Organized Criminal Organization

Punch the   monkey kind  of went  viral he  got famous  because he  was   abandoned by  his   mother

and the   zoo keepers  gave him  this like  orange   orangutan from  ikea stuffed  toy he  hung on  to it 

it’s very   cute very   sad this   poor little  monkey   hugging the  little toy  monkey and  everyone   loves

punch i   actually understand  it i  get it  punch was  very cute  punch has  grown up  a little  bit but  he’s

become a   viral sensation  which   means a   lot more   people go   to that   zoo so   he’s almost   like a

celebrity now  for that  zoo that  draws   attention and  if we’re  on ninja  news japan  you know  that

attention is  not good  attention   originally when  i read  this it  said a  man in  a yellow  suit   climbed

into the   monkey enclosure  and now  i thought  the   curious george  man in  the yellow  suit with  the man 

with the   yellow hat  that whole  deal which  i’m like  don’t   climb into   monkey enclosures  that’s

shitty don’t  do that  but at  the same  time part  of my  brain   went and   i kind   of get   the the   yellow suit 

and climbing  into the  monkey   enclosure and  trying to  make   friends with  punch and  that’ll   that’ll be 

some kind   of viral   video a   prank thing  i don’t  know this  is   obviously not  the life  i choose  then i  saw

some pictures  and videos  and it  was way  worse because  it was  a big  circular head  in a  blue suit 

the head   was yellow  and the  suit was  blue and  it was  for a  crypto   company so  there was  one man  got up 

in the   sort of   mascot uniform  this big  yellow head  like a  coin in  a blue  suit with  a red  tie   and then 

climbed into  the   monkey enclosure  and i  don’t   know what  their   plan actually  was   because as  soon   as he

climbed into   the monkey  enclosure   all the  monkeys   ran away  they’re   not used  to   giant yellow  headed   men

in blue  suits   climbing into  the monkey  enclosure   they know  the   keepers of  the   monkey enclosure 

they’re friends  they’re   cool this  is   not what  they’re   used to  so   they all  just   like they  said   monkey

mountain so  i’m   assuming there’s  like   a hill  in   the monkey  enclosure   they all  ran   up to  the   top of 

that kind  of   huddled together  like   whoa this  isn’t   cool some  zoo   staff come  in   and they  kind   of

restrain the  man   they say  detain   him until  the   police arrive  the   police arrive  and   he is   promptly

arrested with  his   cohort who  is   filming who  initially   claimed they  were   not together  so   he was  like   trying

to throw  his   friend out  of the  bus   and get  away   with it  i   was just  here   innocently filming  this   strange

person but  it   turns out  it’s   two americans  in   their 20s  and this  is   obviously some  kind   of weird 

crypto promo  thing   i don’t  know   man like  is   this where  we   are how  much   did the  crypto   company pay   them

was it  there   because they’re  in   their 20s  it   might even  be   their crypto  company   and they  thought   this

was a  really   good idea  and   they do  it   in japan  and   they think  uh   in japan  nothing’s   gonna happen  no

one’s gonna  give   us a  hard   time i  don’t   know i  don’t   know what  they’re   thinking because  if   you think 

about this  the   only thing  that’s going  to   lead to  is   arrested now  i   went to  a   website that  i   often go  to

called bengoshi  .com   which is  lawyer  .com and  there   they talked   about this  incident   and they  said   what is 

the crime  that’s   been committed  because   the zoo  is   a public  place   and yet  the   enclosures are  private   but

they’re open  because   again he  quite   easily climbed  over   the edge  so   what law  is he  breaking   is it 

trespassing and  this   is actually  forcible   obstruction of  business   which is  the   catch -all  crime   in japan 

get a  ding   and that  was   primary for  giles   forcible obstruction  of   business because  they   know they’re 

not supposed  to   trespass there  is   sort of  like   a given  rule   that you  are   not supposed  to   engage in 

you’re not  supposed   to like  climb   over anything  you’re   not supposed  to   go into  any   enclosure i  mean

they’re actually  lucky   the monkey  didn’t   attack them  because   you think  all   these monkeys  are   little

tiny things  monkeys   are terrifying  like   they are  way   stronger than  they   seem to  be   for their  size

and they  can be  very vicious  and i  think   yes i  could   take on  punch   the monkey  by   himself give  me   20

monkeys i  think   i might  be   in a  lot   of trouble  vtuber   agency rimi  resu   rimi resu  vtuber   agency rimi  resu

has fired  two   vtubers for  breaking   the no  dating   rule now  usually   for idols  it’s   dating fans  that’s

dating so  it’s   often fans  or another  artist   or something  like   that but  they   have in  their

contracts they’re  not   allowed to  date   i think  this   is archaic  i   think the  idea   of managing  people’s

personal lives  so   they can’t  form   normal human  relationships   is bad  vtubers   it’s almost  extra

weird because  you’re   not getting  a   real person  on   the screen  in   front of  you you’re  getting a 

persona like  the   whole vtuber  idea   is i’m  not   putting my  face on  it   i’m not  putting   my actual 

personality out  there   i’m putting  on a  persona   i’m putting  on   a fake  thing   but everyone  understands

the the  social   contract that  this   is not  a   real thing  i’m   looking at  there’s   a real  person   back there 

but i’m  not in  love   with them  i’m   in love  with   the character  i’m in  love   with the  character   they’ve

