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ReadyfortakeoffToday  09:29 am JST

They did not say the nationality of the man. But the rule of thumb is if they omit the nationality, it is a foreigner.

you have it completely backwards. They always write if it’s a foreigner (easy to blame), and make it sound more ambiguous when it’s a national.

SDCAToday  10:22 am JST

Trout, Rendon, and a possible record breaking contract for Ohtani would push them into the luxury tax. The rest of the club would have to be minor league players.

Based upon their current record of 39-55, it seems like the rest of the Angels are already playing at the minor league level.

If the j-gov approach to Covid has been the best, then why is Japan experiencing a “seventh wave”, whilst my relatives in California are just now going through only their fourth?

Money over morals...further proof that the pro-LDP corporations are no different than the USA's GOP ones.

At the extremely slow pace that they loaded him into the medical helicopter, it appears that he most likely is deceased.

of Course he does as he can take those back alley payments in lowly ¥, and cash out later if the Japan’s economy ever recovers. Not a bad bet, as j-gov/BOJ artificially will ensure that he doesn’t lose money.

No need to worry Tokyoites, as the Koike-San has got everything under control again:

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20220706_29/

The same Yoshida that was on the pitch when the “bolstered” Saints lost 0-9 to Leicester?

At almost ¥20,000 for a single shirt, you’d expect at least silk rather than cheap rayon in the manufacturing.

And what about shutting down all those Ginza lights?

no way that’ll happen for how will the LDP leaders find their way to their favorite steaku houses?

Oh great LDP, have you no shame? how can you stand there smiling when “Less than 3% of Japanese firms exiting Russia; lowest among G7: survey“?

”Greed is good” - Gordon Gecko in the movie Wall Street.

Shibuya Scramble will definitely conserve power, eh?

Hey if the LDP will cover the cost of a dozen natto packs from Aeon, they got my vote….and what is the sound of sheep?

…and yet the sheep will still vote LDP.

Sadly turning into the equivalent of a "one hit wonder" musical group.

Shibuya crossing…Nuff said.

More waste by the great LDP. Those Abe masks and then this, with the latter actually being significant.

He's been alone on his boat for two months, and yet still the forward thinking j-gov has subjugated him to Covid quarantine protocol.

No teeth behind this as there's no penalty for noncompliance. If there were, about 90% of businesses in Tokyo alone would have to pay a fine for lack of accessibility. How many empty cases of sake and beer bottles have you had to walk over in order to reach the bathroom, at your afterwork parties in Shimbashi?

How does one write "payola" with kanji characters?

I've always said that there are book smart people and then there are street smart ones, and sometimes the two do not intersect. She is a "literal" example of this notion.

...and yet "Japan Pushes Ahead With Plan to Add Russian Gas Imports. CEO of Mitsui says ‘world’s energy balance will collapse’ unless Siberia natural-gas project goes forward"

https://www.wsj.com/articles/japan-pushes-ahead-with-plan-to-add-russian-gas-imports-11651491927

MountainVPNMar. 17  06:56 pm JST

Well of course not. Korea and Germany actually test, aren't ashamed to test, and aren't ashamed to report high infection numbers to the world.

What is the purpose of testing if 99.99999% of the population has no symptoms?

are the 300,000 fellow Tokyoites who have been infected within the past month, included or excluded in your obviously validated statistics?

IMO, anyone who cares must stop buying Chinese goods and lobby their government to isolate China as well. China has activated its currency swap facility to keep Russia running, China has also been letting Russia bypass swift by using its settlement system.

China is now as guilty as Russia in this horrific genocide.

How about India? They abstained in the last UN Security Council vote to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Why you may ask?

Perhaps because Russia continues to be India's largest arms supplier? Perhaps because Moscow has vetoed UNSC resolutions over disputed Kashmir in the past to help India keep it a bilateral issue?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-60552273

One would think that Bach was still to occupied converting all of his ill gotten ¥ from the past Summer Games, to have time to try to make the IOC look like a non-corrupt organization.

As a placeholder for all of the anti-vax rubbish that will surely follow in this forum:

“Japanese study suggests booster shots are effective against Omicron”

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20220217_23/

The kid would have been admitted even if he had flunked the exams. Heck, Harvard or Yale would probably admit him in a few years even if he’s not qualified just because of his title.

well that’s how US President George W Bush got into Yale…legacy entitlement, especially if you consider that he ended up with a C+ overall academic average. Finally, how do you think he also got his Harvard MBA?

It's a school entrance exam. The news would be if he didn't pass.

you mean like the former princess’ husband who failed the NY State bar?

Other countries have seen between a 60-90% decline in their 7 day averages within 3-4 weeks from their peak. Japan cases peaked between Jan 30-Feb 4. 

I believe that may be a bit of an over generalization, as said other countries include those in which 3rd jab boosters have been widely implemented. Japan is at last report unfortunately only at 11%..

Hmm, with only 11% of the total population being boosted and current output at Jgov vax sites in Tokyo is 5000/day, Tokyo with a population of 14 million, means that Omi will become endemic in how many days? Weeks? Years?