AndyPanda comments

The A-bomb was simply a quick way to end the Japanese aggression on her neighboring countries. The US could have dropped one in Germany, but there were still many Jews there. What is the lesson here? If your country has an A-bomb, you have a say at the negotiating table.

Remember Operation Vengeance during WW2. The US deciphered the Japanese naval messages and intercepted and killed Admiral Yamamoto, the mastermind behind the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Japanese government must catch up with technology. Every country is doing cyberattacks. Cybersecurity is a popular major in a lot of US universities.

The crew reminds me of a scene in the James Bond movie, "You only live twice." (1967)

The festivity is celebrated on July 7 in the lunar calendar elsewhere, particularly in traditional China.

I used to visit an old woman in her 90's and she had a habit of calling the church pastor in the middle of the night. We just had to walk with her in her final steps in life. The old man in the story has dementia and obviously lives alone. He needs company. He needs social service. Those who cannot see this social issue should be jailed in insolation.

Watch your Oxford comma!

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Taiwan was/is a province of China. Every Chinese on earth agrees with that. And I am sure all of the neighboring countries agree with that too. Chiang Kai Shek's forces had nowhere to go but Taiwan. They lost the civil war. Some old folks said every year they vowed to return to the mainland on day of the Moon Festival. So the mainland wants to unify with Taiwan, and vice versa. And the US says "One China policy." China says it is an internal conflict or affair. Taiwan does not want to be part of China. You can call it an invasion. I am stating the facts. I am not siding with either government.

"In 1894, China and Japan went to war. The Japanese defeated China's Beiyang fleet. Although nearly all the fighting took place in northern China, Japan had important territorial ambitions in southern China. The Japanese took steps to ensure that Taiwan would be ceded to Japan under the eventual peace treaty and that they were well placed militarily to occupy the island."

In any religion, there are good guys and there are bad guys. First thing first, they all need followers to build up their wealth. They need to get paid too and they get a lot. What to do with the extra money "legally?" They can benefit or influence the society for the better and worse!

We all know this expression: divide and conquer. So we had East Germany and West Germany; North Vietnam and South Vietnam. No more. They reunited for the better or worse. We still have North Korean and South Korea, Mainland China and Taiwan. India became India and Pakistan. USSR became Russia, etc. Imagine all these countries re-unite!

The British general had no choice but to retreat or surrender when the Japanese came. England preferred to watch Hitler instead. England gave up Asia. The focus of Japan was to get China. It conquered the smaller neighboring countries to enslave them to help build up the momentum. Don't forget. There was a total of 8 western countries trying to divide and own China since the Ching Dynasty. They already got to Korea while Japan moved into Korea and took it.

The world has come to recognize the horror of the Holocaust. Japan should remember at least the "Rape of Nanjing," 20,000 mostly women and children raped and another 200,000 males butchered by the Japanese soldiers. The dead bodies were dumped into Yangtze River and the water tuned red. The atomic bomb was intended to quickly stop the war.

There is a war in front of you. You need food. You want all the glucose, cholesterols, triglycerides, and extra sodium. You don't know when your food supply chain stops. Enjoy your burgers and fries!

136,800 yen is a little over US$1000. Well, it is a camera as opposed to a phone camera. However, a phone can share pictures with friends immediately.

I am driving my 4th Toyota!

Japan will be troubled forever over historical invasion in the neighboring countries, most notably Korea and China. Denying the Japanese invasion is the same as denying the Holocaust in Europe. Japan needs the US to be on her side; and the US wants Japan. The US wants Okinawa forever. In college, I befriended with a few Japanese students and a few Korean students born in Japan. They did not seem to know too much about the Sino-Japanese war, but they were eager to hear more about it.

Good people do good things. Bad people do bad things. When good people want to do bad things, they need religion.

Good people do good things. Bad people do bad thing. When good people want to do bad things, they need religion.

@Desert Tortoise. Thank you for your insight. I have heard similar family horror experience. God bless.

@Strangeland. I am just stating the obvious facts. I am not communist. Do you think Bruce Lee could fight 100 gangsters? Maybe. There is a second batch of 100. Now what? Hong Kong is getting bullied by China. What did any western country do to help Hong Kong?

Everyone knows Taiwan is a province of China. It is a civil war that has not ended yet. China says it is an internal affair and it is testing the water to see what the US would do. Taiwan needs the US to help it. The US is getting all the neighboring countries to gang up on China. It is a proxy war against China without fighting China directly. In the meantime, the US will sell a lot of weapons to these countries and it will probably keep Okinawa for a few more decades. China may not have any impressive weapons. But it can overwhelm Taiwan in a matter of days by sheer numbers. What if China fires 100 missiles towards the US 7th fleet? I am talking about overwhelming the 7th Fleet with basic missiles by a huge number. A US colonel wrote a paper on this basic strategy.

The US will probably sell weapons to Japan, South Korea, India and Australia. And Biden wants to keep Okinawa for another 50 years. OK. Good deal for the U.S.

It should have been an easy open-and-close case. I blame the immigration office for not deporting the illegal person immediately, thus creating more trouble for themselves. It is not uncommon that a detainee in a US detention center dies while in custody or waiting! A detainee is not in the jail system yet, i.e. not incarcerated. Once a person is in the system, he/she will get meals, medical and dental checkup, and ... schooling or vocational training. I did the computer programming for a jail and therefore I know it. It was unfortunate that this woman had a medical issue. Who will pay for the autopsy? I can imagine this is true in all countries.

The Marcos family has tons of money for private investment in Japan. Don't ask how they got the money in such a not-so-rich country. Make friends. Take the money. The Filipino maids are educated, even on college level. Bring them in. They will also tutor the kids English, the Filipino kind though if you don't mind.

Biden to Fumio Kishida: you are in! Do what I say. But first, let me have Okinawa. We will put more Marines there to protect you! Hahaha.

Kyo wa heiwa dayo ne

The Pope is not part of the UN. I am pointing out that he is not even speaking much for his own flock in China and now Hong Kong! The Pope does not want any trouble with China. Condemning the war in Ukraine is easy to do as long as you are not getting pulled into it.

Perhaps Japan was pressured by the Quad to say what it said to China.

No one really cares about the Uighurs. Did anyone say anything about the Catholic church in China, especially the government version of it?! Even the Pope is not saying much if anything at all.

The party leaders say: spray everywhere. Would the doctors and scientists there say: no?

Why -chan? Half Chinese?