JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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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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To be healthy, live in the big city
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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
This was a nice gesture on the part of the outgoing owner. He's managed to assuage any fears about the buy-out that his former employees might of had. By this one act, he's told them that he hasn't forgotten all the hard work they've put into the company. When you think about it, the reason he could sell the company for such a nice profit had almost nothing to do with him and almost everything to do with his employees. They're the ones who gave his company value.
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Fadamor
Rakuten has already made the change to English, right? Any idea on whether they've also started allowing people to think outside the "corpthink"?
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Fadamor
Your thinking is flawed because that's an unscientific "visual poll" you're conducting. Of COURSE the numbers of smokers are going to be higher in establishments that allow smoking. It attracts a higher percentage of smokers and that, in turn, drives away more non-smokers. Your "visual poll" would be like me conducting a poll of spectators in a stadium during a soccer match and asking "Do you like soccer?" Any results would be heavily skewed.
Posted in: Gov't figures show lowest ever percentage of smokers
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Fadamor
Good luck with THAT request. They have to pump out the heavy fuel oil while replacing it with seawater so the vessel doesn't get lighter and shift, slap a patch on the gash in the hull, re-float the hull, then pump out most of the water inside before towing it away. It's going to probably take longer than 30 days before the ship is gone.
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Fadamor
Interesting, but no mention of what happened to sales after one of their pilots nearly rolled one of their planes in flight. A tactical omission?
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Fadamor
No. This happens worldwide. If it didn't happen worldwide we wouldn't still be getting those phishing emails trying to get us to cough-up our account details. SOMEBODY must still be falling for those or they would give up and try something else.
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Fadamor
@Malfupete,
Perhaps you missed the part about the companies paying $548,000,000 in fines (about 41,832,062,240 yen), and the executives spending two years in jail (with a subsequent deportation)? I wouldn't call that a "light" sentence.
Posted in: Two Japanese auto suppliers to pay price-fixing fine in U.S.
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Fadamor
@Farmboy, the float in this article is black. the floats in your video are white.
Posted in: Japanese official checks for tsunami debris in U.S.
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Fadamor
But they're still going to miss their target if they're going after the RECORD market. That would be like Asian actors trying to enter the silent film industry.
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Fadamor
Radar is the long-range method of detection. A flight of completely radar-stealthed aircraft are going to advance much father without being detected than a flight of non-stealthed aircraft. If the flight is at night, that eliminates optical acquisition. The only remaining methods of detection are thermal and aural. Once detected, radar-guided missiles are not going to be able to lock-on and if the planes are high enough, even heat-seekers won't have a target to acquire. If you can get a fighter to come up behind them you could launch a heat seeker, but how do you vector the fighters to intercept? Making a plane completely invisible to radar would be all that is needed. Making it invisible in the visible spectrum is gross overkill.
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Fadamor
I'm calling a press conference this afternoon to set the record clear that I have never dated Meisa Kuroki previously. If she wants to change that status, she knows how to reach me. ;-)
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Fadamor
If it works as described and is accurate, I agree with JohnBecker. This is the stuff of Nobel Prizes for Medicine.
After so many seasons of "CSI" I had thought this kind of thing already existed. I was brought back to reality one day when I had reason to stop by the local county's police property building. At the window was a notice for police officers and prosecutors listing the approximate number of days it would take to get DNA results back. The average wait was 120 days.
If this works, THIS ROCKS.
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Fadamor
Again we're back to "contaminated" discussions when most of the tsunami debris has nothing to do with Fukushima. Unfortunately, people seem to have adopted the mentality that if it's debris from the earthquake/tsunami, then it's radioactive. This is a FALSE assumption. Certainly SOME of the debris has radioactive contamination (especially the debris in and around Fukushima Daiichi), but most of the tsunami debris is outside the contaminated areas.
Posted in: Should prefectures outside the Tohoku area accept tsunami rubble for incineration or disposal?
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Fadamor
So in short: If it could be construed as yakuza business related, it's taboo, but if it's stuff for the individual then it's OK.
There. I just paraphrased the entire article in one sentence.
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Fadamor
It still amazes me that the yakuza have been allowed to operate in the open for as long as they have. Only NOW the laws are being put into place?!
Posted in: Calling the plays on the new anti-gang law
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Fadamor
Well the huntsman IS wielding an ax, so maybe he's a Dwarf Huntsman? With six brothers back in the mines? :-D
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Fadamor
I sure am glad that scientists like physicists electrical engineers are NOT expected to be working on medical cures. Let's leave the medical stuff to the medical scientists, mmmKay?
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Fadamor
There's nothing that says the debris is radioactive OR untreatable. The majority of the debris is going to come from areas nowhere near Fukushima Daiichi. Most of these people who need to rebuild lived right near the ocean so they could get to their fishing vessels easily. I don't think a rural area like Gifu appeals to them as it's too far from the harbor.
The sad part is we as a species really don't KNOW what a "safe" level of radiation exposure is. Where knowledge is missing, fear and superstition flourish.
Posted in: Radiation fears slow clean-up in Tohoku
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Fadamor
Didn't vote on this because they didn't include a "Depends" answer. Whether or not a prefecture decides to accept rubble is something only that prefecture can decide. They are also the only ones that should be able to set what conditions must be met in order to accept the rubble. JT, the readers of JT, or anyone else outside of their prefecture shouldn't have any say in the matter.
Posted in: Should prefectures outside the Tohoku area accept tsunami rubble for incineration or disposal?
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Fadamor
Horrible. Night time, some haze (but apparently not enough to get people to slow down) then you enter the smoke area, dropping your visibility to zero with no warning. Impacting stopped vehicles @ 60mph... I'm surprised there weren't many more fatalities than 10.
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