I sincerely wish you good luck and hope you can make the trip someday! Visiting Japan has been a life long dream for my wife and I, and we are having an amazing time here. I only wish we could stay.

Same here; I live across the world. Usually, I mean. As a visitor in Japan however, I can confirm that their public transit system is every bit as convenient and efficient as we’ve been lead to believe internationally. Believe the hype.

That very same one. It is also very fast and covers vast distances, yet the ride is smooth and comfortable.

I’m literally riding the Shinkansen in Japan right now as I come across this meme.

Any harm coming to the child or other human shield is on the shitbag using them in the first place.

In French, it’s “partenaire” either way, which makes it surprisingly neutral in a language where almost every word or object has an assigned gender. However, other words around it (like my partner, your partner or the partner) are themselves gendered, and therefore give away the gender of the partner in question.