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Great news for cancer patients.

Discussions about the A-bomb almost always ends in the comment that "the Japanese love to play the victim card". These people have probably never read a Japanese-language newspaper or watched a Japanese-language news program. The concept of "playing the victim card" is almost as alien to traditional conservative Japanese culture as walking with shoes on in people's home. In my experience, the people who are vocal in criticising the American military decision are far more likely to be other Americans of a progressive dispostion.

So sad. Rest in peace.

Still a lot of reflex Japan criticism

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.PC?most_recent_value_desc

Carbon dioxide emissions per capita ranking;

Australia: 14.8, Canada: 13.6, United States: 13.0, Russia: 11.2, South Korea: 11.0, Japan: 8.0, China:

Very exciting tournament!

Great news!

This is totally unacceptable.

Out of interest, does anyone know of politicians in other Western countries who have taken personal responsibility for bureaucratic errors, and agreed to pay cuts?

This is going to get very exciting..

Already, in 2023, many non-English speakers use Google Translate when viewing English websites. In 30 years time, when these children are in their forties, the enormous amount of time that they spent learning English will probably be wasted for 95% of the school population because of advanced AI doing a much better job than they can themselves. Of course there will be 5% who genuinely use English on a regular basis for whatever reason, and therefore will continue to require high-level personal language skills.

Great news!

I too find the situation to be somewhat peculiar.

If you are a left-wing critic, then "Barbie" is a good movie, and "Sound of Freedom" a bad one.

If you are right-wing, the "Barbie" is a bad movie, and "Sound of Freedom" is a good one.

It wasn't always like this.

Movies such as "Jaws", "Godfather" and "Star Wars" were judged to be good or bad, independent of the critic's political persuasion..

What happened?

Sad news indeed. RIP

Why is it that it is usually men who are pushing for the rights of transwomen to act as they wish, and anyone who expresses a female point of view is promptly silenced and ridiculed? Women make up over 50% of the population, and are the ones who will directly affected, so their opinion shouldn't be simply ignored. But I guess women don't matter any more. Welcome to Misogyny version 2.0, the brand-new 21st century version!

It's good to see Andy Murray on great form.

Good for you, itsonlyrocknoll. Respect!

I would like to champion the right of women to participate freely in the comments section.

Women make up over 50% of the population but less than 1% of the comments.

Many women are put off by the toxic atmosphere displayed by a minority of the commentators (and it's definitely not who you think..)

I agree that women's empowerment should be promoted. However, I find it disconcerting that the comments section is always overwhelmingly male-dominated. It would be nice to hear more directly about the views of women, especially non-mainstream non-Western women, rather than always hearing the same views of the middle-aged men who regularly comment here. Perhaps their wives, daughters, and partners could comment?

RIP. My thoughts are with their families.

In the 16th century, everything was about Catholics versus Protestants.

Now it seems to be all about Blacks versus Whites.

Perhaps I'm being fanciful..

A hundred years ago, Japan had a much higher birth rate than now.

Which is somewhat counter-intuitive, because 1. Families had much lower incomes at that time, and 2. Men were even less likely to assist with domestic chores and child-rearing than young people today.

So maybe the answer lies elsewhere, and we need to think out of the box..

A sad situation. I hope the criminals are caught.

Since the new orthodoxy is that gender is a societal concept that is open to personal interpretation, wouldn't it be possible for one member of the couple to self-identify as being of the opposite gender, and therefore eligible for marriage under the current laws?

It's sad, but with all the tension in East Asia as well as the economic situation, a number of my friends are seriously thinking of going home.

While I feel very sorry for this woman, we musn't immediately assume without knowing the details that she was so malnourished and povery-stricken that she need to shoplift in order to survive. She may have thought that it would save time and be less of a hassle simply to walk away with the food than to join the long queue at the cash register. Maybe she couldn't understand how to use one of these new self-checkout stations. Anyway the biggest question is, why is this even national headline news?

The phrase "Hey loosen up, we're just having fun !" is sometimes used as a catchphrase by school bullies to legimitize all kinds of obnoxious behavior. It's sad, because by far the vast majority of Halloween participants are well-mannered and respectful of others.

I hope he succeeds where others have failed.

The most important issue here is not the view of the rest of the world, but the views of the people in Scotland. I am fearful that the Britain will cease to be Great, and that the UK is about to disappear in the not so distant future.

While I fully agree with the concerns of this expert which need to be addressed by the J-gov, one has to ask whether this is really the best use of UN money and resources, when there is an immediate risk of widespread famine and even nuclear war.

It is sad that these seemingly unforced errors by the British government in London may lead to further calls for independence by the Scottish nationalists.

A wonderful guy. RIP