JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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wanderlust
Looks like they are planning to listen to their cars, according to the article below on salesforce.
Posted in: Insular Toyota should listen to outsiders
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wanderlust
Sloppy reporting, maybe but try and read a copy of Kenji Higuchi's original book with his photographs. He names the sub-contractors for work for the power utilities and the recruiting companies, and all the people interviewed. It formed the basis for Nicolas Rohl's documentary Nuclear Ginza, showing them recruiting in Osaka.
The information is out there, in black and white, you just have to look a little deeper...
Posted in: Nuclear cleanup workers being recruited from society's lowest rungs
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wanderlust
@ sengoku38 - they've already used coloured bath salts - SF is designed for radiators and pipelines in plants and pump station leak testing. After the bath salts and salt water going through the system, it won't make much difference.
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wanderlust
Doesn't anyone at TEPCO know of sodium fluorescein - a brilliant orange fluorescent dye used by engineers to trace leaks in water systems? They might learn where the water is going! And it is much better than using coloured bath salts.
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wanderlust
@jason6 - big difference between wearing a seatbelt, and covering the coastline with millions of tons of concrete. Or perhaps you are happy to look out of the window on to solid grey concrete? Imagine Matsushima covered in concrete walls, or Itsukushima, or any of the other scenic Japanese coastline reduced to a dull grey line on the horizon...
Just build your houses, schools, shops, and infrastructure, 20~25 metres up the hill, and leave a minimal port area that can easily be re-built. They've done it for golf/ country clubs and resorts, why not do it for towns and villages?
Posted in: How one Japanese village defied the tsunami
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wanderlust
An example of the Japanese concrete coastline, while it saved the village, it just doesn't get much uglier than this. Looks like they'll soon be proposing a 20m concrete wall around the whole of Japan, to keep the tsunamis out.
Posted in: How one Japanese village defied the tsunami
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wanderlust
A typical Eurocrat - proposing business for strategies to save money, and staying in a US$3,000/ night hotel site.
Posted in: IMF head's hearing delayed in hotel sex assault case
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wanderlust
They do NOT protect you from radiation, only from contamination. Beta and gamma rays,X-rays and neutrons will penetrate this like a hot knife through butter. It's not even a full face suit, so not recommended for hostile chemical environments. Check what US nozzle dam technicians and chemical spill workers wear to see what a real suit looks like. Those filters also lose their effectiveness over time, and need regular changing.
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wanderlust
@virtuoso - The custom of yelling "Geronimo!" is attributed to Aubrey Eberhardt, a member of the U.S. Army's parachute "test platoon" that demonstrated the feasibility of parachute troop drops at Fort Benning, Georgia, in 1940. To speed up the drops, the brass decided to try a mass jump, in which the chutists would jump from the plane in quick succession. The men were nervous about this, and to relieve the tension a group of them went to see a western at the post movie house the night before the jump. The movie featured the cavalry mixing it up with the famous Apache chief Geronimo. None of our sources said exactly what movie this was, but one supposes it was Geronimo (1939) with Andy Devine and Gene Lockhart.
Full story is elsewhere on the internet - The Straight Dope
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wanderlust
Mac Pros have had dual quad cores in them for years, and 32GB of usable RAM. Dual six cores were offered last year with 64GB of usable memory...
Posted in: Apple upgrades iMacs with quad-core processors
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wanderlust
Conversely there are many Japanese companies with expensive bilingual office staff, educated overseas and lived abroad who boast that they can speak English fluently, but that is all that they can do. Administrative, marketing, sales, research and other abilities are zero. Foreign companies in particular are susceptible to employing these types, as their monolingual bosses are impressed and comfortable talking with them, and overlook the fact that most are useless.
Posted in: English ability of little advantage for mid-career job seekers
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wanderlust
ODA has been known for years to be marketing and promotion expenses for Japanese services and products. We'll help you, as long as you buy these items from Toshiba, Hitachi, Mitsubishi or whoever, and we'll provide you with research grants, consultant fees, expenses, etc.. JICA had some influence in medical products and services, bringing physicians from developing countries to Japan, getting pharma companies to educate them, wine and dine them, and when they return back home, reminding them of who paid for their education. Quite sophisticated - classic giri-ninjou!
Posted in: Do you think Japan should cut back its ODA commitments to other countries and allocate the money instead to earthquake and tsunami relief efforts in the Tohoku region?
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wanderlust
The CIA built OBL up as a hero when he was against the Russians in Afghanistan, but then they lost his loyalty when they went in to Saudi Arabia, his own country, to fight Saddam Hussein. Eventually, that same CIA, with ST6 took him down.
Let that be a lesson to anyone who is befriended by the CIA...
Posted in: BIN LADEN BURIED AT SEA AFTER BEING KILLED IN FIREFIGHT WITH U.S. FORCES
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wanderlust
According to some sources, if a number of the African countries repatriated the funds that their corrupt leaders had siphoned off for years, they could pay off all of their national debts, stopping the crippling interest payments to banks, and still have something left. The down side would be a number of very large multinationals in areas such as mining and oil would find it difficult doing business there with honest leaders.
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wanderlust
They guy on the right of the image is not being very sincere, check out the shallow angle of his bow!
Posted in: Take a bow
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wanderlust
A night dancing on the town?
Hope the club finishes early, before the last train, or she will be getting a taxi home!
Posted in: Anne chosen as Tokyo Metro poster girl
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wanderlust
Government by media opinion? The same media who toe the party line in the Kisha Club? The same media who ignored reports about faulty reactors, cover-ups and corrupt power companies?
Kan has been poorly supported by his own party members, who have spent most of their time attacking him, whilst offering no workable alternatives.
He's also been let down at local and ministerial level by the local bureaucrats and administrators who sat around thinking of what to do, instead of doing something; just look at the MHLW not supplying medicines to Tohoku, because no-one told them what they wanted, when anyone watching or listening to NHK would have learned of the issues.
And don't forget some of the reactors in question at Fukushima were due to be de-commissioned after May, they'd come to the end of their useful working life, the tsunami just got their first.
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wanderlust
Made his money in the corporate world, and now can afford to be slightly greenish and sort of sustainable, just like the actors and actress who promote environmental work after earning 10 million dollars from a film, and make clouds of C02 flying around to promote it. Others on the LOHAS board seem much the same, made their money on the corporate side jetting around the world, and now try to be green. Unfortunately, most green or sustainable products are not cheap, nor particularly convenient for many people, who did not have the luxury of high-paying jobs, and a cosy semi-retirement to do good.
Posted in: Aiming for a lifestyle of health and sustainability
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wanderlust
The Japan Red Cross will use some of the money eventually for Tohoku evacuees, and will reserve a portion for future use, so people who thinking their money is going to Tohoku relief may be upset. AFAIK, they are still considering how to donate it. They also have that large office near Hamamatsucho to pay for, quite considerable staff salaries and those nice uniforms and bags. Of course the Japan salaries pale besides the US$ 600,000/ year that the previous head of the ARC was taking home. Not bad for what they portray as a charity, it is really a massive business now.
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wanderlust
This is not approving to join the Hague Convention, it is only approving the plan to join. Lots of excuses for not joining can be made during the next phase...
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