Martimurano comments

This will all be assessed once it reaches the court - the prevalence of violence in this case needs close examination.

Did the father actually 'beat' his 33-year old daughter, how and what with ?

Did she arm herself with a knife to defend herself, or was she the assailant in this case ?

Very disturbing to read of such totally unnecessary and shocking violence within what should be a happy family home environment.

This violent imbecile needs teaching a lesson - first, the judge sends him down for a couple of years for grievous bodily harm, then the station employee sues the pants off him, claiming everything possible for having suffered such nasty and totally unjustifiable personal injuries.

At least this would serve to remind others of a similar disposition not to behave stupidly.

So on the basis that it's taken 13 years to extract 3 grams of the molten fuel, it'll be over 184 million years to get the rest out, by which time it may be safe enough to handle, and following sufficient deep-bows, Tepco executives can celebrate on another great job well done.....

No matter how hard the circumstances were surrounding the care of this very unfortunate person, the very last thing anyone should do is to attack another human-being in such a barbaric manner knowing that it would cause her death, let alone the fact that person was her 82-YEAR-OLD mother......

Nothing whatsoever excuses this shocking action, and now she can look forward to many years of incarceration to reflect on her extremely bad choice.

She has to be mentally imbalanced to carry this horrific attack out - this was a terrible choice which she made which will probably lead to a substantial jail-term; plenty of time to reflect on why she couldn't possibly have sorted her differences out with the elderly lady by just talking about it.

Always shows that any violence is the worst possible option.

They fought for 4 days to save her life, from this savage attack; for this evil perpetrator in Uganda, this means only one end - the gallows await.

Echoes of Luchino Visconti's masterpiece 'Death in Venice': older guy / younger guy, love / loss / loneliness/ yearning, which had the added bonus of the magical music of Mahler.

Let's hope this isn't a flop in Venice for Mr Craig.

It's a good job done by the police cyber patrol unit - I guess they're scanning the internet for unusual purchases, and this guy's ip details popped up. The cops will certainly keep their security searching details and methods to themselves.

Whilst so many guns may not have been used in any circumstances by this collector, if someone found out about his stash and needed a weapon for nefarious purposes, then it would have been a very different story.

Lucky he's not facing a murder charge - he could so easily have killed his business acquaintance or caused him irreparable brain-damage.

Let's hope the judge takes this into account when handing down a substantial jail-term for this violent uncivilised cretin.

Last time they arrived with sticks, knives and axes - this time they rammed the Phillipines' ship causing a gash to its' hull. Next time they won't leave til they've sunk the Philippines' ship, drowning all on board.

And yet, we hear not a peep from the great U.N., no protests, no recalling the Chinese Ambassador to NY to appear and explain their actions.

There's only one answer, as several have pointed out - stop the buying of anything at all from China, cut off their financial dependency revenue-stream, and let's see if they can then behave reasonably like a civilised country which they used to be.

When will they ever learn - violence is never the answer, just keep their fists to themselves.

Best to just walk away and discuss it another time, preferably when they've sobered up.

This guy may be for the future, when he's accrued far more experience and held some of the top ministerial posts, but for now, for me, I reckon Taro Kono to be the most experienced, charismatic and competent person to become the next PM.

He'll certainly be taken seriously, as an intellectual and shrewd operator, and his endearingly quirky personality will prove to be an advantage.

Yet another pointless jolly for Kishida as he bows out, having achieved virtually next-to-nothing in all of his hundred overseas trips undertaken in the last 3 years.

This one should be cancelled, and if the two dead-ducks want to chat about the old times, they can go ahead on zoom and save the taxpayer $$$.

Nice photo - he's certainly raised a few eyebrows.....

Quite a worrying discrepancy in this case of the missing pears - the pears from the Tsuchiura orchard are worth only 109¥ each, whereas they're claiming the pears stolen from the Kasama orchard are valued at 271¥ each......

Just goes to show, no two pears are the same.

In the interests of professional journalism, it would be good to learn of the exact reason why the perpetrator has only just been arrested nearly one year since the one-month old baby was killed - what has been happening during this time ?? Have the police just been mulling this over, or has there been interventions of which we are not being told......

Horrendous as this tragic case is, fullness of reporting is the least that can be presented to inform the public.

Totalitarian state with totally repressive authoritarian rules, ruthlessly and obsessively controlling the lives of 1 in 5 people on this planet - total disgrace, no other way to describe the dump that is China today.

