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they are children and frankly any girl or woman sending nudes to a man or boy should expect them to be share on the internet. I’m sick of these I’m the victim. She took part.*

There is no indication whatsoever in the article that the girl sent the boy naked photos. You decided that's what happened, so now you write about it like it's a fact. Shame on you!

Although no one here knows the facts, if you wanted to make guesses the fact that they "met through a mutual friend" would more likely suggest that the so-called "friend" shared the naked photos with the accused.

However, not many people would think to associate Kyoto with Chinese food.

Especially not Chinese people. Another Japanese dish, with some kind of vague nod to a foreign country. (I'm not Chinese.)

"Weird" is pretty close. I'd go for "creep" or "nut-job"... both actually.

@Japantime: This will be the biggest international event for 2025. 

Get a grip. No, it won't. It doesn't give me any pleasure to see Japan waste precious public funds, but here we are...

@Moonraker: But now that Japanese can travel abroad easily it is not like 1970 and there are enough people coming to Japan for some to complain, all this international exchange is easily achieved.

Exactly!

Maybe the problem is that Japan is psychically stuck in 1970.

The old farts that are allowed to run the place are anyway. The apathy of younger people towards voting, and the absence of credible younger voices, perpetuates this kind of nonsense.

I would pay to avoid seeing this.

@proxy

She is 57 but according to the story can still keep viewers in a "a heightened state of anticipation."

I wonder if that is all viewers or only men?

I can't imagine what kind of men would fit that bill either. If the botoxed look doesn't bother you, that might be a start. For me, factchecker pretty much nailed it.

I even find myself in basic agreement with Hervé L'Eisa on this one!!

If there's something to be said about this story, it's about the scarcity of parts for female actors "of a certain age", and the desperate lengths they feel forced to go to as a result to "stay relevant/in the game/employable".

As others are stating, this is a 100% political charge.

Wow! That's an amazing level of confidence from a small group of people who have f-all idea about what's actually going on in this case.

Fact: Spying goes on all the time between major powers. Adopting a low-key cover at a pharmaceutical company is one of numerous possible cover stories. In this case, I don't know if the individual is guilty or not, and I'm damn certain no other posters on this website are any more in the loop. Gossipy online fantasizing is one of the major forces dragging this world down the toilet. How about getting another hobby, boys & girls??

Ongoing genocidal outrages in Gaza result in this: desperate, small-scale attacks by heart-broken, outraged individuals flailing against the attempts of an authoritarian government to drive them permanently from their homeland (or die). Netanyahu's day in the International Criminal Court will come.

Mass murderers not welcome at commemoration of mass civilian deaths. Pretty obvious, surely.

Show some balls and refuse to admit them.

“Fast forward five years — there’s going to be all sorts of machine-generated content on the web," he said in an interview. "

Forget the 5 years bit. There's a lot of that going on already, actually. For the companies that use it, that comes in as a saving. For professional writers that basically means a career change. "C'est la vie" you might say.

No one can fully comprehend where we're going with AI, but it's generally agreed that machines will be smarter than us (self aware, able to make decisions independently of us) within 15-20 years at the latest. It goes without saying that "the insights and ramblings of the J expat community 2024" will not be on its radar.

The scariest thing about the phenomenal growth of AI's potential is that the people who express the deepest worries about it are those who know the most about it (but have withdrawn from the production side of it)!

In my opinion, the best thing you can do is limit/end your social media use. If you need to "share", send emails to people you actually know.

I know some people think the only way this dominance will end is when Guardiola leaves or if City are heavily punished for allegedly breaking finance rules.

Hard to see it any other way unfortunately.

Dumb article. If you're born in a developed country and blessed with a decent IQ, your destiny is in your own hands. Make of it what you will. Unless you are blighted by genuine physical deformity or suffered horrible parental abuse, there's no reason why you can't have modest social success too. There are ways to train yourself to gain slightly improved social confidence. Seek them out, you smart guys.

Fascism is on the rise to greater or lesser degrees in many parts of the world, and the lies spread on social media to often gullible publics is a huge factor in this. If more effective control of disinformation & outright smear campaigns on Twitter etc can't be achieved, the platforms ought to be shut down totally. They are destroying democratic societies, day by day, bit by bit.

