JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Full-time English Teacher - Osaka
- Epion English Language Schools, Osaka
- Salary: ¥200,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month Depending on your ability and experience
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- Part-time English Teacher - Osaka
- Epion English Language Schools, Osaka
- Salary: ¥10,000 ~ ¥15,000 / Day Depending on how many days a week are worked
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- Core Developer - コアディベロッパー
- Midokura Japan K.K. - ミドクラジャパン株式会社, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥4.0M ~ ¥10.0M / Year Negotiable
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PepinGalarga
haha, i'll drive to Okinawa if I have to. :)
Posted in: In view of the continuing nuclear crisis and ongoing aftershocks since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, are you planning to leave Tokyo or stay?
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PepinGalarga
In Japan, most advertisers were blocked out of the rotation, but now they flood the the programming. If I hear the AC "ay-cee" jingle one more time i will probably puke.
Yeah the video with the old lady trying to walk away from the tsunami was most disturbing. It reinforces an image of Japans aged citizens, unable to fend for themselves.
Posted in: Images of disaster in Japan lend visual power for news networks
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PepinGalarga
we have been lucky that winds have been mainly blowing out to sea, but if winds change and radiation goes up im definitely getting in my car and driving a few hundred miles south.
Posted in: In view of the continuing nuclear crisis and ongoing aftershocks since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, are you planning to leave Tokyo or stay?
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PepinGalarga
Has the government begun to distribute iodine pills? Do they even know what that is?
In Chernobyl, tens of thousands of lives were saved because these pills were distributed en masse.
The half life of radioactive Iodine is 8 days , so it would take more than a month to drop to legal levels. By then the food will have either spoiled or people emigrated to other cities.
Posted in: Radiation discovery fans food fears in Japan
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PepinGalarga
The economic damage caused by the botched rolling blackouts, and the scarcity of gas/diesel could be in the billions.
Can't ask Pachinko parlors to close since this is a very specific type of business that cannot be singled out. They could be asked to turn of the neon signs outside but everyone has to make a living one way or the other.
The 50/60Hz difference in Japan needs to be sorted out NOW. Tokyo is absorbing the full grunt of the power shortage, and like earlier posters said, if all Japan was at 60Hz then we could receive power from Kansai and other areas.
The fuel shortages are killers. The US has a 10% reserve, why does Japan not use their reserves at this crucial time? Some gas stations are charging Y2000 for 10 liters of gas, effectively 200Y/liter. This is illegal and should be prosecuted. In my area lines of cars are sometimes up to 500 cars. People in Kanto/Tohoku need plenty of gas just in case the nuclear reactor finally blows up and everyone has to drive south with their belongings/pets/etc...
Posted in: Japan will struggle with power crunch after quake
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PepinGalarga
thank you for posting also. I had just subscribed to STEP and had even sent an email to JapanEmergencyUSC@state.gov, but apparently im still not on their email list. Not really sure what the point was of filling out all those online forms. Perhaps i may be getting a call from the tax man soon...
Posted in: Comments from U.S. Embassy and British Chamber of Commerce on radiation danger to Tokyo
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PepinGalarga
they really dont know what's going on. Any exerts out there know if covering the reactors with concrete would help?
Posted in: Fukushima No. 3 reactor's container feared damaged
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PepinGalarga
the fault line for the next quake runs directly south of tokyo, through Izu peninsula, Shizuoka and kansai. I have a feeling that the next few aftershocks will keep moving south, which means that current tsunami warning maps are already unsuitable.
People in tsunami affected areas had approximately 30 minutes to get away, since the tsunami hit at 3:10pm. Clearly very few people knew what to do, or didnt feel the urgency. Whoever said that the tsunami was only going to be 60cm needs to be thrown in jail.
Posted in: In classic battle of Man vs Nature, Nature wins again
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PepinGalarga
dammit!
Posted in: Winner
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PepinGalarga
how many of those were cops?
Posted in: Police nab 77 in 3 prefectures during one-week crackdown on train groping, molesting
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PepinGalarga
Photo of the night. very nice
Posted in: Dance on!
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PepinGalarga
YOU CAN SHOOT YOUR EYE OUT KID!
Posted in: Police officer arrested for having altered model gun
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PepinGalarga
if she's 33 and not thinking about marriage then this means her relationship with the jockey is a sham or maybe his stable is full.
Posted in: Want to look like Aki Hoshino? Read her book
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PepinGalarga
Iran is actually a relatively progressive culture, apart from the totalitarian theocrazy that has been there. I'm sure a hottie like her can sell records out there.
Posted in: J-pop starlet May J reveals her Persian heritage
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PepinGalarga
for nearly the same amount i can buy a laptop with blew-ray drive.
Posted in: New portable TV plays Blu-ray, shows photos
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PepinGalarga
American beef is mostly factory farmed. Cows live in terrible conditions.
Posted in: Which country's beef gets your vote for the tastiest?
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PepinGalarga
i love these stories.
Posted in: Mika Mifune reflects on life with an older man
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PepinGalarga
I am waiting for the new windows 7 phones. The HTC HD2 PRO has the firepower to outclass i-phone and others, but it will not work with the new OS. I need my phone for business, not for twitting and facebooking all the time.
Windows Mobile OS, however, has fallen drastically behind in the "randomly once in a while useful" app category.
Posted in: Sharp, Microsoft develop smartphones
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PepinGalarga
this doesn't run Windows Mobile 7. Mostly for kids.
Posted in: Sharp, Microsoft develop smartphones
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PepinGalarga
nice to hear they are promoting Benicio's movie in Japan.
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