JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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To be healthy, live in the big city
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Japan's nuclear safety standards flawed, says commission chief
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Teacher nabbed for using miror to peek up girl's skirt
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From carnivores to herbivores: how men are defined in Japan
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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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
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Fadamor
Mabo, this has been updated. When Elbuda posted the guy probably was still on the loose.
Good to hear the guy dropped the kid safely off with the mom. That means he's not a TOTAL scum.
Posted in: Knife-wielding man who fled from police with infant son arrested in Aichi
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Fadamor
I think the zero comments (until mine) two days after this article posted pretty much sums it up. As for me, my eyesight is bad enough at age 51 without trying to view a handheld 3D screen. Nintendo will have to get by without my money this time.
Posted in: Nintendo 3DS game system gains momentum in U.S.
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Fadamor
I'm surprised that their figures were only down by that much, in between the Tohoku Earthquake/Tsunami and then the flooding in Thailand later in the year. (Apparently there were many parts suppliers for Japan based in Thailand.) If anything, the auto makers should be counting their blessings that the damage to their profits were only as much as they were. As the end of the article points out, the sales are almost assuredly going to rebound back to their prior levels.
Posted in: Japan auto sales down 15% in 2011
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Fadamor
Wrong. All the second amendment states, "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." So the second amendment deals with preventing the government from restricting civilians' ownership of guns. The reasoning was the civilians would need those guns in case the local branch of the State Militia was called up. (The government can't keep a State's militia from forming) This was a direct response to the situation prior to independence. The government (Britain) had outlawed the "states" (the 13 colonies) from forming militias by prohibiting the ownership of guns. The need for this amendment was eliminated once the states started supplying their own weapons to their "militias" (now called the "National Guard")
This woman exercising her right to SELF-DEFENSE has nothing to do with the Second Amendment. She could have used ANY weapon in the act of exercising her right to defend herself - knife, bow, baseball bat, etc. Self defense does not require a firearm.
Posted in: Oklahoma woman asks 911 operator for permission to shoot intruder
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Fadamor
Cops are not "trigger-happy" because it's a royal pain in the patootie, paperwork-wise, whenever they discharge their weapon - even if no one is injured in the process. At the least, you're going to be "patrolling a desk" while they investigate the discharge, and at the worst, you will be suspended from the force while they investigate the shooting. That's why they're given alternate non-lethal methods of deterrence to choose from (pepper spray, batons, etc.) when the situation warrants it.
Posted in: Texas police kill 8th-grader carrying pellet gun
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Fadamor
Always tricky when the suspect is carrying a child. Once he produced a weapon, you have to worry about the safety of the child more than the arrest of the suspect.
Posted in: Knife-wielding man who fled from police with infant son arrested in Aichi
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Fadamor
Boeing's military division is setting themselves up for failure if they do this. You can't promise (multiple times, apparently) that the jobs will be created in Kansas if you win the contract, then announce after the contract is awarded to you that you're looking at a move that will be CUTTING what's estimated to be over 2,000 jobs in Kansas. Boeing will never get another government contract awarded for this kind of deceit.
Posted in: Boeing to close Kansas plant where 2,160 employed
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Fadamor
To the kid's mother: Stupid quote. "Great kids" don't brandish an apparently deadly weapon in a confrontation with law enforcement. "Great kids" would have put the weapon down when first instructed to do so.
To those wondering why they didn't shoot an arm or a leg: Spend less time in the movie theatre. Only in the movies or cartoons does the good guy intentionally shoot to disable and not kill. REAL life is not what you see on the silver screen. If a REAL cop has to fire their weapon it will be aimed to kill, not maim/wound/"wing"/scare. What happens if you aim to "wing" a suspect, miss, and the suspect subsequently shoots you or someone else? Cops are trained that if they HAVE to fire, they should be aiming for center body mass. The adreneline flowing during the confrontation means it would be almost impossible to pick-off an arm or leg anyways.
To those wondering why there were three shots when "one was enough": Three cops - one shot, each, and almost simultaneously. DUH! Or perhaps you think that when a team enters a school, only ONE cop is the "designated shooter" and the others are there just for show? If three (or more) cops are aimed at me and I raise my weapon in a threatening manner, I can expect three (or more) bullets simultaneously heading my way.
Posted in: Texas police kill 8th-grader carrying pellet gun
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Fadamor
Following construction of this huge facility, the next earthquake will crack the concrete and allow irradiated material to reach the soil underneath.
Posted in: Environment ministry opens office in Fukushima to oversee decontamination work
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Fadamor
I have to agree this should be catagorized under "International" news, not "National". Gordon Hirabayashi was born in Seattle Washington. His only tie to Japan is that some of his ancestors came from Japan.
