Doctor X wrote: ↑Sun Oct 31, 2021 10:08 am
Coverage came in the form of polls — Aera dot. reported in March that 97.6% of people surveyed were opposed to the nuptials — and by way of unwarranted comparisons — Daily Shincho pit the 30-year-old Komuro against the commoner husband of Mako’s aunt, Sayako Kuroda, noting that Yoshiki Kuroda had a respectable job working for the Tokyo Metropolitan Government when he wed a royal. Meanwhile, Komuro’s bar exam results are still pending. Who knew that marrying a future lawyer could be considered a bad thing?Looking at you, shuize.
Fuck, she should have asked, I could have told her that.
The LDP won the latest election last night, and have a comfortable majority. They lost a few seats compared to last time, but still secured easily more than half. https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20211101_250/
The other news there was an attack on a train last night:
17 hurt as knife-wielding man in costume starts fire on Tokyo train
The guy was supposedly dressed in a Joker costume.
Police arrested a 24-year-old man, who was wearing a costume similar to the Joker character from the Batman comics.
The attack happened as many people headed for Halloween parties. Witnesses say the suspect sprayed a clear liquid around the carriage and set it alight.
Video footage showed passengers running through carriages away from flames and clambering out of train windows.
The attack happened at around 20:00 local time (11:00 GMT) near Kokuryo station, in the city's western suburbs. Eyewitnesses said the suspect was wearing a bright purple and green suit.
"I thought it was a Halloween stunt," one witness told the Yomiuri newspaper about the attack. "Then, I saw a man walking this way, slowly waving a long knife."
Komuro’s name was not found on the latest pass list released by the exam’s organizer Friday, days after their marriage.
Komuro has already started working as a law clerk at a legal firm in New York after graduating from Fordham University’s law school with a Juris Doctor degree in May. He took the bar examination in July.
Of the 9,227 people who took the test, 5,791 passed, according to the examination board.
Those wishing to sit the February exam must submit an application during November.
Read by the Waifu of the People Who Run the Country
Doctor X wrote: ↑Mon Nov 01, 2021 4:13 pm
Meanwhile . . . in the Japanese Honeymoon Land:
Komuro’s name was not found on the latest pass list released by the exam’s organizer Friday, days after their marriage.
Komuro has already started working as a law clerk at a legal firm in New York after graduating from Fordham University’s law school with a Juris Doctor degree in May. He took the bar examination in July.
Of the 9,227 people who took the test, 5,791 passed, according to the examination board.
Those wishing to sit the February exam must submit an application during November.
Read by the Waifu of the People Who Run the Country
– J.D.
That 80% pass rate Japanese media keeps using must be for first time takers.
As a side note, US News and World Report ranks Fordham #35 in the country (i.e. second tier) with tuition approximately $65,000 per year.
I think KK only did a one year LL.M., but I could be wrong.
Suicides rose in Japan last year, but only among women:
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14473702
A surge in suicides by women in 2020 fueled the first rise in Japan's total number of suicides in 11 years, according to government data.
A total of 7,026 women took their own lives in Japan in 2020, 935 more than in 2019.
Many of the women were nonregular workers, who were the most vulnerable when Japan's employment environment worsened due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“The work environment deteriorated due to the coronavirus pandemic, contributing to an increase in suicides (of women),” the welfare ministry said in its white paper for 2021 on suicide prevention in Japan.
The white paper received Cabinet approval on Nov. 2.
A total of 21,081 people in Japan killed themselves in 2020, accounting for 912 more, or 4.5 percent higher than in 2019, according to the white paper.
Of the total, 14,055 men took their own lives, a decrease of 23, or 0.2 percent less than in 2019.
In contrast, 15.4 percent more women took their own lives in 2020, the first rise in two years.
As the article notes, suicides, famously high in Japan, had been falling recently, over the last decade.
Hotarubi wrote: ↑Sun Nov 14, 2021 7:57 pm
Just noticed Hakuhō Shō retired.
Was there a national day or mourning or a celebration that the Mongorrian bastah had got out of the way at last.
I did read a bit on that. Let's see if I can find that article again . . .
I think this is it: Sumo fights hard to muzzle era-defining former yokozuna Hakuho
Here's another one: SUMO/ Hakuho can take stablemaster name if he agrees to toe the line
I don't follow sumo very closely anymore. For a few years I did. Kinda got troubled by the darker side of it, and decided that there were better things for me to spend my limited attention on. But Hakuho is arguably the greatest Yokozuna ever, certainly if you go by number of championships won. Maybe not everyone's favorite, but it's hard to argue with his results.