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Tanaka was quoted by police as saying he strangled Tomoko to death in a fit of rage after an argument. He then killed his children.

The "fit of rage" claim would be one thing if one victim were involved. Although it certainly wouldn't justify the murder, of course.

But to make that claim after killing THREE people? One of whom was your SPOUSE, and the other two of whom were your CHILDREN?

Ages NINE and SIX?

Come on. This guy is a murderous monster who should, at the very least, have gotten life without parole.

Better yet, the gallows. Give him his appeals, and then when his sentence is finalized, give him time to make his peace with God (if he believes, or comes to believe, in Him). Then carry out the just punishment.

Why must we be subjected to these fluff-and-puff "articles" about leftist politicians? Are we dealing with journalists here -- or political operatives?

What if everything about this story were the same, except Starmer was a conservative?

If he were, the media would probably be blasting him for wanting a soccer game update during a NATO summit.

The Japanese system doesn't require any Supreme Court pantomime. 

Sometimes, the U.S. system doesn't require it either.

For example, if you're an 81-year-old U.S. president, a special counsel won't recommend charges against you when you've clearly violated the law by having classified documents in your garage. Documents that date back to when you were not president.

That's because the special counsel will figure that you'll just pass yourself off as a sweet old man with a poor memory.

Meaning that you're mentally competent to be president, but you're not mentally competent to stand trial for a clear crime.

No, because I have been using proper spelling, grammar, and punctuation for decades.

Now this is a REAL felony.

Not that make-believe one involving a certain member of the other party supposedly "falsifying business records" -- otherwise known as "cooking the books," a "crime" that is never typically prosecuted beyond a slap on the wrist and a fine.

And it's certainly never prosecuted by (a) the city district attorney himself, and (b) an assistant who just left the incumbent president's DOJ for the express purpose of prosecuting his former boss' political rival.

She didn't even runner-up to Koike; a man did.

*She didn't even finish runner-up

(JT, it would be nice if you allowed people to edit their comments.)

Turns out that, despite the media billing this as a "contest between women," Renho wasn't much of a challenger.

She didn't even runner-up to Koike; a man did.

The media's ideological "spin" on things is funny to watch sometimes. Truly amusing.

The leftist media can spin this however they want -- but the bottom line is that the so-called "far right" (otherwise known as "people who make sense") is rising in France and elsewhere in Europe.

Yes, it was probably unrealistic that the RN predicted or expected an outright majority; they shouldn't have done that.

But they have more seats than ever, and it took backdoor political scheming and "ganging up" by the opposition to keep the RN from a majority.

The "woke" parties of western Europe have made a grand mess of things, and the tide is turning toward (literally) the right side.

Interesting how the media have been slobbering all over this supposed women‘s race - but Renho didn't even come in 2nd.

A man did.

She served in a number of key Cabinet posts, including environment and defense ministers, as part of the long-reining Liberal Democratic Party.

GillislowTier Today  08:54 am JST

Singapore randomly reminds us that it’s still run like it’s the Middle Ages at times.

Sorry, what? It's a clean, well organized, orderly city-state with a very low crime rate.

What would qualify as a "modern" city in comparison? Something like Los Angeles or San Francisco -- whose downtown areas and public transport systems are teeming with violent felons and homeless drug addicts?

Then again, given the crime… won’t see me trying to stop it. The willingness to take advantage of someone who can’t resist… and recording it. Got what you deserved guy.

Agreed. That's not the "Middle Ages," though. That's just plain and simple justice.

Also I hate to be judgmental or whatever but it really does feel like Japanese men especially seem ok with doing this.

"I hate to be judgmental" -- and then proceeds to post a racist-against-Japanese-people comment. The sort of comment that would never be tolerated here on Japan Today if it were about pretty much any other ethnic or national group. Well, except maybe white people.

Buffalo's Kevyn Adams: "If there’s players that flat out just don’t want to be in cold weather or don’t want to be in a state that has higher taxes, then they are probably not for us anyway.”

Buffalo hasn't made the playoffs in 13 years -- an NHL record.

They've never won the Stanley Cup in their 54-year history, and except for maybe two or three times, have never even come close to winning one.

So I wonder just what kind of players Adams, the team's general manager, thinks ARE for the team.

Kaowaiinekochanknaw Today  05:56 pm JST

Does he still have to pay the fare?

His destination turned out to be the afterlife, so I suppose a fare adjustment had to be paid after he disembarked.

YubaruToday  07:33 am JST

The police also referred the two women to prosecutors, suspecting their criminal complaint against the midfielder with the French club Stade de Reims contained information that differed from objective facts, the sources said.

