JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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To be healthy, live in the big city
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Japan's nuclear safety standards flawed, says commission chief
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Teacher nabbed for using miror to peek up girl's skirt
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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
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- FT English Teachers for Kids - Osaka
- Kohgakusha Co., Ltd. （株式会社興学社）, Osaka
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- Translator
- ZAIHON, Inc. (日本財務翻訳株式会社), Tokyo
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JeffLee
Zenny, exactly, suit yourself. If your child is in a serious car accident and bleeding to death, where would take him/her? To a herbalist or alternative practioner? Or to a Western-style emergency ward at a modern hospital?
I know what choice I would make.
Posted in: Young acupuncturists get holistic in Tokyo
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JeffLee
Zenny, actually, life insurance companies LOVE traditional ("primitive") medicine because their statistics show that once their seriously ill customers turn to traditional medicines, they tend to die quicker. So the companies no longer have to provide care-support payments, and that means big profits for the insurance industry.
Sugar pills are actually used extensively by the alternative medicine crowd, like Patrick Holford. When you buy a modern medicine like Advil, you actually get an active ingredient, not sugar.
Posted in: Young acupuncturists get holistic in Tokyo
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JeffLee
If you really think acupuncture works, such as to kill pain, then forgo novocain and ask for acupunture the next time your dentist drills into your tooth. Then you'll find out how effective the traditional Asian approach to medicine really is.
Traditional medicines, with a small number of lucky exceptions, are nothig but primitive placebo. When people relied exclusively on trad. medicine, the average life expectancy was around 40. In societies that rely on Western medicine, it's around 80 or higher.
Posted in: Young acupuncturists get holistic in Tokyo
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JeffLee
That's because the "good news" and "official information" fed to them in the days following March 11 turned out to be lies or highly misleading. ("The situation is stabilizing.") Not everyone is a zombie.
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JeffLee
Are you for real? Japan's nuke industry has had a string of "unprecedented problems" over the years, from Tokaimura to the Monju exposions/coverup. And no, there has been no "rigging" of technologies during those years. Otherwise, there would already be shielding at Fukushima, dedicated vehicles, radiation-proof robots, etc., which you find in other countries like France.
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JeffLee
Bicultural, read my post: I said "most." You can cite individual cases all you like, but electric doors are indeed in response to a common cultural tendancy.
Posted in: Modern Japan: Origins of the Mind
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JeffLee
Bicultural, how do you know the chicken will be "cheap"? I've had stunning fried chicken elsewhere in Asia, often garished with fresh herbs and chilis. Yummy.
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JeffLee
Ah, right. The automatically opening doors installed in millions of shops nationwide, to cite just one example, are necessary here because most Japanese can't be bothered to hold doors for strangers. In Western countries, such doors aren't needed.
"Polite" is a very subjective term.
Posted in: Modern Japan: Origins of the Mind
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JeffLee
How dare they offer consumers reasonable prices.
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JeffLee
If the routes are unprofitable, they should be chopped, plain and simple, and not "temporarily." This foot-dragging approach by JAL has already cost us taxpayers billions. Stop the waste now.
Posted in: JAL cuts flight frequency on domestic routes
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JeffLee
So now Yasukuni, Hiroshima and other memorials in Japan can display the Allied perspective.
Posted in: Pearl Harbor visitors now get both Japan and U.S. views
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JeffLee
PCs have had quads for about five years now. Why are Macs always so fare behind the times? If you want cutting-edge technolgy, get a PC. Whenever the latest, sh*t-hote hardware rolls off the assembly lines, it first ends up in PCs.
Posted in: Apple upgrades iMacs with quad-core processors
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JeffLee
Why aren't these huge armies of cops around when the right-wingers do their regular cavalcades down my local streets, snarling traffic and causing public disturbances?
Posted in: May Day
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JeffLee
Not a single Japanese company mentioned among the world's top tech companies. How things have changed.
Posted in: Apple juggernaut sends ripples through tech world
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JeffLee
Want to help? Then give money and stay at home. Unless you're a medical specialist, building engineer, etc. you will probably make things worse by straining the already strained infrastructure. You'll be using shelter and food that could be used for victims.
Plenty of local fishers, workers, etc have been left jobless from the disaster. Better that the government employ their labor and pay them wages than to have outsiders do the labor for free.
Posted in: Golden Week volunteers overwhelm some disaster sites
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JeffLee
So based on the advice of a number of scientific experts, the airline has been restricting its exposure to Narita for human health reasons? What is the implication for us chumps who have been in the Kanto region all along?
Posted in: Qantas resumes Narita flights
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JeffLee
Not relevant. The French left your country, and your "law and culture." Most of these immigrants will never leave Europe.
Posted in: France blocks train from Italy with migrants
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JeffLee
It depends on her hobbies. If they are of the outdoor variety, then conceivably she would have more time for them. Outdoor swimming pools, for instance, could extend their hours into the evenings, offering people the chance to go for a cool swim after work or dinner. That would cool them down naturally, reducing their need for air conditioning.
Posted in: Morinaga starts 'summer time,' calling employees to work at 8 a.m.
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JeffLee
He actually said "use my time more wisely." I know I used to use my time more wisely while living in a summer-time country - after dinner I'd play tennis, go for a bike ride, meet friends, etc. Having more natural light available during waking hours tends to enhance a person's quality of life.
Posted in: Morinaga starts 'summer time,' calling employees to work at 8 a.m.
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JeffLee
That single scene represents amazing feats of engineering, technology and ambition.
Posted in: Heavy help