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A man got one year and six months. I was suspended for four years. Now so, I don’t know, do you get

it then? If your sentence is suspended and you don’t do anything wrong, you don’t get in trouble,

nothing actually happens. There is a one million yen fine connected to this.

Because when you read the articles in the news, they always say one year, six months prison time

for the crime he’s committed. But then if it’s suspended, you’re not really getting anything.

So I don’t know. I have mixed feelings about saying he got a year and six months

if it’s been a suspended sentence. But anyways, we’re not going to worry about that. The reason

all this happened was a complaint was filed in 2024 by Kadokawa and Toho. Toho is the company

that most famously makes Godzilla movies. All throughout history, all the Godzilla movies,

except for like the one or two American ones they made, were produced by Toho Cinemas.

Now this guy was writing spoiler heavy articles. He wrote an article that had a full summary of

Godzilla minus one. It was 3000 characters in length. So you remember a 500 word essay would be,

I think that was like two, three pages. So this guy is doing 10, 15, 20 pages of text based on

explaining the plot of the movie he’s watched. His summaries included plot, dialogue, and plot twists.

So he’s taking every element of the movie that he can recall. He’s putting it down into writing and

then posting it on the internet. And Toho Cinemas is saying that this, the level of detail is so much

that it counts as an adaptation. Toho argued that the level of detail was such that it counted as an

adaptation. Can’t say adaptation, adaptation, adaptation. Toho argued that the level of detail

achieved was so much that it counted as an adaptation of the film. So if you do something

that’s an adaptation, you get, have to get permission from the copyright holder, Toho Cinemas,

to actually do it. I do a movie channel called CMCB IMDB on YouTube and I take old movies and I make

fun of them. But the fact that I’m not using the entire film, so I’m not giving away the entire plot,

that every scene I’m using has me talking over it, transforming it, makes it a reaction video,

or something like that, maybe satire. That is legally protected. Now, a lot of movies I post,

you get the copyright strike and I send in my dispute to the copyright strike. And legally speaking,

I should win that every time because there isn’t enough transformational things happening in the

video I’m making. But these big companies, they don’t even look at it often. They just say no.

If I get the response like in the same day, I know it’s essentially automated or they have

someone whose job it is just to say no, enter, no, enter, no, enter. So I don’t really fight those.

It’s not really worth fighting. They do go up on the Chunk of Beef Test Patreon. Should you be

interested in those? There’s some extra stuff there for Patreon exclusive for the stuff I’m not

allowed to post on YouTube. Which now that I think about it, the fact that I could potentially make

money off, it probably makes it worse. But I’m going to worry about that when I actually make some

money off something, which the way it’s going is never going to be a problem for me.

The sticking point seemed to be that the website was monetized. So it’s almost as if he had done

this for free. If he had done this for the love of film, if he was just writing and not making any

money off it, that it wouldn’t have been much of a case. But the fact that he was making money off it

meant he was making money off the copywritten material that was owned by Toho. And so that is the

bit that actually got him in trouble. It was too much. So he ended up with one year and six months

in prison that he’s not actually going to go to prison for. And again, I feel a little about that.

It almost feels like, what’s the point of giving him prison time if you’re not actually going to

give him prison time? Prison. Prison. What’s the point of giving him prison time if he doesn’t

actually spend any time in prison? But at the same time, I understand this isn’t a violent offense.

He hasn’t hurt anybody. So just tell him not to do it again. But if you do it again, you’re going to

get in trouble. Extra trouble. Super trouble. Godzilla level trouble.

A survey is done regularly of the most sleep deprived country. People not sleeping is often

taken as a point of pride where I think that attitude shifted. It used to be like, I don’t

sleep. I work 2 million hours. But there are all those like rise and grind guys. Like I wake up at

4am and do three workouts before you even get out of bed. And I’ve run 10 companies and invented five

more by lunchtime. That is kind of the same mentality. Like essentially, what time are you going to bed so

that you’re able to wake up at four o ‘clock in the morning is an interesting question? Because

are you sleeping more or less than everyone else? Is there a benefit to… Because my schedule when I

came to Japan, I went to bed at two and I woke up at 10 every day. But because I was going to work and

then I was going to judo after work, I would get home at midnight and I would still have to eat some

food or, you know, take a shower or take some time to like decompress. And then I would go to bed.

But because I worked late, I woke up at 10. I was still only sleeping eight hours. I wasn’t sleeping

more than in this case, anybody else would assume if you sleep an average of eight hours.