"Objective"? What the heck is this supposed to mean. Right, it's their story against his, and now the Japanese prosecutors are charging them.

It sounds like the Japanese prosecutors are believing the French charges against him, but not the women making the accusations and charges.

This is a cluster-frick!

Wow, Yubaru.

Between this story and the story about the guy in Japan who got the death penalty recently, it's painfully clear that you really need to work on reading these articles more carefully, before commenting on them.

What "French charges" are you talking about?

There are no charges against him in France. The alleged incident didn't happen in France. It's alleged to have happened in Japan.

The sentence says that the charges are being made against a Japanese soccer player who happens to play for a team in France.

He wasn't actually in France at the time of the alleged crime.

How did you arrive at the conclusion that there were "French charges" here? Work on the reading comprehension.

Yubaru Today  11:27 am JST

Footprints left at the crime scene matched the shape of Sato's feet as well, the judge also said.

Dude gets a death sentence based upon the shape of his feet?

If you read the whole article, you'll see that was not the only piece of evidence against him.

It wasn't even close to being so.

TokyoOldMan Today  08:44 am JST

Those who demand the death penalty should be the ones committed to carrying out themselves , and if found out later to be wrong, they themselves be subjected to the same.

Those who demand life imprisonment, if found out later to be wrong, should themselves be subjected to the same.

Those who demand 25 years in prison (or 20 years in prison, or 10 years, or whatever) if found out later to be wrong, should themselves be subjected to the same.

Why apply this logic only to the death penalty?

No, no, and no again. It's the state's responsibility to protect law-abiding citizens from violent felons.

It's the state's responsibility to remove those who commit premeditated murder, or who like Sato commit murder during the course of another crime, from society.

Permanently.

So stop with this "you should do it yourself" nonsense.

That's just an intellectually lazy disarming comment designed to shut down discourse on a serious issue that demands far more intellectual vigor.

The lives of the two victims had the highest sanctity and value of anything in this world -- and so, the penalty for taking those lives so callously and (again) during the commission of another crime should be commensurate with that sanctity and value.

Fully commensurate.

And only the death penalty achieves that.

Why is it that climate change deniers seem to believe every reason except the ones held by the experts?

Because the so-called "experts," whether it's regarding the environment or so many other issues, have been colossally wrong way too often to even keep count anymore.

Dozens of dire environmental predictions have been foisted on us by the environmental "experts" since the 1970s.

And every single one of them has turned out to be wrong.

https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-of-failed-eco-pocalyptic-predictions/

In some cases these "experts" were just incompetent.

More often, probably, they were being driven far less by science and facts than they were by ideology and an agenda to push.

And most of all, by government funding they hoped to secure.

It's hard, after all, to keep the gravy train of government grants flowing, without a "crisis" to beg money for in order to "investigate."

That's sort of like asking if the Pope is Catholic. Or if Biden is in cognitive decline.

In other words, an obvious "yes."

Tragic. Always terrible when someone so young suddenly passes away.

Why are we reading far too many stories like this during the past, oh, three years or so? Young, healthy people, even elite athletes, collapsing and even dying of heart-related events.

We're allowed to ask. But there's one possible answer that we're seemingly not allowed to even consider.

Trump was not guilty of "not doing a damn thing" about January 6. He repeatedly told his supporters to comport themselves peacefully and legally.

And I might add, the overwhelming majority of his supporters DID comport themselves peacefully and legally.

Thousands of hours of video footage prove it.

Footage that the Democrats hid and censored from the public until they lost the House in 2022, upon which time the new majority Republicans made sure to show the truth.

The justices, in a 6-3 ruling authored by Chief Justice John Roberts, threw out a lower court's decision that had rejected Trump's claim of immunity from federal criminal charges involving his efforts to undo his 2020 election loss to Joe Biden. 

Good decision. His "efforts to undo" the 2020 election result were (and this is undeniable, folks) not fundamentally different from Al Gore's challenge in 2000, John Kerry's in 2004, and (albeit somewhat milder) Hillary Clinton's in 2016.

Trump went through nothing but legal channels to challenge the election results, and once his legal options were exhausted, he accepted the outcome.

True, he didn't go through the formality of publicly conceding -- but that's all it is, a formality. It's not a legal requirement. It's a customary tradition, but hardly a crime if one skips it.

Once his legal options were exhausted, he physically vacated the White House and yielded the presidency.

And contrary to Biden's blatant lie in the debate the other night, Trump was not guilty of "not doing a damn thing" about January 6. He repeatedly told his supporters to comport themselves peacefully and legally.

And he offered federal troops -- which the Constitution prevented him as president from unilaterally deploying on U.S. soil during peacetime -- to secure the Capitol Hill area.

