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Posted in: Man arrested for scouting Japanese woman to be prostitute in U.S. See in context

The woman gets 10 million yen and a free pass to continue?

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Posted in: Why so many marriages in Japan are sexless – and what you can do about it See in context

Lots of arguments on many sides. Here's another penny onto my two cents: Japan is one of the least naturally energetic places I've been. That goes for sexually and otherwise. You can feel the energy in places like the Philippines, Thailand, Brazil, Singapore and the Caribbean. Almost non-existent here.

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Posted in: Why so many marriages in Japan are sexless – and what you can do about it See in context

That's just Japan. It goes hand in hand with the endless weirdness here. As one poster said about Filipinas, you'll find that some of the other Asian ethnic groups are warmer and have more interaction with each other. Thais, Taiwanese and Singaporeans come to mind. Even when I go back to America and I see or interact with a Japanese woman, they are generally more cold and standoffish. It's part of the ingrained culture they are brought up with from childhood and it plays out in marriage also. The large amount of things done to keep the sexes separate don't help either. Women-only trips, tours and cafes, onsens, etc only reinforce the separation of the sexes. You watch TV and see an ad for Disneyland or for day trips and it shows two or three women going together, no men in sight.

JayToday 07:59 am JST

This will probably be one of the most downvoted posts I've ever written, but luckily this isn't a popularity contest - it's about saying what needs to be said.

> One reason so many men (foreign included) complain about their sexless marriages in Japan is that they've completely let themselves go. The majority blokes I hear whining about their Japanese wives not wanting intimacy, are fat, out of shape, and generally unappealing. If you rarely or ever sleep with your wife/significant other and fit into this category, be completely honest with yourself: if you were a woman, would you want to sleep with you?

> The unpopular but true fact of the matter is attraction is about maintaining physical and emotional desirability. Any bloke blaming their wives should hit the gym, eat better, and get your act together around the house. Confidence, physical presence, and effort go a long way in maintaining attraction, but too many blokes think marriage means they can just stop trying. Do better fellas!

So, you think the wives all keep looking gorgeous and wanting sex but they are turned off because the men are out of shape? The guys I know would beg to differ. Hormones factor into a lot of what goes on on both sides of the equation but way more strongly on the woman's side.

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Posted in: Whenever you read about random knife attacks in public places, does it make you more attentive to what people around you are doing when you are walking along the street, waiting on train platforms or shopping? See in context

I grew up in crazy and dangerous (but also extremely fun) New York City in the 1970s and that experience has me paying attention to and not trusting anyone from children to the elderly. I live thinking that anything can happen to anyone at anytime. Walking home late at night, Japanese are always seemingly more nervous around me and I am checking them out too. You cannot be too careful anywhere.

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Posted in: Japan's workplace Valentine chocolate-giving tradition waning See in context

It's good seeing a long-unpopular tradition with a silly name dying a slow but well-deserved death. Only chocolatiers will care.

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Posted in: What would happen if Japan is attacked? See in context

If Japan were attacked, the people living here would be in a world of hurt, to put it very plainly.

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Posted in: Kanye West's account on X goes dark after hate-filled rant See in context

The guy's a clown, virulently anti-Semitic like his co-hort Musk, and should be deemed totally irrelevant by anyone with a working brain. Just another loathsome super-rich individual, of which we seem to have an endless supply.

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Posted in: Super Bowl Monday See in context

bass4funkToday 06:08 pm JST

American Football.... a sport that if they took out half of the time outs it should end in less than 30 minutes...

> Best sport ever.

Hands down. No doubt!

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Posted in: Eagles deny Chiefs Super Bowl three-peat with dominant defense in 40-22 rout See in context

Fighto!Today  02:40 pm JST

I was shocked that the Kansas City Quarterback wasn't hooked after throwing two shocking passes that led to intercept touchdowns. He cost them the game.

Well played to Philadelphia!

Nonsensical comment about K.C.'s QB. Maybe you don't know but Patrick Mahomes is a generational talent and that was his fifth Super Bowl. Out of the hundreds of men to ever play the hardest position in pro sports, only a very small handful have ever been to that many. No coach in his right mind would ever pull him. He has more Super Bowl championships than the Eagles have as a franchise. It just wasn't his day.

