Kaerimashita comments

Whooping cough?  I thought it was a predominantly 3rd world disease......

Not being in hospital.  Being in the comfort and familiarity of one's own home.  Cost.

Nostalgia for a bygone era.  The mysticism that folks associate with Woodstock is a bot overdone.  It was a festival is all.  Spawned plenty of others, but look at what they have become.......

Strange article at this time.  Massive and wholly non violent march on the weekend seems to indicate that the violence is being ramped down and not up.

I like water transport.  Not sure the view from Haneda is that great but still.   Yes this is likely to be expensive and also take longer than current options.   Still, worth a try.

I think the furore around this flag is overdone.  and yes it is a good looking flag.

I'll be having a Big Mac and cheese with a large shake and fries to commemorate the day.

PT

They were using nuclear until Fukushima......

With rates where they are they should sell them and take a capital gain.  But imagine what that would do to dollar/yen..........

Whole system is failing slowly.

Bugle

A bank in Denmark (Jyske) are doing precisely that.  Mortgages at negative rates.  They pay you to take one out.

This is all such a signal that the "capitaklist" system and sassociated economics may be coming to some sort of crisis.  Japasn was the canary in the coalmine but now one by one other m,ajor economies needing to resport to desperate measures.  couple with currency wars.  And social distress.  Means normal measures just don't help any more.

Must be Trump.  Everything bad that happens in America is his fault.

Apparently Epstein had a picture of Bill Clinton wearing high heels and blue dress hanging in his home. 

clearly lots of big cheeses may have had good reason for wanting him to keep his secrets.

Next Ghislaine Maxwell will go the way of her father.

Yes lots of people have died in past wars and colonial oppressions and political "movements" (great leap forward, cultural revolution, Khmer Rouge, and so on).  Not sure what people generations after apologizing over and over again for those past bad deeds actually achieves beyond prolonging this endless debate about whether it is enough or heartfelt or whatever.

Find these numbers surprising every year.  In hot countries like Singapore and other ASEAN places people survive just fine.  Why do the locals drop like flies the moment it gets hot?

Although frankly we see similar reports of people dying from the cold in winter too.

Are the staunch nationalists really right wing?  what exactly does right wing mean in this context.

The old dudes dressing up in WW2 uniforms is a bit bizarre though.

Drop in property prices might be seen as a good thing.  all the empty apartments (or some occupied by HK second wives) make it impossible for younger folks to buy.  and rentals crazy high also.

Masinland money flooded into HK precisely because of the perception that it is safer there from Chinese government action.  That may soon go out the window.

Poor people reliant on tourism.  Must be tough.  Have heard LKF and Wanchai and all are pretty empty right now.

They left it a bit late to start commemorating (??) this issue.  Only 20 of them left now.

Seems a bit like flogging a dead horse.  but I guess any historical grievance is good enough for both Japan and its neighbours.

Ridiculous statement.  Like an Olympic development would ve crucial to the success or failure of an entire country.  Evidence from past Olympics and World Cups is that the are more a burden on the host countries than providing any kind of lasting benefit.

quercetum

You are comparing this to Singapore?  I am not aware of any similar "crackdown" in Singapore of foreign nationals.  Not even with its very draconian anti drug laws does Singapore do random testing of foreigners.

This is another example of China reverting to a more authoritarian and nationalist form of government and system.  Many foreign companies in China are going to learn that the state still runs things and can shut them down at will.

Edging ever closer to full scale crackdown.   Like China gives a hoot what the rest of the world thinks.

Looks like it might rain on their parade.

Beats me why so many celebs even bother with marriage.  So many of them seem destined to fail.  This one was one of those.  At least Miley is being honest when she says she doesn't think she is marriage material.

Surely allowing more food imports is the solution to this problem?

He was probably pretty practised at autoerotic asphyxiation.  He could easily have done himself in with the bedsheet.

That or the Clinton or the British Rotal family had him offed because of the sordid tales he could have told of their behavior.

Makes more sense that DT doing him in.

Don't like smoking or the "uniform" then don't go to this type of place.  Looks pretty crummy anyway, so not missing much.

The entertainment world will be poorer for their short break.........

Bulletproof Boy Scouts.   A bit at odds with their actual image.

How does a driver end up going down a national road the wrong way?  Drunk or stupid.

not at all.  2% isn't going to break the bank on my spending.

Neither side backing down, more and more violent incidents.  feels like a crackdown is coming.

Should have worn SPF 70.

Drug companies must be loving this.  Sell one high priced drug to counteract the bad effects of all of the other high priced drugs people are OD'ing on.......