JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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shinhiyata
State support from Russia - a neo-mafia energy-resource oligarchy backed by remnants of the KGB - and China - a totalitarian police state propped up by currency manipulation and virtual slave-labor wages = a good safe choice by Mizuho ??? Couldn't help but notice all of your figures are in USD.
Posted in: Mizuho Corporate Bank ties up with Russian bank
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shinhiyata
Considering that Russia and Japan have no formal peace treaty regarding the 2nd World War, Japan deems Russia's occupation of the Kuril Islands as illegal, and Russia has been flying it's strategic bombers around Japan lately, I'm at a loss to understand how this is legal or acceptable to the Finance Ministry of Japan? How can MHCB offer monetary remittances in the currency of a country Japan is still technically at war with?
Posted in: Mizuho Corporate Bank ties up with Russian bank
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shinhiyata
"It was the 44th launch of a Progress supply ship to the space station, and the first failure in the nearly 13-year life of the complex." This facility is built on the remains of the original Baikonur Cosmodrome which was completely obliterated in the 1960 Nedelin Catastrophe. The unofficial death toll was near 150 including Marshall Nedelin himself. The Soviets have had numerous space disasters including the first casualty in space. The other Russian Cosmodrome at Plesetsk was nearly destroyed in 1980 when a Vostok rocket blew up and killed 48. None of these events were acknowledged until after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989. This is the 3rd Russian space accident since December that has been acknowledged. There was a supposedly failed submarine launch test of an ICBM in December of 2009 which was never acknowledged by the Russians, although videos of the event over Norway were widely publicized at the time.
Posted in: Russian supply ship for space station crashes
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shinhiyata
I don't know where you're at, but it hasn't calmed down at all here in south Iwate. We had a fair shake at 5 this morning that bounced me right out of bed and the 6.3 on Friday had me and the mrs in the street real quick. I haven't had a good nights sleep since March, and nobody here in coastal Tohoku has either. Everyone I know has 'jisshin yoi' including me. The one this article is describing was easily felt all the way up here past Sendai. For the best real time earthquake data for your location in Japan check out http://www.jma.go.jp/en/quake/
Posted in: Quake jolts eastern Japan; no tsunami threat
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shinhiyata
According to the US Department of Energy, a typical spent fuel rod assembly containing 264 rods weighing 1450 lbs would contain 12.9 pounds of plutonium, and 1367 pounds of U-238. The plutonium can be used directly as nuclear fuel and the uranium can be reprocessed to produce additional fuel. However, reprocessing raises concerns about the production of fissile Pu-239 which can be used in nuclear weapons. So according to the NRDC, after 12 years and 12000 tons of spent fuel rods, Japan will have enough plutonium for over 2000 50kiloton warheads. Japan's science community certainly has the intelligence to quickly couple this with lithium deuteride and produce a thermonuclear weapon in the 3 megaton range. I think this is potentially as much of a problem as waste storage.
Posted in: Japan has 1,000 tons of spent fuel coming out of reactors every year, and there are 7 more years before the spent fuel pools are filled. Tokyo Electric Power Co is building a facility that will give us another 5 years, so after 12 years we have no place to put spent fuel.
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shinhiyata
Thigh high stiletto boots and vinyl hot pants on a bunch of nubile cuties always makes my day.
Posted in: K-POP
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shinhiyata
Posted in: N Korean leader arrives in Russia by train
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shinhiyata
You go on with that druzhba good feeling BessonovYan while Medvedyev shakes hands and na zdroviyas with one of the worst mass murderers in history. When the lifespan and population of your dear motherland starts to increase, you come back with some good news, eh comrade?
