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SamuraiBlue
rys2senseMay. 27, 2012 - 03:13PM JST
Headed? It's already there. At the moment Canadian dollars are more valuable than US dollars in terms of exchange rate.
Posted in: Yen-yuan direct trading to start in June
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SamuraiBlue
Reading this article the New Zealander sounds so oxymoron. The word compromise requires a mutual effort in which the New Zealanders needs to give up something in return. What have they put on the table to make it palatable for Japan in accepting?
Nothing. That is not a compromise, that is called a demand and a foolheartedly one at that.
Posted in: New Zealand hopes to end whaling deadlock
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SamuraiBlue
The worst part about central civil servants is that under law they can not be fire unless there was a fault on their part such a drunk driving so there is no way to downsize ministries and they can cling on to their position without doing anything useful to the public so long as they show they are doing some task.
Biggest stupidity and it's about time politicians did something about it without fearing of losing votes from the civil servant labor union.
Posted in: 241 civil servants file suit over salary cuts
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SamuraiBlue
For those of you stating that Japan should compensate, let me ask you one. If you had already paid the required amount in full at a restaurant and as you were about to leave another cashier comes by flashing another bill saying you have to pay this as well will you pay?
That is what S.Korean gov is stating. I'll bet if and when N.K. and S.K unifies they will come back with yet another bill asking Japan to pay.
Posted in: S Korea suspends first military accords with Japan
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SamuraiBlue
If you look at the inventory list, Japan has more to offer to the UK then the UK has to offer to Japan. Type-10 light weight MBTs, P-1 marine patrol planes, heat resistant ceramics for high temperature burn jet engines, air breathing hypersonic ASSMs, next generation BDMs, CHEAPER cargo planes than the A-400M or the C-17s, Super conductive electric motors for next generation surface ships,etc. The list goes on.
Posted in: British PM Cameron in Japan to discuss defense weaponry trade
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@napoleancomplex
NO not in your wildest wet dreams. Here is why, the amount of currency surplus is at par with governmental budget deficit meaning if government were to release all it's accumulated foreign assets it will break even(although can't say what will happen to the rest of the world).
Another point is energy, Japan had already test mined methane hydrate lying on the ocean bed within the coastal Japanese shore and had proven promising. There is an estimated reserve of methane hydrate to last Japan for 100 years at present day consumption.
Posted in: Japan swings back to current account surplus
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SamuraiBlue
Auhh, you people you do understand that Nanking was the capitol of ROC and Japan was at war trying to run down the state with ROC troops fighting to defend the fortress city. It was a battle field right before Japan entered.
You can't really "Systematically kill off hundreds of thousands of people as PRC and/or ROC claims since munition was scarce in defending the city from a possible counter attack. The Japanese troops had more on their hands placing guards around the walls, patrolling within the city hunting down the runaway soldiers that fled into the city disguised in peasant's clothes and supervising the seized city. I believe the city walls were around four km at one side adding up to 16 km and there were only about 50 thousand Japanese troops in which around 1/100 were higher up ranking officers. There is a real flaw in what ROC/PRC claimed to what happened examining the numbers in which case you have to look at intent of those claims. Personally I believe it was a mop-up mission that had gone terribly bad.
Posted in: China calls on Japan to be sensitive to history issues
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SamuraiBlue
I don't know if Cindi knew or not but all the Cherry blossom Someiyoshino trees including the ones in Washington DC comes from one single tree since Someiyoshino was a fluke in cross pollination in the Meji era. It really doesn't matter if it was ten, million or ever one tree, her gesture will go around like the Someiyoshino had in the past.
Posted in: Cyndi Lauper brings cherry blossom seedlings to Ishinomaki
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SamuraiBlue
As long as there is no law in which the politicians are not able to fire bureaucrats to down size the present system, nothing will change.
Posted in: Do you think a grand coalition between the ruling DPJ and the opposition LDP would be a good idea?
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SamuraiBlue
They can either have it afloat or connect it to earth since in theory there should be a balance between the centrifugal force pulling it outwards and the earth gravity pulling it down supposedly be at balance tugging it from both ends. A space station would probably be developed at LEO where people would disembark and transfer to a shuttle that would travel to a higher orbiting station or the moon. IMHO they should create the earth's end at around 6,000m(20,000ft) where weather clouds have no effect with a LEO station around 200Km~300Km.
Posted in: Going up: Company says it could build space elevator
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SamuraiBlue
Although I do not believe all the shenanigan about the Christ's grave, I do believe there is a remote possibility that ancient Israelites did find themselves in this remote part of the planet. Here is a link if you are interested;
http://www5.ocn.ne.jp/~magi9/isracame.htm
Simply, after the Babylonian exile ending in 538 BCE, they wanted to place as much distance between themselves and the enemy as much as possible moving east. Japan is probably the furthest place away you can go. Since there were no border guards in those day people did move fairly freely between nations. End result some found themselves at this part of the globe.
