JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) in Kanto region
- RCS (RCSコーポレーション), Kanto
- Salary: ¥180,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month includes performance bonus
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- Assistant Language Teacher - TOKYO - late-March start
- Interac, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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- Assistant Language Teacher - Kanagawa Prefecture - late-March start
- Interac, Kanagawa
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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gonemad
There are other Japanese companies selling TVs, but not successfully.
Posted in: Incoming Sony CEO Hirai refuses to abandon TV business
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gonemad
On a more positive note, Olympus still posted operating profits, which has become rare among the major Japanese corporations involved in consumer electronics.
Posted in: Olympus reports Y33.08 bil net loss for 9 months to December
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gonemad
MaboDofuIsSpicy, I can't make any sense of your comment.
The mirror is needed for phase detection autofocus, which has the advantages of higher speed and use of an optical viewfinder (both increasingly offset by technical progress) as well as the capability of focus tracking. Especially sports and nature photographers will therefore continue to use SLR types of camera while for consumer cameras the future will be mostly mirrorless cameras.
Posted in: Mirrorless digital camera
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gonemad
That sounds more like some countries who do not want to see a precedent in the world attack the fiscal sovereignty of European states. When you fly to/from European airports you have to pay this "tax". Pass it on to passengers who are flying on these routes and that's it. In which way does the EU attack the sovereignty of China or the US?
Posted in: Airline industry split widens over EU carbon tax row
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gonemad
No, I don't say that. Of course makers will explore the potential of a smaller flange back distance to build smaller cameras and lenses. But contrary to what you wrote before, that means you can always use lenses designed for SLR type cameras on mirrorless cameras, because they have a longer flange back distance due to the mirror. All you need is an adapter between the lens and the camera which makes up the difference in flange back distances. In simple cases they are just a kind of metal tube, in more sophisticated cases they contain some electronics which allow to make use of all the electronically controlled features of modern lenses like aperture control, autofocus or image stabilization.
Posted in: Mirrorless digital camera
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gonemad
GW, just the opposite is true. But the question is whether you want to use big clumsy lenses designed for SLR type cameras when you can have much smaller and lighter ones.
Posted in: Mirrorless digital camera
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gonemad
They'll find it again in 40 years under the floor of an old house...
Posted in: Firm loses potassium cyanide equivalent to 2,500 lethal doses
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gonemad
So what are the criteria defined by the law to allow an extension? A suitcase with money?
Posted in: Cabinet OKs bill to cap nuclear reactor life
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gonemad
An IMF paper from last year, which seems to be the basis for the repeated recommendation and which contains some interesting international comparisons: http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/sdn/2011/sdn1113.pdf
Posted in: IMF urges Japan to triple consumption tax to reduce debt
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gonemad
@ Robert Dykes:
Yes, deep in the ocean it was one of the strongest. At Fukushima it was strong, but absolutely not unusal. Several earthquakes of that strength happen every year in Japan.
From what we have learned in the last year, we can say that for Fukushima Daiichi and Genkai (Saga) the answer is no. For other reactors in Japan we can't say because nobody dares to publish the data. For several rectors in France, Germany and Switzerland the answer is no as well, they are not designed to withstand earthquakes which can be reasonably expected in the areas where they are built. Cutting corners on safety is not limited to Japan because of the huge cost "savings".
Well, it depends how you define human error. In Fukushima you cannot blame the operators who were handling the plant at the time of the disaster. If you take negligence during the design and construction into account, then you are right. Are you aware that all the estimations for the failure rates of NPPs do not consider human errors? We know from other areas that human errors account for a large part of accidents yet for NPPs we exclude them systematically.
You can do that when you build a reactor from scratch (at huge cost, btw), but after the reactor is built you can do very little.
A fast switch to alternative energy would be a huge economic stimulus, much better and with much more lasting effects that all the government stimulus programs in the last two decades. Alternative energies are cheaper than nuclear, but you have to invest into a new infrastructure. Japanese companies could use their technology in combination with manufacturing scales driven by the domestic market to become strong international players. But yet again it seems Japan is missing it's chance due to lack of vision.
