M. Shiraga سراجا

Former TV reporter. Reckless and passionate journalist from Japan. Got deported 3 times. Your neighbouring liberal realist. Currently covering #Ukraine.

[M. Shiraga سراجا @BulletproofFact]

Proud of Kotoden.

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

Train in Takamatsu, Japan. On the train it says: “We stand with you.”

[Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian]

They were not small potatoes

[M. Shiraga سراجا @BulletproofFact]

If warm, that's due to the Palestinian raw blood.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

I received warm congratulations for the people of Ukraine from Prime Minister @netanyahu of Israel. Our countries share deep bonds – between our people in the first place, but also in the economy, culture, and other areas. It is therefore good to hear of Israel’s desire to strengthen these existing ties. We count on working fruitfully together to bring about more security.

[セルギー・コルスンスキー前駐日ウクライナ特命全権大使 @KorsunskySergiy]

He attacks everyone who disagree with his devotion to putin. He is trying to be special. Do not promote him, please.

[D.Radka, #NAFO 🇨🇿🤝🇺🇦 @DakdaR22]

"The European Union cannot and will not be a party to any agreement that legitimises the illegal seizure of territory. That includes Crimea.

Crimea is Ukraine. This is not a matter of opinion, it is a matter of international law."

- Kaja Kallas
High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy

Quite right; there is nothing to add.🤷‍♀️

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

After months of leading Zelensky on, Trump is firmly back in Putin's pocket, blocking all Ukraine's avenues to obtain air defense missiles.

Putin can now slaughter several dozen every night.

Kyiv now just a kill zone.

[ADAM @adamemedia1]

Man I really hate how much China is influencing our elections…

[James D.J. Brown @JamesDJBrown]

NYT names MV Filchenkov, an Aeroflot employee in Tokyo, as a GRU officer belonging to its 20th Directorate. His role in Tokyo is to arrange for Japanese tech to be exported to Russia via 3rd countries for use in weapons. JPN firm Proco Air also named.
https://t.co/eySg4KCbSu

[fred nez @frdnez]

@atrupar The Islamic Republic of Japan

[MFA of Ukraine 🇺🇦 @MFA_Ukraine]

❗️The IOC's decision to lift its recommendations restricting the participation of Russian athletes sends a deeply concerning signal to the international community.

We call on the governments of countries hosting international sporting events not to permit the display of Russian state symbols on their territory. Under this flag, Russia continues its unprovoked and illegal war against Ukraine.

Every day, civilians are killed, cities are destroyed, and international law is violated. The symbols of an aggressor state have no place at international sporting events.

The Olympic Movement is founded on the principles of peace, respect for human dignity, and solidarity. We therefore hope that the issue of the use of Russian state symbols at the Olympic Games will be addressed separately and with the utmost responsibility.

We also call on international sports federations to maintain the existing restrictions on representatives of the aggressor state, in line with their commitment to protecting the integrity and values of international sport.

Ukraine will continue working closely with its international partners to uphold these principles and to ensure that international sport is never used as a tool to legitimize aggression or whitewash the actions of a state that continues to wage war.

[Volodymyr Tretyak 🇺🇦 @VolodyaTretyak]

I like all this lady's posts, she’s not afraid to call a spade a spade.

[藤原亮司 @JP_Fujiwara]

Israel Is Conducting a Systematic Campaign of Ethnic Cleansing and Crimes Against Humanity in the West Bank https://t.co/AnTGEhKcja

[James D.J. Brown @JamesDJBrown]

Japan’s SDF scrambled jets 59 times in May due to approaching foreign aircraft. 49 scrambles were provoked by Chinese aircraft, just 10 by Russian.

[International Solidarity Movement @ISMPalestine]

Israeli Occupation Forces and Zionist settler-colonizers raided Huwara, near Nablus, injuring 9 Palestinians. They set fire to agricultural fields, a vehicle repair shop, and smashed cars. They also broke into a house, destroyed the doors, beat its residents, and stole 50 sheep.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

The Pentagon has raised its counterintelligence threat level for Israel amid concerns about eavesdropping on U.S.-Iran talks. https://t.co/U7bB6WOsrg

[M. Shiraga سراجا @BulletproofFact]

I visited there a few years ago. Shocked to see how the place changed... #Lukianivka

[Mark Rutte @SecGenNATO]

We visited Lukianivka, Kyiv 🇺🇦 where we witnessed the devastation caused by Russian drone and missile strikes only a few days ago

Visiting Kyiv with all 32 #NATO Ambassadors, our message is crystal clear: NATO’s support for #Ukraine is unshaken

[M. Shiraga سراجا @BulletproofFact]

Wondering why these White "Japanese historians" are so poor at Japanese history. Thank you for your childish Orientalism, high school students can even point out what's wrong in your argument. Sigh.

[Ruxandra Teslo 🧬 @RuxandraTeslo]

For 250 years, Japan maintained an extraordinary peace by forcing the entire warrior class to live in the capital Edo, a city that was essentially a giant consumption machine that produced nothing.

Half its population were samurai pensioners doing busywork, while the daimyo (the ruling elite) were burning money on mandatory mansions and endless processions between their estates. The whole city ran on agricultural surplus extracted from the rest of Japan.

Some surprising facts:

1) The city functioned as a hostage system. The daimyo (regional lords) were required to leave their families permanently in Edo as de facto hostages. Most noblewomen never once visited the lands their husbands governed. Instead, they spent their entire lives in the capital as insurance against rebellion.

2) Half the city were warriors with nothing to fight. At any given time, nearly half of Edo's population were samurai, which were living as state pensioners in a country at total peace. Most did little beyond civil administration and calligraphy lessons, since most work was considered beneath them.

3) It was probably the world's largest city, centuries before Tokyo's modern fame. Edo likely exceeded a million people by 1700. London didn't hit that mark until 1800, New York did not until 1880.

4) It had very high population density, almost entirely in single-storey buildings. Some commoner districts hit twice Manhattan's current density.

5) The poor were taxed at up to 70% of their harvest. The agricultural surplus flowed up through public taxation rather than rent, making the state the direct intermediary between peasants and the elite.

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

By the end of Trump’s term, it’ll be just enough to buy one gallon of gas and a carton of eggs.

[International Solidarity Movement @ISMPalestine]

Armed Israeli soldiers raided a home and beat Palestinians in Al-Mugayyir. The village has endured years of terror and violence at the hands of Zionist colonizers who are guilty of intimidation, battery, arson, property destruction, and forced displacement—yet act with impunity.

[UNITED24 Media @United24media]

🤯 BREAKING: Ukraine just wiped out a major Russian command center, killing 100 elite troops.

President Zelenskyy confirmed a precision SBU drone strike obliterated an FSB special forces headquarters in the Kherson region.