JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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To be healthy, live in the big city
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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From carnivores to herbivores: how men are defined in Japan
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Japan's nuclear safety standards flawed, says commission chief
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Teacher nabbed for using miror to peek up girl's skirt
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No backup thermometer? !
Posted in: Fukushima's No. 2 reactor may be reheating
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If the vast majority of nuclear plants are offline now, isn't Japan already nearly nuclear-free? Nuclear power is too dangerous and expensive to maintain. Make a ten-year plan to close down the last remaining plants and put money and talent into making even better solar energy and wind generators. Between solar panels and LP gas, it's very possible to cut a family home's reliance on any nuclear-produced public electric grid. Long before Fukushima my local gas dealer was passing out pamphlets telling people to do just this "before something bad happens".
Posted in: Thousands in Tokyo march against nuclear power
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The ancestors of the Falkland Islanders have lived there longer than many of the ancestors of the current Argentine president have lived in Argentina. Certainly longer than the Japanese have been in Hokkaido or Ogasawara or the Americans in Alaksa. Argentina's claims are based on the hope that a post-colonial era UK will have no desire to defend a colony so far from London. The Argentine president should realise that in this post-colonial world, nations and territories should have the right of self-determination, whatever form that takes.
Posted in: Argentina says Britain has nuclear weapons in Falklands
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No way will China attack Japan. A good businessman does not kill his good customer.
Posted in: Japan 'should watch' China's naval reach: report
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"Do his best?" I thought Japan was an independent country. If so, why can't it simply tell a foreign country's military force to please leave?
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Finally, a seat on the train in the morning!
Posted in: Japan's population to shrink two thirds by 2110
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Wouldn't it be cheaper and safer to offer relocation assistance to anyone in those areas who wants to move to an undamaged area? Here in Gifu, for example, there are many rural communities who would be happy to have more children in their schools and more taxpayers on their rolls. Better to spread human beings around e country than to spread potentially radioactive debris.
Posted in: Radiation fears slow clean-up in Tohoku
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Equality said:--- however, I also believe that people who live in areas in which nuclear power plants are the largest employer do have the right to express their opinion on the matter.--- If their opinions affected only them, they can do whatever they want as far as I am concerned. But I live directly downwind from Fukui and their opinions and decisions are potentially life threatening to my community and me. I have every right to oppose the decisions they make, which make money for them in the short term and endanger my well being in the (hopefully) long term.
Posted in: Fukui 'Nuclear Alley' conflict: reactor danger vs economic reality
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Seems the EU governments that told their citizens to get out of Tokyo quickly (and I think even arranged planes?) we're right on the mark. Having worked with Japanese government officials, their embassy staffs must have known whom to believe.
Posted in: Gov't kept silent on worst-case scenario at height of nuclear crisis
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Money and the economy are much more important than health and safety. These plants need to be opened as soon as possible and need to be working at full power so we can all become rich. Worrying about health and safety is against the "ganbaru" spirit and therefore unjapanese.
Posted in: Fukui 'Nuclear Alley' conflict: reactor danger vs economic reality
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If newspaper readership is so high in Japan, why do even well educated people know so little about the world they live in?
Posted in: Newspapers in Japan defy new media challenge
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Universities in New Zealand and Australia have no problem attracting overseas students, even though they start their academic year in February. Possibly it helps to be teaching in a world language and offering good chances for permanent residence and eventual citizenship to graduates? I would imagine a lack of nuclear plants spewing out radiation doesn't hurt either.
Posted in: University of Tokyo considering autumn start to academic year
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This cement could have been shipped anywhere in the country. Any overseas potential tourists reading these posts-- your hotel anywhere in Japan could have been built or repaired with radioactive materials. Beware.
Posted in: Gov't to probe radioactive apartment block
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I doubt Japan has much to worry about. The euro downgrades happened not long after the Chinese said they'd like an alternative to the US dollar as a basic reserve currency. They started talking about shifting their overseas US$ denominated investments into euro-denominated ones. By strange coincidence the US-based rating agencies then started to grumble about the structural weaknesses of the euro zone. And now the crisis. The Chinese haven't said they would prefer yen-denominated reserves. If they do, watch out Japan. But until then, the US will keep sending out its rating agencies to hunt down the euro. The US fears nothing more than losing the US$ standing as the international reserve currency. Without that, the US economy goes down the hole faster than Greece's.
Posted in: Azumi worried about Japan's debt rating after EU downgrades
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Why not take all the money donated to or allocated for the Tohoku recovery, split it up among the people living there, give them a two-year inome tax holiday and then let them make their own decisions ? Some would start new businesses, some wold go back to school, some would build a new house, some would move to work in another area, and some would drink it way. But none could be as heartless or unthinking as the politicians and bureaucrats making these decisions.
Posted in: Unemployment benefits won't be extended to those who lost jobs due to March 11 disaster
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We recently got a similar message in a notice from Chūbu Electric here in central Japan. And schools have promptly turned down the heat. So kids get colds while advertising, pachinko parlours, and Christmas lights continue? No thanks. I live 2pm from a massive Christmas light display. Until that is removed and the local pachinko parlours turn off their lights, my house stays nice and warm.
Posted in: Kansai Electric begins power-saving measures
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This man gave an honest assessment of how Japanese people treat Ryukyuan people. So why shiukd he have apologised?
Posted in: Defense minister apologizes to Okinawa governor for official's 'rape' remarks
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The only war criminals who are ever arrested are those from poor countries or countries that have just lost a war, like Japan in 1945. Sadly, this murderer will live out his life in comfort and wealth.
Posted in: Amnesty International urges African nations to arrest George Bush
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Because of the shaken system, used cars in Japan are almost always in good nick. And because they aren't the latest fad, they are much cheaper than used cars in other countries. I never pay more than 200,000 yen for a good used car here, so why borrow money to buy a new one that loses its value the minute you drive it out of the showroom?
Posted in: Toyota unveils high-tech concept car
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Export Japanese rice? A difficult proposition post-Fukushima, isn't it?
Posted in: Some rice farmers see TPP as window of opportunity