WeiWei comments

Starting from this season, they can bar entry to lightly dressed visitors.

Only visitors they can stop. Japanese people are luckily protected by the constitution. National park is always accessible and for free.

These populist pieces by ”Kyodo” are becoming popular among people who cannot think.

Why is this party ”populist” and LDP is not?

Immigration is not the answer to anything and should be strictly controlled.

VirusRex

That being asymptomatic do not eliminate the possibility of being infected do not make the measurement useless, after all fever has a very high specificity, meaning that people without fever may still transmit the disease, but those that actually have a fever (of cough, etc.) are a clear positive for risk.

You do understand that there are a million over the counter medicine you can take to reduce fever? Just take 2 ibuprofein before you want to enter a venue with ”temperature checks” and you will always pass.

Same for the airport ”screening”.

In other words, completely meaningless.

NiftyToday  08:18 am JST

There is nothing wrong with taking someone's temperature, and sick visitors should self-select themselves out of visiting immune-compromised patients, but some people don't use common sense.

There is zero meaning in taking anyone’s temperature. Before corona, during corona and after corona. Most idiotic ”measure” ever deviced. For corona, 75% of infections were unasymptotic there for any tests or checks were useless in preventing anything.

HopeSpringsEternalToday  10:05 am JST

No surprise then that Japan's interest rates are now also at an all-time high in the marketplace, the return one receives when buying a JGB. 

BOJ is rapidly falling behind in raising their official policy rates and thus the inflation monster continues to grow, as 'credit' remains too loose. Free money days are OVER

This inflation has nothing to do with the BOJ rate. Increasing the rates will create more inflation as businesses need to recoup the loan costs from customers.

It did nothing in the US or other parts of the world except put even MORE people under. The underlying reason for this whole debacle is idiot covid lockdowns and idiot covid subsidies of free money, tune of hundreds of billions.

JayelToday  08:27 am JST

This news is wrong on so many levels.

On the News, hoards of Chinese people have been interviewed waiting to convert their license while on vacation in Japan. They even showed licenses with the address section showing hotel names. This is not fake news. The Chinese, as always, have found a loophole and are exploiting it. It's extremely unfair for the Japanese people who paid so much money and time for their own license.

Which prefecture? Tokyo at least it never was possible. And China NOT being on the list of eligible countries makes it even more fishy.

Also you need to bring proof of driving history in the country of origin, that you actually lived there.

This news is wrong on so many levels.

China is NOT on the list for countries valid for driver’s license conversion?

a registered address in Japan is required and a zairyo card, which tourists do not have.

Exports, which fuel Japan's growth, were down 0.6 percent while imports jumped 2.9 percent, weighing on overall GDP.

imports do not weigh down GDP.

Today  03:49 am JST

So many pressing questions:

why are they cleaning up after a meal at 11 o'clock at night?

why is a 1-year-old awake at 11 o'clock at night?

why was the 1-year-old left alone unsupervised at 11 o'clock at night?

All excellent questions. Bed time for todlers is usually between 6-8pm. No reason to keep awake even if family eats dinner crazy late.

Screen door not fixed or taped up? If you know child can fit through.

It’s currently useless endeavor as the energy the error correction eats up anything usefulq. This hype has been brewing much longer than the AI hype but shows even less promise

collegepark30349Today  08

Even now I go running at 6:00 a.m. and shake my heads at the folks running at noon.*

And you cannot understand that not everyone can take 2-3 hours off at 6am? Who will put the kids to nursery and school? Breakfast for the family?

I and many others go running when we have a chance, and that usually is between 10am-2pm. I don’t mind the heat and take preventative measures before going. 10-30km daily, regardless of weather. If it’s crazy hot, run slower and drink more, if it’s colder like during the winter, run faster to keep warm.

WoodyLeeToday  08:26 am JST

Bach !!? why?? 

The 2021 Olympics should have never been held

They should have been held in 2020 as usual. But if you are talking about the corruption, they should not have been held here.

SandovalToday  01:51 pm JST

If you pay the cheapest insurance for ~2500¥ annually you can get around 3 helicopter rescues. If you don’t have any insurance then your bill can easily reach 300k for the helicopter rescue, depending on the mountain. Nowadays I have a more comprehensive insurance plan, but I have never used it and I hope it will stay that way.

If the rescue is done by police or fire department, it does not cost anything. Including a heli rescue, it’s done from taxpayer pockets.

If it’s done by prefectural or city resources (excluding police and fire), they can ask for a fee.

Aly RustomToday  08:01 am JST

The gov seems to be a deer caught in headlights when it comes to this issue. They just seem to want to kick the can down the road and hope someone in the future comes up with a solution

Declining population is not a problem in itself, forever growing is not possible, sustainable or even desirable.

