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Specially designed glasses allow the user to see virtual animals that assist them with certain tasks, it said.

Only in Japan. I would love to try those glasses!

Actually Yoshiki is a great piano player and drummer, an amazing song writer/composer, and philanthropist (check out https://yoshikifoundationamerica.org). And yes, he is known here in the US.

I wonder how much of the technology to design/produce the C919 was stolen from Boeing and Airbus?

@You,

The meaning of calling on corporate clients is to visit their office and meet them face to face. It's not a video call.

I guess that explains why Japan has the highest life expectancy in the world.

Completely wrong observation. I have read many studies about the negative health affects of sitting, the science is clear.

What you should be wondering is how much LONGER Japan's life expectancy would be if they didn't sit so much.

International air space.flight as usual.wondering why this article is considered as its "newsworthy"

Well, there is this...

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-planned-attack-japan-2021-fsb-letters-1762133

So "rude health" health means good health? Or is that a typo?

He will seek a third consecutive mandate in 2014? So he is going back in time?

Before the start of these Olympics, China complained that the diplomatic boycott was political, and that politics had no place in the Olympics. Now China BOCOG is making political statements in an Olympic press conference. Does China not understand the concept of hypocrite?

TOKYO — The chief of the Tokyo 2020 organizing committee on Tuesday did not rule out canceling the Olympics if COVID-19 cases spiked, as more athletes tested positive for the virus and sponsors ditched plans to attend Friday's opening ceremony.

Asked at a news conference if the global sporting showpiece might still be canceled, Toshiro Muto said he would keep an eye on infection numbers and liaise with other organizers if necessary.

"We will continue discussions if there is a spike in cases," said Muto.

"We have agreed that based on the coronavirus situation, we will convene five-party talks again. At this point, the coronavirus cases may rise or fall, so we will think about what we should do when the situation arises."

By Ju-min Park and Sakura Murakami, Reuters | Posted - July 20, 2021 at 8:32 a.m.

So which is it King Bach? No chance of cancellation and zero risk, or reality?

It appears that Bach has learned to lie just like a recently deposed/disgraced US leader.

Virus outbreaks already, and the Olympics haven't even started yet.

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/olympics-virus-outbreaks-olympic-hotels-sow-frustration-stoke-infection-fears-2021-07-16/

And this is only the beginning.....

Just watch, there is more to come.

So Suga can't commit to a safe Olympics. His bosses Bach and Coates won't like that.

Ah yes, let the games begin...

Unfortunately there will be more to pay attention to than just the games, such as the daily virus report that will continue for weeks after the games end.

For $55.3M I would sit through any number of media conferences. :)

IOC gets all the money, everyone else gets all the risk....

Today's headlines:

-Australia reinstates COVID-19 restrictions in Melbourne after fresh outbreak

-U.S. warns its citizens against travel to Japan due to COVID surge

-Osaka hospitals buckle under COVID-19 onslaught

-Japan plans to extend COVID-19 state of emergency beyond May 31

And the Olympics will still go on as scheduled no matter what?

Crazy! Suga, get a backbone!

We used to drive to visit a production plant in Tijuana regularly. Then after a Toshiba(?) executive was kidnapped, we could no longer drive all the way. At the border we had to switch to a van with darkened windows and a Mexican driver who knew the area better. Along the way I often saw law enforcement with machine guns at check points. Sad to see Tijuana go from bad to worse. Awesome Mexican people to work with in the plant though.

“Like all of you, I was shocked and deeply saddened by the calamity at the Capitol last week"

And the lies continue. He was not shocked or saddened. Reports are that he looked on gleefully from the WH as the events unfolded, and he did nothing to stop it. WH staff wrote the speech and told him he had no choice but to read it in order to save his skin, so he read it begrudgingly. LOSER to the end.

Without Twitter, he won't have a clue how to communicate with anyone. That will be a good thing. Truly the biggest LOSER ever in countless ways.

I agree with impeachment and invoking the 25th amendment. And he should also be banned from ever running for office again-

Fourteenth Amendment Section 3

No Person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

"A new administration will be inaugurated on January 20. My focus now turns to ensuring a smooth, orderly and seamless transition of power," Trump said in a short video.

However, the evidently reluctant concession, in which Trump failed to congratulate Biden or directly admit defeat, was too little, too late to calm outrage over his role in the Capitol invasion.

It's always easy to tell when Trump says something he doesn't believe, something someone else wrote for him. He read it like someone eating natto who hates natto. He read it because the Whitehouse staff told him he had sealed his own fate, that he had no choice. Then shortly after without a script he said something totally opposite revealing his true feelings.

He can't be gone soon enough.

Absolutely shocking, but unfortunately not surprising. Since being impeached but then let off the hook by the Republicans, Trump had become more and more erratic. It was only a matter of time until he reached the point of no return. The Republicans who enabled him - Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruz et all - were also complicit.

Once again, Trump evidently somehow knows more than the intelligence agencies who are the experts?? Trump is an idiot, moron, egomaniac, narcissist, lier, traitor, LOSER, etc etc etc.

He keeps proving over and over again why he is totally incompetent and dangerous to the U.S. and the world. He doesn't care about the U.S. And yet there are millions of misguided members of his cult who support him. Why?

Trump wants the title of president, but he doesn't want the responsibilities of president. People he has sworn to protect are dying and suffering economically, while he sits by and does nothing.

Biden is acting more presidential than Trump ever has. I wish Trump would just leave now and let Biden take over.

It blows my mind that anyone believes anything Trump says, and that he is allowed to get away with it. Trump is a liar. Period.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/19/politics/fact-check-trump-dishonest-weekend-florida-michigan-georgia-wisconsin/index.html

Fauci has more respect and is more popular than Trump (Trump has grudgingly admitted it), and that drives Trump crazy - he's insanely jealous. It also drives him crazy that it's more important to Fauci that 100,000 lives are saved instead of the stock market raising a few points.

Two Trump statements in the past few days-

**Two days ago:** "My heart breaks for every grieving family that has lost a precious loved one. I feel their anguish. I mourn their loss. I feel their pain," said Trump, who recently recovered from his own bout with the disease.

and

**Today: **“People are tired of hearing Fauci and all these idiots," Trump said of the government's top infectious disease expert. “Every time he goes on television, there’s always a bomb. but there’s a bigger bomb if you fire him. But Fauci’s a disaster.”

It's obvious which one is true. Every time Trump says something that makes a little sense (i.e. reads something someone else wrote for him because he would never come up with it himself), shortly after he can't help but to then say the complete opposite when he expresses his true feelings.

Wow, the wheels are really coming off now! Those are the rants of a desperate madman (and desperate = dangerous) who is grasping at what he thinks is his last best chance. But he keeps digging the hole deeper and deeper instead. The next two weeks will be interesting and maybe a little scary.

"My heart breaks for every grieving family that has lost a precious loved one. I feel their anguish. I mourn their loss. I feel their pain," Trump said.

Now 8 months later he suddenly gets religion? That is not Trump talking. He has had countless opportunities and reasons to express empathy but never has. I'm sure one of his staff wrote it and convinced him that he had to say it because he is nose diving in the polls. I would like to see the video to see how uncomfortable he must have been while saying it. And I don't believe he meant a single word of it except for when he said My, I, I, I since all he cares about is himself. It's too late to convince me any different.

Biden won the TV ratings battle between the two events, according to Nielsen ratings data.

Take that Dumpy Trump! In his mind an incredibly embarrassing loss I'm sure!!