toto_kiboko comments

How sad!

Kids in japan are mostly demi-Gods the way tgey are treated by their parents. Experienced this in my 30 years of teaching in elemejtary schools and junior high. Sometimes they just drive parents into instant madnesd! However, this is not condoning what tge mother did. Somehow parents have a responsibility to raise their kids properly.

Wise advice. Russia is armed to the teeth with nuclear weapons. If it decides to use them, Armageddon will come to bid Mother Earth goodbye.

Italy has the highest number of old people. Not a surprise to have seen a high degree of mortality when Covid-19 was taking its heavy death toll. However, Italy has realised an important economic factor and is unlocking the lockdown...The old people, the pensioners, like Japan, are the engine drivers of the economy. If this age group is told “stay at home”, guess what happens next. Hospitals, clinics pharmacies will not only go bankrupt, there will be a new ugly threat that will emerge as the economy goes into tatters and the young lose their jobs by the million! Danger will lurk in the dark streets and robbery will be the order of the day. “Stay home” is a double edged sword! Please enlighten me!

Social distancing never existed. A new weird experience not being close to fellow human beings. I wonder how parents are coping up with their kids at home.

Fujisawa Japan Post has gone totally the opposite directions. Almost every counter face is grey-haired and the service has sadly, deteriorated! And Japan Post calibration of charges is complex even to their own staff!

Ingenious idea.

"Jeff Bush is looking more and more a likely GOP presidential candidate!"

Kenya has a totally new constitution. And it works like magic. The old one was outdated and the rightful place for it was the garbage bin! How people croak on changing just one article if the Japanese constitution!

tim can could not be more right! How about the version of the victim's girlfriend? The chokehold was clear manslaughter! This is a real serious social malady whose solution is beyond taking people to class!

Show us the camera please!

Good idea to keep both hands in public view!

10% it shall be from 2015. It is the lowest in industrialised countries. Even Kenya has VAT of 16% across the board!

The Croatian destroyed his opponent in the Q/Finals in three quick sets! 1 hr +. Then pulverised Federer in three quick sets 1 hr +. Nikkori took 4 hrs + to destroy Djokovich. And lots more before that! He had "lost" the final match before starting the final challenge again a new champion who was fresh, had awesome shots and who made no errors in the semi and final games! Nikkori stood no chance! When the result came, I was the winner. The media missed the point!

Publishing is my business as much as writing with more than ten books published to date. Are the Germans and the French as well as some big American publishers wrong in grappling with Amazon with regard to commission setting? Are they all wrong? I am truly amazed at the finger pointing to Japanese publishers when the whole publishing industry globally is unhappy with the Amazon new rules! Hey guys! Read the stories out there before laying the blame on someone else!

Suicides in the port town where I was born, Mombasa, are almost unheard of! Poor yes some people are! But suicide hits the media headlines when it does happen! There is something wrong much much deeper in the society that perhaps for us Gaijins is too complex to understand! Is it despair after a mishap, tragedy or loss of work? Is it adult bullying which is rampant in the country but no one wants to address? Is it the crammed stresses that explode and lead to solution less suicides ? This is the underlying issue that needs enlightening to stop the 30,000 something souls disappearing annually!

Love all your comments...I forgot to add: Life is going to be all the more "juicier!" Can't wait to go there! Oops! It's finished already!

I am not an Abenomics fan. But there are facts that bewilder me! Lehmann Brothers collapse cost my friend five million yen! In the year 2013, he has just informed me his financial status has had a dramatic about turn! He has not only recovered all his losses since 2008 but also registered a profit of more than seven million! If that is not the Magic of Abenomics, I do not know what is!!!

Why not introduce an all night free bus ride to anywhere in Tokyo on New Yeae Eve past midnight as they do in London?

NHK reported it first at exactly 1:10 am as I woke up to the temblor! It was pretty strong!

Politics is a game of poker! We have seen only the winning wild joker! The story is much deeper than Inose's inevitable departure! Japanese politics is subtle and fluid! Their is more to this than meet's the eye. Mark my words!

Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States and Vietnam. 40% of global economy - wow!

Official arrest means one thing only - death sentence! Who are the others arrested? 3kg is one hell of a lot of drugs. If he is guilty then there is no mercy here...

In 1994 I bought a brand new Toyota Rav 4. A week later I found myself in the worst scenario as a driver! The entire computer system failed while the car was moving slowly downhill through a narrow street towards a train station while passengers were coming out! Guess what I did next to avoid possible 'fatalities'!

Looks like we are too blind to what Japan has achieved under 'Superman" Abe as the Economist magazine cover portrayed him earlier this year!

Besides being one of the best songs I have listened to this year, this song climbed to over 100,000 hits on You Tube at one of the fastest rates I have witnessed! Listen to the song and decide for yourself!

Very mysterious saga of tragedy.

More details have emerged. First this was a real tragedy as the victim had resisted! We are always advised to 'obey' especially when gangsters are armed. Mombasa is a very peaceful city and one regrettable tragedy does not taint it's image. May God give the affected family strength to overcome!

At last sense is setting in and rounds of dialogues begin. Long overdue. I always wonder whether a few goats on a bunch of barren rocks are worth sacrificing anything at all!