Government and local areas need to take steps to take this into account, means schools will be consolidated, services rolled back and so on.

Population will stabilise at some lower value, let’s say 80 million in 20 years.

Mayor Eric Adams on Friday said he doesn’t support further restrictions on the aircraft, saying they’re crucial for everything from transporting Wall Street executives 

Did he really say this? That some wall street executives are important? Why transporting them should be a priority at all?

I'veSeenFootageToday  01:13 pm JST

But this is not a human. That's the whole point. This is a company that used copyrighted material without any authorization to develop a product it is now making a lot of money on.

OpenAI has never made any money and never will, the business case just isn’t there. They are burning through billions of dollars of investor money.

If you understand how LLMs work, you know it’s blatant copyright infringement on all levels. It can mimic anything you feed it with during training.

Land prices up is NOT a good thing. Does not benefit the economy or the people.

VanillasludgeToday  09:54 am JST

Inflation is only a problem if wages don’t keep up and that’s the primary issue with the economy. 

That is false. Wages NEVER keep up with inflation, anywhere in the world.

Taro always loses in an inflationary economy.

Incentivizing companies to increase wages relative to inflation is a way to get big corporations off the dime and regain some balance

Will never happen, incentive is just another word for tax break and it has been tested around the world endlesly. Companies will just keep the profits.

BlacklabelToday  09:55 am JST

Didn’t say the agencies can’t fire. Just that OPM can’t order them to do it. Which they didn’t. 

non issue. 

San Francisco Democrat activist judge going for some headlines

This exactly. OPM cannot and did not fire anyone anywhere, just like Musk didn’t. they asked the agencies to terminate the probationary workers.

0.1% growth with 4-5% rampant inflation means the economy contracted a lot in real terms. This folks is the reason for the ”inflation is good” mantra!!

The TreesToday  06:28 am JST

More and more embarrassing, shameful, and despicable by the day. Censoring free speech? Vance is talking about AfD and right wing extremists, which is just what he himself, Trump, and MAGA are. I wonder what experiences might Europe have had previously when failing to shun extremists?

Vance was spot on. Just because you don’t like it means nothing. Free speech and expression mesn exactly that. There is nothing more important in the world.

This should be a case study on what NOT to do. Keeping people on board for nothing, keeping them separated from family for nothing.

Wrong on so many levels.

Due to rampant inflation these kinds of news are useless. In real terms exports are down even if the value keeps on climbing.

isabelleToday  04:58 pm JST

I know the code (but not the data) is open source, but it doesn't change the fact that:

1) DeepSeek spouts CCP propaganda

2) DeepSeek ripped off OpenAI

These are not facts. Especially 2).

And ChatGPT spouts other kinds of propaganda so why is that propaganda OK but CCP NOK?

sakurasukiToday  06:46 pm JST

IBy 2040 Japan need 6.7 Million foreign workers, not ordinary workers, workers that willing to be paid low wages.

No, Japan does not need any foreign workers at all. This same mantra has been repeated in Europe and it simply does not work. Do NOT open the flood gates when you are already drowning.

Mr KiplingToday  11:13 am JST

Not all "refugees" are good people. Japan would be wise to keep them to an absolute minimum.

If it’s really important to get out, wife and kids should go first. Not military age men leaving family behind, then it’s a ”refugee”

kurisupisuJan. 24  09:09 pm JST

The interest rates are still very low in Japan-it’s a wonder that there is any yen in the country!

i have just placed asu stantial amount of my money in a one year foreign currency bond at 4%

And still you lose money all the time due to inflation. People think higher interest rates help, it just means you lose less due to inflation but still you lose.

Sales from seven major Japanese convenience store chains hit a record high of 11.8 trillion yen in 2024, bolstered by inbound tourism and demand for readily consumable snacks and drinks, data by a Japanese franchising authority showed Monday.

Bolstered by major hikes in prices of everything above inflation rates. Fixed it for you.

Even riceballs are priced out these days ay 7-11. Who pays 190en for one ?!

That’s the inflation for you. Narrative pushed for 30+ years that it is a good thing.

Don’t forget, normal people ALWAYS lose in an inflationary situation.

Japan’s best years were the ”lost decades” when inflation was 0. It’s only gone worse since then.

That is partly thanks to government policies to promote attractions from Mount Fuji's majestic slopes to shrines and sushi bars in more far-flung parts of the archipelago.

That is an overstatement of the year so far. I can bet a lot of money on the fact that NONE of this is due to any government tourist promotions.