mdepaiva comments

Hats off to Australia

According to a reliable native-Japanese source, many people (including medical professionals) believe that "Japanese blood is too thin for donation".

What BS

Instead of going after the scammers, let's punish the potential victims. Who in the Japanese government comes up with such ridiculous ideas? Why stop at 65 and over? Lets restrict everyone from using an ATM.

It's this time of year again and the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings come up for discussion. Those bombs were dropped on an adversary that had no intention of surrendering despite the fact that they had already lost the war.

China is the one making all the noise. What is China afraid of? Pelosi has a right to visit Taiwan.

My AU cell service just got restored a couple of hours ago. But I still had my landline phone that I’ve had for over 40 plus years as a backup.

@Kyo wa heiwa dayo ne

"Marriage in the USA has a different meaning than in Japan.

People in the USA get Married frivolously and on a whim or perhaps a drunken party vacation to las Vegas.

Marriage is companionship in Japan"

Where in the world did you come up with this BS.

I just read where the USA will lift the requirement for foreign air travelers to show a positive Covid test to enter the country. This is suppose to take affect on Sunday, just in time for summer travelers from overseas.

I wanted what's going to happen when some of these people in these guided tours decide to venture out on their own? Believe me, it's going to happen.

This will become another "Abe Mask"

Maybe when the tourist get off the airplane at the airport they should get issued Abe masks. I understand there is quite a surplus of them available.

Cry baby China

Maybe in the movies they shoot them in the hand, arm or leg. In real life police are trained to shoot center mass.

The science is proving that the Delta variant of this virus spreads much quicker than the original, and that it’s mostly unvaccinated people who are getting it. You can blame the Olympics if you want, but its been the slow roll out of the vaccine in Japan which should bear the most blame.

Don’t eat with foreigners. What foreigners are they talking about? The ones who have been unable to leave Japan since this pandemic started? If any of these foreigners have covid they have caught from a Japanese person, who probably got infected from still a another Japanese person. If Japan is so afraid of associating with foreigners why are they holding the Olympic with thousands of foreigners. You can live in this country for decades and never be surprised on the prevalent xenophobia that is ingrained in the psychic of Japanese.

What its going to take to cancel these Olympic games is for a few major countries to pull out and not send anyone. The world press is starting to take a closer look at what’s happening. Give it time.

Let’s end this state of emergency and let the “Games” begin.

The pandemic is going to dictate whether the Olympics will be held next year. Plain and simple.

Standard procedure: You close one of my Diplomatic Missions and I will close one of yours.

"The Olympic Games must go on next year" Too early to make that statement. But when do politicians ever make statements that make any sense?

Addresssing part of the Avenger's comment. "Thirty years and we're still in the same place in this country with regards to racism and police brutality". Actually, since the current President got in office it has become much worst.

Burning Bush "The face shields are a bit much I think.

Do we really want to normalize those contraptions?"

I'm afraid this will be the new normal and we will have to learn to live with it.

What good is it going to do if he does jail time? In most countries the family of the deceased victims would take him to court and sue him for every thing he has. Then the old SOB won't have any money to leave to his heirs.

It's mind boggling to me; how Do you forget your child is in the car? I've forgotten things in my car, but never a lliving human being. Something is not right here. The police I'm sure will investigate and act accordingly.

The ball was heading into the goal before the Columbian player's arm shot up and blocked it. The referee was on top of things and made the right call.

American car companies aren't really interested in selling cars in the Japanese market. If they were, they would start by moving the steering wheel over to the right hand side of the car. Again, this is Trump blowing smoke and trying to appease the segment of the American public that believes everything that come out of his mouth.

I didn't vote for Trump, but when he says or does something I agree with, I will acknowledge it.

Frei's comment just goes to show you that racism and bigotry are not going to go away any time soon.

How about appealing to the senior's financially instead of appealing to their stomachs. What a crap of Mickey Mouse BS.

wtfjapan: FYI. In Japan once you reach 70 years of age you have to be tested at a driving school every 3 years in order to renew your license. This includes reaction tests as well as a driver's test.