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I hope the perpetrators in this case are identified and charged in court accordingly, it won't take too long as the surveillance cameras are everywhere.

Japan increased it's US treasuries to $1.188 trillion, largest since Aug 2022 when their yen is at it's weakest.

Japan sure appointed a genius to helm their ministry of finance.

"BYD, has NO plans to enter the United States auto market" BYD Executive Vice President and CEO of BYD Americas Stella Li. February 27, 2024

Sellafield nuclear plant

Since when the G7 became so weak?

You could start by importing these Japanese seafood. Declare tax incentives for Japanese seafood, certainly the G7 could afford all these seafood?

Guam is too far away.

Guam is definitely nearer to USA than Okinawa

Taiwan blocks 18,000 kg of Japanese fish due to excessive chemicals

Taipei, Sept. 26 (CNA) A shipment of more than 18,000 kg of frozen fish from Japan has been rejected at Taiwan's border due to the presence of excessive levels of cadmium, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said Tuesday.

https://focustaiwan.tw/society/202309260013

China has rejected Japan's proposal that it join an international verification framework for assessing the results of radiation level monitoring in treated water being released into the sea from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, sources familiar with the bilateral relationship said Tuesday

which source?

If Japan really wanted China to join in monitoring the radiation, Japanese spokesperson or Kishida could have announce it via press release? so far, nobody mention about Japan asking China to join.

this misleading news reporting quoting from unnamed sources needed to stop.

Why not Japan invite all stakeholders including South Korea, China, Russia, Philippines, Singapore, Greenpeace to send their team to inspect the water. It should shut everyone up and save Japanese taxpayers monies spent on propaganda.

No, it simply won't. Please read the IAEA report:

https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/iaea_comprehensive_alps_report.pdf

If you actually read the report, at the foreword, the director general says this is the sole decision of the Government of Japan, the IAEA does not recommend nor endorse this policy

if the water is safe, why is there a need to dump it one kilometer away from the coast into the sea?

are they assuming people are dumb?

If it's safe, there's no need to release it into the sea

If it's unsafe, It should not be release into the sea

He definitely have the qualities of a politician

He began to see stocks not just as a means to make money but as a way to help grow companies that provide necessary goods and services and maintain employment. 

people that believe this shouldn’t play stocks.

The new one looks like monopoly money

If USA is the world, yeah

oh, it's not so free market now?

The ones that should suffer is those self serving politicians, not the ordinary citizens

did emperor naruhito ride the bus?

The dollar is strong because, money are flowing from all over the world into USA because the Feds is raising interest rates. More are coming from Europe because of the war, inept leaders and energy cost instability.

wallaceToday  09:05 am JST

In the long run, Russia will be the loser when the EU countries secure alternative energy supplies.

No going back.

Russia is burning off excess natural gas near the Artic creating huge clouds of soot.

Burning natural gas creates soot.. wow.. just wow. haha

Tokyo is open to hosting talks among all the creditor nations aimed at lifting Colombo from its worst debt crisis since independence, but it is not clear whether top creditor China would join and a lack of clarity remains about Sri Lanka's finances, one source told Reuters.

based on Asian Development Bank’s wiki,

Traditionally, and because Japan is one of the largest shareholders of the bank (Asian Development Bank), the president has always been Japanese.

a simple google search shows that the largest creditor is Asian Development Bank, followed by Japan, then China. And Reuters quote an anonymous source saying China is the top creditor?

First rate storytelling indeed

"I think we need to have people in the room that aren't invading other countries," he said.

Yeah, US, UK, Australia's leaders shouldn't be in the room too, yes, that's including you ScoMo.

Remember Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria

Relocating the presidential office was one of President-elect Yoon Suk Yeol's main campaign promises.

what a nice job to have

India -- a major purchaser of Russian weapons -- has also so far refrained from condemning Moscow's actions, but Morrison did not mention New Delhi.

Scotty with his forked tongue

China got more gold than the US. Yeah, that's because the US is boycotting the winter Olympics

"These issues are irrelevant to the Winter Games but I still feel obliged to make a quick comment again," said BOCOG spokeswoman Yan Jiarong on Thursday, after foreign reporters twice asked about Xinjiang.

These foreign reporters are the ones who mix sports and politics

Why would anyone go to The PRC? 

if you don't go there, how are you going to spy?

It's figure skating, not sports like sprinting. How will it affect the scores?

Olympics allowed a male to compete with females in weightlifting.

This reminds me of a time I was in Akihabara buying a region-free DVD player when a bus of Chinese tourists pulled up. They came in and started buying everything and I mean EVERYTHING. The very first and only thing they did in making a purchasing decision was to look and see where it was made. If it said "Made in Japan" they bought it. "Made in China" stayed on the shelf.

Well, they're tourists, what did you expect they buy in Japan? Why waste precious luggage space for things you can buy back home?

China is consistently the country with highest travel and tourism expenditure in the recent years, if they are willing to spend their money in Japan, isn't this good enough for Japan's local economy?