JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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darkbob
Great, just what a country with a long culture needs; kids serving preservative laden snacks and light porno 24/7 Cynical? You bet ...
Posted in: Lawson to expand in Myanmar
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darkbob
error: I'd meant to write 'opportunist' not populist
Posted in: DPJ coalition partner PNP dumps Kamei as leader
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darkbob
Kamei=drone .... a populist thinking about ways to keep warming his bum forever. No imagination, no talent, zero imagination just a cunning old-style populist. The tax hike through VAT is inevitable and this guy tries to ingratiate himself with the public with this nonsense and for what? To make himself look good before and electorate and before an election. Good riddance drone ...
Posted in: DPJ coalition partner PNP dumps Kamei as leader
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darkbob
Bad combination; 3:00 a.m., booze, dames with the same dress on ...
Posted in: Woman dies after being hit in face with beer glass in Tokyo bar
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darkbob
That's true ... and just think, Thorium reactors can actually use all that spent and dangerous fuel. That's fact, not fiction ...
Posted in: Experts warn worst-case tsunami could top 34 meters
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darkbob
Wrong; completely wrong: the days of atomic energy haven't even arrived. Thorium is the only viable energy for all of us and there's plenty of it to go around. Uranium has always been the dumb choice and utilized only because Plutonium can be extracted for the weapons industry. We can have safe nuclear and that you haven't heard of it or read up on it is sad. I've been shouting to anyone who'll listen for years about Thorium and it's easy to understand why the Chinese are quietly developing adaptations for its use, which they'll sell back to us because we've been hoodwinked by the nuclear industry to 'not' develop it. They'll sell it back to us of course and when (God forbid) the big one comes and if we'd had Thorium reactors, we could all have at least the menace and nightmare of reactors gone berserk as at least that would be one thing less to deal with.
Posted in: Experts warn worst-case tsunami could top 34 meters
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darkbob
Anyway, seismically speaking, in Japan we're all sitting under the sword of Damocles and it ain't fun. I find the stress manifesting by the week, month ...
Posted in: Experts warn worst-case tsunami could top 34 meters
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darkbob
Kochi would be history. The people there are a special breed. Tough, super resilient and a generosity of spirit that can best be compared with the Mediterranean countries, particularly as they were 50 or so years ago. Kochi is hammered by typhoons on a regular basis and it's made these wonderful people the way they are. They know this is coming and also that they're toast. Big drinkers too, especially the female imbibers ...
Posted in: Experts warn worst-case tsunami could top 34 meters
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darkbob
Thorium is indeed 'safe nuclear'. LFTR (salt reactors) are already being developed in China and to be online within 2~3 years. So we miss the boat once again ... the West developed Thorium then fail to capitalize on it despite it being a little more powerful than Uranium, easier to operate, requires a fraction of the size and four times as plentiful and best of all (I think) can burn the waste from the stupid reactors currently in use. Oh, and the Plutonium is very difficult to extract. Soon China will be selling us their new Thorium technology. One lives in faint hope that there isn't a tsunami before the world wakes up to this vastly different and safe power source.
Posted in: Experts warn worst-case tsunami could top 34 meters
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darkbob
"Art is whatever you can get away with" Read that on a T shirt once. Still, I like her stuff but not enough to have it in the 'ol house. No siree ...
Posted in: Roppongi Art Night
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darkbob
@Reckless; Yes you can cook it in a rice cooker, it just takes a little longer. The newer rice cookers are built to cook both white, brown and the admix of the two. For best results and super quick, use a pressure cooker as it takes hardly any time at all.
Posted in: White rice linked to Type 2 diabetes, say researchers
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darkbob
I love the smell and taste of warm rice ... splosh a little milk and sugar on it for taste and whammo! It's a real filler and freaks all the Japanese out. I then tell 'em all about rice custard pudding. Genmai has been the way to go for us for many years. Curiously, our J friends think this is rather low-brow culinary speaking. Bollix, genmai is very tasty and satisfying than the pure starch white stuff.
Posted in: White rice linked to Type 2 diabetes, say researchers
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darkbob
More hard-hiting news from JT ...
Posted in: AKB48 to sing national anthem before Giants-Swallows season opener on March 30
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darkbob
Hey, I want to do this to students often. Don't want to hurt them mind, just wake them up from grinning at their laps in class (cellphones).
Posted in: Professor wraps electrical cord around student's neck in class
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darkbob
Only in this idiot of a country would we find halfwitted, pouting bimbos with a collective IQ of 18 warning us of the grave dangers of suicide. How much are they getting for this? I mean apart from the free publicity? Do they intend to donate something? Work as volunteers? I think I've answered my own question ...
Posted in: Gov't enlists AKB48 as 'gatekeepers' for suicide prevention
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darkbob
@Piltdown Man: Hey, don't worry ... that's the kind of medieval thinking that all through history gets this country into trouble over and over again. Can't you see it for what it really is? Deep-seated inferiority manifesting in drivel. People call our sons 'hafu' I say no, you're 'double'. You have two of everything. Two languages, two cultures, two passports and far better looking that most. I think Darvish will do well and hope he gets the language down soon.
Posted in: New Ranger
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darkbob
The guy's heart is about to give out and there's some justice in that.
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darkbob
Good... one less and another about to get life.
Posted in: Former gang member shot dead in Denny's restaurant in Chiba
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darkbob
How times have changed. In the 70s, jobs found you. I can clearly remember sitting in a couple of interviews and at the end, telling the interviewer at the end; "lemme think on this and I'll get back to you." I actually said that ...
Posted in: Job interviews - 'Fools using a foolish method to pick fools'
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darkbob
Kevin Maher is a breath of fresh air, no ... make that a strong gust in the putrid stifling air that is Japanese politics. He's had that reputation for many years well before the gaff to the students in Okinawa. And he's right, they DO and HAVE used the bases issue as a tool. No big news there. It was and still is an open secret. Power to the man for calling a spade a spade. At least someone gives an accurate assessment of the farce that is the Japanese political situation. Much like Karl Van Wolferen's 'The Enigma of Japanese Power' which a great many educated Japanese people say is right on the money, this is high up on my reading list.
Posted in: Ex-U.S. diplomat Maher pulls no punches on Japan