MiuraAnjin comments

Ten years ago Australia committed to buy Soryu Class submarines from Japan. Two years later they reneged on that contract in favour of (inferior) French Barracuda class subs. Five years after that they then reneged on the French contract as well and paid nearly a billion $ in fines. Now they've committed to buy Dreadnought derivatives from Britain.

I predict that after the next change of govt. down under the Aussies will rip this contract up too and promise to buy autonomous submarine drones from... Well I don't know. Turkey?

That is indeed the former Soviet aircraft carrier Varyag, sold in 1992 to China by Ukraine.

The story of how the Varyag got from Ukraine to China is a comedy of errors and well worth a documentary, if not a Netfilx re-enactment.

The verdict was non-sensical and a reflection that the prosecution had done a sloppy job, assuming the accused would admit guilt while in detention. Ghosn and Kelly were on the take and everyone at Nissan knew it. The fact that the prosecutors were not able to prove it is more a reflection on their competence than on the brilliance of Kelly's schemes.

A key difference between first world and second world (i.e. Soviet Bloc) nations during the Cold War was that back then we were free to listen to Radio Moscow, Radio Berlin International and the (hilarious) Radio Tirana, because our governments trusted us to hear both sides of a story and make our own minds up. Of course the Soviets blocked the BBC World Service, VOA etc. because they preferred to keep their citizens in the dark.

We seem to have given up this moral high ground however. Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine the governments of the EU, UK and USA blocked Russian Media causing Putin to retaliate. Now private Western companies are following suit.

Are we no longer allowed to discern fact from fiction ourselves?

What's with the cop's ridiculous stance?

They're taught to stand like that at traffic stops to avoid bending down to the driver's window (and resultant back pain).

This chap seems to enjoy it.

The same thing happened at Sogo just after it was built at Yokohama's East Exit 40 years ago.

That made the headlines too; just in print not pixels.

Mr Kipling makes exceedingly good points.

placed under arrest and taken into custody.

Effectively a custodial sentence for this?

Good grief.

JR was privatised 37 years ago.

I haven't noticed a fare spike or decrease in service since.

her breath was found to have four times the legal limit for alcohol.

Nonsense.

He's been travelling unhindered between the USA, Canada and France for the 12 years this Japanese Red Notice has been issued. Why's he suddenly been detained in Greenland? What do the Danes want from Japan in return?

“Once a new leader is decided, I hope to see everyone unite and form a dream team to achieve politics that can gain public understanding,” he said.

I'd rather the LDP fractured, forcing the electorate to actually weigh their options at the next election.

They'd have to be insane to take part. ;-)

Ford stopped selling the Focus in the US last year

And in the UK, where the Focus and Fiesta had topped sales charts for decades; which was a problem because Ford managed to lose money on most of them unless customers took out finance with them.

The decline of the Blue Oval in Europe has been excruciating to watch - and entirely self inflicted. At least GM knew when to get out, flogging Vauxhall/Opel off to Tavares several years ago.

Many years before that Soichiro Honda predicted that in the future there would be just half a dozen car companies globally...... and Morgan. I reckon he was right on the money.

Get rid of all team sports (except relays) and anything with subjective scoring, i.e. diving, synchronised swimming, ice dancing etc.

Just concentrate on who can run or swim the fastest, jump the highest or farthest and lift or throw the heaviest stuff.

Oh, and hold it in Athens every time. No more international boondoggles thanks.

Nissan Sunderland, Toyota Derby and Honda Swindon made a lot of sense when the Yen was high and the Pound low; and when Britain was in the EU.

With good reason Japanese manufacturers are repatriating car assembly so Mr Hawes will need to get a lot of subsidies out of Sir Keir just to keep the remaining two plants, let alone encourage expansion.

Not just Japan. The US has its smallest military in 80 years and the Royal Navy is decommissioning ships, not due to budget cuts, but because it doesn't have enough sailors to crew them.

Time to invest in drones.

I kid you not I run into at least one every other time I drive.

50%??? Never happens to me.

Do you hog the passing lane a lot?

80% of Brits eligible to vote did not vote for Labour, yet they now hold a huge majority.

When Labour get 63% of the seats after winning just 34% of the votes people bothered to cast, something is seriously wrong. While I prefer to see Reform just getting 4 seats, I recognise that they deserve 91 and that the Tories are due 156.

Perhaps the Conservatives will back Proportional Representation now.

How much is the tariff?

Japan does not impose tariffs on cars, EV or not.

Conversely, the EU and UK slap 10% on all Japanese imports while the USA puts 2.5% on cars built in Japan and a whopping chicken tax 25% on trucks. Not exactly bastions of free market economics.

I suspect HBR may have drawn the wrong conclusion from their survey.

"They found that employees who take unapproved breaks, disregard instructions, damage workplace property, steal office equipment, and purposefully work at a slow pace are significantly more likely to be monitored."

seems more likely.

The police and prosecutors are not above planting evidence. If all they’ve got is “DNA from a blood stained sock in his car” and the standard euphemism for “his SIM card was in the area” then I wouldn’t hope for the death penalty.

Bath houses where women and men should no longer be nude, and swimsuits should be required.

You think swimsuits should be mandatory. Your great grandparents may have insisted on bloomers that cover the ankles. Today, some Muslims would make all women wear burkinis. Japan thinks it's fine to be naked in the bath, so long as no tattoos are visible.

Cultures are different, and not one of them is "right".

Cameron was so far removed from the populace that he didn't even the consider the possibility losing the Brexit vote.

May thought the British people would support rushing a deal through and deporting the Windrush generation.

BoJo partied like it was 1999, while denying grieving families their right to attend a funeral.

Truss counted on (pun intended) the voters and the entire banking system not noticing that her economic plan did not add up.

And now Sunak reckoned that no one would notice that his "Labour will cost you £2,000" claim is an outright lie and that talking to a reporter (about that bogus claim) was more important than honouring our D-Day veterans and standing alongside our allies at a time of European military crisis.

Tone deaf and out of touch, the lot of them.

Bear in mind that Takata airbags have saved over 50,000 lives, at a cost of 35.

That's a 99.9% likelihood of one saving you vs a 0.1% chance of death.

Most surgical procedures have worse odds than that.

30+ years ago western nations complained that the then far weaker Yen caused Japan's trade surplus with them. Now a weak Yen is getting blamed for the trade deficit?

No wonder the USA ranks so lowly in Freedom of the Press (42nd - Problematic) behind such bastions of freedom as Chile, Armenia and Romania.

It will be replaced later this year by USS George Washington

Didn't the Reagan replace the Washington in the first place? I guess she's been overhauled and sent back to see her days out in Japan - nothing new, I remember being shocked to find the vintage Midway still in active service in Yokosuka 30 odd years ago.

I remember the last time this sort of “news” topped the headlines. It was soon forgotten about after an earthquake and tsunami caused a new clear meltdown.

Why, in every article involving a "hospital", you say "taken to hospital"? Taken to "a hospital" would read a little better, just my two cents.

In much of the English speaking world you go to hospital if you are sick or injured, but go to a/the hospital to work or visit someone sick or injured. It's much the same with schools. Just my two penn'orth.