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Hikosaemon

@hikosaemon

2 years

NHK morning news again covering the mystery of why tourists are not coming to Japan even though tourism reopened to perfectly normal North Korean style government monitored escorted group tours in June.

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The Yen about to hit 155 - Americans bragging they can stay at a 5 star hotel for $170 a night, while Japanese students going to Hawaii packing rice in their suitcases to be able to afford to eat...

ゆるふわ怪電波☆埼玉

@yuruhuwa_kdenpa

1 month

円安なのはわかるけど修学旅行で米持参は悲しい...

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Crazy to me if this is from yesterday, with all the police around to stop people jumping in it was left to this guy to rescue the woman who fell in the Dotonbori, and seemingly hardly any acknowledgement he just saved a woman's life. This guys deserves the key to Osaka city

Jeffrey J. Hall 🇯🇵🇺🇸

@mrjeffu

7 months

A second clip shows the rescuer, who looks like he's wearing a Detroit Tigers jersey, after he's climbed back onto the riverbank:

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Microsoft Japan’s experiment with 3-day weekend boosts worker productivity by 40 percent (RocketNews24)

Microsoft Japan’s experiment with 3-day weekend boosts worker productivity by 40 percent

As it turns out, not squeezing employees dry like a sponge is maybe a good thing.

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Hikosaemon

@hikosaemon

4 months

I mentioned this in my mild rant about BBC and other western coverage assuming the plane evacuation went well because Japanese are "obedient". Assumptions based on racial stereotypes, even positive ones, are still a shitty way of covering news about a country.

Jeffrey J. Hall 🇯🇵🇺🇸

@mrjeffu

4 months

Japanese media reports have noted that there were passengers on the JAL flight who were not following the rules and trying to retrieve their carry-on luggage before evacuating. Flight attendants and other passengers had to yell at them to stop.

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Hikosaemon

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5 months

Jp media covers accounts that YES there were passengers who went for overhead baggage, and were berated by other passengers for doing so. It wasn't obedience, Japan has assholes/idiots like everywhere. It was people looking out for everyone else. It's an important nuance 4/4

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1 year

Japanese guy at work came up to me and asked me "You're from New Zealand - do you know Gavin?" I hate two things about this question. First it assumes that NZ is so small that you can ask something like that and they expect me to know the guy. Second, often it turns out I do...

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@hikosaemon

7 months

I quite like this comic of everybody on the train getting pissed off about someone else’s “bad manners” while doing something themselves. Tokyo subway is basically everyone silently judging everyone else. That said taking photos inside a train is itself bad form…

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@hikosaemon

2 years

NHK Good Morning did a 10 minute long special on challenges for Japanese firms hiring foreign IT engineers because wage demands are rising. No mention in whole piece that they have been prohibited from entering Japan for 2 years now with no end in sight.

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@hikosaemon

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29 year old man uses airgun to demand money from 19yr old woman. Woman says “why don’t you get a job and earn it yourself.” Man breaks down crying. Arrested. 無職男（29）、エアガン突き付け「金を出せ」女性（19）「働いて稼いだら」 → 無職男涙目敗走

無職男（29）、エアガン突き付け「金を出せ」　女性（19）「働いて稼いだら」 → 無職男涙目敗走 : 痛いニュース(ﾉ∀`)

1 名前：首都圏の虎 ★：2020/11/12(木) 23:24:34.98 ID:WpptZj/J9 女性にエアガンを突きつけて金銭を奪おうとしたとして、兵庫県警東灘署は１２日、強盗未遂容疑で神戸市灘区の無職の男（２９）を逮捕した。逮捕容疑は、５月２６日午後１０時ごろ、同市東灘区内のマンショ

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Hikosaemon

@hikosaemon

1 year

@jayallen_uj Lol, I know some fluent Japanese speakers that do this and it used to annoy the hell out of me. To be fair, I can't stop myself saying "karaoke" and "sake" with Japanese accent in English even though these are Japanese loan words.

