JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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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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- Translator
- ZAIHON, Inc. (日本財務翻訳株式会社), Tokyo
- Salary: ¥6.0M / Year Negotiable
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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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badmigraine
Reading enenews.com every day, among the sometimes alarmist pieces, one finds officially-reported accidents or "events" happening every week or two, all over the place. When you parse the official wording and dig around a bit, you find that there are all the usual tricks being used to conceal the fact that something happened that the general public would rightly be unhappy and concerned to hear about. Also, did you know that by design, the plants are frequently releasing radioactive particles? People have been subtly conditioned to believe that a properly-functioning nuclear reactor does not release any radioactivity into the environment. That's not true. In the U.S., the NRC requires each operating reactor to file official reports about it that you can read here (click through any reactor name and follow the link to effluent reports--if you are a skeptic, then you can imagine the gauntlet of censors, spinners, industry apologists, influence-peddlers and revolving-door folks whose desks this kind of release has to clear before it goes public...yet we still amazingly get an official report about radioactivity being released into the environment as part of normal function, let alone any accident or "event"):
http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/list-power-reactor-units.html
Posted in: Radioactive water leaks inside Genkai nuclear plant
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badmigraine
What would really be news is to learn that any of these people actually chose or bought the clothes on which this award purports to have judged.
Posted in: Yonekura, Becky, Itano, Sasaki, Rinka named fashion leaders for 2011
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badmigraine
Maybe just pure pessimism, but I feel that other governments are not taking a strict stance because they also have a heavy stake in the nuclear industry, and are themselves playing the same kinds of games at home to protect the image that nuclear power is safe, reliable and cheap.
Posted in: TEPCO reveals new contaminated water leak at Fukushima plant
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badmigraine
To decide the question of interfering, world leaders should go mano-a-mano on the mat. I think Putin could take Obama and any of the GOP candidates. We would have to start electing MMA fighters to the White House to protect our sovereign rights.
Posted in: Putin warns West against meddling in Russian elections
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badmigraine
Kind of makes you wonder what you have to do to get delisted.
Posted in: Olympus shares gain 18.51% as delisting fears ease
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badmigraine
I was under the impression that a lot of the money goes to the police retirement association, where there are also probably amakudari prats, a catalogue of private ryokan and other perks for everyone, and bonuses and payouts for the "executives" who manage these "associations".
Posted in: Auto company execs, unions, dealers demand lower taxes
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badmigraine
During the stretch when my Japanese wife and I lived in the US, we actually longed for the Japanese food-and-onsen type shows. I got some of it off torrents or YouTube and we used to watch them and wax nostalgic.
Some of my American family couldn't believe what they were seeing. I thought they'd appreciate seeing what is one of the better kinds of travel fun you can have in Japan. Instead, it was like:
--Isn't all that raw fish crawling with intestinal parasites? --What kind of deviant would go unclothed in a common bath with similarly bare members of his own gender, some of them underage? --Never walk on a common shower floor without sandals...you'd get plantar warts --No chlorine in that bath water?! NO THANKS!!
Posted in: Japanese viewers tuning out, turning off their TVs
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badmigraine
I think another reason for loss of interest in television is that people used to the internet or entertainment-on-demand have no reason to sit and wait while other people choose the time, items and then spool it out ever-so-slowly in a tired old formula.
I visited my parents' house last year and was amazed to find them looking at the clock and saying "oh, the news is coming on.." Then they filed into the living room, sat down and proceeded to watch a feverish man wearing makeup and sitting under hot lights reading from a teleprompter, with a false hammy urgency, a very small selection of stories, chosen out of all the things that happened on the planet that day to fit a half-hour format...and spending 10% of the precious half hour making forced, idiotic "personal" chatter with co-anchors and weathercasters. It was exactly as I remembered it all from 1977. Unbelievable.
Posted in: Japanese viewers tuning out, turning off their TVs
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badmigraine
Who are these "speculators"? LOL... a risible accusation attempting to personify a scapegoat causing wildly erroneous valuation of the yen in international currency markets. Please!! It seems to me the BOJ is the speculator when it tries to take "corrective" measures like this. They don't really work, do they? Who is the speculator now?
Posted in: Japan unlikely to win currency 'war of nerves' against speculators: analysts
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badmigraine
And what countries are the big successes these days?
Posted in: One of Japan's biggest problems is its refusal to admit its economic system has failed.
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badmigraine
Another question: who finances this kind of study and why? The scientists mentioned don't do these studies out of their own savings and they work in the pharmacology dept. of a university. You can bet this is grant money from Big Pharma. What Big Pharma really wants to tell you about marijuana is that it's dangerously bad until Big Pharma can find a patentable way to make money off it.
Posted in: Reefer madness: Marijuana throws brain regions out of sync
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badmigraine
The usual layer upon layer of deception and coded wording. 22.4 tons as "seepage" is an obvious boner. But look at this one: "...no radioactive substances have been leaked into the environment".
