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Underworld

Today 10:35 am JST

Fos

> Move on please

I think both sides need to move on.

You all just repeat the same fake or distorted information.

One side claims it is all the west/USA, the other claims it is all Putin/Russia.

In reality it is both/all the above.

Yes the west put it's nose into an area it knew would cause Russia to react, and yes Putin used this to "justify" his long desired territorial grab.

But it is just a joke.

One constantly claiming NATO wants to invade Russia, and parroting everything Moscow says etc... even when long debunked the other keeps repeating the same fake 72 hours the "Trump is a Russian asset" and parroting everything Kiyv says etc .. even after it has long been debunked.

Pretty pathetic!

Underworld

Today 09:00 am JST

Zelenskyy agreed to a withdrawal of Kursk in SA as part of the peace process. Soon, there will be no troops in Kursk.

Hahaha great rewrite of events.

He couldn't agree to something that was already a fact.

By the time Zelensky arrived in SA Ukrainian troops were already in full retreat.

What? Do you mean Putin's offer? That wasn't an offer. It was an unreasonable demand.

Yeah yeah yeah, the same old junk, "Trump is a Putin asset" etc... got anything new, or are you just going to repeat the same silly nonsense the MSM in the far left keep pushing?

Zelensky keeps making one bad decision after another.

First trying to look strong and to force Western Europe to help more, he cuts off the Gas deal in January.

Then he rejected the deal Trump offered.

Results.

Russia used the now empty pipeline to infiltrate deep into Kursk behind Ukrainian lines, leading to the collapse of Ukraine's position in the region.

At the same time he rejected Trump, so he lost weapons and communication and the chance to freeze the lines before Russia recaptured Kursk.

And one has to wonder, the pipeline use by Russia was time number 3, you would think after the 2nd time in Avdiika Ukraine would have learned.

Ukraine now has a sliver of less than 200 square km in Kursk,

I would love to know why western media just repeats whatever is the official Ukrainian claims.

Ukraine hasn't held 200 square km in Kursk for some time now.

Even Deepstatemaps pro Ukrainian site and officially sanctioned by Ukraine shows Ukraine holding 2 unconnected areas each approximately 40 square km each so a total of 80 sqkm and that updated was over 10 hours ago.

Putin isn't going to agree or more likely will stall until Russia has not only completed retaking Kursk (which is either already done or will be by tomorrow at the present pace) but a good chunk of the Sumy border region as a buffer zone.

Zelensky made a major mistake, has he accepted Trump's offers at the start which was before the major Russian Kursk offensive, Putin would be in a weaker position, but Zelensky tried playing checkers while Trump and Putin were playing chess.

So now Ukraine no longer has a Kursk card to play and Putin has one less reason to make concessions.

fallaffel

Today 09:37 am JST

I don't know if they want to test Trump's patience. Ukrainian withdrawal from Russia would probably be one of the ceasefire terms anyways, so it seems this is not so meaningful

I don't see Ukraine agreeing to pull out if Kursk with a similar pull out by Russia in another area.

MSM reported that Ukrainian agreed to a freeze at the locations each side presently holds.

Russia has already taken back the more difficult parts of Kursk and as of 24 hours ago even on Ukrainian mapping, Russia has control of 60% of Sudzha the last major urban area left before the border.

Once Ukraine has no place to entrench it's troops and only open fields, the advance by Russia will be faster than it already has.

The only question remaining is once Russia has retaken Kursk will it stop and negotiate a ceasefire or will it continue until Ukraine and create the buffer zone Putin said they would do!

Putin isn't going to make a deal at this time.

Despite the denials, Russia is advancing at a faster daily pace in Kursk than Ukraine did when it took the area.

So he will drag his response out until he has fully retaken Kursk and most likely a buffer zone inside Ukraine's Sumy region.

Despite the western media doing its best to ignore or downplay the Russian offensive, Russia has advanced not only in Kursk but taken the border area inside the Sumy region on the west side of the Kursk invasion zone and it is likely the plan is to take more territory along the border as a buffer zone.

