JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Core Developer - コアディベロッパー
- Midokura Japan K.K. - ミドクラジャパン株式会社, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥4.0M ~ ¥10.0M / Year Negotiable
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- Translator
- ZAIHON, Inc. (日本財務翻訳株式会社), Tokyo
- Salary: ¥6.0M / Year Negotiable
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- Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) in Kanto region
- RCS (RCSコーポレーション), Kanto
- Salary: ¥180,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month includes performance bonus
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wanderlust
If the wreck topples of the cliff where it is currently balancing, and falls 110 metres to the bottom of the sea, it would mean death for every diver in the wreck, and most of the surface workers. The sudden pressurization, the need for a totally different gas mixture at that depth, and the prolonged decompression time for anyone to make it to the surface would be virtually impossible to manage. That also assumes that the ship itself did not crush or distort, and people were not injured by debris and the ship's structure. I've dived in wrecks, even new ones, and know firsthand how dirty they are inside; the sharp edges and fittings that can cut you open or snag your life line. It's not like Hollywood with bright lights and clean water...
Posted in: Divers abandon search for missing at Italy cruise ship wreck
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wanderlust
Didn't think they had any ships to spare after the latest round of defence cuts. Thought that they were all fighting the war on terror, bringing freedom to the Arabs, or running aground on sandbanks...
Posted in: Britain sends new warship to Falklands
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wanderlust
The electricity comes from the generator, and is distributed through a grid with relays, transformers and the like. Everything else is just an energy source to produce steam to turn the turbines; or in the case of wind, water and tidal power, to turn the turbines directly or via gearing.
PS: Have never seen a collector for static electricity at any airport in Japan. Perhaps it is discharged when the fingerprints are taken?
Posted in: Cabinet OKs bill to cap nuclear reactor life
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wanderlust
It seems that more and more people, especially older people or those with fimpaired eyesight, print out those beautiful pdf manuals and documents, as they cannot read them comfortably on computer or device screens...
Try and bokmark a few pages, have more than 3 or 4 windows open at the same time, and it is easy to lose track of where you are...
Posted in: Canon to build laser-printer factory in Philippines
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wanderlust
Not unlike NEC, another company run down by the old men resting on their laurels, mired in a scandal with a past executive and organised crime, pushing out less than attractive products with limited appeal...
Posted in: Fujitsu hit by third-quarter loss
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wanderlust
I wonder did the banks behind Olympus encourage the banks behind Fujifilm to do this? One of Fujifilm's outside auditors is a director of both Sumitomo Mitsu Banking Corporation (SMBC) and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG). SMBC are also a major shareholder of Olympus, while SMFG is their main lender.
Classic way protecting their assets...
Posted in: Fujifilm seeks tie-up with Olympus
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wanderlust
Compare this to the Iwo-to situation (formerly Iwo Jima), where the government have sent around 5~10 bureaucrats to supervise a team of 50 contractors, looking for remains of troops killed more than 60 years ago. They may find some bones in the dry sand, and some material that may help identify them.
Much harder in the sea, where after an initial period of 'floating', the bodies wil burst, decompose or be fed upon, and as the bones get saturated with water, sink to the bottom. However, if traumatised from the physical impact of the tsunami, and lost their integrity, they'll not even float.
As for diving, 'frogmen' in a decent dry suit can easily spend an hour in the water in winter at a shallow depth; I do!
Posted in: Search goes on for thousands of missing tsunami victims
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wanderlust
@zichi - don't hold your breath! You'll have to look for the small print in the publication...
Posted in: Japan's emissions rising after nuclear crisis
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wanderlust
@zichi - to be fair, that report was published in January 2011, before the earthquake and tsunami. Much of the data in the tables is referenced as either March 2010 or December 2010.
Posted in: Japan's emissions rising after nuclear crisis
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wanderlust
@zichi - in other words, totally unrealistic and absolutely worthless!
Posted in: The reality is that the inspectors only look at the reactors' design and then factor in possible problems such as earthquakes and tsunami of a certain size. They do not take into account the various malfunctions that can result in a disaster, including human error and equipment failure.
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wanderlust
Another Research Institute with direct ties and conflict of interests?
Posted in: People's preference to live in central Tokyo has strengthened after commuters were stranded on March 11.
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wanderlust
They also do not look at how multiple malfunctions can act synergistically to accelerate critical conditions, and how they should be managed....
Posted in: The reality is that the inspectors only look at the reactors' design and then factor in possible problems such as earthquakes and tsunami of a certain size. They do not take into account the various malfunctions that can result in a disaster, including human error and equipment failure.
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wanderlust
The average Japanese house is so poorly insulated that the snow on the roof paradoxically helps them retain heat!
Posted in: Heavy snow continues in northern Japan
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wanderlust
@elvensilvan - qualified TEPCO supervisor or inspectors allowed a nuclear power plant to run with flat batteries in critical components, it's media server for data transmission off-line for 4 months, generators susceptible to flooding, falsified reactor pressure vessel tests, forged welding data on pipes, and a whole list of other activities.
Do you really think they'll do anything about 8 km of improvised piping in the cold?
The operators did however cover some of the pipes with insulating materials, but the flanges were left exposed...
Posted in: Frozen water causes leakages at Fukushima nuclear power plant
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wanderlust
The New New New Party?
Whatever it is called, it will be more of the same old style Japan backroom politics.
Posted in: Ishihara, Kamei, Hiranuma consider setting up new political party
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wanderlust
They'll be taking home a good million yen each month, even with this ritualistic pay cut. A waste of time. Even the approbation of public shame is meaningless now.
Posted in: 6 Docomo execs take pay cuts over network troubles
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wanderlust
Always thought 'Tweens' referred to people in their twenties, not pre-teens.
Posted in: 'Tween' lingerie walks Lolita tightrope
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wanderlust
Shaken and stirred from a deep slumber, so an early start to the weekend.
Are more and more of these quakes' epicentres now moving South from East of Tohoku towards South of Kanto? It sure seems like it....
Posted in: M5.5 quake hits Koshin, Kanto areas
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wanderlust
Those Yamanashi quakes this morning would have rattled the Hamaoka plant, one of the worst examples of the nuclear village ignoring a geologist's report and building a NPP virtually on top of a fault line...
Posted in: Chugoku Electric shuts Shimane No. 2 reactor, leaving Japan with only 3 reactors online
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wanderlust
@miyagidad - anybody shocked by this has been asleep over the past 100 years!
Authority and no responsibility... classic Japan.
Posted in: At least 10 groups dealing with disaster kept no detailed records of meetings