Oh, but wait... free speech!! Just say any crazy #:*# you want to make up about people, governments etc., and that's okay, right? I forgot. Silly me.

@Fighto is completely right on this.

Lots of "What's wrong with hugging?" comments, but such posters are apparently ignorant about Japanese culture. Some parents don't even hug their kids here. Weird? Yeah, to us maybe, but that's how it is.

A teacher who decides to "approach the boy on the sidewalk and take him back to the school parking lot where he hugged him" IS... yes, IS... a red flag. In fact it screams "****pervert". Some really naive posts here.

And @Quo Primum manages to slip in an irrelevant gripe against women (Nice one, sad sack) ... "A female teacher NEVER would have been arrested for this". Correct. A woman would never have been so bloody stupid as to have done this!

@Onlooker

It's all about profits of his company, not about ethics, human rights, social issues, etc.

Correct.

@Ricky Kaminski13 

it: 's getting a bit silly at this point.

Yes it is, because we keep having to read your brain-dead posts.

Suggestion to J-Today: This is a story that has had it's time. The morons were out-debated yesterday & the day before. Isn't there something more newsworthy going on somewhere?

Behaving like the CPC?

Behaving like the jerk off he is.

@JJE

A bit of victim blaming could be in order.

You accidentally said something that made sense. Yes, victim blaming is in order. Emmanuel shamelessly baited the Muslim community over an extended period of time, insulting Islam time and again. He was disowned by the most senior ranks of his church in Ethiopia for his outlandish comments/behaviour. Yes, he got what he was asking for!

And yes, of course he wants the footage to remain online. He wants anti-Muslim violence to erupt. That's what he's been about for some time. Ideally, once he recovers from his wounds he should do an extended period in jail. It won't happen, unfortunately.

@JJE makes my point.

If you were on drugs you might think his post was interesting, but on closer inspection it's semi-literate nonsense, equating Assange's leaks of government secrets related to international policy to the current topic-the government's desire to keep domestic social/religious tensions from boiling over.

We know the stabbings happened. What do we gain by viewing them?? Answer: Nothing.

What do we lose by publishing the footage? Answer: We encourage those most personally affected by the violence to potentially be violent/vindictive in response.

@Woody Lee

Social Media has improved the lives of millions across the globe, Social Media brought Tyrants and Dictators to their knees and ended the grip on power of so many like them.

I couldn't disagree more! How naive you are. Are Xi and Putin on their knees?

As someone who spent half his life in the pre-Internet era and has lived the second half with it (a perspective you probably don't have), I yearn for (an impossible) return to the days when the loudest voices on important issues were those who were most qualified to comment, most knowledgeable, experienced, directly involved etc.

Nowadays, the voice of experts is drowned out by the daily rants of idiots on social media, who in turn influence the even more severely mentally-challenged in droves. The result: a cacophony of garbage passed on and on by nut jobs with varying degrees of mental illness, which is seriously paralyzing the ability of democracies to function as healthily as they should.

Meanwhile, authoritarian states such as China and Russia, which are efficiently focused on limiting the access of their citizens to only "information" that they approve of, are benefiting from all this, laughing their heads off while the West circles the drain hole to the tune of "Pizzagate", "democracies are fascist states unless they're primitive anti-vaxx regimes", and countless other nonsense of the type.

Trump and Musk are just two of the most obvious toxic symptoms of this madness of self-love, lust for power and attention, no matter the scale of the damage they do to the societies that raised them.

Chairman Rexton

Ricky Kaminski13Today  12:44 pm JST

Problem is here folks, Musk is pretty much right on this one. No matter how much of the kitchen sink of trigger words ( guns, Pauline Hanson really? ) you can throw into one article the sheer fact of the matter is Aussies don’t want , nor need censorship by any arrogant, holier than thou class of do gooding narcissists. It’s a slippery slope. We can deal with reality despite your need to protect us. Thanks.

