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Selling government stockpiled rice at half the market prices is hurting rice growers who are suffering from high costs of farming and burdened with debt. Koizumi is bad for Japan’s agriculture.

Toyota is desperate. But who in Japan would want to buy gas-guzzling, oversized, left-hand- drive US-made cars?

Maybe Ishiba was trying to be funny. The opposition party leader shouldn’t make a fuss out of it.

The best solution would be using government subsidies to reduce the prices of fine quality rice by half, making it affordable for honorable humans. They’re already doing this to reduce electricity bills and gasoline prices.

Kako is everyone’s favorite princess. I’m sure Brazilians watched her every single move and loved her friendly demeanor. Of course she deserves Brazil’s highest honor.

“I just don't see the words "non-toxic" anywhere.”

You just didn’t see. Read carefully.

“The plastic is non-toxic, non-flammable, and does not emit carbon dioxide

Now Koizumi is determined to open up and sell off the domestic rice market to foreign agri-businesses, just as his father did to the Japan Post.

Don’t be fooled by Koizumi’s Grand stand play. Rice prices haven’t come down at all. The LDP government is just selling cattle feed quality stockpiled rice at an exorbitant price of 2000 yen per 5kg in order to win the Upper House election next month.

Today, they are typically notified only one to two hours before the execution.

“Absolutely disgusting.”

If you were a death row inmate, would you prefer to be informed of your execution days before and spend agonizing, sleepless nights till the execution day?

There are people who can’t be rehabilitated. They are genetically programmed to commit crimes.

How about imposing 25%+10% tariffs on all US-made defense equipment? That would be a great bargaining chip for Japan.

“If I take Japanese citizenship it would have zero effect on my British nationality in the UK or any other country except Japan.”

Not in China and South Korea where dual citizenship is banned. You automatically lose your Chinese or Korean citizenship upon acquiring a foreign nationality.

Ishiba couldn’t have chosen a worse agriculture minister. The nepo baby’s ultimate goal has always been to dismantle JA and sell off Japan’s agriculture to big agri-businesses like Cargill and Bayern. Good luck Mr Koizumi. We all want to see rice prices go down.

Decades of the government policy to cut back on rice production is the main reason for today’s rice shortages and high prices. Now the average age of rice farmers is over 70 and young people are shying away from agriculture. The future is bleak.

Don’t back off. Don’t rush. Toyota can absorb a couple of billions of lost sales. Impose the same rate of tariffs on all US products then start negotiating.

Could this be the curse of Carlos Ghosn? Bring him over here as CEO again and if he could turn the ailing car manufacturer around, he’d go free. If not, 20 years in prison.

I don’t understand why they keep coming to admire and take photos of Mount Fuji. Don’t they have anything nice in their own countries?

Kono has a family company that’s doing good business with China and receiving preferential treatment from the CCP. This guy can’t be trusted.

There should be no workforce challenges in nursing care, construction, and agriculture if workers could earn decent wages in those industries. Just think of enormous costs of accepting immigrants that our future generations will have to pay.

Good news. More young couples will decide to have babies. I just hope the new subsidy system will not be abused by asylum seekers and illegal aliens overstaying their visas.

It seems Nissan hires a foreign talent when it fires its employees just like when Ghosn became the company’s CEO. I’ll bet Ivan Espinosa will be dumped soon.

Currently, 60 percent of the medical bills are paid by the health insurance premiums. The government pays the rest by issuing bonds, which will be refinanced by simply issuing new bonds.. So the system can never run out of money regardless of demographic changes.

Don’t let your imagination run riot. We still don’t know what really happened yet.

“Yrrral - you’re right, too many intra-family killings.”

And in any country, most murders are committed by people you know, family members and friends.

As Chief Cabinet Secretary Hayashi pointed out, Japanese aircraft flying in Japan’s airspace pose no legal problem. It’s China that should stop violating another country’s airspace and avoid contingencies.

“Japan's trade surplus with the US was $5.9 billion in the month of March. How are you going to make a deal to close that gap?”

When Americans buy imported Japanese cars, they pay in US dollars. Japanese companies can’t take all the dollars they earned in the US back to Japan because the US dollar is not legal tender in Japan. Instead, those companies invest their hard-earned dollars in the US: buying land and building new factories, paying salaries and buying US treasuries (one of the safest investments in the world that pays more than 4% interests). What’s the problem?

Trump says he’s going to impose a 100% tariff on foreign-made movies. Will the US audience get to see the new Chinese movie on Unit 731?

Hang tough, Japan. Trump is desperate and irritated. The tariffs are hurting a vast number of US citizens who make a living by selling imported products.

Japan has decided to make a sacrifice of its agricultural to save its automobile industry. The vassal state cannot say no to the extortionist, rogue super power. I’m curious how the tariff war between the US and China will turn out.

“For centuries, women entering marriage in Japan have been bound by the Confucian notion of personal sacrifice for the good of the family”

In the Confucian countries like China and Korea, it’s been a centuries-old tradition that women retain their maiden names after marriage. Until the Meiji Restoration in 1868, commoners in Japan did not have surnames. Do some fact checking before writing an article.

I’m afraid Japan may have to make very considerable concessions to the US just to please Trump and save the country’s car industry.