JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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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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Fadamor
You can only have so many ships in the immediate area of hostilities when the Persian Gulf is involved. Any more than that and they start interfereing with each other. The Asia/Pacific zone has much more open water to cover.
Posted in: U.S. admiral says forces prepared to confront Iran
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Fadamor
If I were to guess, it would be because the American cars are too g*dd#@n big. In between SUVs, Pickups, "Crossovers" and the luxury sedans, where the heck would you find a place to park in Japan? The only ones that would fit are re-branded models of Japanese cars.
Posted in: What do you think are the main reasons why U.S. car sales are so low in Japan?
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Fadamor
Android by default. I would never give money to the evil empire that calls itself "Apple".
Posted in: Which do you think is best: iPhone or Android?
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Fadamor
Bicycles are vehicles. Vehicles have no business on pedestrian sidewalks. The disparity in speed between pedestrians and bicycles is too great. Bicycles belong on the road. With the exception of "limited access highways", bicycles should have just as much right to be on the street/road as cars and trucks. That said, a bicycle on the street/road MUST obey all traffic laws the same as a car/truck would. This means driving on the left in Japan and treating the bicycle as a slow-moving vehicle - meaning the bike is on the FAR left. Car/Truck radios do not block outside noises like earbuds do and so earbuds are naturally going to be targets for enforcement.
Posted in: Police caution more than 10,000 in Tokyo for breaking new bicycle rules
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Fadamor
I'm normally not a scare-monger and have tried to tamp-down some of the silly rhetoric that has been posted here in the past, but the fact that the reactor is warming up instead of cooling down IS of primary concern. The heating in reactors are controlled by shielding the fuel rods as needed. With the fuel rods melted and presumably sitting on the bottom of the containment vessel, there is no way to accurately control the temperature. Running cooling water through the containment vessel is only cooling the surface of the corium but not doing much for the coruim underneath. I guess the hope was that the fuel rods had not congregated to the point that little surface area was getting cooled by the water. With the water heating up even though water has been flowing continuously, it looks like that hope was unfounded. This. Is. Not. Good.
Posted in: Fukushima's No. 2 reactor may be reheating
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Fadamor
ExportExpert is apparently a medical doctor who personally examined all the students. He insists they have the flu virus even though the article clearly states they didn't have the flu virus. I wonder how many people he's tweeted warning them about the "new influx of influenza from Japan"?
Posted in: NZ admits overreacting to flu scare on plane from Japan
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Fadamor
We shouldn't muddy-up the discussion with talk of suicides. This was murder of the most heinous sort.
Posted in: Woman arrested over murder of 5-month-old son in Kobe
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Fadamor
Good for them. Even if it's only once in a while, it serves a purpose. And there's nothing to say they don't change the enforcement days now that it's been published. What could an offender possibly say? "But it's not the 10th of the month!!"? The obvious response would be, "Why would the date make any difference as to when a law is in effect?"
Posted in: Police caution more than 10,000 in Tokyo for breaking new bicycle rules
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Fadamor
If I were to guess, it would be because the crime happened in Taiwan and the suspects lived in Taiwan. Do you REALLY want to hear global reports whenever someone of Japanese origin breaks the law in a foreign country?
Posted in: Japanese star charged over Taiwan taxi driver assault
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Fadamor
IMHO, a thermocouple with a documented temperature variance of +/-20°C is worthless. Why even bother if the actual temperature is in a 40°C bracket around the indicated reading? The thermocouple on my school's weather station has a +/-2.5°F variance. Something's not right.
Posted in: Fukushima's No. 2 reactor may be reheating
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Fadamor
So what would YOU call the feeling as a glass bottle is thrown at your head from a high-speed boat? "Serenity"?
Posted in: Confrontation
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Fadamor
Pray tell how you would run a manufacturing plant without electricity? It's nice that you had enough candles to allow you to read books at night, but try heating a manufacturing building with wood stoves. Your experience over the holidays has NO relation to what a country faces if rolling blackouts have to be instated.
These people certainly have a right to demand where their power comes from. I just wonder if they've really thought out what the alternatives will entail. I wish them good luck in their upcoming struggles.
Posted in: No nukes
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Fadamor
LOL. "We don't get royalties, so ACTA doesn't affect us at all. But, hey! It looked like a good party going on so we decided to join in."
Just a couple of points: Internet users have NEVER had the "right" to download copyrighted material without paying for it. EVER. "Internet Freedom" to these people means they can do what they want, when they want, no matter what laws are broken. If they're so keen on this kind of freedom, why aren't they walking around town smashing car windshields? It's. The. Same. Thing. I'll tell you why. It's because they would not be anonymous if they were breaking windshields. That's what they're REALLY scared of, losing their anonymity. Darn, they might have to actually act like civilized people on the internet if this gets ratified.
Posted in: Europeans protest controversial Internet pact
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Fadamor
That said, I always thought "defamation of character" was a civil action, not a criminal one. I guess the laws in Japan are different in that regard. In the U.S. you could get sued for defamation, but not arrested.
Posted in: Iwate cop arrested for uploading naked photos of acquaintance
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Fadamor
Then how is it that he was arrested?
(Please note the bold-faced portion of the quote)
Posted in: Iwate cop arrested for uploading naked photos of acquaintance
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Fadamor
WHERE'S YuriOtani?! I have to say "I told you so!" Okinawans got Japan and the U.S. to agree to move the 8,000 troops regardless of what happens to Futenma, yet "the plan was totally unacceptable because it ignores the wishes of the Okinawan people." What is it NOW?! We didn't agree to put a widescreen TV in each Okinawan's house?! I have to agree with that Maher guy... Okinawans are masters of extortion.
Posted in: Okinawa governor, Nago mayor not happy with U.S. forces plan
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Fadamor
I'm surprised there are EA-6B Prowlers still in service! They were in use when I was in the Navy back in the early 80's. Granted, as an ECM platform they don't normally do much high-G maneuvering, but STILL - thirty year-old planes doing catapult launches and arrester-gear landings... O_o
Posted in: U.S. Navy investigating how parts fell off aircraft near Atsugi
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Fadamor
The article TELLS you where they'll be leaving from:
8,000 Marines will be leaving Okinawa. That is, they WOULD be leaving right up until the Okinawan's issue some other ridiculous requirement that delays the Marines' departure even longer.
Posted in: U.S., Japan announce agreement to send Okinawa Marines to Guam
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Fadamor
??? I guess you didn't read my post above. It was (the Republican) President George W. Bush who approved the loans, not Obama. If anything, the Republicans should be thanking their stars that the bailout worked. It's just Karl Rove who appears to have forgotten what was happening three and a half years ago.
Posted in: Ford blasts GM 'apocalypse' ad for Super Bowl; Chrysler also under fire
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Fadamor
PETA is at it again. Looks like they've finally realized their previous publicity stunts - throwing red paint on people wearing furs - only resulted in an INCREASE in demand for the furs because replacements were needed due to the vandalism. Now they're going to try and get a court to declare domesticated animals "slaves". I hope you don't own a dog or cat, because dogs and cats would fall under any such ruling as well. I wonder what PETA would do if, upon winning the ruling, tens of thousands of pets were euthanized because the owners could no longer own them and the local governments refused to let them be released into the wild.
This is a pure publicity stunt and PETA should be slapped with a "Frivilous Lawsuit" charge. Every definition I can find of "slavery" either specifies being owned by "another" person, or "somebody else". Slavery is people owning people, not people owning animals.
Posted in: California court to decide if SeaWorld whales are illegal 'slaves'