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1 year

Filed under "stuff I would have thought was cool also in my early 20s, but then my brain finished developing and I realized that this is borderline landlord abuse": No-bath apartments win over Japan's minimalist youth

No-bath apartments win over Japan's minimalist youth

Preference for simplicity and social interaction fuel trend

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@hikosaemon

5 years

Winds are starting to pick up

グーフィー

@9EIaSS4LQzPka1D

5 years

大型で猛烈な台風19号は、父島付近を北寄りに進んでいます。台風は非常に強い勢力を保ったまま、あす12日（土）から13日（日）にかけて西日本から東日本に接近・上陸するおそれがあります。全国的に暴風や警報級の大雨、猛烈なしけとなる可能性がありますので、最新の台風情報に注意してください。

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Coverage of the Haneda plane accident by foreign media has generally been positive and fawning, and Japanese media has enjoyed repeating the compliments from foreign media on how amazing the evacuation was. Which it was. BUT... 1/4

Japan jet crash: How crew pulled off flawless evacuation from plane inferno

Leaving valuables behind was a "major factor" behind the evacuation of 379 people as fire engulfed the plane.

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@hikosaemon

2 years

It's amazing how dramatically 24 hours of Japanese passport holder outrage at arbitrary travel restrictions outweighs 21 months of foreign resident outrage at similar restrictions.

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@hikosaemon

3 years

Just for a reminder of the Japanese scale - upper 6 is enough to damage reinforced buildings and difficult to stand up. Lasted a long time and was felt like that over a large area.

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@hikosaemon

3 years

Sweet Jesus. Racist schools in Tokyo auditing students that don’t conform to expected racial purity standards. And note here, lots of Japanese from non-international families have naturally brown and curly hair.

NHK WORLD News

@NHKWORLD_News

3 years

Many Tokyo schools are asking students to prove why their natural hair is not straight and black.

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This is good news, because Narita kinda sucks... Japan's big airlines shifting int'l flights from Narita to Haneda Airport post-pandemic

Japan's big airlines shifting int'l flights from Narita to Haneda Airport post-pandemic

NARITA, Chiba -- International air travel may be recovering after the coronavirus pandemic, but Japan's two largest airlines are still flying less out

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@hikosaemon

5 months

Japan ranked worst country in world for people helping each other. Even when I first came to Japan I used to joke that if I were in a burning building, I’d want my Korean friends to be outside… 日本は��世界で最も助け合わない国」？

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This is an accurate representation of what the taxi driver saw in his mind when asked to take a couple from Narita to Shinjuku...:

Ellie in Space 🚀💫

@esherifftv

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Japanese Taxi: We didn’t know you could take the train from the airport to Shinjuku So we told our taxi driver where we wanted to go and he about collapsed and then starting laughing maniacally ! I was worried it meant Shinjuku was a bad spot, but he was shocked how far we

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10 months

Over half of Japanese students in nationwide test score zero percent in English speaking section

But that number might not tell the whole story of why so many were at a loss for words.

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@hikosaemon

18 days

Saying a close ally is xenophobic is like tellling your best friend their wife is fat. It may be true, but there really is no good reason to say it.

Jeffrey J. Hall 🇯🇵🇺🇸

@mrjeffu

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NHK News video translates Biden's remarks about Japan's economy not growing because it is a "xenophobic" nation as: "Why is Japan having problems? It's because they hate foreigners and don't want immigrants."

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5 years

One note, if you are in Tokyo, most trains are already stopped. Most subway lines will stop at 1pm. If you are out, best get back to your home or hotel right now or you will be stuck

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Japanese baffled by Americans speaking at Palm Beach hearings on requiring masks 「神様に与えられた呼吸を奪うのか」…マスク義務化に断固反対のアメリカ市民

「神様に与えられた呼吸を奪うのか」…マスク義務化に断固反対のアメリカ市民 : 痛いニュース(ﾉ∀`)

1 名前：ばーど ★：2020/06/28(日) 11:49:43.36 ID:Cin55Ys99 ※ソース内に動画あります米フロリダ州パームビーチ郡では、新型コロナウイルスの流行対策として、公共の場でのマスク着用を義務化する法案の採決の前に、委員会が市民の意見を聞く機会を設けた。反対を唱え

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@hikosaemon

3 years

This dude is seriously moving at, like, 200fps.