created maybe   or at   least that’s  what   i would  think   it’s two  vtubers   who are  dating   each other  so

this to  me   seems like  it   would have  been a  very   easy thing  to   keep secret  because   they’re vtubers 

so no  one   knows what  they   look like   so people  don’t   generally or  not   successfully go  hunting   for

them out  in   the street  like   they would  with like  famous   people in   japan you’re  not   going to  catch

them coming  out   of a  hotel   together or  coming   out of  each   other’s apartments  because   you shouldn’t  know

what they  look   like i  mean   they might  end   up figuring  that   out in  real   life but  that   seems like  a

thing you  could   keep quiet  but   still in  vtuber   land unless  the   characters were  dating   which would  be a 

great social  experiment   like would  people   get upset  if   the two  actual   vtuber actors  dated

versus would  they be  as upset  or   more upset  or   lesser upset  if   the two  vtuber   characters started 

dating i  think   i have  an   experiment we  need   to run   in the  future   hanadei ruka  and   baku baku  have   both

been fired  because   they were  dating   each other  the   agency said  they   caused anxiety  and   damaged trust 

again i  don’t   necessarily agree  with i  think two  people   dating is  not   part of  the   company’s business 

if they  want   to date  like   they might  my   only hope  is   they get  to   maintain the  character   persona like 

they get  to   keep the  baku   baku character  or   whatnot so  that   they can  then   use it  on   their own  channels

because if  they’ve   already built  up   an audience  it’s   not going  to   make a  huge   difference you  just

won’t get  the   same like  support   you would  from an  agency   i just  i   don’t like  the   agencies in  japan

thinking they  can   control every  aspect   of your   life ruka  said   it was  their   own fault  and   ruka then 

said the  agency   was supportive  with   them and  showed   them the  utmost   courtesy so  they’re   trying to  leave

on good   terms which  again   shows that  these   vtubers like  they   understand what  they   did they  also   want to 

live a  real   life and  they’re   still being  respectful   on their  way   out i  don’t   know they  seem   like good 

people i  hope   they get  to   keep dating  i   went to  bengoshi  .com second  mentioned   today a  woman   found out  her

husband was  having   uh cheating  on   her with  another   man oh  that’s   exciting in  japan   you can 

sue the  affair   partner so   if i  find   out my  wife   is cheating  i   can sue  her   the i  can   sue the  person

she’s cheating  with   and vice  versa   if i  cheat   on my  wife   my wife  could   sue the  person   i was   cheating on 

now the  problem   is both  men   were married  to   women and  so   both men  who   were cheating  on   their wives  if

the wives  wanted   to sue  the   other person  she   was saying  like   isn’t it  a   problem would  it   just

nullify the  effect   like if  i sue  them   for three  million   yen and  then   they sue  me   for three  million

yen there’s  no   point to  it   because then  we   both at  some   point lose  three   million yen  now   that is

interesting because  they’re   talking about  if   it’s shared  assets   so if  one   person has  all the  money

they would  have   to pay  the   damages uh  she   doesn’t actually  probably   want to  sue   the other  woman   she

just wants  to   sue then  punish   the man  when   you do  this   kind of  suit   uh you   can usually  get   between

one and  three   million yen  but   it depends  on   the circumstances  and   i didn’t  know   about the 

circumstances so  what   they think  about   compensation is  determined   by the  length   of the  marriage   the

length of  the   infidelity and  how   often they  met   so if  you   had a  short   relationship but  had   very many 

meetings that  might   be worse  than   having a  short   relationship and  only   meeting once  or   twice if  you

had a  very   long relationship  and   only met  a few  times   is that  better   or worse  so   they didn’t  get   into

too many  of the  details   but you  can   see what  they’re   taking into  account   is how   long has  the

marriage been  going   on how  long   have they  been   cheating and  did   they meet  a   lot like  how   much

damage did  they do  to   the marriage  that   kind of  thing   in this  case   the two  men   had been  meeting   for

two months  and   it seems  like   they only  met   two times  so   the lawyers  predicted   that if  you   did sue 

successfully and  you   won you  would   probably get  a   million yen  which   is the  low   end of  the   one to   three

million yen  scale   but then  the   other woman  could   sue you   back for  the   exact same  amount   of money 

the claims  are   treated completely  independently   and so  that’s   it it   really comes  down   to if  you   have

shared assets  and the  other   person has  shared   assets it  might not  actually   be worth  doing   but

then yeah  if   you’re just  suing   someone and  then   they sue  you   back and  you   actually end  up   having to 

pay the  same   amount of  money   either way  it   just sort  of   is a  zero  -sum game  so   it’s 6  a .m  and   you get 

woken up  and   you get  woken   up because  there’s   a strange  person   in your  house   and this  guy   wakes

up and  there’s   a lady  in   his house  so   he gets  his   phone out  and   he calls  the   police and  he   says

there’s a  woman   in my  house   and that  woman   isn’t supposed  to be  in his  house   so he’s  actually   asking

the police  come   please remove  this   woman from   my house  the   woman right  after   the phone  call   slaps

him in   the face  so   you’re standing  in   your living  room   i’m trying  to   imagine this  scenario   i’m standing 

in my  living   room it’s  really   early in  the   morning there’s  a   strange woman  in my  house

and then  i   call the  police   i’m like  i’m   assuming he  asked   her to  leave   he gave  her   the opportunity 

