JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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To be healthy, live in the big city
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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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From carnivores to herbivores: how men are defined in Japan
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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- English Instructor (Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe)
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- ZAIHON, Inc. (日本財務翻訳株式会社), Tokyo
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kyoken
These cases seem to be quite regular judging on the news; there is something wrong with Japanese women.
Posted in: Woman held for abandoning baby in toilet in Tokyo apartment block
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kyoken
There is not much difference to the politics of war the US employs when their leaders need to show "strength".
Posted in: Attack is North Korean bid for attention
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kyoken
The battle between N and S Korea has been re-initiated today. Maybe it was an accident, maybe not. Fact is we see both countries shooting rockets at each other.
Its time for me to get my stuff packed heading back to Europe.
Posted in: U.S. envoy says six-party talks on N Korea won't resume
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kyoken
Wow multitasking. Sounds like the 80s ...
Posted in: Multitasking, wireless printing come to iPad
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kyoken
So he was lying, or he is incompetent. Either case, he can not remain in his position.
Posted in: Hokkaido schoolgirl commits suicide, blaming bullying
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kyoken
At least in the big cities.
Looking at the report (see youtube) the front wheel was damaged that much, that it must have been quite an impact that happened on that small street.
Posted in: 74-year-old Kanagawa woman killed in hit-and-run
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kyoken
So do I. Sadly though we soon will see Japan as overly compliant apple-polisher to the US will follow suit and implement similar rules to the TSA ...
... as we have seen with the finger-printing of all foreigners as warm welcome treatment to Japan.
Posted in: TSA has met the enemy — the people
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kyoken
Finally some common sense from ... well Europe:
The security boss of Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport is calling for an end to endless investment in new technology to improve airline security. Marijn Ornstein said: "If you look at all the recent terrorist incidents, the bombs were detected because of human intelligence not because of screening ... If even a fraction of what is spent on screening was invested in the intelligence services we would take a real step toward making air travel safer and more pleasant."
Posted in: TSA has met the enemy — the people
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kyoken
Here's some data on the body scanner:
A typical dental X-ray exposes the patient to about 2 millirems of radiation. According to one widely cited estimate, exposing each of 10,000 people to one rem (that is, 1,000 millirems) of radiation will likely lead to 8 excess cancer deaths. Using our assumption of linearity, that means that exposure to the 2 millirems of a typical dental X-ray would lead an individual to have an increased risk of dying from cancer of 16 hundred-thousandths of one percent. Given that very small risk, it is easy to see why most rational people would choose to undergo dental X-rays every few years to protect their teeth.
More importantly for our purposes, assuming that the radiation in a backscatter X-ray is about a hundredth the dose of a dental X-ray, we find that a backscatter X-ray increases the odds of dying from cancer by about 16 ten millionths of one percent. That suggests that for every billion passengers screened with backscatter radiation, about 16 will die from cancer as a result.
Assuming that there roughly 600 million airplane passengers per year makes the machines deadlier than the terrorists.
Posted in: TSA has met the enemy — the people
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kyoken
New TSA logo: olegvolk(dot)livejournal(dot)com/919747.html
Posted in: TSA has met the enemy — the people
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kyoken
Still attracted by shiny glitter?
Posted in: Blue Shinjuku
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kyoken
Political theatre.
Posted in: Japan eyes doubling ground troops on islands close to China, Taiwan
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kyoken
Guess your son has to carry much less weight, so its an unfair competition. But training helps ...
Posted in: Electric assistance bicycle
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kyoken
Guys, we are talking about a Mamachari mainly driven by ladies in short skirts, not by guys with big calves.
The price though is ridiculous; one can not leave this at the station without fear that its soon gone. And then the need for a new battery --usually after 500 recharging cycles-- for another 50.000 yen.
Posted in: Electric assistance bicycle
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kyoken
The times Japan's strength lay in --cheap but good quality products-- is over as this area is covered by other Asian nations. Uniqlo is producing all its cloth outside Japan, mostly China; the mentioned Honda Fit is produced in Thailand. Where are the jobs for the people that should buy these products?
As of today 70% of the workforce up to age 35 is in unsecured temporary employment. In 2 years the baby boomer come into retirement age and by 2020 there will be only two employees to support one retiree (down from 4 to 1) in nation where the pension fonds are already on their limits.
Less people in secure well paid jobs, a savings rate that crashed from nearly 20% to under 2% (soon expected to be negative) in only 20 years, a nation that stands alone (unlike others in trouble such as Greece, Ireland, ..) a government drowning in debt and in fight with its lawmakers and its own inexperience (and partly incompetence), unable to move.
Japan Inc. will remain competitive in some few areas, but it will loose its edge in most others. Some economists expect Japan's output to sink to the current level of Indonesia by 2050. It might not come that bad, but the odds are clearly stacked against this nation.
But this might not be all bad news. Maybe the new generation is OK with Japan's smaller international role. Maybe there is more to life than being number 1 (or 2) in the world. Maybe that is what is really going on in Japan, a shift to a new paradigm, one that the older generation does not understand yet.
Posted in: The effects of a frugal Japanese society
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kyoken
It's standard practice for all car makers to buy vehicles of their competitors in order to study them. The "benchmark" claim is BS.
Posted in: Judge in Calif moves to deny dismissal of Toyota suits
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kyoken
If you have stubby arms, it might work. Normal foreigners look like monkeys in suits tailored for Japanese.
Posted in: Best dressed
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kyoken
Certainly not the wind-shield. It's double laminated glass.
Posted in: Man in possession of marijuana locks himself in car in Ginza
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kyoken
Could you kindly prove those claims ...
Posted in: Tuna tussle: How much fishing is too much?
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kyoken
OK, this was now a nice summary of many opinions, but no answer to the question raised in the headline. Has the author no opinion / conclusion?
Posted in: Tuna tussle: How much fishing is too much?