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USA likes to organize tournaments without the strongest nations, more chance to win?

Fifa Ranking: 1 USA / 8 Japan / 15 Australia / 21 Colombia.

Next time invite Spain, Germany or England.

Finally congratulations to Japan!

OssanAmericaToday  10:03 am JST

VolsiToday  08:08 am JST

No Junior High school is not free in Japan, In my town the uniform and the bicycle cost 300,000 yens and it is mandatory.

The bicycle is mandatory? A student has no right to walk or take a bus to school?

Yes, the bike is mandatory for my child, he is not allowed to walk. We also cannot choose the bike we want to school.

YubaruToday  08:24 am JST

No Junior High school is not free in Japan, In my town the uniform and the bicycle cost 300,000 yens and it is mandatory.

You misread the post you are responding to here. It was about high school, not junior high school, and btw, junior high school in Japan, IS "free" tuition wise, and vouchers/subsidies are given to families who send their children to private schools, up to the price of tuition.

You are talking about something totally different than what is referred to in the article, they are talking about tuition only.

You are right this article is about high school but for high school it's the same in my city a uniform is mandatory and its price is out of logic, much too expensive just for clothes, it's a form of tax in my opinion.

For families here it's a significant expense, people don't care about the name but its a tax.

I think Japan is forced to buy American planes, unfortunately for us.

No Junior High school is not free in Japan, In my town the uniform and the bicycle cost 300,000 yens and it is mandatory.

It was just like a friendly tournament. They are not the strongest in hockey (except Canada and Finland)

Trumpist123Today  02:42 pm JST

@browny: Not saying that she's going for the big money with that documentary, but if she chose to make it available for free, there would be plenty of options, starting from services like YT, DailyMotion et al to hosting that stuff on her own server. I'm sure some of the world's meetoo advocates would happily spare a few bucks for server maintenance. You get the point. If her goal was to make her story available to as many people as possible, there are any ways to achieve this. This has nothing to do with censorship but a lot with her attitude.

It is already available on many platforms that the Japanese have (amazon prime, Ululu, rakuten...) The problem is that it is blocked in Japan. If it is made available on youtube it will perhaps also be blocked for Japan. Only available with VPN like in China :)

Good job China!

wallaceToday  10:09 am JST

There is no water shortage in Japan. It prevents the cold water pipes from freezing which would involve costly repairs. It's only a "dripping tap" overnight.

Ah ok I understand.

In the region where I live there is no need (Aichi near the sea). Maybe it is interesting to protect the pipes from the cold (I lived in a cold country before and never needed to do what you do)

wallaceToday  08:43 am JST

I leave a water tap dripping overnight when the temperature drops below zero.

Why are you doing this?

Think a little more about the planet, stop wasting

HawkToday  09:16 am JST

The Japanese police are doing a great job of keeping our streets and roads safe for road users.

is this ironic?

In my city (in Aichi prefecture) the police only check if people are stopping before the train crossing (where the risk is very low) but never check the intersection where there are always 2 cars going through a red light

Fighto!Today  08:44 am JST

Crystal Palace fans are pretty notorious for being as low class as their team.

Zero tolerance for this rubbish. They are not real sports fans. Life bans for those caught.

I don't understand, you insult the Chinese and North Koreans very often (even racist) and now you are shocked if people do like you.

Fighto!Today  07:30 am JST

Excellent news overall - especially for exporters and the booming inbound travel industry.

Hopefully $1 will get to 200 Yen and stabilise around that point.

I guess you don't live in Japan for say this. Yes it's good for 5% of japanese but you have to think about the other 95%.

It is quite natural that Mr Mizutani was fully controlling Mr Otani's money just as a Japanese wife would.

I don't think you realize it. You cannot compare the banking management of a normal family (simple salary, vacation and food budget) and the financial management of a top athlete (salary, marketing, bonus,...).

For these people it is not their wife or friend who can manages it but several professionals (it's a job).

