Legrande comments

"Voluntary questioning" what a nice way to treat public servants accused of corruption.

Perhaps other citizens who aren't filthy rich will be granted this, maybe like never.

His statement that it would be a waste to delete the footage is made from the viewpoint of how useful it is to those involved with porn.

Porn is always a big part of the equation for sex offenders.

They have had weeks to operate their paper shredders, and try to delete their computer files.

The intention to search the LDP offices was announced in the newsvery publicly days in advance so even common citizens and their dog had a lengthy heads up.

Don't ecpect them to find anything that could be used to incriminate anyone beyond the usual suspended sentences, unless they would like to make an example of someone to 'regain the public's trust' (even if that were to be the case you could expect the scapegoat to be pardoned and have his sentence commuted at some later date after demonstrating the necessary remorse and contrition).

Rate of poverty is higher than it seems

Lots of companies related to construction and real estate are yakuza related

Yes just the usual musical chairs game, and no concrete punishment for their aggregious crimes.

Abe's legacy continues.

One cannot but fail to remember how much praise foreigners heaped on Abe while he was in office, from US presidents and Time magazine to posters on this site...

Well that's interesting opium production down 95‰ after the US gets out of Afghanistan...

Where were you regarding this a couple of weeks ago, Joe?- A lot of people have already been indiscriminantly bombed out of existence.

@Simon Fosten

Yes, I know perfectly well that given the choice between a country run by communists and country run by racketeers that the Americans chose government by the mob. However, that was sixty years ago. Everything that has happened since then is on the Japanese themselves, especially the way they let Shinzo Abe get back into power after his farcical first administration.

Actually it wasn't just a choice between communists and racketeers- there were those who sought to build a coalition for and by the people, but displaying McCarthyesque paranoia the US shut down anything that didn't support US conservative interests with said mobsters, racketeers, and war criminal imperialists such as Abe's grandfather Kishi Nobusuke, who we now know was instrumental in installing the Unification Church in Japan (Kishi let them set up their headquarters on his land)... and if you somehow believe that the US hasn't been just as active in pulling strings in order to ensure the US-amenable LDP stays in power as they were in the post war era then I'd say you are just a touch uninformed about US geopolitical strategies and the lengths they will go to to ensure Japan keeps buying boatloads of weapons and keeps following the US agenda.

@Simon Fosten

Look, the whole foreign involvement thing is a bit off-topic

If anyone becomes familiar with how the LDP came into existence in the post-war era one will realize 'the whole foreign involvement thing' is the root cause for all the endless misdeeds perpetuated by the LDP. The fact that nowadays most Japanese people are not familiar with this information is a key reason why they keep voting the LDP into power.

Kishida is just the latest face of the LDP, we now know that even under foreigner approved Abe the LDP was just as if not even more corrupt. There will be no change after Kishida is replaced, the LDP and its foreign partner will continue to enrich themselves at the expense of the people, as they always have.

The United States has urged Israel to reduce civilian casualties, though it has provided unwavering diplomatic and military support.

Yea just try to kill less with these weapons we're giving you while we veto cease fire at the UN. ‘Leader of the free world' US always ends up killing people on a large scale one way or another.

Yet another cabinet shuffle typical LDP shell game, always the same results, because they were corrupt from their inception and installation by Uncle Sam.

The United States has lent vital support in recent days by vetoing a United Nations Security Council effort to end the fighting and pushing through an emergency sale of over $100 million worth of tank ammunition to Israel.

Leaves no doubt as to who the main enabler of the homicide is.

Yes and by the same token how much as been taken from Asia, Africa etc over the years by western countries? That line of reasoning will just lead you to chase your tail endlessly.

The moral of the story for these fruit researchers and growers is to register your product internationally so at the end of the day you don't have sour grapes.

The US along with any of its supporters who have remained silent has lost the moral authority to criticize any country about their policies.

It all leads back to how the LDP came into being in the post-war era.

In a nutshell, it was dirty and corrupted from the get go, so you were never going to get good respectable governance with these guys, ever, and you probably won't be able to get rid of them being that they were installed and continue to be supported by a powerful foreign entity.

Interesting sidenote:

Masu Oyama hailed from Korea, and as such must be one of the few to have a statue erected of himself in Japan.

This might be the 'they'.

Large banks like JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and Bank of America have launched crypto trading desks, and wealth management firms, such as Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo, provide access to crypto through their products and funds.

Happens professionally and socially all the time in every field, including academia.

Polito may have felt basically condemed to die an impoverished professor and so (in his mind) was simply returning the favor.

As others have noted, even though this whole affair is absolutely dripping with a foul odor, the political game in this LDP 'democracy' is so rigged and supported by a powerful foreign entity that Matsuno can confidently declare that he will continue working in order to diligently 'fulfill his duties.'

South Korea has risen from war, poverty and military dictatorships to a cultural and economic powerhouse with a vibrant democracy

Yes along with one of the highest rates of life disatisfaction and suicide.

White said that with crypto "there's really no asset. There's no underlying product or service or feature there that is driving the price. It's really just the hype and the attention".

She should talk to the banks who have already started integrating crypto related services.

The US is grounding them just to make nice with emotional Japanese leaders, who need to "appear" to be doing something, when they can't really do anything.

Yes and to camouflage the lack of sovereignty that the J govt has in these matters, even though it is a "democracy."

@Taiwan

Do you think anyone buys that Japan bears no responsibility for its politics?

If you can find anywhere that I said that I'll buy you a car.

As it stands yet another outstanding gem of a statement by you.

OssanAmericaDec. 7  07:01 pm JST

Grounding all Ospreys until an accident cause is determined is the correct thing to do

Changed your tune pretty quickly LOL

Pigeons coming home to roost...US-created LDP rotten to the core.

Yes the true character of the US-created LDP rears its ugly head yet again.

Yes all signs do point in his direction, if it's a good trial they will thoroughly explore all the alternative possibilities and then make a decision.