JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Corporate Business English Trainers
- ACT Systems, Inc.（株式会社アクト・システムズ）, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥269,500 ~ ¥280,000 / Month
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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
- Salary: ¥125,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month
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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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wanderlust
@timeon - Subaru sell the highest proportion of MT cars in Japan. Impreza, Forester, Legacy all come with 5MT options, and 6MT soon...
Posted in: Subaru of America holds the line on pricing for 2012 Impreza
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wanderlust
No...
Posted in: Noda seen as frontrunner to replace Kan as PM
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wanderlust
Mama's boy Pigeon Mountain, receiving 15, 000, 000 yen each from his mother that he still knows nothing about; and fixer Ozawa, who still claims ignorance of 400,000,000 yen in under the table payments for approving construction contracts in one area alone.
Determining the future of Japan between them, and one of them will request to be finance minister!
Posted in: PM candidates visit Hatoyama to garner support
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wanderlust
@seriouslycreamy - no it's very poor stage lighting - you'll see the same "shadow line" effect on some of the girls legs.
Posted in: K-POP
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wanderlust
bicultural has it right - the sharks mistake a human swimming on or close to the surface for a seal or similar creature, and their first bite tells them that they're wrong. The trouble is that first bite can be intensely traumatic for a human, especially if in the abdominal region. Loss of limbs is generally survivable, if treated promptly; there are statistical tables of how much trauma you can survive. Tourniquets, IV fluids and/ or blood, along with medications for shock are required, to stabilize the patient until surgery is possible.
Scuba divers are at less risk, as they are beneath the surface, and their profile, with fins and tank makes them appear larger, and good advice when entering and exiting the water is to minimize the time at the surface.
Posted in: Are humans to blame for shark attacks?
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wanderlust
Lexus is just great marketing - an over-priced, re-badged Toyota car with a bunch of bolt-on goodies. Kudos to whoever wrote those four paragraphs of pure unadulterated spin...
Posted in: Lexus unveils next-generation GS 350 in Calif
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wanderlust
It's now common knowledge that TEPCO and the other utilities greatly underreported their non-nuclear power capacity, hoping to force the re-starts of their radioactive, money-generating, steam kettles.
Too bad a few people have died as an indirect result of saving power...
Posted in: Power consumption peaks in TEPCO service area
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wanderlust
And of course you believe the NPA!
The amount of money was about the same as the entertainment funds for one year in Kanagawa and Hokkaido prefectures, the infamous kuchitomeikin.
But it would be nice to believe it's true...
Posted in: 3.7 billion yen in cash recovered from earthquake-hit areas
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wanderlust
@warnerbro - read the article again, and the comments.
The sunflowers do not collect cesium, only strontium. The strontium is absorbed and moves into the green parts of the plant.
The stems and leaves are collected, compressed and disposed of elsewhere. There is NO cesium containing sunflower oil.
Posted in: Sunflowers used to clean up radiation
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wanderlust
@horrified: Yes, it was Nobuo Ikeda - a sometime economist and former NHK hack - who made the comment - "Doesn’t the Kyoto City government know that radioactive materials will be dissolved and rendered harmless once they get burned?..
There you go, the solution to all of the world's nuclear waste storage problem, just burn it!
He must have been absent from class when they taught atomic structure and radiation.
Posted in: Sunflowers used to clean up radiation
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wanderlust
This has been promulgated over the last few weeks, with many articles in the main stream Japanese media, announcing sunflowers will save Fukushima and the like, but it only takes Strontium from the soil, the Cesium is left there most of the time.
An awful lot of maybe, possibly, typically in his answers...and finally, his get-out clause:
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And if the circumstances are not right...
Posted in: Sunflowers used to clean up radiation
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wanderlust
Wasn't there an article by Kurion Systems yesterday, boasting how well the system was working with great support from TEPCO? Whoops!
and @asagao - closer to 30 years to dismantle and take away, not 3.
Posted in: Gov't, TEPCO reiterate goal to bring Fukushima plant under control by January
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wanderlust
It would be interesting to know the content and results of these so-called stress tests, though the 'nuclear industry' claim that lay-people would not understand them. But until details are made public, or at least published, people will be inherently suspicious of them, that they are just another government/ industry whitewash job, and with good reason too...
Posted in: Hokkaido reactor restarts; 1st to resume full operation since March 11
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wanderlust
@borscht - where does it say the parents waited 10~20 minutes to alert staff?
The article said, "Station staff were alerted and the boy was recovered. Trains were delayed for 10~20 minutes." That's all.
Posted in: 2-year-old boy falls onto tracks at Nagoya Station
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wanderlust
Surprised that the JTB and JNTO have not started running tours already, they are always looking for new attractions, along with the J-gov's perpetual plugging of tourism.
On a more serious note, it may be good to leave some of these areas with flotsam as they are, as a reminder of the forces of nature. The small stones left by the ancestors warning of high water levels did not garner much attention.
Posted in: Tsunami wreckage becomes tourist draw
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wanderlust
So far, solar panels have proved disappointing. High initial cost, even with some local government subsidy. Expensive repairs needed after just 10 years, while power output not as high as predicted, even on very sunny days.
Posted in: Japan's largest solar power facility commences operations
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wanderlust
Can't imagine ANY policeman would dare to measure their blades to check if they were in excess of 5 cm! That would incite the thugs in the black vans...
Posted in: Paying their respects
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wanderlust
Naoto Kan himself proposed this very early on in the crisis, and was rudely rejected by the LPD.
Posted in: PM contender Noda urges national unity government
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wanderlust
Anyone who has had any contact with Asimo knows that it requires a large number of technicians and a specially prepared smooth floor for its media performances in front of bankers and easily-impressed corporate audiences. It would be no use in a relatively hostile environment with stairs and narrow passageways cluttered with debris...
Posted in: Honda denies nuclear mission for ASIMO robot
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wanderlust
From another website, an interview with a reporter from Germany's ZDF Television. Said 35,000 becquerels/kg [of radioactive cesium, most likely] had been found in the soil of a rice paddy planted with rice, and asked if the government does any thorough check. Hosono [minister in charge of the nuclear accident] consulted with his staff for a very long time, and said they will confirm the number. He said the government will check the rice as they grow in the rice paddies. It's the rice paddy in Fukushima City. Fukushima City was OUTSIDE the evacuation zone of any kind, so the soil was apparently never tested by the prefectural government. The reporter asks the question in English, with a Japanese interpreter.
So maybe not a joke...
Posted in: 'Radioactive rice' joke causes trouble for Tokai Television