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Sorry for the ignorance but what's an order drop?
A dip in the rate of orders being placed, often signifying some part of the checkout flow having slowed or broken.
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You mean in the land of the yakuza?
I don't know what you're trying to imply here? Yakuza aren't know for guns or political assassinations.
I imagine this will be front page. It would be nice if the link could be changed to a non-paywalled site. I recommend The Guardian though I’m mostly indifferent: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/08/shinzo-abe-for...
The Guardian’s reporting has had a distinct lean as of late. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/may/14/poisoned-legac...
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Guns are completely illegal there. Like you could point one at the average cop and it's so unthinkable that you'd have a real one they'd assume it was a toy. I think you might be onto something with the Yakuza, could be foreign activity as well.
Says elsewhere it was a hunting shotgun, which isn't impossible to own.
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"Safest countries in the world" is casting a pretty wide net. Yes, there are hundreds of countries worse. What is your point? Remove those worst countries and the US and it is pretty average compared to richer countries in the world.
My goodness, what is your point? Japan is unequivocally one of the safest countries in the world. This is a well-known fact and you can look it up yourself if you need a source. Top 10, there ya go. I mean, really, what an odd opinion to stand beside.
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While the gun laws are strict, you can get a licence for hunting or sport. Requirements include testing, demonstration of safe usage, separate safes for gun and ammunition and possible random police checks on your gun and storage. Shotguns are most common. Rifles are rarer but possible with a history of ownership of a shotgun.
Sure, but I assume this wasn't out in the countryside either. I can't imagine it would be easy to get close with a shotgun or rifle.
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It’s aways complicated to look back at economic policies and come out with simple summaries, but the picture is in my opinion a tad darker than described. He was a pretty polarizing figure and “Abenomics” is used more as a cynically jab than praise in most public interventions we hear. For reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abenomics#Results
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A dip in the rate of orders being placed, often signifying some part of the checkout flow having slowed or broken.
So OnCall is mandatory for Amazon engineers and you will literally get paged just because some stat drops, not that it goes to 0? And there's no human in the loop for a basic sanity check? Sounds awful
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He hasn't been pronounced dead, but they are saying it seems he has no vital signs (心肺停止か).
In Japan people are officially declared dead in hospital. The media will often report clearly dead people as being in a state of "carido-pulmonary arrest".
> 警察当局によりますと、安倍元総理大臣は、救急搬送される際には意識があり、呼びかけにも応じていたということです。
> 政府関係者はNHKの取材に対し「意識はなく容態はかなり悪いという報告を現場から受けている」と話しています。
But if he still hasn't reached hospital, it seems pretty dire. It seems very possible he's already died.
EDIT: And now the government is saying they don't know his current condition[1]:
> 松野官房長官は総理大臣官邸で記者団に対し「安倍元総理大臣の容態は現在のところ不明で、引き続き確認中だ」と述べました。
[1]: https://twitter.com/nhk_news/status/1545258464179535872
The most surprising thing here is that he was shot. How does someone even get a gun in Japan? Number two is he’s the exPM, so what would shooting him gain?