Until then and with the momentum Russia has going in Kursk, there is zero chance of a ceasefire at this time.

Deo Gratias

Today 12:08 pm JST

But victims of domestic violence have voiced concern that the new system could enable their abusers to reengage with their family and have contact with their former spouses if abuse by one of the parents was not clearly proven.

> That's no excuse for denying parents (typically fathers) to be deprived of their parental rights.

> More importantly, it's no excuse for denying children their right to have both of their parents involved in their lives, even after a divorce.

> Divorced parents who are abused should be denied custody on an individual basis.

> But domestic violence and abuse should not be exploited or appealed to as an excuse to engage in alienating parents who were never guilty of DV or abuse

Basically everything you said is contrary to reality and the facts/evidence regarding Domestic violence.

Children of abusers learn from those abusers and are more likely to be an abuser or a victim of abuse when they are adults.

It has been known for decades until the new non fact based world became the false reality.

Keeping abusive partners away from the children in order to end the cycle works but by letting these people influence children's thinking and views you often end up with the children being abusive (usually the male) or being the abused (usually the female) in their future relationships.

KarlCRJP

Today 12:55 pm JST

1 case, ONE SINGLE CASE, among the hundreds? of cases where mothers (and Japanese fathers of foreign women too) commit the crime of kidnapping children with the help of the Japanese government and its embassies abroad. Let's not lose focus of the REAL problem here

Wow just WOW!

"The really problem "!!!!

Right, let's ignore the elephant in the room, The MURDER of a woman by a man that was abusive and the laws the Hague convention, the EU rules failed as they regularly do!

The lies that the Hague convention is there to protect children is well known.

Most EU countries ignore the convention when the one doing the "kidnapping" is from their country.

They drag and drag and drag out proceedings then declared it would be "traumatizing" for the children after so many years to return them to the other country.

Germany is famous as is France.

If a father or mother succeeds in getting back to France Germany, etc... from the USA Canada, Australia Japan, etc .. those children will never be returned.

They will drag out the court case for 2, 3, 4 , 5 years or more and then say " yes it was a violation of the conversation BUT the children are adjusted and stable here and therefore it is in their best interest to remain with the parent that illegally took them.

You can look this up. Canada and the USA have nearly always failed to get children illegal removed back from these countries in the EU .

That is why I find it do funny when the French and Germans complain about Japan.

Oh and the USA also rarely returns children to the other country, the only exception is Canada because the USA and Canada have a separate agreement on the subject.

kohakuebisu

Today 01:34 pm JST

I wouldn't be surprised if the UK embassy in Japan has no passport issuing ability, especially for children whose existence might be news to them. You have to send ordinary passport applications and renewals to the UK itself.

They will not issue a passport without the signature of both parents or a court order.

This is the same for all countries that have signed the disastrous Hague convention!

FYI now that Japan has signed the Hague convention and is now compliant, you cannot even travel to another country without your spouse or without a notarized letter of permission from your spouse or ex-spouse stating how long, where and when you to return.

Enjoy folks, my ex charge for to give me permission for the children to visit their grandparents in Canada and at that time it was only Canada that was a signatory to the convention and enforcing it one way.

JDoe

Today 12:30 pm JST

It's a sad story, but make no mistake that the woman was planning to KIDNAP the kids in Japan where the husband has no rights.

> A perfect example of why toxic break ups/divorces hurt everyone involved

So more justifying domestic violence and murder.

Nice going.

You do realize she was right, don't you?

Her reason for divorce and wanting to leave was domestic violence and now she is dead which basically proves that what she was saying was true.

But look at how many here are trying to blame the victim!

Why don't you guys say the old garbage: " well she had it coming"

The number of foreign men here that have made excuses and dog wisper "she had it coming" is pretty sad!

Geeter Mckluskie

Today 10:33 am JST

"Joint custody" often means the Japanese mother having to remain in the foreign fathers country in order to see her kids. This often means the mother having little to no support, being insufficient in the language and as a result being dependent on welfare to survive. In such cases, I agree with the mother taking her kids back to Japan where the mother has family and is more familiar with the daily duties regarding the upbringing of her children

Really?

