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@Cephus

Tepco was warmed from the scientific community for decades not only on the blatant weakness of the design used in that plant but also of the potential of an important earthquake generating a catastrophic tsunami dangerous for this design. Tepco spent decades covering up technical deficiencies and incidents before the Fukushima disaster. During the event itself, the plant staff didn’t even understand correctly how the condenser and water gauges worked which made the reactor core melting even worse as it happened quickly from their poor decisions.

An investigation from an independent commission mandated by the government itself concluded that the disaster was man made and resulted from negligence. But of course nobody is now responsible because precisely Japan is an oligarchy with a protected class

A Chinese visitor remarked that while it was not cheap, the prices were reasonable considering how expensive things are in Europe.

Europe? Where in Europe this buffoon is talking about?

Japanese crying about things getting expensive is hilarious. They should be better complaining about the greedy also Japanese who increase prices to rip off tourists.

So grotesque.

What a grotesque pointless article describing another bizarre nobody cares Japan thing.

You don’t know your own strength versus a one year old. Not violent but ignorant.

What a grotesque comment. No adult mentally sane would pinne a 1-year old baby between own thighs with a blanket covering him to make him stop crying and think it’s ok. The baby literally suffocated. This is not ignorance, this is evil violence.

I don’t mind the thing although I think the thinking and motivations behind it are grotesque. But boy, the dudes should also wear cloths, that’s a lot of very ugly bodies in display in one place.

In which respected medical journal can I find this amazing, incredible statistic?

> Check your numbers

According to WHO, there are billion cases of seasonal influenza annually, and it causes 290 000 to 650 000 respiratory deaths annually. That’s an case fatality rate between 0.029% and 0.065%. The total worldwide death rate is between 0.0036% and 0.0081%. So what’s your point here?

Iconic Japanese who made iconic cars for the world. He should have got a state send off.

Nobody normally sane would consider Suzuki cars iconic in any form or shape. They are crap, this dude made shitty cars that’s why their existence outside Japan is basically null. So stop it, you are grotesque.

Japan is showing the world that it is possible to have a declining population AND economic growth. Previously thought impossible.

I am absolutely against mass immigrations for economical purpose, it just does not work in the long term. But saying that Japan is in economic growth is crazy. The economy has been stagnant from the 90s or in decline. There is no way that Japan can achieve any significant growth with a population with such low productivity, a population also in decline. The best they can try to do is to change their silly mindset and be more productive. I doubt it will happen.

Sometimes I wonder how far Japanese stupidity and madness can go.

Meanwhile, Japanese respondents with a bad or relatively bad impression of China declined 3.2 points to 89.0 percent.

This precisely means that both nations have nearly 90% negative views of other. So what’s the point of this article?

"We are studying how to offer optimal seating arrangements based on how reserved seats are used," said an official of JR Central.

What a grotesque hypocrite corporate salad of words. What they actually want to do is to increase the prices since more people will have to pay more for a seat.

What a disgusting hypocrite. The Japanese justice system the way it is has ruined the entire life of this man. His entire life. Apologies will never give his life back and they are moreover disgusting since he is only doing this to save face. This is just for show and fake. Disgusting.

This is very unJapanese

This is actually very common among people here to have bad manners like that particularly among men.

France had more than 100 millions of tourists in 2023. Yet you don’t hear them complaining about what is objectively rare occurrence of bad behavior.

The reaction of Japanese to mass tourism is grotesque yet again Japan has far less tourists than other countries. They should swallow their arrogance and learn a little bit of humility from those countries.

Japan is so ridiculous behaving like the small puppet of Zelenskyy.

Sanctions are still working, and have not finished yet.

They are having a very serious effect on Russia's economy, and speeding its path to becoming a Chinese client state. And I'm sure you know that.

What a bunch of delusional nonsense. The sanctions have zero effect, instead the Russian economy is growing:

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-economy-shows-solid-growth-despite-ukraine-war-sanctions-2024-08-28/

So what are you talking about? For world sake the Russian ruble is way stronger than the yen. I mean how can people be so disconnected from reality?

Instead of saying nonsense, you should better encourage Japan to stop using our tax payers money to fund the mafia state of Ukraine and Zelenskyy and instead work on finding a way for peace.