Was I being lazy? Was I being worse than the guy who wakes up at four? And I assume goes to bed at

930. So that is the bit I would actually like next time I see one of those rise and grind things. I

actually want to find out what their bedtime is, not what time they wake up.

But Japan, it is a very work heavy country, you know, where work is the main focus of your life.

The US and UK average seven plus hours a night. China hits seven hours a night. The average in

Japan is six hours and 23 minutes a night. And so that I think is bad. I think you do need to get

enough sleep. I think if you want a healthy country, healthy people, healthy mindset, you got to get

enough sleep. On Sunday, last Sunday, I was going to go to the gym. And then on Thursday, I’d had a

real tough fight at judo. My body was still sore. I laid down for like five minutes, slept for two

extra hours in the afternoon, woke up, felt great. That changed probably the whole week for me because

I could go to work the next day. I wasn’t sore. I woke up this morning. I was able to go to the gym

today because I wasn’t still suffering from a lack of sleep or a lack of recovery time. I think

recovery time is something that’s really important that people don’t take as seriously as they should.

In this survey included some other interesting statistics. 26 % of people felt their supervisors

cared about their health. That means a good 74 % feel like their supervisors do not care about their

health, which I think is very realistic. Supervisors don’t often see people as people. They see them as

resources. And if the resources aren’t showing up to work, well, what good are you anyways?

62 % felt, oh, 62 % of people have never taken a day off for fatigue. So I get X amount of

days I could take off every year. It’s just part of my remuneration package, which is a word I have

almost never said right until I learned how to say it and then realized I don’t think anyone says it

right. Because we usually say remuneration where it’s remuneration. I’ve done this on the podcast

before at some point in the past, so I don’t want to spend too much time on it. But it’s a word that

is very hard for me to say. I think it’s hard for everyone to say. And I think everyone says it wrong.

I think we should re -spell that word. Ah, but I get X amount of days off a year. And I will try not to

use any and then take off, let’s say one a month or one every couple months so that I can just take

a day off and do nothing. Maybe I catch up on podcasts or movies or I just sleep or do something.

But I try to do something that is not stressful and that is really just a recovery from fatigue day

for me. 57 % of couples sleep in separate rooms. This I have found out is a very normal thing in

Japan. I am an incredibly light sleeper. I don’t think you need to know about my personal life,

but I actually sleep in a separate room for my wife, but not because like we’re distant as people.

She wakes up at five to five 30 and I’m a very, very light sleeper. So if she woke up,

she would wake me up and then I wouldn’t be able to get back to sleep again. People in Japan

need to get more sleep. And this would indirectly go into the Japan is not having enough babies thing.

If everyone is too tired, if everyone is too sleepy, if everyone has no energy, you’re not making babies.

You’re not doing that. That’s something you need energy to do. It’s supposed to be fun. I mean,

if you do it right. So I actually think that might be the first step is make sure everyone gets enough

sleep. Make sure people, I mean, my common thing has been they work too much. They spend too much time

at work, but that feeds into they don’t sleep enough. So if you spent less time working,

you’d spend more time sleeping, you spent more time sleeping, you have more energy,

you add more energy, maybe you’d make some babies. As I was just turning on my air conditioner and

complaining, this is still pretty early in the spring, but I think my room gets a lot of sunlight

in the afternoon. So it gets pretty hot. They have terms, the Japanese like weather bureau has terms

that they use for summer days. And it’s to talk about like, is this going to be a particularly hot day?

They have added a word, a descriptor that they haven’t had to do since 2007. So let’s go

through those, the common ones. The first one is a Natsubi, which is a summer day, which is about 25

degrees Celsius. That is a very nice day. It’s actually probably hotter than that. It’s probably

hotter than that in my room right now. Manatsubi is a midsummer day, and that’s going to be about

30 degrees. And that’s hot. But if it’s not that humid, which it gets pretty humid in Japan,

it’s not too bad. Then we get into the gross days because this is just temperature. And actually,

it’s temperature plus humidity is what really, really gets you, which is one of the more old

man things I tend to say. So it’s not the heat to get you, it’s the humidity. If it was 40 degrees

and dry, I’d be okay, which I wouldn’t. I mean, I just was not built for heat.

But Moshobi is an extremely hot day, and that’s when it’s 35 degrees.

So that was introduced in 2007. They had to come up with a new one. And it’s, they did a survey and

a vote for who has like the best idea. And they ended up on Kokushobi, which is brutally hot day,

which is not something I’m looking forward to. Now, a brutally hot day is 40 degrees or more.

