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There is no point in trying to cut down on legal immigration when anyone who wants to, is simply allowed to enter the country illegally and be offered everything free. Just like the US now.

All you have to do is come over to the UK from France on a boat or dingy, as thousands do every week. You are allowed into the country and given everything you need, money, nice hotel room, free medical and dental care, free new iphone etc. You don't have to bother anymore with minimum income levels etc. Just do what hundreds of thousands of people have done and will be doing for ever.....

This is great news for everyone. We all have investments in Gold. Long may the price soar!

I don not like the highly priced, small KFC offerings.

Thank you JT, another of your highly interesting medical articles!

Now Doctor Who, like everything with the BBC, has become very woke and PC. The best ever Doctor was .Tom Baker, the real Doctor Who.

Laguna

How sad, all the best to you Sir.

Scrap VAR, it is destroying the game. The excitement is lost when fans are waiting around for some minutes for the verdict. Let referees only decide on situations during a game as it used to be in the past. Sure referees are human and may make errors but these things tend to balance out over the course of a season.

At least in the Championship (league 2), where my team plays, there is no VAR and games flow nicely.

The only technology worth its salt is the goal line technology which determines whether or not the whole ball crossed the line.

Yes don't keep any funds in the poison yen, invest in US Dollars, Swiss Francs and Gold.

Don't spend any money unless absolutely necessary for daily living requirements.

JT congrats on a very interesting and useful article!

I really like these health articles that we see here from time to time.

200 yen to the Dollar? It's inevitable.

Everybody I know has for years kept all funds in US Dollars, Swiss Francs and Gold. Nobody, absolutely nobody keeps anything in the poison basket case yen, apart from everyday needs.

The terrorists are reported to have beheaded over 40 babies amongst other appalling atrocities. Hamas must be obliterated.

Yes Japan is dirt cheap for foreign tourists with the pathetic sinking yen. Not cheap for people who actually live in Japan with its real inflation rate of around 15% and no wage increases.

The Yen is now trading at 149 to the Dollar. Once it successfully breaches the psychologically important 150 level, just watch it sink. Everybody should keep all their funds in a US Dollar account or some foreign exchange account if they have any interest in their financial health.

gold too

I don't know anyone who holds the poison yen apart from what is needed for everyday living. We have all been investing in Swiss Francs and Dollars for a long time.

You don’t lose your pension or part of it if you are working.

Ah, I read that that was the case. Wallace, you are a pensioner sir? I stand corrected then.

We need old people over 65, if possible, to be working and paying taxes. But I heard that if an old person over 65 continues working, part or all of their pension, which they have contributed to all their working lives, is taken away. Not exactly motivating old people to work is it?

Apple keeps bringing out new iphones to entice the masses to part with their cash. I am still using my iphone 6S Plus from 2015 and it still does everything I want from it. Just changed the battery twice, no other maintenance.

Well certainly before 60 when we still have our physical and mental health and can enjoy our freedom. All us foreigners in Japan are earning huge salaries in our careers and have built up huge savings. Who wants to keep working when we don't have to?

12 years ago I worked as an English teacher for 3M per year which now seems an incredibly low wage

Impossible to believe that anyone would work for such an appallingly low wage. I don't believe it.

JT congratulations! Thanks. Really interesting article!

JT congratulations! Brilliant, fascinating article! More of these high level type articles please!

Tourists coming to Japan say that everything is so cheap here, bargain basement of the world. I wonder what the J people think about this with a true 12 to 14% inflation rate, and real wages dropping like a stone?

All my funds are in Dollars and Swiss Francs. It must be the case that every foreigner in Japan hold funds in anything but the poison yen. The yen is just a total basket case now.

AI is going to turn the job market upside down. It will become so difficult to add value, that there will be no other option than to introduce a universal basic income. Well, maybe 2 options, universal basic income, or a huge underclass of unemployable rodent people

Yes totally agree. The future is very bleak. Societies will become very violent and dangerous with vast hoards of jobless people without money, hope and any future. The only thriving industries will be those of people control ie police, prison officers and those working in the court system.

150 and beyond, here we come!

wow the yen is almost at 142 now! Going down down down.

Who cares about the damn stock market? It's just a bubble like they all are and will collapse shortly.

I bet Ghosn is laughing at this news! Karma for Nissan.

I doubt that anybody holds on to the basket case yen, other that what is needed for daily requirements. We all hold our funds in Swiss Francs and US Dollars. Proper currencies.