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Good luck.

So they are basically just replacing one kind of zero emissions bus with a near identical zero emissions bus, not really something that needs much of a fanfare or announcement

These are the last right hand drive trolleybuses still in active service in the world. So you're wrong there.

Hackers can't read Japanese.

Garbage. What about those born here.

What 'edge'?

Iran is surely quaking in it's boots off the back of this slapdown.

Another poster that will be ignored.

I'll stick to t shirts, suncream and iced water thanks.

It's always been about ca$h with Seb Coe. There is zero point to this bloated school fête carnival any longer.

Japanese Peso collapsing just before Taro and Yuki's annual golden week trip to 'Hawai'. The old saying keep em lean and keep em keen comes to mind.

Time to rename it to the Japanese Peso.

Fumio Kishida's “bold leadership”

ROFL! Good joke!

Hopefully they'll show the local chains how to serve a breakfast worth eating.

Japan lost to Europe in the bid for high-speed rail in Aussie a few years ago due to communication issues etc.

Which bid was that? There's not a single metre of high speed railway in Australia either built or under construction.

Japan seems to attend a lot of summits these days, but they never seem to go by anywhere.

And even fewer results or benefits from these gabfests.

Dumping their waste on third world nations. How proud they must be.

Who would take a taxi from Narita to central Tokyo for ¥30,000?

Guess you're fortunate enough to have not missed the last train due to a flight/airport delay.

The Tokyo Hire-Taxi Association, one of the operators involved in the project

Stop right there driver. Taxi companies and their associates should have zero to do with this.

If not Uber, why not let Grab in, who are elsewhere in Asia, and stop re-inventing wheels (pun intended).

NZ’s infrastructure is a shambles. 

Sounds more like the problem is the New Zealand government (of all stripes) not spending enough on building urban infrastructure let alone maintaining what exists. Auckland's urban transit system is far too focused on road transport for instance.

But it's far easier to blame immigrants and pander to racists who oppose any immigration. It strokes their bellies and makes the government look like it's doing something.

Completely overhyped trash. Always was, always will be. Anyone who was alive in the 80s will remember that no one dared to say they loved this insipid band. That's how it should have stayed.

I particularly hate idiots using loud speakers to make calls and watch stuff on public transport or any public areas. It's an obnoxious trend that must stop.

He also said European drivers typically start racing at a younger age than drivers in Japan. He also added in cultural and linguistic barriers. Both Iwasa and Tsunoda speak English well and do interviews in English.

They also start learning and using English as a second language much earlier and aren't embarrassed to make mistake.

Doesn't this country have a labour crunch? Why not put them to use jockeying a conbini cash register.

Get him to visit the ones at JR Shinjuku station.

He also missed those which don't provide soap or hand drying facilities, of which there are many.

Is there any reason why Japan doesn't have wheelie bins?

They take up too much space.

They'd also spoil the fun of your neighbourhood busy body with nothing else to do but go through your garbage and then complain to the council about it.

The council would then have to fire a third of their workforce for being too efficient.

He's been bribed out of the way for that silly maglev.

I used to be surprised and indignant about such discrimination but now I just don't care.

The standards you walk past are the standards you tolarate. Personally, this blatant racism should be called out.

Surprised he didn't go for the 'I was drunk' line.

Such polite people, following the rules, manners never in question.

Better them than having Microsoft having more power, or the unthinkable IBM making a return to end user computing. An alternative universe. Better the devil you know etc.

It's not Uber if cab companies still have a say in it. That's the whole point of Uber.

¥3000 for a salad pizza? Rediculous.