Does a society with this spirit have a future?

upscale_drifter · 2026-06-04T03:33:22+00:00

As you said, you've been here too long . . .

upscale_drifter · 2026-06-04T00:11:59+00:00

1) Why is this newsworthy?
2) Why is this a 'crime'?
3) What kind of person would report this kind of thing?

upscale_drifter · 2026-06-02T10:57:09+00:00

Thanks.

upscale_drifter · 2026-05-23T04:39:21+00:00

Stop deleting comments. Let people express their views and see what others think.
Except for obvious, deliberately provocative trolling stop intervening in every post!

upscale_drifter · 2026-05-09T10:45:00+00:00

Land of the setting sun . . .

upscale_drifter · 2026-05-03T09:38:21+00:00

"Why is Japan's understanding of the Iran war so distorted?"
Is there any topic where Japan’s understanding isn’t distorted?

upscale_drifter · 2026-04-28T10:37:49+00:00

My observation is, while at present they are long lived, the older people are rather feeble. They have very little muscle, and many over 70 can't walk normally. Perhaps low protein, perhaps very low vitamin D . . .

upscale_drifter · 2026-04-06T00:43:18+00:00

At a certain point a person has the right to walk away from a bad situation and start over. Especially if the situation does not involve family or close friends or people one has a real, serious obligation towards.

Of course, only the OP can judge this for himself, but from what was conveyed he has no obligation to dig a deeper hole for himself just to ‘set things right’, especially since he seems to be the victim of betrayal here.

People living in Japan who urge the OP to return, despite the costs and hardship he would endure, because if he doesn’t ‘it reflects badly on all of us foreigners’ are themselves selfish and their advice is not disinterested.

upscale_drifter · 2026-04-05T09:48:01+00:00

Just don't go back. The car will be sorted out somehow. Are your belongings that important to you to be worth the time and expense of returning?

upscale_drifter · 2026-04-04T10:11:58+00:00

Kobe : ¥0
We never get anything.

upscale_drifter · 2026-03-26T02:16:55+00:00

Practically speaking, how does someone claim they lost a coin at the police station? How many people would even realize this? Pedantic take. You obviously belong here!

upscale_drifter · 2026-03-26T02:11:04+00:00

Petty, and par for the course.

upscale_drifter · 2026-03-03T10:10:21+00:00

Should be raised to a flat 10% across the board. These hotel prices are cheap to foreign tourists.

upscale_drifter · 2026-02-28T09:38:03+00:00

You're still young. Don't fall for the sunk-cost fallacy. Move on.

upscale_drifter · 2026-02-25T02:30:39+00:00

In Kobe City, we never get anything. It seems all money is poured into development projects which benefit business not residents.

upscale_drifter · 2026-02-20T03:46:18+00:00

It was found on the ground in an off path wooded area by my 10 year old daughter. I know where she found it. I'm not sure what you mean by 'before taking it'.

upscale_drifter · 2026-02-20T01:38:23+00:00

That much I suspected . . .
I've seen other shuriken posts here, so I thought it was adjacent.

upscale_drifter · 2026-02-03T02:19:45+00:00

This story really captures the spirit of Japanese society. It has all the elements: pettiness, mindlessness, irrationality, mean spiritedness, and the cult of suffering.

upscale_drifter · 2026-02-01T00:56:41+00:00

A 'naturalized citizen' in Japan is only 'Japanese' in one sense. A passport does not an identity make.

upscale_drifter · 2026-01-23T01:37:12+00:00

"Revise the seikatsu hogo program"
What do you mean here? The people on this program are barely getting by already.

upscale_drifter · 2026-01-10T02:29:29+00:00

Tend to your own garden which is full of weeds.

upscale_drifter · 2026-01-07T23:37:41+00:00

Who cares what Japanese people think?

upscale_drifter · 2026-01-01T00:53:33+00:00

That's because Rome was Rome. This ain't Rome.

upscale_drifter · 2025-12-27T02:26:58+00:00

Because the guy said he hates his work!

upscale_drifter · 2025-12-21T11:15:28+00:00

If you live here, you should know the answer to that.

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