like hey  you’re   in the  wrong   house door’s  that   way you  can   leave right  now   but then  she   didn’t so

he’s like  i’m   gonna call  the   police if  you   don’t leave  she   didn’t so   he picks   up the   phone he  calls

the police  like   hey there’s  a   lady in  my   house can  you   get her  out   and then  she   slaps him  in   the face 

i’m wondering  if   she slapped  him   in the  face   because she  was   offended that  he   called the  cops   or is 

she’s offended  that he  asked   her to   leave or  if   she had  just   come in  to   slap him  in   the face  in

the first  place   she was  immediately   arrested which  makes   perfect sense  uh she  said   she admitted  to   it

she said  there   is no  mistake   i slapped  him   uh he   didn’t claim  to   have an  injury   he didn’t  like   try

to like  make   this worse  than   it was  he   said there  was   he was  not   injured uh  nothing   has been  stolen

and he  has   no relationship  to   the woman  they   don’t seem  to   have any  relationship   at all  so   there’s just 

this weird  question   of why  did   this woman  go   into his   house and   why did  he   think it  was   okay to  slap

him in  the   face we  don’t   have any  answers   and this  is   another an  into   news japan  mystery   why would   you

walk into  someone   else’s house  and   again no  violence   they’re not  even   threatening you  it   seems his  phone

call to  the   police was  relatively   you know  calm   and then  you   could have  just   left and  you   didn’t and 

then take  it   upon yourself  to   slap him  in   the face  yeah   i don’t  know   what’s going  on   there

41 year  old   unemployed man  called   the cops  100   plus times  saying   things like  come   right now  come

bust me  so   he’s like  calling   out the  police   challenging the  police   he often  would   call them 

up and  say   there was  an   incident like  i   was beaten  by a  police   officer police  are   obligated to  come   and

investigate these  kind   of claims  so   they come  and   claim and  find   out it’s  not   true i  don’t   know how 

they didn’t  arrest   him for  false   like accusations  or a  false   police call  or   a false  i   mean there’s  a

lot of  false   things he  actually   seems to  have   done here  in   which case  you   think they  could   have arrested 

him sooner  this is  japan   the cops  honestly   are often  trying   to give  people   a fair  shake   and overall  i

think that’s  a   good thing  it   seems like  after   the 50th  time   maybe you  could   take it  more   seriously

they were  finding   it difficult  to   get any  work   done so  he   calls them  up   he got  arrested   on arrest  he   said

i made  the   calls they  were   all justified  so   he was  calling   them for  incidents   that didn’t  occur   he

thinks that  was   justified he  was calling  them daring  the   police to  bust   him and  then   when it  happens   he’s

like whoa  guys   what’s going  on   here this  is   all confusion  all   my calls  were   justified uh  he   at the 

end of  the   day i  think   he actually  got what  he   wanted a  cop   in saga  was   going to  sort   of move  on

they didn’t  make   it clear  if he  was   moving on  within   the police  force   if he  was   moving on  to

something else  but   he was  moving   away from  the   station he  was   working at  now   we know  that   at

least and  so   the station  was   throwing a  farewell   party which  is   very nice  it   shows your  co  -workers

have a  certain   amount of  care   for you  it   shows that  you   are appreciated  in   your role  the   restaurant

got a  call   in the  afternoon   and the  call   said look  at   the entrance  well   that’s that’s  very   suspicious

let’s go  look   at the  entrance   so go  look   at the  entrance   and there’s  a   handwritten letter  which   i

i don’t  know   i find  that’s   a nice  touch   you know  we   don’t get  a   lot of   handwritten stuff  anymore

so there’s  a   handwritten letter  employee   found a  note   that said  there   was an  explosive   device in

the restaurant  now   if you’re  going   to threaten  to   bomb a   place threatening  to   bomb a   place where  a

whole horde  of   police officers  are   going to  be uh  it’s   probably not  the   best choice  so   this criminal  is

making a  really   bad choice  the   police of  course   lots of  them show  up   for their  farewell   party and  the

restaurant’s like  hey   we can’t  actually   have the  farewell   party because  we’ve   gotten told  that

there’s a  bomb   on the  premises   your guys  are   coming to  check   it out  so   the cops  immediately

start investigating  leads   back to  the   guest of  honor   for the  party   so when  he   was confronted  he   said

i didn’t  want   to attend  the   farewell party  and   then instead  of   moving on  to   whatever he  was   going to 

move on  to   if it   was within  the   police force  he   voluntarily quit  his   position uh  all   because he 

didn’t want  to   go to  a   party now  i   am not  a   social person  really   i spend  most   of my  time   in front  of

my computer  if   i can  uh   i hang  out   with my   dog i  don’t   go to   social events  very   often i  find   them

very draining  i’m   one of  those   kind of  people   but i   also understand  you   just go   there sit  it   out for 

a couple  hours   leave early  and   everything’s fine  like   you go  you   have your  three   or four  obligatory

drinks you  say   thank you  to   everybody and  you   just say  i’m   sorry i  have   another appointment  i   gotta go 

uh don’t  threaten   to blow  the   place up  especially   if it’s  a   whole bunch  of   cops who  are   going to  track

you down  immediately   and just  even   if you’re  got   like a  socially   inept person  like i  am   on the  same

side of  the   spectrum as  this   guy this  is   not the  best   way to  get   out of  things   since we’re  on   the

