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
Longevity, yes, but what about Quality of Life?
Posted in: Japan ranks first for women's longevity
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wanderlust
Amano was here just a couple of weeks after the disaster, but was hampered by the main role of the IAEA in preventing nuclear weapon proliferation; they also had to wait for Japan to request help, he could not force it on them. They have a 35 country member committee, that spends most of its time getting the 150 or so member countries to agree on small print issues, let alone an instant decision to provide help.
Maybe the IAEA will change to become more pro-active, which is what many people wanted, but they are still deep in the pockets of the "nuclear club", and are limited to what they can do...
Posted in: IAEA chief confident progress being made at Fukushima plant
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wanderlust
Bit of much-needed PR for Mrs. John Lennon...
All she has done recently is close the John Lennon museum in Saitama, outside of Tokyo. Over 10 years, a total of about only 610,000 visitors came to see 130 items from Lennon's life, including his favorite guitar, a pair of his wire-rimmed glasses and hand-written lyrics.
Posted in: Yoko Ono saddened by disaster
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wanderlust
About 2 billion gallons of superglue to bind the two fault lines together is probably just as effective. You have to remember that the utility sponsored-professor who approved the geology, shortened the lengths of the fault lines, against the advice of independent geologists. Only he got his research funding approved...
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wanderlust
I thought one of the major issues for the whales was an inability or difficulty to dive due to the inherent buoyancy of these plastic objects? Immediately more dangerous compared to the long-term effects of toxins.
Posted in: Death by plastic: Is ocean garbage killing whales?
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wanderlust
Subaru (Fuji Heavy Industries) have had the option of 100V power outlets in their cars for years!
Posted in: Toyota utilizing hybrids to help with power crunch
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wanderlust
And the 215 seiverts/ hour in the lower containment areas? Where the corium has melted and lies on the concrete containment? Just pouring water over it and generating gallons of highly contaminated water? Do they have any real plan to deal with it? The nuclear industry constantly denied that their worst nightmare of a fuel meltdown to outside of the Reactor Pressure Vessel could ever happen with their defense in depth. No carbon-based workers can enter that area, nor can any of the silicon-based 'bots. It'll be interesting to see how they plan to deal with this, if at all...
Posted in: Efforts to stabilize nuclear crisis on track, say gov't, TEPCO
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wanderlust
Prompt Action - less than a week since the issue became known, exposed or admitted to...
but as @exportexpert writes, watch out for re-labeling - the food and meat industry are experts at this!
Posted in: Japan bans all cattle shipments from Fukushima over radiation fears
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wanderlust
Most of these dates are CYA by companies to avoid litigation in case of any problems. But with so many cases of mislabeling and re-labeling by Japanese food companies, who knows how long the food has really been in that container. Eyes, nose and common sense are highly recommended!
Posted in: Do use-by dates cause people to toss out food and drinks too soon?
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wanderlust
How large? And do they provide a written, life-long, money-back guarantee?
Posted in: Ultra-high tensile strength steel withstands large earthquakes
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wanderlust
For more than 30 years, they've never had to pay for the full medical care of the nuclear gypsies - the homeless, down-and-out and disenfranchised labour - recruited by the gangs to do the dirty repair, cleaning and maintenance work at these reactors. They account for more than 85% of the recorded radiation absorbed by nuclear workers in Japan, well at least the doses that they bothered recording and are not falsified. Their cancers, bone diseases and general radiation-induced lethargy have contributed to the utilities bonuses.
Welcome to cheap and safety Japan...
Posted in: It would be a shame not to call the bluff of the nuclear engineers and their 'you need us, and we are the cheapest' slogans.
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wanderlust
Sad reflection of modern life that they have to hire a PR company to tell them how to say sorry; must give you an idea how sincere these 'apologies' really are; desperate corporate spin-doctoring to prop up his shareholder value and personal fortune...
Posted in: 'We are sorry' Murdoch tells UK in full-page ad
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wanderlust
They'll still be cleaning up Fukushima in 2020, not exactly recovered from the earthquake and tsunami, and Hiroshima will probably still have debts from the 1994 Asian games...
Posted in: Tokyo declares bid for 2020 Summer Olympics
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wanderlust
Rupert Murdoch was the idea behind the villain media mogul Elliot Carver in the 007 James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies, though it seems that News International Group was more hellbent on world domination in real life than the imaginary Carver Media Group. Cinema begats reality...
Posted in: Hacking scandal casts light on Murdoch's politics
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wanderlust
Concept and idea are the key phrases here...
Posted in: Forest firefighting concept vehicle wins 2011 IDEA Gold Award
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wanderlust
Hope that they have a good population of down-and-out homeless and unemployed people for the dirty and dangerous jobs of repairing and maintaining the reactors. Hitachi-GE probably forgot to tell them how their reactors are repaired and maintained by the sub-sub-sub-sub contractors...
Posted in: Lithuania chooses Hitachi-GE for nuclear project
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wanderlust
@Net Ninja - just for your reference - more than 70% of the B787 is outsourced - the wings and wing boxes for the 787 are made in Japan, by Fuji Heavy Industries, Mitsubishi and Kawasaki, rudder and leading edges in China, flaps in Australia, wing tips and tail cone in South Korea, mid fuselage in Italy, cargo doors in Sweden, landing gear in the UK, fairings in Canada - not exactly made in the USA!
Posted in: Big bird
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wanderlust
@FireyR - better add the law for celebrities and the law for politicians to your list...
Posted in: Japanese prosecutors seek life in Briton's death
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wanderlust
Could do with one of those at Fukushima now!
Posted in: Iron man
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wanderlust
It used to be called News of the Screws in the UK, interpret that as you wish...
Posted in: Amid scandal, Murdoch kills off News of the World