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
- 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
You should have stopped right there. There is no "but". If ANYTHING happens to the ship that was preventable, the captain is at fault. It's one of the responsibilities that comes with acquiring the title of "Captain". The cruise line office can suggest and even ORDER until they're blue in the face, but the Captain has the final word on ANY maneuvers the ship makes. It's the same with aircraft. Just because Air Traffic Control tells you to make a 30 degree left turn doesn't mean you HAVE to do it. If there's a thunderhead at that bearing you have to notfiy ATC that you cannot comply.
Posted in: Italian cruise ship captain blames company pressure
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Fadamor
...for a decade of WHAT? Debauchery?
(hint: should be "...best shape in a decade.")
Posted in: Woods says he is in best shape for a decade
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Fadamor
I'm assuming these tanks were filled with propane? I'm surprised Japan allows venting them directly into the atmosphere. Japan seems so recycle-conscious you'd think they would make you exchange them rather than vent and discard.
Posted in: 8 hurt in explosion at izakaya in Kobe Chinatown
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Fadamor
"Course" as in singular? Try again. From Harvard's website:
I don't know of any single course that awards a MINIMUM of 22 credits. Do you? Also, the courses (plural, as in "more than one") are not "Introduction to U.S. Law" as you alleged in your first post. Again, from Harvard's website:
Bottom line is she DID graduate from Harvard with a Master of Laws degree after completing the required 22-26 credit-hours of study in a single academic year. This wasn't a "Basketweaving 101" degree.
Posted in: 36-year-old Harvard law graduate elected Japan's youngest female mayor
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Fadamor
@Newsman,
I'm guessing you're relatively new to JT. "Photo of the Day" often will show photos that are not much more than advertising - especially if lingerie, legs, and/or cleavage are involved. That's why they put it in the "Photo of the Day section rather than the "National", "Crime", "Sports", "Politics" or "World" news sections. Wakarimashita?
Posted in: Mane event
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Fadamor
?? Most houses are still built with 100% wooden framing. The only thing NOT wooden is the drywall, and THAT is only going to help if the construction workers hung the drywall properly. (They sure didn't do a good job in my house.)
Posted in: Mother, two children perish in fire in Yamagata
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Fadamor
Exactly. So criticisms of the survivors are out of line at this time. In all likelihood they are tormenting themselves right now - asking why the children couldn't have escaped instead of them?
A fireman who enters a burning building without a Scott Air Pak quickly becomes a statistic. Trying to be a hero and save people is fruitless if you're unconscious before you find anyone.
Out of all the people here, Zichi is probably the only one who can criticize (if/when the time comes) as he is a survivor. As part of our navy training in fire fighting, we were placed in a large compartment that then had oil bunkers set on fire and the smoke pumped into the room. The purpose was to give us the experience of trying to navigate a smoke-filled compartment without the aid of an air pack. This was 33 years ago and I still can remember the rising panic as any attempt to inhale even the tiniest amounts of air caused spasms of coughing. When you can't breathe, basic survival instincts override rational thought.
Without knowing the EXACT situation in this house at the time they realized the house was on fire, I refuse to second-guess anything the survivors did or didn't do.
Posted in: Mother, two children perish in fire in Yamagata
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Fadamor
I learned of Akiba first as an electronics store wonderland. I didn't learn of the otaku-nerd tie-in until later. That said, I'd probably would have visited a maid cafe (just to say I did so) before a camera store if I went there. I already have about all the electronic stuff I can handle. Nice to see they are working on improving the image of the distriict. I'd have to add this mall to my list of things to visit.
Posted in: There's more to Akihabara than nerds and maids
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Fadamor
U.S. is running into this too. Baby boomers are retiring and the Zero Population Growth "ZPG" movement of the 1970's meant most families from then on limited themselves to one or two kids. Those kids are now in the workforce and having to pay taxes to support the retired baby boomers.
The only silver lining to this problem is if we survive the drain the baby boomers put on the social security "net", when the current workers retire there should be about an equal number of kids who have taken their place in the workforce. I'll bet the ZPG proponents never took the impact on social programs into consideration when they were chastising large families back in the 70's.
Posted in: Gov't says revenue from 5% consumption tax hike to be used only for social security
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Fadamor
Hmm. Others seem to disagree with you. From yesterday's Japan Times:
Posted in: 36-year-old Harvard law graduate elected Japan's youngest female mayor
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Fadamor
As the government has lost all credibility with the public regarding nuclear power, they have been forced into this situation. I guarantee that if they could have figured out another way to get the public's confidence back up to the point where they could re-start some reactors, they would have done THAT instead of asking for a permanent U.N. presence.
