JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- English Instructor (Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe)
- Berlitz Japan, Inc. (ベルリッツ・ジャパン株式会社), Kansai
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- FT English Teachers for Kids - Osaka
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- ZAIHON, Inc. (日本財務翻訳株式会社), Tokyo
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cstaylor
thepro: where would they go?
Posted in: Up to 1,000 bodies left untouched near nuclear plant due to radiation fears
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cstaylor
pumpkin: my thoughts exactly.
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cstaylor
Also, did anyone notice that the ocean contamination has been found several kilometers south of Fukushima?
Posted in: Radiation discovery fans food fears in Japan
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cstaylor
On proudnippon's links: it's precisely the rapid half-life of I-131 that causes the most problems upon ingestion. A half-life means a beta particle and a gamma ray are emitted.
The article is correct that after the last contamination from the power plant all of the I-131 should be back to negligible levels in a few months. But you don't want to be ingesting any of it.
Posted in: Radiation discovery fans food fears in Japan
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cstaylor
FTFY
Posted in: Radiation detected in Fukushima milk, Ibaraki spinach after nuclear accident
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cstaylor
They are intentionally confusing the public. Your thyroid will sequester ingested radioactive iodine, and it will continue to decay inside your thyroid, destroying the surrounding tissues. So you don't need to eat it every day to receive the 1/5th CT scan dose, just let it cook away inside of you until it has finally decayed into safer elements.
The water and food supply are the real dangers from this nuclear accident.
Posted in: Radiation detected in Fukushima milk, Ibaraki spinach after nuclear accident
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cstaylor
hokkaidoguy: I think the main complaint about TEPCO is that the problem has gotten to this point.
Just a partial list:
Posted in: What do you think of the Japanese government's response to the earthquake-tsunami disaster so far?
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cstaylor
TEPCO management: inept and craven as usual Prime Minister and Cabinet: much better than expected
Posted in: What do you think of the Japanese government's response to the earthquake-tsunami disaster so far?
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cstaylor
NYTimes just released information that radiation has been detected 60miles (roughly 100km) from Fukushima.
Posted in: 180,000 evacuated as nuclear plant crisis intensifies
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cstaylor
TEPCO can't even keep their website running.
Posted in: Kan calls quake worst crisis since World War II; OKs power outages
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cstaylor
(In the case of the American 1st Amendment) there is a difference between "The government shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech" and indemnification from the effects of such speech. If yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theater leads to a frenzied panic where people are injured or killed, that person could be found criminally liable for starting the panic if no fire was present at the time.
Posted in: Does freedom of speech include the right to yell "Fire!" in a crowded theater, yell "Shark" at a beach or joke about having a bomb on a plane, for example?
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cstaylor
Well, only those who supported the gutting of America's formerly progressive tax system. Warren Buffett and Bill Gates think differently.
Posted in: Protesters across U.S. decry anti-union efforts in Wisconsin
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cstaylor
Only because the states promised the pensions, then spent the tax money collected to cover those pensions on other things.
Replace "Government union leadership" with "Multinational corporate leadership" and "compensate government union members" with "gut the corporate tax code and waive regulations" and you have found the reason we are even discussing the pensions of public employees.
Posted in: Protesters across U.S. decry anti-union efforts in Wisconsin
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cstaylor
fingerprint scanner = police state
vein sensor = biometric access management
Posted in: NEC develops world's first contactless finger scanner
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cstaylor
That's because after the age of 5 or so, Japanese can't enjoy unadulterated fun without some form of suffering involved to alleviate the guilt.
Unfortunately, this kind of poor planning can be fatal (Google "Accidents on Half Dome" for an example)
Posted in: Tokyo's catnap culture
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cstaylor
Papigiulio - that's the price you pay for not planning ahead. A small backpack with your wife's sneakers inside could have saved you the back stain.
Posted in: Fashionable 'yama' girls take to the hills
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cstaylor
Sounds just like the Schindler Elevator fiasco all over again.
Posted in: Groupon CEO apologizes to Japan customers for 'osechi' mess-up
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cstaylor
And for Cleo: "Thinking is what a great many people think they are doing when they are merely rearranging their prejudices" - William James
Posted in: Why are so many people unable to debate contentious issues such as whaling, gun control, politics and so on without getting acrimonious?
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cstaylor
Kierkegaard said it best: "People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."
Posted in: Why are so many people unable to debate contentious issues such as whaling, gun control, politics and so on without getting acrimonious?
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cstaylor
Do nothing. LDP sat on the issue for years, why should the DPJ have to solve it immediately?
Posted in: What is the best way to resolve the Futenma base relocation problem?