JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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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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- Assistant Language Teacher - TOKYO - late-March start
- Interac, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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- Assistant Language Teacher - Kanagawa Prefecture - late-March start
- Interac, Kanagawa
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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UnagiDon
smithinjapan;
Because since Fukushima we suddenly have an elevated interest in measuring radiation, so lots more people with geiger counters and other detectors running around measuring their neighborhoods, and we have a media that thrives on reporting such things to feed on the hysteria and paranoia such as that displayed by many of the comments here?
Crazy concept I know...
Posted in: Radiation likely came from radium in bottles beneath floor of empty house
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UnagiDon
Alex80;
On what factual basis do you guess that?
Posted in: Radiation likely came from radium in bottles beneath floor of empty house
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UnagiDon
Indeed, and somehow accumulated in bottles in boxes, under floorboards. Guess the rain mutated from all that radiation and crawled in there.
Posted in: Radiation likely came from radium in bottles beneath floor of empty house
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UnagiDon
I recently went to a restaurant for masochists, so after I took pictures of my meal I smashed my own camera.
Posted in: Why do so many Japanese women take photos of their food at restaurants and post it on Facebook or their blogs?
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UnagiDon
I seriously think that if Apple called all their fanbots to a special meeting, locked the doors, and had Steve Jobs come out and ask all the fanbots to drink a special Apple-flavoured Kool-Aid, they'd oblige.
Posted in: iPad2 arrives
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UnagiDon
"I just don't see why I should have my livelihood and the livelihoods of many others ruined by those who ran and refused to return."
Well-said. Why is it so hard for people to understand that their actions have consequences?
Posted in: Why did those foreigners who decided to leave Japan in the aftermath of the March 11 disaster come in for so much derision from some people who labeled them with words like 'flyjin?'
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UnagiDon
What revjp said, except turned around 180 degrees.
Posted in: Why did those foreigners who decided to leave Japan in the aftermath of the March 11 disaster come in for so much derision from some people who labeled them with words like 'flyjin?'
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UnagiDon
muhroomcloud;
Yes - don't be afraid of paper weapons, and/or develop a defence if the threat turns out to be credible. Definitely don't abandon your ability to forward-project naval power because something bad *might *happen.
Doesn't have to be an active defence, can be something as simple (though not necessarily easy) as locating the launchers and attacking those, maybe even with a US paper weapon like the Prompt Global Strike.There are already several conventional ways to kill a carrier (subs, for example) without invoking untested threats. You are way too quick to buy any and all PRC military capabilities as show-stoppers and far too willing to cede ground to the PRC.
Posted in: Hypersonic missiles could challenge U.S. naval supremacy
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UnagiDon
mushrooncloud;
Bravo, such a brainstorm of insight from such an expert on things military. So basically, the US should just "park" it's carriers outside the 1700 km range of such missiles, i.e. give up the entire Western Pacific, Taiwan Strait, Sea of Japan, to China? I believe that would be the primary goal of China fielding these weapons?
Posted in: Hypersonic missiles could challenge U.S. naval supremacy
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UnagiDon
apecNetworks;
More correctly known as the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN), which I'm assuming those in the know following such discussions "on the net" would be aware of.
Posted in: Hypersonic missiles could challenge U.S. naval supremacy
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UnagiDon
As opposed to the helicopter that's carrying them?
Posted in: GSDF drills
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UnagiDon
Can I suggest "Deity of the Dunny"?
Posted in: 'Toilet God' song makes a star of songstress
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UnagiDon
On how many separate occasions have you had memorable dreams involving people who were NOT dead within 48 hours? Perhaps these dreams were only memorable because of the coincidence.
Posted in: Do you believe that dreams have a bearing on or are symbolic of something in your real life?
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UnagiDon
Santa Claus is just as real as the Easter Bunny, Jesus, Allah, Buddha, Vishnu, etc.
Now what is truly sad is that many adults claim to have outgrown belief in Santa and the Easter Bunny, but continue to believe in all those other fairy tale characters like Jesus, Allah, Buddha, Vishnu, etc.
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UnagiDon
One of the many things that amazes me on JT is the incredible ability for some to spin anything so that it's the US' fault, either totally or partially.
And no, I'm not an American.
Posted in: Tensions high after North, South Korea trade shelling
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UnagiDon
That's right. Damn Gene Roddenberry and his rampant glorification of japan's wartime past.
Posted in: 'Space Battleship Yamato' blasts off
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UnagiDon
Have to fly to the US soon on business and not looking forward to it unless the TSA follows taka's suggestion and starts hiring Hooters girls as screeners, and then change their name from the TSA to the T&A.
Also for anyone considering flying through Canada as an alternative to the US, we have the full body scanners too, even for domestic flights.
Posted in: Scanners and pat-downs upset airline passengers in U.S.
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UnagiDon
As I say every year when this question comes up on JT (how sad is that), the decorations are put up to give the miserable gaijin community in Japan something else to whine about.
By the way, here in Canada we've had decorations up in shops since November 1st.
Posted in: Why do you think that Christmas decorations and illumination displays are put up so early in Japan?
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UnagiDon
proxy;
Yes but you're missing half of that story, the US needs the keep the border with Canada open to trade, as Canada is still the US' largest trading partner (you do know trade flows two ways, don't you?) and the US' biggest supplier of fossil fuels.
Posted in: U.S senators urge Canada to stay in Afghanistan
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UnagiDon
Canada will be pulling out combat forces (but staying on with development and training of Afghan security forces) and this is because Harper leads a minority government and had to agree to this pullout to stay in power. Anyone with even a passing knowledge of Canadian politics (i.e. neither McCain, Graham, or most of the commentators here) would have been aware of that.
Posted in: U.S senators urge Canada to stay in Afghanistan