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Japans public pension fund, the worlds largest, recorded investment gains of $56 billion in October-December..

October through December. Okay. Got it.

The funds performance was helped largely by Prime Minister Shinzo Abes aggressive reflationary fiscal and monetary policies...

His policies from October through the end of December? Really? The election wasn't until 16 December, and Abe didn't assume office until 26 December 2012. So.. "Abenomics" is capable of time travel? Or did he do it all in during the 2-1/2 business days remaining in 2012 when he took office?

The WHO can't do anything regarding health issues linked to nuclear power with permission from the International Atomic Energy Agency which exists to promote nuclear power. Plus, Fukushima health officials said that 44% of the kids tested with ultrasound already had thyroid anomalies. So, NO I don't trust the WHO's report and belive the true number of victims is being undercounted.

Get over yourself, Tokyo. Okonomiyaki is from Osaka.

The critics were out to get Seth long before the telecast, and they did. Despite that, every human I've spoken with thought he was hilarious, especially the intro.

By "movie comeback", do you mean to say "critically-panned, money-losing, resounding failure"?

A protest?!? There's totally going to get Vladimir Putin's attention!

A) This is hideous. If Japan looks at this and still can't admit it has an gender equality problem, then the rest of the advanced Democracies and Consumers in advanced Democracies need to start thinking about our future relationship. Did this guy shave his head? B) Someone affiliated with a Japanese boy band is dating GIRLS? C) Japan Today is actually providing a link to something related to the subject?!?! Welcome to the 21st Century!

Over my three years living all over Japan, I can recall numerous incidents involving a stalker, or a “chikan” (groper) on crowded trains or empty streets. Those Japanese men are usually curious or obsessed with foreign women, they’re mentally unstable, and the experience is terrifying and unsettling.

Uhm.. that sounds like the opposite of, "Moving to Japan as a single foreign woman is quite safe".

CduS is NOT a circus.

Ahem.. "Cirque" is the French word for "Circus". Google translate is also your friend.

How did the previous 47,000 of these incidents get resolved? This will probably go the same way.

It's not about "Terminator", or even "1984". These things will probably be used for no good by private corporations and non-government entities pursuing their own goals of peaking in your bedroom windows.

Mainstream media tends to avoid upsetting words like "rape". "Sexual Assault" is almost always the phrase indicating that a rape occurred.

“I feel betrayed by the DPJ which promised to change so much, but achieved so little. They came across as immature, disorganised and ineffective,” said Junko Makita..

..so I'm going to vote to go back to when it was so terrible that I voted for a complete change.

Philippines backs rearmed Japan to 'balance' China

Yeah, because if anything balances an aggressive, million-member military, it's a nation of crabby old men with jet black hair dye lording over a nation of grass-eating anime addicts.

Why do tunnels needs ceilings? Why not just drive through the tunnel? If the lights are mounted on the side walls or from posts in the middle, why does there need to be a suspended ceiling made of concrete of all things?

And who wants to hear George Takei's voice?

Judging by his number of facebook subscribers, everyone does.

Standard issue fascist crap. Spend less on people, more on military.

The morons knew they were doing wrong. It doesn't require an extraordinary amount of common sense to know that you're not supposed to break into strangers homes, punch kids, rape girls, et cetera.

I don't buy all this whinging over the "innocent" servicemembers who can't go out and get drunk and carouse around Okinawa. Tough. That's not what you signed on for, and that's not what we're paying you to do.

Ask yourselves and your branch why morons who can't be trusted to act like human beings keep winding up in the mix and in positions where they can do wrong.

Puppy mill going broke.

Seems like an overdue reward for sticking it out with baseball's minimum wage for all that time.

The Japan Restoration Party candidates are 'graduates' of his school for aspiring politicians, the Ishin Seiji Juku (Political Restoration Academy)..

We have something like that here, but it's operated by Ringling Brothers.

LDP's Abe pledges to revitalize Japan, strengthen military

Oh yeah, because he totally did that the last time he was PM. Oh wait, he didn't?

Who can blame her? I cry real tears when Miike make movies. Chugoku no Chohin was pretty interesting, but the buckets of fake movie blood that he's known for are just crap. 50-years from now, no one is going to say, "Hey, remember when Takashi Miike did a bunch of movies with buckets of fake blood and gore?"

And let's be really, really honest: When people claim that Miike is their favorite Japanese Movie Director, they're really saying that Takashi Miike is the Japanese movie director that they've heard of.

Of course Chinese people want Obama to win. They need Mitt to stay in the business of outsourcing US jobs to China. If Romney were president, he wouldn't have time to do things like forcing American workers to train their Chinese replacements before sending the jobs to China.

You see what's missing from his privileged resume? Military service. Any form of national service. Yep, he shoots off his mouth, someone else gets shot at. It would be increasingly difficult to root for Japan if this cretin and his big mouthed cohorts achieve any form of influence in setting national and foreign policy.

Romney was the faster and louder speaker. Obama, who reportedly doesn't like nor respect Romney, looked annoyed to have to defend his first term against this overgrown fratboy. The real news is that Romney backed away from his own tax policy, a MAJOR flip-flop. And right after the debate, his handlers came out and reversed most of what he said, especially when it came to pre-existing conditions on healthcare, they're coming back in a Romney presidency. And if you've got one, you're not getting healthcare.

I hope that the people who claim that suicides are "selfish" aren't the same ones who gleefully demand the death penalty for seemingly every infraction, or criticize those who meet their ends through misadventure.

Suicide isn't easy. Everything about the human psyche is wired to a survival instinct. And it's freaking horrible that a young girl and a man are so lost in darkness (caused by who knows what.. crime? rape? bankruptcy? disease?) decides to end it.

Disappointment with Obama getting to you?

Disappointed? Seriously? You mean, you WANT bin Laden to be alive and GM to be dead? You think that 30-consecutive months of private sector job creation ISN'T much better than losing 800,000 jobs per month? You DON'T WANT 50 million Americans to have access to healthcare? You WANT a return to "pre-existing conditions"?

"once he has cleaned up the mess in kingdoms of Osaka/Sakai"

And has that happened yet? Is it even going to happen? Or is he too busy trying to get out of Kansai for a promotion to Tokyo? LOL

The liberal Asahi Shimbun said “ignorance” and “unappreciation” about the regimes and culture of each other have contributed to deteriorating relations.

Sure, Oyaji Ishihara picked the precise wrong moment to pull that "buy the islands" stunt. China is undergoing a change in leadership, and as the new regime comes in China has to prove that it is strong and cannot be taken advantage of.

Hard to believe that Ishihara didn't know this, since it's been in the friggin' news for A YEAR. Did he really think America would come roarin' into battle for this?