JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Full-time English Teacher - Osaka
- Epion English Language Schools, Osaka
- Salary: ¥200,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month Depending on your ability and experience
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- Part-time English Teacher - Osaka
- Epion English Language Schools, Osaka
- Salary: ¥10,000 ~ ¥15,000 / Day Depending on how many days a week are worked
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- Core Developer - コアディベロッパー
- Midokura Japan K.K. - ミドクラジャパン株式会社, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥4.0M ~ ¥10.0M / Year Negotiable
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dreamdrifter
Think about this. If the population of Greater Tokyo "evacuated" that will put a stop to all commercial and administrative functions carried out by those people, i.e., Japan as a nation will pretty much cease to function. Paralyzed isn't even the word.
Power will stop, administration will stop, distribution will stop, telecommunication will stop, banking will stop, trade will stop, paychecks will stop.
Even if you assume that the rest of Japan will somehow have spare bed-space for 35 million evacuees (and tell me of an example in history where any society was able to absorb 35 million refugees in one go) the nation will be knocked back to stone-age subsistence living with pretty much immediate effect. Without distribution the entire country will enter famine within a matter of days, resulting in far more deaths and damage than any other scenario.
I can't believe some of you are suggesting that a couple of US aircraft carriers taking a few thousand "evacuees" would have made any difference whatsoever. It would have been a refugee/famine crisis unprecedented in history and the world has repeatedly shown that it is not yet capable of dealing with a crisis on such a scale.
Now THIS would have been the worst case scenario, and the government was absolutely right in doing everything it can to avoid it. Those of you who claim that the J-gov should have risked such a scenario for the sake of "transparency" have probably not thought well enough about the true implications of such a scenario.
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dreamdrifter
"The limits refer to sustained consumption rates"
Crikey, it seems some members of the public do not understand the meaning of this sentence..
According to the BBC's medical correspondant "the extra risk from drinking tap water in Tokyo for a year would be far less than that of someone moving, say, from London to Cornwall for a year" (Cornwall being a part of the UK having a slightly higher background radiation than average).
Posted in: Tokyo shoppers clean store shelves of basic goods
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dreamdrifter
@globalwatcher
Did it not cross your mind that the reason why people are giving their opinions re TV coverage may be because they are merely answering the questions in the title of this thread?
Posted in: How do you feel about the nonstop television coverage of the earthquake, tsunami and ensuing nuclear crisis? What effect do you think it has on the public?
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dreamdrifter
Both of the two slogans that the marchers are forcing their kids to hold are completely off the mark. What's this about "winning"? Winning what? What is this "lie at school" they are talking about? And how are they in any way relevant to Diaoyu/Senkaku?
Well, if I had to guess, the former is a meaningless slogan aimed purely to mimic the WWII slogan as described by the poster above in order to invoke right-wing nostalgia. Too bad the concept of "winning" here is so vacuous. And the latter is a right-wing dig at the Japan Teacher's Union, which has always been known to be left wing and anti-nationalist, and frequently accused by the rightists of teaching self-hate.
So this photo tells me only one thing: these marchers aren't normal Japanese folks expressing their anger, they are right-wing weirdos leaping on an opportunity to vent their bigotry.
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dreamdrifter
I really do wonder if this would ever make news in another country.
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dreamdrifter
I seem to remember a similar BBC poll which found that Brits were at the top of the list of the most hated tourists in European destinations for their drunken aggression, while they were considered one of the most civilized outside of Europe.
The Japanese are usually OK, but can sometimes be rude to service staff. They should accept that Japan's idea of customer service is not shared by the rest of the world.
The Chinese seem to be totally oblivious to the impression they are giving with their queue-barging habits and loud voices. I once sat on a long distance bus in Croatia with the whole bus having to endure a 5-hour racket in Chinese coming from four tourists sat at the very front. It's a shame they gave such a negative impression because I had a chat with them during a service station break and they were very friendly and nice bunch.
Posted in: In your experience, which country's tourists are the least well-behaved whenever you have seen them out and about?
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dreamdrifter
@tian4670
Ignoring the absurdity of the notion that the US will launch an offensive against Russia over Sakhalin (which Japan is not even claiming), Japan hasn't exchanged fire with anyone since the US-Japan Security Treaty was signed in 1960. Why would the US start a war for Japan when Japan isn't fighting one?
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dreamdrifter
It seems this is the crossing in question.
http://tinyurl.com/3agunzq
@Disillusioned - just out of curiosity, when you say people in Japan cross roads on red signals what country are you comparing it to? It's just that personally I haven't seen a country where people obey a red pedestrian signal as much as they do in Japan, but there again I haven't been to every country in the world.
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dreamdrifter
Why does China refuse to take the issue to the International Court of Justice?
Posted in: Japan urges calm after China severs contacts
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dreamdrifter
Interesting to read due to its sheer size, but something should be done to curb the level of abuse of freedom of speech there (excuse the oxymoron). Forcing users to log-in might be effective to some degree, although that doesn't seem to stop hate speech in places like youtube and yahoo news boards - guess its inevitable in large web forums.
Read a blog recently by a Japanese bloke whose S. Korean girlfriend was at first apprehensive about coming to Japan because she thought the level of anti-Korean hate speech in 2channel is a reflection on the Japanese people as a whole (when of course, it isn't.)
Posted in: What do you think of 2channel, Japan's biggest Internet forum, where anonymous netizens post anything, including death threats?
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dreamdrifter
(as in hemp grown for fiber and hemp grown for dope are differnet variants)
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dreamdrifter
@HesKun
Different variants of the same plant, I believe.
Posted in: Roppongi police hold anti-drug event
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dreamdrifter
@Disillusioned
They state they hunt whales for research to gather scientific information to justify a resumption of commercial whaling.
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dreamdrifter
I agree. Apparently Chris Savoie tried to convince the courts to prevent her from returning to Japan with her kids on holiday, but was unsuccessful. So she took her kids to Japan and returned to America a couple of weeks later as promised. If Noriko was plotting to do a runner right from the onset why did she return to America?
Posted in: American man accused of grabbing own kids released
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dreamdrifter
In return for paying tax, you benefit from the way tax is spent e.g. use of roads, street lighting, waste collection, fire and police services etc. You are even entitled to social welfare benefits. So you are already getting back just as much as someone with Japanese nationality, pretty much.
@ tmarie
But you can play a part in changing that social attitude.
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@ ChrisBiggins
The Americans may not have a right to interfere, but they certainly have the right to voice their opinions about it. Which is all they have done in this instance.
Posted in: Lockerbie bomber release stirs diplomatic dispute
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dreamdrifter
@sfjp330
It was the decision of the Scottish Government to release him, not the British Government who had nothing to do with the decision (and who even got criticised by the Scots for refusing to enter into discussion over the matter).
Posted in: Lockerbie bomber release stirs diplomatic dispute
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dreamdrifter
Surely if the Libyan Government has admitted involvement in the bombings they should be able to say who was really responsible?
Posted in: Lockerbie bomber freed; returns to Libya to die
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dreamdrifter
Aren't food establishments supposed to give refunds anyway if a customer takes food back and demands a refund?
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dreamdrifter
@jonnyboy
Yes, I was expecting something else when I opened the article!
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