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The voting system in Tokyo promotes "stability." In reality, the majority of the population either doesn't care or wants Koike out. However, these votes are spread across dozens of alternatives. If there were a second poll with the top two winners from the first voting, Koike's chances would be slim.

CCP and Taiwan situation is equivalent to North and South Korea. The only difference is that CCP successfully sold their population as a cheap labour for Western industry, while North Korea became isolated state.

People choose Uber in other countries because ordinary Taxi service there is really bad. I don’t see any advantage of Uber in Japan.

I've been a regular visitor to Shizuoka for about 30 years. I know spots where you can take amazing photos of Fuji-san and you won't see another soul as most of the locals are either dead or have moved for economic opportunities. I'm not blaming the tourists who are on their bucket list trips -- the JNTO needs to think outside the box and find ways to get more visitors to these areas.

Oh no, why do you want to destroy peaceful beautiful place near Tokyo? I would never share with anyone a nice calm spot whether it’s just a little garden or cozy coffee shop.

an industry defended by the government as an integral part of Japanese culture

Harakiri is also a part of Japanese culture, so how about that?

I don’t think Germany or any developed country needs these type of plants. Especially, there is nothing technologically crucial in making cars except maybe software. Consumer cars should be made in countries with cheap labor, energy and low environmental standards like China etc.

Btw, net barrier is no problem to erase from any photo with current basic smartphone camera tools.

It will be real funny if that lawson will be closed and demolished soon due to the lack of shoppers.

It’s all about high-skilled migrants. They are making the real economic difference in the long run. For these people Japan is by far easier to migrate than into the US or even EU etc. However, Japan is not attractive for them due to low wages and, most importantly, its rigid hierarchical labor structure with little incentives for initiative and creativity. Xenophobia has nothing to do with that.

Why would them getting more yen for their own currency cause them to spend less yen?

They spend less in dollar equivalent. Of course you will earn a bit more in yen, but it doesn’t compensate the depreciation of the yen.

11.6-percent gain compared to March 2019

But they spend 50% less due to the weak yen. I.e., Japanese tourism industry works harder, but earns less. Not to mention the additional strain on indirect services and infrastructure which operates from taxes paid by locals.

Israel now is basically a terrorist state.

Nothing as smooth and powerful as a real electric car!

Its always amusing to see smooth and powerful cars on public streets where speed limits and traffic conditions equalize them with a smallest and cheapest moped.

Absolutely ridiculous logic. It’s like blaming a neighbor who quit smoking that one should smoke more now because the secondary fumes from the neighbor are not present in the air anymore. Also it’s pretty obvious that organic and non-organic fields should be separated from each other as much as possible either by clustering, or, preferably, by spacing between them. Another piece of garbage produced by “scientists”.

A couple of subs with nukes would be the cheapest and the most efficient defense solution. Look at North Korea or Russia, their conventional army is crap, but the presence of nukes makes everyone very gentle around them.

In Germany, the far right is on the rise again. How did it happen?

Why not, I am curious how it will be as an experiment. There is no danger to make another Hitler anyways. Many countries have nukes and such to stop any serious expansion.

I don’t think it will be a big issue in communist China. CCP can easily force women to have minimum 2-3 kids the same way they forced them to have at most one in the recent past.

Patents are waste of time and money. Just making it easier for Chinese to steal the technology.

Japan 2023 average new condo price hits record high for 7 years in row

So the property tax goes along with that. Good news for the local governments.

Sounds like another evil play by Israel at a perfectly chosen moment. Its disturbing how many trust it without any independent investigation. Israel is doing genocide of Palestinians and cutting funds and switching focus from mass murders by Israel is exactly what they need.

They last a lot longer, cheaper to make and far lower serving cots.

Nobody will make cars which last longer, cheaper and with lower service costs. And not only cars. These times long time gone. We will end up using cars with the same cycle as mobile phones, which is 2-3 years. After that you may not be able even to start the car due to inability to update the operating system to a “safe” one.

I am not in a gaming industry, but how difficult is it to make different versions of translations/language styles for the very same game and give the user an ability to choose from it?

WHO could start thinking about reducing expenses by relocating their main office from Geneva to a less attractive place, where they can observe the real world health struggles every day.

The 737 (not Max) has been around for decades, cracked windows is a maintenance or inspection issue, not a maker defect.

Perhaps, but spare parts are likely made by nowadays Boeing or approved by them. So it might turn out to be another “loose screw” for Boeing.

This is the part our misguided, free-Palestine friends just don’t want to think about, refuse to digest, nor comprehend.

We are distinguishing HAMAS terrorists and Palestinians. And we are rejecting the “right” of Israel to commit mass murders of civilians.

This is not meant to be a pro Russia statement, but Japan should just accept that these are islands are lost for good. 

Russia doesn't give anything back, it just takes.

That is not entirely true. One example is Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island.

Crazy world. Just a couple of generations ago Jews suffered a great loss due to genocide from nazis, and now they are doing exactly the same towards Palestinians. In both cases they had a similarly lame line of excuses to displace and steal freedoms from millions of people, and perform collective punishment using advanced weaponry on mostly unarmed population.

Its good to ramp up the military given the challenges on the borders, but what these strikes can do without nuclear warheads? It sounds like a waste of money.

Big corporations love weak yen and very cheap Japanese labor as a consequence. Of course they are very optimistic.

I don’t mind about this business if the Japanese government would not protect it from affordable grapes from outside of Japan in the name of food security. And they are probably even receiving some subsidies. Right now I see it like they are enjoying the monopoly at our expense.