Posted in: N Korean leader arrives in Russia by train
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shinhiyata
They probably sold the Russians a tanker of 3-methyl-fentanyl to finance this trip. It's widely rumoured that the DPRK supplied the KGB and the post-Soviet Spetsnaz security force with the stocks needed to make the KOLOKOL gas used in the Nord-Ost theater terror attack disaster. The DPRK uses fentanyls and other similar substances to brainwash and control their political prisoners and subjugated operatives. The DPRK is one of the world's largest drug trafficking organizations and could well be Kim's largest source of income.
Posted in: N Korean leader arrives in Russia by train
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shinhiyata
The fact that Russia maintains 'cordial' relations with this megalomaniac pariah is a disgrace. But when your country is run by neo-mafia oligarchs, worrying about one's national reputation is probably not that important. Does 'cordial' include a few train cars of sanction violating Becherovka and Praskoveysky for the ride home?
Posted in: N Korean leader arrives in Russia by train
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shinhiyata
After living in Philadelphia for several years, I can assure you its present day condition is not far removed from the aftermath of an apocalyptic human zombie war. It was a truly frightening place then, and I doubt even Mr. Pitt's fictional heroics could save the city of brotherly love today. Their nightly local news - Fox News Philadelphia - is a horror show all to itself.
Posted in: Brad Pitt shoots zombie movie in Glasgow
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shinhiyata
When you swim in the ocean, you become part of the food chain.
Posted in: Are humans to blame for shark attacks?
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shinhiyata
Not much fun here in South Iwate. The Mrs actually dragged me out the door the place was shaking so bad. Don't see any light yet at the end of the aftershock tunnel. Was in Tokai for the past week and it was so nice to get a decent nights sleep for a change. Back to life on the edge here in Tohoku.
Posted in: M6.8 quake jolts Fukushima, Miyagi prefectures
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shinhiyata
Another rude awakening here in Tohoku Japan. Will we ever get a good night's sleep? Can you troll an article about aftershocks? Will the moderators ever stop deleting my comments? We watch and wait.
Posted in: M5.9 quake jolts Japan disaster zone
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shinhiyata
Nobody seems to have a problem with Bayer still being around after they brought us Zyklon. Mitsubishi built the Zero and Mercedes Benz were coach builders to the 3rd Reich. Rolls Royce made the Spitfire and General Electric put their reactors on the Scorpion and Thresher. Many companies around today have blood and plutonium on their hands. Heck, Sandoz brought us LSD long before the Beatles were born.
Posted in: Should TEPCO continue to exist?
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shinhiyata
It seems apparent to me that the reasons Japan has low unemployment are: A low birth rate leads to a population in decline. The workforce is rapidly aging and retiring. So there are plenty of jobs and not enough young people to fill them. A nationalistic immigration policy that won't let anyone in to compete with native Japanese for available jobs. And a pay to go back home and work in your own country program that shipped many foreigners out after the disaster. Low unemployment is a good thing economically, but the underlying social causes for this are not so pretty.
Posted in: The debt crisis: the enigma of Japan
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shinhiyata
It escapes me how wanting independence for a people who were invaded by a totalitarian communist dictatorship, that proceeded to use the land as a nuclear weapons testing site, and continues to oppress human rights and promote cultural dissolution, can be seen as a "radical agenda"?
Posted in: Dalai Lama's political successor sworn in
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shinhiyata
That's an optimistic assessment of these nations' advancements. With millions starving in N. Korea, the population and lifespan of Russians in perpetual decline, and a portrait of Mao still hanging on the Forbidden City, "develop countries" is not a term I'd associate with these places for the foreseeable future.
Posted in: Ishihara says Japan should conduct simulated nuclear weapons tests
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shinhiyata
Politics and religion are only needed by those incapable of running their own lives, and forced upon by those all too capable of ruining others lives.
Posted in: Suicide bomber kills Kandahar mayor
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shinhiyata
Another rude awakening here in south Iwate. Things were quiet for about 3 days until Saturday afternoon. Everyone I know has 'jisshin yoi' motion sickness, including me. Yuck.
Posted in: M6.2 quake jolts northeastern Japan