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
Better get your old caddy back!
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wanderlust
@telporter- most of these people do not have "doctors", the few who do will not see signs of cancers for another 20~30 years, and will not be able to claim anything as there are no official records of their exposure. They do not understand the dangers of radiation. Just check out the YouTube film 'Nuclear Ginza' for a very good description of their hiring process, being bussed into the NPP, lack of medical care, and work conditions...
It is also against the Nuclear Power Plants' operating laws to allow unregistered people access, a fact which could lead to them losing their NPP operating license!
Posted in: TEPCO says it has lost contact with 143 nuclear plant workers
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wanderlust
Looks like a smaller version of Toyota's Harrier or Lexus R300 with an Impreza back-end, maybe the influence of all those Toyota-owned shares?
What's wrong with developing further their current Forester model, an award winning compact SUV/ X-over model itself.
Most Subaru owners are drivers who enjoy manual transmission, AWD and a car that is eminently driveable, they are not steering wheel attendants like Toyota and NIssan produce...
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wanderlust
The three replacements in METI are all from the pro-nuclear faction of METI!
Matsunaga made a deal with Kaieda to choose his own replacements, keeping Kan out of the loop. There is huge relief in METI that no significant change will occur.
METI have huge financial support (read cash contributions) from the industries that feed them, and thus political power, Environment are generally regarded as a very poor relation, good for image but bad for business.
Politics and reform - Japan style.
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wanderlust
Just a reflection of 'Danchi' life in Japan - the people in the city live like this too...
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wanderlust
Two days ago TEPCO told us that NO workers had been exposed to excessive radiation doses. Perhaps that should have been NO workers that they had bothering registering their names and addresses.
This is in breach of their Nuclear Operations Laws, allowing unregistered/ unbadged staff in to an NPP. They could lose their license to operate an NPP, or what is left of an NPP.
And conveniently for them, if any of them ever did make a claim for radiation-induced sickness or disease, it would be thrown out of court, with the judges citing no proof of exposure.
@techall - most of the jobs these workers do are just physical labour, dirty work, cleaning, carrying work, etc.. They do not work in operation centres or close to operating reactors, and from the series of Japanese video clips on YouTube of work in the Wakasa-wan NPPS, they are heavily supervised by either Utility or Reactor Manufacturer staff.
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wanderlust
@ted barrera - SPEEDI did the job it was required to do quickly and effectively - but was ignored and misunderstood.
Posted in: Japan ignored own radiation forecasts from very beginning
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wanderlust
Haruki "Detarame" Madarame should be falling on his sword, instead of Kan resigning. From his dubious industry sponsored academic career researching promotion of nuclear power to society to his chairmanship of the Nuclear Safety Commission, he has failed the Japanese people totally. I can't really expect a PM to know and remember every small detail of running a country or a crisis management team, but I do expect his specialist advisors to know them.
The utilities attitude to never consider nuclear emergencies, to resist research into robots to assist, and propagating the myth that nuclear power is safe; whilst covering up manufacturing defects, falsifying inspections, and utilising the lower ranks of society for its dirty work also contributed to the problem.
But the Japanese people at the end of the day put these people into positions of power, allowed themselves to be hoodwinked and lied to, as they also took the utilities' money and turned a blind eye to all of this. They should be asking themselves a few serious questions too...
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wanderlust
DARPA, the US equivalent of this institute, wrote a few days ago that drones were being built around the world for prices of between 5 and 10,000 US$, and while not as capable as the Reaper or other RVs, they were still useful. Was not sure if the US Military-Industrial complex were scared of losing sales of their own expensive, over-priced models, or the US military were scared of being spied upon!
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wanderlust
@badge - Hope that was a joke? What they need to do is build a big underground bunker in Mt. Fuji.
One of the biggest active volcanoes in the world...
Posted in: Japan to consider backup capital city for emergencies
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wanderlust
20 years ago, Sendai was promulgated as the back-up for Tokyo! Good job that was not acted upon.
Decentralising the government from Tokyo would weaken the bureaucrats control over everything, so there will be great resistance to it. But even if some basic functions were to be relocated over to the Japan sea side, there are even more nuclear reactors over there! As others have written, the WW2 option of Nagano is reasonable, rather like the US continuity of government bunker at Mount Weather or Site R at Raven Rock.
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wanderlust
Guess he could have just "twittered" or posted his "gambatte kudasai" on Facebook.
5 months late, a side-trip on his way home, and what exactly have the UN done for Japan, Tokoku and Fukushima so far?
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wanderlust
Only S&P downgraded the US rating, Moody's and Fitch have done nothing to date, no need for a panic quite yet...
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wanderlust
The three replacements are all from the pro-nuclear faction of METI!
Matsunaga made a deal with Kaieda to choose his own replacements, keeping Kan out of the loop. There is huge relief in METI that no significant change will occur.
Politics and reform - Japan style.
Posted in: Gov't fires 3 senior nuclear policy officials
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wanderlust
Kudos to the pilot and airline for putting safety first.
I wonder if all 427 passengers got back on the plane, not leaving anybody behind tago ng tago, to staff the local bars or factories?
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wanderlust
The actual inspectors and regulators who systematically ignored the faults and falsified inspection reports over the last 40 years are the ones who should be fired.
Posted in: Gov't fires 3 senior nuclear policy officials
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wanderlust
Neat - Hitachi can build faulty nuclear reactors and Mitsubishi can recall them! The systems are already in place!
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wanderlust
10 Sv/ hr = 166 mSv/ minute. A 4 mSv dose would be absorbed in less than a couple of seconds, like walking past the pipe! How many workers have done this over the last 4 months?
Apparently they do not know the actual dose, as the meter went off the scale, so they are guessing it was only 10 SV/ hr.
Posted in: Record high radiation reported at crippled Fukushima nuclear plant
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wanderlust
6.2 - now classed as moderate in the media....
And yes, the nuclear 'powers-that-be' shortened the fault lines around the Hamaoka NPP, so that a tame judge would approve the location for building of it during a court case, despite geologists protests. It's been written about many times...
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wanderlust
It means that they want to know what colour envelopes they should use for their own "consulting fees." Bin Hammam apparently used vulgar brown envelopes...
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