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...for what it called antisemitic activity

...has attempted to crack down on pro-Palestinian protests

Being antisemitic and being pro-Palestinian are two entirely different things.

Saying they are the same is called fascism.

I thought Musk only had the vocabulary of a third grader. I was wrong: he's been bumped up to fourth grade!

@JJE

Winners unite

Ohtani is a winner. Trump is not.

Headline should read, "Unification Church appeals Japan court's decision so that it can continue to extort large sums of money from its most gullible members."

It's not fair to dehumanise an entire population based on the decisions of their leader. If anything, promoting friendly relations between normal citizens will have positive long-term effects.

@koiwaicoffee

Seriously Japan, WTF? It's 2025 already, aren't we done with abusing people whenever there's a chance?

As much as I want to agree with you (and I admit, I often find myself saying very similar things), when you look deep into it, harassment is hardly a problem specific to Japan. Many other supposedly developed nations report a similar amount or even more cases of workplace harassment than Japan does.

@Blacklabel

I go to the Embassy once every 10 years. They will be fine.

Typical Trumpy outlook. If it doesn't affect you, it doesn't exist. Everything revolves around you.

At the current stage, First Lady Trump will do whatever President Musk tells him to. This will continue until they have a fallout. The best thing we can do is to encourage this fallout to happen sooner rather than later. Calling Elon "President Musk" is one thing we can do to encourage that. Anything that will hurt Trump's ego will serve this cause.

＠Chico3

I'm sure my American friends and family would love to have affordable healthcare for openers.

Affordable health care!? Don't say that too loudly! Most Trumpies I know think that means "communism."

Ironic, isn’t it, that the most anti-Christlike president you could think of wants to “bring God back.”

I'm no Musk fan, but I do think this has been taken out of proportion. It's not the supposed Nazi salute that bothers me about this picture, it's the "f-you" that appears to be on the edge of his lips. Musk shows only pure hatred towards anyone he determines has contradicted him.

Unfortunately it seems more and more that America's future is being decided by illiterate, uneducated thugs.

Showa atmosphere is great... just as long as it's not inundated with tobacco smoke like all the kissa back then used to be.

There's something extremely unlikeable about people who are unable to take a joke.

@Jay

Shigeru, how about using your time at work to serve the people, NOT feed a disgusting habit?!

As much as I agree with you that smoking isn't such a great habit, you have to give people some leeway. Otherwise you're just asking him to be a robot. Nobody can survive like that for very long.

Jay, I'm intrigued. Do you have programming experience? And can you enlighten us, and the countless corporations who have come under cyber attack in recent years, on how to prevent the cybercriminals from "waltzing in and wreaking havoc." I'm all ears!

Isn't it funny how the deniers love to disparage science, yet as soon as the subject turns to climate change they become expert scientists!

Assuming the edible yield is 55% (it's typically 50-60% depending on the other dimensions of the fish), the edible weight of a 276 kg tuna is roughly 151.8 kg. If you assume 100g servings, that makes around 1500 servings from this tuna. In other words, 138,000 yen per 100g serving!

I think there's a typo, it should read "Criminal of the Year."

Might not be exactly the same thing, but people (especially bosses) need to become more aware of power naps and how they can boost focus and productivity.

Oh how his fans swoon. "He showed them!" they shout. "What a clever stunt!"

When in fact he's just gone and proven, once again, that he has the intellect and witticism of a seven-year-old.

It has nothing to do with being "woke" or with national sovereignty. Forcing couples to share the same surname is a way for the government to continue using the koseki system, which itself makes discrimination possible, for example against burakumin or unwed mothers.

The UN doesn't want to dismantle the Japanese government. It just wants Japan to give its citizens the basic rights they deserve.

Nearly half of his people are starving, and here goes Kim blowing up roads and railways... and it's the South that's "hostile"! It's hard not to laugh, though it's far from being funny.

If people read that book by Nabokov, and found out where the name "Lolita" comes from, they might form a different image of what it means to dress in "Lolita fashion."

@Fighto!

Unbelievable that people would support terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah. I guess most of those marching despise democracy, are misogynists and homophobic - like everyone in those Arab terror groups.

No. This is the logical fallacy that many pro-Israel activists commit. And many intentionally.

Nobody is pro-Hamas, or pro-Hezbollah. They aren't even anti-Israel. They are anti-Netanyahu. And being anti-Netanyahu does not make one antisemite. That is the other lie the Zionists are trying to spread.

The royalties that franchises have to pay are equivalent to extortion.

If I were a 7-11 owner, I would welcome the takeover bid too.

Netanyahu vows to use 'full force' against Hezbollah and dims hopes for a cease-fire

Netanyahu is a terrorist with an arrest warrant on his name, and the UN should vow to use full force to carry out that arrest.

The recent arrest of Pavel Durov shows that S Korea isn't the only country struggling with Telegram-related issues. The app really needs to step up its act so that things like this don't happen. Freedom of expression is one thing. Child pornography is another.

As much as this seems like a really good idea, I wonder if it could backfire so that when kids turn 16 they become even more emotionally dependent on social media than people already are.

I know this is impossible to enforce, but I think it would be even better if everyone, all ages, were limited to spending no more than xx minutes on social media per day.

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.