They’ve been keeping track of the temperature since 1872. And there have been 108 times the

temperature has gone above 40 degrees or 40 degrees and above. But 41 of those, so basically,

40 % of those happened between 2023 and 2025. So anyone who’s arguing about climate change not being real,

the statistical data is telling you that it is real. And the people are saying like natural shifts,

natural shifts don’t happen in this timeframe. That would be my counter argument. Like a natural

shift would be change over time, yes, but it would be years and decades, not a two year period where you

have more 40 degree days in the summertime than in the entirety of the previous hundred some years.

August 5th last year hit 41 .8 degrees in Isesaki, which was one of the hottest days on record in all

of Japanese history. And I would love to be able to say we’re not going to outdo it this year, but this

is a record we are absolutely going to break. Last time we talked about the blue ticket system for

bicycles. And we talked about bicycles, some of the crimes that could, and infractions that could get

you a ticket. And the expensive one was riding while looking at your cell phone. That’s 12 ,000 yen,

two people on one bicycle, bicycles walking parallel, being dangerous. All these things can get you

tickets. It took less than a week for people to start trying to scam other people with fake blue

tickets. So I have a variety of stories because apparently you introduce a new system and every

scammer in the world jumps on it. A 13 year old boy in Hokkaido was riding his bike and he came to a stop.

I’m assuming a stop sign. It wasn’t maybe a red light. A man then walked up to him and said,

that’s a violation. Now, if you’re 13 years old, an adult shouts or says that’s a violation to you,

you’re a little put out of place. You don’t know what’s going on. This is an adult or just

generally authority figures, which is a little one. This kid though had it together. I mean, he had it

way more together than I would have at 13 years old. He started demanding from the kid a certain

sum of money. I think it was like three or 5 ,000 yen. So he was like, you got to, if you can pay me

5 ,000 yen right now, I’ll let you go. Otherwise you get a ticket. Uh, we’re going to have to talk

to your parents. You’re going to get in trouble. The fake cop was wearing a bucket hat, sunglasses

and a backpack. Now the one that stuck out to me is a bucket hat. Cause I don’t think anyone looks

good in a bucket hat. I once put on a bucket hat and I looked over at my daughter. I go, huh?

Cause you know, you want to look cool and young and hip and all these other words that they don’t

use anymore. Um, and my daughter just looked at her, looked at me and went, no. And I was like,

yeah, you’re right. No, I think Brad Pitt wore a bucket hat and something and he looked good,

but he is a level above anything I ever would dare to dream to achieve. So I don’t think most people

look good in a bucket hat. And I think if you’re trying to fake a cop, a bucket hat, isn’t giving

you the authority. See, he must’ve just been wearing his normal clothes and gone like, Hey,

here’s an opportunity. I’ll give it a shot. And you know, worst that can happen is I get arrested

for impersonating a police officer. The kid, 13 year old kid demanded to see his badge and to get

his badge number. And the man took off running. So, you know, good on you for kid. You’re awesome.

I don’t think at 13 years old, I would have had the wherewithal to ask to see a badge or identification

of a presumed authority figure. I also wouldn’t have had any money. So if he demanded money, I’d be like,

you have to give me the ticket because I do not have any money. And he pulled the like,

you have to go to the ATM and get it. I was like, dude, there’s no money in there either.

You’re actually attacked. This is one of the problems of maybe trying to rob me until I was

in my mid twenties. I didn’t have any money to take. Like I wasn’t poor as in dying or starving,

but I didn’t have any extra money that people could take away from me. In Hiroshima, uh, they took 2000

yen from a teen in Oyama. Also two men came up to a cyclist and demanded 15 ,000 yen, uh, because the

man rode his bike across a crosswalk. They claimed he ran a red light, which is fine at 15 ,000 yen.

Uh, you can pay now. And then the guy hesitated. And then the two guys who are pretending to be

cops go, if you don’t pay right away, we’re going to arrest you. Now that’s not the way tickets work.

Uh, you get the ticket and you pay it at a convenience store, the post office or a

co -bond or something like that. You pay it somewhere separated from the police actually. And this is of

course, to keep you from accidentally bribing a police officer or a police officer taking advantage

of the system and taking bribes. It’s actually just stop exactly what’s happening right here.

Someone trying to scam you out of money. When they stopped him, the victim flagged down a patrol car

to check because he had gotten, he’d actually received a fake blue ticket. And then the cop said,

like, that’s not how any of this works. Police in Japan will never take money directly from you.