topic of  bombs   27 year  old   man was  arrested   for sending  a   bomb threat  to   nintendo headquarters  i   don’t

understand why  uh   like they  don’t   explain what  the   frustration was  but   he was  clearly   really annoyed 

with nintendo  the   company and  so   he sent  a   mail he  mailed   him a  letter   again another  handwritten   letter

quite nice  uh   and it  said   i will   bomb you  bastards   i have  already   planted bombs  at   nintendo headquarters 

so of   course this  is   another forcible  obstruction   of business  the   last one  was   also a   forcible

obstruction of  business   uh that   one didn’t  get   put in  this   is shows  a   little bit  of   a bias  towards

the police  officer   the police  officer   wasn’t charged  with   anything and  then   had to   quit his  job

but this  guy   who said  did   the exact  same   thing sent  a   bomb threat  to   a company  forcible   obstruction

of business  and   he’s being  arrested   is that  fair   treatment i  don’t   really know  i   think nintendo  is a 

bigger company  but   the threat  is   exactly the  same   that the  crime is  exactly   the same  so   there’s a 

certain amount  of   injustice going  on   here but  how   badly did  you   lose at  wii   tennis to  actually

threaten to  blow   up nintendo  headquarters   since we  have   been talking  about   criminals getting  arrested

uh criminals  have   the right  in   japan to  not   answer questions  just   like america  the   fifth amendment  i

believe it  is   you have  a   fifth amendment  right   to not  incriminate   yourself not  say   things that  might

accidentally be  misinterpreted   a bunch  of   stuff like  that   i agree  with   it i   think it  is   the i  have

always said  it’s   like the  police   and the  prosecutor’s   job to  prove   points it’s  the   detective’s job  to go 

out and  detect   you as  the   criminal you  commit   the crime  but   you don’t  help   the police  get   you in 

trouble i  think   that’s absolutely  fair   so it’s  the   criminal’s right  to   not answer  questions   it is  the

prosecutor’s job  to   try to  get   them to   answer questions  so   this could  be   very frustrating  as a 

job i  could   actually see  how   frustrating this  could   be because  here   you are  sitting   with a  guy   for

probably hours  and   you’re asking  him   questions about  the   crime that  you   know he  knows   the answer  to

you know  he   did it   but then  every   time you  ask   a question  he   doesn’t answer  the   question doesn’t 

answer the  question   straightforwardly it’s  not that  simple   and then  uh   well god  that’s   frustrating

this goes  on   and on  and   on and  on   it could  go   on for  hours   or days  a   solar power  company   president

was being  indicted   for fraud  uh   probably fraud  connected   to the  solar   panels or  something   like

that or  stealing   money from  someone   i don’t  know   they don’t  get   into the  actual   details of  the

crime at  first   the president  denied   the charges  and   said he  would   remain silent  for   the rest  of   the

interview so  the   prosecutors are  allowed   to interview  him   but he’s  like   look i  didn’t   do it 

i’m not  going   to say  anymore   again not  my   job to  help   you prosecute  me   you do  your   job i’ll  do my  job

my job  right   now stay  silent   the prosecutor  ended   up getting  frustrated   with this  because   he wasn’t 

answering the  questions   he wanted  answered   and he  said   to be  hostile   to the  prosecutor’s   office

means you  are   an antisocial  person   completely now  that   doesn’t sound  too   bad in  english   uh calling 

someone   antisocial you  know   it’s not  nice   but i  think   in english  it’s   i mean  i’m   a technically 

antisocial because  i   just said  i   just sit  on   my computer  all   day doing  nothing   i would  do   everything

and i  can   everything i  can to  not   go to  parties   and whatnot  but   i would  still   not go  so   far as  to

threaten to  blow   a place  up   so i  get   it it’s  frustrating   but antisocial  doesn’t   seem to  hurt   that

much but  then   you realize  in   japanese the  term   antisocial is  generally   only used  for   yakuza and 

organized criminal  organizations   organized criminal  organizations   criminal   organizations

organized   criminal   organizations   it’s for  the   yakuza it’s  a   way they  refer   to the  yakuza   and then 

this guy’s  not   a yakuza  so   being referred  to   as a  yakuza   in that  kind   of derogatory  term

has more  impact   in japanese  so   that’s the  thing   you gotta  know   so the  prosecutor   basically is  saying

this guy’s  a   yakuza if  he   doesn’t answer  his   questions uh  the   defense team  then   lodged a 

complaint   saying the  prosecutor   had made  insulting   remarks uh  judges   went yep  you’re   not allowed  to   go

around calling  people   yakuza uh  without   proof and  you’re   a prosecutor  and   you should  know   that kind 

of stuff  so   you’re a  bad   boy and  then   they spanked  his   bottom this  is   the biggest  news   story that  has

happened in  the   last couple  weeks   uh apparently  because   it showed  up   in my  feeds   i have  about   20

feeds that  i   monitor   regularly for  news   and i  look   into stuff  and   it showed  up   at least  two   or three 

times in  every   feed and  so   that is  like   30 versions  of   the same  story   i ended  up   having i  good   it’s good 

because i  get   a lot  of   sort of  different   takes on  it   i get  a   lot of  different   details from  the

different   articles so  i   can present  to   you in  japan   the problem  is   the word  is   naphtha

