JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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U.S. Navy investigating how parts fell off aircraft near Atsugi
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Confrontation
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California court to decide if SeaWorld whales are illegal 'slaves'
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Kuroki reported pregnant 2 weeks after denying relationship with Akanishi
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- Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) in Kanto region
- RCS (RCSコーポレーション), Kanto
- Salary: ¥180,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month includes performance bonus
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- Assistant Language Teacher - TOKYO - late-March start
- Interac, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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- Assistant Language Teacher - Kanagawa Prefecture - late-March start
- Interac, Kanagawa
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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ebisen
Tasty these noodles are, and nothing good for your body they contain... Hmmmm, weak is the force I sense...
"I looove the money". I'm sure they obtained approval before using such a high profile figure...
Posted in: Tasty, these noodles are: Nissin gets help from Yoda
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Some - recalls are part of normal business, and are accounted for even before happening... There were millions of cars recalled, not thousands.
Posted in: Tokyo Motor Show looks to green cars to drive recovery
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Netninja, yes, and then sure them some more. Right now, olympus shares are barely worth the paper they are printed on...
I can't help but wonder who was auditing them from the government during those years. Auditors were probably heavily bribed and are just as guilty.
Posted in: Olympus investor files suit in U.S. court
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zichi - thanks for the link,,, Hmmm - it's clear that the quake might have done enough damage to make the plant un-salvageable... The earthquake did so much damage because at the time it was built the prediction for an earthquake during it's 50 years of life was at around M7.2, not M9.0 (many hundreds of times stronger). It is a general consensus that nowadays it is impossible to build nuclear plants designed to withstand such tremors and still be cost effective, Basically this is what the prof. is saying...
What I was saying was that I strongly doubt that a high pressure weld joint on a pipe survived for 40 years with a bad welding... No engineer in her/his right mind would agree to this... I still believe the building was done up to the best standards of the day... Japanese are not generally known for sloppy work...
Posted in: If we factored in every possible worst case scenario, nothing would get built. What engineers look for is consensus from the seismologists and we don’t get that.
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If NK does attack (especially with nuclear weapons), there is great chance that the Korean peninsula becomes the Korean Island... There will be no South Korea any longer, but just Korea, with the capital in the current Seoul.. The newly created Korean Strait will separate them from China...
Posted in: North Korea threatens 'sea of fire' in Seoul
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zichi:
I really doubt this - even 40 years ago people knew nuclear plants need to be safe. The standards of building for nuclear plants were the strictest among civilian standards.
I honestly doubt that the high pressure joints that were supposedly poorly welded worked properly, only to be ripped by the earthquake... Making such joints is an art in itself, and no experienced welder would allow such mistakes in there...
Posted in: If we factored in every possible worst case scenario, nothing would get built. What engineers look for is consensus from the seismologists and we don’t get that.
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I'm not a specialist, this is from what I remember reading in various sources Squid - the chances of this earthquake to happen were very low. Specialists do say this quake was a nasty unexpected surprise. Everybody was looking forward to the big Kanto (Tokyo) quake, which is still to come.
Posted in: If we factored in every possible worst case scenario, nothing would get built. What engineers look for is consensus from the seismologists and we don’t get that.
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Squid - the professor is absolutely right, why do you kick at him?
Task: build nuclear plants.
Location: Fukushima.
ToDo: Find out the maximal probable earthquake that can occur during the plant's life. Ask seismologists for this. Build accordingly.
That's exactly what they did.
The 3/11 quake was a big statistical improbability, but it happened anyway.. Kind of like the opposite of winning the lottery.
Posted in: If we factored in every possible worst case scenario, nothing would get built. What engineers look for is consensus from the seismologists and we don’t get that.
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ebisen
I wouldn't call it a car though...it would be a small wonder if this thing can pass the strict European safety standards...
Posted in: Renault-Nissan to launch 2,500-euro car: report
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ebisen
I guess he tried to avoid the lead tasting session his colleague from Libya had.
Posted in: Yemen president of 33 years agrees to quit amid uprising
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I tried and tried and tried... Yamanashi wine, Hokkaido wine, Shikoku wine.. Red, rose, white...500 yen a bottle - up to 3000 yen a bottle...very rarely was it palatable... no idea why... I do believe Japanese still have to learn how to make wine that tastes good even for a European coming from a major wine drinking country.
Posted in: Japanese wine ain't half bad
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From past reports, we know that some people feel very bad for some days, while readjusting to the gravity. The reasons are still researched. Furukawa might well be one those people.
Posted in: Furukawa, 2 other astronauts return to Earth after 5 months on space station
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ebisen
Good job, China...
Posted in: China executes man for raping 14 schoolgirls
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Looking at the pictures, it should cost more than 100.000 yen/car to clean them... Idiotic vandals - at least they should use water soluble sprays....
Posted in: Vandals target metro subway lines nationwide
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ebisen
The biggest I saw (in Eastern Europe's snow covered winter mountains) was a real monster... Leading a pack, with bristles standing on it's back and with teeth pointing right out of it's mouth..
Posted in: Wild boar enters home in Motegi; injures resident
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ebisen
OMG - I really hate that pyramid - They should better use the light to blind it away from passer-by's views..
Posted in: Toshiba completes new light for Louvre pyramid
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If inoshishi are just half as aggressive as an European Warthog, I would never think of kicking one... Injuries (even death) were quite common 100 years ago...
Posted in: Wild boar enters home in Motegi; injures resident
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ebisen
Also, I find the black "penguin suits" worn by the average politicians (from any country) at least at silly...
Posted in: Diplomatic 'silly shirt' parade revived in Bali
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I find this a good tradition, building relationships and a chance to get rid of the ordinary...
Posted in: Diplomatic 'silly shirt' parade revived in Bali
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I see nothing wrong with getting completely drunk once in a while (like a few (2-3) times a year).. Doing this on a trice-a-week basis is going to ruin your body...
Posted in: Why the increasing number of alcoholic women in their 20s?