But Democrats Nancy Pelosi (who as House Speaker was literally in charge of Capitol Hill) and D.C. Mayor Bowser both refused.

Trump is no saint, but this was a most just Supreme Court decision.

tigerjane Today  07:21 am JST

Why is a Japanese company choosing to run a business in Burma? Aeon should shut down all their business there and not support such a cruel so-called government.

My heart goes out to the Burmese people under such a regime.

It's a food supplier, and for it to pull out of the country would likely hurt the very people to whom your heart goes out.

It's not going to help bring food prices down if Aeon were to leave, resulting in less competition in the market & thus even higher prices due to less supply.

Chico3Today  09:36 am JST

Woman arrested after entering man's apartment, thinking he was her ‘spouse’

Is that title correct? If it was the woman who entered the man's apartment, wouldn't she be the one thinking the man was her spouse, not he?

Yes, the headline is correct. Very clearly so.

The second part of it means that the woman was thinking that he was her husband.

The woman is the subject of the entire sentence, including the "arrested" clause and the "thinking" clause.

Yes, the Japanese system of long extended detentions needs to change.

But I wouldn't want Japan to go too far in the other direction either -- as in Boston recently, where a Haitian migrant arrested for allegedly raping a disabled 15-year-old girl was released on $500 bail.

No, that's not a typo. It wasn't $50,000 or $5,000. It was $500. Five hundred dollars.

On a charge of raping a girl. A 15-year-old girl. Who's disabled.

Again, while I agree Japan's policies on these things need to be relaxed, let's hope they don't go the way of U.S. states and cities where the "progressives" run things.

Japan's crime rate would spike through the roof if that happened.

"It is important to secure diversity in terms of female empowerment and in decision-making. We will facilitate efforts to recruit and appoint female public servants," said Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi in a regular news conference.

Why? Why is it important?

How does it make any organization or any government body better at its job?

I'm perfectly fine with women, with ethnic minorities, etc. being appointed to positions for which they are highly qualified.

But to say that an organization's ability to carry out its mission is somehow improved by hiring more women or more minorities? That is true ONLY if those women or minorities are BETTER at their jobs than their predecessors.

Their being women or minorities, in itself, doesn't improve an organization's performance at all.

Bravo Sierra.

The vast majority of Americans don't care what your politics are, what your skin color is, or any of that. It's the media who concoct this "deep division" crap.

It's the media who whip people up into believing in these "deep-rooted political, racial and economic divisions" for click-bait and for something to "report" on.

And it's the politicians, especially ones of a certain party, who push these "divisions" in order to make certain groups feel like victims, for whom that certain party can then position themselves as the "saviors."

Sorry, I don't buy it. Every time I go to the States, I generally just see people of all ages, shapes, sizes, and (most of all) colors and even political persuasions just living their lives and getting along with each other just fine.

It's a far cry from what the media plasters on the TV and on the Internet every day.

Public distrust in the media is at an all-time high, and all of the above is a big -- and totally understandable -- reason why.

campaigners say sole custody acts as a bulwark against forms of domestic abuse courts may fail to recognize

Yup, that's right. Deny fathers their absolutely necessary role in their children's lives in the name of "preventing domestic abuse" -- even for that vast majority of fathers who have shown absolutely no sign or evidence of being abusive.

For the love of God in Heaven, would we EVER tolerate women being negatively stereotyped in such a fashion???

Joint custody of the children, in most cases, is the in the best interest of the children. 

Actually, what's in the BEST interest of the children, statistically speaking, is an intact two-parent mom-and-dad family.

The intact two-parent family is, for optimum socioeconomic outcomes for children as well as adults, the gold standard. Regardless of country, regardless of race, regardless of everything.

And every single study ever done on the subject has confirmed that.

It took until the very end for the Panthers to deny Connor McDavid his first title, and Edmonton what would have been its first Cup since 2006.

Factually inaccurate. Needs an edit.

The Oilers LOST the Stanley Cup finals in 2006 to Carolina.

Edmonton's last Stanley Cup was in 1990.

No Canada-based team has won it since 1993.

Japanese husbands spend notoriously few hours on household tasks -- just 47 minutes versus 247 minutes for wives on a weekday -- preventing women from re-entering the workforce.

That's interesting.

At least in my humble experience in Japan, I've seen quite a few housewives engaged in "overburdening" activities like English conversation classes, pleasure shopping, having coffee & cake with friends, tea ceremony classes, Pilates, and what have you.

Almost this entire article is devoted to what's best for, or what's in service to, women women women.

This despite the fact that this new law is, rightly, oriented toward what's seen as best for the children.

The children, who seem to be getting lost and forgotten in this pro-woman screed.