Lucrezia comments

This is excellent news. Start prosecuting schools, home room teachers and school masters that don't show enough action in stopping this epidemic. Of course children will be children but that's precisely why the whole responsibility to teach conflict resolution and to actively stop abuse falls only on the adults. And if those adults are failing they should be fired without any pensions or benefits.

Stop pushing this kid down people's throats already. He's very talented but he didn't WIN any individual events. It's the WTT and he and all TEAM JAPAN won 3rd place. The Japanese media tend to always pick one person who's the darling of a season and don't shut up about him/her regardless of the achievements of other, equally hard-working skaters. That's a pity and unfair to most athletes.

As others pointed out, current content is blocked by other contracts and offerings will have to lag behind cable providers and WOWOW / Skapa... Still, it might be nice if only as an option to rewatch some classic movies or older foreign films with English subtitles if the price is right.

(the percentage of orphans who go to university is 300% lower than in the general population)

Some people have only a passing acquaintance with math, I guess... "300% lower" puts any number into negative territory so it's unlikely for a number of participants. Being "3 times as low as" would mean people raised in orphanages represent 25% of the population of students, which would be great since the percentage of children in orphanages out of total number of children is probably much lower than that. I have no idea whence this funky statistics came from, but better start by going back to studying fractions and percentages...

If the Oscars want to become relevant, they need a voting body that is not made of 95% white men over 65. More women, more blacks,more Asians, more Hispanics, more young tastes, in short more different points of view - that's what's needed Otherwise, Oscar winning pictures will keep being the same boring, over-dramatized, historic stories of "triumph" that we've seen for decades now. YAWN

The sports aren't new. They're probably talking about new (or reintroduced) Olympic EVENTS. Don't you have an editor JPToday??

2020 days and work on the venues hasn't even started.. I guess they'll just have to pay double to the cronies in the building industry for express delivery later...

Why do some people immediately assume it was the driver's fault and totally make up scenarios about the driver being distracted or trying to impress?? It says it was "raining heavily" and it might have been an accident. Cynical bitter and jaded people should have no access to the Internet...

I don't know why but I cannot connect with Hanyu. He's so fake, so dramatizing (tears after a fall, a coy tongue out when he does well.. dunno). It's a pity Machida or Mura couldn't do better, they may not be as technically accomplished but seem like more serious, interesting people. (And way more manly too...)

so much for rest in peace - sparkly lights all over the place!

I'm pretty sure lights don't bother the dead..

It's okay to support on the editorial or opinion pages. Coverage must remain neutral to maintain journalistic integrity. If a medium can't maintain this balance, it can't be considered a worthy news outlet.

Definitely forgetting to tip and bowing while talking on the phone (it's become second nature).. Also I "say" many more uhn's while listening :(