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@NvKf5

3 years

速すぎてわかんない😵

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@hikosaemon

5 months

And the foreign expert's assessment - it worked because passengers were so "well behaved" and "obeyed instructions". Again, this rings of Japanese and Asian stereotypes that while positive were also used to dismiss Japan as a model for things like dealing with the pandemic 3/4

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Ministry of Health explains reason that they didn’t test staff working on Diamond Princess and sent them straight back to work in govt after is if they tested them and found too many tested positive, there would be no way to get all the work done (j)

厚労省、クルーズ船で業務していた職員にウイルス検査を受けさせず　陽性者が多く出たら仕事が回らなくなるため : 痛いニュース(ﾉ∀`)

1 名前：パスツーレラ(東京都) [NL]：2020/02/22(土) 13:13:45.29 ID:KLfzKNJA0 厚労省職員ら、検査受けず通常業務に復帰陽性者が多く出た場合の業務への影響懸念、(検査の)実施見送りへ船内業務に携わっている厚労省職員は約90名 https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/2

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@hikosaemon

3 years

Nagoya immigration detention center released 15000 pages of material in response to public info disclosure request relating to manslaughter of Wishma Sandamali in custody. Requesters were charged 156,760 yen and nearly every page was blacked out. How are police not investigating?

安田菜津紀 Dialogue for People

@NatsukiYasuda

3 years

ウィシュマ・サンダマリさんに関わる医療関係・処遇関係の書類等を遺族代理人が求めるも、「行政文書開示請求するように」と言われ、その通り開示請求をしたところ、15万6760円の「開示実施手数料」の請求とともに、送られてきた1万5000以上の書類はほぼ黒塗り。ビデオに続き、どこまで愚弄するのか。

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Morning NHK featured the true story of a Kurdish refugee behind a movie on BS1 tomorrow. In Japan since 3yrs old, about to graduate high school, but refugee application still under review, is prohibited from working, or even traveling outside prefecture without permission

ももなの

@dr_fo1

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NHK BS1「マイスモールランド」明後日24日(木)放送、日本での在留資格を失ったクルド人女子高生家族と日本人少年との関係で日本の今を描く是枝裕和監督率いる映像制作チームの作品。先月のベルリン映画祭で受賞、5月劇場公開に先立つ放送。見終わってから良かったと言っても遅いので先にお薦めします笑

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@hikosaemon

3 years

Perhaps the Taliban saw Japan’s gender equality ranking and thought they could be friends?

The Mainichi (Japan Daily News)

@themainichi

3 years

Taliban wants to maintain good relations with Japan: spokesman -

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@hikosaemon

4 months

Chart showing Ippudo ramen cost in different countries. That US price strikes me as credible only minus tax and tip.

高橋浩祐（たかはしこうすけ）Takahashi Kosuke🐺

@KosukeGoto2013

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🇺🇸アメリカの一風堂のラーメン🍜の高さといったら、🇯🇵日本の倍額以上😱

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Japanese government announces plans to eliminate all highway tolls. Starting in the year 2115. 日本政府「高速道路を無料化します。西暦2115年から」

日本政府「高速道路を無料化します。西暦2115年から」 : 痛いニュース(ﾉ∀`)

1 名前：キチンシンク(茸) [US]：2023/05/31(水) 12:39:32.95 ID:OW35dSL90●.net 高速道路、有料2115年まで − 半永久化へ改正法成立https://t.co/yfUbvwXb61— 共同通信公式 (@kyodo_official) May 31, 2023 2065年までとしていた高速道路の料金徴収期

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@hikosaemon

2 years

NHK posts a 1 minute summary explaining main reasons tourists are not returning. (1) needing to apply for a visa at local embassies, (2) negative PCR within 72 hours needed for entry, and (3) most westerners don't want to use required guided tours.

NHK おはよう日本公式

@nhk_ohayou

2 years

【動画で解説外国人観光客が来ない理由】外国人観光客の受け入れ再開から２か月。記録的な円安にもかかわらず、観光目的で日本を訪れる人は１日あたり平均３００人あまり。コロナ前のわずか0.4％。森田アナウンサーが1分でお伝えします。 ⬇️ 最新情報はあすの放送で

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Survey finds 80% of Japanese would keep wearing masks after COVID because they don’t like people looking at their face日本人の8割「コロナが収束してもマスクを着け続ける」…顔を見られるのが嫌なため