Interesting quote from him after the courts overturned his conviction:
[A&S Perspectives, Winter 2000, University of Washington]
Posted in: Japanese-American who fought WWII internment camps dies
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Fadamor
So are different grades given a different phrase to write, based on the kanji they would have been expected to have learned by then?
Posted in: Character references
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Fadamor
The tests I pointed out above were for 2007 and earlier (this lady's car was a 2006 model). Starting in 2008 the EPA changed the tests to include things that draw more power - like air conditioning. When a hybrid is running on battery, air conditioning is going to suck battery levels like a vampire. Faster battery drain = faster switch over to gasoline = lower MPG.
Posted in: LA woman takes unique road to sue Honda over mileage
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Fadamor
@hworta269,
Great info! Now tell us what the website said BACK IN 2006 WHEN SHE BOUGHT THE CAR.
Torrance is a suburb of L.A. and therefore has hot summers. You don't buy a car in California and not use the air conditioner. Honda posted the federally mandated sticker on their cars, but that sticker is next to useless as the auto industry lobbied Congress heavily to ensure the law requiring the label was watered-down. One of those watered-down rules allowed car manufacturers to test using the absolute ideal conditions (level road, no wind, no accessories in use), and to prominently display the "highway" mileage while de-emphasizing the "city" mileage.
Here's how this lady's car model was tested (pre-2008 test procedure):
(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_economy_in_automobiles#EPA_testing_procedure_through_2007)
You'll note that these are dynanometer tests. The car never even MAKES it to a road!
Posted in: LA woman takes unique road to sue Honda over mileage
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Fadamor
That's what the Persian Gulf often looks like - especially in the summer. It's more like a calm lake than an extension of the Indian Ocean. On my second deployment to the region (this time after the hostages had been returned), our job was to act as a "radar picket" for Saudi Arabia and we traveled to a spot in the Gulf and steamed in a 2 mile x 2 mile square - acting as a floating radar station. More often than not, the guys not on duty were fishing off the fantail. Not many waves out there.
Posted in: Iran threatens U.S. navy
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Fadamor
The headline is false. Iran is not a threat to the U.S. Navy. That said, you'll note Iran specified that the carriers can't enter the Gulf.. It was worded that way so they could claim success when the carriers don't enter the Gulf. (They don't have to, they can do what they need to from outside the Straits of Hormuz). I was in the navy back in 1979 when Iran was holding the U.S. Embassy personnel hostage. The U.S. sent a carrier force to Iran and my ship was one of the escorts in the carrier force. We NEVER entered the Straits of Hormuz and instead just steamed in a big circle outside of the Straits. The carrier (The U.S.S. Independence) was fine where it was. It's planes could reach any conceivable target in Iran from there. There was no need to restrict its maneuverability by entering the narrow Straits.
So Iran's "demand" is moot, and they know it.
Posted in: Iran threatens U.S. navy
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Fadamor
Actually, that's a valid procedure (assuming they then dust the house for "foreign" prints). Incompetence would have been to arrest him because they found his fingerprints all over the house.
Posted in: Police at first turned away surrendering Aum fugitive
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Fadamor
LOL. Lee Iacocca hasn't run a car company since 1992. He did some commercials for Chrysler in 2005, but that was as a paid actor, not as CEO (his fees plus $1 per car sold during the ad campaign went to one of his foundations, not him). Pop quiz as far as who had the good year: If the car companies aren't having a good year, what are the odds that the employees are having a good year? The one has to happen before the other. They don't happen simultaneously.
Posted in: U.S. auto industry looks ahead to another good year
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Fadamor
P.S. please note I use "act" rather than "band" when referring to AKB48. "Bands" use instruments besides just their voices. The Jackson 5 may have started as an actual band, but in their heyday they had morphed into an act with a back-up band.
Posted in: AKB48 wins top Japan record industry award
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Fadamor
Actually, my car was 100% built in Rüsselsheim, Germany. As for the clear-coat, the car gets waxed on a weekly basis, so how well or how poorly the clear coat was applied should not (hopefully) be an issue. Check back with me in four years on that one. And as for TARP, that was a program to help out banks who made poor mortgage speculation decisions, not car companies. What you're thinking of is in 2009 when the U.S. gov't and the Canadian gov't loaned GM money. GM paid all of that back in 2010.
(GM's Form 10-K for the year ending Dec 31, 2010 - Read page 100 for the loans' specifics) http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1467858/000119312511051462/d10k.htm
Posted in: U.S. auto industry looks ahead to another good year
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Fadamor
Seriously? Irradiated water? You folks ARE familiar with the inverse square law, right? In a nutshell, the farther the water travels from the source, the weaker the irradiation due to mixing with non-irradiated water. This fall-off is logarithmic, not linear. By the time the water made it to the western side of Japan, any radiation would be below normal background levels.
Posted in: Boat washed away in tsunami from Iwate turns up on Sea of Japan coast