Lol people absolutely meet like that at big events in Japan.  Half of my friends are people I’ve met like that.

Oh no no, people are always rushing up the empty space on escalators in Japan. A lot of people run through train stations, too, and the average walking pace in stations is far higher than in the US.

I’m not a woman, but almost every one of my foreign woman friends in Japan prefers life in Japan to living overseas.  Certainly Japanese women (in my experience) tend to view Japan as a much safer country than say the US.  FWIW.

Nobody is disputing that Japan WAS and in many places still IS quite ethnically homogeneous, so please keep your strawmans out of this discussion.

An increase of 30% in 6 years is a LOT. Any way you spin it. I realize other countries are higher but this is a big change for Japan. Tokyo in total is pushing 4% foreign residents and several wards are over 10% - Shinjuku is about 12% as of last year.

Nepal and Vietnam are the biggest contributors recently.

Have you BEEN to Japan lately?  It’s not the US but in the last 5 years especially there are SO many immigrants.  

Why’s that?  Lots of long term residents from all ethnic backgrounds, and even citizens.  Japan’s far more welcoming than some would have you believe.

I do this, but I like taking pictures of nice food is why, and I don’t particularly like hot food.  Don’t care about likes etc either.

Is paying your friends in cash just Not A Thing in the US anymore? That’s what I always did when I lived there.

Twice is very different indeed - wouldn’t say they are domestic oriented only as they are one of the few K-Pop girl groups to make a pretty big ripple in Japan, and they are ubiquitous all over SE Asia (as is Momoland). I think part of that is deliberately including members from other countries - was strange last…

Great weather, Miami??? Sure if you like hot and humid. And you better, cuz that's all you're getting.

Yup. I'm An Old and have no probs with this.

I wouldn’t be able to communicate with most of my friends with those sorts of rules. Lots of ones where I live have vastly different schedules to mine, and my family is all overseas.

Why not?  I haven’t heard a single golf fan who isn’t cheering for him.  For our generation, Tiger is golf.

Right?  She’s still so young.

I don’t actually know who this person is as I don’t have kids, but why is it bizarre?  A lot of older performers market their work towards very young children.

They can’t strike and they can’t collectively bargain in Texas.  It’s not a union in any meaningful sense of the word.  Dipshit.

Lol, a union member, in Texas????  I don’t think so.

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