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It’s almost impossible to lose anything in Japan

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Re: It’s almost impossible to lose anything in Japan

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Post by antifa »

cute_boi wrote: post #39
axiolite wrote: post #5

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Japan has a strong culture of pacifism too. What happened 80 years ago doesn't change the facts on the ground, today.

But, they still don't acknowledge the crime and are oblivious to the situation. I see this as hypocrisy. I remember the following punch line from one of Japan's anime :). "To protect the world, we must accept our sins and our accompanying ruin."

Most countries with atrocities in their past under-acknowledge their atrocities while simultaneously over-acknowledge the atrocities of their competitors.

Re: It’s almost impossible to lose anything in Japan

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Post by Shadonototra »

abeppu wrote: post #32
bombcar wrote: post #14

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I feel like Japan is not the country that will invade Taiwan next. But ... maybe some Japanese propagandist/marketer wants there to be a crowd ready when the border reopens to tourists.

japan only exist so nato can push a western presence in SEA, just like south korea, hence why they are being 'westernized'

USA prepare its pawns for china, the pacific will be remembered as a radioactive bloodbath in future history books

there, my theory as to why we get lot of propaganda lately

Re: It’s almost impossible to lose anything in Japan

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Post by Lascaille »

jacquesm wrote: post #78
Lascaille wrote: post #56

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And where did you come from, all of 24 days ago? Really, I don't think it is up to you to tell other visitors of HN that they should go away.

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Re: It’s almost impossible to lose anything in Japan

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Post by brabel »

hohoemi8 wrote: post #70
brabel wrote: post #62

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> “it must have been a Korean.” Everybody here is basically making the point that Japanese are extremely unlikely to keep items they find, which is basically as racist as saying "other nationalities are more likely to keep stuff", except that in this particular case, the person singled out a particular nationality instead of generalizing - I find generalizing the whole rest of the world even worse than doing that.

>which is basically as racist as saying "other nationalities are more likely to keep stuff" You can call it racist if you want but it's absolutely true.

That's the thing with racism: you can't just pick and choose what you believe is ok or not. Is it ok to say japanese people are less intelligent? If not, why is it ok to say they are more intelligent?

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Post by noasaservice »

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My nephew is a police officer in the US. The vast majority of his day is dealing with drunks, overdoses, domestic violence, traffic violations and broken down vehicles.

My own anecdote:

I used to attend a nearby hackerspace. One day, out behind the building, we see a desktop tower machine thrown in there. Obviously, we're curious.

We power it up, and it actually boots Win98. We do a cursory look around, and see on the desktop that this is a local general practitioner's machine with LOADS of medical records. All unencrypted, naturally.

I try to call an insurance company of an insurance that this doctor took. I got confusion, initially. So the next day, I took it to the police station. Transferred custody of the machine, or so I thought.

Maybe 10m after that, I got a call from the security team at the insurance company, asking where the machine was and thanking me for reporting it. I told them the officer and the station I delivered it to.

Turns out, that pig stole the machine, never put it into custody, and was going to keep it for himself. I found out later that the insurance company pressed charges against the pig, and finally got it back.

That was an example of me trying to be ethical and upstanding, and seeing how cops really run their day to day business.

Re: It’s almost impossible to lose anything in Japan

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Post by kenneth »

rgovostes wrote: post #12

Outside many establishments in Japan you will find an umbrella rack full of nearly identical translucent white umbrellas (the style sold for a few hundred yen at any convenience store). Many of these have been inadvertently left behind, the rain having stopped while the owner was inside. Once I found myself in the reverse situation, sitting in a friend's bar when a downpour started. I asked him if I could take one of…

In Hong Kong it's common for bars to always have extra leftover umbrellas that were left behind. As a regular they'd always just give me one if I got caught out in the rain. I've also left umbrellas out countless times. It's all an inadvertent pay it forward scheme

Re: It’s almost impossible to lose anything in Japan

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Post by abeppu »

lovemenot wrote: post #34
abeppu wrote: post #32

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I feel like Japan is not the country that will invade Taiwan next. But ... maybe some Japanese propagandist/marketer wants there to be a crowd ready when the border reopens to tourists.

Pre-covid, the majority of tourists were from China and East Asia in general. Given their need to isolate upon re-entry, not many of these will be returning very soon.

All the more reason to invest in English language material, right?

Re: It’s almost impossible to lose anything in Japan

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Post by anuraaga »

These articles seem to always leave out that if you turn in an item you are legally entitled to a finder's fee from the owner based on the value of the lost item.

Security cameras are also plentiful and we'll staffed.

It feels good to call this a matter of morals but incentivizing return and fear of being caught by a camera are not quite morals, but on the bright side would be more easy to reproduce in other countries given interest.

Re: It’s almost impossible to lose anything in Japan

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Post by _cs2017_ »

Aeolun wrote: post #59
_cs2017_ wrote: post #31

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In my experience, in major American cities, anything valuable left in plain view in a car is stolen within 30 minutes (and that requires breaking the car window or picking the lock). But you're saying that things dropped on the ground will not be stolen, and instead returned to the nearest police station if only there was one not too far? Could you provide any arguments or evidence to support your claim?

It’s not really something you prove. The stats speak for themselves right? Anecdotaly, we’ve lost bags, bottles, wallets and phones, and everything has (so far) been returned. Even a missing hat that had travelled all the way down to the end of the train line. I also left our $200 Strider unattended in the park for several hours, you really don’t think about it too much.

Was all of that in major US cities?

Also when you refer to the stats, which particular statistics do you mean?

Re: It’s almost impossible to lose anything in Japan

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Post by niconii »

_cs2017_ wrote: post #89
Aeolun wrote: post #59

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It’s not really something you prove. The stats speak for themselves right? Anecdotaly, we’ve lost bags, bottles, wallets and phones, and everything has (so far) been returned. Even a missing hat that had travelled all the way down to the end of the train line. I also left our $200 Strider unattended in the park for several hours, you really don’t think about it too much.

Was all of that in major US cities? Also when you refer to the stats, which particular statistics do you mean?

I'm pretty sure they're talking about Japan, not the US.
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