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To pivot away from whether or not foreigners are poo poo heels for wanting to visit Japan as tourists:https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Tokyo-2020-Olympics/Toyota-autonomous-bus-hits-Tokyo-Paralympian-taking-him-out-of-match posted:The collision, which left Kitazono with bruises on his head and body, is believed to have occurred shortly after the bus moved again with the help of an operator in the vehicle, police said. I heard about this story before but just now heard about the detail that the bus had stopped and then an operator overrode that, causing the bus to hit the Paralympian.
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eat the 正社員 https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/00538540f4af0efdc6e19b2fe8e5b89b14923e34
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Me paying into 厚生年金: Haha gently caress yeah!!! Yes!! Me collecting my 厚生年金: Well this loving sucks. What the gently caress.
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Yeah like it's still going to be around when we're ready to collect.
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Weatherman posted:Yeah like it's still going to be around when we're ready to collect. The Japan pension fund is the largest retirement fund in the world, with 1.7 trillion dollars under management. Where do you think it's going to go?
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Perhaps you are very optimistic about the prospects of full communism being achieved by our retirement age.
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sale on Banksy art posted:The Japan pension fund is the largest retirement fund in the world, with 1.7 trillion dollars under management. Where do you think it's going to go? 
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sale on Banksy art posted:Perhaps you are very optimistic about the prospects of full communism being achieved by our retirement age. whether japan is ultimately heading for full communism or fascism it's going to get there a lot faster if that fund goes away, lol
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The world in which that fund disappears is one in which no one is thinking farther than their next meal, much less retirement. Or alternatively, as I said, full communism. Gabriel Grub fucked around with this message at 07:28 on Sep 13, 2021 |
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harperdc posted:Two-week quarantine is still kind of a pain in the rear end though. Rumors are it’s shortening to 10 days for vaccinated people, so hopefully it gets shorter than that before the holidays. Genuine question because I have no clue, but isn't it basically "stay home until X date and only go out to get food and wear a mask"? Because that really does not seem like a pain in the rear end to just sit around in your apartment and watch youtube all day or whatever, poo poo that's what I do on my actual vacation days most of the time
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Yes you're right if you're a shut-in anyway it's not that onerous to be a shut-in
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LimburgLimbo posted:Yes you're right if you're a shut-in anyway it's not that onerous to be a shut-in Government-mandated hikikomori
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If you cohabitate you don't even have to go to the store. Edit: Actually if I lived alone I would have ordered delivery every single meal tbh.
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AHH F/UGH posted:Genuine question because I have no clue, but isn't it basically "stay home until X date and only go out to get food and wear a mask"? Because that really does not seem like a pain in the rear end to just sit around in your apartment and watch youtube all day or whatever, poo poo that's what I do on my actual vacation days most of the time I think they don’t even want you to go out and get food in a perfect world. Transport back from the airport also can’t be public transit. The asterisk on that all is it comes with penalty of deportation if you’re on a visa and found in breach. I’m not sure I want to find out what is and isn’t considered in breach myself. If there was a family emergency I’d figure out what I needed to do to get back, and deal with it, but for a personal flight…I think the light is finally showing at the end of the tunnel to allow vaccinated citizens/residents back in without hassle soon. I’ll cross my fingers nothing requires flying back and bide my time.
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Also what if you don’t live in Tokyo? Like, also no domestic flights? Take a 25万 taxi back to the Inaka heck yeah. Or maybe I can use 代行 lol.
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Pegnose Pete posted:Also what if you don’t live in Tokyo? Like, also no domestic flights? Take a 25万 taxi back to the Inaka heck yeah. Or maybe I can use 代行 lol. You would need to have someone pick you up, or get an AirBnb.
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You quarantine in Tokyo then quarantine again in your hometown because you went to Tokyo
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I forgot that if you have a license, you can just rent a car and drive yourself home.
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sale on Banksy art posted:You would need to have someone pick you up, or get an AirBnb. Yeah that’s what I had heard. That would be like landing in LAX and calling someone in Portland to come get me lol. I wanna take my toddler home to meet her grandparents but not that much.
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The toddler isn't going to remember that interaction so might as well as wait a bit until they can make actual memories.
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Zettace posted:The toddler isn't going to remember that interaction so might as well as wait a bit until they can make actual memories. Other than wanting her to meet her great grandmother before she passes away, we are more than happy to hold tight. Thinking maybe summer 2023!
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That looks like it gets hella FPS in Crysis.
