#Except for the obvious Japanese aspects of it (names or geography etc) it was pretty much the same news as here in the US

[solradguy]

I think there would be less problems in the world if more people were able to read a newspaper from a country on the opposite side of the Earth from their own. There's just something about reading the daily news from a country so far away and seeing that they have a lot of the same difficulties or celebrations the newspaper at your local corner store will tell you about.

#textpost #I did a translation/summary of a few Japanese newspaper pages used as packing buffer for something a friend ordered in the other day #and I've been thinking about it since #Except for the obvious Japanese aspects of it (names or geography etc) it was pretty much the same news as here in the US #Corona virus updates. Ads for shitty credit cards. An article on some kind of data hacking. Gas prices