JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Financial Advisor
- Select Asset Management KK, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥100,000 ~ ¥999,999 Paid Training Commission Based
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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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gaijintraveller
Sushisake3 says: "Which let's face if, has had a near spotless record in Japan since the first plant was commissioned circa 1966."
You must be joking; there is a history of accidents, carelessness, cover-ups and lapses of safety.
Posted in: Fukushima faces increased quake risk, scientists say
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gaijintraveller
sf2k, wasn't there a report a few years ago about McD's salads being less healthy than burgers because they contained so much salt?
The only way to have a low salt diet is to cook your own food. Actually, that is the only way you will have any idea what goes in it.
Posted in: 90% of Americans eat too much salt: study
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gaijintraveller
3,300mg represents about 9 gm salt. In Britain the maximum recommended salt level is less, 6gm, around 2.5 gm sodium. I believe around 12 gm is common in Japan. That represents 5 gm sodium. Then consider that most Japanese also consume a lot of sodium in the form of monosodium glutamate.
Posted in: 90% of Americans eat too much salt: study
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gaijintraveller
Again we have an incomplete story missing the vital information.
Did the bike have any lights on at 8:30pm?
Was it on the right or wrong side of the road or crossing it? Perhaps, it was running a red light.
Was anyone on the bike making a telephone call, reading email, texting or listening to music on headphones? These are all common practices while riding bicycles in Japan.
Thank you, however, for including the exact ages of everyone involved.
In answer to the question, "Who is wrong?", the driver of the car in this case as it happened in Japan. Here the car driver is always considered at fault in a collision with a bicycle regardless of how stupid and suicidal the cyclist is.
Posted in: Two boys on bike killed after being struck by car in Gunma
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gaijintraveller
It seems strange that this article does the Japanese company, Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd, that is also involved in the development of the drug.
Posted in: Pot-based prescription drug looks for U.S. approval
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gaijintraveller
I know someone who was fined for driving the wrong way in a one-way street. I think it had recently been made one-way and the navi system was not up-to-date. The police were stopping loads of people who were driving by navi.
I don't have a navi, but when I rented a truck with one, I knew it was trying to direct us to traffic jams and a congested road. My sense of direction and knowledge to me on a much faster route.
So many people use navis now that all the navi does is direct you to the most congested roads. Some friends were coming to my house using a navi instead of following my directions. IT took them twice as long as it should have done.
Posted in: GPS is the traveler's enemy
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gaijintraveller
A tax on sugar would encourage the use of more artificial sweeteners and sugar substitutes. Many of them are more dangerous than sugar. A far greater danger to health in this country is salt, but a tax on either of these will prove to be useless unless it is in the range of hundreds of per cent.
More to the point may be taxing trans-fat as unlike many countries Japan does not seem to have abandoned it. It is not necessary to say that tobacco should be taxed more because we know the government will not do so to please a few farmers and the amukudari in Japan Tobacco.
Posted in: Time to tax sugar to combat health crisis: experts
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gaijintraveller
Flour, water, yeast, sugar, oil or other fat, salt, that is all you need. It makes you wonder what goes in this. It is just a clever way to double the price of flour.
Posted in: Bread mix
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gaijintraveller
Posters are ok. Just let's keep it visual and not have yet another unnecessary noisy announcement.
Posted in: Good manners
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gaijintraveller
Most do their best, but are just arbeiters. I hate it when they yell at you or when a new customer arrives.
It seems to be a waste of time asking what's good. "Everything is good." That tells us nothing, and all we want is a simple recommendation.
Posted in: What do you think of the quality of waiters in Japanese restaurants?
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gaijintraveller
What, no Starbucks or Mac? Let's be honest; that sounds good. Nearly every new area that opens sells the same old chainstore stuff, which means it is not special or worth a visit as the same stuff is near your home.
"Targeting roots and new music, like the coffee shop, no expense was spared on the sound equipment, with enormous Tannoy speakers from England and, keeping it old-school, a carefully selected vinyl music library and Linn record player from Scotland." This reminds me of the coffee shops of old, which used to have great rock played over superb sound systems. Unfortunately, few remain. BYG in Shibuya is the only one I can think of, but I expect some like Rock Mother in Shimo Kitazawa are still going.
Posted in: Yoyogi Village, a shopping mall with an eco twist, is out to save the world
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gaijintraveller
40 years or case by case.
Posted in: Cabinet OKs bill to cap nuclear reactor life
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gaijintraveller
Just what I need when I go to Tokyo: noise cancellation. They may not make travelling on trains or shopping in big camera shops pleasurable, but at least they would make such places less unbearble.
Posted in: Keeping the noise out
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gaijintraveller
Kingbasil asks: You want them to focus more on robberies and murders, or bicycle theft?
I would prefer them to focus on bicycle theft than bicycle parking. By the way, bicycle theft is robbery.
Posted in: Man uncovers bike thief by bidding on own bike in online auction
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gaijintraveller
Who were the politicians and which party did they belong to?
Posted in: China protests Japan's plan to name disputed islands
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gaijintraveller
A few years ago I saw a sign in front of a shop just off Center-Gai. Only one thing on the sign was written in English: Date rape drug. I suppose selling that was legal.
It takes a lot to shock me, but that did.
Posted in: Shibuya herb vendor raided after 3 teenagers fall ill
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gaijintraveller
"The man subsequently found his bike online and reported it to police. The man then made the winning bid on the auction and went to meet Sakai and verify that it was his bicycle, police said."
What did the police do when he found his bike online? Did they tell him that they could not prove it was his bike or something like that? It seems that he had to buy it back to obtain the proof. Was this because the police asked him to or because they were doing nothing?
Posted in: Man uncovers bike thief by bidding on own bike in online auction
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gaijintraveller
Actually, the biggest threat, in my mind, to the world economy is the United States of America. That is where the current financial crisis started. If the problem is caused by welfare, it is not caused by giving people welfare payments: it is caused by making welfare payments to unprofitable companies, irresponsible banks, invest companies and mortgage companies. How much of military expenditure is really no more than welfare for weapons manufacturers and others?
The problems caused by irresponsibility caused by a lack of or lack of enforcement of regulation. These problems echoed throughout the world. The Eurozone crisis is one of those echoes.
Paper money is no more than a promise. As such it is worth no more than a promise. "I promise to pay the bearer of this note the sum of ..." And if you demand the sum of ..., you will be given another piece of paper, another promise.
Do you believe the promises of your government? Maybe many Japanese still do. Many still keep their savings in overvalued yen in accounts bearing virtually no interest because they do not have any better ideas. This could change. Unfortunately for us living in Japan, Japan could be the next domino to fall.
Posted in: Eurozone crisis biggest threat to world economy, Noda tells Davos forum
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gaijintraveller
I can remember when Brits thought British cars were superior to the cheaper Japanese imports. That was in the days when people thought British Leyland (Anyone remember them?) was a strong company. Think of the famous British names like Lotus (now Malaysian), Rolls-Royce, Bentley, Mini (now German) and Jaguar (Indian). Complacency led to the fall of the British car industry. Is the Japanese car industry going to suffer in the same way from Korean and maybe later Chinese and Indian imports?
Posted in: Japan losing its manufacturing edge to South Korea
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gaijintraveller
Why has the DPJ been making slow progress? Because the LDP blocks attempts to progress.
Posted in: LDP resolves to take power from DPJ this year