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The CCP are sh*t scared of Japan and will avoid armed conflict with Japan more than they would with Australia or the UK. The Chinese would be better off keeping good relations with Japan. Any armed attack on Japan and the whole country would get armed and ditch the GSDF for a military proper. The US, the UK and Australia would jump straight in to ally themselves with Japan.

Forget your talk about Taiwan. Taiwan is independent Taiwan, not Chinese Taipei.

but the rest is not part of their job

So what exactly is their "job"? Which was my point.

are you advocating that they should rule as well as reign

Oh I see. They 'reign'...

I think it is obvious to anyone with eyes that the crowns portrayed are plastic not paper

Read the title of the news piece. Then get relevant.

These people could be staunch remainers, you have no idea

Absolutely no chance that they are Remain voters. We all know exactly who voted for Brexit. And who led them to that monumental error. Brexit was all about union jack flags and paper crowns (read the headline) and blaming the failing economy on immigrants and refugee applicants as opposed to the government who were starving the NHS and feeding energy business.

This petty tea party in the rain is not going to treat people in hospital nor will it feed children. Whether their crowns are paper or plastic or stolen from other nations.

Remember - these little islanders in their paper crowns are the very people who voted for one of the biggest political failures in history in Brexit. That's all you need to know.

The important truth is that this royal family do not create or protect human rights in the UK, they do not uphold or write political law, they pay no taxes, nor do they manage the monetary banking system in the UK. They are merely a postcard family with a flag that sells at tourist stalls.

Irrelevant Parasites

The real truth about this royal family fits the comment above. As opposed to the protestors who uphold our freedom of speech.

Funny how many are giving Arsenal criticism for having such a great season. 2nd is a great achievement and we were the best team for large parts of the season. And with a rookie manager who has been given time.

Arsenal are also achieving 2nd without 100 breaches of financial fair play. In my book if you announce 100 breaches then the league must have the power to act immediately. Otherwise don't bother mentioning it.

Jimizo is the only person here who knows what they are talking about.

Yawn.

City are 10th on the five-year rolling net spend charts, way behind Chelsea, the Goldman Sachs Soccerdevils, Arsenal and financial powerhouse Wolverhampton.

And here lies the problem. People actually believe the accounting tricks and somehow believe that Wolves have spent more money than City. City are 2nd this season in spend only to Chelsea.

This season has been a good one with the likes of Brighton and Villa improving. To be honest the league can do without the open chequebooks at Chelsea, City (and soon Newcastle). At least Arsenal and Man You have history and were doing it before the billionaires.

Don't be hypocritical because you also are comparing Japan and China !

Get real !

But this is the reality. One of the loudest complaints about Yasukuni comes from Beijing. Which is rich considering their current behaviour. And it's a fair comparison. Japan are being accused of not apologising for war crimes and for honouring war criminals. Yet in our current year 2023 Japan are passive in world politics whilst their rival economic powerhouse Beijing is overtly aggressive towards it's neighbours. You all complain about a ritual honouring Japanese war dead yet nobody does a thing about Muslims interned and 're-educated' in China and plans for an armed invasion of the independent country of Taiwan.

All these comments trying to compare this with Beijing's behaviour. To be quite honest the Yasukuni visits absolutely pale in comparison and are really the business of Japan if they so wish to honour their dead. And these visits to Yasukuni are completely internal - Japan are not building armed manmade islands or interning a million Muslims or restricting democracy in Hong Kong or threatening Taiwan with armed invasion. The Japanese are peaceful people who do not attack protestors at their embassies nor have they created any secret police stations around the world. Be thankful that the Yasukuni visits are the most controversial thing that Japan does.

The last thing Japan needs is to end up like the UK. If it's a choice between restrictive tax liabilities in Japan or more freedom to buy/ sell in the UK, you are much better off in Japan.

Young people just cannot afford to buy anywhere in major cities in the UK and in most commuter towns. Not unless they have £40k to put down as deposit for a small apartment. And that's if they win the mad scramble that occurs when somewhere 'affordable' comes up.

Japan can still offer affordable property to buy within a commute of Tokyo/ Osaka/ Yokohama and without the strict regime required to apply for the mortgage loan.

Yes in Japan you could end up not handing much to your children when you pass. But isn't it better to have had a life living in your own home in Japan than not at all in the UK where you might still be renting somewhere at the end of your working life.

Instead of all the usual anti-Japan government comments maybe this should be focused on the lunatic who keeps firing ballistic missiles into the sea. The Japanese have been extremely patient. Imagine if anyone fired a missile over China or Russia. All this has done is to confirm that the North Koreans are lunatics and the Japanese are educated with their reactions.

Let's be sure to recruit plenty of gaijins 'ruggers' so we can be competitive, just not only South Africans this time please!

