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Red suns at Mar. 12, 2017 - 08:25AM JST Without Panasonic's expertise, Elon Musk's quest for cheap electric cars will still be just a dream.

Hardly relevant to this moment in time.

Li-ion battery technology in 18650 and the upcoming 2170 format Tesla will be using are mature technology. Both LG and Samsung are more than competent to replace Panasonic products.

Also, cutting edge research into safer and higher density energy sources are being carried out by mostly American companies, not Panasonic.

jj1067 at Jan. 18, 2017 - 11:58PM JST It's just politics. When China becomes a free country with freedom of academics then I would start listening to them. But now, it's just politics as everything is only politics under communist control.

How is this news 'just politics'? The facts are clear and the Japanese government is involved and it is reported on JT, a site NOT known to side with China at all.

What is the matter with people who can't deal with a pretty normal piece of news for once?

toshiko at Jan. 16, 2017 - 10:18PM JST If Indonesian people do not mind to live and work in Japan, Japan can reduce griping labor shortage.

Not happening. Indonesians lack the 'work-to-death' work ethics, and their skin tone is three shades too dark for the Japanese' liking.

ebisen at Jan. 13, 2017 - 05:28PM JST Donald Trump is an idiot and the Americans are not responsible enough to be allowed to vote seeing that they just gave the Red Button to such a person.

Thanks for the indiscriminate jab in the eye of ALL Americans. If only you know the fact that more American voters chose Clinton than Trump, maybe you can go back to some closet self-loathing, or whatever tickles your fancy.

“We think that we have no territorial problems. It’s Japan that thinks that it has a territorial problem with Russia,”

Hmm...where have I heard that line before...that's right, Japan keeps telling China the same thing about Senkaku/Diaoyu.

Must be a funny feeling to be on the receiving end of it.

Ties between China and Japan...have long been strained by a territorial dispute.

I don't know what's their definition of 'long' but I wouldn't call 4 years (since 2012) 'long'.

Striving for simplicity in translation is fine, but not if it completely distorts the original meaning.

In this case, just translate it to 'love overcomes hate', and let the word play on 'trump' be lost.

bass4funkNOV. 10, 2016 - 02:05AM JST Apparently, you didn't see the map, it looked like a giant red tomato.

Your failure to grasp logic is astounding. If there are a grand total of 10 people living in Hokkaido and they all vote one way, and all ten million people in Tokyo-to vote the other way, did Hokkaido win because it is much larger on the map?

Number of voters count, not land area.

Web site on immigrating to Canada keeps crashing due to high traffic.

bones at Nov. 07, 2016 - 06:21AM JST I just hope pilots aren't doing things like this!!!

There's two pilots in the cockpit, and once airborne, it doesn't require their constant attention.

I don't think the number of tourists is related to the value of the yen. It is because Japan is the only safe place in the world to travel to at the moment.

Someone recently posted on the safest countries in Asia alone, and Japan didn't even crack the top 3. Don't kid yourself, Japan may be relatively safe, but claiming to be THE ONLY safe place in the world is a little cocky and untrue.

As for visiting Japan, I avoid Tokyo and Osaka like the plague. Much prefer smaller cities like Sapporo or Fukuoka.

Again, takeda-shingen points out that this stalking-attacking thing is really an issue for the idol business and not really in other more normal industries.

Do you have stats to back this up? That stalking is an issue for the idol business and not others?

surely there must have been people around getting coffee and such

How do you know that? I've been outside many konbinis, at all hours of the day, where I'm the only person outside the store.

For me the idol industry would be fine if the girls were at least 25 and married or with partners

Oh my, that's hardly fine. We need an idol industry with 'girls' that are at least 65 year old wrinkly grandmas with missing front teeth.

No fans will ever threaten these idols.

If it were any other nation, such actions to control illegal immigration would be applauded,

Baseless assertion. Show proof or zip it.

but since this is Japan, majority opinion should be against this 'xenophobic' act.

What majority?

@Sherman

Never before have I felt so concerned and worried about the people running the world.

A few more came to mind right away: Putin, Mugabe, Kim.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Sorry to depress your day further.

EVEN BETTER: next stop Abexit

That'll be 2021. Possibly longer, given what LDP wants to do for their dear leader.

Subhuman scum, please drop these so-called parents, into the sea, preferably with concrete boots.

The parents committed fraud, lied to the authorities, didn't give their son a proper burial and treated his body with disrespect. But I don't see from the article that they actually killed him.

Surely what they're guilty of (so far) don't call for the death penalty (drop into the sea with concrete boots), do they?

oldman_13 at Oct. 27, 2016 - 12:20PM JST While some may find her attractive, I think Priyanka is way more beautiful than this woman here.

Priyanka - can't sing, lips that are way too thick, sorry excuse for an actress. You have strange tastes.

While any killing cannot be condoned, it is especially heinous for a parent to kill her own child as this goes against the natural order of continuity of the species through your offsprings.

I get off work at 2pm, everyday. That's like an entire extra shift for me, lol. If they're sincere about this, perhaps lights out at 7pm, unless specially authorized for rush projects.

Tokyo is a major ally of the United States

Caught between the crossfire between a current superpower, and an emerging one, as Japan and many other smaller Asian nations are, is it wise to totally ally with one, and completely alienate the other, as Japan seems hell bent on doing? What if you bet on the wrong horse?

Call it playing both sides, or just trying to maintain some sort of neutrality, countries like the Phillipines, Singapore, and to a lesser extent, South Korea, may be making wiser choices.

Perhaps the ghost from Japan's imperialist past is preventing it from ever trying to do so.

The Brazilian fee was levied in retaliation for exclusion of Brazil from the U.S. visa waiver program.

Pride got in the way and they were only hurting themselves in the end. At least they came to their senses, after losing millions to competing nations welcoming tourists without imposing such expenses and hassle.

The US paid Iranians at leats 400 mil. USD as ransom for its citizens,

No it didn't, no matter what Trump says.

It was Iran's money frozen by the US after the 1979 revolution. The US was simply returning what belongs to Iran in the first place.

Schopenhauer at Oct. 24, 2016 - 08:44AM JST It is strange that the Chinese who eat dogs and monkey brains do not eat whale meat.

off topic and juvenile. I hope your dumb posts gets deleted and your sorry ass banned

Neither Hong Kong nor Tibet is a 'country'. thats not the point, they were once a sovereign territory/region , Tibet with its own specific culture, now they're under Chinas puppet control, just as the Philippines is becoming.

Hong Kong was a sovereign territory/region? According to who? Hong Kong was Chinese land until it was leased to Britain as a crown colony. When the lease was up, it was returned to China.

"Tibet with its own specific culture" - so do the Ainu people in Hokkaido and the Ryuku people in Okinawa. By your reasoning, Hokkaido and Okinawa are under Japanese puppet control?

Which country is under Chinese puppet state control?ah Hongkong and Tibet

Neither Hong Kong nor Tibet is a 'country'.

Stand up to big brother? Hardly. More like drop to his knees for China

He's doing both at the same time. They don't have to be mutually exclusive.

You may not like the man, or what he says or does, but you'll have to admit he has the guts to stand up to the big brother and fight for what he perceives as is in the best interest of his country.

Look what blind submission got Japan. Controversy military bases aside, what did the Plaza Accord do to Japan and its economy? Many argue that Japan has never recovered from the repercussions.

kamejima47 at Oct. 22, 2016 - 09:22AM JST Schopenhauer: With all due respect, America is the name of the entire continent from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego.

That's TWO continents - North America and South America. 'America' by itself customarily refers to the country of USA.

Why are you bringing up third grade geography lessons?