Victor comments

I like deflation. I like strong yen.

Young, beautiful, talented, a champion, you'd think people would be pleased, instead there's a lot of miserable, green-eyed monsters on here wanting to rain on everyone's parade. Sad.

Yes, way too many losers in this world!

It doesn't matter whether it's a man or a woman. What's more important is that the new PM is competent.

Apple and Google have too much power. Give us our 30% cut or else. Hope there are more players in the future.

Too bad - she was beautiful.

It’s a lot better than his idea of colonizing Mars.

Desperate times call for desperate measures.

Be prepared for high taxes and inflation.

This is what happens when regulators let a company certify itself.

It makes no sense to hold this tournament right now.

The people in the west don’t need to be reminded about it-they know or can easily find out unlike the billion Chinese that haVe no idea that the CCP murdered 45,000,000 million people in the ‘Great Leap Backward’ !

45,000,000 million people? That's a lot of people when the total population of the world is 7,800 million today.

All jokes aside, you have made what seems like a fair point. I've also thought about that in the past. However, please consider the following.

Do you believe that Western countries care more about the Chinese people than the Chinese government? Tens of millions of Chinese people are traveling in an out of China every year. Huge number of foreigners live and work in China. How stupid and or ignorant do you think Chinese would have to be to not know what happened. How can we verify that 45 million number?

The CCP hates it when the west reminds the world how the CCP massacred hundreds or maybe even thousands of peaceful student protestors at Tienanmen square in 1989.

Ever wondered why the West doesn't remind itself of countless victims of illegal Iraq war or countless other wars?

Good. Fair decision by the EU.

Show me the money!

Good idea. Won't be politically correct to do so at this time.

With all those guns people have, I can see Jungle Raj coming.

We cannot yet say, if we ever can, why this unfortunate woman killed herself. Meanwhile, we mustt marvel at the overflowing expressions of Japanese compassion emanating from this thread.

I doubt there are very many Japanese people on this site. Based on the slant of opinions on this site, I would speculate that it's mostly foreigners living in Japan.

Wonder if anyone would take the plunge to make it their Zoom virtual background LOL

The fact that they still commemorate this shows how rare violent crimes are in Japan as opposed to some other so called developed countries.

Let's hope Japan doesn't allow tourist from currently by far the most infected country or any other highly infected countries. I wanna keep my family safe here!

Wake up time? Well, HelloooooO

> Lightning reactions from WHO again, only five months down the line.

Maybe Trump will get the message now!

Good to see Japan finally growing some balls. Or maybe after seeing the US protests and hypocrisy they finally have a more balanced view.

It's totally understandable. Too dangerous to go to the US right now.

It would be best for them if they stop making aircrafts for a while.

Great. I'm looking forward to using that station when life returns to normal.

Here's my proposal. Tokyo 2024, Paris 2028, LA 2032.

What about focusing on the US instead and trying to improve on the myriad problems its society has instead of war mongering?

Shameless markets - all that additional printed money in being pumped into the markets rather than keeping people employed.

This will not end well. Ultimately people will realize ills of turbo-capitalism.

so do you feel this article is true? Iran and China have grounds to criticize the human rights record of the USA?

Yes. According to the World Bank, more than 850 million Chinese people have been lifted out of extreme poverty; China's poverty rate fell from 88 percent in 1981 to 0.7 percent in 2015, as measured by the percentage of people living on the equivalent of US$1.90 or less per day in 2011 purchasing price parity terms.

In the meantime bottom 50% have gotten poorer in the US.

Let's hope some of these changes stick!