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Posted in: Are you for or against the planned sale of U.S. Steel to Nippon Steel? See in context

Against. Japan’s only way to stay economically relevant is by buying foreign companies due to lack of creativity, IP and knowledge in Japan. Also the shrinking domestic market.

Japan brings nothing to those companies except the purchase price.

might they take over management, bankruptcy is just a few years away as Japanese managers can not function outside of Japan or the Japanese system

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Posted in: Netanyahu snaps back against growing U.S. criticism after being accused of losing his way on Gaza See in context

I have this question to the Palestine supporters and so far never received an answer.

i saw every Palestinian in Gaza celebrating on Oct 8th. Not one critical Palestinian voice that day.

has ever one Palestinian apologized for Oct 7th ?

Israel was attacked and it answers. Very hard, without mercy. I can only say that if my wife or daughter was taped or killed I would be in the first line.

I am not Israeli nor Jewish.

I see Israeli demonstrate and protest against Israeli actions. I have not seen one Palestinian demonstrate against Hamas.

I have not heard one Palestinian say the hostages must be returned to their families.

so. I support Israel.

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Posted in: The way forward is to expand domestic investment. See in context

Yamaha must enter the 20th century.

they are over staffed, uncreative and old fashioned.

with the declining populations in The Far East they need to slim down very quickly.

and they should merge their little mismanaged soccer team with S Pulse. Madness to have these two under budgeted teams in the same region.

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Posted in: Singapore Airlines revamps Premium Economy Class See in context

They have been living on their past image and reputation far too long.

we flew with them from Tokyo over Singapore to Frankfurt in business class and it was a completely bad experience. From the wrong seating, over inedible food and cheap and too limited wine selection to dated lounges in Singapore. The flight to Frankfurt was no better but this time a rude cabin crew completed the picture. I only fly Qatar airways or emirates. SQ is gone for me

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Posted in: Levi’s reopens Kyoto store offering elevated brand experience See in context

Elevated brand experience.

are the jeans hanging from the ceiling ?.

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Posted in: Why is anti-Japanese sentiment remaining from the World War II era almost non-existent in Taiwan, Singapore, the Philippines and Indonesia, unlike in China and South Korea? See in context

The statement is not correct. Only in Taiwan there is less antipathy against the Japanese and that is because that island is completely focussed on money. All sentiment is subjected to money in Taiwan

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Posted in: ICC picks Japan's Akane as new president for 2024-2027 term See in context

What a farce to select a judge from a country where the justice system is a joke. Where foreigners loose trials because they are foreigners.

Where the death penalty exists and is still executed.

does she speak English at least ?

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Posted in: Finding cooks is a real challenge. Some ambassadors have been posted without being able to find a chef in Japan. See in context

Imagine they would have to eat that horrible, French, Italian or Spanish stuff. Poor things. So far from home. The only little comfort they get is some food from home. Oh, that and paying no taxes on nothing , being above all laws, a ridiculous high salaryman’s pension, free housing and schooling for kids, top medical care.

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Posted in: 13 years after meltdown, the head of Japan's nuclear cleanup is probing mysteries inside reactors See in context

Japan has currently 33 reactors of which 16 are working or getting restarted. 3 are being build.

20+ getting decommissioned. The need for them will decrease as the economy needs less power and less people use less energy.

15 modern reactors would do it, the rest decommissioned and the damage risk reduced in natural disasters.

but hey, that’s logic and there is no Japanese word for logic.

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Posted in: 13 years after meltdown, the head of Japan's nuclear cleanup is probing mysteries inside reactors See in context

13 years of doing nothing but release radioactive water in the ocean. I guess we are in Japan.

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Posted in: 'Moshi-Tora' speculates on how Trump's election might impact Japan's economy See in context

I agree with wolfshine. Regrettable the EU stil has no clue on the actual state of the Japanese economy. They have the complete wrong perception on just about everything on Japan.

they allow Japan to keep these completely unbalanced trade agreements while ignoring the fact that the Japan market declines at record pace. Loosing a million people a year and rising the Japan retail market is crumbling. Unless dead people go to supermarkets, have mobiles and frequent restaurants. EU politicians are complete ignorant over the fact that Taiwan is economically colonising Japan by buying up mismanaged bankrupt companies. There is an endless choice of them. Japanese government is giving free factories to Taiwanese chipmakers.

Mr Trump is not needed to is not needed to Bring down the Japanese economy. It’s gone already

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Posted in: Israel's Olympic status not in question says IOC president Bach amid frustration with Russia See in context

I wonder why Hongkong and Macau still have NOC’s ?

they have both reverted to China since 1997 and 2000 so they are, as China so proudly and clearly states, part of China.

more and more the athletes selected are mainland Chinese.

of course IOC does not care about money and contributions as they are such an ethical and morally sound organisation so that can not be the reason of the continued existence of the HK and Macau NOC’s

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Posted in: China sets ambitious 5% growth target for 2024; military spending to rise by 7.2% See in context

Ridiculous. The Chinese economy has been in recession for at least 3 years and the paper house is on fire.

they are finished, thanks to the dictatorship of the megalomaniac Xi.

he managed to destroy a vibrant city like Hongkong in a couple of years as well. The entire far east has to give way for South East Asia. Japan , South Kore all on the decline. Taiwan for bow the exception and is taking over the. Japanese economy one company at the time. Now they come to save the chip industry from destruction.the Japanese government is paying them to do it. ( TSMC)

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Posted in: They are TV's ghosts — networks that somehow survive with little reason to watch them anymore See in context

The platforms are keeping hundreds of channels alive by forcing subscribers to swallow 90% of garbage in such a package.

i count all the 24hr news channels among the garbage.

twee or three times news a day is enough and anyway they have no “ news”. CNN spends 80 % of its time on the American elections, any day of the year. With bimbo self proclaimed “ experts”.

where is government stopping the platforms pushing channels down our throats ?

my tv only serves now as screen for my dvd’s.

