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Was it not Miami Vice that put this song on the map?

Must confess that all my shoes were white at the time.

The cheeses of five countries, sourced from ten.

Let's not talk about the past, let's look at the future.

Says the person visiting Yasukuni.

When I think Mamachari I think of an electric bike.

Mamachari starts as a bog standard, no gears, basket on front, rack on back bike.

“It’s a tax that is linked to Japan’s social welfare system,” Amari said of the consumption tax. “It shouldn’t be used as a policy tool (to spur growth),” he was quoted as saying, adding that distributing payouts to households and companies was an easier way to ease the pain from COVID-19.

Mr. Amari seems not to realise that consumption tax hits the worst off worst.

Giving ¥100,000 to every member of every household was profligate, as much of that lies idle in the risk-averse Watanabes' bank accounts.

Slashing consumption tax for a limited period will get cash out of those bank accounts, and spreading the love to everyone.

8-2? More like a rugby score!

People must be terribly cold hearted

Uchi/Soto paradox: Total Empathy Deficiency Disorder

Epic.

I hope some shark doesn't buy the film rights for the price of that bike.

but... the hysteria has to end

Including knockers-in-a-twist reactions to medical advice?

Wheely bins in Japan? It would work OK for me, as I'm not in a flat.

But those things can really stink in countries much more temperate than Japan. Can you imagine how many old people will have accidents cleaning them? And the passive aggression - or more - against those whose bins are a bit... aromatic?

Sibling rivalry?

I thought for a two seconds this might excite my Irish palette.

Meh

"She was nasty to a level that was just a horrible thing the way she treated now-Justice Kavanaugh, and I won’t forget that soon," Trump said.

Says the gentlemen who regurgitated the birther venom yesterday:

"But that's a very serious... you're saying that, they're saying that she doesn't qualify because she wasn't born in this country."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53774289

Infinite swill for the troughs, though.

Skyscrapers are the heart of cities all over the world. If they are empty, think of the thousands of restaurants, coffee shops and lunch wagons that service these office buildings. Think of all the maintenance employees who service them. All the supply companies that provide everything from water to stationery.

It's like we're in a snow globe that's had a good shake. Everything will settle again, though differently.

had Kiyonori’s driver’s license in their possession

Not the sharpest tools in the box.

What I'm seeing is that the brightest and best simply prefer to work from home.

If companies want to attract these people, good luck insisting that they come to an orifice.

The commute is dead.

Do what the old-timers do: sit outside in the shade, and just 'be.'

Japan's top government spokesman, Yoshihide Suga, said on Tuesday it was extremely important to maintain the framework of Group of Seven (G7) meetings.

and

Chief Cabinet Secretary Suga also said it is up to the United States, this year's chair country, to decide what form the forthcoming summit meeting will take.

@rse, meet elbow.

Trump, then a reality TV star

He's still a reality TV star.

if these people did in America or any European country 1/100th of what they are allowed to do in China, they'd be in Guantanamo bay right now

As a European, I'm intrigued by your claim, which really exposes the dangers of indoctrinating children to salute a flag on a daily basis and believe the world revolves around your country.

Behind the Great Firewall of China, you probably don't realise that hundreds of thousands of Uighurs - those fellow citizens shown smiling on your banknotes - are incarcerated for 'reeducation,' or that your comrades are commonly disappeared for exercising their 'right' to petition the government. You've probably never even heard of 六四事件 - the massacre of hundreds of protesters in Tiananmen Square in 1989.

It's not your fault, and there's a big, beautiful world out there. Your friends in Hong Kong know that world, and so might you. Some day.

Gettysburg:

return to sender, address unknown

Banderas' early stuff with Almodóvar was fantastic. Antonio doesn't take himself seriously, and his cameos in Sponge Bob are a riot. I look forward to Pain & Glory.

¡Mejorate pronto, Antonio！

Flying here in 1987, I was surprised to see a magazine article: "Japan: No Yen for Altruism."

Unless it provides some opportunity for corporate welfare, it's absolutely true.

Yes, Prime Minister.

naturally Cup Noodles

Vivid imagination.

Johnny Cab, with a living, breathing Johnny.

Why didn't they have a social worker with them?

Youre kidding.

I do like me a good polka.

Duh!

Minimum viable policing: "You're not welcome. Kindly leave."