JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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gaijintraveller
99% of the customers seemed to be women in their 20s and 30s.
Posted in: Cat cafes purrfect for lonely and childless people
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gaijintraveller
Unfortunately, there are too many warnings in Japan. 99% of them are quite unnecessary. That is why many people pay little or no attention to the 1% of warnings that are really necessary. Also, speaker systems that have been installed, I imagine, for such warnings are constantly being used for useless purposes such as telling people it is 12 o'clock and time for lunch, 5 o'clock and kids should go home or that they must keep their dog on a lead. It is little wonder that people do not heed warnings: they try not to listen and pay virtually not attention to the damn speakers that keep disturbing the peace in the countryside.
It is also possible that they thought there was no great risk from a tsunami as it was an area zoned for housing or that they would be safe because protective barriers had been built.
Posted in: Parents of 4 children in bus swept away by tsunami sue kindergarten
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gaijintraveller
Wrong. The idea is so that you know what you will pay at a time in the future. That way manufacturers can sell a product knowing that you will make a reasonable profit. The purpose is not so that speculators can make huge profits with little effort.
You could buy rice now before the harvest, but this month it will be harvested, so buy a lot.
I suggest people now stock up on imported rice. Go to a Thai shop and buy Thai rice. It will be safer than the Japanese rice. I do not trust Japanese lables, and you do not know where the Japanese rice really comes from.
Recently, bags of soil for growing plants including vegetables have been removed from home centres because some school discovered that they had a radioactive planter. Fukushima soil for growing was being packaged and shipped around the country. I bet the rice will be, too.
Posted in: Rice futures trading suspended after price soars on nuclear fears
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gaijintraveller
I remember visiting Osaka and picking up a brochure describing it. I forget the exact wording. The year may be wrong, but the decade is right.
"Osaka Castle, a ferro-concrete structure built in 1926 ..." I burst out laughing.
Posted in: The return of Japan's castle culture
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gaijintraveller
Serrano, you are wrong about that. In the tropics you can see circular rainbows. I have seen some. It was a surprise for me when I first saw one in Malaysia,
Posted in: Police raid 27 Aum Shinrikyo facilities
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gaijintraveller
And I thought the yakuza, not the police, maintained security in Taiji. We can all be wrong.
Posted in: Police, coast guard hold security drill for Taiji dolphin hunt
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gaijintraveller
Digital TV cannot be received everywhere in Japan. Some places are still out of area. I wonder if satellite broadcasting would have been more efficient than UHF terrestial broadcasts.
There are several advantages to the digital system. The oversized VHF antennae will eventually disappear. NHK will stop wasting money on its analogue high definition system, which no one watched anyway.
Posted in: Analog TV broadcasting comes to an end in Japan after 58 years
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gaijintraveller
Digital TV cannot be received everywhere in Japan. Some places are still out of area. I wonder if satellite broadcasting would have been more efficient than UHF terrestial broadcasts.
There are several advantages to the digital system. The oversized VHF antennae will eventually disappear. NHK will stop wasting money on its analogue high definition system, which noone watched anyway.
Posted in: Analog TV broadcasting comes to an end in Japan after 58 years
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gaijintraveller
I think the problem is that people do not dress appropriately for the weather. It is hard to know how to dress in the summer in Japan though. Dress for the weather and you freeze on trains and in air-conditioned buildings.
Posted in: No. of heatstroke cases continues to rise
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gaijintraveller
Why has nobody mentioned the coffee? If it comes from Vietnam, it is almost certainly a lot better than the stuff you get at Starbucks.
Assaults with deadly weapons are more likely to be a result of the legality of guns in the States than any illegality in the coffee shops.
If the girls working there are happy to dress like that, what is the problem. I'll bet they think that girls working in restaurants and supermarkets for minimum wage are more exploited than they are.
Posted in: Vietnamese cafes in Calif too racy for some
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gaijintraveller
Love the headline. "Water business"? I thought they would be opening bars in Kabukicho till I read the article.
Posted in: LG Electronics, Hitachi to form joint venture in water business
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gaijintraveller
Didn't a Shuttle crash because of the metric system? I seem to remember something about one of the measurements being metric and nobody noticed. On the other hand, maybe it crashed because they used their own system.
Another question is why they did not stick to the standards that had already been set. They short-change people on pints, quarts and gallons. British people know what they should be. It is now possible to get excellent real, beer in the States. Let people have a real pint of it.
