Hello Kitty 321 comments

＠Texas

She is an accomplished artist, not a groupie.

＠Simon

No, in fact when one Korean family asked for their relative to be removed, they were refused.

@ Wasabi

Yes, but it is the Japanese that will not leave the past in the past.

@Shimon

10/7 did not happen in a vacuum, your 'exemplary' IDF and settlers have been responsible for the deaths of 2,404 children since 2000

All the money that the Japanese government pays to keep the Americans there will be available to give to the Japanese instead.

@Metattokyo

Oxford has lots of beautiful buildings and has appeared in numerous television dramas, making it appeal to foreigners.

Everyone here is reacting as if it is something that only China does. All countries shadow military planes belonging to unfriendly nations that approach their borders.

Business cards are useful to see what characters the person uses for their name. It is much easier to remember a name when you know the characters.

@WoodyLee

With the aging of society, people no longer go into the mountains, more and more fields are lying fallow and being taken over by bamboo so the wilderness comes closer and closer to human habitation, causing the problem. I remember when the mountains were full of roads and trails but they have virtually all disappeared now, along with the fields.

"The Olympic Truce is a modern revival of the ancient Greek tradition to ensure warring city states allowed safe passage for athletes to the games."

But as Russia has been barred from the Olympics and Russian athletes told they are not welcome, there is nothing to motivate Russia to participate in a truce.

I was regularly stopped by the police in my birth country, but I have only been stopped here once and that was 49 years ago.

@ Mr. Goodman

What do anti-discrimination laws have to do with democracy? Democracy is simply 'control of an organization or group by the majority of its members.'

Gold is good because it always has value, even if the banks cease to function due to war, etc

"This is a severe and dangerous escalation.”

This is not an escalation, this is a response. The escalation was the Israelis bombing the Iranian Embassy.

Because it thrives on war

@Desert Tortoise

But NATO's bombing of Serbia was not sanctioned by the UN and was therefore the whole operation was illegal and the F-117 should not have been there to begin with. So much for rule-based order, eh?

It could be said that the US set the precedent by bombing the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, although no mention of that here.

@voiceofokinawa

The Combined Forces Command of South Korea is under the command of an American General.

The fact that he pointed a firearm at someone, loaded or not, says something about his mental state.

How about Japan? I seemed cooler to me and the cherry blossom was late.

The best way to keep yourself walking daily is to get a dog.

How things have changed. When I first arrived in Japan, I was shocked by the filthy, primitive toilets.

I said yes, only really or pollution. Back in the sixties nobody had heard of climate change or recycling and energy and water conservation were not really thought of as problems

＠kwatt

The problem is not onsen, it is thought that the proposed tunnel will divert the groundwater that feeds Oigawa River. If that happens it cannot be repaired and it is an important source of drinking water.

Smoking on buses? Not in Tokyo. No smoking on trains either.

I suppose that is why the US has established a military Space Force—Peace through domination.

@BeyondTheBlossoms

Hamas was also democratically elected.

Only 50%? I would have thought it was much higher.

Well you can blame America for the laws, they were enacted by GHQ during the occupation, before that it was legal.

"So they want to ban countries that are badly behaved world citizens that kill indiscriminately. Wouldn't Israel top that list."

No, that honor belongs to the U.S.