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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Kronos
There is also no answer as "slightly safe" or "slightly dangerous". If there is risk, one should not be taking any chances.
Posted in: People want a simple answer: Is it safe or is it dangerous? But given the state of radiation science, there is no such thing as a simple answer.
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Kronos
So the husband is away for 40 minutes when the neighbours rush in, kill the wife, and put her body under the house.
Sounds like it was pre-planned. I am sure the husband will be questioned as well. We do not know if he was involved in this or not.
Anyway, I am sure we will read more about the details later.
Posted in: Woman’s body found under house floor in Aomori; neighbor arrested
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Kronos
How can the postponement be related to power cuts when the fireworks and not cancelled but postponed to August, one of the hottest months of the year, right after Obon when people are back to work? I do not remember August being that different from July.
Posted in: Sumida River fireworks festival to be held one month later than usual
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Kronos
Changes from company to company. Generally being prepared, giving out confidence, telling the truth, knowing what you are doing are the basics.
As we see in the current nuclear crisis here, saying one thing and then finding out you were wrong and others were right destroys your reliability and makes you look incompetent. People then think "Are these the people who are going to oversee this big crisis?".
Crisis is a time for confrontation - at least in the West. However in Japan people just bury their heads in the sand and hope that it will go away. The companies have it pretty easy here as well. The media and Japanese are not putting any pressure on them. "Ganbaro" is keeping everyone's mouth shut. If we take TEPCO as an example, it would have been ripped to shreds if it were operating in the West.
However considering this is Japan, companies do not need to have a good crisis management plan. There is minimal risk for them - especially if they are big companies. I would just advise them to make sure that their operations can continue under any physical threats (like an earthquake) and do not worry about it otherwise. Either the Japanese government or other companies will bail them out after their president makes an apology and resigns.
Posted in: What should a good crisis management plan for a company involve?
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Kronos
I would like to see them fight :-)
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Kronos
You know... with the way the legal systems works, these sons might end up getting a huge settlement over this...
Posted in: Bin Laden's sons say U.S. broke international law by killing their father
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Kronos
@ TumbleDry: I thought the security measures were there to prevent the terrorists to get on board the plane in the first place. If this person is really a terrorist (instead of a mad man), then someone's got to go over those measures one more time.
Posted in: Passenger tries to open emergency door on plane trip from Orlando to Boston
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Kronos
Just donate money.
Posted in: Quake-hit areas stuck with huge amount of unwanted donated items
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Kronos
@borscht: Surely you are not saying that Japanese government is giving bribes for Japanese services to be purchased abroad.
Posted in: Do you think Japan should cut back its ODA commitments to other countries and allocate the money instead to earthquake and tsunami relief efforts in the Tohoku region?
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Kronos
In legal terms, what are these operations in Afghanistan / Pakistan considered as, does anyone know?
Although they are called "war on terror", it is not technically a "war". Are they considered joint operations in another soverign country's soil or something? This one was not exactly joint since Pakistan forces did not know about it.
Different rules of engagement might apply depending on different types of status i.e. whether US had the right to storm in and kill the terrorists by itself, etc...
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Kronos
And if there are any long-term effects, it will be very difficult to link them back to the nuclear fallout that caused them. So I'd say nuclear industry is pretty much home free when they clear these short-term hurdles.
Posted in: Your hair won’t fall out. But ‘No immediate danger’ is an easy way for the nuclear industry to duck the long-term effects.
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Kronos
meh. Whoever thought that getting Osama would make the US troops come back was overly optimistic.
Posted in: Bin Laden's death complicates U.S. war plan in Afghanistan
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Kronos
Yes, Japan should stop and take care of its own house first.
Posted in: Do you think Japan should cut back its ODA commitments to other countries and allocate the money instead to earthquake and tsunami relief efforts in the Tohoku region?
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Kronos
Is there an alternative way to meet the huge energy demands of Japan?
Posted in: I don't know why, it is their choice, but they build reactors in seismically dangerous zones, which are everywhere there.
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Kronos
You have unlocked the achievement "Hacked"!
Posted in: Sony says 25 million more accounts hacked
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Kronos
@ Molenir: You will be held responsible if you have not put the best vault door available (or the best one that would provide the best protection under the circumstances) and did not inform your customers timely.
Sony has already started getting heat for informing the public a week after this breach has happened. They will most probably get dinged for it in some way. If it is found out that they had a lax security in place, it will be worse for them.
Posted in: Sony PlayStation disconnects 77 million user accounts after massive data breach
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Kronos
And in most cases parents pay the bills so there isn't much the students can do about it.
Posted in: It seems students have been told by their parents not to go to Japan, although they want to do so.
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Kronos
Personally, I think they should have gone through the proper channels. Just handing out cash without any documents / receipts / etc... does not make much sense for an organization.
Posted in: Donors hand envelopes with cash to evacuees in Ishinomaki
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Kronos
Not being tied to the strecher might have saved her life. I assume the strecher does not float?
Posted in: UK woman dropped into sea in botched cruise rescue
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Kronos
PR Stunt.
Go to Bloomberg and read the article "Geiger Counters Unlikely to Detect Radiation in Food, Water"
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