jaybeeb said...

jaybeeb at 01:52 PM JST - 7th August

It's about time.

Posted in Cigarette prices may be doubled at 01:52 PM JST - 7th August
jaybeeb at 10:13 AM JST - 6th August

This is good news. A small step in the right direction. With the increasing costs of transportation, I expect this this trend will continue.

TJrandom: If your idea if efficient farming is large scale agri-business, I'm sorry to say it's not sustainable. The inputs required for such methods are only…

Posted in Japan's food self-sufficiency rate recovers to 40% at 10:13 AM JST - 6th August
jaybeeb at 09:45 AM JST - 5th August

It's unbelievable what corporations can get away with in this country. Will consumers still but products from such a dishonest company? I mean, what else might they be doing to cut corners?

The thing that is most disgusting about this is that the price of that juice was likely high…

Posted in Imported apple juice passed off as being from Aomori-grown apples at 09:45 AM JST - 5th August
jaybeeb at 09:48 PM JST - 30th July

tkoind2 is spot on. These "more rationalised production methods", as one poster above called them, are highly unsustainable. Japan needs to get serious about domestic food production.

Posted in Farmers welcome collapse of WTO talks; business leaders disappointed at 09:48 PM JST - 30th July
jaybeeb at 01:41 PM JST - 28th July

Finally, some good news.

Posted in Ban on riding bicycles with 2 kids to be lifted at 01:41 PM JST - 28th July
jaybeeb at 01:37 PM JST - 28th July

Once Toyota gets more Chinese in cars, it'll be interesting to see how the smog situation mentioned above develops.

Posted in Toyota to boost auto loan business in China at 01:37 PM JST - 28th July
jaybeeb at 11:39 AM JST - 16th July

@frontandcentre - There are no alternatives to oil for the forseeable future. The other energy sources you mention (hydrogen fuel cells are energy carriers) do not have an adequate EROI to replace oil at our current level of industrialization.

http://www.sustainablescale.org/images/uploaded/EROI%20graph.jpg

Posted in Citing effects on U.S. economy, Bush passes global warming problem to next administration at 11:39 AM JST - 16th July
jaybeeb at 10:09 AM JST - 15th July

Prices will likely not ever go down because the world's oil reserves are finite, we've already used close to half the total recoverable oil on the planet, we've pumped more oil than we've discovered every year since 1964, production at most currently producing oil fields is declining, new fields and…

Posted in Bush lifts ban on offshore oil exploration to cope with soaring gas prices at 10:09 AM JST - 15th July
jaybeeb at 05:34 PM JST - 9th July

Immigration should be encouraged - skilled AND unskilled workers.

Posted in Japan needs to raise birthrate to remain economic power, say experts at 05:34 PM JST - 9th July
jaybeeb at 02:38 PM JST - 27th June

They're not protesting the summit itself, I realize some of you are illiterate when it comes to Japanese, but there is an English site here: http://www.ainumosir2008.com/en/program.html

Quote from one of the organizers: "I’d like to welcome the first G8 annual summit to be held in our ancestral homeland Ainu Mosir,…

Posted in Activists set up camp sites in Hokkaido to protest G-8 summit at 02:38 PM JST - 27th June