Mauro Mdns comments

Of course he paid to mafia-like people to escape, if you are a millionaire, wouldn't anyone do the same?

Christianity won't die there. It hasn't under the now-gone Communist regimes and it won't die in Japan. It's legal there anyway.

read again! this article is about the "Hidden Christians" group, NOT regular christianity in Japan, oh and yeah, those evil-babies-eaters-commies are not going to eat them anymore...

Awful performance by Japan

Urawa was so lucky there are no VAR for this tournament, there was a huge on-side goal for the saudi team. Maybe is the luck of the champions, Go Urawa for the third title!

Where is the Yakuza when you need it? isn't this to be their turf?

Yeah, it's a niche product, looks like a good one (but too expensive for me)

Nobody is going to launch a nuclear or non nuclear attack against these countries, this is pure fantasy to sell more weapons to japan s.korea and taiwan.

I think almost nobody here actually read the whole article....

If "Crooked Hilary" is elected, just be prepared for the invasion of Syria, Iran, Venezuela and who knows where else. It's enough with the current lunatic in the White House.

Seicomart have being doing this for years in Hokkaido, even in Sapporo, most of the stores closes at night.

The south korean whining circus is never gonna end... grow up

Football fans/supporters are mostly low class, that's why is way more racist and discriminatory than rugby fans, which are mostly from the middle-upper class. And it also much more popular around the globe, and with that much revenue money, is no mystery why it has the most dirty and corrupt leaders in the sports world.

Just make the marathon in Tokyo AT NIGHT, at 21:00 or 22:00 same humidity, but less heat, and less traffic jams for the city

Who cares about the whining south koreans anyways

Paddington Bear obviously has competition.

Who's Paddington Bear? some famous bear from Australia? NZ? kind of the aussie Ted...

Perhaps all the NBA players should take a knee to show support for Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau, and Tibet?

Bad bussiness

"Won't somebody please think of the children"... lol

it sounds like a real life version of Kiryu Kazuma in Kamurocho

Japanese people also love snacks, if not, then why is there a huge snacks section in every conbini or 100円 shop i've been to; the 7-11 even have their own snacks.

How would they be able to accurately determine the next 4 teams from 8 groups, when potentially there will be teams with identical records and goals scored/given?

As always in FIFA tournaments (including world cups of any age)

1.Points

2.Overall goal difference

3.Overall goals scored

4.Fair play points

5.Coin Toss

As 1glenn said, The current brazilian government is burning the dead forest as a way to clear the land for agriculture and cattle farming.

And that is not the only reason why Bolsonaro doesn't want to fires to be stopped, there are also minerals down there, that now, can be more easily exploted whitout all those trees over there. Sad but true.

An as Brazil is "his country", nobody can do anything about it.

At least for once, the stewards let the drivers drive

If the Chinese government protest against the use of the flag, then maybe the IOC could possibly review this matter (as it happened in football, when the AFC, the asian football confederation banned the rising sun flag under the pressure from the chinese), but if is only the south koreans, nothing is going to change, because nobody cares about the whining south koreans...

"Assume the position" Abe-san

Just put Max on the second Mercedes car and only then you'll have a real championship

Isn't the US a democratic crountry with 3 independent powers? Then why the president has such power to make many important decisions WITHOUT EVEN ASKING the congress?

He just raised the tariffs, destroy international treaties, etc, WITHOUT the congress's approval; this sounds pretty much like a quasi-dictatorship to me...

Real life "Initial D"

History is written by the winners. History written on books should be facts, but in practice many times it is not.