Tim Sullivan comments

"The Quad Leaders Summit will focus on bolstering the strategic convergence among our countries" ... until Trump becomes president again and then it's anyone's guess!

I don't care who wins personally, I will soon be shuffling off this mortal coil. But I do worry about my children. I am encouraging them to get the hell out of here while they are still young. This guy is hopeless.

A new economic package to aid small firms and low-income households hit by rising living costs

The mainly elderly LDP supporters who will benefit from all this free money won't have to worry about repaying it back. That burden will fall on the dwindling number of already overburdened taxpayers like me.

His dad probably advised him to hold a snap election before anyone realizes he is just as useless as the last PM. Not a single original idea here.

The scary thing is that he will probably win.

The overconcentration of everything in Tokyo has been a disaster waiting to happen for DECADES but the LDP has done absolutely nothing about it -- quelle surprise!

Brings back memories of the Tripartite Pact.

He was handsome, elegant and slightly mysterious.

She could have been talking about me.

Delon made the first of many visits to Japan in 1963 to promote his films, but also increasingly to appear in television variety shows and at society events.

And to see his mistress. Haven't seen any of his films, but I think he was a guest on the Muppet Show once.

Japan could become the first country to have a cuddly mascot as PM --"Jiminto-kun".

I think the PM is actually a Time Lord -- he just regenerates himself every few years or so. The next incarnation may be Kamikawa in an attempt to deceive voters that the LDP has actually changed (spoiler alert -- it never does).

"Three death-row prisoners sought an injunction against the hanging method in 2022, calling it "cruel".

Critics have argued that hanging is prone to botched executions and makes for a long, agonising death."

Isn't cruelty the point? It's supposed to be a deterrent, after all.

When I explained being "hung, drawn, and quartered", they said, "You win."

Sounds good to me, but the liberals would object.

The usual liberal nonsense -- just get on with it and free up the cells.

They have to propagate the government's lies that are becoming increasingly out of sync with the way people live now. Goebbels isn't exactly a great role model. My advice to you kids out there is emigrate while you still can!

You pay peanuts, you get Japanese bureaucrats.

As a Christian, I believe that death is not the end

After 80 or so years, most people have had enough of life and have done everything they wanted to do. The thought of eternity scares the crap out of me. If you are right and we never die, I would spend the first couple of million years studying Japanese.

Making noise higher up the chain would be undesirable by the school so hopefully that threat would be enough.

I think your son will be OK with an articulate and informed parent to defend him against any harm. Bullies pick their victims carefully. The weak and the vulnerable have no chance in this society. They are the people I worry about.

The actions of the students who committed this crime were extremely despicable and showed no sense of shame. We, the family members, and my son's friends will never forgive those who committed the crime

That's wimpy. Find their phone numbers and call them around 3 AM every morning to ask them, "Why did your child kill my son?"

The school and their son's homeroom teacher did not take any action against the bullying

That's shocking. Never thought that would happen in Japan.

A totally pointless sport, but at least they are not harming anyone. I prefer mud wrestling myself.

Regarding how they would spend their holidays, only 2.1 percent said they planned to take overseas trips

Back in the Bubble era, the OLs in my office were always going on overseas trips. I recall one girl went to Australia for the weekend. How times have changed. You have to be rich to travel abroad now.

Keir Starmer appeared in Communist spy files after joining a Czechoslovakian work camp at the height of the Cold War. "Starmer had just completed a postgraduate law degree at Oxford University and was about to embark on his barrister training when he arrived for the two-week camp at the Czech-German border town of Cheb on August 16, 1986."

Blair was a pretty damn good PM

He was pretty damn good at destroying the UK. Noticeably silent at the moment.

The people who came to the UK after the war were different. They really were refugees and were very grateful to be here. I remember my mother's Polish friends who used to visit us when I was a kid in the 60s. They had endured terrible experiences in Nazi-occupied Europe. They had poorly paid factory jobs, but never complained. They definitely didn't go around stabbing people at random because they didn't like Mondays.

It baffles me that people have downvoted Tim's comment -- they must be sociopaths (or Putin bots).

Whoever they are, they have no heart. I guess they are not parents. The victims were all little girls.

Three children have now died. I have no words.

It's sad that people are trapped in their echo chambers. What is truth?

The algorithms of social media guide us to a world of binary opposites. But real life is more nuanced than that. I remember the Newsmax CEO saying that he reads the Guardian.

the mainstream media have segregated themselves into left and right bias to keep their readers in their bubble of beliefs for ad revenue.

don't know where to find unbiased media anymore.

Newsmax is overtaking CNN in ratings for some prime-time programs. The opinion shows are pro-Trump (makes a change from CNN's relentless propaganda), They have some good commentators like Alan Dershowitz.

She's hiding something. SS agents were told about the sniper on the roof and did absolutely nothing until it was almost too late. I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but did Joe's handlers order this?

I'm all for it. The locals might realize that Japan is falling behind other countries and that voting for the LDP makes you poorer.