Meiyouwenti comments

“He should have offered a sincere apology for the actions of Imperial Japan.”

I agree. Leaders of every major country, especially those with colonialist and slave-trading past, should offer a sincere apology for their past actions.

Suspicions of match-fixing in Sumo are nothing new. It’s more of a show, an entertainment than a sport.

Tempers are short on hot days but that doesn’t justify driving your car into pedestrians.

I’d rather they stayed home, spending their money in their own country to boost its sagging economy.

As the issuer of its own currency, the government can’t run out of money and yet it refused to pay just 300 million yen of the museum’s utility bills. This is national disgrace. The cult of balanced budget has wrecked havoc on Japan’s economy for three decades.

Good thing the gun didn’t get into the wrong hands.

A good move. In a country where consumption makes up more than 60 percent of the GDP, increasing civil servants’ salaries will stimulate the economy.

Gay or not, he’s one of the finest skaters in the world.

Overstaying your visa is a crime. The new revision will send illegal aliens the wrong message that crime pays.

Japan should spend its money to improve its own decaying and obsolete infrastructure rather than generously giving away billions to foreign countries. Vietnamese residents in Japan are now poised to surpass Chinese in the number of criminal offenses committed. I hope Ms Vice Presidential will do something about this before “enhancing people-to-people exchanges.”

“Robert Oppenheimer, a physician who led the project of making atomic bombs.”

A ‘physician’ is a medical doctor. Oppenheimer was a physicist.

Moderator: Thanks for pointing that out. It has been corrected.

“Would an article be written about a return of a Nazi SS "good luck flag" to a grieving German family and it described as "a miracle" and "a love story"?”

Probably would not. Mr Matsuda wasn’t a member of the Nazi SS that tried to annihilate the entire Jewish population. Only someone with a warped mind would want to taint and tarnish a heartwarming story of reconciliation like this.

I wonder if the writer understands what she’s writing about.

“Obviously this selfish lady doesn't care about the well being of the child and the court will see that as well.”

Maybe the boy is happy living with his beloved mother. Leave them alone.

Not so fast, Hong Kong. The planned release of treated radioactive water hasn’t even begun.

“I've admitted to some coworkers that I'm married, and then they casually mention that to other people without my consent or consideration of my privacy.”

Is being married something you have to hide from the public ? Or were you trying to pick up someone pretending to be single?

Ueda is right in maintaining the BOJ’s low-interest rate policy since the recent rise in prices are mostly due to disruptions in supply chains: rising oil and food import prices and the war in Ukraine. Japan is still in the three-decade long deflation and demand is low.

I thought the aircraft carrier USS Lexington went down in the battle of Coral Sea in 1942.

Since the passage of the LGBT law and the recent Supreme Court ruling, biological women are subjected to “painful and even frightening” experience and are “deeply hurt” when self-proclaimed women with a penis come into women’s restrooms.

“He bought it as a bankrupt company” 

Ghosn didn’t buy Nissan with his own money. He was an appointed head of the Nissan- Renault alliance and turned the ailing automaker around by cost cutting: closing plants and firing thousands of workers.

Don’t blame it on global warming. The recent heatwaves worldwide are caused by the jet stream temporarily having shifted southward. The earth has actually become cooler over the past eight years, shown by the fact that the Antarctic ice has grown thicker.

CPTPP, based on now-defunct globalist free trade ideology and established before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, is rapidly becoming a thing of the past.

Japan is quite capable of helping its own people while improving its defense capabilities if the government scraps the self-imposed debt ceiling called “primary balance,” a kind of pseudo religion its followers believe that government budget must balance.

If he serves his sentence as a model prisoner, he’ll be out well before 2039. There were male passengers on the car. Couldn’t they have done something to save the girl getting stabbed?

Don’t worry. You learn from your failures. Divert some pachinko money into Japan’s space programs.

@kurisupusu

Read the article carefully. The EU is lifting restrictions on Japanese food products because they don’t think they are “radioactive tainted” any longer.

I thought the UN had much more urgent matters to attend to such as the war in Ukraine and global warming rather than probing into the dead pervert.

“the only member of the Group of Seven industrialized nations where same-sex marriage is not legal.”

Legalizing same-sex marriage has nothing to do with granting a 50-year-old trans access to female bathrooms. I’m afraid the Supreme Court’s ruling has opened the Pandora’s box.

The post-WW2 globalism ended for good when Russia invaded Ukraine. Japanese fishermen and farmers should now concentrate on domestic markets rather than selling their products to nuclear-armed dictatorships.

“40 YEARS!!!!”

Tritium, a radioisotope made up of one proton and two neutrons, has a half life of 12.33 years. It releases electrons and changes into helium 3.