You always go to a place to pay. And I think it’s a post office or a bank or something. You do a

transfer. You do not ever had money to a police officer. Uh, yes. The last line is that cops don’t

ever collect fees on the spot. So if this ever, you come to Japan and someone claims to be a police

officer and says, give me money. The answer is no. And if they say, well, we’re going to arrest you,

like, please go ahead. So you’re a lawyer and you represent a real estate company and the real

estate company sues Google to get reviews removed from Google Maps. So we are going to, let’s give

the benefit of the doubt and say these were negative, unfair, unrealistic reviews that should

be removed. So that’s why the company went through the effort of hiring a lawyer, going all the way to

court, going to get Google and saying, suing Google and saying, Google take down these fake

negative reviews. They lost in the district and the high court, but you’re a lawyer and you still

want to prove a point and you think it’s unfair and wrong that this is happening. What do you do?

And I do love the, the gumption of this young lawyer. I don’t know how old he is. I just,

I like to imagine he’s young. You create a website that reviews judges. So Saibankan map. So it’s like

Google map, but judge map, Saibankan map shows the names of judges in high profile cases. It gives

explanations of their ruling and the research papers they’ve written and users can rate and post

reviews of the judges they’ve interacted with. So I know there was a real website called rate my

professor where students could rate the professor. People don’t ever think of rating their judge.

So I’ve only had one interaction with the court system in Japan and the judge basically said

nothing to me at all. It was just all the lawyers and he just sat there looking very stone faced,

which was honestly very cool. So my review of him would have been impartial or seemed impartial

or did not care about anything I had to say, which also might’ve been true, but I didn’t have a positive

or negative experience, which actually is very appropriate for a judge in this situation.

I think the judge is proving his point. I think there’s going to be some judges who get pissed

off when they start getting negative reviews and then they’re going to want it taken down,

but then they have to go back to this ruling, this precedent that’s been set that you don’t take down

these negative reviews. You don’t do that. You have no say in this. Bye bye, sir. My website that

that judges judges is going to stay up. So a cop is doing sort of regular,

god damn if it’s speaking, a cop is doing regular patrols with a married woman.

That’s the euphemism I came up with. The husband finds out about these regular patrols and extra

personal attention from the police officer to his wife and he decides to divorce his wife.

So he’s like, you know, you’re having sex with this cop. I’m not cool with that. I want a divorce.

I mean, honestly, she clearly likes the cop better than her husband. Her husband is like a divorce.

It didn’t make it sound like it was too messy. It was like, oh, if you’re going to do that,

I don’t want to be married to you. I want to go find someone else who maybe doesn’t do that with

police officers behind my back. Or maybe you should have invited me. I don’t know what the

actual situation is. But if they had a very reasonable solution where they just kind of

dealt with it like adults, you wouldn’t be on Ninja News Japan. You then, as a police officer,

conspire with the woman to threaten the man with a knife to not divorce her. Now that to me is not

a convincing way. So you are going to stay married to your wife or I’m going to kill you.

Or I’m threatening to kill you if you threaten to go through with this divorce.

How long is that marriage going to last? Like the damage has been done. You’re not coming back from

that. So what did they actually think the real result was going to be? I do really, really wonder,

like, let’s say he scared the guy enough into staying married. I guess this is very much like a

cuck situation where it’s like, okay, you just sit there silently. You pay the bills for your family

and you stay married and then we’ll keep doing our thing on the side. Or maybe he just says like,

you stay married and I’ll step away. But the man wasn’t satisfied with this. He knew the other man

was a police officer. The husband knew the man was a police officer. So he went to the police and

reported him, which is a ball move to do. I like that. He reports him to the police officer. The police

officer was given his 10 % salary reduction. And then he quit the same day. But I think

threatening to kill people is a crime. I mean, maybe he didn’t say I’m going to kill you, but he

took a knife and he said, stay married to your wife. That is a threat. I think the threat there is if

you don’t stay married to your wife, I’m going to kill you with the knife that I’m holding at you

right now. There’s an implied threat there. You’re not going to hold a knife at someone and say stay

married happily. Like that’s just not what that means. I think there’s a level of interpretation that

could be happening there. So I’m not happy with the fact that this cop got to threaten someone’s life

after ruining the marriage and then turning around and not getting in trouble officially.

Let’s say he stayed a cop, a 10 % reduction in his pay. That’s nothing for threatening to murder

someone, which is, let’s be clear, what he was doing. 17 year old boy was doing what every 17

year old boy does, making spears by attaching a knife to the end of a pole. I don’t remember ever

doing this as a youth. If I’m being honest, I don’t know if this is a more common thing now. I don’t

think it is. I think this might just be a case of this kid has a lot of weird hobbies because he’s

making spears at home for fun. Police were called to the house by the mother of the kid who said that

the boy was acting violently. If he is constructing spears in his bedroom, this is not someone you want

to have acting violently in your house. So I absolutely understand the concern and the desire to call the

police and make sure that you are not in mortal danger. Three cops entered the house and the boy

was coming down the stairs and threw the spear at the cops in front from three meters away. So the fact

that he missed is already, shouldn’t be dealing with a spear if you don’t know how to throw a spear.

