Riding Japan’s $36 First Class Vending Machine Train | Hinotori

Today we are going to be riding Japan's first-class Hinotori train from Osaka to Nagoya and enjoy the food from the hidden gem of Nagoya.

 

Japanese Train Crossing & Sunglasses Story ★ ONLY in JAPAN

 

When a train crossing meets an 18 meter tall Buddha statue 150 meters away, the scene comes together to make a very unique image. From the right angle, the horizontal red signals line up to make a pair of goggles or sunglasses for the Colossal Buddha of Hotei in Konan city near Nagoya along the Meitetsu Inuyama Line.

Wide View Express Train "Nanki" Kii-Katsuura to Nagoya, Japan

 

First time travel to Meiji (no butterflies were harmed)

 In this video I'm going to film Meiji era Japan in 4K 60p. And even go by SL (steam locomotive) train from Nagoya to Tokyo.

Meitetsu Ltd.Exp.(Shin Unuma～Nagoya～Toyohashi

Two Very Stupid Men Arrested Over False Coronavirus Claims

Believe it or not these two idiots aren't Trump supporters or rightwing conservatives who live in a world of conspiracy theories.   No these two idiots live in Japan. 

The first Darwin award winner nominee was on an aeroplane about to depart from Narita when he did this:

A man was arrested Friday on suspicion of obstructing business after he allegedly delayed a domestic flight in Japan on Thursday immediately before takeoff by telling cabin crew he was infected with the novel coronavirus.

Norihiro Kojima, 69, is suspected of delaying a Jetstar Japan flight scheduled to depart from Narita airport for over an hour and interfering with the business of the low-cost carrier after he told cabin crew around 4:05 p.m. on Thursday, "I have tested positive (for the virus) but it is okay."

Our second nominee was just a creative as the first. (Meaning just as stupid) When decided to do this:

Police in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, have arrested a 49-year-old man on suspicion of forcible obstruction of business after he coughed at two female employees in a drugstore, while yelling “I have the coronavirus.”

According to police, the incident occurred at 12:55 p.m. on Wednesday in the store in Tenpaku Ward, Sankei Shimbun reported. Police said Hirokazu Nakayama, a part-time worker, 49, coughed and blew his breath at two female employees and then yelled out that he was infected with the coronavirus. A store employee called police.

Neither one of these future Darwin award winners tested positive for covid19.

Japan has exceptionally low crime rates. But there's a dark side to its justice system.

As is pointed out in the article Japanese police and the public prosecutor rely upon confessions to solve crimes.  One of the most recent screw ups by the Tokyo Metropolitan  police involved a case where an individual had gain remote access of several computers and then posted online threats.  Three people were eventually detained two from Osaka and one from Nagoya.  After being held and questioned by the police for 23 days each confessed to the crime.  Even though none of them were responsible or had anything to do with the original crime.  Finally a person from Tokyo was arrested and confessed to being the actual perpetrator of the crime.

  Some suspects will falsely admit guilt just to end a stressful interrogation, and interrogations in Japan can be very stressful. Police and prosecutors may hold ordinary criminal suspects for up to 23 days without charge—longer than most other rich countries allow even terrorist suspects to be detained. Access to defence lawyers during this period is limited. In theory, suspects have the right to remain silent; but in practice prosecutors portray silence as evidence of guilt.Prosecutors put pressure on the police to extract confessions, and 23 days is plenty of time to extract one. Interrogators sometimes ram tables into a suspect, stamp on his feet or shout in his ears. Interviews can last for eight hours or more. Suspects are deprived of sleep and forced into physically awkward positions. Few people can withstand such treatment. "Not being able to sleep was the hardest for me," says Kazuo Ishikawa, who held out for 30 days before signing a confession he couldn’t read (he was illiterate at the time) to a murder he says he didn’t commit. He spent 32 years in prison and is still fighting to be exonerated.

In other words, Japan's criminal justice system is built to rely largely on confessions — confessions underpinned 89 percent of criminal prosecutions in 2014, the Economist found. And the lack of safeguards for suspects means the system often relies on falseconfessions.


In a court system without an adversarial approach to establish innocence and guilt, judges too rarely question whether confessions really are voluntary. Yet time and again innocent people have been shown to confess to crimes in the hope of a more lenient sentence—or simply to make the interrogation stop. In October a mother convicted of killing her daughter for the insurance money was released after a crime reconstruction proved her innocence. Last year Iwao Hakamada was freed after 46 years on death row when a judge declared that his conviction was unsafe (among other things, he appears to have been tortured at the time of his arrest). One lawyer estimates that a tenth of all convictions leading to prison are based on false confessions. It is impossible to know the true figure, but when 99.8% of prosecutions end in a guilty verdict, it is clear that the scales of justice are out of balance.

The Week That Was

China which 2 years ago claimed 90% of the South China sea continues to assert its svoengerty.  It's latest argument is that the feelings of its ancestors who died 1,000 years ago would be hurt. How, would  people who've been dead for 1,000 years ever know?


While the United States has finally started to confront the meaning of the Confederate Battle Flag of Northern Virginia another country has a flag problem.  Japan continues to use the Rising Sun flag even though many in Asia associate it with the war crimes committed by the Japanese Imperial Army.  Given the the historical pretzel hole the Liberal Democratic Party have twisted themselves into  don't think for a moment  these fools are ever going to change their minds.

There's a new sex symbol in Japan, no it's not the usual symbol.  So, why has this sex symbol drawn such a large following of women when he's not exactly a man of your dreams.  Is it his smoldering good looks,  his large physical presence or those eyes?  Who knows?  But, he certainly has a large following.