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Foreigner arriving in Japan must sign pledge to respect Nippon customs including holy mountain fujisan

Can’t see a single young Korean in the photo!

What is happening in the Senate is only democracy on action so stop whining! Imagine if Marjorie Taylor Greene stepped up to the plate.

Anti-Chinese discrimination- disgusting!

At long last Nippon re-joins the world of nations staunchly defending freedom! Given they have spent so little on defense in the past, I think they should quadruple the defense budget immediately and at the same time, give their military soldiers the same deference that US servicemen get in the US. What is the Japanese phrase for "We thank you for your service.". Like South Korea and Singapore, compulsory military service for graduating students will solve the shortage of soldiers I read about. It will also bring more discipline to the unruly youth in Shibuya.

It is shameful how Takahashi is being scapegoated by the Japanese media. He was one of the key people who made the Olympics a successful event every Japanese can be proud of. The politicians knew all this stuff at the beginning so why are they only hanging out Takahashi to dry now?

Save Japanese taxpayer money by immediately withdrawing from this wasteful exercise in national prissy. Ace JAXA now and solve the homeless crisis.

Cyber cash already proven bad. Stop playing with our hard earned CASH!

Stop taking things out on Dentsu! Japan wanted the Olympics someone has to get their hands dirty. Suck it up Japanese general public.

Nothing wrong with Unification Church. It has brought many single people together into happy, married lives. It also promotes world peace. What is wrong with those ideals? Also banning the church I think is just an excuse for LDP to focus away from important issues. Also it is religious persecution-this is not unlike feudal Japan did to Christians in the 15th century in Nagasaki!

I don’t understand. Japan cannot constitutionally make people stay home during COVID lockdown, so how can they ban alcohol? It is a travesty of individual freedom and choice.

None of this farce would have happened had BoJo stayed PM. He delivers! He delivered the most successful Tory landslide win at the last election. He delivered Brexit, unchaining Great Britain from the heavy financial, bureaucratic and cultural shackles of continental Europe. An independent Britain would have once again shone its Britannic light and led the world. But nasty-minded “unTory” types conspired to clip his wings.

Everyone is wrong about Boris. He alone would have saved Britain. He is the best politician since Margaret Thatcher.

Price rises here are good because it reduces the chances of the poison that is alcohol reaching the lips of drinkers. If it were me, I would raise 400% taxes on alcohol.

The two great seafaring island nations of Japan and Great Britain will be tied together economically. This is marvelous news in the MJGA and MGBGA movements.

Japan still suffers over 35,000 new cases a day. Why is Japan opening up? Lockdowns and mask wearing must be made mandatory now.

Foreigner must accept sincerely Japan sentiment to follow rules. Mask in hotel, shakai distance - then you are welcome.

Today I put my hands together in gassho type prayer for Japan’s greatest PM. The one who made Japan Great Again.

Stop blaming the Japanese government.... young people these days don't have the same sense of responsibility to think about future generations, only thinking about themselves. It was different in my day.

Kishida opening up Japan's borders without visa filtering will reverse the declining coronavirus numbers......not a good strategy both from a health point of view nor for the main bloc of LDP voters who are elderly. It is shameful.

I can promise you EVERY company that got a merchandise contract with the Olympics had to pay Takahashi. Dirty money for a dirty games. To believe he was a sole operator is a joke. You have the military-industrial complex but this is the sports-business complex. Takahashi should go to prison for a long, long time.

Unfortunately Meghan and Harry have shown themselves to completely disloyal to the Throne.

it is wrong not to invite president trump.

This government continues to make the wrong decisions. COCOA is an essential app for tracking future variations of the coronavirus. Moreover it saved lives. I strongly feel every citizen, resident and visitor to Japan must be made to install it on their phones, and there should be mandatory penalties for not using or deleting it.

a "clean" bid free from corruption.

Simply ban Dentsu from the process

This is a terrible and oh so wrong decision that will open the floodgates into Japan of as yet to be determined and potentially fatal variants of the coronavirus. Follow China’s exemplary lead on this - zero covid, zero deaths.

it Is about time Japan publicly declared it has nuclear weapons on its soil as a warning.

If a foreigner wants to visit Japan that much, they must respect the rules made by the government. I am for keeping tight border controls in place because the coronavirus is still responsible for too many deaths. China has the correct policy.

Another article in Japan Today stated, “The number of coronavirus-related deaths was a record daily high 340.” The proposed action by the government to do away with pre departure testing for inbound foreign travelers is a smack-in-the-face to medical workers trying to save lives. Japan must immediately close its borders and follow the exemplary lead of China’s zero COVID policy.

Politics, like everything else in life, evolves. What we are seeing in the GOP now is cutting edge conservatism that began to mature with Sarah Palin and is in its latest itineration in the great Donald Trump. Trump is a political trailblazer for the 21st century. No waffling or evading the issue. He’s a no holds barred straight shooter who reads the electorate well. We need more Trumps in the world.