CardinalRed comments

....... ""In China, owners of smartphones now use them for just about everything from bike-sharing services to taxis and they pay without cash at almost all restaurants and stores ...""...... and those phones can also be used to track your every move, and totaling your social score, keep you from leaving the city, etc.....

How much does a Pepper cost?

Ha, ha, ha. Threats. BTW, how many condoms will be handed out this Olympics? Earlier, the estimate was over 100,000. And now we go from sexual relations to no interactions at all..............

..... ""seriously ill""....... and what is Japan's definition of seriously ill, compared with the US, for example? I have a feeling that there are many folks in the hospitals in Japan that might not be in the US........, but at the same time, others should be hospitalized!

....And, how does it work?

Please boycott China. Anything to do with China. Consider where your purchases come from. Vote for, and advise your leaders to be careful of China. And when I say "China", mean the CCP. The people of China are being taken for a ride by their dictator! I have known many Chinese people and they are all wonderful folks.

Nope. This is not how you learn a language. This is not how you interest most foreigners in learning about Japan or learning Japanese. —- Finally, the spoken word here is said much too fast for beginners to pick-up new vocabulary.

...... “” what goes around comes around””....... Nissan.

Nissan CVT are notoriously unreliable. Just do a search. Seems they have done nothing to solve the problems.

Do not trust WHO's director general Tedros. He is in China’s pocket. He is very corrupt.

Not only NO, but hell no! BERTIEWOOSTER has it right.

Where is the incentive to work?

Not only NO, but hell no! BERTIEWOOSTER has it right.

Olympics? At this level, not prepared.

All humans are created equal. Test and test now.

Too bad I cannot read that. Your sure that is for foreigners?

Damn bastards! Things in the “justice system” of Japan have to change ! This is NOT humane.

7 hours a day, intimidation and torture. Just the thing for a known terrorist and murderer ............wait a minute, he is a businessman?

No. Japanese thought processes are firmly linked to their past history. Their history is one of isolation and different ways of considering things. Painting with a broad brush here; —- Japanese folk do not directly face changes. One way you can see this is Japanese generally see no real need to speak English.

What I saw was smiles all around. Genuine interest and friendship. Haters gotta hate. Deranged. It is OK to have a disagreement or another opinion, but hatred and name calling belittles oneself.

Nissan, guilty until proven innocent. Same predicament as Ghosn.

This is hostage justice. I am sure the prosecution and judges will want this all finished before the Olympics. Not to sully Japan’s reputation.

Shame on Japan. This is not right. Likely they will try to sweep this under the rug before the Olympics.

..And it is not just peculiar words, but complete explanations that are incorrect. Things copied for one place that are not the same explanation in another place. — Needed to get some train tickets at JTB office, but there were no tickets at every office as the English explanation said. The correct JTB office was miles away and I was on foot.

Good!

Heads should roll......people lose their jobs and be made an example of what not to do!

Even juicer cooked in pressure cooker. Oops, that is KFC.

I do not understand why people are puzzled over this, the type of forkball he throws is “famous” for putting a lot of stress on the elbow ligament. This forkball is very hard to hit, however almost no MLB players have thrown it due to the injury potential. Look it up.

Lots of fiction in this book.

A very gifted actress ..... and hypocrite!

The folks in Japan who need their ego's stroked. Japanese folks need reassuring that their culture is good (when in fact, there are lots of problems).