SapperJon comments

Having recently visited Hiroshima and the peace park and been moved by the visit, I was very disappointed by the museum, it was massively crowded and learnt and saw nothing just shoveling along with the mass of people in a dark hot basically a corridor.

I've visited several war museums around the world and all are well organised and tell an important story.

It most also never be forgotten why a bomb was dropped, which I'm afraid is not acknowledged at the peace park.

I don't understand how Cheddar cheese gives it that U.S. feel. Cheddar cheese originates from Cheddar Gorge, Somerset in England.

I've had Takoyaki every time I've visited Japan and enjoyed it the traditional way each time. I learnt the first time that the centre is hot, I burnt my tongue. I especially like the way Bonito Flakes wave in the heat.

We visited for the fifth time in May. Our first time was in 2002, much has changed in those years. We were approached by a group of school children in 2002 whilst visiting Nara, so they could practice their English. This time in Kyoto we were approached by three very polite young male students from Osaka Kaimei High School, who again asked us questions to improve their English. They were pleased that we were English rather than American. and even more so that we were staying in Osaka!

We noted that more people could speak English this time but where we couldn't speak Japanese nor they English, Google Translate came to the rescue.

This was our final visit due to our age, I wish the Japanese people well and thank you for your understanding and politeness over the years.

Having recently spent 2 weeks in Osaka I only saw one advert for the Expo 25 and that was in a empty shop. In the UK I've not seen or heard anything about it!

Very sad and heartbreaking for the family and the grandfather will be inconsolable. Why are railway lines not fenced in Japan they are in the UK.

We have a similar problem in my town with European Herring Gulls, and their population is continually growing, not helped by tourists feeding them. They have become unafraid of humans, snatching food from your hand by flying from behind and swooping over your shoulder. They are a protected species here in the UK and are large birds too.

Why are Japanese people in authority mostly elderly men? Is it a Japanese thing?

Once they start building Mosques it's a slippery slope before they'll start to demand other rights and claim that they're suffering from Islamophobia.

You are safe to eat raw eggs in the UK and Europe as it's against the law to wash eggs the protective layer that the chicken leaves on them when laid is not washed off, making the eggs naturally protected and there's no need to refrigerate them. In the USA however I wouldn't eat eggs raw as they are washed, you only need to see the national figures for salmonella food poisoning to see that. They even wash their fresh chicken in chlorine because of low farming methods.

After the Aberfan disaster in South Wales where a school was buried by a landslip of mining waste. 144 people were killed included in that number were 114 children. Our Queens husband Prince Philip the Duke of Edinburgh visited the very next day. The Queen under advice visited 8 days later, in hindsight she is said to have bitterly regretted the delay.

Without wanting to appear rude why hasn't the Emperor and Empress been to convey their support and sympathy to the people of the affected area. Or did they have a lot on that they couldn't put off for a couple of days.

This article shocked me as I assumed that computer science and the use of technology would be common practice in Japan, just as it is taught in western European countries. But I guess in a country that still uses fax machines and floppy disks both items being obsolete and never seen anywhere for well over 15 years.

My eldest granddaughter have started college last September at the age of 16 was required to have a laptop computer to complete her work and carry out assignments at home.

Oh no where will it end, fax machines next! I don't think I've even seen a fax machine since the early 2000's and as for floppy discs that was so last century. At work we use a VPN and company based server and fingerprint enabled USB's for personnel office storage.

Didn't Burger King have something similar a few years ago which was called Black Pearl burger.

Anything that is rebuilt is not old even if most of the original stone is used, it is purely a copy.

Nobody understands American humour as they don't have any.

I would ask why an American is teaching English when they speak and spell a version that is only used in the USA. The UK, Australia, New Zealand, India and Canada amongst others use the pure form of the language.

No pupil should be ridiculed when praise has a much better outcome. Ridiculing a pupil should only be used to belittle a bully or a thief to embarrass them in front of their peers.

My favorite when I visit Japan is the one the young man is holding in the first picture. Lovely flavour and mess free, it's my go to treat whilst returning to the hotel after a long sight seeing day.

