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Melting of glaciers won't change the sea level. It's Archimedes' principle.

Criticize Japan, and you can get an award from the West.

Divide and rule by the West.

Did he write about the atrocities of the Japanese military or just how bad the USA was for doing this

A war winner version history.

I think Emanuel invited them to remind Japan not to side with Russia in Ukraine-Russia war.

a nation squeezed for centuries between Northeast Asia's big powers,

More precisely, a nation squeezed for centuries by a Northeast Asia's big power, to make it up, squeezing the other big power to maintain its mental health.

Very impolite remark by Akita governor. At least, Putin named the cat a very good name. The governor should have said that and no more. I'm sure the cat is a very good cat.

USA is making a lot of money from selling weapons/ammo to Ukraine. Ask USA to provide.

Ukraine the other day asked Japan to get involved and UK' PM is coming. "Ukraine crisis" seems nothing but their business to extort Japan.

I think they (UK and US) are trying to make Japan pay for Ukraine.

China and Taiwan have been governed separately since they split in 1949 as the result of a civil war.

This is wrong. China and Taiwan have never been governed together. Japan governed Taiwan.

For the Kyoto Animation incident, it was rumored that a big organization was involved, which denied the involvement though. This clinic incident is also suspicious because also chosen a crowded day.

I didn't think the US government is pulling strings. I have read an article that some American player who once played in Japan explained how he went to Japan. He was asked by his boss if he wanted to play in Japan. He didn't want to go but accepted it if it was only one year or two.

It indicates that US accepts only the best Japanese players from Japan but Japan is not even choosing who to accept.

I have a feeling that US is forcing unwanted players on Japan like the way they do with their farm produce or weaponry.

Interesting that Japan's own statistics point out that on a percentage basis the foreign population of Japan are less likely to commit a crime.

The statistics say that "the foreign population" means short stay foreigners, and the long time residence is included in "the Japanese" category.

He deserves to be punished but not to the point of his life being ruined for such petty actions by going national story.

JT makes it an international story.

JeffLee, condos are better built and equipped than apartments in Japan.

SJToday  02:17 pm JST

Simply, the Japanese government fears a unified Korea.

If it becomes a big South Korea, no. But if it becomes a big North Korea, yes. And from what it is now, it looks like becoming the latter.

Same for Vietnam and all "wars" since WW2 in 1942.

Because the US has never won since then.

 It is not like the Shinkansen has a private compartment

The Shinkansen does have a private compartment.

According to Wikipedia, Japan's first professional competitions emerged in the 1920s

It doesn't have to be professional to decide who is the strongest in the world.

According to Japanese Wiki, Japan's first team was established in 1878. And the first international games against Americans in Japan, which was in 1896, Japan team won twice in a row.

The "World Series" name was first used way back in the 1880s when the whole baseball world was essentially the US, and it has stuck ever since

Japan's national league was established before 1880.

Only US and Canada teams are participating and calling it World Series is strange.

Huh? The woman who criticized Abe's shrine visit for the first time in history and Japan's whale hunting?

This couple must have learned for the first time that there are places where their royal power doesn't work.

As for criticism of the Japanese judicial system, any actual acquaintance with comparative legal studies indicates the outcomes between Japan and the USA are similar.

The conviction rate is high all over the world, but USA is different from other countries because the half of the prisoners in the world is in USA. It may have something to do with the fact that US prisons are private companies that have to make profit for shareholders. Besides, Japan's prosecution rate is very low.

Japan and the USA are far from similar.

 kept in solitary confinement

I'd prefer solitary confinement to shared one.

in a small, spartan cell

Japanese housing is like that. But I heard that Ghosn was given a bigger room.

Most of the cases, a big incident like this has some big organization behind it.

The characters on the pieces are not Chinese. They are Japanese Kanji and hiragana. Calling Japanese Kanji Chinese is like calling English letters Latin or anything originated from.

This Moon is really a great guy. He does Moon-walking, pretends walking forward but in fact moving backward. That way he broke all the Japan-SK relations one by one and now Japan-SK relation has become the best ever for Japan. Let's stay that way.