Jonathan Hunt comments

I don't get either side of this argument. If you are afraid of your child being touched, don't send them alone on a plane. If you are that embarrassed and inconvenienced by simply having to change seats, don't get on a plane. Seems there's much more people flying these days than really should be.

Lol. Your guy's tax system is so unnecessarily complicated.

Overall medals? We can't just use whatever quota we want to measure success. Seven gold medals is extremely dismal for a country of 127 million people that all have the opportunity to play sports as children.

Lol. You guys sure seem to hate the police in a country where the crime rate is so low you'll probably never experience it.

Wolfpack, the Japanese team was probably the most under-performing at this year's games.

Wow. Why is it that just the mere mention of anyone over the age of 50 will cause the commenters on this website to go beserk?

Ms Alexander, suicide is not a Japan-exclusive problem.

When did CHILDREN become a buzzword for people to lose their minds? We're not struggling to populate our world anymore, children are no more valuable than the countless others who are in trouble for whatever reason.

Thank you, Stephen Knight. You are a genius.

Well, Elbuda, I think zero. That normally only happens to illegal immigrants.

Why anyone would choose to think about her engaging in an extramarital affair is beyond me.

Who says you get to dictate the price of melons? If you think they're overpriced, don't buy them.

Cricky, then let's demolish all bars, clubs and izakayas then. Oh, and every Dunkin' Donuts and McDonalds while we're at it. Let's take down every pachinko palour, video game store- hell, shopping's an addiction for some people, right? Goodbye, malls!

Ranger_Miffy2, how about those same workers who lose their jobs when business tanks because smokers decide not to visit anymore?

tmarie, some people like to smoke. That is why there's areas in which they can smoke while doing the things that people like to do, including drink coffee. If you don't like it, go somewhere smoke-free.

Oh, get over yourselves. We've all been eating the stuff all year. It's fine.

tmaire: 7/11, McDonalds, Dunkin' Donuts, KFC not ringing any bells?

Strong yen? Try weak USD. I'm getting hammered by the conversion rate for NZD at the moment.

Because it's a supermarket? A big box that exchanges food for money? Who cares about the name of the box?

That's the problem with fire, buggerlugs. It's easy to tell the people who've never experienced a major one before because they always say what you just said, as if fire gives you the option to save anything. At a certain point, attempting to get your kids out WILL kill you, no questions asked.

JT commenters, here's an awesome pic of a guy randomly doing pushups. What do you think?

JAPAN HAS NO GRASS LOL

Oh boo hoo.

I love how a place with 14,000 people is a small rural town. Are you populated enough yet, Japan?

Sorry, how expensive is a dartboard now that things like this are in demand?

Let's filter through the comments here... sex joke, rant by a rabid anti-tobacco nazi, another sex joke, exasperated repsonse to the anti-tobacco rant by somebody who should know better, joke about catching disease from the spit, sex joke, same anti-tobacco rant just phrased differently and full of different incorrect data and exaggerated experiences, sex joke, ACTUAL COMMENT ABOUT THE STORY, some kind of Austin Powers joke, etc.

Isn't this old news?

Even if they had engaged in some kind of consensual sexual act, the fact of the matter is he still killed her. If you don't know how to perform a dangerous act without killing the other person, then you shouldn't do it.

I wonder what's more universally hated; smokers, or non-smokers who don't stop going on about cancer.

Really? A 21 year old woman is dead, strangled on an overseas trip, and some of you are worried that the man who clearly killed her may have been hit a little bit? I hope they broke his legs with batons.

Why does this say Wellington when it happened in Auckland?