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I think they could get away with this and a lot less people would be offended/upset if they just worded it differently:

Offer a discount off the "regular price" for people who live in the area.

@Some dude

I wonder how many consecutive "hottest summers on record" it will take to convince the "there's nothing odd about the climate" brigade. 10? 50?

Nah, people like that will never be on board, not even after 100. You could shove the smoking gun in their face and they'd just look the other way and reply that they don't believe in science.

It's really too bad that it's only an election within the party, and it's also too bad the general public doesn't get to vote. Of course the LDP would never allow that... they know how much most people hate them!

It's unfortunate that both sides in this election have been bought out by the Zionist lobby.

As much as I am ambivalent about the new California law, Musk is a real fart no matter what he does, and this action, like all his other ones, is simply another futile attempt to get people to notice him.

"The situation seemed to be becoming unacceptable. Again I give you a stern warning," she said in a statement carried by KCNA. "You will have to face devastating and horrible consequences."

She means, "We'll be sending more trash your way." Because trash is all NK has to offer.

Despite myself, I am glad he survived. No one deserves to die by a bullet, and this should be a warning sign to those who want even more lax gun laws.

Plus, had he been killed, he would have become a martyr.

@majikayo!

japan, you do you, don't turn into europe or the usa.

You obviously aren't Buddhist. Otherwise you would know that tolerance is one of its core principals, and it is an idea that dates way back, long before the USA or even Europe.

How many more people have to die before America stops handing out guns to any idiot who wants one?

Of those 10.4%, half of them receive direct financial benefits and/or kickbacks from the LDP. The other half have simply lost their minds.

When checking reviews, read the three-star reviews. They are often the most sincere and have the most useful information about the product you're thinking of buying.

The release also said their head coach, Takashi Nishikawa, has been reprimanded.

"We will strengthen our team structure to never let something like this happen again," WSJ said.

The only entity that needs to be reprimanded here is the WSJ, for making this non-issue into an issue in the first place.

I pity this guy and his circumstances. He was a victim and suffered enormously.

But that doesn't justify what he did. Not that I liked Abe, but murder is murder, and Yamagami must be tried for it.

If they had just named the condo "Lawson" then there would have been no issue here.

35 years down the road and China still won't admit the truth. And it is still afraid of those who do know the truth.

@kurisupisu

Taking photos without permission?

There is no law in Japan against this.

JR is barking up the wrong tree.

I think it really depends on the intention of the person taking the photos. Of course, if someone is taking photos of JR staff because they're into trains or on holiday and want to remember the atmosphere of where they've been, that is not abuse. But when angry people take photos of staff with the obvious intention of harassing them or making them feel uneasy, then there is a problem.

I appreciate that workers everywhere in Japan, in all lines of work, are over-polite towards everyone, but I think companies should consider letting employees talk back to abusive customers.

Tourists caught vandalising should be allowed to experience a part of Japan that most tourists will never get a chance to see: prison!

@elephant200

North Korea has done NOTHING wrong over this. They have their rights to launch satellites as other nations does. The sanctions was ridiculous and must be removed. Why Israel is allowed to rampage Gaza without consequences?

North Korea killed nobody since 13 years ago sunken a South Korean frigate,the S.Koreans think that was history.

So in your eyes kidnapping Japanese citizens is fine?

Not to mention that Kim is spending money on missiles and failed satellites when a large percentage of the North Korean population is starving.

@TokyoLiving

Reunification is unstoppable..

I'll tell you what is unstoppable. More and more people recognising oppression for what it is. Soon every Chinese person will know what their government has done to them over the years. And then, bye bye, CCP.

@bass4funk

Will never happen. Antisemitism at its fundamental core.

No. That's the false logic that Netanyahu and his thugs try to spin.

Being anti-Netanyahu doesn't make a person antisemite.

Good for them. Down with the LDP!!!

It's too bad that film companies are boycotting Russia. Cinema and other arts have a huge potential to promote peace and friendliness among peoples, even if (or especially if) their governments are at war with each other.

Great. The guy with the crooked mouth meets the guy who's crooked all over. Just two crooked guys!

@JJE

Navalny had no credible history in country wide electoral politics - that's what the western media aren't telling you about their appointed "opposition leader".

Oh yeah? Is that why Putin had to murder him? That makes no sense.

How can you support a leader who locks up and kills anyone who disagrees with the current government narrative? The vast majority of Russian people can't stand Putin, but they're afraid to say so because they know the consequences...

Everyone hates the LDP, and yet everyone votes for them. This paradox constantly baffles me.

@Redemption

You know Japanese people, they will self police. The busy bodies will monitor and approach every foreigner to escort them out as citizen police patrol.

Are you being sarcastic? If so, good point. Most Japanese people are passive-aggressive and terrified of direct confrontation. Rather than approach foreigners to escort them away, what you'll hear is a lot of tongue clicking and cursing under their breath in barely audible tones...

And besides, if the road is closed to "tourists," how are they supposed to determine which foreigners are tourists and which are residents, and ditto for Japanese people?

The problem is that so many people these days mistake skepticism for being anti-transgender.

Even those who are sympathetic to transgender people often get slapped with an anti-trans label because they are not extreme enough in their support for the cause.

Great, so now on top him being a racist, misogynist, egotistical arrogant narcissist, he also supports the genocide of the Palestinian people. Can there be a more blatantly horrible person than him?

@Quo Primum

And the fact that your comment is getting more 'down' votes than 'up' votes is evidence that many people slobber over the lives of celebrities and give them borderline 'cult worship.'

I disagree. Things aren't so black and white. It is possible for people to follow the lives of their favourite celebrities, and to feel emotional about big changes, without going to the point of obsessing over them or "worshiping" them.

@Hope

NATO requires consensus on troop deployment, not a French Cowboy trying to reenact Napolean back in the day!

Let me remind you that the only one trying to reenact Napoleon is Putin.