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And how do you get relief supplies to the cut off area???

Two years ago, on-line shopping companies and delivery services were gushing over the use of drones to deliver medical goods and urgent supplies to isolated places. This would be an ideal scenario for their use.

But nothing has happened.

With roads unpassable in many places, and aid unable to get through, what has happened to the drone deliveries that were being touted a couple of years ago by some of the delivery companies and on-line shopping sites? Medical supplies, remote places, emergency goods? This is where they are needed now.

Make sure that the dogs have proper protection when walking over broken glass, hot debris, and splintered wood. The ones shown on TV had nothing on their paws.

The old saying comes to mind...

'Who will guard the guards?'

What, if any, oversight is there?

Too much speculation, suggestion and leaks on what might have happened and what might been said, as 'experts' get their sound bites in.

Just let the professional accident investigators do their jobs, rewind the tower tapes and review the radar data, and analyse the cockpit voice recorders and black boxes.

Look after your own country first.

Increasing numbers living below the poverty line, a rapidly increasing elderly population, a broken pension system, deteriorating infrastructure, workforces issues, the list goes on...

His father would have said something appropriate, he knew his responsibility to 'his people.'

Compared to his father, he's done very little the past few years. Just a handful of highly orchestrated speeches.

Pure pantomime performance. Though for odd reasons, these politicians keep receipts, correspondence, fax transmissions, used envelopes, and the occasional USB Memory stick.

The compensation program does not cover foreign suppliers, a Daihatsu spokesman said.

Way to go Daihatsu - great step in international public relations ... NOT.

The few people who decide are vulnerable to persuasion, such as financial incentives to their areas, and the ubiquitous brown envelopes. Amply demonstrated in other areas where multiple power plants where built, and when the subsidies and incentives ran out, they offered to support newer ones.

It's a Risk vs. Beneft Assessment. During the first trimester (first three months), drugs should be avoided unless absolutely necessary, to avoid any adverse effects on foetal development. (As an aside, this is when thalidomide caused those massive limb defects). During the later stages of pregnancy, with a relatively mature foetus, there is less risk, but RBAs are still carried out. Those specialists who do this have a great deal of experience, following both of their patients for the whole duration of pregancy, and afterwards.

Prosecutors asked vague questions...

...politicians gave even vaguer answers.

Justice was seen to be done.

It's all towards the Integrated Gambling Resort (Casino) which will be built on or near the site afterwards.

Suspending shipments currently in production, all well and good.

What about all cars already shipped, sold and being driven since 1989, when the first cases of rigged tests were reported?

They have had weeks to operate their paper shredders, and try to delete their computer files.

Sort out your own country first, that's what the people pay you for!

Prefer to cook smaller portions of food nowadays, as prices have gone up, and just go for variety at Xmas and the New Year

Wait for the inevitable appeal from the building company to a higher court...

These are just puppets on show for the General Public. The real powers who pull the strings are organisations such as Nihon Kaigi, and the factions who spend a lifetime owing and paying back favours to each other, carried down from their fathers and grandfathers.

New cabinet secretary Hayashi distinguished himself during his tenure at the Foreign Ministry by achieving nothing, but he did not rock the boat over there. The permanent bureaucrats saw to that.

Until the next time that someone gets caught.

Then the usual claim of a misunderstanding, apology, reflect on misdeeds, vow to improve, token pay cut, mock resignation, rinse and repeat ad infinitum...

It's just a game of musical chairs. The difference being that they just call in old debts and favours, at the same time settling old grudges and arguments, until the next time.

Stationery manufacturers will be concerned with a decrease in the sales of brown envelopes, the standard method of delivering funds.

Don't forget the Cabinet's Secret Fund, mentioned on JT last week, to pay anything, few questions asked, receipt not required.

Total Unaccountability. Result of familial politicians who know nothing of the real world.

Disappeared from sight after the Olympics...staying out of trouble.

I was surprised that he was allowed to purchase a "polearm or sasumata", but learned that the introduction of sasumata to schools came to be popular after the Osaka school massacre in 2001. Now sold on amazon and rakuten

Moderator - note the spelling of sasumata, 刺股, spear fork, not satsumata.

Moderator: Thank you. It has been corrected.

There is a new distillery 2,500 metres up in the Southern Alps, Igawa Distillery, which began maturing whisky last month, owned by Juzan paper company. There is just one road up there, closed to normal traffic, a forestry road; you can cycle or hike up there, if you can get past the landslides and collapsed roads. The building is hidden in the trees by the side of the Oi river. IIRC, the first batch will be available in 2026.

A fine actor indeed - Jerry Westerby in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and Andrei Lysenko in The Hunt for Red October - busy losing Russin submarines!

Any impact on the proposed Casino/Integrated resort, that will be built afterwards? They were planning on taking full advantage of the facilities built for the expo.

Nissan and Renault work almost separately at their expensive Yokohama HQ, on Japan time and French time, while Mitsubishi is just an afterthought. Their IT systems have never been fully integrated, even after 25 years of working 'together.'

They only seem to function together when bland PR statements are necessary!