日本人の8割「コロナが収束してもマスクを着け続ける」…顔を見られるのが嫌なため : 痛いニュース(ﾉ∀`)

1 名前：ドラゴンスープレックス(東京都) [JP]：2021/11/21(日) 20:29:26.09 ID:ORlQE9bF0 “マスク美人”のプレッシャー、表情を読み取られる不安……マスクの下で揺れる思いコロナ禍でマスクを着用する機会が増えて以来、SNSで目立つのが“マスク美人”“マスクイケメン

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@hikosaemon

2 years

Wow - If Twitter is laying off staff in Japan the way they are in the US, I have good news and advice for those staff: Go get a labor lawyer now - you can claim a shit ton of money, and probably also forced reinstatement if you want it.

The Mainichi (Japan Daily News)

@themainichi

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Mass layoffs at Twitter affecting Japanese subsidiary -

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(Le sigh)... Naha restaurant posts sign saying "We don't allow customers from overseas to enter our bar" because "we only speak Japanese". Sign taken down after discrimination complaints. Internet perplexed, unaware some foreigners speak Japanese...

【沖縄】「ジャパニーズオンリー」と張り紙　那覇市の居酒屋、外国人の入店拒む　市民が行政に相談し後に撤去 : 痛いニュース(ﾉ∀`)

1 名前：ばーど ★：2023/10/02(月) 11:16:26.96 ID:/SWCVYqH9.net 「ジャパニーズオンリー」と張り紙　那覇市の居酒屋、外国人の入店拒む　市民が行政に相談し後に撤去 https://t.co/0pmAt3mOgN— 沖縄タイムス (@theokinawatimes) October 2, 2023 　那

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@hikosaemon

3 years

Glad to hear NHK shouting out “it’s Taiwan!” when Chinese Taipei came out

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@hikosaemon

6 months

FWIW - YES, talking on the phone in Japanese companies IS a specific thing. There is very specific honorific language you have to use that university grads have no idea how to use, and most Japanese learn through a process of hazing, which certainly IS anxiety inducing...

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@hikosaemon

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Counselling company finds as much as 70% of people in their 20s in Japan have a fear of using the phone, some even quitting their jobs out of phone anxiety 電話に出られないから会社辞めます　20代の7割以上が苦手、言葉が出ず泣き出す人も…対策と電話の必要性

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When you consider that Japan only lets in around 20 refugees per year, 8 all at once is probably a significant number that the Japan government felt was worth highlighting in a press conference.

Kyodo News | Japan

@kyodo_english

2 years

#Japan accepts 8 people displaced by Russian invasion of #Ukraine

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The ideal compromise solution would be to destroy Kunrei with fire.

Mulboyne

@Mulboyne

2 years

Asahi report says the Government is looking at ways to adjudicate between official kunrei romanization, and the widely used Hepburn style. A poll favours Hepburn in many cases (e.g. Aichi vs Aiti) but kunrei in others (Gosyogawara vs Goshogawara)

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So while Japanese citizens have already been found flouting quarantine rules and spreading Omicron at a soccer match, the government is going to extend restrictions on foreign nationals.

magdalena osumi | 大住マグダレナ 💁🏼‍♀️

@jt_mag_os

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Japan to extend entry curb on foreign nationals amid omicron concerns, report says.

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@hikosaemon

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President of Keidanren proclaims hankos are absolute nonsense, contradictory to a digital age. All government agencies should dispense with them and accept signatures and e-signatures immediately 経団連会長「はんこはデジタル時代にあわない」 | Nhkニュース

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Featuring that the problem is “tourism diversity” - tourism strategy conferences highlighting the need to better cater to LGBTQ and muslims. All good stuff but something is missing from this coverage… what’s missing…? Oh yes! Tourists!

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Yes people sleeping like this is annoying, and it is common to give a nudge to make people straighten up. But this is assault, and that man should be arrested.

桜田PC

@SakuradaPC

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もたれかかって来るのが嫌なのは分かるけど…それはあかんやろ…

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If immigration could process over 100,000 foreign entrants going in and out over 2 months for the Olympics, it certainly looks incongruous that Immigration can't now start processing people with residence visas waiting over a year to enter (for work, study, etc).

