Martimurano comments

It's no mystery that these disgusting, medieval, and sadistic practices continue in Muslim countries, it's in their playbook after all.

Horrendous floggings, stoning, limb-amputations, public hangings and beheadings, even the standard wife-beatings are the norm for them.

The United Nations can protest as much as the rest of the normal free democratic countries of the world, but it won't change a thing, until the poor and deprived Muslim populations rise up in revolution against their blood-thirsty demonic leaders.

For having had the temerity to return to court appealing against his sentencing, the judge should have doubled it - can't imagine anyone would be complaining, this sentence was far too light for the seriousness of the crime.

Must be thirsty work sampling the scallops on offer - for the group of 6 people seated here, I've counted approx. 32 glasses on their table; maybe they're trying to get them drunk before plying them with the delicious seafood......

Prudent move by the Taiwanese, makes perfect sense to move production-lines to friendly freedom-loving countries.

The UN has got to start making the tough call on China to stop the incessant tedious nonsense about "claiming" Taiwan for themselves - it has never been Chinese territory, and never will be. The Taiwanese have made themselves very clear that they are a free and democratic sovereign state, and have no wish to change that.

The Yaks are totally anachronistic in modern civilised rules-obeying Japan - the legislators should really call time on these odd-ball gangsters and their nefarious activities, absolutely nobody would miss them, and society would be even more safe than it is.

This despot Dictator has zero conscience and wouldn't waste a second of his life wondering what his people thought of him swanning around in fancy cars.

The population really should be informed of all his obscene excesses, and the freedom-loving democracies of the world have a vital role to play here - the release of millions of letter-drops from mysterious weather-balloons informing the ordinary North Korean people would be the easiest and most peaceful way to foment the revolution which is long overdue in this extremely repressed and deprived country. Just need enough smart people to get this organised.

Far too much aggression on show here - there should be zero, repeat, zero hitting of anyone at anytime.

There's a good reason why the cops arrested the one with the loose fists, and now he's headed for the courts. Not rocket science, just cut-out the impulsive stupidity that is on show here.

Too many people supporting this unnecessary and casual violence - everyone must refrain from touching anyone else inappropriately in any circumstances, as this is actually assault and can land you in court with a criminal record to follow.

Any such minor transgressions can and should be settled quietly in a civilised manner, no need to stress out with hitting anyone, really.

Sets him up nicely for another Green Jacket at the Master's in April..... those 3 sets of 3-birdies at the Riviera were amazing.

This toxic obese 'president' rules his tiny state along terrorist methods, with total repression, starvation, violence and cruelty dealt out to the people as routine form.

We can only wait in hope that one day soon they will rise up and put an end to this horrendous situation, and become a normal country, like their Korean brothers in the South - unfortunately, the rest of the world seem totally unable to make the changes happen, so it's down to the people themselves, hellish as that fight for freedom is going to be.

Well, he'll be getting along fine now, once he's recovered from his injuries, and she'll be jailed for a few years hopefully.

Why couldn't she just leave him, it's seems so baffling that she could even escalate to such a potentially lethal level as to actually insert a knife into another human-being - it seems as though societies throughout the world are becoming blase about violence, but what is causing this: horrendous bloodshed in mindless territorial wars and disputes that are ongoing, gangs and their associated revenge-killings, and stupid violent video-games and films - all of these really.

Golden rule - keep your hands and fists to yourself at all times, the law is very clear that nobody should touch anyone inappropriately at anytime: violence is NEVER the answer.

'Suicide is forbidden in Islam....'

Really - and what's the punishment going to be ? Death penalty ?

Police quoted the suspect as saying: "I was having trouble making ends meet because I was wasting my time eating and drinking with my partner and friends".

What ? Instead of going round conning and stealing valuables from more unsuspecting women ?

That's some mitigation statement he's come up with there......

The official who said the mechanical failure had been identified declined to say what the failure was.

Well I can't imagine that would fill any pilots with much confidence when they resume flights on these aircraft.

For the record, 16 Ospreys have crashed or been damaged beyond repair, with 62 people killed.

I think it's time they held their hands up and scrapped all of them before any further families suffer a tragic loss, and get back to the drawing-board to design something which is actually fit for purpose, can't be so difficult.

didou: "Never listened to any of her songs. What makes her so popular ?"

Her songs.

Looking forward to them opening more branch offices in Beijing and Shanghai, just in case the deceitful Chinese are planning any more releases of deadly viruses - they are never to be trusted.

