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