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Can you name a European city that has anything approaching the homeless problem of SF, Seattle or NYC?

The agreement is about "property and claims" between the two states. Of course, individuals can and have sued various Japanese entities, some successfully.

> Zainichi Koreans of any generation are not citizens That's a bit of a tautology: if they nationalize, which they can if they wish to, they become citizens and stop being counted …

Japan and South Korea signed an agreement in 1965 that was supposed to settle all financial claims. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_Basic_Relations_betw...

Actually, Japan has apologized repeatedly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_war_apology_statements... However, Japan has more than its fair share of far-right fruitcakes who d…

Historically, Korea was repeatedly invaded by Japan. More recently, Korea was a Japanese colony between 1910 and 1945, during which the Japanese ruled with an iron fist and did the…

Both countries have low birthrates, but Japan is far enough along the labor shortage curve that unemployment has been essentially eradicated in Japan. From the friendly article: Ac…

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Variable, but generally worse. It's much more tightly censored than Wikipedia: for example, edits are manually reviewed by admins before going live. Also, most community features (…

They generally cannot, which is why so many users resort to high-risk, high-reward ways to make money like prostitution, theft, etc.

Because their site is relevant to the question asked?

Melbourne is a mecca of coffee snobbery, and most locals wouldn't be caught dead in a Starbucks. (Although you need to try pretty hard even to find one.)

Lavish and impressive is also relative. Your original statement about "these things are all rather unimpressive to those that actually have them within reach" is tautological: havi…

It's all relative. I spent six years at university without ever taking a single taxi and I still consider Uber rides a luxury, because I can also take the bus for a quarter of the …

Australia is a stupidly uncompetitive place to manufacture anything. A friend of mine is managing a (rare!) factory expansion in Sydney right now, and costs of all inputs (rent, la…

The cloud market is pretty darn huge, why are you dismissing it? Aside from the public cloud vendors, containers are very much a thing in the private cloud space too (OpenShift, Pi…

Look at the photo, it's hard to describe that as anything but a barrel: https://dynaimage.cdn.cnn.com/cnn/q_auto,w_634,c_fill,g_auto... In particular, it lacks any conventional boa…

Laws in Australia are already pretty loose: medical marijuana is permitted on a federal level (although in many places the legal hoops required to get a prescription are absurd) an…

The Rising Sun flag remains the flag of the Japanese Navy to this day, and is appropriate to fly on any occasion where you'd fly a Navy flag. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rising_S…

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One factor not discussed in the article is the differing attitude towards exports, piracy and copy protection. Historically, and even today, it's extremely difficult to legally vie…

This appears to be at least in part a reaction to the backlogs at service centers described in the original article: With hundreds of thousands more Teslas hitting the road, all th…

Since the name of founder Takafumi Horie may not ring many bells outside a Japanese audience, let's just say he's a colorful character: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takafumi_Horie…

Did a bit of a double-take when I saw the large "18+" image: apparently this is a reference to having "18+ products", but that's not what "18+" means in much of Asia.