Right because the All Blacks, Wallabies, England, Scotland, Wales never recruit foreign second generation players..

The usual comment about Japan's foreign players from people standing in glass houses.

Regardless of whose fault it was a skiier on the ski slopes ends up with four broken ribs and concussion yet Paltrow's attorney is quoted as saying his injuries were overstated. Also amazed an attorney is permitted to accuse someone as aging in a form of criticism.

I bet the Asia Pacific region cannot wait to inherit Britains failed public transportation system, zero domestic industry (all sold off to foreign ownership), its NHS waiting times and British Universities complete dependance on Chinese student revenue. What a coup for the region...

No great loss to Arsenal’s title hopes.

A huge loss. If Ben White gets injured or suspended we have no natural right back. Tomiyasu and White were alternating at starting right back.

Not wanted or needed in the UK.

330.000 vacant jobs in the UK mainly in vital public services. And mainly because the 'great British' would rather claim benefits than clean toilets or serve in cafes for a living like many immigrants can do without a problem.

45,000 in a year! An unknown number of terrorists, rapists, criminals

How many incidents of terrorism in the last 12 years? And all I currently read about are rape crimes from white Brits including the police. Terrorism has nothing to do with immigration. If the west stop dropping bombs in the Middle East then terrorism will go away.

Mr Kipling your outright racism is not wanted nor needed in the UK. A new future is coming without the likes of you and your right wing scaremongering. Look at the current mess created by Farage, Johnson and the like. This white entitlement is finished and an abject failure. The young generation will create a successful future and they won't be so scared of immigration,

In 2022 nurses are on £27055 per annum. This is roughly 4.3 million yen ￥4,311,281.89 (159.35 yen rate). The average in Japan is 4.99 million yen per the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.

And this is the point. It's all about the cost of living. If there was a fair system for renting or for young people to buy somewhere and if the government capped energy bills like the French do, workers on lower salaries could still live basic lives. Also in Japan the national health system works efficiently.

The UK has been brought to its knees but most of them voted for it. If you continue to vote based on low taxes and private healthcare this is what happens.

I wonder how many of the 52% who voted for Brexit or who didn't vote Labour in the last election are now complaining about the NHS and public services. You only have yourselves to blame.

The issue is not salaries - the issue is the cost of living. If the government capped energy bills like the Europeans or strictly regulated landlords, most of these workers would be able to live without striking. The focus has been shifted to salaries instead of cost of living.

By what law?

By a law which outlaws ridiculously huge markups on alcohol sales. Pressurising gullible women to buy bottles of vintage Dom Perignon in the name of companionship.

I see you are defending some of the lowest forms of humanity stood on the sidewalks harassing women whilst protected by the gangsters who own their turf. Host boys are essentially scum. Uneducated and unwilling to do a normal days work like the rest of us. The majority of the time, if not all the time, they are ripping off their female customers and let them rack up huge debts.

an entire industry

So brave of you to defend this cowardly lot giving them kudos as an "industry".

Blame the government for not making those places illegal. The government is responsible as long as they are able to conduct that kind of business.

She was not forced. She could have just obtained a normal role at a normal company. Could have worked at a convenience store. A fast food establishment. Taught Japanese. Any number of ways to bring in that hard earned cash.

So you are obviously a key witness in the case. Shouldn't you be in Court.?

Sorry, but she is definitely NOT forced. Host club customers are extremely loyal to their hosts and are willing to do anything to give their hosts more money. In the Japanese articles the word “coerced” was never used. Most host clubs are linked to deri-heru etc, with many deri-heru owners ex-hosts etc. This is in fact common practice. At most the guy just recommended her a place.

Read the story! He even admitted himself that he forced her into prostitution to pay extortionate restaurant bills. This pond life admits it yet there are people here still saying she was definitely not forced.!

There are some very sad people here who love to blame the women. Really sad. No wonder there are so many cases where women get abused this way.

The U.K is an embarrassment and a third world country.

I won't stay here much longer and will retire to Asia.

The unions don't help either and just have their own selfish means. Nurses, Doctors and the Police should be handed respectable salaries as a given.

This is not an excuse, France were more clinical and did what had to be done. But that referee was a disgrace. The fact that he did not give the penalty when Mount was taken out NFL-style and the ref had to be brought back by the VAR team.

Too much credit being given to England this morning. They lost a quarter-final and when they were the better team in the 2nd half France scored the winner.

Southgate's style is football with the handbrake on. He will get you to a quarter-final or a semi-final with his brand of low-risk football but England will never win a trophy under him.

Saka was the most dangerous player on the pitch and they brought him off in order to keep the shape with 10 minutes left and losing. Says it all really.