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Posted in: Japan's Supreme Court overturns man's acquittal for fatal 2015 hit-and-run See in context

The lower court's judge should have been relieved of all duties. What a miscarriage of justice.

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Posted in: Netflix drops 'Emilia Perez' star Oscar bid over offensive posts: reports See in context

nedragonToday 12:07 pm JST

lected Republicans have said far worse, including Trump, over Islam and Muslims and also about Geroge Ferguson. She apologized for her remarks.

> The difference is Hollywood is "woke" Trump is "aware

You mean "awake" and if things fall apart, he'll be away from the fray and just pass so buck for some sycophant stiff can take the blame.

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Posted in: Google halts workplace diversity push See in context

Mr KiplingToday  01:10 pm JST

Just hire the best for the job. This move is probably good news for Asian Americans who were discriminated against by DEI programs.

Back to benefitting white men, qualified or not. Status Quo never really went away anyway. The first version of Trump got to be president without ever holding a government job. Talk about irony!

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Posted in: Tiny storage container hotels become the latest craze in Japan, thanks to Hotel R9 The Yard See in context

JeffLeeToday 10:16 am JST

With check-in beginning at 3 p.m. and check-out at 10 a.m., this is a very convenient place to stay.

Is the writer being ironic? I’ve just come back from Vietnam, where check in was 2 and check out noon. In Thailand, I’ve stayed in hotels where both check in and out were noon.

Everything is convenient in Japan, even when it's not. A 10 a.m. checkout is normal in Japan but nowhere else I've been. Having your head in the sand is a prerequisite for writing for that site.

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Posted in: Netflix drops 'Emilia Perez' star Oscar bid over offensive posts: reports See in context

You get what you run your mouth for sometimes.

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Posted in: Voter who passed on Ichiro for Hall of Fame still a mystery after 321 of 394 ballots released See in context

Look, I feel he should have been unanimous but until Mariano a few years ago, NO ONE got 100%. That means people like Babe Ruth, Cy Young and Lou Gehrig. Much ado about really a small thing. Whomever it was had their reason but it is not necessary that we find out and have the Gestapo interrogate them.

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Posted in: Men arrested over alleged prostitution for inbound tourists in Tokyo See in context

JapantimeToday  07:19 am JST

Unfortunately more tourists bring more crime. Prostitution is rare on the streets of Japan. Hopefully Tokyo doesn’t become like Bangkok which is more popular for sex tourism.

You've been walking around Tokyo with your eyes wide shut? Bangkok doesn't pretend to hide it

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Posted in: Do you think restaurant menus should list the calorie content for each item? See in context

Calories have been listed on foods in grocery stores for decades and people are still getting fatter and fatter. No real point.

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Posted in: Ex-lawmaker gets suspended sentence for raping junior high school girl See in context

ReginaldToday 11:06 am JST

He needs to be locked up, no doubt about that.

We also need to address how a 12 year old ended up in a karaoke box with a 58 year old man

This is just speculation as I have no other information but it could be that she was in a different booth singing with friends, etc, as this is a pastime of many young people. Maybe she stepped outside to go to the bathroom, take a break or something, and was then sexually assaulted in another area possibly.

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Posted in: Trump agrees to pause tariffs on Mexico, Canada after they pledge to boost border enforcement See in context

bass4funkToday  07:11 am JST

Well, of course they were always going to comply and buckle, not even a little bit surprised.

before the maga people start saying this was a win for trump, mexico regularly sends 10,000 and 15,000 troops to the border.

I know Mexico, they would send troops, but they were mostly helping illegals cross into the U.S., that’s not happening now

it’s a regular thing. lol she got him.

She didn’t, if she did then the usual status quo would persist, but it’s not, nice try.

most fentanyl trafficking from mexico is by u.s. citizens crossing the border.

Not according to border patrol and I take their word over anyone in the media or social network sites, it’s their job and their stats tell a different story

maybe americans should stop taking so many drugs. highest drug death rate.

