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While Tokyo Rainbow Pride is probably Japan's best-known pride extravaganza, there are plenty of rainbow flags flying across the country. Here are Japan's best-kept-secret prides!
This cool AF area has long been popular as a natural retreat with Japanese, dating well back to the Heian era. Japan is truly a country of endless discovery. Like their English counterparts, these apps have given rise to a whole new vocabulary that newcomers might find unfamiliar. As with Hiroshima, Nagasaki also has its own peace memorial. Every summer, Mt.
Video , LGBT. Buddhism , LGBT. Makeup artist and Buddhist monk Kodo Nishimura discusses their views on sexual diversity and faith. Tokyo Rainbow Pride, an annual event taking place in Tokyo every year since , has become a celebration of diversity and more inclusivity for all colors of the sexuality rainbow.
Anime , LGBT. Movies , LGBT. After releasing a very lengthy trailer, upcoming film Midnight Swan has the internet abuzz with discussions about the theme of the movie—notably former SMAP member Tsuyoshi Kusanagi playing a trans woman—as well as the length of the trailer itself.
Beauty , Fashion. Japanese high school boy amazes netizens with his cute girl-next-door looks and giving his female classmates a run for their money! Health , Dating in Japan. One of the many taboos in Japan is discussing sex and sexual health in an open and proactive way. However, should you end up living or working here, it's important to know what resources are available to keep you healthy and happy. Golden Week , Tokyo. Looking for things to do in Tokyo over Golden Week?
These five fun events happen to line up perfectly with Japan's most anticipated national holiday! Beer , LGBT. Same-sex marriage couples will now receive the same benefits like condolence leave, company housing and other benefits. Posted in: Lesser-known K-pop bands struggling amid the pandemic See in context. Success may not even change things. TLC went bankrupt one year after selling 14 million physical copies. These days, you sell a tiny fraction of that and get zero point more zeros then something per stream from Spotify.
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Posted in: Coronavirus forcing more and more women into poverty See in context. For living in Tokyo without family support, the wages given in the story are clearly poverty level.
There are schemes at Hello Work for people to retrain in the health and care sectors. My wife was offered free college fees, a free train pass, and the dole itself , yen a month for her for two years to become a care giver. Posted in: Lawyer for year-old driver of car that killed woman, 3-year-old daughter blames faulty brake See in context. The man continuing with this false accusation, the car has already been dismantled and checked, is prima facie evidence that he has no remorse.
Posted in: Most in Japan oppose holding Olympics in polls See in context. If you think people are against it now, wait till the big wigs start talking about how wonderful it is and how it symbolizes how we have triumphed over the adversity of the virus blah blah pass the sick bucket. Posted in: Mayor defends councilwoman's ouster over sexual assault claim See in context. All we can conclude here is that there is a lack of evidence for both the incident and the accusations.
She is being punished for this lack of evidence. That is a much worse look for Kusatsu than having a possibly rapey mayor. Posted in: Japan's disabled suffer as train stations increasingly go unstaffed See in context.
If you read the story in Japanese, you'll see that the train company will provide staff to help wheelchair users when contacted in advance, i. The man is suing because he says having to contact them in advance is discrimination compared to able-bodied people who can get on the train when they feel like it without ringing up. The Japanese story also mentions that most lines in inaka are loss making and hard to keep operating. My town has an on-demand taxi service that helps people with mobility problems. However, that too has to be booked in advance, making it "discriminatory" according to this gentleman's definition.
Many of these train lines have extremely limited ridership, only a dozen trains a day and under people per station per day. Huge subsidies are required to keep the trains running. This leaves no money for station staff, never mind station upgrades.
A very unromantic but more practical solution may be to close the lines and spend the same subsidies on buses that could be adapted for special needs passengers and have a driver who can help people on and off. There is basically no inhabited place in Japan with a train line but no road.
No-one would be cut off by replacing trains with buses. Part of the train line near me has tried to close several times but it keeps getting more money for trainspotter based tourism. I doubt any cost-benefit analysis is done about this and someone simply invents the value of the trainspotters.
Men's trousers and women's trousers are both trousers but they are different shapes. The same goes for blazers. When indicating these different body shapes, the words "mens" and "womens" are handy and still in widespread use all across the fashion industry. No-one is protesting outside Uniqlo for selling men's and women's fleeces, coats, and pants. It's perfectly fine for girls, non-binaries and the rest to wear trousers.
But for them to fit, quite a few girls are going to have to have something that is a different shape. The fashion industry calls clothes of this shape "womens". A different "designation" is possible perhaps, but you are still going to end up with some binary type distinction. Posted in: Green hydrogen: A fuel bursting with climate-saving potential See in context.
One good use of hydrogen would be in ships. They run on fuel oil, a highly polluting fuel which is not much better than coal. No new tech has to be an optimal solution for everything. It just has to be better at doing something.

Posted in: Wakayama woman arrested for switching price tags at supermarket See in context. The cheapest eggs in the supermarket will be less than yen. I therefore doubt this is a very poor person doing this purely out of need. I think the money saved and the thrill dopamine hit of stealing, with little perceived risk of being caught, is the motivator here. Posted in: Indy's last crusade? Harrison Ford to reprise iconic role See in context. Posted in: Restaurant bankruptcies to hit all-time high in See in context.
Lots of towns had "shutter gai", rows of shops all shuttered up, especially in shopping arcades, before this happened. Covid has made things worse of course and brought more closures, but the numbers are still not that high for a country of million inhabitants and a once-in-one-hundred-years pandemic that has shut the doors to forty million tourists.
It's sad for the people concerned, especially if they are good cooks and good hosts, and I hope they can bounce back when we are through this. With the vaccines, the end is at least coming into sight. No it won't. Let's not be melodramatic. Lots of people in Tohoku had no income for way longer than a month but their society did not "collapse". Japan is not a country where people's lives are so precarious that millions are on food stamps US or go to food banks UK to begin with. The pandemic has actually hit those countries harder with much bigger falls in economic activity, but they have not "collapsed" despite having tens of millions in the US with literally zero assets.
Anyone who has operated a minshuku for decades but has zero savings for a rainy day bears some responsibility for their situation. Just as they would if this were a typhoon or an earthquake or any other situation that is more likely than a once a century pandemic. Anyone facing difficulties should be supported, but you can do that with seikatsu hogo, UBI, temporary hardship grants, and lots of other ways that do not involve encouraging people to move around more during a pandemic.