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More foreigners will stay and work in Japan if the yen is high (and complain about the work culture). More foreigners will come as tourists if the yen is low (and express their adoration of Japan).

That’s already a popular model in some Asian countries, where people use China’s WeChat, Japan’s Line

Ahem, isn't Line Korean?

The soy card is weird and useless.

For $70 you can take a DMZ tour from Seoul and buy those propaganda paraphernalia. For a little extra you can walk across the border at the train platform to get your passport stamped and walk back.

No mention of Setsuko Hara in Memoriam: Big fail.

Plus there are no effective decongestants thanks to paranoia about drugs.

Hyperbole, yes it was. Gaffe, yes it was. But I cannot even tell what he is trying to say. More like a Palin than a Trump.

Then there's the vegetable curry or vegetable soup that always has pork.

Future looks bright for heart surgeons and endocrinologists.

More ways to cheat in class, more bureaucratic headaches to stop cheating students.

In other news, "S Korea & Japan defence contractors improve sales after N Korea's nuclear test"

No. Don't move. Build more. More statues, more educational programs, more films. Keep history alive. Say: never again.

Murakami is not dubbed Andy Warhol of Japan, since that is a passive sentence. Murakami calls himself Andy Warhol. In Murakami's return to nativist spirituality, every Arhat looks like Murakami, and 3/11 gives him an excuse to carry on capitalising on his message of the pitiful victimised Japan. He should just call himself Mammon-kami.

He has been missing since July but Japan did not care until Reporters Without Borders reported the story several days ago and it went across international media. Yasuda has been very critical toward Abe. That's why J-officials didn't broadcast this one.

Many J-men like to date foreign women for free English lessons.

As long as she doesn't beg to practice eikaiwa with me.

Cool. Joe Cool. The original "Cool."

Meh. What war isn't about being the good guys and saving the women and children and helpless people anyway? (while arms traders stuff wallets....)

Aida is famous for his "Dog" series of paintings of sexy nude amputated young girls wearing dog collars. Funny, the government is not censoring those.

Not three others. One other: Watanabe Nobutaka. Yasuda and Watanabe were taken hostage shortly after three others were taken hostage in April 2004. So, five Japanese citizens in total. The five were released unharmed and paid back expenses to the Japanese government. They choose not to be "embedded" with the government media operations. Hate them if you want. They chose to be independent--for you. Only global citizens will benefit from their reporting. I wish the best for Mr. Yasuda. God bless you.

Donald is a distraction to make Jeb look like the liberal, sane candidate. What Iraq War?

Silence in Japan got us LDP dominance, Abe and the end of Article Nine. I say raise our voices.

Time to show Unbroken then.