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What’s the deal with there being no public bins in Japan anyway? I don’t mind holding onto my rubbish until I get back to my hotel but more than any other “culture shock” that’s the one that struck me the most from any of my trips.
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Question Mark Mound posted:What’s the deal with there being no public bins in Japan anyway? I don’t mind holding onto my rubbish until I get back to my hotel but more than any other “culture shock” that’s the one that struck me the most from any of my trips. I believe the 1995 subway satin gas attacks play a part in that decision. Any time there’s a big event (like when US Presidents are on official visits or during the Olympics) the train station garbage cans/recycle bins that are available get closed up. Some of the coin lockers get blocked off too.
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As I understand it they released the gas on the trains (and the year before from a moving vehicle) and did not involve outdoor trash cans in any way, so it's puzzling that 25 years later trash cans are still missing. Perhaps at this point so many of the legislators have just grown up without trash cans and would not think to change it 
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Bofast posted:As I understand it they released the gas on the trains (and the year before from a moving vehicle) and did not involve outdoor trash cans in any way, so it's puzzling that 25 years later trash cans are still missing. Perhaps at this point so many of the legislators have just grown up without trash cans and would not think to change it I'm sure it's a mix of factors. Public bins are a terrorism risk in a generic sense, so at the time it likely served as a way to showcase that things were 'being done' to protect the public, and also cities are often not fans of maintaining big systems of trash bins everywhere. It's costly to manage, can be unsightly, attracts pests and all sorts. Obviously they're infinitely superior to just throwing trash on the ground, but if you can accidentally convince your populace to take their litter with them permanently, I can see why there would be a reluctance to reintroduce them.
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I just throw things away at the trash cans at the convenience stores located every 25 meters along every road. Do you have to pay for trash bags in Japan? A lot of Korea doesn't have public trash cans because old ladies would go dump all their garbage in there instead of paying the five cents a bag for trash bags. So instead you just pile garbage next to the nearest utility pole.
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Bofast posted:As I understand it they released the gas on the trains (and the year before from a moving vehicle) and did not involve outdoor trash cans in any way, so it's puzzling that 25 years later trash cans are still missing. Perhaps at this point so many of the legislators have just grown up without trash cans and would not think to change it I listened to Haruki Murakami's book on the gas attacks (despite his more usual weird work this was a series of interviews with survivors or their family members) with some context/details of events for context. Basically a handful of cult believers brought packets of sarin gas wrapped in plastic bags/newspaper and left them in train cars, puncturing them with the tips of umbrellas before getting off the train. Then anyone left on the train car got to breath that in, one train station employee picked up one to dispose of it (he died IIRC), and at least one got pushed out of the train into the station (causing deaths in the station).
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Grand Fromage posted:I just throw things away at the trash cans at the convenience stores located every 25 meters along every road. For being out and about, yes, drop it off at a station or convenience store. For throwing out home garbage, some towns/cities have specific garbage bags (my JET inaka town did for trash, plastic recyclables, and cans) but in Tokyo/Kanto it seems like the sorting is more important.
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"Tokyo" doesn't have garbage sorting rules. Every ward has their own system. I find Setagaya to be comparable to or simpler than other places I've lived. Our non-burnable category is very broad as opposed to people I hear waiting for their monthly battery or aerosol can disposal day.
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every airbnb i stayed at in japan had a novella about how to sort trash translated into english, french, chinese, russian and korean with lots of pictures.
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:Tokyo had far more sophisticated recycling and trash sorting bins than anything I’d ever seen before And people actually do their best to use them properly. I like going to Starbucks and bussing my own stuff. The baristas always try to take my tray but I enjoy it. Liquid in here. Paper here. Plastic here. Food garbage here. It's great! Also, when I was in the UK they didn't have waste bins, either.
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captkirk posted:I listened to Haruki Murakami's book on the gas attacks (despite his more usual weird work this was a series of interviews with survivors or their family members) with some context/details of events for context.
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captkirk posted:I listened to Haruki Murakami's book on the gas attacks (despite his more usual weird work this was a series of interviews with survivors or their family members) with some context/details of events for context. This report from CNAS is also very good, they interviewed several of the cultists before their executions: https://www.cnas.org/publications/reports/aum-shinrikyo-insights-into-how-terrorists-develop-biological-and-chemical-weapons
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Waltzing Along posted:Also, when I was in the UK they didn't have waste bins, either. The UK had a known reason for it. Try searching for ' bin ' on this page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents_in_London
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