rocketpig comments

Not great trajectory. It will be copied and soon exploding microwave ovens, refrigerators, shoes, underwear, toothpast, iPhones etc

Trump will get sabotaged by his own people. As long as he gets elected, all the other wannabes like Pompei, Rubio, Cruz, Cotton, DeSantis etc have no future.

I don't think the US thinks Okinawa belongs to Japan. It is only in name like de Garcia island. If it were US territory, it would be subject to Congress oversight. Okinawa was given to Japan by the US but obviously the actions betray their thinking.

As a tourist, I sure am happy the governments making things cheaper for me. Where did this money come from? It's the later generations pensions that are being used to make this generations lives better. I won't be around when the bill comes due.

The price for denuded coverage of 731 and Nanking. Perpetual war raparations to the US in the form of hefty defence payments. It took the Aztecs 200 years to cease to exist. I don't think this will be Japan's fate. But I hope the great nation of Japan rises again somehow and use these payments for internal defence. The old Japan was self sufficient. This new Japan should at least try.

Japan needs to diversify even more to cut its heavy defence reliance on America so this is a good small step

Taiwan belongs to Japan. Just look at the number of Taiwanese living in Japan working quietly to keep it that unwritten way.

Also if ever Taiwan goes back to China, Japan will be in big peril because the sea route to and from Japan needs to go through Taiwan. It's a matter of survival.

Just like Okinawa, the Japanese think it's theirs but the Americans still think their gift to Japan is not a gift. They still think it's American. With Okinawa, you also control Japan.

Save all that intervention money. Use it to militarized instead. Then provoke a war in Asia. That will surely get the yen back to 100.

If you just look at the domination of the Chinese in the field of mathematics, AI domination will come as no surprise. The foundation of AI is mathematics

Land prices going up everywhere is just a reflection of currency values going down. They are two faces of the same coin

If there is a war in Asia. The yen decline will reverse

In my experience, once you contact these organisations, all they want is your donation of cash. They do not need you to show up

This act is also a crime in Singapore. Hope he doesnt face the cane.

Japan just needs a younger set of politicians, ones who will actually live long enough to feel the effect of 30 year bonds maturing to pay for subsidising inflation today

Japan pays for Pacific defence. Of course the US does not want that money spent without their approval. Ankus invited Japan last to the pact. When you get invited last, it is usually to make up the cash shortfall.

When foreigners can buy new developments with just 20% down and nothing till completion and most qualified residents can buy anything with just 5% down, same forces that drove Asian real estate up to come crashing down later. Thats why Japanese rates cannot rise because it will kill this goose.

It took 200 years for the Aztecs to disappear and become Spanish. Its only been 70 years since WW2 and it isnt all that bad to become American anyways. India was 25% of global output when England discovered it and reduced that to 1%. But at least the Indians managed to recover.

China will ensure the Japanese cannot raise rates. Their deflation is Covid 2

In every multi racial society in history, whenever no one race has majority, then every race in that society will prefer an autocracy run by their race over a multi-racial democracy. America is under-going this transition now and the process is very racial with the smallest group being always picked upon, in this case the Asians. It doesnt matter Japanese or Chinese, the color of the skin will be picked upon for fear mongering politics.

Better a white dictatorship than a multi racial democracy. Bring back Trump

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.