Here they go again, the toxic CCP and their obscene obsession with espionage and surveillance - why can't they just change their style and try and become a normal country, forget about the cyber-attacks and the control-and-repression tactics, and just concentrate on making their once-great country a normal nice place for all of it's huge population, the vast majority of whom don't want war, and just want peaceful relations with their near-neighbours and everyone else on this planet. Problem is, without intending to be cynical, I think it's going to take a revolution to achieve this.

Medvedev, a deeply unpleasant nasty piece of work, one of many of Putins toxic poodles.

What a disgusting depressing country Russia has become, time for another Revolution.

When will the leader of the UN Mr Antonio Gutierres stand up and state loudly and clearly to China " Get your filthy hands off Taiwan, Stop making trouble for these democracy-loving, peace-loving people. This island has never been part of China, so stop demanding that it will be ".

It really needs to happen quickly, then all of the rest of the free world's peace-loving people can chime in with their support - we expect nothing less from the UN.

Good point, gogogo, diplomacy is often best delivered in small steps, which would have been something Japan could have achieved and been proud of.

It's possible that even the island's inhabitants would have settled for 2 Russian owned and 2 Japanese owned.

This kind of incident is relatively rare here in Japan, which is why it makes the national news headlines, and also triggers the 'safe Japan brigade' here on JT.

The facts are simple - this was a nasty unprovoked assault on an innocent person, the perpetrators will be arrested and hopefully will face significant jail-sentences, including a criminal record attaching to their cv's..... for what ??

More than 99.9999 % per cent of citizens behave perfectly normally in a civilised way here, unfortunately these idiots are going to have to learn the rules the hard way.

All it would take is one brave soul to take this toxic devil out, and it'll be over - end of.

Then all of the people could live together in a harmonious and peaceful Korea.

The dreadfully deceitful CCP can 'resolutely oppose' Japan's congratulatory message to the new Taiwanese President-elect as much as it likes, but the reality is that China needs to told very loudly and clearly by the leaders of the rest of the free world to get her filthy hands off Taiwan right now - it has never been a part of China, and hopefully never will.

The Taiwanese people have chosen a democratic way of life and completely rejected the authoritarian autocratic style which China represents - why can't China just understand and accept this rejection and stop the trouble-making ??

Amnesia - a very popular medical condition here in Japan.

Of course it's good that South Africa call out the continuing genocide being carried out by Israel, who feel totally comfortable and unhindered in murdering 25,000-plus Palestinians (of which over 10,000 were children and babies). They feel as if they have carte-blanche to carry on killing with impunity as many as they like, as this satisfies their sadistic blood-lust, such is the hatred which exists between the Jews and the Muslims.

The kill-rate is always at least 10-times more Palestinians killed to Israelis, that is the norm for the despicable Netanyahu and his acolytes. He won't be happy til the whole of Gaza is razed to the ground, and becomes totally uninhabitable.

It's high time the rest of the free-countries of the world declared the conflict as a significant genocide situation, then perhaps the UN may just get round to trying to stop the killing and maiming - we can only hope.

HopeSpringsEternal:

*Amazing, but true - religion has always been at the root cause of wars and dissent, due to the inherent divisions and repression which all religions have represented.

Really should spell the end of all these fantasy belief-systems, especially when it comes to the country's leaders - religion should play absolutely no part whatsoever in the legislation of any populations anywhere.

Way past time for another Cultural Revolution in the despicable PRC - their 'culture' of upsetting the neighbours is extremely tiresome, no fewer than 11 separate international disputes ongoing, this is one dreadful and depressing country, lead by some of the most deceitful and hypocritical politicians in the world.

I just wish the ordinary Chinese people would rise up and call 'Time' on this toxic repressive regime.

This horrendous country's dynastic regime has got to be sorted out very soon - it's beyond belief the harsh reality of life there for 99.99% of the people.

Recently I saw on the History A2Z website a report of the starvation levels, in which there is evidence (including rare pictures) of people reduced to eating grass on a daily basis, whilst the Government has issued statements on how to cook and prepare it.....

Meanwhile, the vile Kim Jong Un and his acolytes feast on imported luxury produce, and waste the country's precious resources on the nuclear-rockets programme - how the hell is change going to come to this hellhole on earth ??

Sadly the minorities who are poisoned and indoctrinated with fundamentalist ideologies are strongly intent on destroying the liberal-minded Western democracies of Europe - their mindset is "These lands are our lands", and stealthily proceed to enforce this.

The most liberal Scandinavian countries now encounter daily the scourge of narrow-minded zealots whose criminality makes certain parts of Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmo no-go areas.

These countries opened their doors to offer new opportunities to these people, and this is how they're repaid.