Bill Lewis comments

I won't be flying again until it becomes as easy as getting on the shinkansen. Walk up to the machine, buy your ticket, get on the train. Airlines and the TSA have made air travel so cumbersome that I won't have any more of it. I didn't leave anything in the US so important that I have to go back for it. I haven't been back to the US in well over 15 years, and I don't have any plans to go there for another 15 years or beyond. If the airlines want my business, do it the way of shinkansens. Otherwise, no thanks.

Must be a slow news day for this to be the Top Story. An event almost 40 years ago.

Anyone associated with the CCP, which is pretty much anyone within China that has the means to travel internationally, should be refused a visa and landing rights. The CCP is the most dangerous organization in the world today.

Nadeshiko-Japan. O-tsukaresama deshita. You'll get 'em next time.

JT is on a roll today with its deceptional and misleading headlines/articles. While schizophrenia in and of itself may account for 1 in 100 (I don't know, but I'll give JT a pass on that), mental illness as a general subject affects far more people. Depression can be devastating. I suffer from a slight form of depression, and it has taken me years of counseling and medication to a point where I don't wake up every morning wishing that I hadn't. And like I said, mine is only slight depression. Much more needs to be done for mental illness in Japan, and not just the extremes of schizophrenia.

Since when is "hot" a verb? Extremely poor wording for a headline.

Keep anyone associated with the CCP out. Which is pretty much anyone in China that has the means to travel internationally.

Every world leader should visit and appreciate the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. It changed my life. Anyone not touched by it should be banned from public office.

An exceedingly one-sided opinion piece that fails to look at the extremely low popularity ratings the dementia-riddled incumbent has.

Continue the event through August 12? The heat is bad enough. They need to look at a weather forecast. There's a typhoon on the way.

My cousin went to see it and said that it was awesome. I would love for it to make it's way here to Japan so I could see it.

September 21 to March 20: Japan

March 21 to September 20: Uruguay

I can only wish I were rich enough to live this way and avoid summer altogether.

Yeah, so I probably won't have insurance some time next year, because there is no way that Taro-kun will convince me that the MNC is secure.

Only at Narita airport. They didn't believe me when I said I didn't have my passport with me. I was only going to meet family, so I didn't need one.

I'm all for expanding studies into science, but this guy doesn't know what he's talking about. I teach at a private high school that offers a home economics course that has seen amazing growth over the past few years, especially after the course was opened to male students. I would say about a quarter to a third of new students to the course are male. Perhaps Otsuma WOMEN'S University should stop the sexism and offer entry to anyone who wants to study there.

Biden is the worst president we have had in my lifetime, and that includes Carter and Trump.

Ossan Oh, please. We all know that foreign relations are important. It's just that Kishida doesn't know that Japan is important, too. He has basically given up on the people of Japan, and just goes off anywhere anytime he can.

fact checker beat me to it. Kishida has absolutely no interest in staying in Japan to take care of the country. He just loves to go anywhere else. No wonder he's so low in the polls.

I was born and raised in Georgia, and I have lived in Ohtani's hometown of Oshu since before he was born. He was classmates with my son through junior high. I desperately want him to go to the Atlanta Braves so that I can truly support the best team and the best player at the same time.

No one in their right mind would visit, let alone immigrate, to China as long as it is under CCP dictatorship.

I understand the umbrellas because they would still allow for some wind or breeze to flow by, but wouldn't the tents be little more than an oven you bake in?

Subtitles.

Looks like at least two of them are wearing masks. Not gonna beat the heat that way, in the shade or not. Are you sure that one guy isn't slumped over from heat exhaustion?

I have no problems with Iranians (having known some that are especially good people).

I have a huge problem with the Iranian government.

That being said, I can say the same for most people I know versus the government they have. Including my own.

I can live with NET. I had a devil of a time getting them to keep from calling me "Native Speaker." My 8 year old niece is a native speaker, but I wouldn't have her teach English here in Japan. It took me quite a while, but I jumped through all the hoops and have a teacher's license now (even if it is rinji) so I teach my own classes.

I'm not worried about dying alone. I'm worried about living.

analysts say there are still few viable alternative candidates.

And therein lies the problem.

The only reason to keep money in a bank is to keep it from being stolen. Certainly there are no incentives from an interest rate point of view.

Remember when there was NO sales tax?

Yep. I've been here that long. I find it so ironic that the most often reason given for doing something is "Nihon dakara." But when it suits them, they will pull out the foreign card and say that they aren't doing anything out of line.

Excellent player. Hope he stays healthy. Americans will be sure of that. Japanese baseball would have run him into the ground.

Exactly what I have been saying. I've known him since he was in junior high school. He was classmates with my son! He has even been to my house to play video games.

OK. That's enough trying to build myself up by knowing someone.