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French President Emmanuel Macron to grant him political asylum.

RE : Doubt Macron will allow Denmark to sanction this nasty torture-death sentence on a 75 year old.

Ah, yes the French connection. The same country that sent special forces divers with fake passports to bomb and sink the Greenpeace ship, Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand and "accidentally" murdered a Belgian photographer aboard.

Then reneged on their promise for the repatriated criminals to complete their sentences in France.

That France is now the champion of a wild crusading 74 year old Greeny.

I don't think so!

"I was protesting against the discharge of treated radioactive water," he said in court, referring to the treated water from Fukushima nuclear power plant that has been released into the ocean since 2023. "I wanted to protect the ocean."

Well, with an excuse like that he could well get off.

Or, maybe not.

RE Jay,

Ah, the irony of woke Gibson, the supposed champion of rock'n'roll rebellion, getting all skinny, jittery and litigious!

This has nothing to do with woke. This is about MONEY and copyright protection.

$18,000,000 worth of fake Gibson guitars seized at LA port.

https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/fake-gibson-guitars-worth-18m-seized-at-los-angeles-long-beach-ports

The guitars, the site notes, are "manufactured by multiple providers and include parts/features that are both domestic and international."

That would mean the BILL was printed in the states and everything else imported.

Better but now though, at a 25% tariff that is a price rise of $2875

Would be interesting to know what he is a professor of.

Nothing came up on SEARCH.

21 Filipino crew on board

That is a very large crew for a modern vessel.

stealing assets worth between 1 billion and 2 billion yen from safe deposit boxes

Now, THAT is a big discrepancy!

Yes, Undoubtedly Koreans were victims of the system.

operated for nearly 400 years beginning in 1601

Sado was a penal island. Almost every one sent there over those 400 years had a one way ticket.

Worked to death.

Beaten to death.

Starved to death, And if you survived that, there is the Niigata winter.

Frozen to death.

Imagine the number of Japanese who died there before the Koreans.

Evil place!

as the company struggles to recover from financial and regulatory trouble as well as an eight-week strike by its Machinists union.

No mention of MISMANAGEMENT!

Ah, Alternative facts.

What could go wrong?

Barbie!!!

The Chevrolet Volt is a plug-in hybrid and extended-range electric vehicle car that was manufactured by General Motors, and also marketed in rebadged variants as the Holden Volt in Australia and New Zealand and the Buick Velite 5 in China, and with a different fascia as the Vauxhall Ampera in the United Kingdom and as the Opel Ampera in the remainder of Europe. Volt production ended in February 2019

Sigh?

RE: You'd think they would have checked that out BEFORE THEY BUILT IT.

The first reactor was built on this site commissioned in 1970. Planning and construction would have started around 10 years earlier. In 1960 the technology to detect (long dormant) seismic faults was not available.

Japanese was industrializing rapidly and the demand for (secure) energy supplies was paramount. Any nuclear power plat had to be placed close enough to a demand on vacant land on the coast. Therefore Fukui (and all subsequent sites) was chosen. In hindsight Fukui was not a good choice.

RE:Another plant were trying to restart only being postponed afterward.

I am familiar with the Onagawa site. This facility is PROOF that a safe nuclear facility CAN be built and operated in quake prone Japan. The (overly) long delays in restarting Onagawa have more to do with economics and politics than with physics. It is operating and generating now.

All of the surrounding municipalities have coordinated a shakedown campaign to squeeze every yen they can out of Tohoku Denryoku. Very convenient for local construction companies which have close ties to local politicians. A trough to feed from.

I get 52 kilo/litre from my Cub. 62 when I tried hard.

I reckon that is a pretty good "emission standard"

One of the first things that Ghosn did was to TRIM the workforce by 21.000,

The birthrate in Canada is 1.33.

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/91f0015m/91f0015m2024001-eng.htm

> RE: Japan, with its gradually declilning population, has no such crises.

> The problem here is that the drop in birthrate is not gradual, but expediently increasing.

Less means MORE less.

>

This is not a problem for Japan alone.

ALL developed countries (Australia is a 1.5 live births per woman) and most developing countries (India etc) are facing a dramatic population decline and not one has reversed it.

Any theory of why Japan is facing this problem and how it should deal with it should be weighed against what we see in other countries.

Korea has a low birth rate along with active outward immigration. Yet those Koreans who settle in a new country emulate the low birth rate trend at home.

Every trick in the book has been tried and failed.

Countries that have a reasonable population growth are actually achieving that by inward immigration. That however is just a gap filling fix.

RE; "With the acceleration in space technologies and evolving threats in space since the project’s commencement, Defense has assessed that a single orbit GEO-based satellite communications system would not meet strategic priorities," the statement said.

It said Australia would instead prioritize a multi-orbit capability to increase resilience for the Australian Defense Force.

Seriously, in the case of a real conflict how difficult would it be to knock out a single orbit GEO-based satellite communications system?

Wouldn't that be the first thing that you would target?

A bit of perspective!

In 2023, around 221,322 people climbed Mount Fuji during the climbing season. (Japan National Tourism Organization)

And the Yamanashi government is hoping to boost that number 3,000,000!

I cannot see any problems with that proposal, can you?

The nine did not have the items, including luxury watches and brand bags, worth a combined 3.4 billion yen, with them at the time of their departure.

sakurasukiToday 04:56 pm JST

340 million yen in tax from nine visitors

That will be more than 30 million yen in tax per visitors, how much they really spend in shoping?

Interesting maths and I will take it a little further. Actually 340 million divided by 9 is 37 million.

That 37 million is the unpaid consumption tax of goods purchased. 8% for food items and 10% for non food items. If we round that off to 10% because the article does not tell us what was purchased (food or non-food)

we end up with each of these 9 people purchasing 370 million in goods.

That is US $2,460,000 at the 150 yen rate.

Hi Xi.

When you take back that land that Russia grabbed from you, would you please return the Northern Islands?

Yoroshiku Onegaishimas

The pipeline supplying Russian gas to Japan runs down the west coast under the sea. It branches off in Hokkaido, Akita, Yamagata (where it is pumped across the Pacific coast in Sendai) then terminates in Ishikawa.

It must be a pretty robust piece of engineering as it wasn't affected by the Noto Hanto earthquakes.

Russian supplies 9% of Japanese (imported) L.P.G.

Elisa Covarrubias, 42, an activist working to get out the Latino vote in Georgia, called the Trump event a "big political mistake" and said it "makes you feel that the Republicans don't want us here, in this country."

Got news for you Elisa, Hispanics are just one group that "Republicans" don't want

was made public, which would inconvenience other prosecutors,

Well. we wouldn't want that would we.

Or would we?

And, so it goes.

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse 5.

RE: "This is an attempt to create a new Japan that will drastically change the nature of Japanese society," he said. "To boldly carry out this major change, we need the confidence of the people."

And this "change" turns out to be continuity!

Almost two-thirds -- 64 percent -- of the members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District 751 rejected the contract,

64 %, Democracy in action.

Now, Boeing executives will be able the blame the unions and workforce for every financial misstep that the company has made.

Nothing like a handy unpopular scapegoat!

I don't think I am getting a good deal