Kurisu comments

A different J-news source reported the suspect told police "I just wanted to kill somebody, it didn't matter who".

President Trump is absolutely right. The current status quo is unfair, out of date and not commensurate to where we are now. Japan should be mature enough now to defend itself and defend it's allies.

Agreed! So leave Japan right now.

Ryoko Hirosue has been on a downward spiral for a few years now. Maybe now is the time to take a break from show business.

You could just write "Man arrested after bringing gun into Japan undetected". The nationality would be implicit...

Or just "Tourist arrested after bringing gun into Japan undetected". I think we all know it would be a white male yank.

This is an easy solution. Just remove all US troops from Japanese soil.

If you want to be different from the norm then you have to accept the difficulties that come with it.

The fact that Mr. High is an American already makes him "different from the norm".

Well it's about time. People should devote their lives to evangelical proselytizing, the Ten Commandments and Intelligent Design/Creationism, NOT science-based silliness like evolution.

America has been bamboozled by logic and reason for far too long.

Few companies can survive long without a consistent flow of revenue. Let this be a lesson to the rest of the entertainment industry, stop enabling predators.

...after a plea from a Muslim resident who told him that living in Japan "is very difficult" for his family because of the lack of graves.

Not to be cheeky, but the living don't need graves.

YAWN. This didn't even make the front page of CNN World News. More bluster from a pugnacious tin pot dictator.

Give them credit, they're making progress. It used to be the Ospreys themselves falling out of the sky.

Hence the Osprey moniker "Widow Maker".

That 633rd time was a step too far.

Among the eight injured were individuals unacquainted with the assailant...

I think we can safely put some of the blame on the accused in this instance.

I have to note the Philippines were also invaded and were overtake by the Portuguese Jesuits and are today's poorest nation in south east Asia.

Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Timor-Leste beg to differ...

Oyaji Japan proving itself to be decades behind the civilized world in many respects.

Pretty amazing when you consider the LV metro population is just a touch over 2 million.

With all the loony random assailants in Japan, just imagine how worse it would be if guns were a thing here.

On Thursday, a senior Air Force servicemember belonging to the Kadena Air Base was convicted of the kidnapping and sexual assault of a teenage girl last year, a case that triggered outrage on the island. 

The real outrage should be that child rape nets just a five years prison sentence.

Looky here kids. This is what's called "overplaying your hand".

Isn't AI writing anime/manga by this point?

Bummer...I remember waiting with taut excitement to see what color next year's health insurance card would be. Bureaucrats kill all the fun.

So one J-copper said it was illegal...Has this been adjudicated by a court of law yet?

I would be curious to see how cross examination goes...

I was living in Shuri Ishimine-cho that fateful day and remember seeing billowing black smoke just a few km away. Honestly, I thought a traffic helicopter had crashed.

Why would the dramatization use a North American accent, isn't the defendant from Oz?

This story reminds me of the Tokyo Medical University scandal from a few years back, in which the test results of female applicants were reduced by as much as 20%.

I went to the Guam Kmart a few years ago and was surprised to see how many international tourists were shopping there!

Israelis should not be welcomed at an event which seeks to promote peace.

My guess is that the Israelis are too busy ensuring their citizens are no longer slaughtered by blood thirsty terrorists to pay it much mind.

(Also important to highlight there are and were never any "disputed islands" - this is a figment of someone's imagination. Fact is modern Japan with the current constitution never had sovereign control of them; one upon a time, Empire of Japan had administration of them but lost it during WWII - and the modern country didn't come into being in 1952, and only joined the UN in 1956 - so these events happened well before that, thus the islands are Russian.)

The same can be said about the Russia's annexation of the Donbass. Sure, the USSR once held sovereignty over those lands, but the "modern" Russian Federation never has. Thus, Donbass belongs to Ukraine.

Trying to work out what OTC drugs in Japan are strong enough to do anything!? Definitely not the pain killers...The barely get rid of a headache!

I developed a dental abscess shortly after moving to Japan, and ended up guzzling a dozen Eve tablets with no relief.