money at her.

I think this will die out, but you never know.

Do people not remember that Japan's constitution that was mostly written by the US has article 9 stating they will never have a military and will never take as aggressive stance against another country?

How are they expected to defend Taiwan in that case! I know it is semantics and they do have one of the larger self-defense forces in the world, but still!

While I hate admitting anything Trump said was true or correct, he was right to say that Japan was spoiled. For the longest time they sold to the US without ever thinking about looking for new markets. They thought that things would run the same as ever. But now we have Trump, and he has upset the apple cart, and now Japan must scramble to either placate his crazy tariff ideas, or find new markets. But they have waited too long I fear.

I still say, find one police officer in each town, municipality, train him with a hunting rifle, and when the time comes he is called to duty to shoot the animal. The rifle would remain in the police station or Koban under lock and key, and the public could have confidence in the system.

"We'd want the government to make sure there's some kind of a safety net for producers," Hosaka said at his farm in the northern prefecture of Niigata.

Why do farmers need a safety net provided by the government? They always want to be bailed out whenever anything little thing goes wrong. But if I open a new convenience store and it doesn't do well, too bad there is no safety net for me.

I think this guy may have thought it would be funny to do this, and record the hilarity that ensued. Then post it to TikTok or Youtube and make a fortune! The idiot never thought about what kind of real damage he could inflict on someone!

Since crude oil prices have recently fluctuated amid tensions in the Middle East, the credit research firm said, "We need to keep an eye on price hikes derived from energy."

What a joke! Oil prices have been way down and held steady for almost 8 months, and slightly fluctuated for a couple of days when the bombing of Iran took place. But anything as an excuse to screw the consumer, who just takes it and doesn't complain.

Oh look it is July 1st here is another list of stuff going up, even though most prices are stable. What can we blame this time, oh let's say ...... fill in the excuse for this month.

This has been the Japanese gov'ts playbook for years now. Throw money at whatever problem they find. But as the economist stated, there are many people who don't need the money to live comfortably, but they get it nonetheless.

But I also think it has to do with Japan's thinking about making it fair for everyone, and not singling out people suffering economic hardship.

I have to laugh at this! Was it not just a few weeks ago that many were calling to invite the foreign students who were not allowed to enter Harvard and offer them full subsidies etc! The left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing!

I don't trust Tamaki, he has a couple of times tried to blame foreigners for not paying taxes and getting free health care, when it is not true. He also had an affair and only had to step back for three months, might be a reason women don't like his party. But a female candidate who also was accused of having an affair was dropped by the CDPJ because her indiscretions were seen as causing trouble for the party!

This parade will dwarf Trump's birthday party parade and make him more envious and angry than before! Look for another one soon, even bigger and better!

I guess they are cute, but I can’t understand the way people get so emotionally attached to these animals. Especially here in Japan! Was watching the news a while back and the legion of fans at both the zoo and then Haneda airport to watch their plane take off was amazing and a bit scary!

Where is the MAHA crowd and Booby Kennedy to make sure this poison doesn't get into the hands of Americans. Oh yeah, it is not a vaccine that has been vetted by doctors so it is ok!

Kids like dinosaurs, their parents have fond memories of a good movie from 30 years ago, it will make enough to be profitable, but that is it. I too wish they would come up with a new idea, but as mentioned above Hollywood is out of ideas, or lazy, or both!

50 bikes over one million yen, what was he stealing Mama charis? If he had targeted road bikes, some of them start at over one million and up!

While I agree with the sentiment, just say that the system is flawed and that it needs to be changed so people are paying their fare share. Don't make the tourist the bad guy. It just leads to more bashing!

While it might seem like a lot of money, when compared to the compensation by many US companies, it is quite low. Carlos Ghosn must be sitting in Beirut thinking, I should have been the highest paid, for what I did for Nissan! But he was arrested, not paid!

The volunteers were the worst “teachers” ever in my case.

Took a few volunteer-taught classes organized by my Tokyo ward office. The volunteers were nice people desiring to interact, but they lacked organization and direction. They didn’t seem to have any teacher training.

So you got some free language lessons from people who were volunteering their time to try and help you, and all you can say is that they were the worst teachers ever! That is gratitude if I've ever heard it.

Maybe thank your local ward office for not supplying them with any tools or curriculum. Maybe if the fat asses in your city hall would do their jobs, they might have a decent program.

So the next time I visit my local city hall to renew my "my number card" Ms. Pikachu will be helping me. That is a wonderful idea.

I feel like the person who wrote this story has some connection to a company that is trying to get a contract with local gov'ts to teach Japanese to foreigners. Sure the teachers might not be licensed, but if they are teaching basic fundamentals like hiragana , katakana, kanji and basic survival Japanese, how in any way would this hinder the students?

As others have said, this is one of the strangest and stupidest articles I've read here on JT!

This is just pure laziness on the part of the owners of the Data centers. They could easily move out into more rural areas, that have good access to Tokyo, cheaper land and cheaper electricity. But just like everyone else, they want to be in Tokyo since it is easy and the place to be!

Koike should pass a law banning all Data centers in Tokyo! But she won't as she wants the revenue! They are all complicit.

As I said before, this deal stinks, but Nippon Steel didn't want to eat the huge penalty from walking away, and why should they, so after a short period of time, they will find a buyer in the US to take over and they won't lose face, or money!

I think more than anything the Beach Boys music is what attracted so many people to the US and especially California. They made it into a paradise so many people wanted to live in. Juxtaposed with what is going on now, it is sad he died with what is going on in LA now!

Sorry, but I don't think many people in Japan would like to buy a Toyota made in the US! The cost would be much higher, and the quality not as good as what you can get here in Japan!

And that is why people are really feeling the pinch with these monthly price increases. Wages are stagnant, but only for a small number of workers while the rest are stuck with only rising prices.

So Virusrex, what if this guys parents had the same worries and decided not to have him. He was born after the bubble, so it was not the easiest time for families, but they went ahead and had their son and raised him the best they could.

So in other words this guy is a selfish person who would rather only think of himself and not have a family!

Migration to the Tokyo metropolitan area accelerated in 2024 from a year ago with a net inflow of over 9,000, after a brief pause during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Is that all? I think all of the university students who moved to Tokyo to study would total 9000 alone. Then all of the others who moved to work, the number must be higher than that!

Two things, first Japanese were really spoiled for a long time, as restaurants and supermarkets barely raised prices. So they got used to paying the same thing for a long time. Now that inflation has hit and shops have no choice but to raise the prices, people feel the pain, especially as their salaries are not keeping up with inflation.

As for curry being a cheap and filling dish, I always felt that it was a dish made at home on the cheap, for a family that would also have leftovers for another meal. Most people I talk to never eat curry outside!