JustAGoodOleBoy comments

This makes no sense.  Cosports, the official Olympic ticket seller for the US, Australia, and a big part of Europe has already had 2 rounds of first-come, first-serve sales in addition to the initial application/lottery round.  There are Paralympic tickets available now on Cosports for immediate purchase.

Check out the lines of non-Japanese queueing up in the mornings and casing drug stores and shops, collaborating in gangs, when one identifies a shop with masks they text or call their associates who upon receiving the message break from the line they are in and high tail it to wherever has the masks.  They are making a ton selling them on the black market. The percentage of the masks staying in Japan is pretty low.   Best solution would be to print a Rising Sun Flag on the front of the mask.  See how many will resell to China with that on the front !

Over the past several years these tragedies have assailed the French the most.

Ghosn puts Japan's justice system on trial

As it should be !!

Well played Lebanon!

So their luck depends on their personal performance and achievement?  Who would have ever thought this....

He predicted 2020 would be a "tipping point" for 8K going mainstream.

Nonsense. 4K isn't yet mainstream Japan.  Only like 6 channels on cable broadcasting in 4K and you have to pay extra for most of them.  Also only a small percentage of homes actually have bandwidth speeds that allow for true 4K streaming.

Seriously the worst one in the past 20 years, which I have been forced to watch...

Have to wait until Fall 2020 to see Season 2.

Youtube.  Enjoy the 31st, sleep as much as want.

A new favorite one that needs to stop is wearing a fat backpack backwards for the sole purpose of carving out your own space in order to hold your smartphone on top of the backpack so you can play games or whatever on the phone.  Removal of backpacks and holding them while on the train used to be taught as the good manner practice.

Exactly why NHK has to be crushed.  No small fortune is being confiscated from the populous and paid to these entertainers for them to appear on the show.

Awesome.  Increased supply puts downward pressure on prices.

Yeah Jiro quit accepting reservations due to the growing number of no-shows from Chinese tourists who had made reservations.

Ploy to drum up purchases of tickets for Air Pistol and Speed Walking.

Of course she can't mention anything about US Tax law being a factor, while certainly is. HUGE penalties from the US if that is deemed to be a factor.

Let's Go Cardinals !!!!

Increased due the consumption tax increase and the retired population drawing down their savings.  Not factors that position Japan for long-term economic improvement.

And this doesn't include the fake tickets they will print up and sell on line to suckers.

Let's Go Cardinals !!!!!

Hhmm...really thought those two love birds were going to make it.

The whole thing is a sham and a joke. This new lottery is simply a way to entice frustrated applicants into buying tickets for Air Pistol, Handball, and Race Walking. Tickets for Opening Ceremony, Gymnastics, Swimming will absolutely not be available in any material quantities in this secondary lottery. Despite all those statements of fairness in opportunity, if you want tickets for the popular events you will have to buy an all inclusive travel package from the official resellers and pay through the nose.

The agency is offering packages that combine rooms with Olympic event tickets, but they don't come cheap.

For those who applied for Olympic tickets but didn't get any, now you know where your tickets went and why.

Sounds like Maverick is still "dangerous".

Shame no poster for NHKから国民を守る党 on that board.

The whole thing is a sham and a joke.  The biggest "sponsor" of the Tokyo Olympics is the Tokyo taxpayer and they are not getting the tickets.  This new auction is simply a way to entice frustrated applicants into buying tickets for Air Pistol, Handball, and Race Walking.  Tickets for Opening Ceremony, Gymnastics, Swimming will absolutely not be available in this secondary auction.  Despite all those statements of fairness in opportunity, if you want tickets for the popular events you will have to buy an all inclusive travel package from the official resellers.

Meh...   MotoGP on its worst day is waaaaay more exciting than F1 on its best day.

To all those who applied for Olympic tickets but received none, you know where those tickets went.

To be placed in a plastic bag for carry from the cash register to the rubbish bin.

I want to see the same outrage and protests as if this had been a US Army chopper.