JR East says it will begin introducing one-person operation trains on major Tokyo metropolitan lines from next spring. The main reason is staff shortages. Conductors, chiefly responsible for announcements and door operation, will be re-assigned. www3.nhk.or.jp/shutoken-news…
Snow finally on Mt. Fuji but only on the Shizuoka side. Still nothing on the Yamanashi side.
富士山やっと雪化粧 静岡側で積雪確認 山梨側からは確認できず
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甲府地方気象台による初冠雪の発表はありません。
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The mountain area of Kaneyamacho in Fukushima has seen its first newborn in 52 years. yomiuri.co.jp/national/20241…
Among the hometown tax (ふるさと納税) gifts in Fukuoka City, are novelty hats by a local food sample maker. They include wagyudon, tonkotsu ramen, gyoza and unajyu versions. fukuoka-furusato.jp/
Kazuo Umezu, one of the best-known exponents of the horror manga genre, has passed away at 88. www3.nhk.or.jp/shutoken-news…
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I knew a girl that broke up with her boyfriend because he couldn’t read the word 白菜at the supermarket, said Shirona instead of Hakusai
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Rock and Sole Plaice
£24-25 for a large piece of fish
£7.5 pint Camden Hells Lager
£32 give or take 50p + 12.5% discretionary service charge =£36 +/-
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Fish & chips with a beer in London at £36 (¥7,000) is causing shrieks online. London is certainly expensive but that seems an outlier. A beer and that plate would usually be more like £20-26 (¥4-5,000 yen). Malins in Tokyo charges ¥2-2,500 and ¥800 for an Asahi.
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Years ago a Aussie mate of mine was dating a Japanese girl. At McDonalds one day in Osaka he ordered a hamburger but without pickles or onions. She broke up with him saying he should accept things as they are presented to him 😀
On the Yomiuri Hatsugen Komachi site, a woman said her boyfriend dumped her because of the way she held her chopsticks and pens (that's not her in the picture). The comments seemed to come down in favour of the boyfriend. yomiuri.co.jp/otekomachi/202…
Some respondents say they also had poor chopstick technique into adulthood but decided to relearn. Often because they came to realize that people thought badly of their parents when seeing how they ate with chopsticks.




















