David Brent comments

It's much weaker than it was just a day ago. I think Cat 3 now and likely to weaken to a Cat 2 before landfall.

and manage immigration better

Agreed. Can't say this though, as it makes you racist and anti-Muslim in the face of the woke brigade.

Expect this to get worse with the likes of Starmer and Rayner in power.

He will get 12,000 yen for every day he was in prison.

Sadly, he won't get to spend most of it, and no amount of money can make up for years stolen from him....

Well, the headline made me chuckle, so I guess my happiness rose by about 0.01% at that exact moment....

Rutte ruined the Netherlands through unfettered mass immigration, and now he gets this cushty job! Trebles all round, eh?

Beautiful.

I expect all the feminists will be here commenting soon, moaning about this pageant, basically out of jealousy.

open prostitution

This has always been a problem in that area, but I feel like it is definitely getting worse and more brazen in recent years.

His mind is completely shot, poor guy. I saw him on the NHK news the other evening. He's like a five year-old in an old man's body. Knowing Japan, even if his claim for compensation is accepted, he'll get a pitiful amount, like one million yen, or some such nonsense.

Here’s what you can expect:

….everything to continue as it has been for the past five decades in Japan.

Great result for Austria.

Sadly, though, the Freedom Party won't be able to do much as all the other left-wing parties refuse to cooperate with them. Just shows how much the left truly hate democracy.

As expected. As if the old men who rule Japan would ever allow a woman to be Prime Minister...!

Apartheid-era South Africa fulfilled exactly the same role for the West in southern Africa.

Ah, yes, post-apartheid South Africa is SO much better....(eye roll).

At this point, Israel has nothing to lose and everything to gain by carpet bombing southern Lebanon.

All you need to know is this : Ishiba will be elected leader.

One thing which terrifies me about living in Japan is being arrested for something I didn't do. There's no pursuit of truth here; it's just about ticking boxes and getting a conviction.

They’ll go with Ishiba. The next boring, safe, “bided his time” old man. It’s all a pantomime anyways.

Not much risk to the perpetrator. Potentially gets to walk away with some free cash. The alternative is a Japanese prison for the rest of his days. No doubt either option is preferable to his crappy pension and crumbling, tin-clad "house".

Japanese black tea sucks. If this isn't Yorkshire Gold or something of an equivalent calibre, it won't be worth the money.

What a thoroughly depressing photo.

You can tell he's the type to bully others just by looking at his face. The kohai/senpai system exists in Japan for the same reason as sonkeigo/kenjogo exist; to elevate your own position while reminding the peasants of theirs.

*know

I no nothing about baseball, so I have a question. On the NHK news at 9pm last night, during the obligatory fawning over Ohtani, they kept mentioning something called a "magic number". I think it was 8 for his team. What does this mean?

Japan doesn’t have a justice system though.

I sure hope productivity doesn't rise too much; my job and all of my coworkers' would vanish overnight!

Still, seeing as how any change in Japan takes centuries to happen, not too worried.

That many snook through?! A committee must be set up to investigate this immediately!

The people behind the scenes fear a Trump presidency, so they want him taken out. Harris and Walz don't represent a threat to these people.

Even with the lack of photos of the girl’s face? What’s with the profile photos of cakes, dogs, flowers etc.?

He’s one of the very few Japanese actors who can actually act.

I have ordered 30 kg of new brown rice delivered in October. ¥8500. Half the store price. Organic and no chemical from a young farmer.

No chemicals? He's pulled the wool over your eyes!