YuriOtani comments

Bravo Zulu JAXA!

Hamas is backed by Sunni Muslims like Saudi and Turkey. Hezbollah is supported by Iran. These groups do not support each other and Saudi cuts off the heads of Shia Muslims. ISIS is made up of Sunni Muslims supported by oil revenue. There can be no peace between Hamas and Israel. Hamas killed over a thousand Israel Jews, close up and personal.

Am sick of hearing about the Chinese threat. It is an excuse for the Americans to do anything to the people of Okinawa. About the new airbase, it is in the wrong area. The bottom of the sea is too soft to build an airfield.

@sakurasuki, Japan can't get along with South Korea! If this were not about "radioactive" water, it would be about comfort women. The South threw away the agreement when they needed a distraction. South Korea canceled the 1965 agreement.

I do not believe Japan should help South Korea in this civil war. The South would never accept Japanese ground, naval, or air support. I fear South Korea will attack Japan when faced with problems. Nothing like bashing Japan to get votes! Japan is not South Korea's punching bag, so South Korean politicians can get votes!

falseflagsteve, only females sewing is a stereotype used by men to subjugate females to their will.

The People's Republic of China uses it as a club against Japan. Politics vs. science, the CCP will do anything to bash Japan.

The second attempt to reply is that the ocean is so vast it will dilute any trillion or other possibly increased radiation. It is very safe! And no concern is warranted. Yes! It is radioactive but all things are radioactive. The Koreans are using it as a club against Japan. It makes me dislike them even more, and I worry about the safety of Japan's Embassy in Seoul.

Everything is radioactive; it is very natural and not worth worrying about. It is the level of radioactive that is the problem. A radioactive level is an asymptote, a horizontal/vertical oblique line whose distance from the graph of a function keeps decreasing and approaches zero but never gets there.

So South Koreans are protesting Japan, like a super yawn!

What is the point of talks when South Korea will rip up any agreement within two years? As for comfort women, Japanese soldiers of Korean descent also used these brothels.

Am more worried that Japan will be attacked by South Korea. There is zero friendship between Japan and Republic of Korea.

The Peoples Republic of China and Korean Agents?

@nogardflow, lots of things came from the government's pocket. How about air traffic control and most if not all large commercial airports. Roads are built by the government, not the private sector. Without the government's help, no transcontinental roads and railroads would have existed.

What is the point of talking to South Korea? Any treaty made will be ripped up in the not-so-distant future. To "honor" the Korean boycott of Japan, Japan needs to embargo south Korea. Then place our self-defense force on DEFCON 3. This will be to counter South Korea's aggression.

Putin will steal Japan's investment and then ask for more money.

Pukey2, how can Japan relax after losing an important political figure. Now the Chinese are celebrating the assination of Shinzo Abe. There can be no peace with a country like China. I am sure the South Koreans are celebrating his assination. I have zero respect for either country.

It is equal protection under the law, oops

Desert Tortoise, what about equality under the law? Is the entire US government just a wing for far-right Christians? I wonder if the neo-far right will chain pregnant mothers or place tracking devices on them?

Soon the republicans will place pregnant women under house arrest when the USA passed their constitution and 14th amendment. WASP white men did it. Women were not equal to men back then. Do republican men want to take away all women's rights? I do not trust them; the three SCOTUS justices all lied before the Senate. Their deception was to the public and moderate Senators.

"in China, the social media response was sprinkled with glee and anti-Abe vitriol." POLITICO 7/8/22. They are celebrating the assination and assassination of Former PM Abe. It makes me dislike Red China more than ever before. Both North and South Korea and now Communist China is Japan's enemies.

The Ukraine war shows how pointless to make deals with Russia. They never keep their word. When it is convenient like at the end of WW2 the Russians broke the nonaggression treaty. Also the treaty of nonaggression with Ukraine. Japan needs to pull out of Russia now. Putin could take our citizens as hostages.

The question is if the Peoples' Republic of China can beat the Republic of China in an amphibious attack? There is a question if they can manage a 160km to travel to Taiwan. The landing craft will be under constant attack from missiles. Their air force as well will be subject to attack. Can the PRC pull off sigh an attack? It would be better to look north for their fuel. Siberia with it's vast amount of fuels.

Yet what is the point of making treaties with the Republic of Korea when they all get canceled?

Nam, they have to accept citizenship and become Japanese. The question is not one of "race" but to whom they owe allegiance. If they owe allegiance to Japan they can vote. If they owe allegiance to Korea, they can not vote.

Japan needs to stop all talks with Russia. Any agreement with Russia is a waste of paper. Second, this war will make it impossible to get other countries to give up their weapons of mass destruction. Two examples Libya and Ukraine. Russia signed an agreement with nations to respect Ukraine and never invade it.

Clearly, this is a sign for Japanese companies to pull out of Korea. The Republic of Korea is going to steal all of the Japanese patents in Korea. Time to stop selling to them as well.

I am more worried that Republic of Korea would attack Nippon than Peoples Republic of China of Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea. South Korea wants to annex Tsushima Island.

super yawn!

Yet any agreement with South Korea is worth as much as an agreement with Russia or nothing.

I am more worried that South Korea will attack Japan than China or North Korea. The South will play games for awhile and maybe even sign a treaty, then shred any treaty and throw away any progress. Tsushima will be the target of Koren aggression.