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Following an alleged murder case that is said to have originated from US soldiers in Okinawa, there is a strong protest in Japanese politics against the presence of American troops, while crime among military personnel is at its highest level in over 20 years. #Okinawa #USTruppen #Mordvorwurf (translated)

Furkan Yildirim wrote that the US Treasury could auction fewer long-term government bonds as early as November and possibly discontinue the 20-year term altogether. According to Yildirim, Citigroup expects Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent to announce a $3 billion reduction in auctions for 20- and 30-year bonds each on November 4. The financing gap is to be closed with government securities maturing within a year at the latest. The department may also ask large banks next week whether pension funds now prefer bonds from Amazon, Meta, and Alphabet to those of the state. The 20-year bond was reintroduced in 2020 after a 34-year hiatus and now offers nearly 5.7 percent interest, more than any other US maturity. At the end of 2020, its yield was just under 1.5 percent. At the same time, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Oracle, and SpaceX had already issued dollar bonds amounting to more than $180 billion in 2026; according to Yildirim, Amazon's bonds extend to 2076. According to asset manager TwentyFour, which Yildirim cited, Japanese investors are now receiving enough interest at home to invest their money there. Citi strategist Jason Williams wrote that pension funds may currently be more inclined than usual to invest in long-term corporate bonds of good quality. However, BNP Paribas strategists doubted that smaller auctions would reduce the government's financing costs. Yildirim also pointed out that the yield on 10-year US bonds serves as a basis for mortgages and many other loans, and Bessent had referred to it as an important measure of his success. With an annual deficit of nearly $2 trillion, the debt burden continues to grow as competition for long-term buyers increases. #Finanzen #Anleihen #Wirtschaft (translated)

Malca Goldstein-Wolf wrote that Henri Kagan received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2026 at the age of 95. As a Jewish boy, he lived with his family under a false name in France during World War II. Kagan shared the award with Japanese professor Kenso Soai. Both were recognized for their work on mirror-image molecules, which Goldstein-Wolf stated have contributed to the safer and more precise production of medications. #Nobelpreis #Chemie #Wissenschaft (translated)

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded this year to the Frenchman Henri Kagan and the Japanese Kenso Soai for discoveries that significantly improved the efficiency of developing new substances, addressing questions about homochirality in organic synthesis that have persisted for more than a century. #NobelPrēmija #Ķīmija #Zinātne (translated)

Dennis Mitzner criticized Timo Stewart for suggesting that he believed Israel was an obstacle to the two-state solution. Mitzner argued that the Palestinians had not accepted Israel's state proposals in direct negotiations, the latest of which were the Camp David and Taba offers in 2000–2001, as well as Ehud Olmert's offers in 2008. He added that Israel unilaterally withdrew from Gaza in 2005. According to Mitzner, the PLO's decades-old support for the two-state solution did not indicate that the Palestinians accepted Israel's existence as a Jewish state. Mitzner wrote that Stewart viewed the destruction of Hamas's ideology as unrealistic without killing all people. Mitzner interpreted this to mean that Stewart considered all Gazans as supporters of Hamas's ideology, but he himself said he would not go that far. He referred to Hamas's election in Gaza and claimed that no Gazan had attempted to help Israeli hostages in the past couple of years. Mitzner compared the situation to the Allies' victory over Nazism and the defeat of Japan, as well as the actions of the United Arab Emirates against the Muslim Brotherhood. He stated that the Western left should stop rewarding Palestinian violence and anti-Semitism. According to Mitzner, Stewart claimed that there was no Palestinian state because Israel occupied the territory and did not allow it to become independent. Mitzner denied this and described the area's history: according to him, it belonged to the British mandate from 1917 and prior to that to the Ottoman Empire. He wrote that the Arab leadership rejected the UN's 1947 partition plan, after which Jordan controlled the West Bank and Egypt controlled Gaza without establishing a Palestinian state. According to Mitzner, the territories came under Israeli control in the 1967 war, which Jordan, Egypt, and Syria initiated with the intent to destroy, and the Arab world's negative attitude towards Israel continued with the Khartoum resolution of the three no's. Mitzner claimed that Stewart ignored Palestinian actions and concluded by asking whether the dispute ultimately related to the fact that the opposing side was the Jewish state of Israel. #IsraelinVastaisetAsenteet #Palestiinalaiskysymys #KansainvälinenPolitiikka (translated)

Bernd Kaiser wrote in an ironically toned article that Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi wants to tie the permanent residency right to stricter conditions. According to him, applicants should in the future pay 200,000 yen – a twenty-fold increase in the fee – and prove an income at the level of a normal Japanese household, have their own pension entitlements, demonstrate language skills, and adhere to social rules. Old tax debts could also be a hindrance. Kaiser portrayed the measures as a counter-proposal to a welcoming culture, where immigration costs the local population billions. He wrote that the government is enjoying increasing approval due to a recurring sense of justice and recommended that politicians in Germany take a study trip to Tokyo. At the same time, he criticized that ineffective summits are being lined up here. #Takaichi #Japan #Migration https://t.co/Q5VDYBac27 #Japan #Migration #Einwanderung (translated)

