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After decades of covering the country in ugly, polluting and destructive buildings, cement, roads and factories there is suddenly some interest in preventing it. It's encouraging in some ways that people are waking up to the devastation that has been wrought but it is it that this is a foreign enterprise?

Most likely. They're quite happy with a paper mill belching out toxins that's right in front of a Japanese icon in Yoshiwara near Mt Fuji since it's Japanese. A foreign owned data centre in an urban wasteland, no!

Deport this creep and ban his whole family from ever visiting.

¥2,640.

A complete rip off.

The sleaze from these people knows no bounds.

Looks like a bowl of vomit. No thanks.

Whoop de do!

Stop encouraging competitive eating. It's a repugnant activity.

Inflexibility is Japan's number one problem.

Hope they've rehearsed their ability to cry on queue for the cameras. An NHK broadcast that focuses only on this team wouldn't be the same without it.

The whole thing is a total yawnfest. Nothing will change, no matter who wins this

Junk that will end up in landfill. The world does not need anymore of it.

Yuck

Eddie Murphy returns to Beverly Hills, which is good enough for everyone

No it's not. It just shows Hollywood has ZERO orginality any more.

Good.

Shocking, but not surprising—this isn’t the US or Europe

What's wrong with that? Nothing wrong with talking to folks on a long rail journey.

Japan used to think skateboarding was a pastime for delinquents

It still is if you see the passive aggressive signs everywhere.

train station

Wouldn't have happened if he slept at a railway station.

Deal with the unruly cyclists properly while you're dealing with this.

Run more buses, with higher capacity. Find drivers who go faster than driving miss daisy.

high demand from booming inbound tourism.

Utter garbage. No fan of the overtourism glut we're being punished with, but it's rediculous to draw them into this.

How about looking at how inefficient the rice farming industry is and how much it's protected by tarrifs.

Most Costco's are in the middle of nowhere, not close to public transport and cater only to people who drive. That massive ¥1500/hr would go straight to the car the employee turns up in.

Imagine how much better than national bottom line would be if this was abolished.

He added that "society has changed" since the first Olympics organised by de Coubertin in 1890s, adding that "the path of progress and equality is a long one which we must continue to advance along."

So has the IOC. Once it was about participating in amateur sport. Now it's all about the cash and how much their delegates can slurp up from the trough. It should be classed as a criminal organisation.

Funny. One useless former PM calling out how useless his successor is. Must be reading from Liz 'the lettuce' Truss's book of how to be a complete loser.

Only 10.4% want PM Kishida to continue to serve: poll

That 10% need to be in the nearest loony bin, tout de suite.

Make no mistake : Japan has an incredibly well developed and extensive rail freight system.   

Yet it cannot move a single international standard shipping container as there are no wagons capable of fitting them. Bit of a problem isn't it.

There's far too many trucks on the road as it is. Freight should be moved by rail wherever possible.

The alternative is importing more cheap labour that drives even more dangerously than the locals do.

Chaos? Hardly. If it were anywhere else those stupid posters would be quite rightly defaced.

If you're too lazy to get off your backside and go to the store yourself, you shouldn't be eating junk food.

How lovely. Just in time for Wimbledon. So nice to see my tax being spent wisely.