flugelschmidt said...

flugelschmidt at 12:23 PM JST - 20th December

You certainly can't show up at the IOC in Feb with empty pockets and expect to be taken seriously. I hope Mori makes this very clear to other committee members.

*Takeda said. ‘‘Olympics and politics are two different things but it’s important to obtain cooperation from the government for a…

Posted in Parliamentary group set up to promote Tokyo's Olympic bid at 12:23 PM JST - 20th December
flugelschmidt at 12:17 PM JST - 20th December

I'm going to continue to eat Thai rice, poisoned or not, rather than buy the local stuff.

Posted in Carcinogenic toxin detected in imported Thai rice at 12:17 PM JST - 20th December
flugelschmidt at 12:14 PM JST - 20th December

In other words companies will tell the government their workers are still in the apartments while kicking them out on the street. Nice little gift at the end of the year. The amount is preposterously large - 60,000 yen per worker?! This is just one big fraud. Anyway, why can't…

Posted in Firms to get subsidies for allowing sacked temp workers to stay in apartments at 12:14 PM JST - 20th December
flugelschmidt at 12:07 PM JST - 20th December

Shawn, I think you're confusing hockey with ice hockey. This article is about ice hockey, and who in their wildest dreams would have imagined that Japan had an ice hockey team, let alone an actual league!

Posted in Seibu group to pull out of ice hockey amid economic crisis at 12:07 PM JST - 20th December
flugelschmidt at 10:59 AM JST - 20th December

two Australian POWs died during the three-month period but the ministry blacked out the causes of their deaths as well as other personal information, citing privacy

Aso should just admit they were hungry.

Posted in Gov't admits POWs worked for Aso family's mining company at 10:59 AM JST - 20th December