Ricky Kaminski13 comments

China doing 'antiterrorism' with a Russian ally on the Polish border. What could go wrong? Am sure the Poles are just fine with it...

Never try and explain yourself to the mob Mr Mayor. It’s impossible, just do the right thing and own it.

Pukey2, your name suits the sophistication of your message. Laughable.

I actually have no problem with AI using our comments to train itself. Almost feel like its an honor to be the generation that trained baby AI. Hope it remembers who we all were, what we said and tried to stand for. Even the comments on our beloved JT may be fair game! 'The insights and ramblings of the J expat community 2024, the golden era', etched in AI memory for infinity! Howzaaat!!

Yet we are to turn our heads the other way, smile and shake the hands of those actively trying to infiltrate and harm our systems. We are not to worry about it, nor mention it to them directly, because we may ' risk angering' these Chinese 'friends'. We are being played like violins, broken ones.

Of course they did, you push and push the boundaries until someone reacts, then scream bloody murder.

It’s called the waiting game. No moral compass or empathy necessary. No one held accountable for any miscarriage of justice or wrongdoing, and the system takes care of its enablers. 50 years or longer, try us!

This is how wars will start, deliberately and calculated. Everyone should be on guard between now and the US presidential election. It’s a small window of dysfunction and inner-turmoil that could lead to opportunistic behavior from a number of bad actors, China being but one.

Sri Lanka has learned a very painful lesson of the past decade or so. Be careful who you get into bed with! Can’t be a good feeling now looking for help and handouts.

Sky netto staaaarto!

Just kidding, hopefully. The streamlining of the ministries work, in fact the streamlining of the entire paperwork system across ALL industries and institutions will be one of AIs greatest potential benefits to the Japanese working landscape. Thats gunna free up alot of hands right there. Who doesn't want a bot to do their paperwork for them?

Way overdue.

20 years in the high school trenches fore finally moving on and can say unequivocally yes. Much of the overwork though is actual incidental stuff not exactly related to the universal teachers mission, to facilitate learning. Lot of wasted time doing things of little value and meaning.

The classroom stuff is sadly way down on the priority list, way way down. Wanna understand the lost decades, understand J education.

We need a French style runoff system. There I said it.

Taiwan, not sure a change in any system can fix what’s going on. The problem has become deep rooted and is a psychological one. Their society is regressing rather than progressing, and everyone is responsible for the fall from either making it happen or letting it!

The pointing fingers gets everyone nowhere. We can only hope a new generation of capable leaders is born from inside the mess but who knows, maybe those that hate their own country have won. It’s definitely game on.

How did we get here America? I mean really. What an absolute shambles.

Here’s a suggestion FROM your loyal Aussie mates. Try not demonizing the other party nor your opponents.

At some stage, as with any functioning democracy the other party will hold power. That’s a good thing. The idea is to keep things as civil, intelligent and centered as possible. You actually WANT the other party and your opponents to be the strongest they can be.

And what do we get from the current yanks? Children fighting in a sandpit, silly and dangerous underhand tactics trying stack the cards in your own favor, a by all means necessary mindset, biased idiot media reports treating everyone like imbeciles.

Please get grip y’all, you underestimate yourselves and your opponents at your own peril. LOOK at what’s lurking on the sidelines hoping for the downfall! Strongest military and economic power in the history of mankind reduced to this.

soul searching time guys, please. Tanomuzo. God bless America again!

all the best ,

Australia

For a passive and relatively docile culture, they sure do take it out on their family members here. Anyone that has lived here for any amount of time has become desensitized to this sort of regular crime news story. Would love to see if this is a rather recent phenomenon and how the numbers stack up with the rest of the world. Something tells me the family on family murders are higher here for some reason. What that means is open to interpretation.

Thankfully the chaos and insanity of domestic politics in the U.S doesn’t necessarily transfer its way into foreign policy.

So don’t worry, Trump will not bring about the end of the world, no matter what the panic merchants say. If it’s Biden we all just get to cringe and watch in stupefied amazement for another few years, ( months? ) just sit back and enjoy the parody in all its splendor.

Thankfully foreign diplomats are usually pretty well educated, sophisticated and versed in not making things any more worse than they need to be. It’s sort of part and parcel of the diplomat mission, you know being diplomatic!

There’s no win or loose here Guru. It ain’t an endgame, nor a genocide, and your fondness for our Jewish brothers and sisters is clearly evident. No need to hide behind veils or distractions.

It is what it is, just own it.

Making me subjugate myself on your alter of genocide too ain’t gunna happen. If that’s what it takes to join your tribe then you’ll have to excuse me if I decline. Once again, none of this changes anything. Two angry old men screaming at each other on a public news forum is all it is. Performance art at its worst.

Have your convictions man, will keep mine if that’s ok with you. Am 100% ok with them. In fact the more you engage with the holy mob, the more you realize that’s not where to be.

time to work!

Oh so you are the planet now. Give it a break guru. Seeing one side of the coin day in day out. Thought todays appeal to Christian’s to join you in your Jew hatred was an especially nice touch. The Jews killed Christ! Yell it from the hills dude.

How about this one, “Judge not lest ye be judged”. You could line up behind millions mate and still not get it.

Enjoy your day.

I would write "shame on Israel " but shame not a feeling/emotion seen in "God's Chosen People"

Theirs is an "Old Testament God "...mostly smiting, and vengeance .

The message of Jesus, a Jew, was against this.

Love thy neighbour...

Very compelling stuff Guru mate. The love thy neighbor part especially.

What part of love thy neighbor was October 7th again? Just need to be reminded.

