Yup. Unless it’s a major Japanese holiday period there will always be places to stay.

I don’t think so. The bigger problem is a lot of people bought residential properties to live in with their families, and now there’s a hotel next door to them. Even before this law a lot of properties were banning owners/renters from allowing people to rent their rooms as minpaku.

I saw a lot of bitching about this on Twitter, but there’s tons of cheap hotels available even after this move. Plenty of Minshuku around, too (those are basically smaller family-run hotels). Rakuten travel is also helping owners of minpaku to get registered properly.

I used to live a few blocks from the Menil Museum and nobody walked there. All car, all the time baby!

What unwritten rule was broken here? A 5 run lead is nothing, is the team with the lead supposed to stop trying to score?

I realize there’s a price disparity due to it being somewhat rare and imported, but the Akashi Single Malt is less than $35 in Japan. Good value!

Counterpoint: Leading the AL West despite basically every batter hitting markedly worse than last year. Will that continue all season? I don’t think so.

Basically everywhere else I’ve been in the world manages to handle airport security much more humanely, efficiently than the US. I fly Japanese domestic through Haneda frequently, it’s one of the world’s busiest airports and it’s never a hassle. Can’t say the same for how the TSA runs the show in the US - it should be…

Zima never went away in Japan! You can and always could buy one.

It’s not chopped ham, it’s chopped steak! And nothing is better on a steak than A-1.

So why do you need a Switch? Play one of the other systems and the thousands of games already released. Cheaper, too.

Well play on your 3DS then! Do you just simply need to play the same game on every console you own? If you can play it on one you own already, what exactly is your complaint?

According to the comments here so far, not putting NES games on the Switch for the 83rd time is a knife in the back that will never be forgiven. So, apparently it’s super critical.

Seriously? Play any number of the hundreds of new games on the system.

I fly quite a bit, mostly longer flights, and I don’t think I’ve ever used a power outlet on a plane. Nap, read on my Kindle, play a game, nap, movie, nap.

Got my feet propped up on a Noguchi table now.

Got my feet propped up on a Noguchi table now.

It’s super duper common in Japan. One of the top 5 most common nigiri sushi, for sure. Not an American thing.

Believe me, there were plenty here in Japan when he started as a pro who said he should be choosing batting or pitching for his future and to stop messing around with both. It took him dominating as a pitcher, hitting the hell out of the ball as a DH and occasionally as an outfielder to finally shut that talk up.

For what it’s worth I read the book after watching the movie and loved it. I was just so-so on the movie.

Heh, it’s more like 2x that!