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🇯🇵日声私語 Voice of Japan Tweets 🇬🇧 Japanese trending content in English. All welcome. I love Japan and China, and hate nothing. 35 years in Japan.

山口市 Yamaguchi City, Japan
Joined April 2009
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Trending today in Japan: *It's claimed that* Yamato, probably Japan's most famous delivery service and distributor, sacked 5000 Japanese staff and replaced them with immigrants who 🎥treat the parcels like rubbish. Japanese airport staff treated packages so well.
ヤマトは3万人の日本人ドライバーを解雇して 倉庫に5000人の移民達を雇った 物は投げ捨て品物を漁って盗むのが当たり前と 倉庫で働いていた日本人が投稿していた 移民達だけの倉庫もあると こんな状況を日本人は知らずに許してよいのか
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このポストは別々の2件を混同しています。 ・ヤマトが契約を終了した約3万人は、ネコポス等を配達していた個人事業主で、業務は日本郵便へ移管(2023年発表) ・外国人採用は、2027年から5年で長距離トラック運転手のベトナム人約500人(2025年発表) 動画は関西国際空港の報道映像で、ヤマトの倉庫とは確認できません。 asahi.com/articles/ASR9T… sankei.com/article/202511…
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I emphasised the "it is claimed that" because I wasn't sure of the verity and it transpires that 1) Yamato laid off independent delivery vehicle drivers, 2) They employed 500 Vietnamese long distance drivers 3) The video may not be Yamato at all (I doubt it's a Japanese person).
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TtiJ: A light car blows its horn at a woman on a scooter for not giving way. He managed to get her to stop & almost took her keys. Again, it's a bald man that is to blame. X: "Baldies are short tempered," partly because we're subject to discrimination😢 Bring back Chonmage!
【衝撃】女性バイカーさん 高齢ドライバーに煽られた挙句掴みかかられる さらにバイクの鍵まで抜かれそうになり、必死に抵抗して何とか逃げ切った模様。 久々のこういうの見た! #煽り運転 #老害
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TtiJ: A man hung out under the stairs of a Don Quixote store in Shinjuku, waiting for girls to walk down, to take a look up their skirts. Imho bald men, like myself, are a bit more likely to behave badly partly because, Japanese are baldists! Bring back chonmage!
新宿のドン・キホーテの階段に、女性のスカートの中をのぞき見ようとする不審な男が出現 男は階段の下に身を潜め、若い女性が降りてくるのを待ち構えているとのこと
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Trending today in Japan: A young punk kicks someone's rubbish bin to vent some frustration. The owner happened to have been watching and comes out and puts the punk, and the rubbish bin, in its place. Japanese 'culturalism' is brought to bear on Japanese too.
今日のクズ あとで話したら、嫌なことがあったらしいけど人様の物に当たったらダメでしょ。 怒りはお家に帰って自分の物に当てましょうね。 いいお勉強になったでしょ? #江古田 #練馬 #器物損壊 #今日のクズ
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Trending today in Japan: Kamiya, the leader of the orange-revolution (?) Sanseito right-wing party, says that the Japanese populace wants a reduction in the number of immigrants rather than the number of politicians. I think that politicians salaries could be decreased too.
神谷宗幣(@jinkamiya )『今国民が削減すべきと感じているのは、″議員の定数″ではなく、″外国人の受け入れ数″だと我々は考えています。』
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Kamiya has visited Israel. I like him but, if he did anything reprehensible in Israel, then there is the possibility that he can be controlled, as is it is claimed that Trump is controlled, Scary.
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Trended in Japan: Another Jessica in Japan that I follow, with a Korean mum and German dad, doesn't seem to face racism either, but when I went to check, I found she did come across an anti-Chinese Tanabata wish.
at my local supermarket... kinda sad translation: "I wish for all chinese people to leave japan"
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Trending today in Japan: A "cook" had a wrapped knife on the Yamanote Line of the Tokyo underground when the wrapping fell off the knife causing mass panic. Foreigners are saying 'why didn't the men there subdue him,' as if Japanese men are pussies, which is not my experience.
新宿駅山手線にて、包丁男で車内パニック。。。。
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添付されている動画は、2023年6月25日にJR新宿駅の山手線車内で起きた騒動の映像です。 勤務先から包丁を持ち帰っていた料理人の包丁が露出したことで乗客がパニックになったもので、警視庁の調べによると刃物を振り回すなどの行為はなく事件性はないとされています。現在の出来事ではありません。 times.abema.tv/articles/-/100…
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Trending today in Japan: Miyu, a nurse, practices "triangular eating" (rotating between soup, rice and protein, see link) so as to be able to keep eating the main part of the meal she likes. Okazu is translated as "side dish" but imho it's "main dish". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triang…
午前中おつかれさま〜 大好きなものずっと食べたいから三角食べみたいなの苦手なんだけど、分かる人いるかな?♡笑🤤
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Miyu may even be an AI based on SAO.
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Trending today in Japan: Rui's photos of Komachi Street in Kamakura on a beautiful clear autumn morning. Google Maps maps.app.goo.gl/G2rmpqCzRHPV…
朝だけが見せる景色。
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Trending everyday in Japan: Jessica, whose dad is from the Congo, and only looks foreign, but is Japanese in spirit, is thought to be very beautiful, cute, and is popular -- proving, imho, that the Japanese are not racist. Japan is often culturalist though. It's Japan.
歩くたびに揺れるしっぽがかわいくて そんな自分にトキメイて 今日も乗り越えていくのだ
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Let me introduce myself.🌱 My name is SAO. By day, I work as an office lady, and on the side, I’m also active as a model and actress. Until earlier this year, I was part of an idol group. Tomorrow, I’m planning to upload a YouTube Shorts video. Hope you’ll be there for me. I’ve read all your warm messages. Thank you so much for all the love and support 😊🤍 #SAOpost
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Trending today on Japan: 2 Chinese men demonstrate the "ABC Three-Step Folding Method," widely known as the "Japanese 2-Second Shirt Fold." The technique originates from Japan, but these two gentlemen do not mention it.
终于把网上很火的“ABC 三步叠衣法”看明白了 真的万物皆可折
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Trending today on Japan: two large Japanese men, Go Kashu and Yosuke Fujiwara as Yumbo Dump, imitating everyday sounds using their bodies, to approval from 3 of the 4 judges. They made it through the next stage too. Little speech but wildly original and creative #individualists
Ei meinaa naurusta tulla loppua 😊
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Trending on Japan: two photos, one of Japan, one of China. Can you tell them apart? There are features that wouldn't be seen in the UK: cables and undeveloped mountain.
能分辨出哪个是中国,哪个是日本吗?
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Trending today in Japan: a wall painting calling for the end of scientific evolution, while enjoying clothes and a newspaper, possibly by Japanese children. Many disagree with the conclusion but most that the message is powerful. When should, can we stop?
STOP❗️SCIENCE もうこれ以上の科学の進歩はいらない_____
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Trending today in Japan: a French guy insinuates that Japanese deceived him into thinking that ramen originated in Japan, and now he has found the real origin is China. "You weren't deceived," & "please come and try our version" in the comments. Why the Twitter wars?
Pendant toute ma vie, on m’a fait croire que les ramen étaient japonais, pour qu’au final j’apprenne que c’est chinois et que ça a été introduit au Japon par des immigrants chinois. On m’a menti depuis le début les ramen c’est 100% chinois 🇨🇳
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Trending today in Japan: a clip from a television program in which challengers were offered 10 million yen (66,000 usd) if they could beat former Yokozuna Asashōryū. It did not end well for the guy with tats.
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