What they mean is, the water is radioactive and it leaked out of the containment vessel into the "outer container". All that means is that radioactive water didn't (yet) soak into the ground. Some things to wonder: how much water can the outer container hold before it slops over into "the environment"? And, isn't it childish the way these reports quickly rush to assure us that the environment is OK? The main point is, a nuclear reactor leaked a huge amount of radioactive water out of its containment vessel, and that sure as hell is not supposed to happen. What is going on there? Why is this super-secret? It should be transparent, public information.
Posted in: Water leaks out of Tokai nuclear reactor
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badmigraine
One wonders where these carefully calculated attempts to demonize weed come from? I can think of only two sources:
Either it's an utterly oblivious but clearly skilled reporter who accidentally and unquestioningly happened to word and title a story which insinuates that marijuana causes brain damage and schizophrenia, while appearing to be merely a factual report on scientific studies...
Or, it is deliberately done by people who are highly educated and articulate. It's a truly fine piece of propaganda the likes of which not many could create. This would either be a labor of love, or a reasonably well-paid job.
Who is paying for this? And why? Think about it. It's quite likely that Big Pharma spends money astroturfing and grassrooting, because they would be big losers if marijuana is legalized. There are plenty of expensive drugs they sell for things that so many people would decide that a bong hit handles cheaper, better and faster. This was my mother's own reluctant conclusion as she suffered through two radical bouts of chemo and then died of cancer.
Posted in: Reefer madness: Marijuana throws brain regions out of sync
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badmigraine
Why doesn't NHK get huge subsidies from the nuclear energy industry? I still remember how they concealed the news of explosions at the Fukushima facility for a day or more. On the internet and foreign TV, you could see a violent explosion shoot black clouds of rubble and what we now are told to suspect included vaporized "spent" fuel rods and chunks of nuclear fuel. But on NHK, nothing for hours. Then they began saying "also at the plants, some observers have reported a noise and white smoke coming from one of the reactors, but officials have not reported anything unusual at this point".
What corrupt, vile and cowardly deception. Even the bit about "white smoke" was heavily scripted. As nuclear experts scrambled to explain, white smoke means only the hydrogen burnt--nothing else! Nothing to worry about! None of us even knew that part of the story then. So the bosses, clowns and lackeys at NHK were told to pass this on in spite of the giant black explosion that was already out on the Net and foreign media must have got this propaganda directly from TEPCO or government "officials".
Utterly complicit and deliberate deception of the public. The culture that let their old goats raid the funds and engage in corrupt practices remains firmly entrenched.
Now they want me to give them money? Forget it.
Posted in: NHK to reduce monthly subscription fees
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badmigraine
Just to play devil's advocate: what about equipping all bicycles with piercing noisemakers and the rotating wheel-hub knives found on Roman chariots? This would teach pedestrians to be more careful on the sidewalks. The effects might take a few months to register, but walkers would not soon forget and would not so readily drift back to their careless ways.
Posted in: Police to get tough on sidewalk cyclists
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badmigraine
Um...if the rainwater HADN'T seeped through this hole and concentrated in the soil, then where would this highly-radioactive rainwater have gone, why would that have been OK, and didn't this same rain fall on the entire city of Tokyo as well as everywhere all around it?
At least we can say the usual things: "No immediate risk of harm " "No health problem has been detected among the population in that area" "No similar hotspots have been detected elsewhere in Tokyo"
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badmigraine
The open face of corruption and graft that dares you to do nothing about it.
Posted in: Saga governor says he won't resign over fake email scandal
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badmigraine
Here's the internal letter he allowed the New York Times to post. It just goes on and on...incredibly shocking. Hundreds of millions of payments to a Cayman Island account with yet-unknown owner. That's the part I'm waiting to see...who is the person who got the money?
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/business/20111018/letter-text.pdf
Posted in: Olympus discloses $687 mil advisory fee amid row over CEO's ouster
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badmigraine
JapanGal, I didn't give you any thumbs down, but the 8GB and 16GB versions of the iPhone 4S are not quite exactly free. I'm not talking about SB covering their cost of those handsets out of the money we pay out in the 2-year data plan contract fees--of course they do. I'm talking about if you exit the data plan early, you have to pay a cancellation fee that is the sum of all remaining monthly handset fee amounts that would've been "waived" had you continued until the end of the 2-year data plan. I reckon it's about 1900 per month for the entire 2 years. So if you were to leave the 2-year contract after only 1 year, then you have to pay SB a 22,800 "penalty". This is "free" like the free drinks in Vegas for people who are actually gambling.
That being said, I ordered my free 4S over the weekend and can't wait to get it! I do like free. See you on iMessage!
Posted in: Apple sells more than 4 mil new iPhone models in 3 days
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badmigraine
I can't believe the huge sums I have to pay into this every month. I'd rather just keep the money myself. By now I'd have more than enough to retire on--yet here I find I won't get but a fraction of it and many years later than I expected. What a load of absolute crap. Same story for US social security.
Posted in: Gov't likely to face strong opposition to raising retirement age: survey