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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Nancy Foust
This is about power company profits and nothing more. Without their nukes running they are losing money. Those things become cost centers rather than profit generators. They then have to generate power from other sources and buy more gas or coal for those power plants that need it. They still have to maintain and manage their nukes even when they just sit there. It was cited recently that the only way TEPCO could pull itself out of the financial mess is to restart the units at Kashiwazaki. But nobody asks the question, does it even matter if TEPCO recovers or not. Maybe they are better off just failing as a business.
People are being asked to accept a horrible risk so some companies can turn more of a profit. That is all this is.
Posted in: Hosono fails to convince Kansai leaders on restart of Oi reactors
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Nancy Foust
Nordstrom in the US has been doing something like this for years.
Posted in: You’ll want to visit Shibuya Hikarie just to use ladies’ room
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Nancy Foust
Could someone please explain why cleavage is such a problem in Japan?
Posted in: Cleavage cover to keep prying eyes away
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Nancy Foust
The Fukushima accident has caused job loss, businesses to fail or be wiped out and how much is it going to cost the public in the end? They are feeding TEPCO cash on a massive scale. The govt. is more worried about profits for corporate banks and the nuclear industry like Hitachi etc. Everyone looks at the power generators like KEPCO as the problem when it is likely the companies that supply the technology are more to blame for the business as usual push to restart and ignore reality.
Posted in: DPJ's Sengoku compares closing nuclear plants to 'mass suicide'
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Nancy Foust
This is being driven by business interests who see keeping the nuclear industry going and an over abundance of electricity as far more important than public safety or the environment. They are also ignoring the very high risk of another disaster like Fukushima. Disasters ruin businesses too but they fail to think that far. In short, they are greedy and insane and need to be run out of office.
Posted in: Criticism mounts over plan to restart nuclear reactors
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Nancy Foust
Onagawa has multiple power lines into the site IIRC 4 of them. As others said, why didn't the diesel generators take over, or the batteries? They tried to blame the failures at Fukushima on TEPCO. TEPCO deserves plenty of blame but the operator of Onagawa couldn't handle a storm without an outage. This requires a more detailed explanation. What failed to take out all the power?
Posted in: Storm briefly halts cooling system at Onagawa nuclear plant
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Nancy Foust
The whole issue of spent fuel is of course never mentioned by these nuclear chuckleheads. Nobody has anywhere to put it or any real plan for it. We have tons and tons of this crap piled up and nuclear plants and temporary storage at govt. reprocessing facilities. The US has no clue what they are going to do with theirs and the spent fuel pools are beyond maximum capacity. Storing it in parking lots in casks is at best a very temporary measure.
Germany has no storage facility. France has no storage facility. Japan has no storage facility. The US has no storage facility. The problem has hit maximum density we can't ignore it any longer. Reprocessing, fast breeder reactors and MOX have all failed. Continuing to run nuclear plants makes this problem even worse.
The current US "solution" is to keep dumping it in casks in parking lots for 200 years. The casks are rated for 20 years and require ongoing human intervention even for those 20 years. Like the world has never had war, major disaster, disease outbreaks or something we never thought of. This is insanely stupid.
I would rather lower my power usage even considerably to avoid needing nuclear.
Posted in: Nuclear power only option despite Fukushima: industry
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Nancy Foust
Nuclear energy does not fit within clean, green or renewable energy no matter how many times the industry puts that wolf in sheep's clothing.
The World Nuclear Association will tell people anything to try to prop up this dangerous and dying industry. Areva and Westinghouse have quietly given up on the US and EU for new reactors and is after China and India.
They lie about dependency and anything else they can get away with because journalists rarely have the time to research deep enough to fact check their statements. IE: the US total power generation capacity from nuclear is 9%. How much of actual power generated from nukes is closer to 19%. Why? Because the power companies use nuclear power first. You can't throttle a reactor up and down based on demand like you could with a natural gas plant. So the east coast where most of these reactors are has an artificial dependence on nuclear power. This false dependence is also created because there is a fleet of aging reactors on the east coast that have paid for themselves and are now running on pure profit. Of course they want to run them at 100% as much as possible it is making a small group of people including Goldman Sachs (they are heavily invested in nuclear) a huge profit.
The US doesn't need nuclear and neither does Japan.
Posted in: Nuclear power only option despite Fukushima: industry
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Nancy Foust
Want to amuse yourself for hours? Type things into Google Translate. The Japanese translation tool is chuck full of these kinds of things. Since my Japanese is minimal at best I use it to translate news articles and papers. It makes some rather epic translations of twitter posts.
Posted in: What are some of the weirdest examples of English used in ads or on T-shirts, bags, etc, that you have seen in Japan?
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Nancy Foust
@gogogo - I would guess there are at least 25,000 people working in those big wall street banks. They pretty much qualify as a crime syndicate these days.
Posted in: U.S. moves to isolate Japanese, Russian crime groups
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Nancy Foust
If you think this in unique to Japan spend some time in the US corporate world. Short of the forced dancing much of that happens here and some things far worse. People are without recourse for much of the bullying if it doesn't cross the line of sexual harassment or civil rights.
Posted in: Power harassment exposes dark side of 'kizuna'
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Nancy Foust
Why don't they use an existing incinerator site in the uninhabited or near the uninhabited area? Set it up to specifically deal with potentially contaminated waste. Makes more sense than increasing the risk to children all over the country.
Posted in: Should prefectures outside the Tohoku area accept tsunami rubble for incineration or disposal?
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Nancy Foust
7 quakes in 30 minutes. Reports of an evacuation order in eastern Yamanashi? Anyone know details on the evacuation order?
Posted in: M5.5 quake hits Koshin, Kanto areas