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I’ll bite. City I dislike: Nagoya City I think is overrated: Kyoto City I like: Yokohama City I love: Fukuoka City I feel most myself in: Tokyo City I still need to visit: Sapporo City I dream of living in: Karuizawa / Naha

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦

@Noahpinion

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City I dislike: St. Louis City I think is overrated: Portland City I like: Seattle City I love: San Francisco City I feel most myself in: Austin City I still need to visit: Omaha City I dream of living in: Vancouver

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Backstage, VIP, with the beautiful people #ytff @SharlaInJapan @mirandaibanez @ShootTokyo

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Mori is Japan's worst postwar Prime Minister, and kids should learn about him in school in order to aspire to be the exact opposite. That said, I find this anecdote about him being terrible actually kind of endearing.

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This BBC coverage still has some elements that make me cringe a little and show ways in which foreign media,covers Japan. For example, it appears all the "experts" are foreign. There is a world of information on this story BBC could show if they reviewed Japanese coverage 2/4

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So they have a video of the assault of a foreign technical intern, and a complaint, and they know who did it, and… literally just a sternly worded letter? If the Vietnamese guy beat his boss the same way you know he’d be in jail and deported.

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The explanation given is that foreigners are increasingly expecting higher wages often exceeding wages of Japanese people. Again, really odd to not link this to the obvious fact Japanese wages have been stagnant for 20 years while overseas wages have risen normally

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Police officer shouts at 2 charging boars "I'll shoot", and the boars respond by running away. I don't know if I'm more impressed by the police officer, or the boar that understand Japanese 警察官「撃つぞ」イノシシ、拳銃向けられ退散名古屋 | 毎日新聞

警察官「撃つぞ」　イノシシ、拳銃向けられ退散　名古屋

　愛知県警守山署は20日、イノシシの目撃情報があった河川敷で警戒していた地域課の男性巡査部長（36）が、イノシシに向けて拳銃を構えたと発表した。発砲はしなかった。巡査部長が「拳銃を撃つぞ」と大声を出したところ、イノシシは草むらに逃げていったという。

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The only time in history where the katakanized version of a name proved to be more accurate in English was Citibank.

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Tokyo Olympic Committee demands the Weekly Shunkan Bunshun stop sales and recall publications over stories and criticism of Olympics planning. Bunshun publishes editorial in response telling committee to absolutely go fuck itself. (J)

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Government's plan to keep out mutated UK strain of C19 by restricting non-Japanese travelers from UK thwarted by Japanese person bringing it back コロナ変異種、日本国内で初確認英国からの帰国者

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Tourist lands in Tokyo, and declares we all need to stop worrying so much about germs - Tokyo will not get back to normal until it sheds COVID inhibitions

Tokyo will not get back to normal until it sheds COVID inhibitions

Officials and businesses can revive spirit of fun by dropping masks, sanitizers

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Examples like a sushi master in Japan who earned $22k a year moving to US and making $575k a year reinforcing view of Japan slipping into developing country status 日本の寿司職人の年収３００万円、米国では８０００万円

日本の寿司職人の年収３００万円、米国では８０００万円 : 痛いニュース(ﾉ∀`)

1 名前：ベンガル(東京都) [ﾇｺ]：2023/07/18(火) 09:30:28.17 ID:pXI2mIfW0●.net 日本の寿司職人の年収３００万円、米国では８０００万円…「先進国日本は終焉」(中央日報日本語版)#Yahooニュースhttps://t.co/FWT9BdU8Kw— メタバズル (@HvlvV2jkIxWl3Mb) July

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Anyway, now Mori is falling on his stupid sword AGAIN, perhaps the world can now start asking why we are 12 months from having an Olympics in a country with 1 million Uighurs in Concentration Camps..? I'm really surprised this is not being more talked about.

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The way Japanese police routinely use rearrest to extend the already absurd 23 day limit is an abuse of process and serious human rights abuse. That said, couldn’t happen to a nicer guy…

Jeffrey J. Hall 🇯🇵🇺🇸

@mrjeffu

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The Sankei Shimbun is reporting that American Kick streamer Johnny Somali is being re-arrested for obstructing business at a restaurant. This will allow police to detain him for an additional 23 days of questioning before filing formal charges.

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It seems police have decided finally to prosecute that YouTuber on the "being an asshole in a restaurant"業務妨害 charge, not proceeding with the construction site charge. Guessing he'll have 6-12 further months in detention before trial.

