David Brent comments

No way would I raise a daughter in Japan.

Sad to see this nonsense gaining traction in Japan.

I sure hope Trump gets the Republican nomination after seeing these idiots up on stage.

Israel : We are going to turn Gaza into a glass parking lot.

Japan : はい、かしこまりました！

What are you talking about? Tobacco smokers are still everywhere and smell absolutely terrible. We all have to experience when a heavy smoking ojisan gets on the train and absolutely REAKS of cigarette smoke. it's terrible.

I couldn't agree more. I'm 100% for banning cigarettes as well.

The Japanese are taught in school that the evil Americans tricked/led/forced the poor, innocent, peace-loving Japanese into attacking Pearl Harbour. It was quite an eye-opener to chat about this with some of my work colleagues.

Just legalize recreational marijuana already.

Please, no. Last thing we want is Japanese cities turning into stinky, horrible places like Portland and San Francisco.

Guilty not guilty, one thing's for sure; he'll at least get a fair trial in France. Lucky he's not being tried in the Japanese "justice" system.

Japanese rice is only good for one thing: sushi.

For any other rice dish, Basmati rice or Jasmine rice is far more tasteful and less stodgy.

Imagine calling yourself a modern country, yet not allowing a lawyer to be present during police questioning, or videotaping/soundtaping of such questioning.

How about paying the delivery drivers more than a pittance?

The main purpose of the COP28 is for the UAE to strike new oil deals, especially with countries like Japan who have no oil of their own.

Imagine this happening in Japan. They’d just fire all the dispatch workers in one go.

The irony is deafening. Is that a 747?

I've been spending at least ¥500,000 every month using Rakuten Card and because of the points I never had to pay for fast food, gas etc. ever again

¥500,000 only gets you 5000 Rakuten points. So you expect us to believe you spend less than ¥5000 on food, gas etc. per month? Stop lying.

At least he wasn’t as bad as McNamara.

Why do they crash regularly?

If their service really were that good, surely people would be signing up in droves?

Israel doesn’t really care about having to release three Hamas hostages for every one Israeli hostage they get back. In the next wave of bombing to come, those released Hamas terrorists will probably be killed anyways. I expect the Israelis are even tracking their exact location.

@Futaro Gamagori

No. Especially in Japan. Do you not know how “justice” works in Japan?

I have very few fears surrounding living in Japan.

My biggest fear, though, is getting mixed up with the Japanese police or being accused of something I didn't do.

Isn’t one whole purpose of the Olympics to basically legitimize corruption?

Gotta ensure a steady supply of that slave labour! Sorry, I mean specialist technical trainees.

My local supermarket around 7pm, when they mark all the skanky bentos down, is like a scene from Mad Max. Truly Japan is on a downward slide.

The anti-Brexit loonies will surely hate this!

This is fantastic news for the Dutch people. Well done, Geert. All the years of hard work have paid off.

No more soft-touch regarding fake “asylum seekers”.

I have to remind Japanese friends that when abroad, it is customary to thank the waiter/waitress when they bring food, and generally acknowledge their presence, rather than treating them like something you just scraped off the bottom of your shoe.

The company is planning to mass produce state-of-the-art 2-nanometer chips in 2024 in partnership with U.S. tech giant IBM Corp.

Err, that ain’t gonna happen. 2nm node?! Samsung and TSMC might be able to pull this off in 2024, but they’re the only two.

The executives must be so happy. No more pesky shareholders to worry about.

An excellent choice for foreign secretary. Shame that Braverman got sacked though.