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  frontandcentre at 10:12 AM JST - 11th July

  > ‘‘The parallels between Shibuya district and the West End are stark"

  Surely parallels are similarities, so how can similarities be "stark"? I think this man means the differences, which if so I'd agree with. Shibuya's idea of an "old" building is anything built before 1990, but when you think…

  Posted in London looks to Shibuya for ideas to remodel central shopping district at 10:12 AM JST - 11th July

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  frontandcentre at 03:46 PM JST - 7th July

  Looks like Angela Merkel's husband was replaced by J K Rowling (front)

  Posted in Lunch at 03:46 PM JST - 7th July

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  frontandcentre at 03:36 PM JST - 7th July

  I hope they enjoyed the lunch that I and millions of other Japanese taxpayers bought them.

  Posted in Lunch at 03:36 PM JST - 7th July

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  frontandcentre at 05:40 PM JST - 6th July

  Modern technology would enable them to video conference over three days from the comfort of their various palaces without the Japanese government wasting billions of OUR tax Yen on not letting a squirrel within 5 km of George, Gordon, Yasuo et al.

  Ludicrous

  Posted in It's time to downsize G-8 summits at 05:40 PM JST - 6th July

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  frontandcentre at 05:37 PM JST - 6th July

  If Bush had a decent bone in his body, he'd simply quit and confine his disastrous tenure as supposed "leader of the free world" (ha ha) to the dustbin of history, where it belongs.

  He has increased the vulnerability of his country, and the world, to terrorism, he has talked…

  Posted in Challenges abound for Bush at final G-8 summit at 05:37 PM JST - 6th July

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  frontandcentre at 05:19 PM JST - 6th July

  Oh Kanda Uno - my favourite subject...

  Brainless? No. Charmless? Definitely. Not only did she turn her "first" wedding in Tokyo into an offensively extravagant, tasteless tack-fest aimed entirely at rejuvenating her public profile, but now she is apparently taking sponsors' Dollars for getting "married" again. One wonders why she…

  Posted in Uno Kanda to hold 3rd wedding ceremony in Hawaii at 05:19 PM JST - 6th July

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  frontandcentre at 06:54 PM JST - 1st July

  Well, many of the AU leaders are about as legitimate as Mugabe has now made himself - in other words, not at all - so they'd have a lot of front to criticise him.

  Posted in Mugabe looks for political boost at Africa summit at 06:54 PM JST - 1st July

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  frontandcentre at 04:09 PM JST - 1st July

  Isn't this a bit like admitting their existing ("normal") passport and security measures are insufficient? I personally want to be just as well protected when there isn't a G8 summit going on as when there isn't...

  Perhaps fingerprinting everybody would be the safest way, rather than singling out the people…

  Posted in Security checks tightened at airports ahead of G-8 summit at 04:09 PM JST - 1st July

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  frontandcentre at 03:10 PM JST - 30th June

  My comment was not accepted. It seems that they really do not want any constructive criticism, in spite of saying that they encourage readers to post.

  Why should they apply any different standards to what they allow on their forum than they now do to their willingness to translate Japanese…

  Posted in Mainichi's English site shuts down one column criticized for being 'too vulgar' at 03:10 PM JST - 30th June

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  frontandcentre at 07:24 PM JST - 25th June

  You know there's a funny thing about Japan - for me that's the way that the fact a complaint has been made seems to be far more significant than who made it, why, or whether there's any merit to it whatsoever. It's rather like the wide-eyed refusal of many Japanese…

  Posted in What do you think of the Mainichi's decision to cease publishing its WaiWai tabloid tidbits section on its English online site following complaints that it portrays Japanese society in a negative light to the world? at 07:24 PM JST - 25th June