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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Eat, pray and get it on with your waitress? Nevermind I'm confusing this with a movie I was told never to watch if I value my time.
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Oh and if you really want to spawn the next nutter terroist then this is exactly what you do to have that image burn into the next hater's mind. Not the brightest thing to do. This isn't some sporting event that you just won... this is your way of life and some other group's way of life and their's is to take away your freedom so is it really that wise to taunt them into fighting that much harder to take it away from you?
I would quietly thank those that ended this nutters reign and move on with my life not trying to draw more attention.
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Is it just me or does this look like someone just Photoshopped a group of Spring Break Yahoos into the foreground with the Whitehouse (on a normal quiet night)?
At 1AM local time in DC it was 14c so do you really think that most those girls in that picture would be wearing JUST t-shirts?!? Something's just not right with this picture...
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Smoke crack and I would guess that CNN makes sense. I don't smoke crack so that's why I just don't get why they recap the living daylights out of something so simple. A molehill becomes a mountain. One gas station running of gas in a city of 2 million and the headline states fuel shortage. Every little problem becomes a "war on something...".
Posted in: CNN mobilizes its news gathering troops for Japan, Middle East
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Please tell me what is to pray? To whom do we pray to?
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They're not junk sheds built of plastic but more like houses built with old world post and beam construction with a VERY heavy tiled roof. This 'floating house' was built in the same manner EXCEPT it had a modern lightweight Japanese roof and so was intact through the earthquake only to be ripped up off its foundation to be taken away by the tsunami.
The tough part about Japan's land mass is most of the land is full mountains so unless you only put farming out on the low lying plains you will have tsunami related deaths and damage like this.
BTW, the Tokyo area will be under water if a tsunami like this went into Tokyo bay. Large parts of Tokyo would be flooded out and if you are in an area where you think you are high enough or far away enough, think again. The Tokyo Metro subway tunnels will actually 'pipe' the tsunami flow into areas where the tsunami would not have reached. All those 'tsunami gates' won't do much when the subway tunnels become water ways. BTW, I have NEVER seen any sort of 'firewall' or tsunami gates in any of the tunnel entrances when they go underground after going over a bridge crossing the many rivers surrounding Tokyo.
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ExportExpert - "Yes you give way to traffic on the RIGHT thats why its called the Right Hand Rule, it doesnt matter that we drive on the left in Japan, the same rule should apply and work like a charm, if only people obeyed it."
Really?!? merge much into the flow of traffic? In North America people are supposed to allow on ramp traffic ON THEIR RIGHT to merge in but that means based on your logic that in Japan NO ONE on the through traffic should allow anyone to merge into the traffic because they are coming in from the left and the right has the right of way. Good thing there aren't too many roundabouts in Japan because that would really just suck trying to get into them FROM THE LEFT.
I said that these rolling blaclouts would create far larger problems for eastern Japan. Traffic deaths and injuries are just the beginning. Wait for the electrical hazzards that will soon start to happen from people hooking up generators to their homes and back feeding power in a dead grid where someone thinking there is no power get fried. Then there's the food poisoning which I'm sure will follow as the temps go up in the coming months followed by people cooking to death and stupid mistakes from lack of sleep due to all these blackouts. Yeah, TEPCO did well placing all their eggs in ONE BASKET right up against the shoreline so that if a large enough earthquake knocked out power to the reactors there'd most likely be a large enough Tsunami to wip out the backup generators. I'm sure that these idiots place the handheld fire extinguisher right behind the stove so when the fire starts you need to reach through the 70cm flames to get it.
Posted in: Traffic accidents on the rise due to rolling blackouts
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ExportExpert - "Simple if everyone just used the right hand rule, which means gove way to all traffic approaching on your right this way traffic can move smoothly."
I don't think Japanese will understand the right hand rule as they drive on the left hand side of the road so in Japan you do not have the "right of way' but the "left of way" rule. Yet with the way most people drive here I don't think that even flies.
Posted in: Traffic accidents on the rise due to rolling blackouts
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In the end as I've said TEPCO will be found to have cut corners because they played the odds and FAILED!!!
escape artist worded it well "Sad thing is that KEPCO, or Kanden, providing the same function in the populous Kansai region, is not much better than TEPCO. Also run by a bunch of old, coddled, arrogant know-it-alls. The whole nuclear industry in Japan needs a complete overhaul."
You bet, Japan's whole nuclear power industry needs to give its collective head a shake and soon. There are four nuclear power plants between 65km to 85km from Kyoto and Kyoto is only around 45km away from Osaka and Kobe is next door to Osaka. You do the math...
Posted in: Edano criticizes TEPCO for series of mistakes on nuclear plant
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Meh, most of the time but sometimes she actually scares me and I don't know if that's a good thing...
