rocketpig comments

Like a river or the sea or the ocean, it will not take long for it to be clogged with AI generated data. Then it becomes hazardous to use.

If you curb the ability to scam, these jobs will be gone and this situation will not arise. Japan should implement a. ensuring the telcos disallow international incoming calls that show local numbers. b. a special (say 111) number that all government and banks must use to send text to residents and c. ensuring banks share in the loss when funds are transferred out to scammers. Taiwan seems to have solved this problem

Ask Japanese women

The lettuce inside the Kiba Ito-Yokodo look like tomahawks.

wonder what happened to all the rules based world order that Japan keeps chirping about. Isnt Canada just following the rules?

If you pivot to the low hanging fruit of China bashing, it just shows how good the relations are between Japan and the USA that there is nothing to add. He's got to say something for the position he is in. Hes got a nice cushy job but one boring as hell as Japan and USA are best buddies.

Jailing the Proud Boys, harassing Trump and super patroit Navarro for protesting plausible election irregularities and exercising free speech rights under democracy whilst every investigation into princeling Hunter goes nowhere. Where is the outrage from rules based countries. It was all condemnation when it comes to China and Russia but what kind of country jails their own citizens for trying to protect democracy.

EVs currently cost about 3 iPhone 14s. If the costs drop further, soon they will become disposable cars or upgradeable every year. Thats where the car industry is headed.

The easy solution tried and tested is to print more money and subsidise the gasoline so we can all enjoy. Your kids will pay back that loan. They wont mind because they dont know.

Japan should have saved everyone the trouble and used the water to irrigate the plentiful forest up in the north. Afterall, the water should be safe by now.

Should not the headline correctly say that the depreciating yen now buys only half a condo as used to be.

Always a good anti Chinese headline to keep readers interested. Such an obvious thing to report. Do you not think the Chinese will spy on these exercises? It goes without saying

When you choose the best and brightest to defend you, you just ought to pay for it.

Japanese IRS must be salivating

I must say the Trump haters are just as colorful as the China haters. I wonder if they are also equal in numbers. Thats why I keep coming back

Japan should fully remilitarize and go back to its former glorious days

Poor TSMC, getting dismembered in broad daylight

For all the crab the China haters are giving the CCCP for doing the same things the rest did like spinning a new tale on Covid lockdowns no longer being necessary (it wasnt necessary in the first place) or cease reporting Covid infection figures (which is a direct result of reclassifying Covid as no more than a flu), one must be amazed at the speed they can U turn. Rapidly increasing mass infection and re-infection is necessary for them to keep up with the rest of the world in attaining natural immunity. So the speed they are catching up with us all in mass infection cannot be condemned but actually instructive. Give them another few months of mass deaths and massive infections and then they are no less susceptible to Covid as everyone else is who has opened up. Then with them on par, you will sense real competition in every thing from a very competitive culture. Thats when being more nasty to them will heat up.

The US defence industry is the commercial arm of the Senate where retired generals go to. Of course there will always be war and war mongering. Japan should apply to be the 51st state and get better value for its money

It would be alot cheaper just to become the 51st state. Cheaper and your representation in Congress for all the tax dollars spent.

Senate Votes to Ban All Sales by Toshiba in U.S. LA Times JULY 1, 1987 

We have been here before.

"The Senate, seeking to avenge damage done to Western military security, voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to bar Toshiba Corp"

And then all Toshiba tech was taken by Intel, Qualcomm.

good idea to use our kids money to fund our current lifestyle. Every supplementary budget requires the kids generation to pay it back while we enjoy its fruits now

The inevitable China-Japan war will make the atrocities in the last month of WW2 in Prussia look like a disney movie. So much hatred on both sides. But it is probably good for us non Japanese or Chinese. Good to keep them both weak.

Headline should read 30billion in subsidy to Mitsui and Mitsubishi for African business

I think Japan has no choice because of their claim that Sakhalin is Japanese teritory. Just like Chinese refusing to buy Siberian energy because the Chinese claim parts of Siberia belong to them. So Japan quitiing will be tantamount to admission that it is Russian territory and why would Chinese pay for stuff they claim belong to them

Unification Church should expand into China so the two sides can share then Taiwan and the Islands with the Moonies. Then there will definitely be less animosity.

Yes, we also need military aid in the dozens like you send Ukraine. Send more weapons and guns and ships. Get your congress to approve a bigger military budget. It isnt enough. We need to spend our money on roads and education but you need to defend us.

Better a hawkish defender than a democratic panderer to the Chinese. Bring back ScoMo

Japan should nuke up. This is the only way to prevent another domination by others

3 things

before one heaps scorn on the draconian Chinese quarantine measures, one must remember that similar shocking policies were imposed by Singapore, Australia, UK and some of the blue states in the USA (for the last 2 years) only for the same politicians to backpeddle without admitting error. I am sure the Chinese administrators will do no less. They will open up without admitting they screwed up.

second, mortgage boycott is a normal right of flat buyers. When construction is halted progress payments can be withheld. You wouldnt pay too would you if you see the construction of your house stop. The Chinese seem to have diffused an impeding housing crisis that may have triggered their own Lehman shock but media spin increases readership. Just like when Airbnb quit China and said the reason was to protest against Uyghur policies. They were losing money.

Finally, in a global survey (which I cannot remember but was printed in the SCMP) just recently, the Japanese (only 12% like China) were listed as the ones hating the Chinese the most, more than any other nationality on earth, even more than the US or shockingly even the mighty Australia (14% only like China). I wonder why all the venom. It isnt healthy.