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Let's elect the LDP once more in a landslide! After all, they are doing such a great job steering this country.

This will work about as well as stopping the Olympics and Abe's funeral.

As long as these people keep voting in the LDP the people have no will in this country.

Honestly not materially different from the CCP or Singapore's PAP, but at least the Chinese are not pretending they are a democracy.

Japan remains global laggard...

Fill in the rest with almost anything, other than poor treatment of women.

 Less than a kilometer, walk home you idiot.

But it was cold, and it's a known fact that blue blood doesn't do well in cold.

My takeaway from this story is that a glorified secretary needs his (didn't check but almost certainly a man) own secretary.

The global community

The vast majority of counties with the vast majority of the world's population has not taken a side in this conflict.

The German foreign minister who is only in the job because of DEI check boxes, said that the NATO is at war with Russia. Of course, I am sure she shouldn't have but she is not too smart.

Translation: the government wants to cut subsiding treatments and vaccines. Purely a cost measure that can be redirected to appease the US warmongers. This has nothing to do with health reasons.

So what? Is he not allowed to have free speech?

Please don't tell him he needs to fly to Poland, and then take the train, like Salaryman Taro and Office Lady Fumiko does every day. There won't be any Crown Centuries for his disposal.

What a brilliant idea from these brilliant people running this country.

And when they’re not in agreement, sole custody is the only choice. Historically, fathers and non-Japanese spouses have been the biggest losers when sole custody is the only option.

The government needs to fix this.

No, it doesn't. I'd say in 99% of the cases, the child is better off with a Japanese mother than a foreign father.

Please don't tell him he needs to fly to Poland, and then take the train, like Salaryman Taro and Office Lady Fumiko does every day. There won't be any Crown Centuries for his disposal.

 no one will forget who was on the wrong side of history and was complicit.

it's a cliche but 100% true: history is written by the winners and never the losers

If I had to bet, I'd bet on future history being written in Chinese and not in English (and certainly not in Japanese).

 also on nuclear power:

You can't turn nuclear power to gas and oil which is needed to run cars and trucks and for most people to cook and hear their homes.

Most Western European countries increased trade with Russia in 2022, so it's not only Japan.

Most of the hard sanctions against Russian energy is only coming into effect in early 2023. The real problem in Europe with energy will be next winter, not this year. So they are hoping they can kick Russia out of Ukraine this year. Of course that's not going to happen. The only hope is negotiated peace with Ukrainian concessions, but the US war machine that needs a constant conflict will not let that happen.

This is why the sanctions are a joke. Russia is laughing all the way to the bank, while consumers are paying the higher prices.

This is worse then virtue signaling. While for the most part, virtue signaling is useless but harmless, these sanctions are literally reducing the quality of life for the population of the counties imposing the sanctions, while let's Russia just take in more money from higher prices selling to most of the world not on board with the sanctions, including Japan.

Prices for oil and many commodities have declined

Not for long once the price caps on oil take effect. Also the importation ban on diesel from Russia that will take effect soon will increase shipping costs. Trucks and ships don't run on solar power.

keep prices the same but cut the size of the product

Now with 25% more fresh Fukushima air in the box.

That rate is still relatively low, compared to some other nations

Of course the article forgets to mention that wages also going in those "other nations".

In dollar terms, Japan's average annual pay totalled $39,711 in 2021

That's around 5 million yen. Is that per household or individual (I assume household otherwise it would be mentioned otherwise)? The individual pay AFAIK is around 3 million per year in Japan.

Sorry here: https://chof360.com/japan-is-going-to-have-to-start-culling-its-zombies-sooner-or-later/

https://www.ft.com/content/994ef667-84da-4ccc-8921-b8db81576751

Here's the same article without a paywall: https://www.ft.com/content/994ef667-84da-4ccc-8921-b8db81576751

Battered by the pandemic

How so? I thought the excuse would be Putin or the supply chain issues.

The truth is most of these business are not viable unless the interest rates are zero.

I was told Twitter would crash and burn by now.

And Kishida wants to splash out on US arms!

He really doesn't, but he was told to do so.

reduce medical expense support.

The real reason

calls are growing to further spur economic activities.

How so? What economic activities are currently curtailed?

Nissan will be forever propped up by the taxpayers of Japan.

Davos. The junket of all junkets for a bunch of elite hypocrites.

Elon is smart to stay away from these people.

Japan invents new seas and new continents. Got it.