Meiyouwenti comments

Chinese navy and coast guard vessels have brazenly violated Japanese territorial waters numerous times over the years. Don’t do to others what you don’t want done to you.

Use that unused money to raise salaries of the SDF personnel at least on par with the private sector. Then there should be no recruitment problem.

If Russia and Belarus are barred from the Hiroshima ceremony, then Israel, another aggressor committing crimes against humanity, should be too.

Maybe it’s time to establish a foreign legion and recruit personnel from other Asian countries. The big question is, if war breaks out between Japan and China, will Chinese legionaries fight against the country of their origin.

It’s summer so it’s supposed to be hot. It seems to me that people have become less heat tolerant in the past 10 years. Don’t worry too much about people over 70 dying of heat stroke. It’s called survival of the fittest and natural selection.

How about Japan setting up a buoy of its own right next to each of the Chinese ones and see how China will react.

The Supreme Court was quite right in its ruling that the 20-year statute of limitations should not apply when citizens are suing the government for gross injustice it committed in the past. Now you don’t have to give up if you feel you’re wronged by the government. I take my hat off to those victims.

It’s a typo. The correct form is: densha ni. 電車に。

I’d like a comment on this case from the Chinese guy who urinated in the Yasukuni Shrine. Or is his Weibo account already shut down?

RIP Hu Youping

A second pillar membership? No thanks. Japan wouldn’t function in an English speaking club.

The Kono family owns a business with close ties with China. People are fed up with Kishida and Kamikawa is just a puppet of the LDP. All things considered, Takaichi is the least of the evils.

There’s sexual abuse in Japan like anywhere else. I don’t deny that. But the UN resources could be much better spent by tackling gross human rights abuses in China and North Korea.

What’s causing the recent depreciation of the yen is high interest rates in the U.S. and other industrialized countries, factors outside BOJ’s or LDP’s control. The J gov should give more subsidies to rice growers to ensure stable supplies of rice.

i believe most US servicemen stationed in Japan are decent and honest people. But some are not. The U.S. military is often the last refuge for scums and social misfits who cannot find employment elsewhere. Obviously the guy belongs to the latter.

Every year 300,000 to 400,000 children disappear in the US. I wonder how many of them are victims of human trafficking.

@kurisupisu

“Not once in Japan have I wver seen (in decades) a political candidate canvassing door to door.”

Of course you haven’t. Door-to-door canvassing by election candidates is prohibited by the Public Office Election Law. It seems like you’ve lived in Japan but you haven’t bothered to learn much about your host country.

It’s good to know that at least one American had human feelings. I’d like to see the footage.

The opening ceremony of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics was held on October 10. People back then were more sensible. I’m afraid the Paris Olympics might turn out to be great endurance games of the century.

Swell idea. If you have enough money to pay for a trip to Japan, a quadrupled admission fee wouldn’t hurt at all. . Resident foreigners should count as locals, of course. During WW2, the city of Himeji was bombed multiple times by US B-29 bombers but they somehow spared the castle. Quite irrelevant to the proposed fee hike though.

I didn’t know working at assembly lines of a confectionary factory was a skilled job. Being left on standby without pay for two and a half months is horrible but the company says it’s going to pay compensation. It’s about time foreign workers realized that Japan is not their promised land.

“stealing the apron of the cabin attendant in her 40s”

Just wondered. If he’d known the apron belonged to a 40 something cabin attendant, would he have stolen it?

What is restricted in the US for safety reasons is not in Japan. Maybe life is cheaper here than on the other side of the Pacific.

@GuruMick

General perception is that crime rates of the unemployed are higher than the rates of those who are securely employed.

When Columbus and his shipmates landed at a small Caribbean island, the first thing they did was slaughtering its natives who were unarmed and posed no threat to the Europeans. Columbus was a genocidal murderer. He didn’t even discover America. The Vikings found America in the 10th century, well before Columbus.

The U.S. and UK start a war, make a lot of money out of it, then let another country clear the mess. Same old story.

“Funny. The LDP exists to restrict competition, always has done.”

You’re not following what’s happening in Japan very closely. The LDP has scrapped regulations and restrictions that were there to protect workers and small businesses so that large corporations could maximize their profits. Deregulation on hiring temp workers to cut labor costs, for example.

The fact that “such law only exists in Japan” doesn’t automatically make it wrong or something that needs to be revised.

She was no doubt one of those prostitutes standing on the street near Okubo Park. There are lots of them these days.

What “deeper defence industry collaboration” actually means is buying more US-made weapons at marked-up prices. But of course, Japan cannot say no to the viceroy sent here from the master country.

Good to know the long overdue revision of the immigrations law is finally in effect. But how is it that asylum seekers keep coming to Japan when the “United States and several European countries…typically accept more than 10,000 asylum seekers annually”?