Any time a mainstream opinion piece masquerading as a news article whacks "far right [politician's name]" into an article, it's safe to dismiss it as butcher's floor sweepings. Pauline Hanson is completely correct on this matter.

Pauline Hanson is not mentioned in this article. What are you talking about?

Ricky Kaminski13

Problem is here folks, Musk is pretty much right on this one. 

No. Completely wrong again Ricky.

The one useful word in your post was narcissist, but unfortunately you weren't able to draw the simple line in pencil between the two big words in the story book: "Musk" and (clueless) "narcissist"

What I said was, radicalization was not only on one side. The guy who got stabbed was a raving radical, and yes the kid had been radicalized too. A sad state of affairs. "Don't blame Muslims only" was my point.

Australia would be better served if Albanese and the Australian government put their efforts into clamping down on the content, either on-line or in person content that brainwashed that kid into being radicalized.

Governments don't have the reach to affect every area of life as much as we might hope. There's only so much any government can do, especially when it comes to religious belief. Do you think that maybe government agents in false beards could hang out in houses of worship all over the country, waiting for someone to say something offensive, and then call in a SWAT team?

Moreover, you're suggesting that radicalization was on one side here. It was not. That so-called "Christian" church is an Ethiopian sect run by Emmanual (the guy who got stabbed), who has been disowned by the founders of the church in Ethiopia for his wayward, radical ranting. Radicalization was going on in that church for some time, until the inevitable response came.

For people of deep faith, I guess there's only so much you can take. I would prefer a secular world, but you have to deal with life as it is. The least we can do is to stop automatically assuming that muslims are always the "radicals", and the rest are perfectly fine.

Since Covid, Australia has begun to resemble a police state!

Um...no, it hasn't actually.

You could possibly argue that there's been a bit of a slide towards a nanny state over the past couple of decades, e.g. compulsory bicycle helmets, pool fences etc., although even that kind of stuff isn't exactly crazy.

Give Lurch (Dutton) a term in office and we might have cause to re-think that though.

P.S. This Emmanual character, the "Christian" who got stabbed, had been disowned by the wider church body (the base, in Ethiopia) some time ago, for his loopy rants on various topics. Insulting Islam and the prophets of Islam is NOT what serious religious leaders of any faith do. This nutcase did. The fact that he got a face-full of cold steel was hardly surprising.

"Pro-terror materials are a particularly strange hill to die on, but fits the company's chaotic and negligent approach to the most basic user safety considerations that under previous leadership, the platform used to take seriously," said Alice Dawkins, executive director of internet policy non-profit Reset.Tech Australia.

This says it all, as far as wanker Musk is concerned. Regarding the usual intellectually-challenged nonsense from Ricky & co: No you fool, that's not fake content. That's real violence. And sensible leaders are interested in turning down the heat on sectarian violence, not fanning the flames. Thanks Albo! Keep up the good work.

@buffalo

The article is about predators in general (& their declining numbers). It doesn't advocate introducing species from one system to a different one.

Bad for everyone. Even his wife hates him.

@Philosopher's Stone

No criticism allowed, since it's okay for Blacks to take on Japanese names, so I take on Black names. Otherwise double standards shrugs

How about Japanese using Western stage names? Are you going to throw a tantrum about that too?

Osamu Kitajima (喜多嶋 修), also known by the pseudonym Justin Heathcliff, is a Japanese musician, producer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist.

Akira Yamanaka (山中 明, Yamanaka Akira, September 2, 1946 – August 7, 2011), better known as Joe Yamanaka (ジョー山中), was a Japanese singer and actor.

Hiroshi Morie (Japanese: 森江 博, Hepburn: Morie Hiroshi, January 22, 1968 – October 29, 2023), known exclusively by his stage name Heath, was a Japanese musician and singer-songwriter.

Not to mention the dozens of Japanese bands using Western names (Judy & Mary etc.)... Crawl back under your rock.

@zibala

Incredible the influence he has over world affairs, and interesting that even other world leaders already expect him to win the election.

In the same way that (other) deadly viruses have incredible influence over world affairs. Leaders have to prepare contingency plans on how their populations can survive them, if the worst case scenario comes to pass.