Posted in: Fukui 'Nuclear Alley' conflict: reactor danger vs economic reality
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gonemad
Many of the characteristics listed above are completely different from what my wife uses to tell me about blood types. But as long as she tells me we are a good match, I don't care about the scientific basis...
Posted in: The importance of blood type in Japanese culture
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gonemad
ssway, the second part of your posting shows you have no idea of what you write about, but nonetheless you use strong words. Disgusting, to use your own words...
Regarding food contamination, yes, that's a real problem for people who have to eat it everyday over years. But it's nothing too much to worry about when you just do a short travel to Japan. Certainly less than most of the deseases which you can pick up in so many popular travel destinations. Let's keep things in perspective.
Posted in: Mission accomplished for travel volunteers
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gonemad
I don't care. They are part of the language. If somebody wants to sound uneducated, let him do so. The bleeping is just more annoying. To those who are worried about children: education based on censorship has never worked.
Posted in: How do you feel about the use of swear words in TV programs?
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gonemad
It'll become an expensive flight or somebody...
Posted in: Sydney-bound JAL flight turns back after seat fire
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gonemad
I'm afraid these guys are right. Japan will mostly benefit from the TPP except some few areas, among which agriculture is the most problematic and which is one of the areas where the US will benefit from the TPP. The problem is not the TPP or the US, it is the lack of agricultural reforms which are overdue in Japan. But for the people involved it will look like the US will benefit at their expense. And for sure there will be politicians playing the nationalistic card. We can see just the same happening in the US, where lawmakers from the states with a lot of car industry complained to Washington that Japan should not be allowed to join the TPP. They are rethorically more clever by pointing at alleged non-tariff barriers in Japan, but what really worries them is that with the TPP cars made in Japan can become 15% cheaper in the US.
Posted in: DPJ lawmakers warn U.S. they will fight against TPP talks
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gonemad
アメリ フセイン, why don't you ask GM to reduce the price? It's not Japan' fault.
Posted in: GM likely to recapture global auto sales lead from Toyota
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gonemad
I never had any problems worth mentioning with online shopping as opposed to former experiences with orders from local shops when they didn't have what I wanted and I had to order it. That often lasted longer than promised and when they arrived they were the wrong articles.
Posted in: Online shopping: Have you had any trouble, such as items taking an unusually long time to arrive; they did not arrive at all; they were defective when they did arrive; or they were the wrong items?
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gonemad
nihoncritic, with two of them being 50 or younger, the author of the article has done as much as he could...
Posted in: Business savants offer forecasts for coming year
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gonemad
This suit highlights the fact that federal laws in the US have not been updated to include suitable measurement methods for hybrid cars. Fuel efficiency is not measured on an empty track at constant speeds as someone wrote above, but in a lab under controlled conditions defined by law. Those include a speed profile, which ideally should represent a typical use case. BTW, the profiles differ between different countries, so you cannot directly compare mileages between the US and Japan. Additional electrical power consumers like heating, car entertainment etc are generally not included, while since 2008 there is at least one test cycle with air conditioning. What works reasonably well (whatever you want to call reasonable in this context...) to compare fuel-only cars, fails for hybrid cars. There is no requirement about battery charge, which allows car makers to start the test cycle with a fully charged battery. Furthermore, for fuel-only cars gas mileage hardly changes over the lifetime of the car, at least when properly serviced, while the batteries in hybrid cars loose capacity and hence the electrical motor can be used less and less. Most probably Honda, like other makers of hybrid cars, has fully used these loopholes for marketing purposes, fostering the hybrid car hype.
Posted in: LA woman takes unique road to sue Honda over mileage
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gonemad
gaijinTechie, there are hints that Onagawa had some earthquake related damage as well. Obviously they managed to keep the plant under control. Given the lack of information to the public, you should not prematurely jump to conclusions about safety standards there. And btw, Onagawa is operated by TEPCO as well.
Posted in: TEPCO to raise electricity bills for corporate users