Well it also results in the woman or man (in my case) having to remain in a foreign country blah blah blah like Japan with zero help, family etc....

Oh and unlike other countries, in Japan unless the foreign parent has primary custody or permanent residency at the time of divorce, well then " joint custody means nothing, because without a spouse Visa or PR without being the " primary care giver to Japanese children, then the non Japanese parent will have 90 days after divorce to find a sponsor and a new visa or leave the country.

Previous with sole custody the rules were if the custody was given to the non Japanese parent then by default a long term Visa or PR was to be issued.

Now with joint custody I am curious how immigration will interpret the situation.

collegepark30349

Today 10:01 am JST

What a tragedy. Avoiding the whole joint custody debate, from the information in the article, it seems like this guy would have more than likely killed her, and maybe even the children, at some point in the future anyway whether they were divorced or not, or in Japan or Hungary. Violent abusers won't let things like time, distance or laws get in their way, unfortunately.

Really?

I doubt very much had she been able to return to Japan this guy would have been able to find her and he would probably be on a no entry list due to domestic violence.

More than likely she would be alive and safe here.

What the articles on this matter have not so far mentioned is whether a Hungarian judge ordered the passports be kept in the father's possession

Has people read correctly the answer was in the first few paragraphs.

The 43-year-old woman reportedly had contacted the Japanese Embassy in Budapest about her situation and requested that it issue passports to her two children as she hoped to leave the country and return to Japan.

> However, she did not officially apply for the documents after being told by the embassy that her former husband's consent was required under the Central European country's joint custody rules.

This implies that the children probably didn't have or were never issued Japanese passports.

In many cases if the children were born in a country and have dual citizenship, people forgo getting a passport from the country they don't live in for the children until it is necessary for travel to that country.

I know/knew plenty of people in Japan that never bothered getting a passport of their country for their children until they had to in order to visit their home country because the children are Japanese so no visa is required to live here and in many cases they just don't see the point of paying for a passport until needed.

If countries want to impose these rules, if they claim it is for the children's best interest, if they want to force one parent to remain in one place (note the laws even apply to moving Toa different city in the same country for work, the other parent can actually block you from moving for employment).

If the governments want to impose this, then the government should take full responsibility.

If complaints of domestic violence is made then the government should provide 24/7 protection at all times until the threatened party feels safe. If employment is affected then the government should be paying full compensation if the spouse blocking doesn't pay. As it is now, many spouses including fathers and mothers are restricted in movement and employment because of joint custody.

You get offered a job more than an hour or two away from the other parent and they object to the separation, well you are struck including if you are unemployed. So if the spouse blocks one parent then they should be responsible to pay the lost wages and if they can't then seeing the governments are the ones creating these situations then they should be paying the full amount of lost wages, because in the end it will be the children that suffer from poverty because their situation of living in a lower income.

It is interesting to see so many men here trying to justify murder and domestic violence. I do hope they aren't married.

Chabbawanga

Today 08:59 am JST

What came first? The threats of kidnapping a mans children or the physical abuse?

> I can imagine many people would react irrationally if you told them they will never be able to see their children again

So now you are trying to justify domestic violence and murder?

I new that this sort of thing was going to happen.

The Hague convention on the rights of children has nothing to do with actually protecting the children.

This was a western concept pushed and imposed on the rest of the world.

My own country did exactly the same to me leaving me stuck in Japan as a single parent with no family to help and they didn't care.

Same situation no passports no right to return not even for a visit with the children leaving the children for many years in a low-income situation in a country where I have very few rights, so much for protecting the children.

Underworld

Today 11:53 am JST

Are you sure? Many respected intelligence agencies disagree.

You mean those same "intelligence agencies" that have been consistently wrong for the past 20 years if not more?

Seriously.

These intelligence agencies, think tanks, have consistently been wrong especially since the start of this war.

