JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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cloa513
Unfortunately these tragedies happen and no matter how many times they get reported- noone ever learns- they must think bad things only happen to other people.
Posted in: 5-year-old girl run over, killed by mother
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cloa513
nobody is taking any of the rising sea level nonsense seriously.
Except the government of the Maldives, of course. And the Dutch.
The government of Maldives is not taking rising sea levels seriously (except to milk other countries for money)- they building all over the seaside to maximise the tourism profits.
Posted in: Scientists in Japan say they have solved riddle of rising sea
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cloa513
If these hardline groups want to find the devil's messenger, just look in a mirror- its right there in front of you.
Posted in: Lady Gaga warned to tone down Philippine show
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cloa513
Why should manual doors be heavy- its just a matter of putting them on level ground and good bearings like lift doors which are heavy but are on air bearings (floating) so they use very little electricity to open and close.
Posted in: Automatic doors that don't need electricity
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cloa513
No because it masks the microexpressions which the terrorists couldn't otherwise hide and would give away all their intents with careful questioning and observations. Torture is counterproductive and could get terrorists to give misleading information to stop the torture.
Posted in: Do you support torture as an interrogation method if the objective is to prevent a terrorist attack or capture criminals?
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cloa513
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What preventative health care- I have had none in 3 years in Japan- they have rediculous age limits to stop you getting free dental checkup which is worldwide regarded as preventative medicine- just because it make sense to support preventative medicine in a socialised system - which a great of Japanese supplement with health insurance (Aflak- American insurance company is bigger in Japan than the US)- doesn't mean they do it. Just like a lot Japanese government decisions.
Hospitals won't accept patients not because they can't adequately treat them but rather because they can't cover any possible eventuality with their facilities- there is no Good Samaritan legislation in Japan so the hospital and doctors can be sued- judges have said doctors took on the responsible when they took you as patient to heal you and must succeed.
Posted in: U.S. health care spending highest, Japan lowest: study
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cloa513
They need powerful cranes(its not line of sight so its safe for operators), helicoptors/airships with telescopic lenses and containment vessels and a lot of patience- tear it apart piece by piece not specialised equipment - can be done now.
Posted in: Very high radiation, little water in Fukushima No. 2 reactor
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cloa513
You can also have really cheap weddings- mine was at little chapel in Saitama City for only a few Man -mind you our wedding party was tiny- none of my side could make it and she had few family members. It could easily have seated many more. The food was poor I think because we accepted a " free upgrade" Weird that Disney doesn't want to make as much money as it can e.g. rent out whatever people want to use.
Posted in: Tokyo Disneyland to allow Cinderella Castle to be used for weddings
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cloa513
The old rules said something you can try four times to pass the test but first time is straight away and the second time is 6 months into training so what is the rule now? I worked at nursing high school once. Anyone point a link to the old test (not that I could read but my wife could tell if if the kanji was arcane).
Posted in: Nursing exam rules for foreigners to be relaxed in response to low pass rate
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cloa513
Toilet products were on sale in Britain in the 19th century- the architect of the London sewer system proposed the sale of them to help finance public toilets.
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cloa513
What is strange about those museums- nothing. The bug museum- there are plenty of horror shows and bug/ monster displays in other countries (I went to one in Australia). The ramen museum- plenty of other food museum this one just a little further than some others. A toy museum- wow strange compared to Barbie museums. An animation museum in a country with anime tours.
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cloa513
Yamatosan- you have millions of yen in gambling debts- if you let us cut off a little bit of your pinky finger and keep it secret then we will keep your secret. No reason it has to be the perpetrator's appendage.
Posted in: Severed fingertip sent to DPJ member
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cloa513
Amazing- noone has mentioned the employment system which is a hobbled together mix of 18th and 19th century employment regulations- certainly finally scrap life time employment, have basic starting payment standards which should be fortnightly but encourage negotiation for any conditions either party wants. Put in real employment benefits with mutual obligation. There is actually no shortage of employment in Japan, its just a mismatch between the work that Japanese will take and work available (one issue) and also the support that Japanese need to take the jobs that available for those more willing- for Chinese who take those jobs at the moment- they have family and community support and willingness to live in cramped conditions that Japanese local just don't have.
Posted in: Japan's 10 most intractable problems
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cloa513
There is a national disaster organisation- not mentioned at all. They are even mentioned. An evacuation is an evacuation no matter what the reason so these places couldn't handle a big fire or chemical spill.
Posted in: Evacuation from nuclear zone was fatal for some elderly, sick
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cloa513
Japanese also hate those traditional squat toilets. The building in which my volunteer japanese lessons are held has a toilet room with two traditional toilets and one modern (not bidet). Guess which one Japanese people go straight to. Other things to hate the way some shops are always selling in a rip-off way, our local fruit and vegetable shop doesn't list quantity details (e.g. 1 item) of what they sell on their specials flyer, another tiny bread shop doesn't list the consumption tax on its prices and restaurants often don't list all their charges including the often annoying service charge % addon for some restaurants (some of those have useless overservicing).
Posted in: Things that foreigners find annoying about life in Japan
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cloa513
What's a culture if you say its arts, sports and their expression by origin then Japan is multicultural- most countries are even North Korea (these big displays are they native Korean culture of course not). If you say its a way of thinking by origin- Japan is multicultural they've been influenced by China, Korean, Portugal, Britain, America(enormously)....
Only Tibet was probably monocultural.
Posted in: Multiculturalism is a reality in the U.S.; it is accepted neither in theory nor in practice in Japan.
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cloa513
This is a story of mental illness and Takayuki Otsuki is too damaged to fix. Few countries can handle such damaged individuals who are psychopaths without outward appearance of mental illness.
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cloa513
C-san suffers from the rediculous out of hours teamworking that is standard in Japan- in other countries it wouldn't matter because the teamworking (even if that part is nonsense) is done on company time.
Posted in: Power harassment exposes dark side of 'kizuna'
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cloa513
Unfortunately the school system is in trouble. Graduate teachers are dropping out as they are made home room teachers and its very stressful with demanding parents and care for students. This guy should be sentenced to be a home room teacher for the result of his career- the toughest punishment of all.
Posted in: Teacher nabbed for using mirror to peek up girl's skirt
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cloa513
There will be almost no health issues from Fukushima except stress- alcoholism, depression ( a lot of that with people rambling on about undefined health effects) - Chernobyl was worse and the expert locals only detecting 10-20 deaths and a few hundred affected in any way. Are the protestors happy to pay the extra costs that are piling on with the increased use of oil, gas and coal electrical power production and the passed on industrial/commericial costs? I'll send them my bill.
Posted in: Thousands in Tokyo march against nuclear power