naphtha n  -a  -p -h  -t  -h -a  naphtha   now i  don’t   know if  i’m   saying that  right   actually let’s  look   it up  on

the internet  right   now let’s  add   a new   section to  ninja   news japan  naphtha   oh so  it   looks like  i   was

kind of  getting   it right  naphtha   so naphtha  is   a petroleum  product   that goes  into   ink and  that’s

really   important if  you   do any  sort   of graphic  design   or you  package   things or  you   make uh  garbage

bags stuff  like   that it’s  in   all of  the   stuff that  has   sort of  ink   included in  it   because of  the

administrative   hormuz issue  and   supply chain  issues   that’s become  a   very rare  commodity

uh and  so   the most  exciting   version of  the   story is  there’s   a chip  company   called kalbi  and   they had 

an orange  and   yellow uh  bag   and for  their   chips and  they’re   changing it  to   black and  white   because of 

the inability  to   get this  ink   they’re changing  it   to black  and   white from  may   25th so  i’ll   actually be 

going out  to   my local  convenience   stores and  actually   seeing if  we   can find  the   black and  white   chips the 

chips themselves  are   staying exactly  the   same now  i   thought okay  so   there’s a  change   you could  have

done anyways  because   why not  just   use less  ink   and stuff  uh   if this  stuff’s   going to  be   rare or 

expensive or  difficult   to get  it’s   time to  change   our practices  this   whole   administrative   hormuz thing  to

me has  shown   that why  countries   like japan  should   go to  solar   panels there’s  some   country i  can’t

remember which  country   it is  it   might be  australia   there’s a  country   and they’ve  started   to make 

every single  parking   lot has  to   have solar  panels   on it  so   not out  in   fields over  parking   lots in  cities

because that’s  just   open space  but   what you  get   is shade  for   the cars  and   extra energy  in   the middle 

of the  city   which is  actually   one of  the   harder places  to   do it’s  actually   a really  good   idea i  want

to put  solar   panels over  my   driveway i  want   to put  solar   panels on  my   house i  would   love to  do   that

i think  this   should be  mandated   by countries  that   every parking  lot   that’s just  open   so if  you   think

about like  every   shopping mall  has   a giant  parking   lot every  costco   every walmart  whatever   has a  giant

parking lot  that’s   just covered  in   solar panels  that   you can  drive   in and  under   and it’s  going   to

be nice  and   shady for  you   on a  hot   day it’s  going   to be  nice   and shady  when   you’re parking  your   car you 

get back  to   your car  it’s   not going  to   be all  heated   up like  it   is in  the   summertime and  then   it’s

going to  be   free power  for   the city  i   think that’s  an   amazing idea  that   the strait  of   hormuz has  showed

us this  this   this this  uh   political issue  has   showed us  that   we can’t  be   reliant on  other   people’s oil 

so let’s  find   self  -sufficient   ways to  do   it america  could   do it  canada   could do  it   japan could  do   it

all these  countries   can start  shifting   because like  we   need to  rely   less on  other   countries   because

of the  political   instability caused  by   trump and  all   our stuff  is   going to  be   black and  white   now we’re 

going to  go   back to  the   1920s black  and   white era  for   all our  products   because ink  is   going to  be   too

expensive i  thought   that was  it   because everyone  was   using the  calby   example because  it’s   very dramatic 

yellow and  orange   to black  and   white is  a   very big  change   it’s going  to   be very  dramatic   to see  on   the

shelves it’s  actually   probably a  big   boon to  their   advertising   because idiots  like   me are  going   to go 

buy a  bag   where we  normally   wouldn’t but  there   are other  companies   have been  infected   as well 

wellna is  removing   ink from  the   little uh  strap   that holds  spaghetti   bundles in  the   package you  usually   get

like five  in   a package  of   spaghetti each  one   is like  wrapped   up as  generally   a single  serving   of

spaghetti that  had   some writing  on   it that  writing   is being  removed   kagome is  going   to put  less

tomatoes on  the   label for  their   tomato ketchup  so   right now  it’s   going to  be   the label  and   like let’s  say

a whole  bushel   of tomatoes  to   make it  look   like how  many   tomatoes are  in   their ketchup 

they’re going  to   reduce the  number   of tomatoes  so   they can  use   less ink  miral   biscuits can’t  afford

packaging and  they   are going  to   actually   shutter their  whole   operation which  i   think that’s 

that’s sad  that   a company  needs   to shut  down   because they  can’t   afford packaging  anymore

big camera  it’s   a big  electronic   store but  they   have lots  of   hobby stuff  they   are going  to   be

limiting model  paint   purchases to  one   per person  so   it’s becoming  more   expensive it’s  going   to become 

more rare  they   don’t want  people   reselling it  so   it’s going  to   be one  per   person now  for   paint

and garbage  bags   have been  selling   out and  the   government’s   been like  don’t   panic buy  garbage   bags

they’re not  being   threatened but  because   everyone thinks  about   garbage bags  in   japan if  there’s   any

sort of  emergency   toilet paper  garbage   bags are  the   first things  that   get like  panic   bought the 

government’s   like yeah  there   is some  of   this ink  in   there but  they’re   just bags  so   don’t worry  about   it

but then  everyone’s   still doing  it   anyways all  i   can really  say   is thanks  trump

Number 2 best Japan News Podcast

(upbeat music)

So you’re on the train in Japan.

