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What are the social benefits of inventing voice cloning, if any? The article unfortunately doesn't mention any.

Harsh but sensible. If kids are born here or mostly raised here, there is a higher likelihood that they will stay for life here, and investing on their future is good for the country. On the other hand, foreign students who come here to do university work and who get scholarships may soon depart for other countries and never return, and so the investment on them will not be as efficient.

If HAMAS shows no real remorse then Israel should go all in. Schumer should keep quiet or he will lose his next election, which won't be a bad thing though.

Oh in socialist heavens people don't need to work at all. Don't you see that young people in China are lying flat? America should follow suit. 32 hours? What a bad deal.

Should discriminate between letting in people from friendly countries and those from hostile states. This is critical in ensuring a healthy development of Japanese society going forward.

For Canada to really step forward, Trudeau must renounce the pro-China stance of many of his predecessors including his father. But it is not easy, as Canada has been quite thoroughly been infiltrated by Chinese interests.

Mr Biden thought that Japan buying a US steel mill would bring it home. What a president.

Come on! The SDF is not the same as the Imperial Army! Anyone who cannot tell the difference should be ignored. Likewise for any country.

Yum. Any raw veg in Japan is good!

Unions are bad. Union bosses are bureaucratic fat cats. If people want unions they can go to Europe, Cuba or China.

Doing anything less in ghastly Hong Kong would have been inhumane. But will Argentina be able to stand up to China?

This is the correct direction but needs a much faster, bolder pace.

great athlete and great pic!

Anyone in any government has the freedom to travel to Taiwan and meet its officials on equal terms. China fans don*t panic. Taiwan is already independent anyway.

@Machan

This is good news story with a personal touch. The world is not always a circus.

This Tamaki guy is playing straight into the hands of the Chinese. He should be replaced somehow by a more sensible person.

NIMBY-- not in my backyard... very damaging mentality for a nation. The government could give compensation or help those who want to leave Okinawa and settle elsewhere in Japan.

Got to give credit to the Japanese Communist Party this time. Good job as opposition.

China has had territorial problems with the USSR, Korea, Vietnam, Japan, Taiwan, India, Tibet, etc. It thinks it owns "everything under heaven", and that's a five-thousand-year-old belief. Just like it says often -- "since ancient times".

China has tried land grab ever since the Han Dynasty 2,000 years ago and has never stopped. Other countries did for a while and stopped. That's the difference. To a country civilized, land grab is no more interesting.

Youtube can be reformed. TikTok is beyond redemption.

Japan should support implicitly or explicitly Taiwan independence, in case China attacks Taiwan, for its own good. China is bent on invading and expanding. Now the East and South China Seas, tomorrow everywhere with a drop of water.

Look which country is eavesdropping on the Aussie-US naval base in Darwin by taking over its port management and you know who-dun-it this time. China. No others. Albanese is nuts to do further business with China.

Good partnership to counter the Russia-China axis.

Japan has managed its affairs well, in the context of a fast ageing society. Much better than some other countries with problems not half as bad. Japanese citizens are responsible for that decline too, just like elsewhere. My generation and my parents' were poorer yet we raised many more babies.

Worst countries have a lot of garbage in streets and no garbage cans. Better are those with no garbage and lots of garbage cans. Best and most advanced are those with no garbage and no garbage cans. Japan normally belongs to the third category. Halloween in Shibuya is like Daytona Beach in the US, smaller in scale and tamer. We will forgive the kids -- foreign and Japanese, just once in a year, but they should be educated in civic virtues.

Most important issue for him to talk to the two SEA countries -- countering the military threat of China.

Any solution must be radical. Otherwise it more or less continues on its familiar trajectory. All over Japan can one find one single counterexample?

Was he deliberate?

It's a good way for China to earn disdain quick. Now that Japan knows the national character of its giant neighbor, it's time for Japan Inc to pull out and go elsewhere where people are more civilized.