kibousha comments

Just like all wealth and riches, conveniences and luxuries are not "advancement" nor "progress", it's stolen from someone or some time in the future.

Chinese style protectionism, let private sector import the food, government employees seize them and enjoy free high-quality stuffs!

Nothing new, talented people with adventurous spirit who are willing to take risks will reap the reward.

Komeito, in bed with Xi, it's why I'll never vote these guys

Onomichi is my favorite so far, scenic little town, start of the shimanami kaido.

Russia is a country of thugs.

The new normal.

The problem is the shift to outsourcing everything to private companies, especially when collusion is involved. When government workers (just like company employees) don't get enough practice to do the things they're supposed to do, you get ineffective organizations.

Just take for example the MyNumber card fiasco, they outsourced their system to Fujitsu, which in-turn outsourced it to various Chinese/Indian-run dispatch companies, lol.

Americans can't speak other languages than English, and so are the Japanese with Japanese language. It's a symbol of status that your country's economy is sufficient enough to provide its people, that people don't need to speak other countries' languages to make a living.

Akihabara, just after the incident, they said they needed to search my bag.

I helped locate one of the original owner of these flags once. During the meeting, it was amazing that there were virtually no feelings of vengeance or hatred between US and Japan, even the people directly involved in the war. Though emotional they were getting closure, forgiving each other.

It's Xtupid to be honest.

I got one of those enefarm machine, bad timing, bad luck, now stuck with using LNG to generate electricity.

Robots will be trained by the billionaire class to do their biddings, don't worry about the robots, worry about the humans training them.

Eat plenty of omega 3, seafood, not just fish, also algae (there are studies that showed omega 3 reduces sun-burn), 15 minutes in the sun to get that sweet Vitamin D and other stuffs we don't know we don't know, then shade.

Help them relocate, if they don't want to, well, it's their problem then.

Just don't say we "escalate things" when we do the same okay ?

"energy cooperation", a.k.a. "sell me your oil". It amazes me that Japan has the technology, the human resources, strategically advantageous if it actually invest in green energy, because it has high probability to be a leader in the sector, but it does absolutely everything it can to stifle itself.

"Helppp!! We thought we're the stuffs! but we can't live without you guys lao wai (Chinese version of gaijin), pls come back!"

The late Singapore PM Lee Kuan Yew once mentioned that Japan pursued the path of "educate women high enough" so they can educate their children well. He was comparing it to his policies which promote education of women as much as possible. Looking back he regretted he didn't go the Japanese way, as the result was only apparent after the fact, that Japan had population boom while Singapore men shy away from highly educated women sooner that Japan did.

You can still feel the effect of this policies even today. Good luck getting rid of that.

I've lived in different countries in South East Asia, similar to Japan (lots of island), but nothing beats the humidity of Japanese Summers. Never had to deal or even aware of molds until I came to Japan.

LOL, faster speed, longer range, more tried drivers, yup, very good idea!

Japanese real-estate also loves Chinese money.

"Sluurrrp, juicy Chinese money, sluurrrp, can't get enough!" - Hollywood, Europe, Everyone.

The twist is, Germany is so dependent on Chinese money, its forces are actually there to "balance" the field for China.

Putin gone will not end the war, he's not alone. If he's threatened by foreign force, he'll launch the nukes. Only thing that could end his regime without ending the world, is the age-old peasants' revolt.

Subtitles, I love hearing foreign languages, regardless of what language they are.

China loves it when SK and Japan fight each other.

A "politer" way (they think) of saying "third world"

Every year there's a news like this. It's true that many people just think "it will never happen to me, even if I try".