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SamuraiBlue
In a way they are already in since the US does not pay their salary, the J Government does. It's funneled through the Omoiyari Yosan so it really doesn't matter that much.
In fact the US hurts more then Japan since when they bring them homeside, it will be the US government's responsibility to provide them housing and maintenance fee for the bases they work in not JP.
Posted in: What do you think of the revised plan to realign U.S. forces in Japan by sending some Marines to Guam, and rotating others to Australia, the Philippines, Hawaii and possibly Iwakuni in Yamaguchi Prefecture?
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SamuraiBlue
@herefornow
Can you elaborate any of the so called restrictive laws Japan is said to impose on imported products that other nations does not impose for consumer protection?
Most all countries have laws, regulations and sets of test to secure safety and laws varies from one nation to another. Just because it was approved by one government doesn't mean it is going to be accepted by another. All Japanese exports goes through those test each nation imposes.
Posted in: As advocates for free trade, we're concerned about adding an economy like Japan.
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SamuraiBlue
His words are oxymoron as it gets. Advocate of free trades saying they need tariffs on imports makes no sense whatsoever.
Posted in: As advocates for free trade, we're concerned about adding an economy like Japan.
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SamuraiBlue
The Japanese CE manufacturers are consolidating their effort swapping various fields with each other so the remaining few will be able to compete globally. It is a complete industrial restructuring where companies like Hitachi, Toshiba and other companies are selling off their CE product lines to others that consider it as their core business. The biggest problem with Sony was their compartmentalization of each products creating a rivalry within the company. A certain amount is health but when it goes too far when one business section is not talking to another hurts the company. Last would be the arrogance believing their brand name would force people in buying no matter how their product is inflexible like the first generation SS walkman which did not accept MP3 as a format giving the edge to iPod.
Posted in: Sony is forecasting a 220 billion yen loss for fiscal 2011, its 4th straight year of red ink despite massive cost cuts and restructuring efforts in recent years. What do you think are the main reasons for Sony's decline?
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SamuraiBlue
Here is the biggest point IF volume of export had shrunk while trade surplus had increased then the plain simple truth is that Japan had constantly exported product with more value. Applying the simple economic law of supply and demand to the above fact it means Japan is the only supplier for products with high demand. Don't know what is going to happen in the mid-term future but I believe it is safe to say that Japan's economic future is still bright for a while.
As for not pursuing OLED is more of a business decision then a technological one since Sony did announce a 21" OLED monitor a few years ago but was not able to bring down the cost. At the moment Japanese manufacturers are more interested in 4k monitors which many Japanese companies had announced their version while I believe SK still have not entered the race.
Posted in: Japan losing its manufacturing edge to South Korea
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SamuraiBlue
Not really, most high tech material production is low labor intensive with highly technological skills requirement so moving production doesn't work. 5%? more like 25% and if you add the sales staff and R&D staff it will probably go up to 50%.
By the way did you know that some of Samsung's R&D facility is also located in Japan hiring many Japanese staffs?
Posted in: Japan losing its manufacturing edge to South Korea
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SamuraiBlue
If you look at M/B, PSU and other miscellaneous PC parts they will boast that they use Japanese made capacitors due to it 's resistance to heat. If you check Toray, Teijin and other Japanese chemical companies you'll find that 70% of carbon fiber is made in Japan. If you check companies like Kyocera you'll find Japan dominates the fine ceramics industry. The list goes on and they are completely essential in developing CE parts, cars and planes. Japan is also a major player in creating high temperature super conductive material. There is a reason why both Airbus and Boeing wants to maintain good relationship with Japanese subcontractors even if they cost more then their lower costing competitors.
Oginome is correct in his statements about Japan holding chockpoints in various manufacturing industry.
Posted in: Japan losing its manufacturing edge to South Korea
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SamuraiBlue
I guess a lot of people really does not read the comment below the picture.
It's a festival which has nothing to do with religious faith although cleansing of body and soul is part of the theology of Shintoism and words like " 心頭滅却 火もまた涼し" Shintoism does not force people to follow it to the letter.
Posted in: Now that's cold
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SamuraiBlue
The nuclear arms development allegation by Iran is just that an allegation. IAEA had failed to produce any definitive proof that it exists. The US is the one doing the saber rattling doing various war games and parking two air craft carriers in the gulf. The US and Israel is accused of sanctioned assassinations of Iranian citizens said to be linked to the nuclear program without proof within Iranian soil. Japan may or may not cave in at the end but really do not need to follow US's lead without more convincing evidence in which should be made public so that the general public can agree with the decision and not be strong armed into a decision that we may regret in the future.
Posted in: Noda says no decision yet on reducing Iran oil imports