What I'm confused about is the location: the reactors in Fukushima aren't getting started again - ever. Sure, reactors 5 and 6 were not damaged in the disaster, but the people in Fukushima will never let them be re-started no matter WHO says it's safe. If you're going to base a U.N. post somewhere, do it near reactors that have a chance of restarting.
Posted in: Japan seeks U.N. nuclear agency presence in Fukushima
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Fadamor
Earlier this month, "mother stabs son", now "son stabs mother". What's next? "Son castrates self, then stabs self"? (Wait, that's probably already been done too."
Posted in: Man held for attempted murder after stabbing mother in back
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Fadamor
I have to wonder about that apartment manager, though. He says he hadn't "heard from the women since mid-month", yet the older one apparently died sometime around New Year's. That means he only talked to the one with mental issues and then just about the time she died. As the apartment manager, wouldn't he know if an apartment has heat and power? Something isn't right with this story.
Posted in: Bodies of two sisters found in Sapporo apartment
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Fadamor
OK, so...
Umm... WHAT?! So this woman "jumped into the sea", then climbed back onto the ship and went below-decks and proceded to drown inside the ship? What's wrong with this picture?
Posted in: Italian cruise ship captain blames company pressure
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Fadamor
Unless the shelters and temporary housing are getting "BS Premium TV", looks like most of the survivors won't be able to watch much of this. An hour and 15 minutes on "General TV" compared to six hours on pay TV. Something tells me the TV networks aren't doing this gratis.
Posted in: SMAP, AKB48 among 20 acts to appear on NHK program to mark 1st anniversary of March 11 disaster
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Fadamor
What they call "hostess clubs" in Japan seem to equate to the "clip joints" of my days in the navy: Two drink minimum and the drinks are way over-priced. Girls come up and stroke your ego while getting you to order more of the over-priced drinks. Bottom line is they get your money and you may or may not get drunk depending on how much they watered down the liquor. The first thing to go when you're drunk is your ability to evaluate things rationally. The honey sitting in your lap calling you "baby" is asking for you to get a $100 bottle of champagne (that probably cost the owner $15) and you say, "Yeah, why not?" They LOVE it when you're drunk!
Posted in: The day the drinks stopped pouring
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Fadamor
Areas that get lots of snow typically have higher peaks to their roofs. This naturally makes for a steeper incline that allows the snow to slide off before the weight exceeds the load carrying capacity of the roofing material. There's a whole discussion about how increasing the roof-incline moves the weight vector away from pushing directly in on the roof, but I'd mess it up if I tried to explain it in detail.
One other reason to be keeing the snow off the roof is if you have gutters. There's a problem around here with the eaves rotting away due to ice dams. In short, the heat from inside the house works its way up to the roof, melting the snow immediately touching the roof. The water from the snow melt runs to the gutters which are NOT warmed by the house. The snow melt re-freezes in the gutters and the resulting ice dams eventually back up to the lip of the roof - soaking the wood underneath the shingles. Wet wood = rotting wood.
Posted in: Man dies after falling from icy roof in Nagano
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Fadamor
The diplomat explained it perfectly. This has nothing to do with being a "lap dog" and everything to do with knowing who's going to be here in the coming months. You can't negotiate in good faith if the person you're talking to has no expectation of being in that seat the next time you return. Japan's inability to keep a PM in office has become an international joke. DICTATORS are pointing to Japan as an example of how democracy is a failure as a government model. The U.S. would LOVE it if a P.M. stayed in office for four or more years - even if the P.M. was staunchly anti-U.S. At least that way the U.S. diplomats would know what sort of difficulties need to be addressed in the long term. The way it is now every nine months "births" a new round of difficulties along with a new P.M.
Posted in: U.S. gov't hoping Noda can stick around for awhile
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Fadamor
The only problem with videoing the meetings, is that someone would then "accidentally" erase the video before it could be transcribed. Fourteen "gomennasai"s later, they'd be in the same boat they're in now.
Posted in: Nuclear disaster task force kept no records of meetings
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Fadamor
As a major city in the country, Osaka actually IS a representative of Japan. It is expecially representative of the larger population centers in Japan. The parts of Japan that are not well represented by Osaka are the rural areas and smaller islands that make up the country.
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