JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Core Developer - コアディベロッパー
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- ZAIHON, Inc. (日本財務翻訳株式会社), Tokyo
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- Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) in Kanto region
- RCS (RCSコーポレーション), Kanto
- Salary: ¥180,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month includes performance bonus
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Seiharinokaze
Noda, Kan and the like who are mentally atrophied by the Finance Ministry officers don't ever rack their dead brains. They just intervene in the foreign exchange market without effect and invest the obtained dollar in the U.S. treasury bonds which are morally fictitious bills and will default or devalue in few years anyway. They drain our money away and call it ways to deal with it.
Posted in: Noda, Kan say they are keeping eye on financial markets
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Seiharinokaze
What the DPJ had originally aimed for and then forgot through wiles by bureaucrats, which Ozawa still holds fast, is simple: Take back leadership from bureaucrats. And decentralize the government and give more autonomy to local municipalities. Politics should be what those who are chosen by the people do for the people. Not what those who passed exams do for themselves and back-scratching industries.
Posted in: Ozawa criticizes DPJ for making concessions to opposition
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Seiharinokaze
As a creditor's attitude, China is provokingly sensible. They behave like an investor and can keep RMB undervalued too. Whereas the government officials of this country only pile up the credit figures (practically irredeemable) without much success in devaluing the yen like a senile person being still trusting and swindled despite warning until they die.
Posted in: Asia moves to calm U.S. debt downgrade fears
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Seiharinokaze
The war didn't end until September 2, 1945, three weeks after Japan accepted the Potsdam Declaration, during which time Japan fought all along with the Soviets Union. The a-bombings didn't seem to prevent the Soviet Union from marching down and taking what had been promised to them or even more. And Japan did it though not quite satisfactorily with all its remaining might. If some Americans really thought that the war was almost over when they knew Japan asked for the Soviets' mediation for peace, they might have started negotiation. The reason why the Soviets' invasion rather than a-bombings prompted Japan to surrender was mostly because it would mean the eradication of the emperor, the quaint national polity, something more serious than a complete loss of face to her (for what was Ruth Benedict researching on Japan at the time?). Japan was willing to pull troops from China anyway. But then who would take on the responsibility to check the Soviets invasion in the area?
Posted in: Do you consider the A-bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to be war crimes?
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Seiharinokaze
I don't use the definition of war crime here. But MacArthur thought that the war would be brought to end soon when he knew in June 1945 that Japan asked for the Soviet's mediation for peace. And Dwight Eisenhower felt depressed when he was informed in mid-July by Henry Stimson of the decision to use the atomic bomb and voiced his misgivings that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary. He knew then that Japan was seeking some way to surrender with a minimum loss of "face". To nuke a country which was exploring to surrender after being practically defeated already was at least not commendable.
Posted in: Do you consider the A-bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to be war crimes?
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Seiharinokaze
Why don't they listen to what Mr. Gerry Bevers has to say and pick a thorn out of the bilateral relation and settle the issue or strike a bargain as early as possible? The gist of the story is that Dokdo or Takeshima was not Jukdo or Usand or any part of Ulleung island.
http://dokdo-or-takeshima.blogspot.com/
Posted in: Lee says Japan lawmakers in danger if they visit disputed island
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Seiharinokaze
Private companies can generate with their self-owned power plants that mainly uses natural gas 60 million kw of electricity as is called "buried electricity", which is equal to what can be generated by 40 to 50 nuclear reactors. But without using it, Japan has more than enough spare oil-fired power generation capacity to offset the nuclear plant outages, as the International Energy Agency already said on March 15. And the current operation rate of thermal power plants is just 50 percent, and the yen has been strong these days. Power shortage seems to be a myth or some kind of propagation such as for pursuing nuclear power generation business or carbon emission trading market. We better for the time expand suppliers of natural gas (that emits less CO2) instead of fancying a bleak future without nuclear power generation or a future drained of oil, gas, coal resources.
Posted in: Can Japan meet its energy needs without using nuclear power?
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Seiharinokaze
It's a right direction for the country to be nuclear free but the people are skeptical of Kan's rather instant friendship with Softbank's Son who is good at benefiting at someone else's expense acting as a tool by foreign capital and now may be aiming to acquire or use for free the power lines after power generation is separated from power transmission.
Posted in: 70% support Kan's policy to make Japan nuclear-free: poll
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Seiharinokaze
When the Japanese government rapped the South Korean Diet members for visiting Kunashiri island (the northern territories) in May, the South Korean government said the criticism was a joke. So we are joking to each other. And joking apart, it's high time that all Koreans, south and north, should be united in some form, such as the united states of anti-Japanism or whatever and live peacefully on the peninsula.
Posted in: N Korea slams Japan over island dispute with South
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Seiharinokaze
wnagler1,
Some experts on nuclear technology came from the U.S. and are now managing the crisis backstage both in the government and TEPCO. As for your first concern, Kan, the Chief Secretary of the Cabinet, the METI minister, Chairmen of Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency and Nuclear Safety Commission and the former president of TEPCO have already been accused on July 14 by a group of citizens as a criminal case for delaying vent of the nuclear reactor container and failing to take an appropriate evacuation/safety measures for the local residents though they had information on the spread of radioactive substances just after the nuclear accident.
