Good point, that encompasses transcendent people that have become concepts

There are people who don’t identify as people

Someone’s going to complain that this is binary. Should be “Whatever”

Japanese restaurant owned by Korean people?

It’s actually hard to believe that the other 67% do not experience anxiety in life

It was extremely underwhelming but I don’t regret it

Holy shit, isn’t she cold?

People at the C-level are not hired by workers but by shareholders. Their interests are not always consistent with workers so even if they see a company go bankrupt they will still be judged by how much money was made leading up to that point. Of course if every company they become a CEO of immediately dies then that will draw negative attention from shareholders and will not lead to better paying positions

The only scenario I see for these islands to officially become exclusively part of Japan is if there is direct conflict between Russia and the US and Russia is put in a position where it has no choice but to cede the islands, first to the US and then to Japan from there. This is extremely unlikely to occur and even if it does it’s not like Japan will have great plans for the islands. They will mostly likely become US military bases, like in Okinawa but cold and miserable

No, that’s not normal and very much an anomaly. I’ve worked in Japan for the last 15+ years

Even during the doped up bubble economy days it was just the rich people being very visible overseas. Most of my Japanese relatives never left the country during the 80’s. The thing is Japan never really had much of the lower middle-class travellers who are willing to make some major compromises on their travels

I never said anything about it being a choice

Makes sense although lack of holidays isn’t really an excuse since we actually do have many. All your other points makes sense though. If Japan was accessible by land I bet a lot more people would have passports

Yet, so few Japanese people are interested in traveling overseas using their powerful passport. And this isn’t something that started with COVID. Only around 20% of Japanese people are passport holders and for many an overseas business trip is their first overseas experience. I suppose it’s sort of logical as Japan’s powerful passport is due to the safety and stability of the country and to many Japanese people traveling overseas, regardless of destination, is considered a safety risk

Japan would still exist. After all, South Korea, The Philippines and Mexico, exist. Beyond Europe I think it would be difficult to wipe out entire cultures

It’s an interesting part of Japanese and Christian history. If it weren’t for the strict outlawing of foreign religions maybe Japan would have been a stronghold for Catholicism like South Korea and The Philippines

It’s good for when you purchased raw goods but your flight isn’t leaving for a while or you want to shop more but you can’t carry more

They have these at some department stores as well. Good for when you don’t want to carry around lots of heavy frozen goods with you as you shop

If you remove the native cuisine from each city it will become a completely different report and make international comparisons useless. The point of this is to show how dominating Asian restaurants (and running restaurants) are in Asia

I mean, it shows that Phoenix has more Mexican restaurants than American, so you can’t really make an assumption. You also need to leave in all the statistics to figure out things like how exactly dominating the native cuisine is compared to all others and such

Sort of interesting how BBQ is its own category since a BBQ restaurant in Atlanta, Bologna, Osaka or Bangalore are all going to look and taste quite different from each other

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I don’t think precise comparison is the point here anyway

It’s stacked. This way it really emphasizes how many warheads there were in the world in total during the Cold War era