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I agree with this. But I still require N1 for hiring. If not strictly proof of proficiency on it’s own, it is at least proof that you cared so much about getting proof you could do Japanese, you were willing to sacrifice months to memorize useless garbage

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Morning news featured how Tokyo’s net population gain was due to women moving to Tokyo. Net migration of men was a loss. Interviewing a woman from Sendai, a relatively big city, she said flat out “women don’t have the same job opportunities outside of Tokyo, good jobs go to men”

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The Verge: "“It may seem as though Twitter is US-centric but if anything it’s Japan-centric,” he said. “There are roughly the same number of daily active users in Japan as there are in the US, despite the fact that Japan has one third of the population of the US.”"

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@nhk_news

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イーロン・マスク氏 “ツイッターは日本中心” 米メディア #nhk_news

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To be honest, these images of the train station being dangerously packed do 100x more to put me off going near Shibuya than their anti-Halloween marketing campaign...

Jeffrey J. Hall 🇯🇵🇺🇸

@mrjeffu

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Video from inside Shibuya station tonight: there might be some crowding issues because the area around Hachiko is walled-off as an anti-Halloween measure.

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Ugh. Wishma, the immigration detainee who died after days of screaming for medical help in detention deemed by govt doctors to have been screaming in pain merely for attention. Prosecutors decide detention staff have no case to answer for letting her die.

ウィシュマさん収容中発言は「看守の注目集めるため」　国側が意見書：朝日新聞デジタル

　名古屋出入国在留管理局で2021年3月に亡くなったスリランカ人のウィシュマ・サンダマリさん（当時33）を巡る国賠訴訟の弁論が27日、名古屋地裁であった。国側は入管側の対応に問題がなかったとする医師の…

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Information on Japan's upcoming "Digital Nomad" visa indicates such nomads will be able to stay in Japan and work as non-residents for up to six months. Raises a question why bother if it is effectively an extended tourist visa...?

JDNA 日本デジタルノマド協会

@jpndigitalnomad

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【速報】待望の日本版デジタルノマドビザの情報が一部公開されました。JDNAでは独自に内容をまとめ、台湾・韓国の類似ビザ比較表を作成しました。 2月中旬にはパブコメを実施予定とのこと。JDNAは、海外デジタルノマドが日本で滞在しやすい環境の整備に向けて、引き続き活動を行ってまいります。(続

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Ohsoji: Untranslatable Japanese term that means Spring Cleaning

The New Yorker

@NewYorker

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Marie Kondo’s work is just the most recent manifestation of a long Japanese tradition of cleanliness, one that reaches a zenith in the ohsoji: the “great cleaning” that is carried out at the end of December in anticipation of the New Year.

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Okay. This is awesome.

しんとら🐯大阪風呂サウナー♨️@変態サウナー倶楽部S.W.A.T.®︎

@pk7shinji

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コロナが終息していつか皆が笑顔で祭りを楽しめる日が来ることを願って😌 最後の締めはが特に癒されます指先まで染み込んだ魂の踊り良き👍

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Free “Language Learning with Netflix” extension makes studying Japanese almost too easy (RocketNews24)

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This is how fast the Shizuoka Governor had to resign after calling farmers and factory workers idiots today:

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3 years

Olympic Committee clearly took the government too literally when they heard the demand for them to use a woman “Chair Person”....

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組織委の会見。冒頭で女性職員が武藤氏の椅子を引くためだけに出てきた様子に強い違和感を覚えました。私は米大統領会見など海外で多くの会見に出ましたがこんな光景はなく、椅子は自分で座ればいいはず。性差別発言が引き金の会見で、性別役割分業が自然に出る部分に組織委の構造問題があると思います

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Every single prefecture in Japan that anyone would ever want to go for any reason saw an increase in cases after Golden Week, as shown in red on this map:

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Japanese TV news model and chart props need to be listed for UNESCO World Heritage status...

Jeffrey J. Hall 🇯🇵🇺🇸

@mrjeffu

6 months

Hats off to the Asahi TV arts & crafts team for this fantastic analog depiction of the nosedive in Prime Minister Kishida's approval rating:

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IMHO JLPT doesn't prove how well you can speak or write Japanese, and barely shows how well you can listen or read. It really just is proof that you were so desperate to prove qualification, you spent months cramming your brain with kanji and grammar to get it.

