JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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U.S. Navy investigating how parts fell off aircraft near Atsugi
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Confrontation
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California court to decide if SeaWorld whales are illegal 'slaves'
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Kuroki reported pregnant 2 weeks after denying relationship with Akanishi
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- Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) in Kanto region
- RCS (RCSコーポレーション), Kanto
- Salary: ¥180,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month includes performance bonus
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- Assistant Language Teacher - TOKYO - late-March start
- Interac, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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- Assistant Language Teacher - Kanagawa Prefecture - late-March start
- Interac, Kanagawa
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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Apsara
Old style? Most bras are still like this :S
I was in the park yesterday afternoon, it was perfect weather for it. People sleeping all over the place, and I was also thinking how nice it is to live in a country where it's usually safe to do this.
Posted in: Afternoon delight
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Apsara
One of my husband's good friends works in Tepco's IT section. How is he responsible for this situation? Basically he was recruited by the wrong company out of university almost 20 years ago. He has a wife and baby daughter. I really don't understand what people have against your average Tepco worker, they do not deserve this kind of hate.
Posted in: Rice shipped from Fukushima Prefecture
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Apsara
I noticed yesterday they are selling Miyazaki rice at our local supermarket (west Tokyo)- we have stocked up a bit on last year's rice, but I think Miyazaki rice is going to be our staple once what we have runs out.
Posted in: Rice shipped from Fukushima Prefecture
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Apsara
I don't. It's a train, not a 747. Are you suggesting all trains in Japan should have an extra driver aboard, or just shinkansens?
Posted in: Bullet train driver stops train because he forgot his glasses
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Apsara
He said a loach, not a roach, and it wasn't a spelling mistake- unless yours was? They are different animals.
Posted in: Noda, likening himself to loach fish, says charisma isn't everything
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Apsara
There's one in the basement of Marui near Yurakucho station- it always seems pretty busy.
Posted in: Krispy Kreme to open 73 more stores in Kanto, Kansai and Chubu
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Apsara
Many of us have families here and consider it our home- it really isn't as easy a decision as you seem to think. As for foreigners leaving in droves, didn't that happen already?
Posted in: Fukushima cesium leaks 'equal 168 Hiroshima bombs,' says report
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Apsara
You must have missed the news where wood from Iwate was found to be contaminated with cesium? That plan would spread radiation to the entire country in one fell sweep...
Posted in: Freezing winter looms for Tokyo post-Fukushima
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Apsara
Sorry, didn't finish this sentence: I don't think you'll find any proof that the amounts of radiation people are being exposed to in most of Tohoku are enough to cause infertility
Posted in: M6.8 quake jolts Fukushima, Miyagi prefectures
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Apsara
Did you base this on anything scientific? Because it's a pretty awful thing to say to a young woman unnecessarily. I don't think you'll find any proof that the amounts of radiation people are being exposed to in most of Tohoku. Please do some research on what kind of amounts of radiation are necessary to cause the kind of effects you are imagining (many thousands of times higher than current levels) before scaring your niece any more.
Posted in: M6.8 quake jolts Fukushima, Miyagi prefectures
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Apsara
Not only Japanese men, they found recording equipment in a (unisex) toilet in a Starbucks in NZ a few years back.
Posted in: Patrol officer arrested over convenience store toilet camera in Kagawa
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Apsara
Those construction sites can be absolutely blistering- I used to walk past one on Yamate dori last year where the temperature gauge for where the guys worked on the tunnel underground usually showed 40+ deg at 9am. I'm surprised more don't die.
Posted in: Heatwave kills four, sends 900 to hospital throughout Japan
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Apsara
That's just wild speculation. In any case I know women who have eating disorders and have managed not to starve their children to death even while starving themselves, so no excuse. I saw the father on TV- he looked well fed. They didn't attend prenatal visits and apparently blocked the public health nurse (all babies in Japan are visited by a nurse at home at least once) from visiting.
And yes, I definitely feel that I could have done a better job. This is Japan, not a famine-stricken African nation. There is no excuse for a 2.5 year old to weigh the same as a 3 month old baby and then die of starvation, no excuse whatsoever.
Posted in: Chiba parents arrested for allowing child to starve to death
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Apsara
I couldn't tell you how much a 2.5 year old should weigh either, but at 5.8kg he would have had to be absolutely skeletal (as I said above, my 4 month old baby weighs more than that, and he isn't even particularly chunky) and have cried almost constantly when he wasn't semi-unconscious from hypoglycaemia- even the most uninformed parent would do better than this couple did. I don't think ignorance is the reason here, I think they wilfully neglected their kids and knew exactly what they were doing.
The fact that she didn't attend the prenatal visits shows right from the beginning that they didn't care about the poor little boy.
Posted in: Chiba parents arrested for allowing child to starve to death
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Apsara
My 4 month old weighs more than that. Failing to provide for a child who depends on them absolutely is just disgusting.
Posted in: Chiba parents arrested for allowing child to starve to death
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Apsara
Where did you get that idea? Japan is a net food importer and has been for decades.
As for the idea that radiation on Tokyo was making you sick, I live in Tokyo and like pretty much everyone else here I feel fine other than a slightly increased jumpiness about earthquakes. I think you'll find your issues were stress-related and brought on by worry, not the tiny doses of radiation you may have been exposed to.
Posted in: Parents live with radiation fear in shadow of Fukushima nuclear plant
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Apsara
SimonB, the average pregnancy actually lasts 9 and a half months (40 weeks), and plenty of women go overdue, especially with their first baby, so 10 months is not so absurd, just because it is different from the notion you have grown up with. When I had my baby in April I had been pregnant for 285 days, so just as close to 300 days as 270. A friend of mine was 16 days overdue when she gave birth so had been pregnant for 296 days, and that is not unusual. With that figure the 300 days is perhaps not so absurd, is it, although I disagree with the law in principle.
Posted in: Okayama woman sues over 'sexist' marriage laws
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Apsara
I think you mean that there's no such thing as an extinct volcano. Dormant volcanoes are all the ones that aren't erupting right now- there are plenty of them.
Posted in: M6.2 quake shakes Shizuoka region
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Apsara
I wasn't aware of any water shortage in the Kanto area? With the recent typhoon and rain in Niigata and Fukushima it's hard to imagine that the catchments aren't pretty full.
Posted in: Temperatures rising
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Apsara
With the Yurekuru iPhone app at least you can select the intensity that you want to be notified of and in what area. In the month of the earthquake I set mine to shindo 3 in central Tokyo but I had to change it to shindo 4 and above because there were so many aftershocks at the time I was getting warnings every half an hour or more.
Posted in: 7 injured as M6.4 quake shakes Fukushima