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I'm reading in the news that the Japanese Prime Minister's visit to greet the new US President is "mainly symbolic".

But it certainly also seems "symbolic" of a despot's attempt to escape the emergency in their own home country.

I'm tired of reading of "vows" "pledges" and "poises".

Let's see some US President Biden style ACTION.

Will those people with vaccination certificates traveling overseas to Japan still be able to unknowingly carry the virus (and its variants) with them, and broadly infect unvaccinated Japanese citizens?

Ha-ha-ha!

This is so laughably unacceptable.

go girl!

i think people in america will think she is big too!

"(Japan) has so far received (...) around 1.4 million shots."

At least one million of these should already be in people's arms.

virusrex: "Freezers are routinely equipped with long term batteries and remote alarms when they hold valuable materials, (t)his is the result of someone assuming a responsibility without the capacity of doing it."

Yes, the list of things to blame (fax machines, foreign drug companies, syringes, freezers, etc.) will continue to grow.

yo banksters!

we're still waiting on our "fiscal and monetary support" down here in the day-to-day working world.

When your banquet is over, throw us a bone, will ya?

I am sure that struggling businesses are frustrated by the government's slow and continued delays in the rollout of vaccination for the general population.

As well as being frustrated and confused by the mixed messages of "Go To" and "STAY HOME" while officials attend lavish parties with cronies and schedule international sports events in empty stadiums.

This continuing behaviour in the aftermath of government's handling of the TEPCO Fukushima disaster can only foster additional resentment and distrust.

"While the government is eager to get the world's third-largest economy back on track,"

yet they remain extremely recalcitrant in starting mass vaccinations.

I'm extremely eager to travel, attend sports events and concerts, and spend lavishly at restaurants, shops, bars, spas, etc., but I'm not going to do it until I know that at least half of Japan is vaccinated.

Looks like I'm going to keep my wallet closed until autumn.

It's simply an "overshoot".

They're very fashionable in Japan these days.

Just wait for the 2020 Olympics.

"Traditional phalluses are in decline" makes this very related to Japan.

Plus Emma Watson!

Vaccinations will start late February. First priority for vaccination will be given to medical workers, ambulance crews and public health center officials.

People aged 65 or older will be given second priority. Their vaccinations will begin in late March or early April.

Third priority will be given to people under 65 with underlying health conditions such as chronic respiratory diseases, cardiac diseases, diabetes, obesity and cancer. Workers at elderly care facilities will also be given third priority.

If enough vaccine supply is available, the government will consider vaccinating people aged 60 to 64 without underlying conditions around the same time as those with underlying conditions.

I know some restaurant owners and a few others who I would like Akane Yamaguchi, a highly paid economist at the Daiwa Institute of Research, to look in the eye and say, "The coronavirus pandemic isn't an economic crisis where money disappears."

oh did we "overshoot" our "highest COVID-19 alert level"?

let's move the goalposts just a bit once more

There’s no need to hurry. We won’t need our first one until March.

Virusrex-san, I logged in to this Japan Today account only to say thank you, Thank You to you for your kind, patient, and thorough explanations.

Mark Twain said, “You can’t reason someone out of something that they weren’t reasoned into in the first place,” but I know that you have helped many confused and anxious readers here understand some essential and very important scientific truths about COVID-19 (and viruses in general). I sincerely appreciate your efforts.

I hope and believe that many more readers will continue to learn more about and understand the reality of the current situation rather than succumb to the hyperbole. We are all in this together, and must pull together or pull apart.

it makes me so sad that Wall Street can't outguess and pre-leverage consumer prices

we need stricter laws against people buying what they need rather than buying what stockbrokers have bet on

Bullying is more contagious and deadly than any virus.

Ask that cat to take a look at some of the cold case files!

One hour at 180 degrees Celsius for 5 mm chicken slices seems excessive.

But "Keep ***king That Chicken" is what my grandmother always told me.

But you must test before you can track.

Vince Blackさん,

All it takes is one worker who doesn't know or doesn't care about the proper guidelines for cleanliness, e.g. licking their own fingers after each bit of cake or rice is put on a dish or into a young mouth, or pulling down their mask to sneeze or cough into their hand.

One careless person can do a lot of damage. That's how we got here.

Take my money!

おいしそう！

Quoting Derek Grebe:

Coming into the office, sneezing and snotting everywhere (Especially with the renowned aversion to hand-washing that many oyajis display)

Let's not forget about the open-mouth cough, a tradition beloved by all and unhampered by science.

"Please cover your mouth when coughing or sneezing" would be so much more beneficial to the public than "Feel free to patronize mothers, the elderly, and the handicapped."

Like Nissan,

Mitsubishi has also faced its own scandals.

Well, don't be shy, Tennessee. You've got your own ghosts, both past and present. In fact, one of "the state's most powerful Republicans, House Speaker Glen Casada," has had his own power failure very recently.

Unbelievably and arrogantly self-induced, as well.

Wiki tells me the total budget is over 4$ billion with more than 21$ dollars in revenue.

I bought more than 21$ in popcorn watching the Iron Man movies alone!

Interesting indeed! I wonder what that one weird trick is that makes North Korean workers so attractive to companies?

Paradoxically, the University of Tokyo isn't the real world either.

"Centuries of tradition, unhampered by progress."

Since people don't eat the skin, can these be 'reusable'?

It might be the same guys who think up the Pokemon names.