Latenights said...

Latenights at 07:05 PM JST - 30th June

A record-high 82.8 percent of 3,200 new employees polled who participated in job training offered by the Japan Productivity Center, a nonprofit organization based in Tokyo, between March and April said they would prioritize work

So new employees are asked during training if they prioritize work and 82.8 percent respond…

Posted in More new employees in Japan choose working rather than dating at 07:05 PM JST - 30th June
Latenights at 01:02 PM JST - 22nd June

It's easy to remove young children from the car without waking them, just lift out their car seats... oh, right, nevermind.

Posted in 2 infants die of heatstroke in parked car in Niigata at 01:02 PM JST - 22nd June
Latenights at 10:18 AM JST - 22nd June

How about making it mandatory that all visible exits should be unlocked whenever such buildings are open to the public? Most of the time it's merely annoying that half the doors into departments stores are locked for no reason, but during an emergency it is deadly as people trapped inside…

Posted in Revised fire law obliges business managers to organize self-protection groups at 10:18 AM JST - 22nd June
Latenights at 04:25 PM JST - 29th May

All they have to do is disable the wireless mode and then claim the battery died, which it actually does, if you leave the wireless and GPS running all day.

How many PhDs got their heads together to come up with this nugget?

Posted in Tokyo university gives away iPhones to nab truants via GPS at 04:25 PM JST - 29th May
Latenights at 02:25 PM JST - 29th May

stirfry

I think you misread it... he killed a boy in 2003 and has been in a care facility ever since. Last September he was in transit between that facility and a halfway house when he went missing, and later claimed that he felt suicidal. He didn't kill anyone while…

Posted in Minor in 2003 Nagasaki murder went missing on way to foster parents at 02:25 PM JST - 29th May
Latenights at 02:18 PM JST - 29th May

Two of my female relatives have been treated for breast cancer, one for cervical cancer, and almost all of them have given birth. At no point have any of them been photographed by their respective doctors as part of their "proper medical practice". Unless a mammogram could somehow be misconstrued…

Posted in Obstetrician acquitted over obscene acts at 02:18 PM JST - 29th May
Latenights at 02:12 PM JST - 29th May

LFRAgain (@10:55)

Yes, I was also cynical about the timing of her book release, but considering that what she has to say makes a lot of sense, and she's apparently being censured by the government, I now think it would be a good idea for LOTS of Japanese people to…

Posted in Health official says flu quarantine checks at airports just for show at 02:12 PM JST - 29th May
Latenights at 11:24 PM JST - 22nd May

This sounds like another positive step on the inevitable path towards a complete overhaul of music, movie, picture and book licensing laws! The companies have to accept that the days of us suckers handing over cash for a piece of plastic containing a singe album or movie are dwindling away.…

Posted in All your movies on a single DVD at 11:24 PM JST - 22nd May
Latenights at 04:47 PM JST - 22nd May

This rule is insane on so many levels... First, it is blatant discrimination to refuse to back a candidate based on his or her heritage: imagine the outcry if the reverse were to be proposed - that a candidate could only run if a parent or grandparent had previously held…

Posted in LDP may put brake on hereditary candidacy from next general election at 04:47 PM JST - 22nd May
Latenights at 08:07 PM JST - 17th May

Noborito (and others): obliging foreign workers to join the national health insurance and pension schemes will have no impact on the companies employing them. Companies only pay contributions to the SOCIAL insurance and pension schemes, and then only for contracted "full-time" employees, which most eikaiwa and dispatch teachers are not.…

Posted in Proposed resident registry card for foreigners creates Big Brother concerns at 08:07 PM JST - 17th May