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The office of French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou said it had told all exhibitors ahead of the show that offensive weapons would be prohibited from display and that Israel's embassy in Paris had agreed to this. It added that the companies could resume their exhibits if they complied with this requirement.

If true Israeli complaints r totally unwarranted and reinforces the sense that Israel is the real threat and true aggressor

The panel, chaired by Sadayuki Sakakibara, the former chairman of the Japan Business Federation

All you need to know that the military industrial complex is thriving in Japan, blissfully unaware it seems about how those trillions of yen put away for defense could be used to improve the lives of citizens

All nations do reconnaissance and eventually encounter a response to it, no sense in trying to pretend only the "bad guys" do

When people have access to powerful weapons tragic incidents are bound to occur

Just wait until the Epstein files are dropped revealing Trumps dealings with under-age girls. It will make Prince Andrew look like a saint by comparison.

Andrew was involved with underage girls so no he won't come off as a saint, the girl he was photographed with committed suicide recently.

This whole Expo is a sham and probably a scam to line the pockets of the usual suspects.

Shades of Abe’s Olympics...and now biblical revenge enacted through the midges and water bacteria.

Captains of industry won't allow it until it's too late

Japan you've only just doubled your defense budget but Uncle Sam is asking for more, even though you already host a bunch of US bases with no shortage of weaponry.

Like what they support what he did lol

Just the tip of the proverbial iceberg for what's to come due to global warming

Royal Marine commando with wife and kids...gotta wonder what made him go that way

Japan already contracted to purchase boatloads US just wanted to see if they could sell even more

If you're actually a guy man up and enter the mens competition.

Govt officials simply walk by it's the gardeners and landscapers who will be affected.

Reflective of the core ideals of Nissan.

Japanese companies and people have been feeling the squeeze for some time now, yet LDP only makes "an all out effort" now that the peoples support for them is in jeopardy.

Guess the perp had second thoughts after turning himself in

Yeah stand by Yoon to the end, and then wave good bye for good.

Great headline JT ghost writer, we all know how Japanese LDP prime ministers can really "press" the stuffing out of US presidents and wring concession after concession out of them for the Japanese people lol

@TaiwanisnotChina lol

Yaks probably also involved in stealing large amounts of fruit, rice etc from farmers, either as the protagonists or behind the scenes organizers who hire foreigners to do yami baito

Why on Earth are there US military in Japan? This is NOT American soil. The occupation ended years ago!

If you research what Abe's grandfather did in forcing through the Ampo agreement it will become clear.

I don't understand how people find others defecating and urinating arousing.

People addicted to Japanese porno find they cannot be stimulated by normal sex videos and therefore search out ever more disturbing content.

At that point they become very close to commiting some crime to satisfy their craving

Yet further confirmation of the corrosive effects of pornography on Japanese males.

What a bad uncaring president, how dare he call out the corporate criminals American pharma lol

Yet another country that was divided "for their own good."

Generally this policy hasn't worked out very well.

There's a reason the US-Japan Security Alliance has worked so well for over 70 years - not only does it provide security guarantees for Japan which lives in a dangerous area with threats from China, North Korea, and Russia, but it also serves as a cap on these far-right LDP nut-jobs that want to go back to the "glorious" 1930s/40s...

Do a little research. It's Uncle Sam who reinstated members of the war era elite back into positions of power, including Abe's grandfather Kishi Nobusuke, who signed Japan's declaration of war against the US in 1941.

In the post war era with US support Kishi became the prime minister of Japan.

The ethos of the right for American citizens to bear arms is too deeply embeded in the history and mythology of how the US was founded, i.e. doing battle with Native Americans as well as British soldiers, to ever be seriously reconsidered by the powers that be.

In essence, people had to be killed by US citizens so that the glory of America could come into being.

So Americans just have to live with the ever constant threat of being shot, and that's just the way things will continue to be.

Calling him names is not going to help him. There is plenty of porno on the internet for free. A court order for porno of 24 hours a day for 12 months in his private jail cell would be a unique approach.

LOL That would only inflame his desire to do stupid perverted things. People like him obviously search for the most hentai content.

@kokontozai

Is this ranking reliable?

In 2010, Japan was ranked 12th, and I don't think the state of the news society has changed that much.

Yes in 2010 things were much better.

Then when Abe came to power again in 2012 he put into place measures which raised eyebrows.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/05/27/the-silencing-of-japans-free-press-shinzo-abe-media/

https://thediplomat.com/2015/05/shinzo-abes-glass-jaw-and-media-muzzling-in-japan/

Interesting that posters who question Japanese press freedom are uniformly downvoted on JT regardless of what valid points they make.