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Probably for the tourists.

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I think that it's more than important time in more northerly countries than here.

Where I'm from,West Penwith in Cornwall in U.K, it's a significant transition.

Here in the Ryukyus,not so much.

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NATO is doing a great job of keeping its members safe, of working and training together to keep it that way. I really wish my country could join NATO. I would feel a lot safer and happier if they were.

NATO is more needed and relevant today than ever before. Membership should be opened up world wide as long as prospective members can qualify. The worlds biggest alliance that nobody wants to mess with, for obvious reasons. They dont want to lose.

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US $1 soon to be ¥160.

Massive shot in the arm for inbound tourism and connected industries - as well as Japanese exporters.

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Not with guns they don't. Shouting and punching are really weak tea.

And on that point, the same applies to us as well. The left have all the money and the right the guns, both sides of the same coin, interchangeable.

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0.1% increase? That's nothing. It will have little to no impact on anything. Despite what panic merchants may say.

Nothing to see here. Carry on.

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bass4funkToday 05:20 pm JST

So why is the crime so high blue suburban cities, legitimate question. Answer please. Funny that the left don’t want to answer that question.

Because there are only blue cities and purple suburbs.

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bass4funkToday 05:19 pm JST

The difference is the liberals wouldn't be dumb enough to take on the military. 

They take on the police so…

Not with guns they don't. Shouting and punching are really weak tea.

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"Plenty of JT contributors (not me) over the years claimed that the BOJ was trapped, unable to raise its rates or otherwise tighten"

Patting yourself on the back when the Bank has moved from "Negative Rates" to "Zero Percent" rates is certainly, at the very least, premature!

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Problem is, Japan's inflation was actually in a downward trend and so it is odd that we are raising rates now before inflation would be considered "stable". A small rate hike will likely not impact as drastically as we think, but I do wonder if this will spiral us back to a deflationary state. Hopefully this hike sets us at 0.0% for now so that we can observe for a little bit.

Another factor supporting the shift: Japanese companies have announced relatively robust wage hikes for this year's round of negotiations with trade unions.

Wages and profits at companies were improving, the Bank of Japan said, in releasing its latest decision, referring to “anecdotal” accounts as well as data it had gathered lately.

I'll believe it when I see it.

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John Candy died years ago so that only leaves Steven Seagal.

He became a Russian citizen.

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The difference is the liberals wouldn't be dumb enough to take on the military. 

They take on the police so…

The police don't carry that big of guns usually and the suburbs are not low in crime because they have more police.

So why is the crime so high blue suburban cities, legitimate question. Answer please. Funny that the left don’t want to answer that question.

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At the time of Putin's current threat of resorting to nuclear weapons, I cannot help but think that efforts for "banning the production of nuclear materials that have the potential to be used in weapons" are out of place, or too late for saving the world. "Better than nothing" venture, but priority should urgently be given to banning use of the available N bombs, particularly by the rogue nations.

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When we are using our scientific knowledge and capabilities, and probe deep, we discover that the realities of the physical nature hide various facts, some of which are hazardous, that seem odd to the lay people.

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Hmmm....I see the hand of the Israel lobby behind this.

Crap on Arabs but dont criticize Israel

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Plenty of JT contributors (not me) over the years claimed that the BOJ was trapped, unable to raise its rates or otherwise tighten. Oh, well. The BOJ will also to scale back its asset purchases including the ETFs. Let's see if that crashes the TSE, as so often predicted here (not by me).

It's true that they were trapped, the effects will be negative whatever they would have chosen to do, basically they have just been running from their problems by keeping the negative interest rate, no one wanted to be the guy in power when it was time to tackle it.

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A range of 0 to 0.1% is still about 4% less than most of the developed world. So almost nothing happened. Almost...

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A bold move! I may be able to buy a happy meal now with the interest from my savings account.

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military drone strikes launched on U.S. citizens

Judging by the physical state of 'patriot militias' that will be like shooting fish in a barrel. Who will weight-averse Hollywood cast ?

John Candy died years ago so that only leaves Steven Seagal.

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Let's see what happens when the Fed starts cutting.

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So now they will give stalkers a "strict talking to" instead of "urging them to refrain"?

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Plenty of JT contributors (not me) over the years claimed that the BOJ was trapped, unable to raise its rates or otherwise tighten. Oh, well. The BOJ will also to scale back its asset purchases including the ETFs. Let's see if that crashes the TSE, as so often predicted here (not by me).

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I'd guess this is a fake-out move up that will clear out stops and reverse quickly.

unfortunately that can spook investors , panic investors, panic, dump stocks, markets react , normally negatively

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I wonder how often this espionage charge thing happens in other countries. It's certainly quite common in China. In this article alone there are 2 possibly 3, one in 2013 on e in 2019 and one now.

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Let's just focus on the Padres kicking the Dodgers butt, shall we?

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I assumed this would boost the yen but instead it weakened, is it because people were expecting a bigger change?

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This will be a great game to watch for MMA fans.

I hope the Referee isn't from China this time.

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I'd guess this is a fake-out move up that will clear out stops and reverse quickly.

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sakurasukiToday  04:22 pm JST

So BOJ still give no effect to foreign exchange in Japan?

The most useless establishment ever, really. They had one job. Whatever Kuroda and Ueda do at this point only serves to futher damage lives of people in Japan. Only the rich is getting richer.

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My Japanese house is designed so that the 'noki' overhanging eave shuts out the higher sun of summer.

During winter though it comes in diagonally; beside the large window is where I have placed my bed in order for the bedding to get warmed and dried every sunny day.

This week I have noticed that the morning sun now only reaches about halfway across the bed, so I have been pushing the bedding against the window!

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