Of course, any racism is too much

Pot

sold off working class English people's livelihoods to the lowest bidders, mass immigration has changed their neighborhoods beyond recognition with spiraling crime

Black kettle

You want to take a stand against racism? Sure, that's great. But taking the knee is completely the wrong way to go about it.

So what's your recommendation?

sold off working class English people's livelihoods to the lowest bidders, mass immigration has changed their neighborhoods beyond recognition with spiraling crime

Oh right, a racist post about immigration..

the team that continues with this sanctimonious, preaching, anti-working-class, virtue-signalling nonsense that does absolutely nothing to combat racism

Nihon Tora, your immature and ill-informed posts could be torn apart at length but let me put you right with one important fact. It was the working classes who fought Mosley's facist and racist black shirts off the streets in the 30s. And when exactly does an anti-racism message target the working classes?

Taking the knee strikes me as something that comes from a bunch of middle-class Guardian readers, most of whom have never been to a football match

If you have ever been to a game of football in the premier league (I doubt that very much) in the past 20 years you would have noticed that it is very middle class.

If the manager Southgate and his players want to continue taking a knee then what are you going to do to stop them? Apart from spouting all that Football Lads Alliance nonsense above?

What exactly is your hangup with one of the most racially-inclusive teams in the world cup sending an anti-racism message? Is that your problem? Do you have an issue with anti-racism?

sold off working class English people's livelihoods to the lowest bidders, mass immigration has changed their neighborhoods beyond recognition with spiraling crime

Oh right, that answers that one then.

At Arsenal we kicked the national front off the streets around Highbury when they tried to recruit way back in the 60s and 70s.

Arsenal will fade

We've been hearing that all season but Arsenal have in fact increased their lead.

usually when a team/club doesn’t win the PM, CL (or any other major competition) for two decades, it takes them more than one good season to actually win something big; they’d have to be mentally/emotionally/physically stronger than usual and (at the same time) expect Man City, Liverpool, Chelsea, etcetera, to loose points

rcch, Arsenal reached the Europa League Final in 2019 and the semi-final in 2021. We finished 2nd in the Premier League in 2016. Jesus and Zinchenko have won 4 Premier League titles. Arteta has won 2 Premier League titles as assistant to Guardiola.

Arteta has been in place for 3 seasons which is more than enough time to have a tilt at the title now.

Liverpool and Chelsea have already lost too many points. City should be favourites but can be impacted by their team suffering injuries at the World Cup. Haaland isn't playing in Qatar but he can't cross or pass to himself if they have key players fatigued.

Completely open borders

Completely open borders?! These are Nigel Farage scaremongering lies You can't be British nor living in the UK. No longer in the EU schengen zone and refugees get threatened with being sent to Rwanda in Africa. Visas are only offered to those with money.

woke police completely uninterested in fighting real crime

Woke police?! Try telling that to a real British police officer. They have been impacted by government cuts.

pathetic military

Now you are being ridiculous. A fine military yet again impacted by government budget cuts.

The Commonwealth is not an Empire

The Commonwealth of Nations, simply referred to as the Commonwealth, is a political association of 56 member states, the vast majority of which are former territories of the British Empire

It was originally created as the British Commonwealth of Nations through the Balfour Declaration at the 1926 Imperial Conference, and formalised by the United Kingdom through the Statute of Westminster in 1931. The current Commonwealth of Nations was formally constituted by the London Declaration in 1949.

The head of the Commonwealth is Charles III.

There have been 10 million migrants come to the U.K since 2000. The country is flooded. Brexit was, in part, about getting that migrant flow to something approaching reasonable. I seriously doubt the U.K is 87% white.

Matt Hartwell, please don't write lies and right wing politics. Check the UK Office of National Statistics, it's governed by a right wing government. It states clearly that the UK is 87% white. Yet again these lies about 'floods' of immigrants proves to be fake.

In the UK today we cannot find our suitcases in airports and sometimes cannot depart due to the lack of staff. Restaurants and pubs have to close because of a lack of staff. There is a severe shortage of Nurses, Doctors, cleaners, and transport staff. All of these jobs used to be covered by immigrants to the UK.

Brexit was an unmitigated economical disaster and yet in October 2022 we have Matt Hartwell writing about how Brexit was needed.

Look at the state of the UK right now. Politically and economically it is embarrassing. So no surprise that they cannot move on from putting this royal family all over their bank notes instead of cultural and historical heroes.

Many of those 87% (as GBR48 proudly declares, 87% white) would never accept any diverse heroes. And putting the royal family on banknotes is yet another example of the brainwashing of these British subjects.

The Commonwealth is not an Empire

Ahahaha That's quite funny. What is it then? Is it just a coincidence that commonwealth countries were also the same countries subjected to that invading empire?