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Changed my profile name since the eBay store is not the priority it once was(thanks corona!); it was also restrictive in what I thought would be appropriate to post on a “gaming feed”. Hopefully you’ll see more of what I like on here, so deal with it 😜

@retrogameboyz I knew about the map screens and more animation in the BG, but why the change in the rocks/ground is what I’m thinking about

Can you point out all the differences?

@RGIII Dudes were on double secret probation and didn’t know it

A High School was ROBBED of a State Championship The Mallard Creek boys track and field team was disqualified for taunting because Ngannou Brown raised his hand before crossing the line to win the 4x400m relay. THIS ISN’T TAUNTING OR UNSPORSTMANLIKE

@4amlaundry It was Japan only from the mid 90’s, and they made it look western on purpose- you can find the commercials on YouTube youtu.be/MqYI1ADrgA0?si…

Why is Pepsi Man stuff always in English but most people in the west say they never heard of it back in the day? Like most of the stuff I find is never in Japanese except for that one PS1 game.

@japan_nobunaga And in the US, the reason why people have the national flag out:

My hands are shaking writing this. A small Japanese flag, the size of a paperback book, tied to the bumper of a city bus on a Japanese national holiday in 2026. And online, someone is calling it "discriminatory." A flag. A bus. A national holiday. In Japan. In Paris, the tricolor covers every boulevard on July 14. Nobody calls it discriminatory. In Texas, every porch flies the Stars and Stripes on July 4. Nobody calls it discriminatory. In London, the Union Jack drapes Buckingham Palace for the King. Nobody calls it discriminatory. Only here. Only our flag. Only on our own holidays, on our own buses, on our own quiet streets. I keep asking how we got here. I do not have an answer. That flag is not too loud. The shame trying to silence it is.

@mrjeffu So, similar to how they do baseball and basketball in Japan? Don’t other countries also do something similar?

Japan's top tier professional rugby league has introduced new rules that treat naturalized Japanese citizens who didn't grow up in Japan like they are second class citizens. To qualify as a "A1" Japanese player, a person has to have spent six of their nine years of compulsory education in Japan, or be born in Japan or have parents or grandparents born in Japan. Teams can field as many A1 players as they want. Many of the naturalized players currently in Japan will be categorized "A2" Japanese players and face limits that will reduce their opportunities to play. It is common in Japan for elite rugby high schools to recruit promising athletes from abroad, who then go on to play at university and professional levels. Others move to Japan as adults to play at the professional level. Up until now, if they met the requirements for Japanese citizenship and naturalized, they were treated the same as other Japanese players. The A2 category looks like it was created to target players like this and limit their participation in pro games. Veteran players such as Lomano Lemeki, who moved to Japan at age 19 to play professional rugby, became Japanese citizens, and later played on Japan's national team, are speaking out against the new rules.

If you’re not on team Kuniko, we can no longer be friends 🤪

March 11, 2011. 2:46 PM. 33 Shinkansen bullet trains were running through northern Japan. Several were moving at 300 km/h. Then the earthquake hit. Magnitude 9.1. The 4th largest ever recorded. Epicenter: off the Sanriku coast, 130 km ESE of the Oshika Peninsula. Every single train stopped safely. Zero passenger injuries. Here's what happened. 12 to 22 seconds before the violent shaking reached the tracks, a seismometer on Kinkazan — a small island off Japan's Pacific coast — detected the quake and sent a signal inland. The signal traveled faster than the earthquake itself. Power to the tracks was cut. Every train in the zone automatically braked. By the time the ground started shaking violently, the trains were already slowing down. One empty test train derailed at Sendai Station. Not a single train in service derailed. The Shinkansen has been running since 1964. In 60 years, it has killed zero passengers — not in a collision, not in a derailment. Zero. Most people stop reading here. The real story starts now. Japan built this safety system in two layers, for two different problems. First: UrEDAS — the Urgent Earthquake Detection and Alarm System. Invented in the early 1980s, deployed on the Tokaido Shinkansen in 1992. The world's first operational P-wave warning system for trains. Its seismometers sit along the coast, listening for earthquakes out at sea. When one hits, the system reads the first 3 seconds of P-wave motion, estimates the magnitude and location, and sends a warning inland to the tracks. Second: Compact UrEDAS. Built after the 1995 Kobe earthquake, which struck directly beneath a city with almost no warning. When the earthquake happens directly under the train, there's no time to calculate anything. So Compact UrEDAS asks one question: "Is this shaking dangerous?" It answers in about 1 second. Both systems end the same way. They cut the power. The Shinkansen is built so that the moment it loses power, emergency brakes engage automatically. The driver makes no decision. There's no time to. A 300 km/h Shinkansen takes about 90 seconds to stop. No warning system in the world buys you 90 seconds. The goal isn't to stop the train before the earthquake arrives. The goal is for the train to be slowing down when it does. This is the part foreign coverage misses. The goal isn't to prevent the accident. The goal is to make the accident survivable. In-service Shinkansen have derailed twice in 60 years. 2004. Niigata Chuetsu earthquake. A trackside Compact UrEDAS detected the P-wave. Power was cut one second later. Emergency brakes engaged 1.5 seconds after that. But the earthquake was directly beneath the train, which was moving at 204 km/h. 8 of 10 cars derailed. The train skidded 1.6 km before stopping. 154 passengers on board. Zero injuries. 2022. M7.4 off Fukushima. A Shinkansen traveling at 320 km/h detected the first tremor and began braking. As the train decelerated toward a stop, a second, stronger quake (M7.4) hit. 16 of the 17 cars derailed. 75 passengers. 3 crew. Zero deaths. No serious injuries. Two other derailments involved empty trains. 2011, Sendai Station, a test train. 2016, Kumamoto earthquake, a transit train. In every case, the warning system had already cut the power before the shaking reached its peak. The system does not stop earthquakes. It does not always stop derailments. It just makes sure the earthquake arrives after the train is already slow. Japan's earthquakes and Japan's trains grew up in the same country, watching the same ground. Somewhere in Japan right now, a Shinkansen is moving at 300 kilometers per hour. Far away, on a quiet coast, a sensor is listening to the rock beneath it. It has been listening since 1992. Every time it was needed, it worked.