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Posted in: The Tokyo government plans to establish an ordinance aimed at preventing “customer harassment,” which refers to unreasonable demands or malicious complaints made by customers to company employees. What do you think about this? See in context

I think it is great IF government at the same time would make the multinational stop hiding from their customers and make them train and empower their employees to offer real solutions to customer complaints rather than lies, Excuses and meaningless nonsense such as “ I like to help you but..”, “ I am so sorry but “, “ I make sure to tell our management so it will not happen again”, “ sorry, that is not me “ “ hold the line, I will transfer you”. “ pls dial 1 if you like Japanese”…

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Posted in: Do you think the performance of the stock market in a country reflects the performance of the economy as a whole? See in context

The stock market is the only savior of Japanese real estate and listed companies. They artificially drive up each others stock prices so as to be able to keep borrowing against their companies inflated values and to keep up the prices of real estate which the banks hold as collateral. If loans would be called in the domino’s start falling.

we are in a 2nd bubble worst than the first and more unrecoverable than the first as domestic spending will only decline and can not drive a recovery.

it is the typical Japanese thinking. Keep winning time by changing nothing, head in the sand, ignore facts and the bad ghosts will go away as long as you keep your eyes shut

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Posted in: We need to secure and prepare more places volunteers can stay, so disaster-hit areas can be quickly restored. See in context

O, you should finally prepare better for natural disasters which are certain to happen in Japan. Train and prepare regionally certain army divisions to step in immediately.

make deals with hotels so that victims can immediately be housed. All this could have been done decades ago. The coordination and tasking of volunteers is complicated and often they require more attention than all their goodwill does good.

Volunteers are great but it should not be relied on by government. It is the governments duty.

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Posted in: What did you do in your down time before cell phones were common (if you are old enough to remember)? See in context

Like most comments. I read. Books, magazines, newspapers and comics.

saw more tv but then tv stil had a certain quality in part.

I still read as much books today as I did then. More classics now. Newspapers and magazines lost a lot of quality and are ridiculously expensive. My tv only as screen for dvd’s ( yes, I still use those) and I listen more to cd’s again. ( cd’s) and enjoy my 1964 B&O record player. Mostly 1960 to 1990 music.

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Posted in: Japanese volunteer in Ukraine See in context

Really? What’s the Japanese war flag doing around that tree ?

Nothing to do with Japanese claims against the Kurille islands ? Some other personal interest against Russians ?

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Posted in: What do you think is the most recognizable logo in the world? See in context

Surprised Nike is not on the list

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Posted in: Origami support See in context

Now this will help. All problems solved.

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Posted in: Paris 2024: A 'new era' of corruption-free Olympics? See in context

An academic with zero practical experience in professional sports is talking nonsense about a world he knows nothing about really.

I do. Recently my company had to go up against Dentsu and Hakuhodo, companies whose business model is corruption.

but still national federations, main events such as the World athletics 2025 give them near exclusive rights.

nothing is changed and nothing will change

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Posted in: Japan finance minister says may have to skip G20 meet due to domestic issues See in context

Read:

1) I do not speak English

2) I have no idea what they talk about there as I have zero understanding of finances.

3) I took the job because I was told to do nothing

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Posted in: Rakuten Mobile to provide satellite-to-mobile service in Japan starting in 2026 See in context

Rakuten mobile Will be bankrupt by 2026 and if they do not cut the Ever worsening money bleeding it will also destroy Rakuten core online business.

they are throwing the doors wide open for Amazon Japan

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Posted in: Japan’s Ministry of Justice offers human rights counseling services to foreigners See in context

on several times I was confronted with discrimination by police ( stealing of my 2 dogs was ignored and I was hardest by police instead of them acting to apprehend the known thieves. The same by the court.

my business visa was not extended correctly and timely nearly every year.

I was asked once a deposit of 178 months on a 2 year rental

at no point did I ever get any useful help from these organisations except to send me from phone to phone.

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Posted in: Japan to boost child allowances to tackle falling birthrate See in context

Less people in Japan and in the world is a good thing despite all the scary communication by government and businesses.

and I do not want to pay more

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Posted in: 'Suspense' of slowest horse race wins new fans in Japan See in context

This is pure animal torture. Nothing else and reveals the true spirit of many Japanese.

to enjoy inflicting pain to others. I had my dogs stolen, tortured and finally killed and all the police did was to harass me. The foreigner

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Posted in: Osaka trying not to feel 'a failure' after early Abu Dhabi exit See in context

She was never in a good mental mind and now is physically also not capable at playing at her best level.

one can not say it anymore these days but it is a fact that she is between 5 and 10 kg overweight.

her comeback is to try and keep or extent her sponsorships

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Posted in: Australia appalled at China’s suspended death sentence for writer Yang Hengjun See in context

Chinese people are allowing a megalomaniac and psychopaat to control them and run China back in the Stone Age. They have to stand up and get rid of this Mao copycat

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