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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- 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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- Business Teaching Positions - Part-time - Kanto Region
- Interac, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥3,000 ~ ¥5,000 / Hour
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KuriDa
According to the Japan Electric Association, the country now has only 4 of 54 reactors in operation and yet is still running. (And loses another to a periodic maintenance shutdown next month.)
Does that not point to some amazing over-capacity?
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KuriDa
From an off-the-record conversation with representatives from Kutchan Fire & Rescue:
It appears the guy took a either a wrong turn or deliberately chose a short cut - perhaps to the local Lawson's - which was also on his way home. This short cut is actually a snow clearing road which empties into the much talked about "river", but for a little over twenty metres it runs literally beside the footpath this guy may have thought he was on...
In the dark, in a snowstorm, and under the influence; he may not have seen the 45 degree embankment that the path ends in until he'd stepped off it. If he'd then tumbled down that slope it would have been a lot of work to regain the 15 or so vertical metres back to path and road.
Since then the snow clearing path has been closed off with a snow bank & bamboo stakes...
Posted in: Australian man found dead at Niseko ski resort
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KuriDa
According to witnesses he was pretty drunk, and he and the rest of his group had been pretty rowdy all through their stay. And once he'd gotten into trouble it would have been very difficult for him sober to climb out of where he was - only some 20m from the main road through town.
Of three recent deaths in Niseko (two off the hill, one on) alcohol has played a significant part in two, and while two of three is pretty poor; stupidity has played a part in all three. The reality is this guy walked off into the night - by himself - into a raging snowstorm, despite similar past tragedies - and no-one went looking for him or alerted anyone for eight hours.
I feel for him, his family and friends and everyone in the village involved. But it's more of a tragedy because it was preventable at so many points...
Posted in: Australian man found dead at Niseko ski resort