Japan and Japanese

[Shinpachi]

Japanese renowned female table tennis player, Kasumi Ishikawa (30), announced retirement a week ago.
In interview, a Xinhua correspondent humbly requested her to answer in Chinese as she was known as a good Chinese speaker. Her fans in China would be happy to listen. Neighbors should be like this, guys


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UtW0F1zaMw

 

[Shinpachi]

Ai Fukuhara (34) was also a popular Japanese table tennis player in China, Taiwan and Japan but disappointed fans by her ugly divorce trouble in Taiwan.

Her interview in China last year.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfJkk_UC5Ls

 

[Shinpachi]

Tomokazu Harimoto (19), Japanese male table tennis player.
He was born to Chinese parents in Japan and can speak Chinese well.

He received interview with Kasumi Ishikawa in China in 2020.
Chinese people are always happy to listen foreigners speaking their language.
This may be the best and fastest way to make friends with them IMO.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL0YpFjzlvA

 

[Shinpachi]

Seki-hei (61). Japanese critic about China-Japan relationship.
He was an exile from the Tiananmen Square Incident in 1989.
His criticism against CCP is still intense.

Photo: 【日曜に書く】論説顧問・斎藤勉 石平さん「日本人」の心意気（1/2ページ）

 

[Shinpachi]

"A former government-patronized scholar Yoichi Takahashi (67) criticizes Kishida's son."

I think that old men should have some more geneousity with mild saying for the youngsters.
Takahashi was a loyal propaganda tool for Abe and his bad friends who snatched the government budget for their own private businesses as they willed.

MSN

 

[Shinpachi]

Air France Aircraft Returns to Kansai Airport, Nose dents, No injuries

Air France flight 291 (Airbus A350) bound for Paris, which took off from Kansai Airport in Osaka Pref. around 11:15 am on the 28th, returned due to trouble and landed at Kansai Airport around 2:25 pm on the same day. According to the Kansai Airport Office of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, the nose was dented. The office and related organizations are investigating the cause.

According to the office, the aircraft turned back off the coast of Miyagi Prefecture due to signs indicating trouble on the weather radar and speedometer. None of the 324 crew members and passengers were injured. The runway was closed for about 50 minutes, affecting a total of 11 flights using Kansai International Airport.

MSN

 

[GrauGeist]

Yikes!

That damage is far too great to be a bird strike.

 

[Shinpachi]

Photo: エールフランス機 関西空港に引き返す 先端部にへこみ…気象レーダーと速度計器にトラブル示す表示｜FNNプライムオンライン

Photo: エールフランス機 機体損傷で関空に緊急着陸 ［写真特集1/7］ | 毎日新聞

 

[Shinpachi]

Hmm....

Photo: 【フォト】飛行中に先端部損傷 仏旅客機、宮城県沖から関空に引き返し

 

[SaparotRob]

Must've been a great bird.

 

[GrauGeist]

Must've been a great bird.

Mothra, perhaps?

 

[Shinpachi]

Turkish Airlines in May, 2015

Photo: Turkish Airlines aircraft's nose cone collapses after bird hits it

 

[MiTasol]

Air France Aircraft Returns to Kansai Airport, Nose dents, No injuries

Air France flight 291 (Airbus A350) bound for Paris, which took off from Kansai Airport in Osaka Pref. around 11:15 am on the 28th, returned due to trouble and landed at Kansai Airport around 2:25 pm on the same day. According to the Kansai Airport Office of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, the nose was dented. The office and related organizations are investigating the cause.

According to the office, the aircraft turned back off the coast of Miyagi Prefecture due to signs indicating trouble on the weather radar and speedometer. None of the 324 crew members and passengers were injured. The runway was closed for about 50 minutes, affecting a total of 11 flights using Kansai International Airport.

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MSN

That does not look like a bird strike though it probably is. If it is a structural failure it may be interior delamination due to water but that is unlikely as everyone has known for years that any damage to the paint on a radome must be repaired immediately or delamination occurs.

This is the second interesting Airbus incident in days. That Chinese Airbus door opening in flight is also interesting as it is supposed to be impossible to open emergency exits in flight.

 

[Shinpachi]

Literally replacing old bridge with new one by sliding is going now for two weeks.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3K9fwYKXbE

 

[Shinpachi]

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's Son to Resign as PM Secretary on Thursday

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s Son to Resign as PM Secretary on Thursday

Prime Minister Fumiio Kishida’s eldest son will resign from secretary to the prime minister in charge of political affairs on Thursday, the government announced Monday.

japannews.yomiuri.co.jp

 

[Shinpachi]

Tidal force spins the aircraft carrier in Sasebo. See it at 350x speed.
Local fishermen can know whether the tide is high or low by looking at the aircraft carrier.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL_q0kPAQrw

 

[ThomasP]

That could have been embarrassing.

 

[GrauGeist]

On a much smaller scale, when the JRM-3 Mars "Hawaii" was at Shasta Lake during the Northern California forest fires of 2008, it would swing around at it's mooring with the shifting winds, like a giant weather vane.

 

[Shinpachi]

Japan issues destruction order after North Korea announces 'satellite' launch window

Oh -

Japan issues destruction order after North Korea announces 'satellite' launch window

Pyongyang plans to launch a military satellite between Wednesday and June 11, in what would be its first space rocket launch in more than seven years.

www.japantimes.co.jp

 

[Shinpachi]

Missile alert has been issued minutes earlier.