JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- 秘書及び業務サポート
- 加治金属工業株式会社, Tokyo
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- English Instructor (Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe)
- Berlitz Japan, Inc. (ベルリッツ・ジャパン株式会社), Kansai
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- ALT - Mie Prefecture - Yokkaichi City - June start
- NPO法人グローバル教育推進機構（GLAD), Mie
- Salary: ¥230,000 / Month For a full working month. Some months differ.
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@Nonrio
The cost of travel to and in Japan is a disincentive to visiting Japan but the radition worry is a bigger issue right now. My wife is a tour guide and her agency which caters to US tourists has closed its Japan office and are not offering tours to Japan since the nuclear disaster. My wife is virtually unemployed as a result. Tour agencies that are still operating in Japan have seen their customers fall drastically since Diichi. Until worries about radiation subside, it looks to continue that way.
Posted in: Japan to offer 10,000 free trips to foreigners to boost tourism industry
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@jared
How about directors of funeral homes? Doctors? Physical therapists? Real Estate salespersons (preying on the homeless)? Farmers (exploiting the hungry)? Granted the above (with perhaps the exception of the first) are helping the suffereing in some way, but they are still making money off of others suffering, no?
Posted in: Grief of March 11 disaster laid bare in new documentary
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Mussolini said "To remain healthy, a nation should wage war every 25 years." Is this the only way Japan can wage it's war to remain healthy? If Australia or New Zealand or Sea Shepard can manage to injure or kill a Japanese whaler will Japan have what it needs to elect its fascist politician as leader?
Posted in: NZ, Australia condemn Japan's plan to go ahead with whaling
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Hit and miss at the top. Can be passably warm or really freezing. Most time I have been up (5) it has been freezing. Better to have some very warm clothing with you.
Posted in: The world below
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Osakadaz
That is disturbing new, but posts contrary to the 'safe Japan", "safe Fukushima" continue to be posed here, so perhaps this ban is not totally effective?
Posted in: Japan to buy up and burn radiation-tainted beef
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@tmarieJUL.
hmm.... he shaved her head, right? If done while she was alive it's hard to imagine he expected to let her walk with a, "Don't tell anyone I raped you and shaved your hair off, okay?"
Posted in: Grim journey
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@marcels
haha... : D
Posted in: 16 children taken to hospital after collapsing during athletics meet
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@Cleo
cleoJUN. 30, 2011 - 09:54AM JST
Me too, I don't let my cat go out in this heat. Oh, wait, she won't go out anyway. My cat has more common sense?
Posted in: 16 children taken to hospital after collapsing during athletics meet
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Saw a program on NHK last night that showed California residents using 1/2 electricity of Japanese consumers while US consumers use about twice the electricity of J consumers. No penalties involved. California used a cash bonus to consumers who used less. Rod? The carrot was a successful strategy there.
Posted in: Compulsory power usage cut implemented for 1st time in 37 yrs
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True, it is a pile of brownish cinders from close up above 6th station, but for love of God don't do the night hike with the crowds only to get a glimpse of the sunrise (have done that). Have been up 3 other times as a day hike (and will go again) and the view above the clouds is breathtaking. Coming down is a bit of a struggle though.
Posted in: Purple Fuji
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NetNinjaJUN. 13, 2011 - 12:24PM JST I agree withAzninvasion. That edit / delete function would be invaluable.
Dittos...
Posted in: What do you think of the new Japan Today design?
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greatlegs
Hey, I stood up after 15 mintues (got a shove from behind tho, does that count?).
Posted in: Love in Action
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Strangerinaastrangland
That's fair enough, Hepetitis B lives forever...
Posted in: Love in Action
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Wot? : 0 Who's AKB?
Posted in: Love in Action
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The age of every driver involved in an accident should be reported. Then yearly tests of every age group that show up in the reports should be required.
Posted in: 2 injured, 1 killed after 81-year-old driver loses control of car
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Zaphod
"But note that there is a huge difference between fuel melting in a container and in an open-air pool. If the spent fuel in No. 4 had melted, that would indeed have been catastrophic."
Yes and the fuel remains exposed to the environment except for the water covering the fuel rods which are often referred to in reports as 'spent fuel' but are actually the fuel from the reactor along with other spent fuel rods which are in the pool for cooling as their decay heat gradually decreases. The Japan Industrial Atomic Forum (JAIF) itself reported low water levels in the reactor four fuel pool in the days after the accident and said damage was suspected to the fuel rods.
The fuel still sits on top of the damaged reactor four building which TEPCO is attempting to reinforce so that it can withstand possible aftershocks in the coming months/weeks.
Posted in: U.S.: Spent fuel pool never went dry in Japan quake
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The reporter appears to have no understanding of the difference between a cooling pool and a nuclear reactor. The fears are that, in addition to the melted fuel in reactors 1, 2, and 3, the fuel in the cooling pool on the top of reactor 4 may have been exposed. This article says there is some doubt whether the fuel in that pool was exposed. In the same paragraph the write refers to the fuel in this pool and then goes on to say "cooling water in the reactor core" was feared to have been exposed as if the fuel in the cooling pool and the fuel in the reactor cores were the same thing. They are not.
Regardless of whether or not the fuel rods in the cooling pool (not reactor core - there was no fuel in the core of reactor 4, it is all in the cooling pool because the plant was shut down for maintenance) the fuel in reactors 1, 2, and 3 was exposed and did melt.
Posted in: U.S.: Spent fuel pool never went dry in Japan quake
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borscht, the avatar showed up! Thanks : )
Posted in: What do you think of the new Japan Today design?
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borschtJUN. 13, 2011 - 04:53PM JST recherche88, When you add a comment, below the comment box you can see a "Japan Today supports Gravatar for user images." Click on it and it will take you to Gravatar's site where you will have to sign up (free) and then upload an image you want to use. Connect the image to the email address you use for JT comments and you're all set.
Thanks borschtjUn - have followed your instructions. Now waiting to see if my avatar shows up.
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She's not cute, but she knows how to use her body!
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