Posted in: Gov't names 4 more radiation 'hot spots' near Fukushima plant
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Seiharinokaze
Better keep it in mind that Prof. Huntington, Kissinger and others say that America won't fight with China to defend Japan. Dependancy diplomacy to try to stay on the bandwagon will go to smash someday. Be responsible for your own security, is their message. Very sound one. Also we or Japanese should think what it means to (think that we can) depend on a country whose GDP accounts for less than 20% of that of the world and who spends nearly 60% of the gross military expenditure of the world while its government barely covers the federal deficit by issuing pieces of paper and having the central bank buy them like an octopus eating its own legs and asking its hypothetical enemy buy them too. Security alliance requires stress check as well.
Posted in: Does Okinawa need to host any U.S. military bases?
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Seiharinokaze
I'm not sure if Matsumoto was disgusted with Kan or not happy with the Miyagi governor going too far with the idea of intensive fishery and selling piscary rights to big business without getting local fishermen's cooperatives' consensus. It was interesting to see him suddenly wearing dark glasses upon taking up the post and saying that he doesn't like the DPJ, LDP or Komeito. What kind of guy is he? And now, please don't bully again though from a bit different angle the new reconstruction minister who is a henchman of Ozawa.
Posted in: Reconstruction minister resigns over offensive remarks; Hirano takes over
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Seiharinokaze
America's military forces are maintained inasmuch as FRB, China, Japan and others buy more of the U.S. treasury bonds. Its war on terror for which Okinawa is a rear and logistic base is being bogged down making the U.S. position in the world with its Treasury and war chest more and more precarious. Japanese better think over the meaning of sympathy alliance. And mull over whether the U.S. really defends Japan if China acquires MAD and tries to take the Senkaku islands. Also we should remember that the U.S. deserted South Vietnam in the middle of the Vietnam War. It's not by trusting in the justice and faith of the peace-loving peoples of the world but by realizing the stark "power balance" of the world that we can find a way to survive.
Posted in: Does Okinawa need to host any U.S. military bases?
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Seiharinokaze
smithinjapan,
Matsumoto doesn't just sound like a yakuza but has something untouchable with him. The job of the second in command of the Buraku Liberation League is not something a whiny petulant child can manage. The media likes to close up a tiny part of the whole. But getting things done and clearing debris away needs snappy negotiation with wreckers and others. Better listen to the whole of what he said during his meeting with the governor of Miyagi Pref.
Posted in: Reconstruction minister resigns over offensive remarks; Hirano takes over
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Seiharinokaze
I welcome any blow to the Kan government, but what Matsumoto had to say for reconstruction of Tohoku is nothing short of reasonable. Come up with new ideas on your own. You can ask us (the government) for anything but when necessary we may shake off your request. And get a consensus of the local people before proceeding with a plan. Otherwise it will fail. Adopted grandson of a buraku liberator as he is, the way he speaks sounds rather like when he deals with wreckers and yakuza and all but still it's a sound argument.
Posted in: Reconstruction minister resigns over offensive remarks; Hirano takes over
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Seiharinokaze
In the last ten years, about 20 what's called silent earthquakes ゆっくり地震 occurred along near the boundary between the Philippine Sea and North American plates, even in the Sagami Trough and off the Boso Peninsula where the Philippine Sea plate is wedged into two other plates. They release tectonic strain without earth tremors but the moment released by any one of those silent quakes to date comes short of M 7 the indicator of a great earthquake. However if the 3.11 quake of unprecedented magnitude with its unending aftershocks and afterslips should somehow or other help silent earthquakes occur more often in other areas and release strain in there more rapidly than it builds up, we may be spared major earthquakes for some time. What plate interface does the geophysicist of this news article mean by "a plate interface south of the rupture zone which shows no indication of a major zone of strain buildup on that portion of the plate boundary that might threaten Tokyo"? Beteween the Pacific and the Philippine Sea plates? Or does it include the area where those two plus the North American plates converge?
Posted in: March 11 quake freed hundreds of years of strain
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Seiharinokaze
It's how Ozawa shuns stooping to the power usurped/manipulated by Japan handlers and their agents. Kan is a really stupid premier thinking he wears new clothes.
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Seiharinokaze
Well, the true leader of Japan should try to ask the U.S. to rethink the bilateral accord which the bureaucrats of the Foreign Ministry of Japan had primed the U.S. government about how NOT to rethink. And Kan the persona grata of the the Finance Ministry which is the promoter of tax increase is hopeless of suggesting gallantly that Japan use its foreign reserve for the reconstruction of the area stricken by the 3.11 disaster.
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Seiharinokaze
For example, as head of the nuclear crisis center, Kan might stay in Fukushima where melt-down or -through have already occurred at three nuclear reactors. If he has to attend G8, he should at least stand with a bit grim and sober face beside Merkel and Berlusconi instead of looking so gleeful behind Clinton.
Posted in: Prime Minister Naoto Kan continues to be criticized by members of his own party and the opposition, as well as business groups for his lack of leadership during the current crisis. What more could he have done and what should he be doing? For example, should he be out of the country now, attending the G-8 summit?
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Seiharinokaze
They were ordered by the premier to examine if what they were already doing might cause recriticality because it was not zero possibility at a time when cooling fuel rods had to be prioritized. In other words you cannot continue doing something while examining if the something might cause critical damage.
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