JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- English Instructor (Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe)
- Berlitz Japan, Inc. (ベルリッツ・ジャパン株式会社), Kansai
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- FT English Teachers for Kids - Osaka
- Kohgakusha Co., Ltd. （株式会社興学社）, Osaka
- Salary: ¥255,000 ~ ¥275,000 / Month Travel Expenses, Encouragement of Japanese learning*
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- Translator
- ZAIHON, Inc. (日本財務翻訳株式会社), Tokyo
- Salary: ¥6.0M / Year Negotiable
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Fadamor
Is a smoker: Stupidity Indicator Number 1
Has a child at age 16 (17 for the father): Stupidity Indicator Number 2
Has ANOTHER child at age 18 (19 for the father): Stupidity Indicator Number 3
There's no reason to be asking "what was she thinking", because she hasn't been doing any thinking for at least five years.
Posted in: Two sisters, aged 5 and 3, perish in Tokyo fire
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Fadamor
Apple gets hoist upon their own petard. To the company that will sue anyone trying to use their products in a manner they haven't first sanctified, a bit of karma is delivered.
Posted in: Chinese city seizes Apple iPads in name dispute
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Fadamor
Something's flawed with the study, or it was conducted BEFORE the news broke that Apple uses sweatshop factories in China to make its demonic tools of the apocalypse.
Posted in: Apple dethrones Google as company with most respected image in eyes of consumers
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Fadamor
Obviously he took the cabbie's cell phone to prevent him calling in the theft right away. Depending on where he left the cabbie, it may have been some time before he could find a phone to call the police.
Posted in: Passenger robs taxi driver, then steals cab in Ibaraki
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Fadamor
Let me guess... these anonymous "others" who are spreading the rumors flubbed the song in some way on TV, right? (i.e. Christina Aguilera of "...twilight's last reaming" fame) Seems a bit of sour grapes to me.
Posted in: Speculation rages over cause of Houston's death
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Fadamor
The coroner is doing his job properly. You don't release a cause of death until ALL the lab results are back. Toxicology results can take weeks depending on how in-depth the tests to be conducted are. Given the celebrity status of the deceased and her past history of drug abuse, I'm sure they went with as complete a round of tests as they possibly could.
As for those who feel her voice was somehow sub-par simply "just because she sold a bunch of records", I guess they have never heard her sing before the drug abuse ravaged her voice. "The Star-Spangled Banner" is a technically challenging song to sing because of the range required, yet in January 1991 at the Super Bowl in front of a live national TV audience numbering in the millions, she nailed it so perfectly that her rendition has become the "gold standard" upon which all performances since have been measured against (and so far found wanting). From Wiki:
Mind you, this was not for a pop song. This was for a NATIONAL ANTHEM. Still care to demean her singing?
Posted in: Speculation rages over cause of Houston's death
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Fadamor
As much as the vocal radicals want it to still be called that, the American military force in Japan ceased to be an occupying force when administration of Okinawa was handed back over to Tokyo in 1972.
An occupying force will stay there regardless of the country's wishes. The U.S. forces are not occupying forces because, if the Japanese government decided to terminate the 1960 agreement and asked the U.S. to leave, the U.S. would. The U.S. wouldn't LIKE it because, let's face it, moving from ANYWHERE to ANYWHERE is expensive and a huge pain in the @$$ but the move WOULD happen. Article 10 of the 1960 treaty states:
To date, I haven't heard that Tokyo has given their 1-year's notice to terminate, have you? That would give Tokyo one year to build their defense forces up to the point that was covered by the American forces. Of course, that would mean higher taxes on every Japanese citizen as they would now be required to foot the entire bill for their national defense.
Posted in: Gemba assures Yamaguchi that more U.S. troops will not be relocated there
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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