But he threw the spear down the stairs. Three meters is not that far. I’m six foot, which is 1 .83

centimeters. So almost two meters. That’s my length in a little bit more. And he missed the cops, which

is very lucky because this is goes from assaults or attempted murder to actual murder. Once he

actually stabbed someone, when the kid was arrested, he said, I did not intend to kill, which I have my

doubts about because why did you make a spear and then throw it at the cops? If you didn’t intend to

kill him? I mean, spears are pretty famously only for one thing, and that is for finishing off

whatever’s at the business end of the spear. Maybe he was just showing off his super sweet spear and he

wanted to show his super sweet spear skills and he threw it at the cops so they’d be super impressed by his

super sweet spear skills that he’s just demonstrated. But I don’t think that’s actually the case.

It’s normal to not like your co -workers. I’ve had lots of co -workers over my time in life and there are

some that I don’t like and some that don’t like me and sometimes it’s justified and sometimes not, but

whatever. Not everyone can like anyone. But I can say I have never hit the depths of fury that this

person must have hit to actually follow through on the actions here. A woman in her 20s stepped away

from her desk and a co -worker, a male in his 30s, poured urine into her open bottle of tea.

This always puts me in the mindset of the criminal.

Like this was prepared in advance. Like you don’t just have a container of tea. Like you don’t ever

just have a container of urine available to you. You had to consciously stop and say, let me get some

urine. Let me get this container to keep it in. I hope it’s a nice container. And then you have to

fill it up and then maintain that around your person until the opportunity arises for you to exact your

plan to pour the pee into the tea, making pee tea. The woman came back to her desk and immediately

noticed the change in taste, which means she actually tasted some of it, which God, I cannot

imagine. And then she immediately called the police, which is the right thing to do. I mean, there’s no

way this is okay. In court, the man denied a sexual intent. So this is one of those things that happens

in Japan and they put stuff into a woman’s drink and they want the woman to drink it. And this sort

of helps them get their jolly somehow. Again, I am far enough away from those kinds of fetishes that I

don’t understand them. And I don’t know where, how you got to this point in your life. That is actually

maybe the thing I don’t understand, but he’s really trying to get out of two charges because one is

tampering with someone’s food, which is some form of assault, I’m sure. The second is sexual aggression

or sexual assault or something like that. So he’s trying to take that what could be two charges and get it down to

one by saying he did not have sexual intent. So he admitted to putting the urine in the tea. He said, I put it

in the tea with the intention of getting revenge. So I wonder what this woman did to make him want to get

revenge on her because I’m betting the whole thing is in his head. Like maybe if I’m going to like

hypothesize he’s 30, she’s 20, I’m going to put money on, she’s attractive to him. He asked her out.

She said, no revenge. But someone rejecting you does not deserve revenge. This is a workplace.

Maybe she took credit for some of his work or she messed up some of his work or she made his work

increase in number or because she caused a problem and then he’s going for revenge. But I’ve never had

someone interfere in my work to such a degree where I was like the only possible solution is I’m going

to put urine into something they drink and then watch them drink it and feel a great deal of

satisfaction that they drank urine. I actually don’t think I would get that much satisfaction

from it either. The only way you get satisfaction from that is if they realize they’ve drunk urine

and I guess maybe part of it’s if they drank your urine. But I don’t think that would be the kind

of thing that would satisfy me. I want my, if I’m ever going to go for revenge, it’s going to be

applicable in the ways that you’ve been causing me trouble. So if you cause me trouble professionally,

you’re going to get revenge professionally. If you cause me trouble personally, I’m going to find a

way to get revenge personally. And I’m going to be, you know, slightly creative about it because I want

this to be satisfying for me. So I’m going to put a lot more thought into it then, oh, I’m going to pee in

a cup and put the pee into your tea and you’re going to drink the tea. Ha ha ha. Because to me,

that’s like a child. There’s, there’s no sort of finesse there in getting your revenge. The last

question I, I’m going to offer to you, the listener, if you want to write into chugmcbeefchest

at gmail .com or speakpipe .com slash chunkmcbeefchest to leave a voice message. Have you ever been pissed

enough? Ha ha, get pissed. Have you ever been pissed enough at someone to actually want to spike their

drink with your urine to make pee tea?