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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rtega
Is this the hotel they plan to put in the nice park in the center of Kyoto?
Posted in: Ritz-Carlton to open hotel in Kyoto
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rtega
Greenpeace found 4 times the normal level of radiation in seaweed about 60 km out into sea though these are preliminary findings that greenpeace hasn't yet published.
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rtega
5cents, you fail to recognize that at this rate all easily available important metals will be very hard to come by in about 2020-2030. If we would mass invest in electric cars now we wouldn't be able to produce any in 10 or 20 years. And you still seem to propagate the myth (and sorry it is a myth, try to read science papers about it) that nuclear waste is cleanly and cheaply reprocessable. Maybe you should try to talk to people who live next to Sellafield which continues to dump nuclear waste into the sea to this day.
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rtega
Oh, and I forgot to tell, if somehow everybody got back on the nuclear bicycle and decided to replace all coal and gas stations with nuclear stations in the world we'll burn all available uranium in the world in about 50 years. Talk about a nuclear "solution"...
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rtega
Nice try shovelling the nuclear industry's problems on the people who protest at it. Every discussion that doesn't include the problems with nuclear waste is simply over-optimistic about nuclear energy. Nobody wants nuclear waste, no person in the nuclear industry dares to talk about it. It causes storage problems for over 10.000 years and costs huge amounts of money which will be passed down over countless generations (think about your kids). Most of it is currently stored at reprocessing sites (Sellafield in England, Cherbourg in France). Still the discussions seems to go about how nuclear energy causes far less deaths than coal.
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rtega
Nice, nice. Yesterday we had a story here in Belgium about our news crew in a playground in Fukushima city. They measured the radiation at the playground and in one instance they recorded 70 microsievert. The parents of the children at the school obviously were in shock.
Posted in: Tourists visiting Fukushima despite nuclear fears
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rtega
Unfortunately, more of this is to be expected with rising food prices.
Posted in: Woman, 20, admits stabbing 78-year-old grandmother over living expenses
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rtega
Canned coffee, another ridiculous coffee idea.
Posted in: Tully's Espresso
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rtega
There's a good reason people build at the coast and not inland. There simply is no safe place inland. Move inland in Japan and you move up hills and mountains. Each year during heavy rain lots of buildings already get swept off the hill. Moving everybody inland is no viable option unless you want them to be swept out to sea in no time.
Posted in: To rebuild or not? Japan's tsunami coast wonders
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rtega
Experts have been warning for this since the day these reactors were built. And these are not the only reactors in Japan that are not built to withstand these kinds of disasters.
Posted in: TEPCO dismissed important scientific evidence in planning nuclear plant's defense
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rtega
Way to late to apologize. They should get the engineers who decided to build these reactors without the required safety concerns 40 years ago and nail them to the wall. These are the guys who created this problem in the first place. Experts have been warning that something like this could happen for years. Somehow they seem to have thaught that they could play a game with mother nature. You don't.
Posted in: TEPCO apologizes again and again
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rtega
Sushisake3, admittingly there is no realistic alternative. But that should not stop one from considering the fact that if nuclear fission goes wrong, it goes wrong for 10.000 years. For me that's reason enough to seriously consider not to use this technology and if you do, at least try to prepare against all eventualities. Again, I say, I have been reading for 20 years, and I know that others have been saying this for 40 years, that Japan's nuclear sites are not built to withstand the natural disasters occuring in this country. This is not hindsight. They knew it from the start and probably thought: "oh, whatever, such quakes only happen seldomly, let's save some money..."
Posted in: Edano criticizes TEPCO for series of mistakes on nuclear plant
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rtega
Oh, and the guys that were taken away with radiation sickness received doses of 2-6 sievert. They are probably living their last weeks... Good job TEPCO, good job.
Posted in: Edano criticizes TEPCO for series of mistakes on nuclear plant
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rtega
sushisake3, maybe not on JT but Greenpeace has been warning for this for over 40 years. Most of Japans nuclear reactors are not built to withstand earthquakes they should be able to withstand. The problem is not necessarily the building of nuclear reactors but rather building them while being optimistic about the strength of earthquakes. That's what they have done here for years and each time one of them gets a direct hit it turns into a mess. Remember the earthquake of 2007?
Posted in: Edano criticizes TEPCO for series of mistakes on nuclear plant
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rtega
The difference with chernobyl at this time being that the reactor itself blew up in Chernobyl and radioactivity was litterally blown into the sky unhindered for almost a week. For the time being this hasn't yet happened in Fukushima.
Posted in: Radiation detected in Fukushima milk, Ibaraki spinach after nuclear accident
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rtega
This is probably not the complete picture. Given their age, his wife had dementia and got aggressive. Without the money to have her being taken care of the guy had to keep her at home and finally couldn't bear it.
Posted in: 74-yr-old man held for killing 71-yr-old wife
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rtega
Sarge: it should have read "there's little to look forward to from an economical point of view."
The advance of other countries at the expense of Europe and the US is probably going to come down all together with the running out of cheap oil. Unless some genius finds some other cheap and easy to mine energy source really quick I think 2011 is going to be a year to really and totally forget.
Posted in: For Japan, 2010 was a year to forget
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rtega
You people really miss the point here. The special thing about this metronome is that it has, unlike most other metronomes, four visible bolts on the front.
Posted in: Digital metronome
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rtega
Thanks fishy. Finally someone who manages to say something humane and balanced here!
Posted in: 17-year-old boy stabs 14-year-old sister to death at home
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rtega
The funny thing is that all these security measures, introduced after the recent bombing scare, wouldn't have stopped that bombing from happening anyway. Why even bother? It's simply giving people the feeling that something is being done about their security.
Everybody flying regularly knows that all this just doesn't work and wouldn't stop any attacks from happening.
Posted in: Scanners and pat-downs upset airline passengers in U.S.