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One here, another there, and everywhere, day in day out, rinse repeat, only the names change, the basic story doesn’t.

For too many, Abe’s ‘beautiful country’ sure ain’t pretty. But so long as weakness Is despised, compassion eschewed, and people continue insisting Cassandra-like that we’re living in the best of all possible worlds, so too will stories like this keep repeating.

If it is found that Iizuka is in any way connected with this threat, then he must be made to pay.

Oh for that masochistic thrill of being constantly buffeted by boisterous, inconsiderate juveniles and wannabes, the exquisite ecstasy of being herded by over-officious, hectoring, acoustical whip bearing police, there to keep the proles in line.

In a 2002 interview with the New York Times, he confessed: “I wanted to be famous so badly. You want the attention, you want the bucks, and you want the best seat in the restaurant. I didn’t think what the repercussions would be. “You have to get famous to know that it’s not the answer. And nobody who is not famous will ever truly believe that”.

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Great grand-daddy walked along the street with a ball and chain around his feet and that's the way they'd like to see me walk just to give the toffs a chance to talk.

a government-affiliated think tank said Saturday.

And this masthead sees no need to question their self serving agenda? For shame!

Time to get tough on Gaza, for Israel to show some strength for once - and start liquidating en masse.

Morgenthau Plan Redux!

those incredibly loud election vehicles…….They're the only thing I really dislike about Japan.

C’mon, put your mind to it and try a little harder!

In 1901, British author G. K. Chesterton wrote in his book "The Defendant":

“My country, right or wrong' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'”

He goes on to explain his view: “No doubt if a decent man's mother took to drink he would share her troubles to the last; but to talk as if he would be in a state of gay indifference as to whether his mother took to drink or not is certainly not the language of men who know the great mystery.”

Chesterton, through the analogy of the ‘drunk mother’, was pointing out to the fact that blind patriotism is not patriotism. Jingoism can only bring about the downfall of the nation, just like false pride brings us to a fall.

English novelist Patrick O'Brian wrote in his novel "Master and Commander":

“But you know as well as I, patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my country is always right, which is imbecile.”

There were no indications that the main safety features of the plant were affected by the vibratory ground motions generated by the earthquake on 11 March 2011. This was due to the conservative approach to earthquake design and construction of nuclear power plants in Japan, resulting in a plant that was provided with sufficient safety margins. However, the original design considerations did not provide comparable safety margins for extreme external flooding events, such as tsunamis.

The national Diet later set up the legally-constituted Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission (NAIIC, or National Diet Investigation Commission) of ten members which started its work in December 2011. One of the purposes of NAIIC was to provide suggestions including the “re-examination of an optimal administrative organization” for nuclear safety regulation based on its investigation of the accident. The NAIIC reported in July 2012, harshly criticizing the government, the plant operator and the country’s national culture. The commission’s report concluded that the accident was a “manmade disaster,” the result of “collusion between the government, the regulators and Tokyo Electric Power Co.” It said the “root causes were the organizational and regulatory systems that supported faulty rationales for decisions and actions.” The NAIIC criticized the regulator for insufficiently maintaining independence from the industry in developing and enforcing safety regulations, the government for inadequate emergency preparedness and management, and Tepco for its poor governance and lack of safety culture. The report called for fundamental changes across the industry, including the government and regulators, to increase openness, trustworthiness and focus on protecting public health and safety.

The NAIIC Chairman wrote: "What must be admitted – very painfully – is that this was a disaster 'Made in Japan.' Its fundamental causes are to be found in the ingrained conventions of Japanese culture: our reflexive obedience; our reluctance to question authority; our devotion to 'sticking with the programme'; our groupism; and our insularity.” The mindset of the government and industry led the country to avoid learning the lessons of the previous major nuclear accidents at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl. "The consequences of negligence at Fukushima stand out as catastrophic, but the mindset that supported it can be found across Japan. In recognizing that fact, each of us (every Japanese citizen) should reflect on our responsibility as individuals in a democratic society."

…the tragic hanabi taikai two decades ago in Tokyo.

Refresh our memories exactly when that was.

There’s a dude on this forum who was forever attributing Japan’s economic woes to the Plaza Accord that put an end to Japan’s gaming the system through an artificially low exchange rate. The weak yen he spruiked as a panacea to restore Japan’s animal spirits has been achieved, but his recommendation that Japan depreciate its way to economic health is one nobody, outside of the MoF, sincerely believes.

