JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- 加治金属工業株式会社, Tokyo
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- English Instructor (Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe)
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- Salary: ¥125,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month
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- ALT - Mie Prefecture - Yokkaichi City - June start
- NPO法人グローバル教育推進機構（GLAD), Mie
- Salary: ¥230,000 / Month For a full working month. Some months differ.
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Farmboy
Darren,
Didn't know about all that. Thanks - good info.
Posted in: Beef shipments resume from Fukushima Pref
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Farmboy
Darren,
Thanks for the link, and I totally understand your caution. The thing is, radiation seems to pop up in unexpected places, not just toward the east. Take this recent data, for example. Why is Yamaguchi prefecture, nowhere near the nuke plant, more than twice as high as surrounding prefectures? Weak batteries? Operator asleep at the geiger? Another nuke plant problem? We just don't know. And then, people are only talking about cesium, not other stuff that was evidently released as well. I just don't get that warm, fuzzy feeling of being protected from harm by the government.
http://radioactivity.mext.go.jp/en/monitoring_by_prefecture_environmental_radioactivity_level_prefecture/2011/09/13835/index.html
Posted in: Beef shipments resume from Fukushima Pref
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Farmboy
They had another one about a half hour ago, didn't they?
Posted in: M6.6 quake, 5 aftershocks hit Iwate, neighboring areas
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Farmboy
I just go by the radiation levels (prefer .05 on the map below or less), and I think northern Tohoku and Hokkaido aren't bad:
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/radiation-levels.html
I won't buy anything from southern Tohoku, nothing from Fukushima or Miyagi, and I'm staying away from all Japanese beef until they have a system I trust
Posted in: Beef shipments resume from Fukushima Pref
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Farmboy
Well, Japan had a long history of not eating meat, so they will survive this in any case..
Posted in: Beef shipments resume from Fukushima Pref
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Farmboy
There's a decent backgrond article here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floatingwindturbine
I don"t think it's such a bad idea, though i wonder about how the construction and maintenance will be done in an area that still has a lot of radioactivity. I know the things will float , but they have to be anchored somehow. Still, it's about the only kind of plant that could be built in the current environment.
Posted in: Japan to build floating wind farm near Fukushima nuclear plant
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Farmboy
I agree. I understand that Asashoryu's behavior was not always ideal for a yokozuna, but he did improve, and this should not have been the event to end his career.
Posted in: Man who fought with Asashoryu involved in another Roppongi punch-up
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Farmboy
"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me..."
Sad to say, now it's more like "send the bums home."
Posted in: At Liberty
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Farmboy
Hi Isabelle! What's up! Up to the minute. Up in the air. I mean, what's happening? There is a meeting today at 10. What do you mean? I'm a Chat-bot. I'm not programmed to be mean. I mean, how's it going? Are you going? Okay, see you next time! Bye!
Posted in: Chatbots teach English conversation
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Farmboy
"chat robots for English as a Foreign Language learning."
Yes, English as a Foreign Language learning is very important, but Chinese as a Foreign Language learning is becoming an important, too.
Posted in: Chatbots teach English conversation
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Farmboy
I've seen those hotels that folks are talking about, and they are usually next to egyptian pyramids and other tall, monumental items. This statue, however, actually was a tourist attraction, not a love hotel, and is still visited because it survived the tsunami, which was seen as a symbol of perserverence (light through a storm?) by some.
Posted in: At Liberty
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Farmboy
Nuclear reactor, not nuclear explosion.
Posted in: Blast at French nuclear site kills 1, injures 4
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Farmboy
Le Monde says,
So the oven contained only 4 tons of radioactive metal of only 67000 bequerels, less than 17 bqrls/ kg, very weak, and not comparable to the radioactivity level of a nuclear explosion.
Don't worry, be happy. Pass the wine and cheese.
Posted in: Blast at French nuclear site kills 1, injures 4
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Farmboy
I think it's good PR, and may be useful in emergencies. No one can predict how systems will fail, but this offers one more option.
Posted in: Seven-Eleven stores install phones for emergency use
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Farmboy
@Yogizuna Thanks... I'll try that.
Posted in: Post-tsunami Japan sticking with nuclear power
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Farmboy
100 percent nuke- free. Sorry for the error above. (It would be nice if we could edit these posts, especially for the mistake-prone among us...)
Posted in: Post-tsunami Japan sticking with nuclear power
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Farmboy
Where there's a will, there's a way. To say that Japan is sticking with nuclear power is misleading. I think people are looking much more seriously at possible alternatives, and will move in that direction. It will take time, yes, and 100 nuke-free may not happen in our lifetime, but things have already started moving that way in spite of the PR from the nuke-supporting companies. If people can sustain, over a generation, support for politicians in favor of a change, that is the way things will go.
Posted in: Post-tsunami Japan sticking with nuclear power
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Farmboy
A liitle more training in Japan and a liitle more careful control of info on the part of the US should solve future problems. This could have been bad, but instead serves to point out weak points that can be repaired. No real harm done in the end.
Posted in: Japan air traffic controller leaks Obama flight plan on blog
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Farmboy
I think it's just a custom that was established and is now supported in many languages. Think of the words we have to talk about time: decade, century, bi-annual, score. There is a certain resonance that has been established not only in English, but in many languages. I don't really know which came first, the language or the tendency, but at this point it's a self-perpetuating custom.
Posted in: Why do we mark anniversaries of tragic events like the March 11 disaster and 9/11? For example, why are six months any different from five months, or 10 years any different from nine years?
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Farmboy
Hiyodori, Yes, sorry.
Posted in: Quake shakes nuclear zone