When you see a man with
knives, what do you do?

You call the police.

That actually is not the
most unreasonable response.

I think people need to understand
that in Japan, carrying a knife is illegal.

Just straight up.

If there was a story, and it’s
the one that bugs me the most,

’cause there was a tourist,
and he went in to get to it,

like these little police
stations called Koma,

went into a coma, and
he talks to the cops,

he’s like, “I’m trying
to find this place.”

Basically, he’s just
trying to get directions.

And the police, given directions,
they talk to him and they

chat and they have him and they
go, “Hey, do you have a knife?”

And he goes, “Yeah.”

And he’s carrying a Swiss army knife,

little Swiss army knife, and
they arrest him right there.

And something people forget is
when they come from their country

to another country, the laws of
their country don’t come with them.

Actually, a lot of people
seem to be confused about the

rules in another country,
’cause they don’t look into it.

They just assume that my rights
and my freedoms are the same.

So, search and seizure rules.

You probably don’t know what
they are in different countries.

What’s legal to carry?

The reasons for it, you
probably don’t know it.

Japan has very strict
weapon cultures, not just guns.

Gun control, very high.

Anything that could be a weapon.

We had last couple of years
crossbows were made illegal.

Airsoft guns are tightly controlled.

The, in here we have
a guy carrying a knife.

And it’s just, where I
just lost that sentence.

We have a carrying a knife is illegal.

Unless you have a reason
for carrying the knife.

So, you see a man on the train in
Japan, he’s carrying multiple knives.

It makes sense to call the police.

Now, was he brandishing the knife?

Was he doing anything with it?

This is actually interesting
because I’ve ended up finding,

when I do an engine news Japan story, I
try to do like proper research to a degree.

I try to find multiple articles about the
same story so I can see what is consistent.

So that’s probably true.

I’m not gonna say factual.

And I can see if there’s
any inconsistencies.

One story said he had basically a knife
case, like one of those things you put,

you slide the knife into slots
and you roll it up and tie it up.

And one said he had
knives wrapped in a towel.

And the ends were poking out.

And one story said he
was brandishing a knife.

So somewhere in there is the truth.

These are supposed to be reporters.

I’m an engine news Japan.

I’m a guy who does this on his day
off with his dog sleeping on the bed.

For fun.

This is a hobby, it’s entertainment.

And I put more work into making
sure my stories are factually accurate.

Then major news sources.

You may have seen a
tweet or an Instagram post

I’ve put up recently on the
top 25 news in Japan list.

The first thing that gets
me is how specific that list is.

It’s not like, it did say the
little, “Oh, let me pull it up.”

So it’s the 25 best Japan news podcast.

Very specific category,
if we’re being honest.

The best Japan news podcast from
thousands of podcasts on the web.

Now that actually is a misnomer because
yes, there are thousands of podcasts,

but there are not thousands
of Japan news podcasts.

Ranked by traffic, social
media followers and freshness.

The engine news Japan.

That is okay traffic
for a podcast for sure.

And it’s absolutely fresh.

I mean, you’re tasting
it smelling it right now.

It’s fresh.

Social media followers, not so much.

That is, I admittedly might be as weakness.

You’ll see on the screen,
it Japan news podcasts.

Number one, deep dive from the Japan times.

Japan times is a national
newspaper in Japan.

And their little tagline is looking
beneath the surface of Japan.

We hear from Japan
times journalists and guests

about current events
and trends in Japan.

Number two, little podcast
called the engine news Japan.

All the news from Japan, there is no ninja.

Little, I guess, self-congratulatory
little, boop, boop, boop.

I don’t know what the
criteria was for that, really.

I bet an engine news
Japan is just the most

consistent Japanese news
podcast release schedule

because it is basically every
week I get one of these out.

So back to our knife man story.

So you call the police, you see guy,
oh, this is a happy end of the rules.

So you’re allowed to carry a knife.

You’re not allowed to
carry a knife in Japan.

You’re allowed to carry a
knife if you have a reason.

So let’s say I’m going fishing
and I am carrying with me a knife

for de-boning fish or scaling
fish or something to do with fishing.

The police would say, hey,
why do you have that knife?

Well, I’m going fishing and I’m going
to do some fish stuff with my fish knife.

There would be all right on your way.

I have a machete, be pretty rare in Japan.

They say, why do you have the machete?

Well, I’m a intense
gardener, extreme gardening.

That’s my job and I’m going to the
jungles of Japan and I’m going to machete.

Now that also would be
acceptable under Japanese law.

So I can’t just carry around a knife.

So this tourist who probably just
carried around a Swiss army knife

all the time, primarily, probably not
for the knife, but more for the screw.

The screwdriver was always
the thing I ended up using

the most or picking my
nails, that kind of thing.

That is not acceptable because
there’s no reason for you to carry a knife.

So this guy on the train, I
almost said there were it.

I got to keep the tension high.

So he sees the tension
that you have to build

so that people stay
for the whole podcast.

That end of the dirty story is
I always put them at the end.

At the next station, someone,
someone sees this guy, he’s got knives.

It calls the police, police rush
the train in the next station.

He’s a chef.

Now, he says he had adjusted the knife.

So maybe he has one
of those against sleeves

where all the knives
are in it and you roll it up.

Maybe they were wrapped in
towels in the ends or poking out.

So he was trying to make sure it was safe.