The Mainichi (Japan Daily News)

@themainichi

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Is 'standard' Japanese language test best metric for hiring foreigners?

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I have a dream. A dream of a Tokyo where two towers can live together in harmony. But also one where Tokyo Tower appears to be sliiightly bigger…

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Talked to mum - asked me if I was worried about Russian cyber attacks on Japan. I said "we have this bank, Mizuho, and honestly I'm not sure anyone would be able to tell..."

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I came to Japan 25 years ago in the hope of earning a higher income. This is me today seeing the yen hit 150…

NHKニュース

@nhk_news

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円相場一時1ドル150円台前半市場介入の警戒感で小幅な値動き #nhk_news

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So, yeah. You know those quarantined Wuhan returnees? Turns out one asked not to be quarantined because he has a kid. Gov let both just go home to Saitama. And now the Dad has coronavirus (tried treating self for a few days before it became pneumonia)

【新型肺炎】政府のチャーター機で帰国した男性2人が新たに発症。うち一人は埼玉県の自宅で待機中に発熱訴える : 痛いニュース(ﾉ∀`)

1 名前：記憶たどり。 ★：2020/02/11(火) 15:45:04.53 ID:XjISzHty9 厚生労働省は11日、政府のチャーター機で中国湖北省武漢市から帰国した男性2人が新型コロナウイルスに感染しているのを新たに確認したと発表した。 https://this.kiji.is/599851331902932065?c=395

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Shibuya cancels plans to chop down 189 trees on a green belt toward Yoyogi after resident opposition. 渋谷区の樹木伐採、住民の要請で見直し　玉川上水の緑道、189本切る計画　専門家「健康な木がほとんど」：東京新聞 TOKYO Web

渋谷区の樹木伐採、住民の要請で見直し　玉川上水の緑道、189本切る計画　専門家「健康な木がほとんど」：東京新聞 TOKYO Web

東京都渋谷区が地上から見えない地下水路となった玉川上水（笹塚－代々木、2.6キロ）で計画する樹木伐採に、地元住民らが待ったをかけた。枯...

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As of today Okinawa has the highest rate of C19. Already exceeding hospital and hotel capacity. Can’t secure more hotel space because of tourist influx, many using GoTo subsidies

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Mt Fuji sunsets are awesome this time of year

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Taro Kono (Administrative Reform Minister) gives all government departments 1 month to stop using hankos. Have to explain to him why if they cannot. Nice. 【デジタル】河野太郎行革大臣、ハンコ使用廃止を要求「廃止できない場合は今月中に理由を」

【デジタル】河野太郎行革大臣、ハンコ使用廃止を要求「廃止できない場合は今月中に理由を」 : 痛いニュース(ﾉ∀`)

1 名前：potato ★：2020/09/23(水) 21:48:09.52 ID:eqpI0Dpr9 河野行政改革担当大臣が行政上の手続きではハンコの使用を原則廃止するよう求め、できない場合はその理由を今月中に示すよう、各府省庁に伝えていたことがＪＮＮの取材でわかりました。２３日に行われた「デ

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Asked why govt didn't disclose Japan's first Lambda variant case for two weeks, LDP bigwig responds "if you had asked we would have told you" 高致死率ラムダ株2週間報告せず「もっと早く問い合わせがあれば答えた」自民党外交部会長が番組で釈明

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Another fun fact - Japan actually performs better on Gender Rankings than it does on vaccination rollout.

magdalena osumi | 大住マグダレナ 💁🏼‍♀️

@jt_mag_os

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Japan ranks 129th in the vaccine rollout, worst among OECD members. 日本のワクチン接種率は世界で129位　OECD加盟国で最下位

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Tokyo had 949 cases today, a new record. Oh, oops, wrong link. This is the minister of tourism saying today that we should restart GoTo travel on January 12.... 赤羽国交相 Go Toトラベル可能なかぎり来月12日以降再開を

赤羽国交相 Go Toトラベル可能なかぎり来月12日以降再開を | NHKニュース

【NHK】旅行代金の割り引きなどが受けられるGo Toトラベルが、28日から全国で一斉に運用が停止されるのを前に、赤羽国土交通大臣…

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Okay, I did this. Assuming definitions of "staying" being at least overnighting, and "visiting" meaning spending the day but not overnighting. Also considering my multiple trips of multiple weeks to Fukuoka as not "living". Make your own here -

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All I'm going to say about this is "don't be this guy". Police are pretty tolerant in Japan but when they decide to get you, it can be brutal fast, as this guy is no doubt deservedly finding out. I see this as the logical endgame of gaijin smashing and finding out.

