Statistician said...

Statistician at 07:57 PM JST - 20th August

Says something about the serious over-pricing of ANA long haul flights.

Posted in ANA to offer 1st class passengers free helicopter ride from Narita to Tokyo at 07:57 PM JST - 20th August
Statistician at 11:58 AM JST - 20th August

in order to allow a more flexible response to market changes

I think the flexible response they will encounter from customers is a further collapse in their market share.

Posted in JAL to follow ANA on resumption of fuel surcharges on int'l flights at 11:58 AM JST - 20th August
Statistician at 11:54 AM JST - 20th August

Um .. maybe I'm missing something but isn't this whole event next year just one form of saying 'sorry, please can we move on from all that'.

Also more than one American friend of mine staying with my in-laws in Hiroshima (my father-in-law is hibakusha) has felt the impulse to…

Posted in If the government invites U.S. POWs, then it should ask the U.S. government to apologize to the victims of the atomic bombings and the air raids. at 11:54 AM JST - 20th August
Statistician at 03:38 PM JST - 19th August

I guess they are afraid he won't vote for the LDP after being wrongly imprisoned all these years.

Posted in Wrongly convicted man denied right to vote in general election at 03:38 PM JST - 19th August
Statistician at 03:35 PM JST - 19th August

Aso is finished. He has seen the last of power.

Posted in Aso says DPJ strategy insufficient to spur economic growth at 03:35 PM JST - 19th August
Statistician at 10:41 AM JST - 18th August

‘‘The insurgency in Afghanistan didn’t just happen overnight,’’ he told a U.S. military veterans group

That's right, it didn't. It was carefully nurtured for years by the United States to give the Russians a problem. They have left now and one day so too will the Americans.

Posted in Afghan war will not be quick or easy, Obama says at 10:41 AM JST - 18th August
Statistician at 10:29 AM JST - 18th August

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‘This will be a policy choice election in which people compare and choose the policies of each party,’’ Prime Minister and LDP President Taro Aso declared

And their competence too of course. let's not forget THAT one!

Posted in Dueling manifestos at 10:29 AM JST - 18th August
Statistician at 10:27 AM JST - 18th August

A chance for a different, better Japan

Posted in Main party leaders hit streets to start election campaign at 10:27 AM JST - 18th August
Statistician at 10:48 AM JST - 17th August

Go for it DPJ! Japan so desparately needs a change of scene.

Posted in Hatoyama should serve as prime minister for 4 years: DPJ's Okada at 10:48 AM JST - 17th August
Statistician at 10:46 AM JST - 17th August

@Klein2

This is so much worse than, say jumping on the tracks himself.

Not really. The train would have been delayed longer while the police completed their 'scene of fatality' reports.

Teenager pranks - happens all the time all around the world (but not often in Japan!). But a guy…

Posted in 2 sought after throwing bicycle onto tracks in front of oncoming train at 10:46 AM JST - 17th August