JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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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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- FT English Teachers for Kids - Osaka
- Kohgakusha Co., Ltd. （株式会社興学社）, Osaka
- Salary: ¥255,000 ~ ¥275,000 / Month Travel Expenses, Encouragement of Japanese learning*
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- Translator
- ZAIHON, Inc. (日本財務翻訳株式会社), Tokyo
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sf2k
@Asagao
sounds about right. Irony doesn't seem to have a well understood translation. Reminds me of recycling a yogurt container tin foil only to watch a barge dump thousands of bicycles into the ocean.
Why should anything make sense? That appears to require too much thinking
Posted in: Sunflowers used to clean up radiation
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sf2k
I thought they were using tea leaves
Posted in: Sunflowers used to clean up radiation
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sf2k
really, I love the photo
Posted in: Tsunami wreckage becomes tourist draw
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sf2k
can Macross cosplay be far behind?
Posted in: Tsunami wreckage becomes tourist draw
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@Disillusioned
hmm... I"m wrong. the alpha are also measured in centimetres, so it would be about proximity to the wood as it falls from the atmosphere after it is burned as ash on other things. Cancelling the fire was the right thing to do regardless.
Posted in: Kyoto rejects ceremonial bonfire wood from Iwate over radiation fears
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@Disillusioned
The contaminated wood effects will depend on the particle emission. Even a fire alarm is radioactive, but it emits beta particles, which are harmless at a few centimetres. These are alpha particles. They go kilometres. About as different from lightening as the lightening bug.
@BlueWitch
Thank you so much for the Dr Kodama youtude video. Japan is SOL right now and this is so impossible for one country to handle. There should be an international effort coinciding with the reduction of nuclear elsewhere. I don't know how this can possibly be fixed. I'm not making sense, I'm still shocked.
Posted in: Kyoto rejects ceremonial bonfire wood from Iwate over radiation fears
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sf2k
the suffix of a street name could be the old neighbourhood name with a hyphen or such. That would keep the history while providing even more accurate directional location.
Posted in: 'Streetwise' South Korea drops Japanese legacy
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sf2k
Clearly Japan still celebrates its Nazi partnership as a full member of the Axis. This is utterly offensive. Might as well start making Hiroshima jokes. Fewer people were killed. In fact, the Nazi and Hitler are such a black hole of destruction and death, that quite literally nothing can be put next to it without the taint of millions dead. It doesn't matter what the reason. It is wrong.
An apology is not enough this time Japan.
Posted in: Japanese TV show invokes Hitler as motivator
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sf2k
Since government is all about talk but not action, I'd suggest making a local interest group and getting businesses on board. If technical interests are bridged it could be a means of saving money bit by bit. Like the single solar thermal laundry mat here. It's the only one, but there's no reason why.
It's all about the public interest encouraging the business case. If you can do your part to support it in your community then businesses can jockey for that interest for business advantage as well as savings from wasted energy.
don't wait for government, establish those interests now, they way you like them, before the old boys do.
Posted in: Nagasaki mayor calls for shift away from nuclear energy
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sf2k
sorry to be a broken record, but don't forget hydrothermal, using the temperature difference that already exists below the waves to save the equivalent electricity in cooling. (Google: Deep Lake Water Cooling Toronto). Thus you use the properties of nature, not using nature up, allowing it to be recycled again. A concept as regular consumers haven't figured out yet.
For a nation like Japan, surrounded by ocean and with most of it's major cities on the shoreline, this could be a booming industry market ripe for export and a job creator ($$$).
Posted in: Nagasaki mayor calls for shift away from nuclear energy
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sf2k
just read the nissan computer case. It turns out Nissan Motors is a real piece of work and would probably argue with anything with anybody. Had they left this alone they would not have to fight the negative publicity they themselves continue to generate.
Maybe they should sue themselves
Posted in: Nissan fumes over BBC TV program 'Top Gear'
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the_harper
agree with your post. The smaller scale is less intrusive and just as effective. There is no need to have mega projects
Posted in: Yoko Ono says Japan should look to geothermal energy
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mojibake
very interesting stats. But going from a single source supply to a single resource renewable isn't hot swappable so to speak so Yoko is an artist not an engineer. Many types of renewables would need to be working together plus better insulated homes and electrical usage to make up the various differences. Hydrothermal doesn't have to be deep, just enough of a temperature difference to offer air conditioning to the cities along the coast. Add Solar thermal and were not even getting into the toys of panels and shiny metals yet.
Lots is possible but no one will ever know if nothing is tried.
Posted in: Yoko Ono says Japan should look to geothermal energy
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sf2k
A brief view of the real Japan. I suspect this link will be buried soon.
Japan isn't a developed country socially. It's very nice and beautiful and all, but in spite of success in other areas remains a long standing caste based society and this is proof of that, and the consequences.
For all its technology, if people believe they are above such things such as autopsies then it will stay at 11%, and probably drop from there not rise. Raising the rate would mean people want to change. At 11% that isn't even trying. More like couldn't be avoided. That does not inspire change.
Posted in: Japan's autopsy rate woefully low
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sf2k
Take the same car and allow it to connect to the electrical grid in some manner, then you wouldn't need very large batteries at all, and could even make more for the same battery level. You'd need something between the grid, but once on the range would be superior than anything. Since we know the chemistry isn't getting much better, and Peak Oil was finally recognized by the IEA, it'll be the grid that will win over and above a petroleum liquid based vehicle
making electricity in as many different ways as environmentally and economical possible can then be the main objective of transportation finance and research.
Posted in: Nissan fumes over BBC TV program 'Top Gear'
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sf2k
how many loops did he have to make? It's called free advertising Nissan. Take your adversary lemons and make lemonade.
Posted in: Nissan fumes over BBC TV program 'Top Gear'
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sf2k
Why has Japan abandoned its own people? The country seems to be heading towards some kind of self annihilation over simple neglect and lack of empathy. Not just putting the cart before the horse, but also going uphill in the rain. What are people really fighting here? Letting the tsunami win allows you to be a victim forever. Living a life built out of its rubble and returning a new life to others would have been the victory.
That has been abandoned, if it ever existed
Posted in: Alcoholism, suicides rising among farmers hit by nuclear crisis
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sf2k
Replace the circles with Folders and what have you really got? It's nothing about nothing
Posted in: Google+ the fastest-growing social network ever
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sf2k
conveniently missing are all the Japanese war criminals. There was a reason Japan was bombed. There were so many war criminals in Japan at the time, Americans knew they had no hope of a surrender on the grounds of a truce and would have to fight to the last man, so indoctrinated were the Japanese Army. Japanese took no to few prisoners, were battle hardened, and of course Nanjing was more fresh on the mind than now.
In that light perhaps it can be understood. Condoned or not Japan should be happy the war criminals lost.
Posted in: Do you consider the A-bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to be war crimes?
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sf2k
is there a base there? Put one in if not with sonar buoys at the 200 mile limit. Good fences (hopefully) make good neighbours . Post the border incursions online. The continual Chinese pushing will affect them in other areas (if anyone needs a reminder)
Posted in: Coast guard warns Chinese ship sailing near disputed island chain