Jeffrey J. Hall 🇯🇵🇺🇸

@mrjeffu

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Japan's Fuji TV aired a report yesterday about the arrest of American Kick streamer Johnny Somali. They interviewed a worker at the construction site and a restaurant employee who witnessed his disruptive actions.

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I think immediate deportation is the only way to deal with these ones...

Jeffrey J. Hall 🇯🇵🇺🇸

@mrjeffu

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Japanese nuisance YouTuber Rengoku Koroaki went to the scene of a hostage situation in Saitama today and was a nuisance: He interrupted a live NHK news broadcast.

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Mind BLOWN...: Japanese Banks Will Finally Stop Using a Piece of 1800s Technology - Bloomberg

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Lawson says tears flowed at the management meeting where they decided to increase the price of Karaage Kun for the first time since Lawson was established. If they increase staff wages, they're going to need trauma counsellors...

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《シリーズ累計41億食》コンビニが生んだ国民食「からあげクン」秘話の数々。「発売から37年間一度も価格改定しなかった看板商品の値上げに本部長は会議で涙を流した」 @akiko_lawson

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This is super significant btw. The govt’s plan to manage aging society and economic decline seemed to assume attracting young care workers and laborers from ASEAN. Never occurred to them that the same decline would make Japan uncompetitive attracting such talent?

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Record low number of Philippines nurses applying for jobs in Japanフィリピン日本の看護師を目指す人の面接会応募は過去最少に

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Simulation of Tokyo morning commute. You can see at 7:48 the one guy from Chiba city who forgot his ID badge and had to go home and get it

にゃんこそば🌤データ可視化

@ShinagawaJP

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『平日・朝8:00～8:30に都心5区に到達する人』の動きを可視化してみる。東海道線の足の速さ、時々やってくる東海道新幹線あたりが見所でしょうか...？出典はAgoopポイント型流動人口データ（東京公共交通オープンデータチャレンジAPI）。測距精度が悪いサンプル（例：海上を浮遊）もあります。

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Got a really nice Blade Runner style view of Tokyo glowing in the rain as the plane departed Haneda

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So apparently when a kindergarten teacher at a private kindy in Yokohama got Coronavirus, Yokohama City told the kindergarten to not tell the parents and continue operating as usual until they investigated more. Yup...

横浜市保育士感染を保護者に知らせず保育継続を指示 | NHKニュース

【NHK】横浜市内にある私立保育所の保育士が今月８日、新型コロナウイルスに感染したことが確認された際、市が保護者には知らせないよう…

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After 42 days of detention, it’s a wonder the guy didn’t confess. Most developed nations have a 72h detention rule as confessions after longer detention are presumed tainted by duress. Japan’s 23 day detention rule (and use of rearrests) is designed to get false confessions

The Mainichi (Japan Daily News)

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Lawyer slams 'hostage justice' tactics by Osaka law enforcers over false arrest

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Honestly, I'm not even sure what the appropriate Japanese term for "social distancing" is. I've seen self restraint 自粛, and isolation 隔離, but I'm not sure I even know how to translate social distancing. Certainly there is very little public awareness of it

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Goooooood morning 2023 Mt Fuji!

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I'm celebrating Christmas in the traditional Japanese fashion, of putting on work clothes, riding a train into the office, sitting in front of my PC, browsing Twitter while at work, and sending emails. If things get wild, I may send a fax later on.

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It will improve as more vaccines roll out.

magdalena osumi | 大住マグダレナ 💁🏼‍♀️

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Why is 5G in Japan so slow? Serious question.

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Special Japanniversary today. When I came here to live on this day in 1999 I was 23. Adding in some prior time spent in Japan, that means this marks the tipping point where I've now spent more than half my life in Japan.

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