Emperor Akihito Plays Defense on Japan's Constitution | "The emperor’s speech, coming shortly after Abe’s LDP won the votes necessary to pass a revision, has been interpreted as a coded pushback, and not just to Abe’s quest to revise Article 9 ..."

pin9999 · 5ヶ月前

The latest episode of "Tokyo on Fire" talked about the same issue.

It's almost comical to hear how the Emperor was dismayed by an impromptu chant of banzai from Abe and co at a ceremony he was asked to attend.

pin9999 · 5ヶ月前

To be fair, with punctuation romaji woudn't be as bad as in the OP's picture:

shakaifukushihojin shineikai shinjukukuritsu tomihisachohoikuen

In that picture even the word Shinjuku was randomly split into two.

pin9999 · 5ヶ月前

That's where he hints that the current institution is not ideal. It's more like a description of the current protocol, not his intent.

Elsewhere, he reiterates that any change to the institution is not up to him, while suggesting that abdication would be a good idea (but would require changes).

I think it's a carefully constructed statement where he tries to avoid saying anything like "I want to XYZ". He is not allowed to do that.

pin9999 · 5ヶ月前

but announces intent to continue his position

Does he? That was not how I read.

He wished Japan's tradition of having emperor as a symbol to continue, though.

pin9999 · 6ヶ月前

According to the words of Natsume Sōseki:

「日本人がそんな台詞口にするか。『月が綺麗ですね』とでも訳しておけ。それで伝わるものだ」

He suggested that saying "I love you" is too direct, and that you should say something like “The moon is beautiful." At least, that was what was common in the Meiji era.

Except that Soseki did not say that.

Although it is definitely a famous saying supposedly of Soseki, according to a librarian's report, no original source is found.

pin9999 · 7ヶ月前

English summary taken from the bottom of the page:

Indian and Bangladeshi workers at curry restaurants in Tokyo are on the brink of job and housing losses as the holding company decided to close the restaurants as of June 20. 15 workers of Shanti, an Indian curry chain with five outlets in Tokyo, have not been paid properly for last two years, not at all this year. Many of them lost accommodation due to a fire in February and have since been staying in the restaurants. The president of the company recently demanded them in writing to leave by June 17, while the workers maintain that they are willing to leave as soon as they receive the salaries and overtime totaling 62.96 million yen the company owes to them. They have filed complaints at a labor standard office in Tokyo to recover the unpaid wages through negotiation, but the company has not responded so far. The difficulties of the workers who are threatened with eviction are exacerbated by the lack of their abilities in the Japanese language. Some customers who are supporting these workers have opened a Twitter account to disseminate information.

pin9999 · 8ヶ月前

"So it's Nigh-honium?" - "No, Nee-honium."

pin9999 · 8ヶ月前

will not be able to support all the oldsters as they hit retirement

Japan's healthcare costs could actually be reduced while maintaining people's QOL. A lot of the healthcare spending for the elderly is frankly wasted. Like the government's 90% subsidizing to the PEG tube for a 90, who spends years unconscious on the bed until dying.

pin9999 · 8ヶ月前

In the world of parsing, something like going up from 92% to 94% is a big deal. That's 25% reduction of the errors that have been traditionally very difficult to deal with.

Still, it's an incremental change and I see nothing like an immediate disruption to AI in general, though.

pin9999 · 9ヶ月前

It's difficult so this is just a guess.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinkaku-ji judging by the red 金閣 stamp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiyomizu-dera judging by the red 西国十六番 stamp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenry%C5%AB-ji pretty sure about this

pin9999 · 9ヶ月前

Link fixed: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%9C%B0%E6%96%B9%E7%97%85_%28%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E4%BD%8F%E8%A1%80%E5%90%B8%E8%99%AB%E7%97%87%29

pin9999 · 9ヶ月前

Here is the artist (Asao Tocolo)'s website: http://tokolo.com/

Apparently the geometric design is his thing.

pin9999 · 9ヶ月前

I guess it depends on subfields. For modern history, Andrew Gordon and John W. Dower seem like must reads. For today's domestic and international politics - I don't know.

pin9999 · 10ヶ月前

On second look, you are right. The data must come from something else. UK's figure is obviously far off. I was in a hurry and was only looking at the scales of the numbers of Hong Kong etc which were close (but not the same).

pin9999 · 10ヶ月前

Are we really talking about the companies associated with Mossack Fonseca, just one firm? I mean, Isle of Man, Jersey, Guernsey ... these are countries with less than 100k people, yet they have thousands of MF's intermediaries.

If there are more firms like MF in the world, what would the complete picture look like?

EDIT: oops 100k not 10k

pin9999 · 10ヶ月前

~~"Companies" here seems to correspond to the figures in "Countries with the most active intermediaries" of https://panamapapers.icij.org/graphs/ :~~ (EDIT: it could be related but not the same)

The Panama Papers expose the internal operations of one of the world’s leading firms in incorporation of offshore entities, Panama-headquartered Mossack Fonseca.

Mossack Fonseca worked with intermediaries in more than 100 countries all over the globe. Their most active clients by number of offshore company incorporations were from Hong Kong, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers for more context.

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