BertieWooster comments

"Japan PM"? Japan has a Prime Minister? Kishida? What???

“Tokyo, which hosts the biggest concentration of U.S. forces abroad”

No. Tokyo doesn't. Okinawa does. And we are not happy about it!

How about spending the taxpayers hard earned money on something peaceful that actually benefits society? The arms race and the military only benefit the arms manufacturers. They don't do anything for us.

Time for a change. The LDP has overstayed its welcome. Too much corruption. Too much clinging to old ways and too many heads in the sand. Let's have a party that's in communication with its people and not just supporting the old boy network.

Of course, they wouldn't have to worry about information sharing if the US troops weren't in Okinawa. How about relocating them on US soil? Then let them rape and pillage and see what happens!

“French actor Judith Godrèche”

Actor? Surely she's an actress!

That ghastly artificial orange stuff in the photo is cheese?

Beer!

If AI is labour saving and reduces the need for so many employees, are we going to see huge staff cuts and tax reductions as a result?

Somehow I don't think so!

Facebook doesn't care where the money comes from. They have no ethics. Look out for a recent fake ad for a "Panasonic" A/C unit for ¥8,000! Brand electric assisted bicycles for one tenth of their actual price. If Facebook can get away with not paying for news stories, they will.

GillislowTier

Your comment was spot on:

“There is "always" a choice to host the US bases and not to be slavish to a government which is clear to prioritize his own interests. Like the rest of the world with this warmongering approach, selling weapons to finance conflicts and telling people it is all because of China or Russia.”

What would happen to the US economy if they stopped hawking weapons and war machines?

Japan needs an Assange. Too much is hidden here.

happyhere,

But no, the golden rule among the commentators here is: China bad.

It sickens me too. Knee jerk reaction by those who have swallowed the propaganda.

Now that's real irony!

Mr Kipling, I have the same experience. Far too much time is spent in useless admin and meetings.

It's only a stop gap. With the way inflation is going, it won't be long before they reissue these as ¥1,000, ¥5,000 and ¥10,000 coins.

If he's thinking about whether to run or not and incapable of making this simple decision, what possible use is he going to be running a country?

Ignore him and he'll go away.

Biden is not up to any kind of position of responsibility NOW, let alone for the next four years. Why do US presidents have to be some kind of court jester? Bush's inability to put together a grammatically correct sentence kept us rolling in the aisles and Trump's gaffe's were a laugh a minute. Biden made yesterday's "debate" like watching a rerun of Dad's Army!

So, why don't they take advantage of the situation and add more buses? They could have some Okinawan buses. Nobody is using them here.

Wouldn't you think that 76 deaths would warrant a sense of urgency? But then, like other big pharmaceuticals, Kobayashi is more concerned with making money than saving lives.

The US may as well join the war openly instead of covertly attacking Russia by supplying Ukraine with weapons. Or, they could keep out of it.

Critics say Okinawa bears an unreasonable burden in hosting U.S. bases.

And that's the truth! I don't know what US bases are doing on non-US soil in the first place.

Kept alone in a tiny 4.5 mat room with no lawyer, no window, no table, no chair, no bed, lights on 24/7, it's no wonder that so many in detention die. You lose the will to live. Come on Japan! We are in the 21st century!

I enjoy working with my wife. We don't have children and our business is something we can create together. Far from destroying conversation, our joint business is often the topic of conversation over dinner and breakfast. This has been the norm for millenia. A farmer and his wife. A shopkeeper and his wife. An artisan and his wife.

“to infiltrate secretive organizations and corporations in order to weed out corruption and unethical activity,”

Corruption and unethical activity is putting it mildly. The one that really hit home is the video taken by a US helicopter that mowed down a group of non-combatants, including two Reuters reporters and two children. That was a war crime. "Collateral murder" on YouTube. And I notice that Guantanamo is still going. On Cuban soil, because they wouldn't get away with it on US soil.

Kitagawa registered as a lawyer after he retired and is a member of the Osaka Bar Association.

So, does this mean he'll get a slap on the wrist and have to write 100 lines, "I must not rape drunk women"?

Or will a more appropriate punishment be meted out?

The problem is that Okinawan people by and large are just so nice and the children are so innocent. And this creep took advantage over this. He couldn't control his animal instincts and has ruined his life as a result. He'll do a few years of jail time and struggle after that to find any kind of employment.

At last Assange is free!

He dared to stand up to the US and expose some of the most inhumane acts committed by any nation at any time that they were and still are desperate to try to cover up. Assange is a hero. Let us remind ourselves of what he exposed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYTxuW2vmzk&rco=1

The above link is to the video that the US is still trying to hide. It shows a helicopter gunning down a group of civilians, including Reuters journalists and two children.

"Lightning never strikes twice in the same place."

Suga is the pot calling the kettle black. But as someone pointed out, they don't have anyone who's up to it. I think it's time for the LDP to up and leave.

Parkland, the Tree of Life synagogue, the Tops Friendly Markets in Buffalo, New York, the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, Columbine High School and the Twin Towers of 9/11 in New York were not the cause of the killings, but the site where killing occurred. The insane individuals who caused these mass murders have mostly been identified. 9/11 still remains a mystery though.