Go back read their predictions and claims 1 Year ago, 2 years ago etc...

Everything they said was wrong.

Remember "Russia is out of weapons"? How many times did these agencies say that?

Remember it will take Russia 5 to 10 years to rebuild it's military and replace lost equipment?

How accurate was that one?

At this point if one of these intelligence agencies told me water was wet, I would have to verify it myself.

Nifty

Today 11:36 am JST

If you remember how all the Russian tanks were gathered before the invasion of Ukraine, and Putin was reasuring everyone that they were just a traing exercise, and now notice all the Russian troops amassed in Belarus, you can feel fairly certain that Europe had better get ŕeady for an attack, sooner rather than later

More fear mongering.

Russia is not going to attack any European country that is a member of NATO and I wish people would stop trying to pretend it will.

It is taking forever to just capture the territories it claimed to have officially Annex namely Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts and at this time it doesn't fully control even one.

The idea Russia will attack a NATO country is just spreading fear because we all know this will not happen.

Let's be real here.

I do like how the leaders, the press, western European politicians, etc... left out a very important part if this little conference.

Poland has "rejected" any proposal for a European military, rejected any idea of Polish troops going into Ukraine, rejected being a base for any non NATO military intervention and only way a NATO intervention would be acceptable is if article 5 is implemented and that will only be possible if Russia actually attacks a NATO partner.

Poland made it clear, each European country needs to strengthen their own military and

Sikorski made it clear that sending Polish troops was not an option. “Poland’s duty to NATO is to protect its eastern flank, meaning its own territory,” he said.

So all the sword rattling and chest pounding means nothing if Poland is not on board.

Underworld

Today 10:41 am JST

This is pure whataboutism. I'm not defending the US, France or the UK.

> But I condemn Putin's imperialist invasion.

No you are being hypocritical by trying to separate the two.

You cannot sit back and ignore the fact these 3 would go to war over the same thing and then say Russia can't.

Who are the ones most vocal about Russia's invasion other than Ukraine? USA, UK and France.

When they remove their own policies of their right to attack and invade to protect their interests, then they can claim the right to tell Russia it can't. But as long as these 3 continue to claim the same thing Russia claims as it's reasons/right then they have no legitimacy.

The do as I say not as I do doesn't fly here.

Underworld

Today 10:20 am JST

Antiquesaving

> russia invaded before the Euromaidan was even complete. There is no legal justification for Putin's War of Aggression

> Euromaidan was lead by

> Azov.

> Nope. It wasn't

Funny, tell that to the USA, France and UK, all have policies that "justify" intervention, invasion, etc... to "protect" their country and citizens interests! Funny how these 3 claim a " right" but tell others they don't have that same right!

The USA in particular has invaded, established coups, etc... to " protect USA interests" on multiple occasions.

TaiwanIsNotChina

Today 09:11 am JST

AntiquesavingToday 09:08 am JST

> Prior to Russia's invasion, instead of easing tensions with the separatist regions and reducing or removing "excuses" for Russia to invade.

> russia invaded before the Euromaidan was even complete. There is no legal justification for Putin's War of Aggression

Euromaidan was lead by

Azov.

Tell us the difference

Das Reich

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/SS-Panzer-Division_symbol.svg

Azov

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/CC_AZOV_logo.svg/1089px-CC_AZOV_logo.svg.png

Zelenskyy has already made it clear that any proposal from the Russia-US alliance is going to be refused, and you can hardly blame him.

Well you sort of can blame him and the Ukrainian government.

Prior to Russia's invasion, instead of easing tensions with the separatist regions and reducing or removing "excuses" for Russia to invade.

Ukraine doubled down on upsetting it's Russian minority by passing multiple anti Russian, anti Russian language, forced seizure and course conversion to the "officially" government backed orthodox church, etc... this doesn't justify Russia's invasion but it gave Putin plenty of "reasons" (AKA excuses ) to "justify" (more exices) his invasion.