Japan’s economy eked out an annual rate of 0.9% growth in the July-September 

> The world’s fourth-largest economy grew 0.2% in the fiscal second quarter

It’s peanuts, irrelevant. To qualify it as growth is disingenuous.

Beyond the point of abolishing the death penalty or not, which is a a valid debate with pros and cons, Japan is not giving an image of a civilized country by using hanging. This is just beyond savagery to use that and it boggles the mind they still didn’t move away from that form of execution.

The punishment do not define the criminal but the people that uses it. If a country makes a public appeal to defend human rights as a priority,

Using the human rights argument is grotesque. That’s not the point. The victims of violent criminals had also human rights and they clearly were not protected. The real question is, is primitive revenge, which is really what it comes too, a valid way of expression of justice.

Republican or Democrat, the bottom line is people should NOT be buying things like Apple iPhones and TVs etc IF they are made in China. 

What a stupid comment, it’s mind blowing. iPhones are not made in China they are assembled in China. Apple is contributing to US economy and technological advance more than any other companies and the fact that they assemble in China a lot of their products in factories that they mostly finance and develop tools for is not the real issue. The issue is that China has been not fair by protecting its market against foreign products while selling their own made products at cheaper price everywhere. They can sell them at cheaper prices because of reduced development cost mostly due to stealing intellectual properties from foreign companies without any consequences.

Those two issues with China are actually not foreign to Japan. Japan continue to unfairly protect its market from foreign products while selling its products to those same foreign markets (the car industry is flagrant example of that), and Japan enjoyed during the 70s and 80s a long period where it was stealing foreign intellectual properties and produce products at lower cost.

@Peter14

Stop it, you are grotesque. This is precisely the type of thinking you are having why the democrats lost that election. Instead of debating about policies and admitting that Biden mandate was catastrophic for the majority of the American population, that Harris was accountable for it and that choosing Harris just for being a woman instead of being competent is a monumental mistake, they kept insulting the people not thinking like them and their candidate, calling them fasciste and being Nazi. Pathetic!

Japan, the puppet of Zelenskyy.

Again, what makes you think you understand more of the situation than the full scientific community of the world

And what makes you think YOU can say anything about this subject yourself? You have no clue about the matter, just commenting about media news which play the hysterical card. You use the term climate change as it is something inherently non existing by itself underlying the fact that you are using and mixing terms without any understanding of them.

You don’t understand how science works, you are just pushing an ideology like you did for other subjects without absolutely any understanding of the subject. So just stop it and go to touch grass.

Yeah yeah. The media are ridiculous portraying this «election » as there is done sort of suspense to it. This a all circus. We already know the outcome of it.

There is NO SUCH thing as Opposition Party In Japan, NO ONE dares the LDP and what ever opposition there is it's just a show for the streets.

Exactly! There is no opposition in Japan as in real democracies. Opposition parties are just used for decoration for Japan to pretend that the country is not an oligarchy and a caste. Even if somehow the SDP or another party makes it to power, it will be put out of business very quickly by the bureaucratic machine controlled by the LDP with the help of the major media to help put back the suddenly misplaced Japanese population to the right track. As it happened before. Well just two times in almost 80 years!!!

The dude is as clueless as his predecessors. The table is turning and now it’s just his turn to rob the clueless Japanese population and get a high paid salary from tax payers money while being totally incompetent. Until it’s the turn of the next one and everybody at the LDP can hope to be served one day.

I will make an easy prediction. The tenure of this guy will be equally as bad and useless as the ones who came before him.

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Blatant incompetence and he still gets flowers.

It's in the best interests of the nation to have a robust opposition.

What kind of nonsense is this? People are so delusional. Japan has no opposition and it never had really. There is an oligarchy ruling Japan, the same one that has been in power almost continuously for 80 years. The «opposition» here are just puppets for decoration so that Japan can pretend to be a democracy.

Yeah there was so-called experts telling that it is so undecided that it will be a two round election and other BS that the media was using to entertain the population. As I said a few days ago this was already decided since those so-called voters were actually given the instruction on who to vote for. Japan politics and government are rotted.

Unpredictable my a*ss. This is already decided and everything else at this point is just a circus to keep the apathetic Japanese population entertained.