Many legacy sizes still exist. The 1.8 litre of sake is isshobin. The 225 gm packet of butter is the half pound size. Jam is often in legacy-sized jars. Plywood and other wood products are sized in feet and 3x6ft becomes 900x1,800mm. There is a little approximation, but that seems to be no problem. Standard plumbing fittings are still inch-based, which is far more desirable than the mish-mash of shower fittings in Japan, Inax metric, Toto metric standard and so on.
It is important to be standard and standardisation is important for any country that wants to export. The nuts and bolts of what you buy should be readily available locally.
Posted in: Why doesn't the U.S. adopt the metric system?
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gaijintraveller
Silly girl says: "What is it with the country that they cannot plan??????"
The Japanese do plan. They love planning. They have many meetings in which they plan.
They are still planning.
Posted in: Analog TV disposal no small task
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gaijintraveller
Do you have to catch the fish? I am willing to bet she keeps in an electric-powered refrigerator before cooking it.
A friend living in an apartment ("mansion") used to barbecue on his balcony. He set off smoke detectors more than once.
Posted in: Recipes for meals that do not require gas, electricity to make
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gaijintraveller
About time they turned it down. Trains have been too cold. I have been carrying a thick jacket with me so that I do not freeze.
Perhaps, it is time to try some really radical environmental measures such as opening windows to increase air flow.
Tigerguy says: "Why do the people have to suffer because of a power company's lack of preparation and straight lies."
Nuclear power started back in the '70s. The country suffered under the oil crises. The LDP pushed the rush to nuclear power to enable Japan to have a source of power not dependent on the supply of oil. The people supported the LDP and their rush into nuclear power plant construction. Many people still support the LDP. That is why the people have to suffer. They supported nuclear power, too.
Additionally, they are too willing to trust anything Japanese. "Japan is a safe country." "Japanese products are safe." These were repeated endlessly until March 11th.
Globalwatcher has a good point to make. Many hospitals do not have generators.
Posted in: Hot commute
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gaijintraveller
It is, as Utrack says, an excellent idea. Unfortunately, it still appears to be no more than an idea. I looked at Tarad's website but could not see how get it in Japanese. It seems to be all in Thai. Looking at Rakuten's site I found that there is a page that links to global sites, but Thailand is not one of them.
I would like to suggest that this article might be premature. Perhaps, there is confusion with tenses; "has opened" and "will start" make it hard to understand what the present situation is.
Seasonal fruit does not seem like a particularly good item to sell by mail order. It will be too expensive when it is delivered in Japan and its condition might be questionable when it arrives.
Posted in: Rakuten group’s TARAD of Thailand opens e-commerce site for users in Japan
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gaijintraveller
gogogo
"In the toilet hahaha! Perhaps you should say in the bathroom :)"
Was he taking a bath? In case you didn't know, most of the English speaking world does not speak American English. To them a bathroom is where you take a bath. "Toilet" is the correct term for most of the English speaking world although in my country, it is "lavatory", the use of toilet being considered non-u.
Perhaps, you would prefer the rather strange American usage of half a bathroom to let readers know that there was no bath there.
Posted in: Niigata police sergeant leaves handgun in toilet
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gaijintraveller
Seawolf, let it out, which chain, what beer?
Posted in: Korea’s popular beer Hite reaches Japan
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gaijintraveller
In this country people shut themselves in their houses and never invite people in. In other Asian countries, the front door is often open and friends drop in with no need for a formal or any other invitation. As a result, everyone including old people has friends.
Each time I have been to Vietnam and spent a few weeks there, I have been invited into more peoples homes, complete strangers homes and received their hospitality, than into Japanese homes in over 30 years here.
The old people have friends there.
I am not sure if Japan was always like this. Sometimes, I think air-conditioning is partly to blame. In a hot country, which Japan is in the summer, people leave doors and windows open, they sit out in the open, they socialise out in the open; they become open people. Give them air-conditioning and they close the doors and windows and stay inside by themselves.
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gaijintraveller
371 dishes? Is roast turkey one of them or do you have to pay more than 140,000 to get an oven large enough to roast a turkey?
I suppose, like most microwaves, its main use will be reheating coffee and tea.
Dim sum can be cooked in a rice cooker over the rice. Save your money.
Posted in: Oven ideal for steamed meals