Rather pointless story without the photo.

Your wish is my command.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/mlb/article-12485133/LA-Angels-using-BODY-DOUBLE-Shohei-Ohtani-photo.html

I hope the pedo receives absolute brutal punishment he deserves,……

Once upon a time, a prison sentence for such crimes would’ve been an open invitation for other prisoners to exact their own form of retributive justice. These days, given the likelihood that so many are in there for similar reasons, the slammer has become the equivalent of a post graduate school for deviants.

Our Chinese/Korean friends need to be reminded that their nuclear plant tritium discharges exceed Fukushima levels. Also, China’s share of global greenhouse emissions is now 30%, exceeding that of the U.S. and Western Europe combined. China is also the world’s largest producer of and importer of coal and its timeline for serious target emission reductions is a can kicking 30 years down the track. People in glass houses………

………..Takashi was serving a suspended sentence for a smiliar offense committed in 2022.

Double Secret Probation boyo!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f4MkCJiDoNk

Still all quiet here in Tokyo……

That’s because it ain’t anywhere near Kansai or Korea, where whatever’s left of the storm will head to next.

German and Italian citizens were not interred. 

Read up on your own history first. Over 11,500 German Americans were interned, (not interred). But unlike Japanese Americans, they never received a dime in compensation.

Virtually unlimited sums for promoting tech education; scraps only for tackling the appalling standard of water safety awareness. Not helped by city swimming pools only being open two months of the year, shutting them at 5pm, nor their charging non city residents double, which discourages those not from the same area gathering together. In a place not known for thinking outside the box, there’s a crying need for not simply throwing the responsibility back on parents, a blind leading the blind approach if ever there was one. How about free trains to pools and beaches, and free swimming lessons. Pay for it by reducing the 300 billion yen for 111 schools tech splurge by 10 billion yen.

As the economic situation deteriorating there will be more accidents like that.

It wasn’t an accident, but premeditated. With at least another two months of silly season remaining, stay safe people.

…. controversial comments suggesting China, Japan and South Korea should establish an alliance based on cultural and racial similarities in order to exclude the U.S. and other Western-style democracies.

Someone needs to point out to this Mephistophelian schemer the tremendous danger inherent in such zero sum game civilizational relativism. It’s appallingly tone deaf, not to mention jaw droppingly arrogant to lecture us untermenschen outside the charmed circle that we need to be quarantined. Listening to his diatribe, how can we feel anything but animus towards the millions of Chinese immigrants who have made their homes among us. Presumably, his belief in Sinic civilizational superiority is such that we should only be too happy to have our ethnic displacement gifted to us by these superior beings.

The J authorities unwillingness to deal with the garbage problem is an open invitation and opportunity for civic minded foreigners to step into the breach by emulating those jet-setting locals who can always be relied on, especially when the world’s attention is upon them, to organize foreign stadium clean ups. At least they wouldn’t be depriving anybody of work, unlike the aforementioned.

Also it’s most decorated soldier is a war criminal.

All we’re saying, is give peace a chance.

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Do you not appreciate that Japan is a heavily export weighted economy?

In terms of exports share of GNP, among G20 members, Japan ranks way down the list.

Their in excess of one trillion US dollar bond holdings has appreciated in value enormously from the yen they used to pay for it. Partially liquidate these and use the profits as a buffer to mitigate the effects of a weak yen. Simultaneously, signal to the speculators that interest rate rises are a policy option, with an immediate 0.5% shot across the bow. Japan’s has strong fundamentals, that are only getting stronger. Tourists are flooding back in and wage and price stability is conferring a huge advantage vis a vis its trade competitors.

I'm certain that the vast vast majority of gun murderers in this country have not gone through the process of getting a hunting license or joined the SDF just so they can kill someone they hold a grudge against.

You’re probably right. They go to all that trouble just in case they develop a grudge sometime in the future when it’ll come in handy.

There is an obvious parallel between the massive amounts of drug precursors emanating from China and the situation when the Chinese were pleading for the Gwailos to put an end to the opium trade.

Getting hammered is probably her coping mechanism, a way of dealing with the cognitive dissonance.

A convicted arsonist who was residing in the building has been questioned. Same person?