He was not brandishing,
according to this story that

seems the most reasonable,
he was not brandishing it.

He was probably making an
adjustment, probably for other

passenger safety because he
knew he was carrying knives.

But this stopped one of
the major lines in Tokyo,

which affects hundreds
of thousands of people.

So I don’t know.

It’s not unreasonable for the
person to have called the police.

The guy was not threatening anyone, though.

I’m going to assume I’m going to,
because if he isn’t actually a chef,

I think if he wasn’t a
chef, they would have said.

If he’s actually a chef, he’s
carrying his knives, carrying for work.

He’s being responsible.

And there’s no reason to
call the police on him, but

then we have all the crimes
in Japan or knife crimes.

I don’t know.

It’s a really tough situation because
I don’t know who’s in the wrong.

Maybe if you’re a chef
carrying your knives,

put the knives wrapped
up into a backpack.

or something else, just because you
can avoid this and not freak people out.

When making threats in any country, in any
scenario, it is important to be accurate.

There’s a man who felt it was completely
appropriate for him to make threats.

And so he’s unhappy about
the situation with Russia and the

aggressive nature of the
Russian Federation at the moment.

So he sent some emails and he
said, “I’ll put all workers through hell.”

Don’t really know what that means.

So all the workers in Russia, how are
you going to put them all through hell?

Why are you talking about
the workers specifically?

It seems like the government
is what you should be targeting.

He said, “Please kill the president.
Who are you sending that to?

Sending that to Russia?
Just please kill the president of Russia.”

I think he actually means Putin.

Russia has a president and Putin,
who is sort of the actual leader.

So I think this man maybe
doesn’t have it all together.

Let’s make Squzkiji a sea
of blood without any contact.

So let’s, as in you, people of Russia and
me, some a 50 year old man from Japan,

let’s go to these
disputed islands and fight.

I don’t know.

Now the problem was he thought he
was sending these to the Russian embassy,

but instead he sent the emails to the
Asahi Shimbun, which is a newspaper.

So he was inadvertently
threatening to make the

lives of every worker in
the Asahi Shimbun, hell.

He was threatening for them to kill
the president of the newspaper, the Asahi

Shimbun and he was saying, “Hey guys,
who are from the same country as me?

Let’s go to these disputed
islands and make a sea of blood.

So let’s kill everyone else together.
I’m not sure.”

He did say, “Okay, their
articles did not match my beliefs.”

And I thought I emailed the Russian
embassy, but instead I sent emails to the

Asahi Shimbun. So basically they
were writing articles about Russia.

He was saying, “The
Russian beliefs, I do

not agree with, so I
started sending emails,

probably clicked a link on
the article and started sending

emails to the Asahi Shimbun,
it’s retin making various threats.

It is obstruction of business.”

That’s clear.
I mean, that’s almost a given.

And I mean, think about it or be careful.

I don’t know. If you’re going to go
through the effort of threatening people,

at least making sure you’re
threatening the right people.

Russia is as an international
politics as a high school drama.

Russia used to Mark the end of
World War II as a day of military glory.

Okay, so basically we have
Remembrance Day, we have several days.

Each country has so to
their own version where

they remember the
horrors of World War II.

Japan has recently, like many
countries, sanctioned Russia.

And Russia seems to have taken that poorly.

So the lower house and Russian
parliament, I think it’s parliament.

Anyway, the lower house and Russian
government has voted to rename

the Day of Military Glory
to Day of Victory over

militaristic Japan in
the end of World War II.

That is some high school shit right there.

So we’ve invaded Ukraine.

A lot of Western countries don’t like it.

Japan doesn’t like it.
We’re somehow particularly

pissed that Japan has
taken the stance on this.

So we’re going to change the
day that World War II ended, our

celebration of that, and make
it specifically about Japan.

Oh yeah. Well, you don’t like
that we’re invading Ukraine?

Well, we’re going to
take the Day of Military

Glory and change it to
the Day of Victory over

militaristic Japan in
the end of World War II.

Technically speaking,
World War II is not ended.

This is something I’ve brought up before.
It’s interesting. It’s a little side fact.

There are disputed islands
at the North part of Japan.

And those islands are disputed between
Russia and Japan at the end of World War II.

Since they have not
come to a resolution,

they have not signed
an official peace treaty.

They’ve just kind of stopped fighting.

So because that peace
treaty has not been signed,

World War II very
technically is still ongoing.

No one’s going to say that seriously, but
until a peace treaty is signed in those,

that those islands are
resolved, like who actually owns

those islands, as long as
those claims are standing,

World War II is still happening.

So you’re cheating on
your partner. Your side

piece, they’re into it.
So they give you a hickey.

You go home. I got a
big hickey on my neck. My

partner is going to
find out I’ve been having

an affair. So what do
I do? There’s only one

solution I can think
of. Okay, realistically,

I had a girlfriend and I
gave her a hickey the

day before she had a
job interview and she was

losing her mind. So I went
online and looked, what

you’re supposed to do,
I don’t know if this was,

is take a cold spoon
and push it against the

hickey and that’ll
help it. So basically put

ice on it will help it heal
faster. She put makeup

on it, probably the
most reasonable solution

for being honest. This
person came up with

the non-reasonable
solution, which is great,

because that’s how it
becomes an engineer’s Japan

story. The number two
news on Japan podcast.