I don't know what Ukraine thought would happen, passing laws clearly anti ethnic Russian, seizing Russian affiliated orthodox church land and forcing conversion to the official government backed Ukrainian church and thinking "ah Russia isn't going to do anything".

The chance to "negotiate" with the rebel regions was squandered and made impossible by all the moves Ukraine did to go after its Russian minority.

U.S. leader Donald Trump arranged bilateral peace talks with Russia, excluding European allies and Ukraine from negotiations to end the war

More half truth and propaganda by western media.

U.S. State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said the conversation would determine if the Russians were serious about peace talks, "about perhaps if that first step is even possible". For its part, the Kremlin said the talks would focus on "restoring the entire complex of Russian-American relations".

It is clear this meeting isn't a peace negotiations but a meeting to determine IF Russia is serious and what was left out of the article was the comment repeated multiple times by the US Representative that "No peace deal or formal negotiations will be reached or held without Ukraine"

Kellogg is set to arrive in Ukraine for three days of talks that will include a meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky.

"I don’t think it’s reasonable or feasible to have everybody sitting at the table,” he says.

"Zelensky is the elected leader of a sovereign nation and those decisions are his and nobody will impose those on an elected leader of a sovereign nation,” Kellogg says.

So basically he is meeting BOTH SIDES just not at the same time or table.

So much for unbias reporting!

There is no "bilateral" negotiations but an attempt at trilateral just not everyone at the same table.

A great example as to why we need to verify everything western MSM prints and says.

GBR48

Today 06:55 am JST

Why blame tourists? Why not blame those who are raising their prices to exploit tourists?

Because, gaijin/tourists bashing is in fashion among the Japanese news and a certain sas incapable of change portion of the population.

Blame the tourists blame the gaijin is always the safest route when they are not happy.

Rice prices high: blame the tourists for eating it all (and yes we actually had that accusation in previous articles.

Food prices higher: blame tourists and use the excuse to change firefighters more in restaurants (remember that one).

And the list goes on.

Don't use reality, of a poor growing season, higher fuel and fertilizer cost due to the weak yen, etc...

No no no far easier to blame tourists/gaijins.

So blame the foreign tourists again!

So the week yen and the hotels and resorts are raising prices to make more money and that is the fault of foreign tourists?

Blame the places that decided to hike prices mostly just because they can and know tourists will pay.

It is the Japanese owners doing this.

If before foreigners they could charge less then why other than the week yen which affects every business not just tourists industry.

These owners are using "tourists" as an excuse to raise prices and make higher profits.

Heck I could easily raise my prices because yes foreign tourists will pay more. Yes I did adjust slightly for the lower yen and the higher cost of certain supplies but that isn't related to anything to do with tourists.

So I chose not to do profiteering and to keep my prices in line with the Japanese economy and public.

These owners chose to put profit over the Japanese public.

Azzprin

Today 09:01 am JST

I would like to watch how a knife is made from raw metal to finished product

In Tokyo one of the last sword and knife makers in located in Tateishi Katsushika-ku.

They used to have tours but I don't know if they still do.

4th generation hand forged in traditional methods.

https://tokyo-heritage.jp/2023/07/12/yaegashi_2023-07-12/

Their HP:

https://muneaki.net/

WoodyLee

Today 08:58 am JST

DOGE needs to be scarped and Mr. Musk need to be returned to Texas to run his business.

> "" The People Elected Trump and NOT Musk. "" some federal worker posters read.

Using that logic then they also need to be "scraped" because no federal bureaucrat was elected either.

Are the Dems really trying to destroy their party?

I am no great fan of Trump or Musk but seriously is this the Hill the Dems want to die on?

Even Dems supporters are asking questions about much of the crazy waste things like USAID have been up to.

Politico getting $ 8 million?

$400,000 for 178 subscriptions?

$20 million for Sesame Street episode in Iraq, a $1.5 million to advance DEI in Serbia's workplaces, $70,000 for a production of a DEI musical in Ireland, etc... when did Ireland and Serbia become underdeveloped countries needing foreign aid?