The Nomad comments

OssanAmerica

Can't say for a fact but last two returns I didn't have a problem. Gonna try again in August, it won't hurt to try and if it saves me an hour it's no brainer

If you have a Japanese family member, you can go to the Japanese lane together and walk out within 10 minutes

So what they're saying is that in order to get lower prices we'll have to eat rice that's 3 to 4 years old? Hmmmm, weren't we able to buy rice that was harvested a year earlier for cheaper before the crazy jump in prices? Now they are forcing us to eat rice that's much older for probably around 3000 yen for a 5kg bag

Pressed the US president is a big word. Probably just asked him to abolish the tariffs which Trump replied cannot do to and he replied that's regrettable

But, uh, he's also someone who's never bought any rice. I bet he doesn't even know the price of a 5kg bag

So just because the US is reluctant to lower the tariffs you throw in the towel? How about doing the same to them? A repritocal tariff on Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mc Donald's, Boeing, military and so much more to put pressure on them? Don't let them bully the world

That's the problem with many politicians, they are so out of touch with the general population. Look at the BoJ governor who says that inflation is good and people finally get raises while every other headline says that it's just about 30 percent of the workers who work for big companies while the remaining 70 percent get nothing or a paltry 2000 per month. In the meanwhile, net income has been going down for 24 months straight, it's so bad that people can't even book a hotel anymore, but hey inflation is good, right. Petrol up, heating up, food up, taxes up and then you have politicians saying they don't feel the pinch

This is why Japanese men always choose women as their victims, easy targets who often don't lift a finger and they know that. The male acquaintance easily subdued the POS. Now let him get fired and be unemployed for the rest of his life and spend some months in jail to think over how he ruined his life

Good! This bigot has or wants his finger in every aspect of society, abondons his own children and refuses to respect the sovereignty and integrity of countries, their cultures and people

Yen is stronger then past few months while crude oil prices are down but still gasoline is more expensive than few months ago, why?

Spot on changamangaliay,

Oil prices have dropped by 20 percent in the past couple of months and yen has strengthened by 10 percent so gasoline should be more like 140 yen now. Prices are higher now then when oil prices were 120 dollars per barrel. They should look into price fixing instead of rewarding them with more subsidies

Wallace

Prices here at the supermarket are still around 4500 plus 10 percent tax, so no changes here. Even Costco is still selling for around 4309 yen

Maybe the whole sellers are stockpiling rice but not families, what's this assumption based on by the Japanese government. I asked dozens of people and not one had more than one bag of 5 kilos in stock

Instead of waiting and see it drop more you can also sell and cut your losses and buy in when it is cheaper. Some stocks have gone down 30 percent or more in a few days, looks like the carnage will continue looking at the premarket movement. Maybe a couple of weeks later you can buy the same stocks for another 30 percent lower price and decrease the waiting time for recovery

Bet half of those visitors were forced visits by junior and senior high school kids , I also bet half if them were traumatized by it , wonder what's the point of showing these terrible images to kids who are still in development

A police officer who has had multiple warnings for multiple abuses should never have kept her badge. She should be a role model for society and if she even can't show stand up behavior at home she isn't fit for the job. Should have been fired and arrested after the first incident

P/E is high, the buyout was priced in so naturally it crashed when it didn't go through. Fair value is like 1700 yen but if you think another company will appear with a new buyout offer it could go back to around 2500 yen

So this happened 10 years ago, it's his words against hers. The guy is already guilty by accusation. They grabbed a meal and then he grabbed her arm all the way to the restaurant? There really was no opportunity for her to walk away from him with all sorts of people around them? No wonder guys are reluctant to ask girls out if they can be accused of anything years after the fact.

So they really want people not to flush the toilet, take a bath, wash clothes? Good luck with that!

Japan's finest, for country and honor

This explains the misconduct committed by the dozens of police officers we read on a weekly basis, it's a part of the training curriculum at the academy

This man is just a deranged old grump

The Japanese act like they have the best etiquettes on trains while I often see the opposite. Reading or watching sexual/ pornographic material, standing in front of you so close their genital area comes near your face when the train rocks, sleeping and leaning on others shoulders, blocking the fast lane on the escalator, not having their wallet / money ready when buying a ticket, blocking the doors while there is enough space in the middle of the car etc etc

They need to stop acting like Japan is the only county where people still have virtues and good manners. I see Japanese behave badly more than once every day, it's not only the foreigners

So she noticed that things had moved in her apartment but didn't notice the lost/stolen key to it?

According to the FT, they decided merger talks only because Foxconn showed interest in buying Nissan. To prevent a foreign company buying them they probably approached Honda.

Nobody is talking about the math, 452 thousand times 4000 yen would be close to 13 million dollars a year from foreign tourists only if they had gone ahead with the original proposal. That's 2 billion yen just from the foreigners, don't tell me it's about the cost of maintenance, it just milking the tourists in the momentum

So that's it? People have only 43.000 yen to spend during a 9 day holiday? And that's with the bonus month and supposedly record high salary increases. What exactly are they going to do with that 43.000 yen? I checked out hotels in Tokyo for 2 nights, they are 30 to 40 thousand per night, many of them I stayed at before corona and they were under 10 thousand then. Going back and forth twice is cheaper than staying at a hotel for just one night

If it was a case of bullying that resulted in her suicide they should go after the bullies, but knowing this is Japan they allow bullies to be bullies

Fujimori was a dictator, a head of state should not visit his grave and lay flowers

Bullying was identified in most places but nothing is done about it. Experienced it first hand with my own kid, told the teachers about it and nothing was done about it. When I asked if they had spoken to the students who I identified as the culprits the answer was no, were they ever going to? No! Be patient, it will be over sooner than later was the answer. If teachers won't take their responsibility then bullies will be bullies for the rest of their lives because they are allowed to and know they can get away with it

Japanese service isn't any better than other countries, just because they are polite and smile it doesn't mean it's good service. I can give dozers of examples where staff don't know their job, simply refuse to be flexible or keep apologizeing with a stupid grin on their face. The worst is when they keep repeating " that's not possible" without an explanation