As Douglas Murray stated at the debate the other day, You don’t get to start a war, then complain about it when you are losing. The deaths are, and will always be, on Hamas despite this latest journalism piece trying to turn Hamas into the victim here. Hamas!

Just another day where people feel the need and believe themselves to have the right to trumpet their low resolution moralistic narcissism. Nothing new, nothing insightful, just the usual. But, please keep it up. The creativity and mental gymnastics has become a circus side show.

Oh come on mate, surely any staff member will help you order. Give them the old, ‘sumimasen’! Most ( like all ) would be more than happy to help you order. People still exist.

So according to Sugasan, Kishida should take the fall for the political slush fund debacle, even though he had been making some rather bold and difficult moves, from within his own self-cannibalising party, trying to breathe some life into what is now perceived by the public as a totally self- serving, out of touch, corrupt to the core LDP. Polibashing is a national pastime in most countries, but what a blood sport it’s become here.

I get all the comments, but personally think he hasn’t been half as bad as what the numbers reflect. On the international stage he has even performed well for Japan, in trying and difficult times.

I think we must be witnessing a generational bubble pop, as public sentiment has finally woken up to the idea that one party simply shouldn’t maintain power for that long in any democracy. It’s like a sports team with no rivals, no way they could stay strong. Not healthy. The infighting, betrayals and backstabbing from within the ranks of the LDP should be proof enough.

Is it finally time for a change Japan? Or maybe not…. Do people care enough to do something about it? Are the opposition up for the job? We shall see.

Special type of evil that could do that sort of harm to a cat. They are quite clearly gods that live to be served by us mere humans, and it is an honor to just be in their presence.

Whoever the perpetrator is, he/she will be going to hell in a waste basket.

We just had this story yesterday! You are either happy for the injection of free money and opportunity into the economy, or you are just part of the sad, bitter mob that would prefer to stay on the titanic because it has nice music playing and a stable view!

adapting to opportunities and free money, so bothersome…

As a tourist myself, most of the tourists in Japan don’t make any effort to blend in. They are comparably rude, noisy and in general you don’t feel like you’re in Japan if there are tourists around.

Welcome to Japan James. Consider the Hokuriku area. Stay away from the tourist traps in Kyoto and Osaka and venture a bit North to undiscovered territory. Try Fukui, Gifu, Ishikawa and Toyama, all beautiful it their own way. Come to the real Japan, discover it for yourself somewhere where the locals are still welcoming and friendly!

Very little of this is filtering down to the masses.

The convenience store worker has an extra shift.

The hotel staff has to master some English phrases.

The minimum wage shop staff has to do calculations for duty free sales.

For the majority that is the experience of the 'over tourist boom'.

What is left for most is the annoyance and crowds.

Dagon, half glass half full mate. You wanna introduce quotas? Hotels having to learn the global language? Say it aint so! What a joke.

Agree there is a gap in communication as to where this extra cash is being spent and it's benifits, but that's not on the tourist, that's on the J leaders to do a better job with.

The Japan Tourist agency used to publish average per visitor spend before the pandemic. If memory serves me well it was about the 20 man mark per visitor ( basically free cash for an ailing economy ) but I bet it is much higher than that now. If you want to push back against the negative, defeatist mentality on sale in the press and media recently citing ‘over tourism’ and ‘pesky tourists’ as a problem rather than an opportunity it maybe worth showcasing these figures.

Show them the money and show them where it’s being spent. Either that or keep punching that gift horse in the mouth. Up to people!

New Zealand under the previous Jacinda Ardern government tried playing the dove route with our Chinese friends and got bitten badly. Their flakey feel-good engagement policies made them the perfect target for our opportunistic Chinese friends, but it didn’t work out too well for them in the end. How could it really?

Good to see NZ coming back on board and in line with their real cousins and mates. May not be a huge military power and the Chinese commentators here will scoff at their relevancy, but it still means a lot on the grand chess board being played out before our eyes. It’s good to know that all it takes is one ( a few actually ) belligerent force to appear for core value nations to reunite and cooperate.

OssanAmericaToday  11:27 am JST

Yup...sure smells like politics.

"Cairo University in Egypt released a statement stating, "We certify that Koike Yuriko graduated from the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Letters, Cairo University in October 1976. The diploma was issued through official procedures at Cairo University." The Egyptian Embassy in Tokyo published the statement on Facebook."

https://www.news-postseven.com/archives/20200615_1570050.html?DETAIL

Photo of diploma on site. Can't swear to it since I don't read Arabic. But it certainly is made public.

Seems to me that the arguments of whether Ms Koike's Diploma/Certification is authentic or not become irrelevant if Cairo University has confirmed it, and the Egyptian Embassy has produced it.

Certainly, if the document is legit then it is legit. What's all the brewhaha about then? Shouldn't be too hard to verify at all. Is this a sad version of the birth certificate document claims for Obama back in the day? Dirty politics? Douyaro?

I know it’s easy to question the Japanese engineers and system for this ongoing crisis, but is anyone in the know of what should have been done over the past 15 years? The process does seem agonizingly slow, but are they doing what they can to contain it?

Are there scientists from all over the world working together to remedy the situation? More questions as usual that answers, you hardly ever hear about it in the press unless of course like here, when something goes wrong.

You can never run from the past, especially in public office. This will become a huge shadow on Koike if the allegations are true and this mysterious document ain’t real. Either the press will give her a free pass and let (make) the story die or Koike just does what any innocent person would do under these serious allegations , which is to put them to rest once and for all by producing proof of her graduation. It’s fairly straightforward stuff this one, lying about your qualifications is a big deal and anyone, no matter how powerful, should be made to explain themselves.