It's not his version, but a version written by his lawyers that he just read, that's all.

> Peter NeilToday  07:52 am JST

According to half of Europeans and 10-20% of Americans, those six moon landings were done in a Hollywood studio, so they should examine the rocks in the heads of those people.

No it's not true, Europeans is around 10%. Can you show where did you find this informaion?

sakurasukiToday  07:34 am JST

After their visit, I'll bet they hit the beach, danced around a camp fire, and sang "kumbaya" with their teachers!

There is no beach in Geneve nor Switzerland, it's landlocked area.

There is a beach in Geneva, please check before say something wrong

Qatar as the same problem of Japan, the gender parity is awful (Japan ranking 120, Qatar 141)

Should follow the exemple of South Arabia (ranking 72 now, before 120).

The Japanese overconsume electricity, gasoline compared to Europe.

The government should rather ask people to consume normally and so the bill goes down. (for example, not turning on the air conditioning or the TV all day, not taking baths every day, turning off the car engine in parking, etc.)

Japanese families consume too much! should start to make effort like Europe

David BrentToday  07:17 am JST

Knowing how behind the times Japanese banks are, I’m amazed they even know what SWIFT is.

unfortunately I agree.

My bank in Japan did'nt understand last year when I asked them for their SWIFT number for my bank in Europe.

@The Avenger

I think Biden is very good at lying too.

rainydayToday  10:08 am JST

I don't think many Japanese are in any position to cry foul,

Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't remember a single Japanese Olympic athlete having ever failed a doping test.

In 2018, similar case

https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1074910/japanese-speed-skater-escapes-ban-after-testing-positive-at-pyeongchang-2018

Fighto!Today  07:46 am JST

Tokyo 2021 involved Japanese ethnic minorities in their national dress, if I remember rightly. So, it seems from the photos, China copied this in their ceremony.

Yes, you're right. China is like Japan. It uses minorities who are normally rejected by the government (like Ainu) to make the world believe that the country is integrating people well.

The two countries are very similar.

purple_depressed_baconToday  09:38 am JST

This is surprising, especially considering that Czechs are exceptionally good at ice hockey. Congrats to them!

The Japanese have a better international ranking than the Czechs. The victory is logical, it's not a surprise.

Ashley ShibaToday  07:33 am JST

I just heard the Canadian hockey team has pulled out and how many more teams and individuals will follow. So it may not even be an issue for those sponsors, because if there are few athletes participating no one will watch.

this is not true. Canada's hockey team will participate in the Olympics.

NHL players are not eligible to participate (COVID reason).

Sheikh YerboabyToday  09:53 am JST

every single country does a similar thing....commemorates it's own deaths and denigrates the hostilities of others.......the UK has remembrance day, asking people to wear poppies then call them unpatriotic if they refuse, whilst conveniently forgetting the many millions that have been killed in Britains murderous expansion across the globe over a few hundred years.

The US has it's "thank you for your service" hypocrisy, thanking their soldiers for "protecting" them from an enemy that never tried to attack them in any way, then with another breath loudly berate how other countries behave.

Japan it's contrite, poor us sad-face tabloid headline when remembering the atomic bombings of WWII whilst pretending their own imperial army wasn't one of the worst to have ever walked the earth.

China has Nanking.......this is tiresome. Finger pointing, moral grandstanding about who is the least bad. It's about time we all grew up and consigned war and expansionism to the annals of history.

Excatly

@Iron Lad

Hattorikun is right, Asahi TV is not controlled by LDP

ulyssesToday  01:44 pm JST

Japan is more like China than Europe or even USA

I suggest visiting Japan, the CCP run media has nothing to do with reality.

I live in japan for a while (I'm from europe). Japanese media are controlled by the LDP, not free like Europe.

Japan is more like China than Europe or even USA

vaccination rate of eligible population of France : 91%

https://solidarites-sante.gouv.fr/grands-dossiers/vaccin-covid-19/article/le-tableau-de-bord-de-la-vaccination

Japan?