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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Himajin
That cracked me up!
Posted in: 78-year-old driver arrested after fatal 9-car pileup
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Himajin
Such laws were implemented about 5 years ago. The trouble is, the law isn't strict enough. It does not give anyone the right to take a license away.
My MIL with Alzheimer's (Stage 4 at that time) passed the driving test because she was in her own car and she'd been driving for 47 years. Driving, however, is not just physically getting the car around a course or from Point A to Point B...many fairly affected people can do it. Where the deficits become apparent is in risk assessment and decision-making capability.....'here comes a kid maybe heading into the road, do I have to hit the brake, or is he going to reach the side of the street when I've already gone by?' If nothing unexpected ever happened, and roads never changed, even the slightly impaired elderly could be great drivers. Things fall apart when the unexpected happens.
I knew how bad MIL's AD was...I thought she would not be given a license when it came up for renewal. We had already taken her car away 6 months earlier because of frequent accidents, usually going in and out of her own gate, but finally she made an extremely poor decision and had an accident involving another car. She was going to make a right out of a T-intersection onto the main drag (main drag being the top of the 'T'). A car was turning into the street where she was waiting her turn, they had the right of way. She couldn't wait her turn, and drove *diagonally *across the narrow road, trying to beat the other car and get out before they finished turning in, and took off their whole front bumper. We took the keys right there.
I refused to take her for her new license, we kept saying, 'We'll drive you wherever you need to go' etc. She went behind my back and went to take the test with a neighbor who she had snowed, telling him it was fine, we were fine with her getting her license renewed. I thought she was up to something, but I never thought she'd pass. She passed!! 'See? The police say I can drive so GIVE ME BACK MY CAR!!' Whoo boy, 18 months of 'my car, my car' 100 times a day. I called the licensing center, livid. They said that by law they were only allowed to counsel the elderly they thought were impaired, to stop driving. What elderly person is going to obey 'Please stop driving, we don't think you should anymore'?
The laws are in place, but they need to add on provisions to take away someone' license in the advent of dementia or other impairment. As it stands now, doctors do not have the right to take away a driver's license, and neither do the police. It's left to family members, who in the elderly's eyes, have no authority to make that judgement.
Posted in: 78-year-old driver arrested after fatal 9-car pileup
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Himajin
Matt of 'Where the Hell is Matt?' fame danced there this past spring...
Posted in: Iron man
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Himajin
Activism that is really doing nothing much is rampant lately.....post your bra color on Facebook 'to raise awareness of breast cancer' wear purple if you know someone with Alzheimer's, wear red to work to raise awareness of heart disease, and last but not least the 'We are Tomodachi' campaign on cable TV. Everybody just feels that they're doing something without accomplishing squat...
Posted in: Armani dedicates fashion collection to Japan's quake victims
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Himajin
Yay! Your blood type and place of birth are not excuses for bad manners! I was seriously ticked watching him on the news this morning. Some commentators said he was wrong in his chastisement of the Miyagi governor, who is from a Self Defense Forces background, and doesn't need to be told what to do.
What a doof, good riddance.
Posted in: Reconstruction minister resigns over offensive remarks; Hirano takes over
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Himajin
You can choose * not to* suck up everything they say.
Posted in: Norika has the ideal body
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Himajin
Nobody predicted this one...they knew the stress was building, but not much more than that. They've been predicting the Tokai quake since the late 70s, all the earthquake prep funding has going to Tokyo and environs, and look what happened in Tohoku. The Hanshin quake was not predicted, either. The Hokudan fault that ruptured in the '95 quake was not on the top of the list for likely sites.
The Tokai and the Nankai are both overdue. They recur every 140 years or so, often come together or within a day of each other...they last occurred in 1703 and 1854. 157 years ago. There is also the matter of the big chunk of seismic plate jammed under Tokyo--
Around 100 kilometres (60 miles) wide and 25 kms (15 miles) thick, the chunk is jammed between tectonic plates that converge beneath the flat, densely-populated plain.
The giant fragment is a potent trigger for a hugely destructive kind of quake, for it wedges between two of the plates and prevents them from sliding smoothly over one other.
The main cause appears to have been a collision of two chains of seabed mountains into the Japan Trench on the ocean floor about 200 kms (120 miles) east of modern-day Tokyo.
"The fragment is now jammed between the Pacific and Philippine Sea slabs, like a pill that can't be fully swallowed," they said.
Who knows where is next? All you can do is be prepared, have supplies at hand, and an escape route and meeting place for family.
Posted in: March 11 quake freed hundreds of years of strain
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Himajin
Home made is best!
Posted in: Fried chicken enjoying boom in Japan
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Himajin
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Why would any one want to visit Japan any way! Its boring, unhealthy- mildly to extremely contaminated with radiation, air & water pollution, over crowed, expensive, difficult to navigate, unhelpful people (language barrier), over priced organised tours are over priced and spend more time driving & eating than seeing(if)any attractions, toll roads, navigations systems in hire cars & maps etc difficult to interpret, natural beauty is rare or micro manged & often rundown (ie; Boso Peninsular) ,the weather is only good for 3 months out of 12, train stations look third world, public toilets dont have doors, I could go on but I am trying to guess the name of this weeks PM."