After people who are paid
to do this, so I mean, all right,

she calls the police. She calls 110
and she reports a sexual assault.

She says, it’s 6.30 am the
intercom in her apartment

or house rang. She opened the door and a
man came in, took off her top, touched her

inappropriately, gave
her a hickey and left.

Now, if I am reporting
a sexual assault, more

happens. A guy is not
going to grab you, touch your

boobies, give you a
hickey and leave. So that’s

where actually the first
drop of suspicion would

come into it. That is a
very strange sexual assault.

If you were walking
down the street and a guy

grabs you, there’s
other people rounding and

runs away, that makes
sense. He’s got you in his

your apartment. It’s private.
No one’s going to walk in on you, probably.

I don’t know. So the
police were obviously

suspicious, or they were
just taking her seriously.

Actually, pretty fair,
they probably just took her

at a word. She says she
was sexually assaulted.

Let’s go try to find the
guy. They find out she

wasn’t at home at 6.30.
There’s footage of her

coming home quite casually after 7 o’clock
in the morning. I also have a thing about

very early morning
crime. I think once you get

after 4am, no one’s
really at their best. So

if I was going to commit
crime, any crime, it

would be in the, like
around the 1am period,

maybe 2. I’m not
functional at 4 or 5, 6 in the

morning, which is when
you’d have to get up and

get ready to do these
crimes that happened at

6.30 in the morning. The
police looked at security

footage. The woman was
not home. They found footage

of her coming home.
That is when they started

talking to her more
seriously and she admitted

that she had not been
sexually assaulted. She was

just trying to hide the
fact that she was having a

fair and explained the
hickey that was on her neck.

She could have just stuck
a vacuum on when her

boyfriend came home and
been like, “Hey, look what I

did. Ha ha ha ha.” There
you go. I’m just a weird

quirky lady doing weird
quirky things giving

myself hickey’s. I think
I actually just found

a better solution like
as making a stupid joke,

I think it’s more reasonable
than calling the police.

Nintendo is a big company.
They have an annual

shareholder meeting where
they talk about business

stuff with business people
who have shares. These

are not gamers. These
are business people and

all they care about is numbers go up. It’s
going to be the theme for the next C-McB.

You should look out
for that later this week.

C-McB podcast is my
other podcast where I

talk about not news
from Japan, but honestly,

I think this episode is going to be
talking about news. If you like the

Ninja Japan news and
commentary, which is the

color commentary and
editorializing is what you

come from. You might
actually enjoy this other

episode. I would say, give
C-McB a try this week.

So these are not gamers.
They’re business people

who want to do business
stuff and make business

decisions and make
money and numbers go to

the, well, if I’m looking
at it, it goes to the

right and up. So right
and up. But if I’m looking

away, if I’m standing
like to the audience,

it would be to the left
still up up is the important

part. Unless you turn
it around and that’s bad.

A Splatoon fam, there
was a part of this article

I legit did not
understand. He didn’t have

enough money to buy shares.
He got money and bought

a switch for 40,000 yen
sold it immediately for

25,000 yen and somehow
that got him into the

shareholder meeting.
I was very confused.

as to what that actually
meant. Did he buy a single

share for 25,000 yen? I
shouldn’t have done that.

I should have looked
up the price of a share of

Nintendo. It sounds like
that’s what he did. But if

he had the 40,000 yen, he
could have bought a single

share with the 40,000 yen
and not bought the switch.

Very confused as to what
was going on there. He’s

a Splatoon fan. He
hijacks the meeting because

you’re allowed to ask
questions to the president

stuff. So he’s speaking
to the president of

Nintendo. And what does
he do? He starts complaining

that the male characters
who are I believe called

Inklings about the male
characters treatments

compared to the female
characters treatment in the

game. Like the males
are not treated as well as

the females. The focus
of advertising and stuff

is all on the female
characters, not the male

characters. The male
characters deserve equal time

compared to the females. The Nintendo
president literally scolds him, says,

he says, you have one
minute, you know, make your

point or ask your question.
He’s supposed to be

asking questions. But
he’s not actually asking a

question. He’s just making
complaints. Apparently he

has printouts and like
things to show like charts

and whatnot. He scolds
him for wasting time

because he didn’t really
have a question. His

basic statement was
stop favoring the female

characters in Splatoon.
And then there are a whole

bunch of comments about
this is why you don’t let

gamers into business
stuff. And then they’re all

like, I wouldn’t even
want to work with this guy.

But in a way, this is
the kind of person you’re

taking money from. This
is the kind of person you

should listen to because
if you maybe do what he

says, you’ll make more
money and then number goes

right and up. So maybe
think about that. It

would be weird to be
a fan of his franchise,

have a really passionate
and start making statements.

And then the president
of that company turns

around and says, dude,
do you actually have a point

or a question or do you
have actually have a question?

And you don’t, you have
a point that no one in

that room cares about.
And this is sort of the,

maybe the point where they’re
like saying, read the room.

Carbon Neutral…Here

Japan’s efforts to go carbon neutral run in to a snag if you share the air with Australia, which we do. Nintendo really doesn’t want you to look at Bowsers penis and I have some sympathy for a guy who wants to drink on the job.

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Plastic is under attack in Japan, along with people who work at Konami. 

Maricar is in dire straits and Mistress scams don’t seem to be working out for anyone.

Finally, the worst pick up artist? I don’t know if tire slashing is considered negging.

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