@Oyinkansol73072 That house has a lot of fish tanks

Am not sure this is boy normal,you need to watch this🍿🎬😂

@mrjeffu Before the “crisis” I was getting 130/liter at Costco, it did go up to like 170 but today it was 143. By the way, a couple of months ago it was 150, so take that for what it’s worth

Prime Minister Takaichi has assured the Japanese people that together with 8 months of oil reserves and the securing of alternative suppliers, Japan will have the oil that it needs to function. (But will prices go up?)

Women think they are the best thing in their man's life

@CafeLearner I gave one Japanese company 3 weeks notice; one employee there threatened me-said I’m gonna have to talk to a lawyer…. The next week the boss asked me if I would stay on in a part-time role(which I declined). About a year or so later this company was out of business

Quitting a job in Japan is way more complicated than just giving 2 weeks notice. Legally? Yeah, 2 weeks is fine. Reality? Your company expects 1-2 months notice minimum. Because • You need to train your replacement • Handover documentation takes forever • They need time to redistribute your work • It’s about not “causing trouble” for the team Some companies even have it written in the contract that you need to give 1 or 2 months notice (legally unenforceable but still). Then there’s the whole resignation letter ritual, multiple “are you sure?” meetings with HR. Just mentally prepare for it to be a whole process, not a quick exit. #WorkingInJapan #JapanJobs #QuittingInJapan #CorporateJapan #ExpatLife

@mrjeffu There’s one if these churches near my house. We’ll see if anything changes

Japan has "dissolved" the Unification Church, but: •Tenchi Seikyo, a legally separate religion that many consider a UC affiliate, will inherit some of the church's assets. There is concern it might become the UC under a new name, with tax-free status.

@marugen17 Let’s goooooo! I’ll try to go as well-it’s only a 90 minute bullet train ride away from me🤘

Oh my gosh oh my goooosh!! I had already given up a long time ago, but Maiden is coming to JAPAAAAAAAN🤘😎🤘 This is going to be my first time experience their greatest hits type concert!!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊

@toshanshuinLA Go to your happy place!

i’ve been way too negative lately so just gonna note i’m going to japan again exactly 15 weeks from today yayyyyyy~~

多分みんな全く知らないと思うんだけど ロングバケーションってキムタクと山口智子のドラマがあって 放送当時観てなくて、今日ロンバケかぁーそういややってたなーくらいの気持ちで見始めたけど、超おもしれーじゃん みんな知らないと思うからオススメします Netflixにあるよ

@loganofangirl22 If you’re not drunk at a Nascar race, you’re doing it wrong-this is from a guy who last went to a nascar race when he was 18 years old….

that Jose Cuervo had me in a tight grip

@CafeLearner I just started working HR last year for my Japanese company. The stories I could tell!

I'm currently in charge of all HR matters for foreign staff in the English education department at my company, and a lot of things happen every day. My position is in between the foreign and Japanese staff, so I can understand the way both sides think. However, no matter what happens, it's important that both sides ultimately come to a compromise. Personally, I believe that as long as we basically follow the company rules and show respect for others, most problems can be resolved. However, this can be difficult😳

The All Japan battle van!

@Game_Over9891 もちろん！

このカッコいいロゴ見たことある人🤚

Dale Earnhardt knew what he was doing