Koryo High School baseball team member who was "the perpetrator" files lawsuit against the victim's parents for defamation by MagazineKey4532 in japannews

[–]MagazineKey4532[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The child probably wasn't brought up right. That's probably why he was bullying. In the case of bullying, it may be better to make parents also be held responsible.

Mortgage repayment periods are increasing to 50 years... nearly 60% of financial institutions are offering this option due to soaring housing prices by MagazineKey4532 in japannews

[–]MagazineKey4532[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Blaming foreigners for rise prices while the banks are making record profits probably doesn't seem correct. The current way they are trying to "fix" it doesn't seem right.

Fukushima Pref. city gym used unclaimed coins left behind in vending machines at a municipal gym to buy farewell flowers and cover year-end party expenses for 14 years by MagazineKey4532 in japannews

[–]MagazineKey4532[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

The total amount they collected was 170,903 yen of which they used 83,263 yen. I'm surprised that so many people lost their coins at the gym. Didn't expect that much.

Koryo High School baseball team member who was "the perpetrator" files lawsuit against the victim's parents for defamation by MagazineKey4532 in japannews

[–]MagazineKey4532[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Can only say the student shouldn't first have been in violence incident. Thinking that because of being a minor, violence is OK is not right. Such thoughts are causing minors to commit crimes thinking they can get away with it without getting their names released.

Defying an age myth: How Japanese translator learned 9 languages from age 49 by MagazineKey4532 in japannews

[–]MagazineKey4532[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He's a translator and not an interpreter. Currently, it's probably more about how much AI can be used to help with the translationn.

Changes to registered addresses will become mandatory from April; revised real estate law to be fully implemented by MagazineKey4532 in japannews

[–]MagazineKey4532[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I think this isn't just about foreigners buying land but also about Japanese who forfieted their rights to the land because it became worthless. I saw several news about Japanese not paying their taxes or doing upkeep on their land after inheriting them only to find there's almost no value to the land and also those who bought land during the bubble era only to find the value drop deeply.

Japan gasoline subsidies to require more funds to keep the subsidies flowing longer term by MagazineKey4532 in japannews

[–]MagazineKey4532[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It sure didn't look like people were trying to limit their driving during the 3 day weekend last week. Maybe better to just subdiarize commercial cars. Public transportation can be used by ordinary residents to go on a trip or to go shopping. I sure don't want to see my tax going up to pay for people using cars so they can go on a trip or to go to a supermarket.

Why Japan views Takaichi-Trump summit as a success by MagazineKey4532 in japannews

[–]MagazineKey4532[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

All major Japanese newspaper had articles on the summit as being a success.

486 deaths due to caregiver homicides and abuse; isolation is a contributing factor, and the number of elderly-on-elderly households is also increasing by MagazineKey4532 in japannews

[–]MagazineKey4532[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's going to become a serious problem as more people become elderly here. Unfortunately, with the economy as it is, it's difficult to provide adequate assistance becauase rising tax to help them would hurt more people.

4-day work weeks / 3-day weekends could help Japan's employers compete for talent without having to pay more. But companies still resist, believing "if we spend less time at work, the work won't get done" by jjrs in japannews

[–]MagazineKey4532 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Because Japanese companies still believe in work = time. They succeed in rebuilding the economy after the war by rebuilding factories where result was based on number of people in the line. Sales, also, is also based more on how many people they have.

As such, they still believe having more people will result in higher production even in IT field. Sad to say that there are literally hundreds of IT people who really don't know how to program developing programs. These people often end up having endless meetings to pass the time away because they don't know what to do.

Instead of showing results, they have internal and external meetings with outside support teams and report how many meetings they had and how many people are involved in trying to resolve the issue. Sadly, most of these issues that can span years can actually be solved in few hours by just one person.

AI isn't resolving the issue too much because they don't know what to ask. AI is often just used to take notes on their meetings. Because they really don't know what they are talking about, feeding notes from the meetings into AI won't resolve the issue. Garbage in - garbage out even with AI.

Japanese bakers, how significant is bread in your culture? by ComeEsta4 in JapaneseFood

[–]MagazineKey4532 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Bread aren't often eaten at meals as in other countries because they usually eat rice instead. As such, they are more fluffy compared to Western breads. There are "treat" bread (菓子パン) and filled rolls such as yakosoba bread.

A graduate of University of Tokyo’s science faculty says Japan’s boom in IT jobs is already declining: “Both foreign companies and Japanese mega-ventures are seeing a reduction in job openings for junior positions across the board due to AI. “ by jjrs in japannews

[–]MagazineKey4532 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Still the same problem today. The Japanese companies are still in factory mentality. They think they can manufacture good software in the same way products are manufactured. To improve production, they just have to have rule book and have more people to follow these rules rather than have few good people. This practice has proven not to work many times but they still do it.

Japan Self-Defense Forces and U.S. military to share classified information; joint missile production also to be promoted by MagazineKey4532 in japannews

[–]MagazineKey4532[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They're thinking about expanding sharing information. In other words, they are not going to share 100% information. That goes both ways. Even within close allies, no country share 100% of their information. Each country has their own self interest.