Never go there, never buy anything from there, til they learn a very big lesson - how to behave reasonably and congenially towards their citizens and their neighbours, and to cut-out their spying and eavesdropping nonsense, and their constant threats to their neighbours.

Extremely distressing for the friends and relatives they leave behind - the very people who could have helped them through their very sticky patch; it's the difficulty of facing up and talking through the problems which lead to such a catastrophic termination.

In any event, this is a particularly shocking way to go, including for the emergency and ancillary services, plus any witnesses nearby.

I remember being close to a very similar situation over 40 years ago, and believe me, it's something you never forget.

My money's on Taro Kano, smart and articulate, he's a rampant moderniser (especially by Japanese standards), he's charismatic in a slightly quirky eccentric way, so he could prove to be a breath of fresh-air here. Any politician who can draw on humour as a default setting really should be encouraged.

Added to which, he's gold-standard in terms of personal altruism - over two decades ago, he gave his father part of his own liver to improve his father's chances of survival from hepatitis, ( not a kidney donation as stated in the article).

Let's see if he can survive the sclerotic approval processes of the LDP membership.

My money's on Taro Kano, smart and articulate,

Shigero Ishiba may be an early front-runner, but with little charisma and offering more-of-the-same, I can't see him being No. 1 at the end.

My money's on Taro Kono, smart and articulate, he's a rampant moderniser (especially by Japanese standards), he's charismatic in a slightly quirky eccentric way, so he could prove to be a breath of fresh-air here. Any politician who can draw on humour as a default setting really should be encouraged.

Added to which, he's gold-standard in terms of personal altruism - over two decades ago, he gave his father part of his own liver to improve his father's chances of survival from hepatitis.

Let's see if he can survive the sclerotic approval processes of the LDP membership....

He was cruising to victory nicely, until the rules-officials checked I'm with him on the 11th to make sure he'd not committed an infringement (pressing-down a pitch pitchmark which may have been on his line, which turned out to be absolutely fine). The incident caused an almost catastrophic collapse over the next 5 holes, but with 2 birdies at the last two holes, he showed what a great champ he is.

Not sure if his faithful caddie Shota will have got his new passport in time for the next event in Colorado starting Thursday; those pesky thieves in London have caused so much trouble.

Looks like she's already got the message out during the phone-call, what's the point of travelling all that way just to reiterate the same.....

Maybe she's just putting the hard miles in, in readiness for her bid for Prime Minister, following in air-miles Kishida's footsteps.

Hideki played superb golf in his 3rd round yesterday, whilst others were faltering in the heat, he stayed cool and calm. All this without his faithful caddie Shota and his coach, who were unfortunately the victims of a theft at a London restaurant the other day, and had their travel docs and passports stolen..... Hideki only lost his wallet in the incident, so could continue his trip to the US.

Very much an ongoing news story, in a desperate race to make sure nobody dies from sucking one of these sweets accidentally.

Such a nasty trick, with the outcome of a potentially indiscriminate mass-murder, the perpetrators need catching quickly too.

The guy's finally run out of road and air-miles - all that international jet-setting at vast taxpayers expense has elicited what: precisely nothing. There is no accountability, no checks and balances have been made on the guy.

When they make the video of all his best bits, it's going to be a very short show. Shame really, he could have left a decent legacy if he'd really rolled his sleeves up and actually done something to improve the lives of ordinary Japanese citizens.

I'll stick my neck out here - Taro Kono for next PM, he's been waiting in line a long time.

If the new law as proposed is going to give the right to both the father and the mother for a joint shared custody situation, then neither parent would have to give consent for this to take place, as the new right means exactly that - it establishes a right for a joint shared custody situation to take place.

This would end the conflicting aspects of a separation, which are at the heart of most solutions to these very difficult circumstances.

It's his wife, Cheryl Hines, I feel sorry for - she has to listen to crap from him like this all the time.

I rarely see so much hot-air posted on a news article about a physical assault which is alleged to have taken place.

It doesn't matter in the slightest that the suspect is a Swedish man, nor does it matter that, at 33-years old, he is in a relationship with a woman in her 50's.

These are just small pieces of information which are not worth getting excited about in any way, which the journalist sees fit to include as a matter of completeness in their reporting.

I seem to remember that the nearest this matter got to being settled was during the Premiership of Shinzo Abe, when there were suggestions that there was a possibility that Russia would cede the two smaller islands to Japan whilst retaining 'ownership' of the two larger islands..... then came the CoronaVirus pandemic, followed by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Everything seems to have gone south since then.