I'm not a great lover of American cakes and confectionary, mostly over sweet with lots of additives and chucks of biscuits and cake that don't belong in ice cream. I just don't get Oreo biscuits and Graham Crackers at all, I much prefer wafers and traditional ginger or brandy snap cones. Fruit and fruit sauces go well with ice cream though.

There is no way I would ever eat GM crops, and even if they were allowed they would always need to be labelled so their potential ill health effects could be monitored. Fortunately after Brexit the UK can ignore whatever the EU decides.

Companies testing their own products never end's well, Boeing testing their own 737's for safety resulted in many hundreds of passenger deaths, also car airbag faults didn't go well either.

I'm afraid JAL has been in decline for a few years now. I recently cancelled our flights as they changed our long haul flight times so much so that we had only 45 minutes to deplane go collect cases then transfer by shuttle bus to another terminal, check in and bag drop go through security and then immigration and walk to gate to board international flight. It defies logic as the JAL website says check in closes 45 minutes before departure.

We've re-booked with Etihad which was also 70,000 Yen cheaper.

I'm afraid the world has moved on from Covid and Japan is trailing along way behind. It's very rare to see anybody wearing a mask in the UK. All social distancing and perspex barriers have all been removed from the majority of places in shops restaurants and all public transport.

We're coming to Japan on holiday next year and although we'll bring a supply of face masks left over from when we had to wear them in 2020, we don't plan on using them very often, maybe on public transport more from peer pressure than any perceived need to protect ourselves from a disease from the past..

Battery chicken meat doesn't taste of anything, we pay for better quality chickens that have been allowed to forage outside. It's sold in supermarkets under the right to roam welfare process. Any old chicken meat is good enough for fast food restaurants as its the batter that gives the taste,

It's traditional to make a wish whilst stirring the ingredient's when making a Christmas pudding. Also during the year extra brandy is added which ensures a good flavour and of course has a preserving effect.

As a child my father would always ensure each child received a hidden coin he'd buried in the pudding.

My favourite is brandy butter, made with brandy, butter and sugar and served along with cream, and of course warm bandy is poured over it and set on fire just before serving along with a sprig of holly. If you weren't tipsy before pudding you would be after especially as a child.

I believe this should have been classed as attempted rape as force was used and pressure applied to the groin.

Women throughout the world must be protected and treated as equals by society whatever the religion.

Here in England he is more commonly called Father Christmas although Santa is becoming more common, mostly because of the influence of Hollywood.

I find it truly strange that a modern manufacturing country that surely must rely on a stream of well educated workers to charge for the education of 15 to 18 year olds. Although I believe tuition fees to attend university are significantly lower than most other modern countries.

Here in England 30 hours of free childcare is available for working parents for 3 to 4 year olds and all education is free from Infants at 4 years old to 18 and universities tuition only fees are capped at £ 9250 (1720500 Yen) which the students can burrow from a government sponsored scheme, interest is charged.

Here in the UK we have lots of different canned seafood, from smoked oysters to sardines which are available in several different sauces, oil, tomato and spicy tomato or plain salt water. My favourite is mackerel in curry sauce although there are many different flavours of sauce available. Of course pink or red salmon and tuna plain are the main staples. Portugal is well known for many different seafoods in cans.

Bird flu news in the UK has gone quite recently and eggs are plentiful in the shops, although for some unknown reason a lot of eggs are now white whereas traditionally in the UK people prefer their eggs to be any shade of brown and free range or barn eggs. The days of caged birds are numbered.

I'm not a great lover of Starbucks anywhere in the world, I don't know about the branches in Japan but they are usually top of the list for sugar content and their coffee always seems overly bitter due to to higher roast. I stick to artisan coffee shops. Doutor and Tully's make better coffee.

If you don't put it in you don't put it on. Just stop eating to many of the wrong food, cut carbs especially pure carbs like sugar, white rice, pasta and white bread and not forgetting potatoes. There's no way I'd inject some drug just because I can't control my greed.

Only 17 trillion yen! more debt added to the nation. So 17 trillion yen on top off 1.30 quadrillion yen. One day you'll have to pay this back or sell your souls.