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
- Salary: ¥125,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month
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- FT English Teachers for Kids - Osaka
- Kohgakusha Co., Ltd. （株式会社興学社）, Osaka
- Salary: ¥255,000 ~ ¥275,000 / Month Travel Expenses, Encouragement of Japanese learning*
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- Translator
- ZAIHON, Inc. (日本財務翻訳株式会社), Tokyo
- Salary: ¥6.0M / Year Negotiable
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The company should be renamed from Oricon to "Lori-con" (Lolita complex).
Posted in: NMB48 song tops Oricon chart
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It looks to me like TEPCO is extorting money from the government.
How about coining a new expression:
Tepcorists.
Posted in: Gov't OKs further Y690 bil for TEPCO, but wants say in running utility
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Looks like the software deployment process. Called Banana-ware. Becomes ripe after delivery to the customers.
Posted in: Boeing finds problem in tail section of 787 Dreamliners
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tmarie:
Let's not forget Ishihara setting up a bank in Tokyo. That was a real money drain.
Posted in: Ishihara says he is ready to help new political party change Japan
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Squid:
Well, quality might mean that the risk of brownouts or blackouts is small. Say less than 0.1 percent of time per Year. Or that overvoltage and undervoltage are within tight limits, like 3 percent or so. And that the frequency does not vary so much. So your electric appliances work well and do not blow up.
In this respect, nuclear power plants have some advantage, as they can provide a quite stable supply of electrical power. As you said, it finally depends on the turbine, so the same is true for coal or oil or gas operated thermal plants. However, for wind generators or solar power generation without sufficient storage, there is some power fluctuation as function of wind or sunlight, so in this regard, this would be "lower quality electricity".
Posted in: Cabinet OKs bill to cap nuclear reactor life
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It should not come as a big surprise as not only the children are calling their parents "Okaasan" and "Otoosan", but also the parents are calling themselves "Papa" and "Mama" or "Okaasan" and "Otoosan".
Might make sense when talking face to face, but does not make so much sense, when the identity of the other person needs to be confirmed. Like on the phone. Or children searching for their parents for example in a shopping mall.
Posted in: Fraudster confesses to stealing over Y32 million by posing as victim's son
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According to the book "Confessions of a Yakuza", Tsuchiura is a place where the organization has a foothold.
Maybe because of the new tougher rules, they could not buy their winter tires any more so they needed replacement cars.
Posted in: Cars, cash stolen from luxury import car dealership in Ibaraki
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Who knows? Maybe it is an amakudari for Amano. There will be a time his appointment will come to an end.
Posted in: U.N. nuclear agency to set up Fukushima office
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Johannes Weber:
Your explanation sounds reasonable. If there are radioactive particles in the atmosphere there is a relation between rain (or snow) and measured radioactivity.
However there is a problem: While the radiation level increased, there was no rain or snow falling near Tsukuba. And the spike is higher than events seen before during the last 3 months. In other words, there must have been some kind of additional radioactive discharge at the badly damaged reactors in Fukushima.
To see such events, it is good to check from time to time.
Samantha:
While in my home country, approximately 15 years ago, I bought a Geiger-counter to be able to check radioactivity for myself. However this was related to ceramic tiles for bathrooms, and floors, where some products have been found to have too high natural radiation levels. As the level was low enough, I had put the Geiger counter into storage. Then middle of last year, while I was on a trip home I brought this counter to Japan for checking at the place where I live. Lucky, the radiation level is low enough, and comparable to the levels, where I gave the links.
In this sense, the situation in Japan has changed my habits. From checking and verifying, when there is some risk reported to periodically checking.
Posted in: How foreigners’ daily lives change when they live in Japan
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There is some unexpected change:
I check the daily radiation readings. For example at Tsukuba
http://rcwww.kek.jp/norm/index-e.html
or at JAEA:
http://www.jaea.go.jp/04/ztokai/kankyo_e/realtime/graph168.html
And I was surprised that radiation went up on January 23rd, e.g. Monday evening.
Posted in: How foreigners’ daily lives change when they live in Japan
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Can she make tea for her co-workers?
Posted in: 36-year-old Harvard law graduate elected Japan's youngest female mayor
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SquidBert:
Yes, you are right Smart Meters are a necessary step for feeding back energy to the net.
But - it is not necessary that the utility (e.g. TEPCO) gets all this information directly. I am just imagining 10 Million smart meters are sending the information for example in 1 Minute intervals. Lets say, each 1 KByte. Then we are talking about 10 Gbyte per Minute or 166 Mbyte per second. This needs quite an information infrastructure and many servers and data links.
Such detailed information is most useful at the substation level. There the local information is collected and a summary is generated. Then the utilities (I hope not only TEPCO) receive this summary information from the substation and can acct accordingly.
Then, maybe just once a day, each smart meter can send a daily report to a central server. This would be manageable. However a nightmare for security, if there is no encryption of the data.
Posted in: TEPCO to hold bids for 17 million smart meters
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While I welcome this kind of activity, it sure looks weak compared to other universities in the World. If I look for example at the German university RWTH Aachen - they have currently 35800 students, and among them are 5000 international students from 120 different countries in other words 14 percent.
Posted in: University of Tokyo considering autumn start to academic year
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tmarie, what you are asking for is common sense. However, this is a Japanese company.
Posted in: Gov't to probe radioactive apartment block
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The revolving door is starting to move faster.
Posted in: Noda replaces 5 ministers in cabinet reshuffle
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If it wouldn't be so sad, one could think of a suicide simulator. There already exist simulators for example fo groping on the train, why not have a setup, where the customer is rolled over by a train simulation?
Such simulation could be either very soft, or even a hologram. Might be actually a business idea.
Posted in: No. of suicides surpasses 30,000 for 14th year in a row in 2011
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Tom Cruise faithful? Married more than once.
Posted in: Kyoka Suzuki's ideal son - Tom Cruise
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Many times the persons starting or supporting a revolution will not see any benefit. This is what history tells us.
Posted in: Woodford to sue Olympus, citing lack of investor support to get his job back
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Goal -in? That means they were playing bedroom golf.
Posted in: Yuko Ogura announces she is pregnant
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Another bubble dreams burst.
Posted in: Japan scraps plan to give away 10,000 free flights to visitors