Jolyon comments

Was she held nearly 40 days without any charge being brought?

It is regrettable, of course, and should not be forgotten. So to other camps, where survival rates were deliberately much worse, and treatment far more cruel.

Is true that there is 99% conviction rate in Japan?

It’s a film. I can’t judge the content of the film because I have been prevented seeing it. Let’s be able to watch the film and have an informed discussion about how it represents the history and the biases and falsehoods it offers.

What motivates high-school students to want to be able to speak English? Is it something real for them? Is there an international outlook that they buy in to?

So perhaps the newspaper needs to ask some questions to those who make these decisions to find out if Oppenheimer is being censored or not? If so, can we have a clear statement to explain that choice? Surely that is what journalism means, not just repeating content from other second-hand sources. Raise your game, please

Sometimes they are the only friendly face I see all day. I would miss the interaction if they were removed.

Great for boosting the carbon monoxide levels in your home and filling the air with cancer causing particulates. The old days sure were the best as it keeps you warm too until you turn stone cold.

Take a 20 metre length of string and simply throw your dirty pot into the ocean. Tie it to a nearby tree and leave overnight. In the morning it will be sparkling clean, or even better. Saves on detergent too.

These recipe articles are really weak! There was one a while back described as a life hack for cooking edamame in a microwave, instead of a pan. It was no simpler, as cooking edamame is a simple as it is possible to get anyway. This omelette is similar, it is just fried rice, no omelette at all. If it is not possible to do better than this, please do not bother.

If the hospital system in a country of this size is under strain by 20 admissions, building greater capacity in the system is surely needed.

I have been through Heathrow four times this last month and no evidence of issues. However, all four of my flights were cancelled by BA! As for staffing, there are no ticket counters in the airport any more. It is all online.

The US should refuse entry to Japanese students until American students and all other nations are allowed entry to Japan to study here.

The government is stuck - help it. If enough volunteers dropped out, then it would be impossible to hold the games.

Oh, classic!

Over 65s will be logging on to get those tickets - and of course health care workers who have such a lot a free time. It couldn’t be more laughable.

At the same time give visas for 90,000 ATHLETES, and deny visas to every other non-Japanese.

Don’t go, don’t watch. Let them run in the silence of the dead.

Enough complaining. Take some action!

If the population of Japan doesn’t want the games to take place, isn’t it quite able to take direct action to make it impossible to hold them?

Minister Kono has the responsibility, and the power, to achieve high rates of vaccination. The question is whether he has the personal capacity or will to do so? When I see a minister in a government trying to blame others, or circumstances, I feel it is incredibly weak. Make it happen. Go kick some a... Vaccinating is not rocket science. Every other developed country could be used as an example of how to do it better. It would be hard to think of how it could be done worse. In Japan, aged 60, I will, in the next few weeks see my son, 18, in the UK get his vaccinations before me. At the present rate of vaccination, it will be decades before Japan has a safe level of vaccination in its population and Covid-19 will be a historic event we talk to our children about. But how many unnecessary deaths will there have been because of this enormous failure to act with decisive vision, creativity and energy, and how mutilated will the economy be, how restricted and limited everyone's lives.

Who would think that being unchanged for 2000 years is a good thing?

it would be good to control these anti-social 'funs'. Much more significant than the millions of drivers who go through red lights and pay little attention to the roads while watching tv in their cars.