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"The EU Commission has finally proposed a solution: set your privacy preferences in the browser once, and never see another banner." Browser-based privacy controls were proposed in…

The idea that appetites are assigned at birth is a bold claim. Is there evidence to support it?

Well, you've reduced a rational position to absurdity here. The concern isn't that someone is going to require chemotherapy. The concern is that an asymptomatic condition will go u…

Japan has seen millennia of huge cultural shifts. Its strength is its ability to adapt and survive with some measure of continuity, even while embracing the new reality. Go watch s…

> "Hanshin, Hankyu, Kentetsu, Nankai" Also Keihan. And most, if not all, of these companies have huge land and real estate development projects generating non-rail income all up an…

Something doesn't add up. The entire Japanese healthcare system is built around the idea that preventative testing for asymptomatic conditions is effective. You can read all about …

I don't think there's much difference? The technicians that perform the tests are not doctors. You usually see a doc for 5 mins at the end, to discuss any anomalies. Even then, the…

This doesn't hold up for me in Japan. My apartment is in a building that's 10 years old now, and I've been here since it was new. Japan famously builds for a 20-ish-year depreciati…

Insurance companies dislike paying for procedures instead of passively collecting premiums. Not sure how you missed that.

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Are you joking? 人間ドック is absolutely more than a "health checkup". Maybe do some reading: https://medical.kameda.com/general/en/ningendock/what/ > The Ningen Dock is a comprehensive…

Rather than dealing with the issue—hypochondriacs or whatever—you prefer to remove the option for the non-hypochondriacs? The fact that doctors like your wife think that people who…

In Japan, the government gives everyone a battery of full body tests at least once per year. I guess you know better than Japan, right? The whole argument that "you'll worry yourse…

How brainwashed by the healthcare machine do you have to be to think that catching asymptomatic medical issues is a bad thing? The argument against is literally: - patients will wo…

"What possible use could there be for doing this?" I've encountered this attitude before, and I always find it perplexing that there are people who are annoyed by, even hostile to,…

Have you visited literally any city outside Japan or Singapore lately? Law and order works, whether you like it or not. They're allowed to do it their way. Results speak for themse…

Charges were dropped does not mean innocent. It means the investigation determined that the case wasn't worth pursuing. Japan has strict rules about importing drugs. The lack of dr…

As if that was ever the goal. Japan is plenty popular.

We're not talking about the US. We're talking about Japan, where the authorities are extremely conservative and cautious. Most Japanese people know how to stay completely clear of …

This is just bias confirmation theater for a certain worldview.

Oh, also, "Made in Japan" is a huge deal for a lot of people in Japan.

This is almost certainly a Japanese product for Japanese people/companies who will give it to other Japanese people as a GIFT. Japan has a never-ending gifting protocol. People buy…

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No one is going to get mad at you for violating these, but they will judge you. If you're trying to get along with a person from a proper Japanese family, you'll fail unless you kn…

No functional difference whatsoever. Literally the exact same solution, but somehow dressed up to be contrarian.