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Before "considering" money, how about supporting an immediate cease fire and continue funding UNRWA? Even the Japanese representative of UNRWA has said on national TV that there is no evidence of complicity in the attacks on 10/7. The only evidence that IDF has said are documents which they only shared with the U.S. If Japan wants to contribute take if from the tax evasion LDP slush funds.

Showing deference to Nikai because of his age? Gimmee a break. If my mother who is older than he is, and didn't file on let's say 100,000 yen, she would be hauled before Kokuzeicho.

Doing the bidding of the GOP. Add another reason why they can't be allowed to win the next election.

They couldn't even get the JSDF helos into the disaster area until five days after the earthquake, they're going to loosen the hair rules because of the shortfall in recruiting, and they don't have the discipline within the ranks and they think that just throwing money at the problem is going to help the defense of Japan? With the impending tax hikes, you can bet that any real gains in wages are going to be sucked right out of the population's pocket. Get LDP out of office.

Before everyone oohs and aaahs about Musk's Nerualink, go read how they treated the lab animals. Test monkeys having 10 operations on their skull before finally being put down just for starters.

Niihau incident was important and often overlooked. However, Unlike the internment of people from Germany or Italy, the Japanese were rounded up by race whereas the Germans and Italians were targeted individuals who were deemed a threat to the U.S. U.S. POWs and other prisoners under the Japanese were treated cruelly but the Japanese Americans who were imprisoned were non-combatants. I also agree with another post that Japan often uses this to portray itself as a victim but the injustice of the internment should not be overlooked and whitewashed because of current Japanese views or revisionist history. THAT war brought out the worst in humanity and we are still grappling with the truth and the sooner we face and learn from the truth, perhaps we'll be able to avoid making the same mistake again. But we're not. Islamophobia, anti-antisemitism, racism, and all of the other "isms" are still rampant and we are hating just as much as we did before and being led by people who know how to manipulate the masses for their own gain.

No moral backbone in Japan. One eye always looking toward D.C. and trying to find praise.

The world decried what happened at Bucha after the fact, but stays silent for Gaza when it's happening right before our eyes.

So dude, what did they get you for and why are you here? For real? Hey Saburo, get a load of these clowns!

It's the same story over and over. Social services or the police return the victim back to hell. The government cries about the low birth rate and yet can't even protect the few children that are alive and in society. Suicide, neglect, abuse, and bullying abounds . Many public services don't want to work with bothersome problems, it means overtime work. There needs to be more serious accountability for those whose job is to protect. There should be laws that would allow child protective NPOs to file civil lawsuits against protective services if evidence shows that the abuse or death could have been prevented and also mandate teachers to report suspected abuse.

Kishida promised to address....oh I'm sure this will get something done. He should have "promised to address" this a long time ago, but like always, kicking the can down the road seems to be the SOP. Locals need to get her out of office and "address" this issue with her local LDP office.

If commercialism aka brainwashing can move a country like this for Valentines, and other money making holidays, just think how the government uses the same ploy to lead people to further their own agenda.

Japanese news reported that only 1/3 of the those islands invited showed up. China's post-war presence in the area is way ahead of Japan. Before and during WWII Japan was dominant in the region but lost interest after all the islands were lost in the war. Not so China.

Aging population and decreasing number of new recruits prevents many male employees from taking longer leave because it means placing additional burden on their colleagues who are then forced to work overtime to cover two jobs. I've heard from several people, both male and female explain that it would be more practical to allow men to have flexible working hours and the ability to work from home to meet both the child rearing and workplace burden requirements. As always the government has no idea what's going on in the actual workplace and it's only the affluent or politicians like Koizumi who can actually take advantage of the government's paternity leave policy.

Israel's claim that they found documents that prove UNRWA was complicit has still not been revealed to independent sources, only to the U.S. So they have now found tunnels, and journalists were invited, journalists from where? Only news outlets that are friendly to Israel? Why not invite forensic engineers? Oh, and BTW, of course there are going to be tunnels, with the decades of pounding from Israeli artillery and air strikes anyone who wants to survive will go underground.

We all need to be vigilant and realize that it's not localized and not depend on the police. My brother in law at Apple suggested a good source, Krebs on Security.

Make an example of him and throw the book at him, the corner of the book preferably.

It is what it is, s..t happens, anything that can go wrong, will, etc. Get used to it. This is what happens and why we should be leery of the LDP and nuke energy ties.

Provide Africa with food or Kenya. There is a tremendous difference in scale and money. Aaah, Kishida the strong leader.

The dog has obviously been mistreated by the owner. Arrest the owner, jail and fine him, remove the dog and put it in a shelter and rehabilitate it so that it learns to trust humans again, then put it up for adoption into a caring home. The dog can be rehabilitated with love and patience, the owner only through jail and fines. Hell, maybe even a class action law suit by the victims.

The mere fact that a guideline won't be coming out until March 2025 says it all; snail paced bureaucracy with no one taking the lead. These fire brigades are not fire fighters that you see wearing the orange uniforms and who go undergo rigorous training, these are the fire brigades 消防団 who are local volunteers, people who more than likely just wanted to contribute to their community. Japan needs to do more on Sept 9 Disaster Prevention Day 防災の日 than to just play with fire extinguishers.

How 'bout the press also adding that Okinawa has the highest drunk driving percentage in all of Japan. Almost four times the national average. Idiots are idiots, uniform or not.

I think Takaichi's move is to further lower Kishida's poll numbers so that there will be no choice but to dissolve the cabinet and to have elections for a new P.M. She knows that the the poplulation is against the Osaka expo and that resources need to be pulled to the disaster area so Kishida will be in a no win situation which will result in lower numbers. The LDP knows sailing with this clown will only drag them down even further so it's a mutiny on a ship of fools.

Right. The left hand checking the right hand, LDP take us for fools. Get Kokuzeicho (NTA) involved and investigate for tax evasion.

Whoever thought of this at the traffic bureau was DUI.

“We will not end this war without achieving all of our goals..." So far with all the dead and suffering, Netanyahu has yet to achieve any of his goals. The freed hostages was a result of negotiations not the IDF liberating them, instead the IDF killed hostages. Wipe out Hamas, so far I don't see that either. He's trying so hard to stay out of jail on his corruption charges....Israelis need to wake up and get this butcher and his ilk out of office. All of this does not happen in a vacuum, it will come back and bite you in the worst way possible.

Draining labor from all of the other prefectures.

Mutually beneficial? Not if Aso has anything to say about it. Kishida can't control him and Aso knows it so basically he's pulling all the strings.

Couple of things. Who said? Israel said, and the docs shared with the U.S. and who else? The article mentions that, " the findings detailed in the document could not be independently confirmed." So Israel says so with no hard proof and we're to believe? The second point is even if what Israel says is true it only affirms what we already know, that they have the most sophisticated intelligence and tech systems in the region. So why didn't they know about the planning of 10/7 and implement counter-measures?

How 'bout everyone boycott Valentines and White Day?