JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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cleo
Some places are being very careful. My MiL was told that her sister who lives in a care facility cannot be visited by anyone from outside, including family, for at least another ten days, to avoid the possibility of the old ladies catching a virus brought in from outside.
Posted in: Flu season has peaked nationwide, say health officials
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cleo
Not many foreigners coming to Japan study Japanese at school for upwards of six years beforehand.
Posted in: What do foreigners find strange about Japan? NTV finds out
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cleo
Star Viking - No it isn't. The power companies are in the business of buying fuel and converting it into electricity to sell to people. Don't try to tell me that it costs more to buy a bit extra fossil fuel and use it in existing power plants than it does to clean up three meltdowns.
They showed on TV once how the electricity charges are calculated not by how much it costs for the fuel, but by how many and what kind of facilities the power company owns and operates. Nuclear power plants, being expensive to build, hike up the charges. All other things being equal (which of course they are not) you'd expect that with 4 npps fewer in the calculation, charges would be cheaper, not more expensive. It's the clean-up and compensation that need to be paid for that are adding to the price of electricity, not an extra few tons of coal.
Posted in: 10 governors demand TEPCO explain corporate power bill hike
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cleo
That's not the reason for the hike. The extra money is need to pay for the clean-up of the 'safe, cheap, clean' nuclear power plant that exploded and to compensate all the people who lost their homes and/or jobs when Fukushima Daiichi went into meltdown.
Posted in: 10 governors demand TEPCO explain corporate power bill hike
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cleo
They tend to assume that all Westerners are American; not surprising, I suppose, given the history. And, thinking you're American, they'll be very nice and hospitable and tell you how much they love America. Then you mention where you're actually from, and they become really nice and hospitable. Like switching on a light.
Posted in: What do foreigners find strange about Japan? NTV finds out
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cleo
You get a better view of things on the telly anyways.
Posted in: Olympics minister says ticket demands unreasonable
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cleo
NetNinja, we all know you have had a bad experience with a Japanese woman. Doesn't mean all Japanese women are the same as your ex.
Where does it say in the article that this woman left/divorced the child's father, refused to allow him to see the child and demanded money from him? For all we know, he left her when he found she was pregnant and never had any intention of supporting her or the child. It happens.
I think you'll find that typically the women who get themselves into these abusive relationships are very serious - so much so that they'll put up with all kinds of physical, verbal and mental abuse just to hold the 'relationship' together. The problem is that the men they choose (the men they attract?) are low-lifes. By ranting on about how bad women are, you don't put yourself in a very good light.
tmarie is right, the mother is a twit for letting the man abuse her and, knowing he was abusive, letting him anywhere near the child. Sounds like perhaps she has Battered Wife Syndrome. Scary that a 21-year-old bit of nothing can have such power over a supposedly grown woman.
Posted in: 21-year-old man scalds 4-year-old boy for drinking juice without permission
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cleo
They don'(t have to raise prices because they aren't using nuclear power. They have to raise prices to pay for the clean-up from their 'safe, cheap, clean' nuclear plant that got wet and contaminated half a country, to pay some (not enough) compensation for all the lives they wrecked (you don't have to be dead to be a victim) and to pay for proper testing of all the remaining nuclear power plants that we were previously assured were perfectly safe and now no one is quite sure anymore.
There is a need to stem our appetite for all things electric, and given a choice between automatic doors, heated toilet seats and neon neon everywhere on the one hand, and the possibility of more and more radiation getting into the milk and water my little granddaughter drinks, the food she eats and the streets she walks on on the other, I really don't see that there's any contest.
Posted in: 10 governors demand TEPCO explain corporate power bill hike
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cleo
I didn't make any changes. I'm still me. Had no problems to speak of.
Posted in: Planning to move to Japan? Change your Westernized mentality
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cleo
Japan’s whaling fleet tries to kill up to 1,000 whales a year, in a blatant misuse of a loophole.
Are you saying the wailers are too dumb to give the judge freely-available evidence?
