Concerned Citizen comments

Should his mental state make that much difference to his sentence? Whatever his mental state was it resulted in four senseless innocent deaths. He should be imprisoned for a very long at the least.

God bless you Dr. Yamazaki. What a wonderful example you are.

There are plenty of things that can be destructively addictive, with different levels of severity. Drugs, alcohol, tobacco, sweets, computer games, gambling, etc. Whatever the underlying cause, in the end the decision to partake or not, to seek help or not, is ours. We should choose wisely.

Good decision. Demanding 67 million yen from a teenager was extremely heavy handed. Although i suspect they never intended to follow through with the demand but rather used it to send a warning message to other would be 'sushi terrorists'.

Nevertheless I hope the boy has learned his lesson.

Good decision. More compassion on the poor and needy please Japan.

If Sushiro is demanding the boy pay 67 million then that is ridiculous.

It will be interesting to watch this drama play out.

Will Biden and his camp succeed in taking out the only person who can get in their way at next year's election?

Or will Trump supporters, and even swing voters, get so fired up over these legal maneuvers on Trump that they come out in droves to vote Him in?

We shall see.

I'd hate to be one of the ones to decide policy on such penalties.

Take the lenient approach and many will die of addiction

Take the present hardline approach and some will die from punishment that doesn't fit the crime or even innocently die.

Why get so upset about desecration of any holy book (or flag)? The Bible is very important to me but if anyone wants to burn it then I'm not gonna protest and chant condemnation over it. And besides, getting upset and demonstrating vehemently over it is not going to attract anyone to it anyway.

"Movies like Cuties that hypersexualize young girls are OK! But movies about the rescue of sex trafficked young girls are not OK!"

That's all we need to know about depraved US elites.

Poor little precious one. Heartbreaking. May God care for him and may he receive all the love that he craved but missed out on here.

No matter what the cost, having children, for those who can, is a tremendously rewarding and fun experience and contributes to a healthy, prosperous and enduring society.

Be fruitful and multiply is not just just a Biblical suggestion, it's a commandment for a reason. Any society failing to do that, for whatever reason, is doomed to self destruction. Sad, because on the whole Japan is such a wonderful country.

In other words the peons are saying "Thus far and no further" to corporate investment bullies Blackrock and Vanguard who pressure major companies to promote woke agendas that half thier customers don't like.

Australia doesn’t like speech that half of their own citizens would make on Twitter?!

This potential punishment of Twitter echoes the restrictions they put on their own citizens regarding Covid. Is Australia a free democracy or not? If it is, it should allow it’s own citizens to say what is on their mind whatever it is, whether it be on Twitter or any where else. How sad the decline of freedom in what was once a great country.

Leave Twitter alone Australia.

Oh come on, Leave the poor fellow alone and go after the real criminals.

Nothing short of a thorough police inquiry required.

Come on Japan....have a heart and admit more genuine refugees.

Follow the money to understand what is truly going on. Private equity investment monoliths like Blackrock and Vanguard are pressuring big corporates to promote PRIDE, DEI and ESG initiatives or risk divestment. Buckling under the pressure results on irate consumer bases, billions in lost revenue and stock price plunges.

Shove wokeness into your conservative customer base's faces and this is what happens.

However poorly he expresses himself, his point is correct, that what Israel has done and is doing to the Palestinians is wrong.

Who are the other ‘good people’ in your view?

Whoever is decent, fair, respectful of others and fights for the rights and welfare of all citizens...not just the privileged few.

Italy’s far-right Premier Giorgia Meloni on Sunday rejected criticism from her Canadian counterpart at the G7 Summit about her government’s stance on LGBTQ+ rights.

I beleive that the description of Premier Meloni as 'far-right' in this article is biased and misleading. Her policies are mainstream for very large portions of Western nations and the rest of the world. Wheras, her critic in this article, Mr. Trudeau, is considered by many in the West and the rest of the world to be far-left, or at best left of centre. He is entitled to question her for her policies and she is just as entitled to question him for his policies. That is democracy and equality.

@smithinjapan

Like whom? And what rights abuses?

How about those who simply wanted to work to support thier families bit couldn't during harsh Covid restrictions?

How about those forced to get vaccinations against their will?

How about those who were arrested for exercising their freedom of speech in protesting the restrictions?

How about those prosecuted for 'misgendering' someone?

Etc.

Canada along with Australia and many other Western nations are losing the plot. Good people like Meloni are beginning to stand up for the common people against this bullying and insanity.

Maybe Ms. Meloni should have raised a few of her own concerns about Canada's discraceful human rights abuses against those who refuse to be bullied by Trudeau?

I agree that the LGBTQ community should never face mistreatment of any kind. i also think they have the same legal rights as the rest of us.

They can legally marry a person of the opposite sex like the rest of us. If they don't want to they don't have to....like the rest of us.

Ruthless and oppressive Israeli leadership at it again. First steal their land, the label them as terrorists if they fight back.

Go woke, put out content thst half your subscribers aren't interested in and you will lose many of them.

How about demaning the police investigate?

While you're at it, how about also abolishing the predatory, slave driving management offices who use and abuse these young girls?

On the surface it seems just stupid to perpetrate such a crime for which nowadays you'll surely be caught, imprisoned and your life be ruined.

Could it be that most perpetrators are just so financially desperate that the risk is worth it? Owe money to the yakuza maybe?