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If Japan Inc turned off all the billboards, toned down the lighting in combini's (i.e. Lawson, Family Mart, Circle K, 7/11, etc.), had dept stores and office building watch the way they heat and cool in the TEPCO service area that in its self would make up for the loss in power generation. TEPCO claimed at the beginging that they were about 10,000MW short per day and that would be around 714,285 homes using the amount of power that I use in my 3LDK mansion per day based on my TEPCO bill.
If a vending machine uses four 32w light tubes then in 24 hours it uses 3.072KWh a day. There are seven vending machines within 20 metres of my building's front door so that would save 21.504KWh a day. Now imagine just how many vending machines are around you. You get the picture now.
The little blinky LED lights that most vending machine have use almost nothing so they would let you know that the vending machine is still on and running but shut off the main back lighting which is nothing more than a billboard.
Interesting fact is that they are/were suppose to start building reactors No 7 and No 8 at Dai-ichi starting 2013 and 2014. I wonder what the plans are like now that they have 3 reactors dead for sure although No 1 was only around 460MW and No 2 & 3 were 784MW and the new ones where going to be 1380MW each.
Posted in: Japan will struggle with power crunch after quake
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I don't think anyone ever gets used to 'disaster' and I hope that people can learn a lot from this disaster so that it saves lives the next time around because it will happen again and again.
Posted in: Japan will struggle with power crunch after quake
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Having lived in the Kansai and Kanto areas I would agree that not everyone 'works' however they still use electricity and when the sun rises makes no difference on one hour forward when the 'heavy users' are already using. BTW, old people get up earlier than roosters so I don't buy it that they will save energy by having daylight savings.
Posted in: Japan will struggle with power crunch after quake
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So farming will be done later in the day because of 'daylight savings'? You still need lights inthe moring when you're getting ready for work, no? If the trains and metro start running at just before 5am then you will simply shift the darkness to the morning. VERY stupid logic in a country that for the most part, where power conservation counts, never sleeps.
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Don't let the 'passengers to be' going to those airports that the dose from flying will FAR exceed those local levels. No, no, no, not the truth please!
Posted in: Haneda, Narita airports create web pages with daily radiation level updates
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Daylight savings will not save energy in Japan. Have you ever lived in Japan let alone ever been there for more than a week? If so you'd see that while it may appear that Japanese people sleep, Japan Inc does not. Try seeing what difference daylight savings will make when the overnight low temperature doesn't go below 29c. Yes, summer is coming and I hope this mess is well on the way to being dealt with. I'd rather be huddled under blankets bitching about cold than not be able to get naked enough because the rolling blackouts have us sweating it out.
Posted in: Japan will struggle with power crunch after quake
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If you are dumb enough to drink the tap water in Tokyo then one litre will net you the same radiation does as 188th of a chest xray. Isn't there a Japanese or Kanto saying that the water in Tokyo goes through 5 to 8 people before it reaches the sea again?! I remember hearing it just last year at a party in Midtown.
Posted in: Radiation discovery fans food fears in Japan
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But if Japan wants to use nuclear reactors why not build Thorium reactors which can NEVER have the problems that Japan is facing right now.
It would be really nice if JT could figure out a way to allow useful links to be allowed as it helps to inform others of what's out there.
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Posted in: Japan will struggle with power crunch after quake
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The 50/60Hz issue began back in 1895/1896 and you'd think if they didn't do anything after WWII when they were rebuilding that it will never change. Too much has been invested now so the odds of switching the whole country over to 50Hz or 60Hz is just not there.
For those that think they need plenty of gas just in case the reator 'finally' blows need to get a grip on reality. You think getting out of town on golden week is hard?! Ever watch some stupid movie where the end of the world is coming and everyone tries to drive out of Dodge? Yeah, you're really going to go far in your car when everyone else is trying the same thing.
Solar Power works great during the day but what about at night? How much space do you think it would take to generate 1380MW? BTW, 1380MW is the capacity of the newer nuclear reactors. How many wind generators would you need to generate 1380MW? Good luck finding an area in Japan that will allow that eye sore to be built near them and then it only works when the wind is there.
How about geo-thermal power after all Japan is sitting on a huge boiling tea kettle? Boiling water is really steam and steam is what these nuclear reactors are making to spin the turbines so why not tap what the earth is making anyways?
Posted in: Japan will struggle with power crunch after quake
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No worries there mate as those reactors were the oldest that TEPCO has in its power generation group. Fukushima Daiichi reactor 1 started up in March 1971 and has the smallest capacity at 460MW followed by No 2 in July 1974 running at 784MW, No 3 March 1976 also at 784MW and No 4 October 1978 also at 784MW.
TEPCO was suppose to start building two new reactors No 7 and No 8 each with a capacity of 1380MW starting in October 2013 and October 2014 but I'm guessing as soon as they have this situation under control they better start building to make up for the lost 2812MW capacity that these 4 dead reactors will have caused.
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