Henri Vanhanen wrote that he wanted to correct the interpretations of an article by Helsingin Sanomat that dealt with nuclear weapons and said he remained uncertain about what the article ultimately claimed regarding Finland's security. According to him, Finland did not join the NATO nuclear deterrent with little discussion or unnoticed, but rather joined an alliance whose deterrence and defense had been based on nuclear weapons for decades. He described the strategic nuclear forces of the United States as a key basis for NATO's nuclear deterrent. Vanhanen considered that the bombing of Nagasaki was not an example of the current type of nuclear deterrent because Japan did not have a nuclear weapon nor the ability to respond to a U.S. strike. In his view, Nagasaki demonstrated the destructiveness of nuclear weapons and the human risks of their use, whereas the current deterrent was based on the assumption that an attacker had to consider the possibility of retaliation and uncontrolled escalation. Vanhanen assessed that Trump had increased uncertainty regarding the United States' commitment to the conventional defense of Europe and believed Europe would have to bear more responsibility for it. However, he distinguished this from the claim that the U.S. nuclear deterrent had weakened. According to him, the U.S. ability to use nuclear weapons had not diminished, NATO was not dismantling its nuclear plans or arrangements, systems were being modernized, and F-35 aircraft were being introduced into NATO's nuclear missions. Vanhanen stated that the NATO Nuclear Planning Group had confirmed in June that strategic nuclear forces, particularly U.S. forces, remained the ultimate guarantee of the allies' security and had decided to continue strengthening and modernizing the nuclear deterrent. Vanhanen considered it a central uncertainty whether Moscow would believe that the U.S. president would be willing to use nuclear weapons to defend an ally in an extreme situation. He reminded that the question of the U.S. willingness to endanger its own cities for the sake of Europe had been a concern throughout the history of the extended nuclear deterrent and there had been no complete certainty during the Cold War or at the present time. According to him, Finland's option was not a nuclear deterrent or a nuclear-free security environment, as Russia would have its nuclear weapons in any case. Vanhanen wrote that the crucial issue for the deterrent was that the Russian leadership could not be certain that the United States would defend Finland. https://t.co/3C8aAkuMwj #ydinaseet #Nato #Suomi (translated)

The truly dumbest "argument." On one hand, you can look at Japanese and German cities in 1945 and, if you are not a right-wing extremist revisionist, you will hardly come to the conclusion that genocide was committed against Germany and Japan. On the other hand, the destruction is so extensive, while at the same time the population in the Gaza Strip has grown and the number of deaths, including those who died of natural causes (and terrorists), is about 4% of the population. One can hardly inflict such destruction while killing twenty times fewer people proportionally if one does not take human lives into account. This does not exclude the possibility that this destruction can be considered a war crime, so-called domicide. It also does not rule out other war crimes (which are practically guaranteed due to the duration of the fighting, the hatred over the cause of the war's outbreak, and the number of combatants). But if you declare destruction as genocide, then the word is worth nothing anymore. #Kriegsverbrechen #Genozid #Zerstörung (translated)

Hei @Jussi_Andelin ja @KiviJaska1 Lähestyn teitä kysmyksellä ,koska luulen teidän tietävän vastauksen. Lapseni urheilevat ja syövät terveellisesti,lukevat kirjoja ja saavat koulussa hyviä arvosanoja. 2/3 opiskelee saksaa englannin lisäksi ja yksi japania. Lisäksi he tykkäävät vanhoista kotimaisista komediasarjoista. Kaikilla on paljon kavereita. Kysymykseni on että ovatko lapseni radikalisoituneet äärioikeistolaisiksi!😬 #vanhemmuus #kasvatus #nuoriso

🇩🇪🤝🇯🇵 Japanische Freunde zu Gast im Deutschen Bundestag! Diese Sitzungswoche begrüßen wir eine Delegation der japanischen Partei Sanseitō mit Parteipräsident Sohei Kamiya, dem Unterhausabgeordneten Koichirō Tani und dem ehemaligen Botschafter Tatsuo Arai. Im Rahmen ihres Besuchs finden mehrere Gespräche mit Vertretern der AfD-Bundestagsfraktion statt. Patriotische Kräfte stehen weltweit vor ähnlichen Herausforderungen. Umso wichtiger sind der internationale Austausch und die Zusammenarbeit jener Parteien, die nationale Souveränität, kulturelle Identität und die Interessen der eigenen Bürger in den Mittelpunkt stellen. Wir danken unseren japanischen Gästen für den offenen und freundschaftlichen Austausch! #DeutscherBundestag #Japan #InternationaleZusammenarbeit

Valtuuston syyskausi starttasi tänään ja mikäs tässä starttaillessa. Allekirjoitimme ryhmänä @ORostila aloitteen, että Hyvinkään kaupunki lopettaa perusopetusta täydentävän oman äidinkielen opetuksen järjestämisen mahdollisimman pian, viimeistään lukuvuoden 2027–2028 alusta. Kuinka narsistista onkaan ajatella, että jos esim perheeni muuttaisi Japaniin, Japanin veronmaksajien tulee maksaa minun SUOMEN kielen opiskelu. Kirjoitin juurikin tästä Suomen itsetuhoisesta empatiasta tänne: https://t.co/KfBEU4K6Ye Lisäksi jätimme valtuustoaloitteen koskien Ahdenkallionkadun liikenteen sujuvoittamista niin että kadun varteen rakennettaisiin parkkitaskuja. Nykyisellään katu on melkoinen pujottelurata pysäköityjen ja vastaantulevien autojen ja liikenteenjakajien lomassa. ...Ja muistutin virkamiehiä uuden HR hankinnan kynnyksellä siitä, ettemme hankkisi raskasta Apotti tyylistä konsultteihin ja toimittajiin sitovaa järjestelmää vuosiksi eteenpäin, vaan huomioiminen järjestelmässä ennenkaikkea AI integraation (kiitos @samimiettinen ja @MartinPaasi teidän tekoäly paasauksesta - alkaa tarttua 😅) #Hyvinkää #koulutus #liikenne