JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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To be healthy, live in the big city
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Japan's nuclear safety standards flawed, says commission chief
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Teacher nabbed for using miror to peek up girl's skirt
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From carnivores to herbivores: how men are defined in Japan
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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It looks like they're trying to keep businesses (in central Tokyo, at least) operating by making sure they have the power they need.
If Tepco asks for voluntary reduction of electrical use, they can't be sure they will have the power. Some homeowners will, some won't; some businesses will, some won't (reduce power use) - by having rolling brownouts, Tepco will be sure the central businesses have the power they need.
This may reduce the impact on the economy.
Posted in: TEPCO begins power blackouts
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anglootaku,
Japanese sake is kosher but not halal as halal prohibits all alcohol.
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Minamisanriku (10,000 people lost, over half the town’s population) and Rikuzentakata, (5,900 of its population of 24,000 are accounted for) will likely not recover nor benefit from tourism. These small towns have been wiped off the face of the earth.
Posted in: Quake and tsunami a blow to fragile Japan economy
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I'd like to see a Jimmy Page/Robert Plant/John Paul Jones trio team up with Kinki Kids. Or Slipknot and AKB48. Those combos would definitely hit a road.
Posted in: Kiss cancels Japan tour
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smithinjapan,
I just heard a bunch of figures about app sales for Apple-related products and for Android-related products. I wasn't paying attention, of course, but the figure Billions was connected to Apple products and Million to Android.
People are designing for where they can make the most money the most quickly, I suspect, and the Android app market is, so far, much smaller than the Apple app market. Apparently.
Posted in: ANA launches first iPad app – ANA Virtual Airport
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Someone fleeing death or imprisonment or riots is not a 'migrant'. They are refugees.
Posted in: 1,000 migrants from North Africa arrive in Italy over a few hours
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Because if the media were to make a big deal out of a much bigger, more important scandal, like political bribe-taking and slush funds by certain politicos, they'd experience a completely legal 'disruption of business.'
Posted in: Why do you think such a big deal has been made by media and police about a student's online cheating during university entrance exams?
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Not if it's for the co-pilot.
mrskit, move your finger one key to the right for that elusive . you need. Thanks.
Posted in: Are seatback touch screens on planes a good idea?
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The BusinessInsider at businessinsider.com mentions that as the UNemployment rate goes down, so too does the Employment rate (the number of adults working) - more people are retiring. That means as the older generation stops working, the unemployment rate will continue to fall but economic growth will not follow.
Posted in: Japan's jobless rate stays at 4.9% in January
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Who is Erina?
Posted in: Identity crisis
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Moderators,
Something seems to be amiss in this sentence.
Moderator: The typo has been corrected.
Posted in: Assassin maintains he can't remember shooting RFK
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When Costco can get a huge discount from suppliers because of the massive quantity they buy, their prices will be lower. Mom and pop stores can't get the discount so their prices will be higher. And shoppers will go for the lower price.
So not only Costco but also convenience stores have run the mom and pop stores out of business (and other poorly run stores).
Plus, the last time I went to a mom and pop store, they didn't have anything I wanted and, judging by the number of customers not in the store, they didn't have what lots of people wanted.
Posted in: Costco reshapes wholesale industry
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And hashish, while from the same plant as marijuana, is much stronger.
This is an interesting pair of sentences that indicate the quality of the article:
Someone "Not in Employment" who is working?
Posted in: For many Japanese, laid-back overseas vacations a one-way ticket to nowhere
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himehentai
Just to continue giving you the heebiejeebies, the dead - as in no life support, no heart beating, no brain activity, in the morgue - also jerk about on occasion, kicking and flailing their arms around.
People who want to be buried (or cremated) with the bodies intact are of the belief that their earthly remains will reappear in heaven or future lives. While this might be true, no one has proof either way, it assumes that the body that reappears will be the healthy young one, not the cancerous, decrepit, 90-year-old senile one.
Personally, I hope all my useful organs are harvested and that the memory of my life lives on in those who knew me.
Posted in: Japan slowly learning to embrace organ donation
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I wonder if this meeting could be held on a 747 while enroute? I know they need to coordinate their activities, etc.bBut, who is running the meeting and are they reading the same paper the guy in the front left is reading? Will the people leading the meeting be on the same plane?
Posted in: Rescue team
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"Shanghai" is an international film because it has stars from different countries? That makes "Star Wars," all three "Rush Hours"and almost all Charlie Chaplin movies 'international,' doesn't it?
Being interested in noirish films like this, I'll probably see it. Looking forward to it, actually.
Posted in: Ken Watanabe to make 7th major international movie appearance in 'Shanghai'
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Posted in: At least 356 killed in Honduras prison fire
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Looks like she is flashing the L for loser sign to me.
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Shouldn't comedian be in quotes, too? Still, he's one lucky sob.
And warinsinee, Kinoshita is only one woman getting married at 23. Most Japanese women don't get married that young and the age of marriage is getting higher (28 or 30).
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15 years ago only one man in our office wore non-white shirts - the 'creative' guy. Now only one man wears only white shirts - the president. And neither would buy these shirts; too cheap looking.
Posted in: Need a shirt?