Maybe Mexico and stop pumping in the drugs, maybe Canada can do more to guard their borders, now with both countries caving, we now have a President that can give people hope and less of a desire to want to take drugs

Maybe Americans can look in the mirror and stop blaming others for their drug addictions. Maybe Trump can build that wall his supporters were hooting and hollering about during his first term. Where's the talk about that? Maybe it was all talk? Maybe not gonna happen.

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Posted in: Trump agrees to pause tariffs on Mexico, Canada after they pledge to boost border enforcement See in context

Canada and Mexico gave Trump a way to weasel out of his tough talk. Cooler heads have prevailed but it's just going to make him talk like he won and he'll just do it again and again.

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Posted in: Ex-lawmaker gets suspended sentence for raping junior high school girl See in context

Apology and compensation aside, how does he not get jail time? It's totally incredible that this predator is free to walk the streets. He raped a 12-year-old! Shameful "justice."

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Posted in: 22-year-old man arrested after attacking woman and her parents with hammer See in context

Another reject who couldn't handle being rejected?

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Posted in: Taiwan actress Barbie Hsu dies in Japan after contracting pneumonia triggered by flu See in context

I had never heard of her. RIP.

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Posted in: How China allegedly contributes to the deadly fentanyl crisis See in context

BlacklabelToday 03:53 pm JST

There's a lesson there for America but no one is paying attention.

so who is in support of Trump’s plan to execute drug dealers (not pardon them like Joe did

I definitely support tougher penalties, including the death penalty, for the more heinous violations and not just on drug dealers from outside the country. The ones inside and the users need punishing too. More stringent measures are needed all the way around.

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Posted in: How China allegedly contributes to the deadly fentanyl crisis See in context

Without demand there is no need for supply in this case. Americans need to stop blaming other countries for the constant drug epidemics and look at the real problems: Lax laws that tolerate legal and illegal drug abuse and a population that thinks using recreational drugs is cool. Also, the medical industry makes tons with their legal drugs and prescriptions are readily available to almost anyone. If it isn't LSD, it's angel dust or heroin or cocaine or crack or ecstasy or fentanyl. It never ends in the U.S. The next new drug(s) of choice is just around the corner. One of the things I do like about Japan, and places like Singapore and Malaysia is they do not tolerate casual drug use and the penalty is high, as it ought to be. There's a lesson there for America but no one is paying attention.

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Posted in: Meta mulling incorporation shift to Texas: report See in context

Trump, Zuckerberg and the whole lot are all in bed together. They just kept their marriage a secret for a time.

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Posted in: Canada, Mexico announce tariffs on U.S. in retaliation for Trump's tariffs See in context

> BlacklabelToday 12:54 pm JST

They will raise costs for you, including food at the grocery store, gas at the pump. They will impede your access to an affordable supply of vital goods."

> not really. We just don’t buy anything from you, which actually hurts YOU.

> i think you will also be getting a 50% tariff in response to your nonsense.

A whole lot of Americans get goods from Canada, as has been posted many times on this site. Dealings also go on between States and provinces. MAGA people really have their heads firmly in the sand, don't they?

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Posted in: Oscar-hopeful 'Emilia Perez' star in row over Islam, George Floyd insults See in context

When your true colors come shining through: Let me apologize for showing the real me. I really want that award!

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Posted in: Woman conned out of ¥18 mil in SNS romance scam See in context

Just out of the blue, a celebrity you have never spoken to, contacts you and sends a message that makes you feel romantically involved? That must have been one helluva message! What could it have said? "Honey, come with me to the casbah but send 18 million yen to pay for plane tickets, etc, first" "Will you make my natto for me in the morning? Well, wouldn't ya know it, I'm fresh out of natto so send 18 million yen to ensure I never run out." "Darling, without you, there's no me. So, I need you to send me 18 million yen pronto." How's that saying go about a fool and her money?

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Posted in: Homegrown vegetables, cheap substitutes: Japanese get creative to fight soaring food prices See in context

I've been growing fruits and vegetables inside, outside and on my roof for decades. Really good for combating boredom and stress too. I feel like the are my children.

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