JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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To be healthy, live in the big city
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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From carnivores to herbivores: how men are defined in Japan
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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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sf2k
samuraiblue;
ok, but I was thinking more on demographics supplying other rationale with respect to the future of these and other islands.
As China's failed one child policy sees a huge drop in population in the next couple of generations due to favouring only sons and Japan's rapidly aging population, the outcome is more likely more mixed pan-Asian marriages, including Japanese. Thus the threat of a uppity China goes down dramatically. In that environment the variables change.
Maybe these islands go to China now while they still can move their weight around, with Japanese interests included later.
it will just depend on when, as interests become more similar and localised.
Posted in: Coast guard warns Chinese ship sailing near disputed island chain
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sf2k
Dokho to Korea, Kurliis to the Russians, Uotsuri to China, Okinawa independent. Seems to be where the wind is blowing and something's going to give
Posted in: Coast guard warns Chinese ship sailing near disputed island chain
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sf2k
Glad they denied the military nutters. Given the added note on textbooks Japan is increasingly a deluded country by design. Another country has the right to deny anyone entry. These 3 obstinate LDPers arenot what Korea wants, nor would anyone.
Posted in: 3 Japanese lawmakers give up and return home from Seoul
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sf2k
would be nice to pass anti-discrimination legislation.
Posted in: Gov't denies online, Twitter censorship over nuclear crisis
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sf2k
might as well have a news conference, point to an image of the island, and pound the chest. Ridiculous
Posted in: 4 Japanese lawmakers to be banned from visiting island near Dokdo
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One last thought. Can Kan call an election, to hold the Diet accountable for the disaster, and ask the public to give him the power to rid the country of nuclear and those who sold them out to the power companies? It would be a compelling issue. Might finally hold LDP accountable for Japan's worst disaster.
Posted in: Kan calls for careful cutback on reliance on nuclear energy
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Kan reminds me of the lead in the movie Climber's High by Masato Harada , fighting the powers that be in spite of just trying to do something good. Check and double check. Well, the facts are in, and nuclear is for losers. Given the 70% sold off rate of LDP alone to the power companies, not a wit will let that happen.
For Japan to really reduce this dependency it needs Kan to continue. That the media have also been sold out to this agenda isn't really a shock to anyone, is it?
The business interest isn't the public interest. No, Japan needs Kan. As much as the polly's are yelling, Japan needs Kan now more than ever.
Posted in: Kan calls for careful cutback on reliance on nuclear energy
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...And I think Kan knows this or else he wouldn't be sticking it to them for so long
Posted in: Kan calls for careful cutback on reliance on nuclear energy
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Gotta love the fake polling numbers to bolster unsubstantiated claims of disapproval. This is how Japanese are controlled by media to not question media. Far more likely this really means that Kan is very popular outside of these lobby groups or paid off politicians and should stay on.
Keep going Kan, you have them sweating now. With him gone there is no reason to believe that Japan will ever be nuclear free.
Posted in: Kan calls for careful cutback on reliance on nuclear energy
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where is the compensation package for the farmers and ranchers?
Posted in: Japan widens ban on radioactive beef to Miyagi Prefecture
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Really though, what is this for except to continue business as usual? They are not spending money on solar and wind if they are spending it on methane hydrates. What's the point if half the energy used in Japan goes to Pachinko and Christmas montage's of blue LED's? Rewarding local conservation efforts would reduce major demand. Most of the waste everywhere is from the last 4km. So conservation actually has a multiplier savings effect. Oh, and stop wrapping individual chips/crackers/biscuits in their own plastic... mkay? How much oil is used just for food packaging? And then all the electricity to run the processing?
BTW, the depths of this are similar to the blowout in the Gulf of Mexico. If it's just digging it might work, but any drilling and under the pressure it's under is a whole new level of danger.
All that because no one can turn off the Pachinko lights. It's getting silly.
What next? We launch orbital solar panels?
Posted in: Japan to test-drill for seabed 'burning ice'
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Japan is surrounded by water. Water below the surface is cooler than the hotter air of summer. So, put tubes under the water, and pump the cooler water in a closed loop. The surface end of the loop would be a heat exchanger to become an air conditioner to cool entire cities. It would then just be a question of what energy source to use to pump the water. However, it saves a lot of electricity from cooling the air compared to other cooling systems.
Toronto Deep Lake Water Cooling, saves about 600MW for air conditioning in the downtown core. It's a freshwater system so there is some addition to the water supply, however the general cooling system principles can be used in a salt water system.
Most of Japan's largest cities are on the waterfront. There are opportunities to increase efficiencies of energy by using a multitude of systems and reduce reliance on nuclear power. But, you have to try first and not just stare at your feet or blame someone else.
Kan is right to try. Now others have to step up and provide the ideas
Posted in: 70% support Kan's policy to make Japan nuclear-free: poll
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another questionable poll.
What was the sample size? How old were the respondents? Or How were the respondents contacted? Land line, keitai or Internet? When did the poll take place?
I get the feeling that this is the Asahi newspaper base and not a wider population sample.
Japanese complain about not being informed, but then accept being snowballed by their "media".
Posted in: 70% support Kan's policy to make Japan nuclear-free: poll
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Recommended??? How about evacuated? How about compensated?
Where's the class action lawsuit suing the gov't everyday of your life and your children's life?
Posted in: Gov't names 4 more radiation 'hot spots' near Fukushima plant
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just let the rest of the world know before you all turn into zombies
Posted in: Radiation concerns for Japan's beef supply intensify
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it doesn't mean a thing if the JSA board doesn't step down.
Posted in: Sumo struggles to win back fans after scandal
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here's an idea. Go to bed at night. Wake up during the daylight. Save a lot of power.
Posted in: Solar backpack
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actually Nokia makes a lot of its business in the Third World with cheap phones and can't excel in a higher end marketplace. They did have a chance some years ago and went for proprietary systems.
Ironically Apple iphone itself is losing progressively to Android so one king topples another temporarily it seems. Sad though that with so many viable choices, the market went with the phone with the worst human rights associated with it.
Posted in: Nokia abandons Japanese market
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electric2004.
the reactors in that case were not capable of releasing the hydrogen excesses whereas Fukushima had externally ignited many times. The two were very differently designed
Posted in: Japan's nuclear power plants to undergo stress tests
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as long as they do it all at once all at the same time..... and then watch all their cooling systems fail
Posted in: Japan's nuclear power plants to undergo stress tests