JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Corporate Business English Trainers
- ACT Systems, Inc.（株式会社アクト・システムズ）, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥269,500 ~ ¥280,000 / Month
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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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electric2004
A restaurant serving = fasting. Itadakimasu. Not.
Posted in: Take a break from fast lane at one-of-a-kind retreat in Chiba
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electric2004
But actually who likes to go to Heathrow?
Posted in: JAL expands codeshare services with BA
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Maybe he is a shutterbug.
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They look like coming home late in the morning from work in the water trade business.
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electric2004
It is funny that the numbers of comments seems to stagnate. Could it be that there is a dark force that strikes out to keep it vague?
Anyhow, a referring homepage of Satsukawa Aimi is at:
http://www.jdorama.com/artiste.2246.htm
A nice picture of her trying cosmetics is at:
http://www.tnc.ne.jp/aimialbum/200712_senzai/slides/04.jpg
Or search Amazon books for the title:
ラララ―佐津川愛美写真集
Posted in: Aimi Satsukawa celebrates Coming of Age Day early
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Theguynextdoor: Depends on the language environment.
In Latin cum just means with. For example in summa cum laude.
Posted in: Aimi Satsukawa celebrates Coming of Age Day early
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Cleo, you are right on the point. My little boy is now 3 Years and 9 month, so he is past the age of "terrible 2". We had our share of slightly dangerous situations with him. Now he has learned and under normal situations in the home it is no longer necessary to always watch him.
However his little sister, now 1 year and 4 months seems to have learned a lot from him. She likes to touch buttons, throw things to the ground, grab everything from the table, runs with things in her mouth and so on. And, yes, at her young age, she is also an escape artist. She manages to climb out of her baby feeding chair, or out of her baby bed. And she understands to move steps or chairs to use them for climbing to higher positions.
We can not ask our boy to take care of his younger sister - she is smart enough to trick him, for example taking away his orange juice or sweets or toys. However, if she does something which she should not (like switching off the room heater or the TV), he tries to stop her, or he calls for us, his parents for help.
And, yes, we have double locks at the doors. It helps.
Posted in: 2-year-old boy seriously injured after being hit by train in Aichi
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Cleo:
You are quite right. My idea was, that the event described above is not a wedding, but just a wedding reception. Then the color is of course not so important. The bride is obviously not a virgin and also was married before, so the white dress she is wearing on the picture is meaningless - it just expresses fashion. The idea of a red dot can be to show the connection to her country, or with some stretching of ideas (the bedding of a virgin after the wedding night), that she is not a virgin.
Posted in: Hiroko Hatano, Keita Suzuki hold wedding reception
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Probably she should wear red. Or even better white with a red filled circle.
Posted in: Hiroko Hatano, Keita Suzuki hold wedding reception
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Christmas is what you make of it - definitely YES.
My little boy goes to a Kindergarten, and this Saturday they had Christmas performance on stage in Cityhall. The smaller children doing some dances, and the older children making a very nice performance of the Christmas story in the bible.
And this Sunday I went with our Baby girl to the catholic church in the nearest bigger city. For me it was a bit exhausting, but she had fun.
The difference to Christmas at home: It is a good idea to understand the prayers in Japanese and/or English.
And when the author E H Fields claims that in Japan "Christmas Eve is king ... well same in several European countries". That should be OK.
Happy Christmas to all.
Posted in: A very Japanese Christmas
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Mod: Something is wrong with the numbers. 140Mio US$ seems a reasonable price tag for ONE F22 airplane. Then 20 of them are 2800 Mio US$. In this light, 50 Mio US$ is a lame joke.
Posted in: US to deploy 12 stealth fighters to Okinawa
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Thinking of energy savings ... recently the small chargers for mobile phones and games and so on have become less energy consuming and more efficient. Until recently, each of such chargers, if equipped with a standard 50 or 60 Hz transformer would take in 5W from the power grid. Unfortunately, small transformers are quite inefficient. Thinking of 100 Million users (actually it is much more), this is already 500 MW, which is half the capacity of a standard 1GW nuclear plant. Recent devices can be efficient in the order of 80 to 90%, which means almost only the power to charge the device is used, so in the order of 2W per device. A small number, but multiply it with the number of users of mobile phones, cameras and games and so on, and the number reaches the equivalent of one or 2 nuclear plants. Now this is happening in quiet (some companies like Panasonic show they are going eco by cutting standby losses) but it is still impressing.
Posted in: Commuters' stamping harnessed for power
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sf2k:
Regenerative braking exists for trains. I know it for the ICE train running in Germany, but I am not sure about the local trains in Japan. Regenerative braking increases the complexity of the inverters, which drive the motors in the train. So it depends on what the train company orders. 2 quadrant inverters for accelerating and breaking without putting energy back into the network (the braking energy goes into resistors as heat) or real 4 quadrant inverters, where braking energy goes back to the network. As good example, the Toyota Prius has such 4 quadrant inverters, but it is not a train.
Posted in: Commuters' stamping harnessed for power
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electric2004
Or small turbines in rain water pipes.
Posted in: Commuters' stamping harnessed for power
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JavaChip:
It is not my fault that the web-site wrote 1,400kW/sec per day. Like you pointed out, it should be an Energy of 1400kW * sec = 1.4MJoule. And this energy is generated during one day. Then this is 388Wh (as you wrote). Exactly as you mention I forgot to divide by 24 (hours per day). This is my mistake.
Finally, this means an average power of 16.2 W
Somehow a factor 2.8 different from your number 5.83W.
Posted in: Commuters' stamping harnessed for power
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And from JR
http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20061017/122345/
For 1W*hour over 8 hours, this means 0.125 W average power. Less than 1 mobile needs.
Then, more recent: http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20081204/162357/
This means in average 388 W. Comparable to the power of one Personal Computer with Monitor. Big effort. Marginal savings.
Posted in: Commuters' stamping harnessed for power
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Here is a more precise number: http://www.japanfs.org/en/pages/027023.html
It says the power generated is 100W for 80 minutes per day. Or in average 100 divided by 18 = 5.5 Watt if the power is assumed to be continous. So the assumption of 10W I gave before was even to optimistic.
Posted in: Commuters' stamping harnessed for power
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electric2004
Well, one person may generate 1W. At the same time on the panels, there might be 10 persons. So, could be that 10 W is generated. Now, one simple neon light nearby will take more than this 10 W. The system needs service and a control computer. Also such control might take more than the estimated 10W. The missing number here, is the expected power, the passenger on the platform will generate. There are plans for such power generation for personal mobile use (including military). Still the power per person is limited to a value in the range from 1 Watt to 5 Watt.
Looks not like a realistic energy saving. As comparison, solar panels start to make sense, when you have an installed power of 1kW or more. Then a loss of 10% (let's say 100W) in the control of these solar panels can be accepted.
Posted in: Commuters' stamping harnessed for power
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electric2004
Staff cut due to recession. Ok, understood. But then, why heavier workload overtime?
Posted in: Consumers showing healthy appetite for holiday food items
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As I have read in a guide book (I did not went there) it is possible to eat fresh fish in stalls and small restaurants in Tsukiji. This is also banned now? Because I thought, this is the business which gets money from Tourists?
Posted in: Tourists to be barred from Tsukiji tuna auctions for a month