Nicolò comments

there were NO HEROS around

Sounds very American haha.

I'm rather confused that every Japanese media outlet keeps saying the driver is missing, not dead. The rescue team is trying to save him, not recover his body. They would say that in three months.

Are all foreigners in Japan carrying knives? Vaya! God forbid!

The live creepy crawlies

That's your biased prospective...

Which would you ideally prefer: acquiring all of Okinawa as a new state of the US and living in the home country without any alleged discrimination, or keeping it as a practical colony as it is now while enjoying tourist life using their taxes? Hard one!

Don't blame the shrinking population. Look at South Korea, which has less than half Japan's population but a higher per capita income. Even with half its current population, Japan should be able to prosper as much as SK. If not, the issue lies in its own ability.

Yeah we knew it. After NS donates $565 million penalty payment to USS, Cleveland buys out.

Teachers are showing their students what most of them are going to be like in their adulthood.

Mochi has been traditionally considered as a measure to prevent aging population.

a good quality rucksack?

means a huge backpacker rucksack? You'd better notice you get frowned upon by the Japanese haha

Probably Japan has much less counterfeit cases than some countries that had to adopt the plastic stuff a decade ago.

When the Kangei Maru rolled out, there was a press event held on board, where a gentle crew member kindly went out of his way to answer a question from the press and explained his job by showing a large Japanese fish knife, not knowing that the press showed him as if he were a torturer.

I believe this is a passing fad. I wonder when people will come to their senses and realize that the convini actually doesn't match Mt Fuji at all.

Some people wonder why they don't see this as a business opportunity and make money. The reason is simple: the locals don't want it. Not everyone is willing to give up their peaceful lives for money.

Why aren't police officers being sent out to crackdown on them? They are simply violating the traffic laws, aren't they?

People are saying Western culture is superior and Asian is inferior.

Simply because of the outdated tedious procedure. The diet members were called and voted one after another in a long line taking a ridiculously long time like elementary school. You may well fall asleep. Time is money, which is tax.

If Japan wants the U.S. to withdraw all its military forces from Japan, the war between Japan and the Axis countries won't happen but the war between Japan and the U.S. will happen

He proposed stationing Japanese Self-Defense Forces members in Guam

LMAO Who want their colonies' military to stay on their soil

 Even so, older farmers have shown a reluctance to switch to other varieties. Farming ministry data show that only around 15% of Japanese paddy fields have adopted heat resistance variants.

Sounds like the elderly people are just stubborn. No. They know the taste of the new rice is not as good. The article should have researched that.

Mechanization is not easy. Who pays for that? Most farmers are not rich and do not have big rice paddies. They may well choose more manual labor. Besides, I'll pass American rice which has been grown in a rich of pesticides and herbicides.

free speech must not be silenced by violence

??? What the ruling party does is not just a free of speech. If the party is just speeching freely and the country is doing well no one would complain

Just keeps going down. People blame it on "a low birth rate and aging population", which I strongly doubt. Look at SK, which has less than half the population of Japan and yet has a higher GDP per capita. "more active in defense and security cooperation" No way. They only have eye candies bought for diplomatic reasons from US. You'll see how paper tiger the SDF is If you do even a little bit of research.

Unless there were foreign military bases on US soil and they had crashes on public places from time to time, Americans wouldn't understand how the Japanese feel. So sorry for the Japanese.

Either is incredible he has been lying for 46 years or been imprisoned innocent for 46 years.

Good reason for the US to sell more expensive weapons to Japan and keep its forces in Japan on Japan's budget.

Yeah just do not travel to Japan. Then everyone happy.

Do people really want save time by 30 minutes or so?I'd rather get a discount on the outrageously expensive fare and luggage storage... They always only look at salarymen with tiny luggage whose travel expenses are paid by the company.

I doubt the belief that an animal raised up by human cannot survive in the wild. I know this is not the case for undomesticated animals with strong instincts.

Whether cannabis is illegalized or not, 99% of Japanese don't care. It's always fun to see so many people here are pissed off about this kind of news.

Japanese concern that some drivers would become stalkers of passengers because of their culture.

Language barrier?