Brian Wheway comments

@eastman, Russia will prevail at the end.

mark my words.

Just remember they withdrew from Afghanistan after many years of attrition, and the Ukrainian army is being supported by America and the west, east and Europe.

At first the 530.000 yen seams a lot, but then I calculated it to UK pounds £ 2800 and that's it? Really? If your having to be relocated and you need to buy a house, what are you going to buy with that, a dog kennel? And then you've got to replace the furniture, pots and pans, TV, and everything else in a house, and what price do you put on pictures of the family that was left behind, the amount offered is a damn insult, it's not compensation at all,

Jeees, that must have been a horrific attack on these ladies, they must have been petrified, can j news inform us of if they had husbands or children in a updated article? We're these two ladies completely unknown to the guy? Was it a prepland attack?

If large co don't cough up some extra money in the wage packets, may be it's time for a few strikes, has the government told companies that they must stop assuming that staff will work for two hours for free every day? This will put a few extra yen in people's pay packets, and on another note, does the government ever dish out a wind fall tax in co that make extortionate amount of profit? The UK government did on some of the petro chemical co when they declared record profits,

I am sure Seismologists in Japan and around the world are closely monitoring Fuji San, if it rumbles and disturbs some rocks they will know, so if any think starts to build up, the authorities will be notified, this is when you start to slowly evacuate. But it's better to be prepared than completely unaware.

Ask trade, "Please, lets create some nonsensical controversy to distract from the fact that big cities in Japan has some of the worst pedestrians infrastructure in the modern word" have you ever been to Thailand? The paths are a death trap, a complete obstacle course, the driving standards are appalling, Japan in comparison to Thailand or even England is far better.

It sounds like it's not your typical large co, with it's many layers of chain of command, with most large co a large percentage of profit goes to shareholders, and it seams that cos are terrified of them if they don't pay the share holders big dividends they will sell the shares in the co, thus reducing that co image, well good for this co they are buying back shares, if they take over Toshiba and remove the draining financial issues and reinvest, it might encourage new people to come forward with ideas, but at the present time in large co, no one wants to come forward, as it's not the done thing, especially going above the chain of command

I wonder what the protocol is for other ranking dignatories meeting other dignatories, do they bow or not bow? Would it be considered bad manners not to bow to the emperor? Or they classed as equal so no bowing or protocol required?

I wonder how much investment is planned for this plant? Or is it going to tick along nicely as it is, or is it going to be made to up it's out put, although the Japanese buyout claims it's going to protect workers rights, but is there an agreement that is for a short time, say two years, I've seen this in the past where the buyout co say don't worry your jobs are safe, then things change after the two years, by then the new co knows a lot about the new co, the working practices the workers the not so workers, but after two years these changes go unnoticed in the news paper

I am in Thailand right now, all I can see is a vast swathe of old mopeds, burning oil, vintage busses, would be better of housing chickens, although there are quite a lot of new cars around, but out in the country side there is still those old clanking two stroke engine s pulling some sort of contraption around stacked up with veg, ( with no lights) will any of this cash go to help scrap or replace these carts? And mopeds? Thailand is still struggling with people still burning rubbish everyday and farmers still burn stubble after the sugar cane has been collected, and that brings us into Myanmar they are as bad, not only have you got to change the transport, but you've got to change a ingrained attitude to

@bertie w, steady on sir your jumping the gun here, your rushing past the hanko stamper, all of these documents need to be hankoed,

I don't know what the answer is to the problem, how can you house thousands of people just like that, it must be a massive burden on the local taxes, is there an incentive for us citizens to open up there houses if they have a spare room?, the UK did ask homeowners if you have a spare room, can you put up a Ukrainian person, family? And the UK responded ( they did)

I hope that he's buried with full milartery honours, it's nice to see his town has turned out to pay there respects, may he and his crew rest in peace.

Bless her, I wish her good health and good luck

Living in Japan must be horrendous for ladies, from day one as a school girl they are over sexualised in magazines, manga, etc then they are subject to chican on trains, then as they get older they are subject to more harassment in the work place, and when you think that being groped, or assaulted that you would think that it couldn't get any worse, oh yes it can it goes on in a nursing home, it's really time the Japanese government pushed through the bill for sex offenders register, will it stop sexual assaults? Probably not, but it should cut them down, and these perpetrators get some sort of recompense for there actions.

If the PM popularity is at an all time low, why don't the general public call for a general election right now?.

It sounds like someone has made a mess of the correct dosage, it's going to take a few years before they are back to the full numbers that they had before, there also may be a problem with long term health problems, I like red squirrels, but the highly invasive grey squirrels we have in the UK are a pest, the native red squirrels need to be protected

These guys have been handed down a sentence, wether or not it's a tough or a light sentence is debatable, the point is it's made a legal precedent, so any more type of action like this in the SDF or possibly with a company can or might be used to help the next person to bring a charge against someone.

I can't see anything remotely like this in Germany, but I could be wrong.

This seams to be a world wide problem, pop up site come and go very quickly especially around Christmas, the easiest way to combat this is just go to a shop and buy the goods over the counter, if, or when it goes wrong, or you need to exchange it you can, trying to do communicate with companies that only have a online presence is very difficult most of the time, I very really buy anything off the internet especially if I can't see a company address

Thank goodness this didn't happen in the summer time, can you imagine the fly's and stench. In next week's news, in Hakodate has an alarming rate of obese cats, some cats might reach a record of 25kg.

Does this suprise anyone?

In the UK these and feral pigeons are classed as a pest, they bread like rats, it's a full time job for farmers, game keepers to shoot these retched things, as for taking it to vet, who paid for that? I disagree with cruelty, but this prosecution is something of a joke.

It sounds like someone is trying to gain as much attention to the rocket launch as possible, the best thing to do is totally ignore NK, don't broadcast it don't talk about it, don't play into someones hand

if one guys comission was 10 million yen, how much did he steal, con out of his victims? i bet he only got a small percentage.

I wonder if anyone has called it chijima yet?

Another way of helping the general public, office worker is to make companies pay individuals for the 1_2 hours of compulsory overtime they work for nothing because the company says so.

As a contractor here in the UK i see this every day, people are addicted to there so called smart phones, its almost like a conjointed twin, the trouble is people are so oblivious to there surroundings, like traffic, other people, contractors digging up paths etc, every day i see people zig zag through numerious warning signs saying path closed etc, and they still walk into danger zones, and when we escort these people out of the danger area we get a mouth full of abuse, unfortunately this lady has fellen to her death, i am not surprised it doesnt happen more often, as people are not aware of there surroundings. although this has made the news, I wonder how many more car/pedestrian accidents there is during every week due to pedestrians just walking out into the road, or at traffic lights.

I watched a person walk around with a camera, they uploaded the vid clip, they walked around and around and around Shibuya, what I could see was it was less crowded, but what was noticable was the stagering amount of police on every street corner, intersection, side walks, it was crazy, the police cars, they were all up side streets, in or around the junctions, police with those whistles, my question is who much did that cost the tax payer? was it worth all of the police attending?

From what I can gather, 12 million yen, that will be a lot of money in Myanmar, i am not saying that he did this delibrately, but, lets look at the evidence first.