JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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To be healthy, live in the big city
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Teacher nabbed for using miror to peek up girl's skirt
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Japan's nuclear safety standards flawed, says commission chief
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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
- Salary: ¥125,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month
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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
Meh. I don't watch it unless my team is in the game. And seeing as my team is the Redskins, I won't be watching for a while.
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Fadamor
Disclaimer: I haven't heard one note of an AKB48 song, nor could I identify a member out of a line-up. In short, I don't have any bias on the subject one way or the other.
For all of you complaining about the "bar being set too low" or how there are numerous acts better than AKB48, my reply is if the awards show is based on SALES (and most of the music awards are), then the numbers given in the article make a strong case for AKB48 winning the award. Unless you can come up with another act that had better sales in Japan, it sounds to me like the right act won.
Posted in: AKB48 wins top Japan record industry award
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Fadamor
Bought a replacement car this past April. It was a new 2011 (GM) Buick Regal so I guess I'm a small part of this story. My payments are $475 a month. Currently getting about 24 mpg combined. It was a definite step "up" from the Hyundai Elantra I had previously and I have not had any unpleasant surprises since I purchased the Regal. As of right now, I'll probably buy another GM car when it's time to trade this one in (in 2016).
Posted in: U.S. auto industry looks ahead to another good year
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Fadamor
As much as I hate the NRA, I'm going to have to side with them this time. This guy wasn't going to be deterred by some law that would have forbid weapons on park property!
Posted in: Rainier gunman's body found
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Fadamor
Lots of men in the picture, but with the exception of one I found, they're all security guards. The one who's NOT a security guard is in the bottom-right corner, just above the rail.
Posted in: Mad scramble
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Fadamor
Mark Hamill said "bloody hard"?! I didn't even realize he was British!
Posted in: 'Star Wars' saber-master dies aged 89
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Fadamor
Why the heck is an entire paragraph devoted to the publishing company this guy works for?! What does ANYTHING in that paragraph have to do with the actions of the reporter on the train? This smacks heavily of "NYAA NYAA! LOOK WHAT OUR COMPETITOR'S EMPLOYEE DID!" JT, you need to be a little better at hiding your glee... or being a little more mature about it... or both.
Posted in: Chunichi reporter arrested for allegedly molesting woman on train
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Fadamor
Committing vehicular homicide by driving while impaired. That's not "professional negligence", that's manslaughter.
Posted in: Father and son killed by drunk driver while heading to shrine
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Fadamor
Not sure who "we" are, but even BEFORE the accident nobody was saying nuclear power was the ONLY viable solution for Japan. What nuclear power provided was a cost-per-kilowatt advantage over every other alternative out there. Now that confidence in the relative safety of the plants has been shown to be "a bit" optimistic, they are going to have to re-calculate their cost-per-kilowatt figures to include the damage and costs associated with failures like Fukushima Daiichi. I've mentioned fusion power before. It will be a very safe alternative to fission reactors... once they work out the bugs. I doubt Japan will be returning to nuclear reactor-generated power as the method of choice until science has managed to sustain a fusion reactor for power-generating purposes.
In the meantime, the reactors that ARE already in place and online are going to need to certify that another tsunami isn't going to do the same thing it did to Daiichi. (hint: Get your emergency power generators off the ground and put them on top of the reactor buildings)
And I'm giving a thumb's-up to Star-Viking's comment. I seem to remember those quotes appearing here when the article about the study first came out. The author of this article probably felt mentioning that would lessen the impact of his article. A 'strategic" omission to make his article seem more hard-hitting.
Posted in: No-man's land attests to Japan's nuclear nightmare
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Fadamor
@tom,
They're saving "disaster" for if/when the corium melts through the containment vessel and reaches the water table. THAT would be a disaster. As for right now, we can be thankful no one has died due to this radiation release. (please, don't try to include the clean-up worker who died of lymphoma a week after starting work there. It doesn't happen that fast.)
Posted in: Gov't releases 40-year Fukushima nuclear plant cleanup plan
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Fadamor
Japan is purchasing the "A" model. It seemed to me that over half of the stated problems in the program were specific to the "B" (VTOL) and "C" (Carrier-launched) models. A couple of problems that would be generic to all three models would be the problems with the helmet display system and a (classified) problem that is assumed to relate to the plane's stealthiness.
Posted in: Troubled F-35 fighter jet gets a boost from Japan
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Fadamor
Time for my daily Japanese language lesson. 飲んで I understand, but ゴロリ? What is "gorori"?
Posted in: Subway manners
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Fadamor
Yep. Firebombing was very effective and was put into place after the allies had experienced how tenaciously Japanese soldiers fought over every island after the war had turned against them. The civilians of Japan continued to churn out weapons and other material for the war effort, so once their cities came into range of our bombers, the civilians and the factories they worked at were bombed. They were treated no differently than the German civilians were (i.e. Dresden), yet to hear some people talk you'd think the Japanese were the ONLY ones that were firebombed during WWII.
Posted in: First covert flight over Tokyo after Pearl Harbor attack described in new book
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Fadamor
Fighters require situational awareness that just isn't possible with drones. Add to that the signal delay between the drone and the operator, and you'll find a drone doesn't stand a chance against a manned fighter. The next time some news program is doing a live feed from somewhere else in the world, make note of the delay between when the anchor asks a question and the reporter starts answering the question. That's the delay between when a drone would detect an enemy fighter changed direction, the operator issues an appropriate course correction, and the drone RECEIVES the course correction. That delay will be fatal for the drone EVERY TIME.
Posted in: Japan formally selects F-35 as new fighter jet
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Fadamor
The ones ordered by Japan are the F-35A model.
F-35A - Normal take-off and landing.
F-35B - Short/Vertical take-off and landing.
F-35C - Normal take off and landing with carrier-launch and arrester gear modifications.
Posted in: Japan formally selects F-35 as new fighter jet
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Fadamor
I initially want to provide an amateur diagnosis of Post-Partum Depression (PPD). It turns out that PPD would not apply because it has never included infantcide as a symptom. More likely the diagnosis would be Post-Partum Psychosis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postpartum_psychosis
Posted in: Woman held for feeding baby daughter jelly laced with sleeping pills
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Fadamor
Too many "Kanpai!" encounters over his career?
Posted in: Award-winning director Morita dies at 61
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Fadamor
I didn't think there were that many corrupt businesses in the Tohoku region. If this is targeting small businesses, then I don't think you need to worry that much about corruption.Those are usually the larger businesses (or become so quickly).
Posted in: Microfinancing lifts tsunami-hit Japan firms
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Fadamor
...until an out of the ordinary situation develops and their response-time is too slow. In that case the passengers would probably notice milliseconds before they died. As automated as the flight decks have become, they STILL require alert pilots behind the controls for when Murphy's Law pays a visit. The one thing you could NEVER call a stoned or drunk person is "alert".
Posted in: ANA flight delayed after pilot exceeds blood-alcohol limit
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Fadamor
You have to look at it from the Alzheimer's patient's point of view: Here is this apparent "total stranger" trying to convince you that they are your wife/husband and have been for years. Your response would likely be that this was a scam to take your posessions. Most people WOULD react angrily towards something like that. When it gets to that point, there's nothing the spouse can do. They've lost their loved one to the disease and all that's left is a stranger.
Posted in: Wives recoil from violent fathers-in-law