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And it's time to get rid of all forms of alcohol advertising (most of it seems to feature beautiful young women).

Waiting for all the bows and crocodile tears when it happens.

According to my understanding, the driver will be in all kinds of trouble, since here hitting anybody, even if they are lying right in front of your moving car is treated as a criminal offense.

This stupid law needs to be changed.

House prices way up. Happy camper here.

Rice czar Koizumi is going to singlehandedly save the LDP from defeat in the next election.

Been actively avoiding Boeing when flying for several years now. Do your own research. The rot is very, very deep.

JT can you stop using red fonts? In dark mode on a phone they are unreadable.

if they can just hold on for a few more weeks. Rice @1800 for 5KG, albeit 5 years old, will be coming online.

Agree about lack of meaningful markings on the roads. I'd add terrible road design, especially of major intersections. One particular massive intersection in Gunma is atrocious. A jumbled mess which makes navigation nearly impossible. Used several of my nine lives at that intersection alone, I swear.

New functions allowing users to chat as they play online and temporarily share games with friends...

Horrible. No thanks. I'll wait for the Steamdeck 2

Good on them and wish them the best of luck. Don't think they will get anywhere near 3.3 in damages though. But should increase awareness of this issue.

If i remember correctly, MSG is the flavour umami derived from traditional broth of (konbu) seaweed. Nothing wrong with it.

So all you progressives who use the word umami, are actually referring to monosodium glutamate (MSG).

And no it doesn't affect the brain at all you wont get headaches or chest pain. That's been disproven long ago, but the stigma still persists among these same probably vegan 'progressives'.

Artificial laboratory created chemical flavours and colour are some of the real enemies. Along with palm oil. And cocoichi curry uses many in abundance.

He's actually right. The same goes for Nagano. Then you got up to the Nihonkai and you'll find similarly strong women there too. Pretty harsh winters up there so, yeah. I actually don't find it off-putting myself though. But different strokes for different folks.

The chickens are getting a better diet than I thought they were.

And correct me if I am wrong, but just zooming in on that low resolution photo, it seems like it's just a plastic bag with some gels etc in it that you place over the toilet bowl and do your business in. And there are instructions on it too.

The pertinent issues are educating people that these things exisit, the cost, where to store them, and finally how to get them, since now people will start panic buying.

Never seen one, but surely their must be instructions printed on the (I am assuming) plastic wrapper? If not, print some.

And are they really THAT complicated? No need for complete workshops and demonstrations by recent police graduates going around schools.

Probably seen one too many 80s action movies where the heroes survived car push attempts and got up to fight another day to beat the bad guy in the end.

What do you mean more than doubled? Was more like triple. Get the reporting right, Kyodo. Talk about downplaying it.

Doing the old Gillette shaver trick. Selling the shavers dirt cheap and asking a fortune for the blades. Shame on you Nintendo.

Yubaru, just a simple /s at the end will do it.

Witnessed it untold times in the busy stations of Tokyo. The police must clamp down on this beastly practice.

Would do anything to be able to get a peek at what Japan looks like in 2075. How did they cope with the cliff?

From a time traveller: they didn't cope at all. There are abandoned towns and cities everywhere with many reclaimed by nature. The population is just 51,000,000 with 15% foreign born.

Its like the western media need to keep reminding us each June 4 about how evil those "communists" are. The television news will complete the show by putting on the man who stopped the tanks on again, complete with the military rolling in and suppressing the poor peasants: "It is like it happened yesterday and could happen again tomorrow, so we need to be alert and cautious in dealing with those Chinese communists".

Back in the day we were unsupervised all day, outdoors for literally hours on end. We walked to school alone from age 5 for 3-4 km each way and got into all kinds of trouble and adventures. But guess what? We survived. We thrived. I had my first job as a paperboy by 9 and was cooking dinner for the family by 10.  

Not like kids these days. So many walk around with masks, suffer from all kinds of allergies, and just generally look weak. They get traumatised over the slightest little thing. Everything is kowai. They grow up unable to fend for themselves or become independent. No wonder so many are turning into hikikomori.

Good on her for seeing a lawyer!

The local just got 4kg packs of Calrose and is pricing them at 2300. Didn't look like they were selling well, which means people in these parts know their math.

Too late. It's already rouge. It's good for nothing. In fact, it's as if the bot is on drugs at times, with the amount of hallucinating it does. Yet MS et al are determined to shove it down our throats. Seen the latest office365 updates, or Google Docs updates?

Just leave us alone, already.

0ver the years I have dropped many a phone into baths, or split water all over them, killing them. And a mate even killed his laptop with coffee. And this was before they were as 'waterproof' as they are today.

Each time a simple fix: turn off immediately, if not already no power. Next put into oven at 40-50oC and bake the thing for around 3-4 hours. and repeat for another couple. Each time they all came back for life and two of them are still going today. Both Huawei, for the record.

But phones in general these days should be way more able to withstand a few minutes or more immersed completely in water.

And as this article says: rice doesn't work (duh).

Not mixed at all. Every single comment listed in the article makes fun of the bicycle hooligans.

Not sure they are hooligans, man. Just a bunch of young boys having a bit of fun. The cops should have closed them down and given them a stern warning, since it was in the middle of Tokyo on a public street. Then that should have been that. But no.

Trust the media to blow it up out of proportion. What about covering the protests demanding abolition of the consumption tax, or calls for budgetary reform and other more pressing societal issues?

So why implement new bicycle laws with fines for offenders older than 16, unless it's for revenue gathering?

So many maybes and ifs in this piece. Been saying the same things for the last 40 years and the Carbon dioxide levels just keep on increasing.