JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- ALT - Mie Prefecture - Yokkaichi City - June start
- NPO法人グローバル教育推進機構（GLAD), Mie
- Salary: ¥230,000 / Month For a full working month. Some months differ.
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Klein2 - I swim just in the middle of Kujukuri, where the Sotobo-line would touch the beach if it wouldn't curve towards South. It is a very nice black sand area - that's right one could easily walk 50-70 meters into the sea with no problems but if the wind is in the right direction, and on high tides you can find very strong currents even if from the shore everything looks nice.
It must be the gulf shape of the outside of the Boso peninsula, causing the water to "funnel" into Kujukuri beach
Posted in: Woman drowns while trying to rescue child at Chiba beach
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xpompey - even better if it would use the "Bujalani" in the same time with the vuvuzela - like this - blow the vuvuzela and balance a Lajubani on top of it to see if it cancels the sound out...
Posted in: Good form
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This is so more interesting than a moon landing... I tracked the Hayabusa's progress since even before it's launch, so it feels good it' finally back home. Let's hope for some nice results out of it...
For all that care, this guy made a nice graphical description of Hayabusa's Odyssey. It had some really bad moments as one can see. It's here: http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00002535/
Posted in: Space probe returns to Earth from 7-year trip to asteroid
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Kujukuri can have extremely strong currents and eddies, especially on high tides. I live nearby and very often swim in there (not yesterday but last week) and sometimes the current fells like a strong river parallel to the beach - not for the beginner swimmer...
Posted in: Woman drowns while trying to rescue child at Chiba beach
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Thorny issue here... Of course he will pay for killing his wife, but this will probably not solve anything. I'd say that this kind of mercy killings are the signs of a failing society.
Posted in: Elderly man arrested for allegedly killing sick wife in Hachioji
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chotto - LOLs what would the alternative be?
Answer: Android!! - well at least MY HTC Desire phone it's way over any iCrap... Hey Apple fans, how about watching a Flash page or playing a Flash game on the iPad?
Posted in: Waiting for iPad
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societymike, hosrefella, you are both wrong - a modern (built in the last 10 years) car engine spends less than 5-10 seconds worth of fuel for startup, thanks partly to stronger starter motors, improved injection strategy and reduced friction.
If you are to idle the engine for more than 30 seconds you should just stop it...
read here - a very informative article: http://hiroshimagab.blogspot.com/2006/08/idling-vs-cutting-engine.html
I can't give my own data, but I indeed KNOW what I'm talking about, working exactly in this field...
Posted in: It’s time to penalize drivers who leave their motors running
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Frungy - if your car (any car you can buy in Japan) is made in the past 10 years, if you are to idle it for more than 30 seconds it would be better to just shut the engine off. I KNOW what I'm talking about...
Posted in: It’s time to penalize drivers who leave their motors running
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I just hate the fat truck driver idiots sleeping inside their trucks with the engine idling all the time. Nobody here seems to notice how bad this can be for the environment...
Posted in: It’s time to penalize drivers who leave their motors running
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ebisen
It is difficult to define "best" but if we talk about "technologically advanced" and "running on time" it is for sure Japan (although TGV and ICE are not THAT far away).
Japan's latest shinkansen train types are the most efficient and silent, and could be the fastest in a very reliable way, should the track allow it...
Every time I had to use the ICE there was a more than 5 min delay for a route not longer than 150 km.
Posted in: Which country has the best high-speed rail technology in the world?
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I wonder if milk is good for growing rice...
Posted in: Grow-Your-Own-Rice bra
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Oh brother - go see it in 3D in an IMAX cinema - nothing beats this... in 2D is just another SF movie...
Posted in: 'Avatar' sells 6.7 million DVDs, Blu-rays in 4 days
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Nice - those gas cans are very cheap and available everywhere...
Posted in: Butane-powered generator
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What a tool :)) -_- Luckily no damage done - I hope they release him with a slap on his hands... SOme persons just never mature...
Posted in: Man arrested for taking police motorcycle for joyride
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Badsey - you're right - if one HAS to run Windows, at least it should be run on VMWare on top of AT LEAST a CentOS system (if not Red-Hat or other)...
Posted in: McAfee antivirus program goes berserk, freezing PCs
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fds - you can be sure the heli was discovered as soon as he took head towards the destroyer. Japanese helis should do the same :~) - flying so close to a big ship puts the helicopter atomatically at the mercy of that warship.
Unfortunately helicopters can not be captured without damaging them somehow...
Posted in: Chinese navy chopper approaches Japanese destroyer near Okinawa
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sk4ek, the IMAX in Kawasaki is a true system (otherwise there's no way it can bear the logo)... I believe it was build from scratch, and it respects both the audio and the visual standards. Avatar looked very good on it
Posted in: IMAX signs new theater deal in Japan
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and people should have a very good look at Kabukiza, while it still stands - Every European would consider this a crime against his country, Japanese say just "Shouganai ne" - meaning they don't really care about destroying such interesting buildings.
Posted in: Tokyo’s postmodern architectural purge
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Europe is suddenly thrown back 100 years - rather funny to watch from here, in Japan (I'm European)...
Posted in: Iceland volcanic ash sparks more flight disruptions
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ONLY 5???!!! Japanese are really lenient towards this guy... Throw him in jail and let him meditate about it.. I hope the prison-kayu and miso soup tastes good (as he's eating it out of MY tax money)...
Posted in: Antiwhaling activist Pete Bethune is facing 5 criminal charges in connection with his intrusion onto a Japanese whaling vessel. What do you think about it?