Chibakun comments

tourism is saving the economy.

It's 1-2% no?

So they are trying to say that spending all that money proping up the yen wasn't that bad because they got the dollars when the rate was better...

Fury has such a crazy advantage with his height and reach. That ninth round, the ref definitely saved him, he was wrecked.

Maybe consider legalized euthanasia

Interesting, 5T yen is around 30B dollars.

About the same the central bank spent last week trying to prop up the yen

"Multiple investors and analysts said the intervention appeared to have involved about $20bn to $35bn worth of yen purchases."

Given that Japan holds the most US debt, surely if they started dumping it, there will be no buyers and we will have a massive global disaster

The wife pointed out that this lovely influx of foreign tourists does not bring much benefit to the J govt as everything is tax-free.

Well, surely hotels, restaurants, amusements, transportation are not tax free

An argument over money? Best to walk away or keep your mouth shut.

The only way to get proper raises is to keep switching jobs every 2-3 years.

Expats or English teachers?

Why cash, was the money "dirty"?

Better than a gold digger

What benefits are they missing out on?

I think they need to sort out their own pollution first before worrying about other people's

The bombs were always going to be used on someone, it's like human destiny. Question is, will they be used again?

I wonder would they conduct that much carpet bombing against a Christian nation?

Musk is a free speech hero.

Does that mean they don't need to raise interest rates then?

Japan needs to follow the UK's lead, where net migration is 500k in 2023.

You don't need paternity leave, didn't need it in the past, don't need it now. Men can't be mothers.

Men need jobs that pay a wage high enough to support a stay at home wife and kids.

She picked a bad man, but doesn't leave.

In the UK she might leave and tax payer would foot the bill for her council house.

Is there no such thing in Japan?

Interesting, the yen is being sold off.

GBP-Yen is 190 today

It was a mistake not to adopt English after WW2. It would have made it so much easier to contribute to technology and use American tools, build tech companies, etc.

This whole story is rotten. People have been paid to design, write, test, sign off this system. People have been knighted. Now they need a fall guy.

The UK Fujitsu employees were British.

It's true, the chief architect of the horizon system was a British man.

A Cambridge mathematics graduate, Mr Jenkins was the tech expert who helped build the faulty Horizon IT system.

When it happens in large cities then thousands die

That's pretty much what happened in Kobe.

Very difficult to predict what would happen in a large city. I know new skyscrapers won't collapse, but there's plenty of old buildings, bridges and other infrastructure.

The devastation is incredible in those pictures.

It's really worrying to me if this happened in a large metropolitan area.

Are these happening more frequently?

The rest of the world must be falling over themselves to implement Japanese style policies within their economies with these amazing low rates.

News flash, Japan's birthrate hits a new record low.