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Gov't decides to pay Go To cancellation fees for Tokyoites

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What a further waste of tax payer money. Those responsible should also take a salary cut for making bad decisions and lack of common sense.

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Please pay my taxes as well cause my lifestyle has been degraded by the GOV covid-circus

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what a mess... you need to be promoting lock down and not go to

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100%???

sonwe the tax payer get to take it in the shorts while neither the hotel operator, nor the party that cancelled suffer any loses???

Profits are privatized and losses are socialized......

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This whole thing is completely nuts! Tokyo items are still gonna travel and I have no doubt they will leave a string of hotspots around the country. This is one of those things that cannot be fixed by throwing money at it, as is the norm in Japan.

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“Throw in a couple of abemasks and it’s deal!”

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It was moved forward without a thorough explanation

What hogwash, it was moved forward because there is a four day weekend coming up and ya'll just figured that people would "sheeple" along and not complain.

It's really about time that people start "complaining" about how Abe has his head in the sand and hold him accountable for all these screwups!

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Stay at home and take it easy. Order a pizza delivery and watch TV or old movies on YouTube. That’s how COVID-19 era holidays should be.

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Derek GrebeToday  10:03 pm JST

How can you have a personality cult when Abe has all the personality of a spent w@nk?

It's a bizarre notion, isn't it? I remember a few Abe fans here trying to make out as if he was some epic statesman, I suppose they just gave up because even they could see how laughable it was.

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textbook example of how to throw money away trying to force a bad plan.

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This is going to play into the hands of the "Yakuza" , the Russian Mafia, etc. who will milk this for all they can get.

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What about those folks who were using this pork-barrel fiasco to visit family and friends in Tokyo but now can’t because of government incompetence?

Will the gov’t pay their cancelation fees, too? Or is this only for the 12% of the country that lives in Tokyo?

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Kanemochi nippon.

There seems to be a bubble "corona bubble" this time it is the government soending like a drunk.

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Kanemochi nippon.

There seems to be a bubble "corona bubble" this time it is the government soending like a drunk.

Hardly, my grandkids, and your great grandkids are the one's who will pay for it!

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Another economic masterstroke from our Dear Leader.

My grandchildren yet unborn will be paying for this shambles of failed leadership.

How can you have a personality cult when Abe has all the personality of a spent w@nk?

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Sadly very governments will man-up to say they made a mistake and retract a decision... I wont go so far as to say we need a Woman in leadership... Koike is the last choice there, though.... Governments need to be realistic, admit fallibility and adapt quickly.... everyone is smart enough these days to see otherwise.

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Unsure of the awareness of the many small towns facing an abrupt death directly from the effects of domestic tourism down to 0%. Many places upgraded facilities for Olympic year and essentially will go bankrupt without help. While there are obvious risks of Covid spreading (985 people have died from it in 6 months). There is certain death of entire towns/village without government support.

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