They throw the bones, offal and any other inedible - er, not needed for research, bits in the waters of the Antarctic.
Posted in: U.S. judge turns down whalers' appeal to restrain Sea Shepherd's activities
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cleo
Kaku - No.
Posted in: Smoke-free laws lead to less smoking at home
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cleo
It doesn't need words, tokyokawasaki. Just think before you light up. And feel the love. :-)
Posted in: Smoke-free laws lead to less smoking at home
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cleo
Sorry tokyokawasaki, but "'inconsiderate or selfish' smokers" is tautological. If they considered what they were doing...they wouldn't do it. If they had any regard for the friends and family members who will likely have to watch them cough their lungs up as they go through emphysema and graduate to lung cancer, they wouldn't do it. I lost both parents and a brother to cigarettes; they were all wonderful people and I miss them terribly. They knew second-hand smoke aggravated my asthma and never smoked around me or the kids, but still smoking (in private) was the most selfish thing any of them did. Robbed me of a Mum and a Dad and a brother, robbed my kids of loving, doting grandparents and an indulgent uncle.
Never mind us 'smoker hating douches'. We don't matter. Before you light up again, browse through the family album and ask yourself if you really want to be a memory floating in a blue haze.
Posted in: Smoke-free laws lead to less smoking at home
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cleo
If you're the considerate smoker you claim to be, surely you never come across 'smoker hating douches' because you smoke only in private where you offend no one. Or are you claiming that folk are breaking into your home to complain about you smoking in private?
Posted in: Smoke-free laws lead to less smoking at home
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cleo
Those who smoke around people
You never see those, because they're kind and considerate enough to keep their filthy habit to themselves. (A bit like 'kind and considerate self-abusers' - they only do it in private) And there's one word that describes them both, rhymes with bankers.
Posted in: Smoke-free laws lead to less smoking at home
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cleo
I suppose Mr cleo would fall under ryori danshi, though that does not define him. Hard-working, faithful, considerate (mostly), family-oriented, fun to be with yet also with a serious side, intellectual yet not lacking the common touch when it's appropriate, and definitely hot. Takaramono danshi.
Posted in: From carnivores to herbivores: how men are defined in Japan
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cleo
Why would you be taking your smoke near children?
if a child is there just walk away, stop bringing your foul smoke to areas where there are children. Heck, to areas where there are people. How do you know how many asthmatics might be near you when you light up?
Lots of folk. That's why the anti-smoking laws are gradually being passed.
I'd rather not spend however long I have before I do that coughing and wheezing from someone else's toxic fumes.
If you light a cig it will smell bad.
Posted in: Smoke-free laws lead to less smoking at home
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cleo
Part of that could be that in the past, young people from the sticks moved to the cities leaving the oldies behind, thus lowering the average age in the cities and raising it in the inaka. Now with less work available more young people are either doing a U-turn or not going up to the city in the first place, while those who have grown old in the city have lost the economic clout to be able to move after retirement so that the average urban age is rising (No figures to back this up, just what I get from observation).
On the whole, people who like city life will do better in the city, while those who prefer a slower pace will do better in the inaka. If I had to spend my old age in the city I don't think I would do so well. Life certainly wouldn't be as enjoyable, with all that steel and glass and concrete and all those other human bodies. I'd be miserable.
Posted in: To be healthy, live in the big city
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cleo
JeffLee - It wasn't the kotatsu that started the fire, it was the kids' playing with a lighter. Likely the kotatsu cover that caught fire first.
Posted in: Two sisters, aged 5 and 3, perish in Tokyo fire
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cleo
Most pregnant women sail through the 1st and 2nd trimesters, indeed, through the whole pregnancy. Some don't. For all we know she's one of the unlucky ladies who have problems - could be anything from worse than normal morning sickness to a threatened miscarriage, who knows? No need for her to paste up her medical records.
Posted in: Meisa Kuroki cancels appearance at March 4 event for fans