So, what's your interest in posting here?
Posted in: Why do tourists continue to stay away from Japan, despite the fact that there are many places of interest far away from the crisis-affected areas? What should Japanese tourism officials do to promote Japan as a safe destination?
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Himajin
More than 75% of people I spoke with seemed to think that all of Japan was a glow zone.
Exactly. "Quake Rocks Japan!!" "Japan Nuclear Crisis!!" all the foolish screaming headlines just led me to see how ignorant most of the west is about Japan. Switzerland would fit quite nicely into Hokkaido and yet the 'Japan is so smaaaaaall, everywhere must be irradiated!' foolishness continues.
Radiation in Tokyo is down to pre-quake background levels, where's all this supposed swirling radiation?
How many of you nay-sayers actually live here?
Posted in: Why do tourists continue to stay away from Japan, despite the fact that there are many places of interest far away from the crisis-affected areas? What should Japanese tourism officials do to promote Japan as a safe destination?
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Himajin
The pictures were taken by an employee with his own camera. With no electricity and all the other problems they had afterwards, I doubt it was a priority to get the pictures out.
The sea wall was 10 meters in height, and was completely crushed.
It is if you don't have another major body of water or river nearby.
Posted in: Water power
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Himajin
It's useless. Don't even try. Too few people have anything in the way of a decent science education, don't understand cause and effect, and have no knowledge of what scientific method is. I've had CT'ers show me personal emails as "proof" of some of their pet theories. Sorry, a personal email stating that vapor trails are really poisonous 'chemtrails' doesn't cut it as evidence. Lorraine Day saying she cured cancer with diet alone without a pathology report clearly proving she had cancer in the first place doesn't cut it......a study of 8 autistic children with the time line of the presentation of their autism symptoms based on parental recollection does not prove autism caused by the MMR injection. But you can't tell them that! You can ask 'Well then, why do Norway and Japan have similar rates of autism despite thimerosal never being used in the MMR?' but you won't get an answer. Belief in the theory is foremost....doesn't matter if it's a sham. It's a unique mentality.
Posted in: What makes conspiracy theorists tick and what is the best way to combat their beliefs?
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Himajin
ポポポポ〜ン！ Couldn't resist....;-P
A friend posted a link on Facebook that lead to this:
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原発から楽しくない仲間がポポポポ〜ン♪ 3/26/11 9:56 AM た〜のし〜い な〜かま〜が
ポ ポ ポ ポーン♪ ∵∴ ∵∴ ∵∴ ∵∴ ∴∵ ∴∵ ∴∵ ∴∵ .┷┷┷ ┷┷┷ ┷┷┷ ┷┷┷ １号機 ２号機 ３号機 ４号機
Can't post links here, more's the pity.
It was just too much repetition. It would be cruel to broadcast food and beer commercials to people who are hungry and haven't got relief yet, that I understand well. I agree with the idea of music instead of commercials.
Posted in: Repetitive post-quake public service messages drove TV viewers nuts
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Himajin
What does that have to do with my post? The question further upthread was 'would you be as hard on Japanese who left?' and I said 'Yes, if they left without notice to employers and landlords' because such behavior is inconsiderate. I would feel angry at anyone who acted that way. Never said it was only gaijin who did it.
Posted in: Why did those foreigners who decided to leave Japan in the aftermath of the March 11 disaster come in for so much derision from some people who labeled them with words like 'flyjin?'
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Himajin
Ill-mannered, low level "journalism". They should be ashamed of themselves. They're not, of course...
Posted in: Is U.S. military relief effort Operation Tomodachi really about friendship?
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Himajin
Did they give notice to landlords and bosses? If not, yes!
Posted in: Why did those foreigners who decided to leave Japan in the aftermath of the March 11 disaster come in for so much derision from some people who labeled them with words like 'flyjin?'
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Himajin
??? Huh? Really? This goes against any coverage I've seen so far. I find it highly unlikely.
Posted in: Earthquake, tsunami drills may have been counter-productive
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Himajin
“By using notices and cyber control, we can track down those who spread wild stories,” warns a source at the MPD’s Hi-Tech Crime Prevention Center. “There’s the possibility that malicious rumors can set off a frenzy, which can be treated as interference in the carrying out of police duties. Our guidelines are to deal with such offenders speedily and severely.”
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Then they need to go after a bunch of British, German and American "news" sources as well....
Posted in: Should rumor spreading be a prosecutable offense?
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Himajin
Cleo, good to see you! I was thinking of you, I'm glad you're ok.
Posted in: Happy dog
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Himajin
Looks like a Flatcoat mix...his eyes though, he looks sad.
Posted in: Happy dog