JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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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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- Assistant Language Teacher - TOKYO - late-March start
- Interac, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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- Assistant Language Teacher - Kanagawa Prefecture - late-March start
- Interac, Kanagawa
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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wanderlust
Try getting admitted to a healthcare facility at night or over the weekend.
They can't even guarantee 24-hour care!
Posted in: Gov't to set up 24-hour nursing care service
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wanderlust
A recall of a possible 11 year old car? First case in 2004? We can expect the same old excuses; we were investigating the matter, we were discussing the action we should take, we didn't think it was serious.
Corporate Japan in action, or maybe that should be Corporate Japan Inaction?
Posted in: Mitsubishi Motors recalls 300,000 vehicles in Japan
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wanderlust
To clarify:
This is to avoid bacterial contamination of the actual eye drops from regular or intermittent application, though they usually contain a mild bactericide to reduce the chances of contamination.
It is not a reflection of the required treatment period to take care of a medical problem.
Posted in: 5-yr-old boy may lose sight after man adds battery acid to eye drops
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wanderlust
Perhaps economists should look more closely at Japan's so-called economic miracle, supported by billions of yen of anonymous donations (aka bribes) to politicians, academics, bureaucrats, the media, local unions and government, run off the faulty premise that nuclear power was cheap and safe.
The hollow economies that have grown around these NPPs, funded by cheap, dirty money, are not sustainable; and the expensive sports and culture facilities to placate the locals - in reality hardly used, subsidised quasi-tourism, and and extensive, one-time construction works have done nothing to stimulate real business or other industries, and have destroyed traditional local industries such as fishing and handicrafts. With the NPPs going or gone, there is nothing left for the locals now the subsidies are drying up.
Even the national power grid, designed to feed power from these rural backwaters to the industrial complexes and mega-cities of Japan's pacific coast, failed abysmally.
Time is running out, this business model is not going to last much longer.
Posted in: IAEA begins inspection of nuclear power plant in Fukui
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wanderlust
A couple of comments to support the mother. The battery acid was 'added' to the drops, suggesting it was diluted, and may not have given rise to much pain on application, or not more than the usual brief 'sting' from putting in some drops. The poor mother probably had no idea it was the dilute acid, and not the underlying eye disease (inflammation) that was causing the problem. The symptoms would be identical. She would not be likely to question her physician who prescribed the drops, and just accept that the drops would eventually cure the problem.
Posted in: 5-yr-old boy may lose sight after man adds battery acid to eye drops
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wanderlust
Executives and management at NEC must have been asleep for a long time. They have needed a total re-vamp of their operations for many years. Their products have very little appeal, mediocre design, and seem to just follow on the coat-tails of Toshiba, Panasonic, Sony (?) and the other original manufacturers. They might start with cutting back on some of their very expensive sponsorships...
Posted in: Loss-making NEC to cut 10,000 jobs worldwide
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wanderlust
The nuclear village inspects the nuclear village.
The outcome is obvious...
Posted in: IAEA begins inspection of nuclear power plant in Fukui
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wanderlust
From experience, people's bills will go up, as the new digital meters are much more response to electrical surges from start up than the older analogue meters. An example might be, a laser printer starting up consumes quite a bit of power for a short time, but analogues meters are not sensitive to enough to measure this, but a digital smart meter will.
Posted in: TEPCO to hold bids for 17 million smart meters
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wanderlust
So all the reports of honest Japanese citizens and no theft in the evacuation zones are not true?
Posted in: 750 police officers to be assigned to 3 prefectures devastated by March 11 disaster
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wanderlust
@globalwatcher - yes the issue is earthquakes - much easier and quicker to repair over ground structures and lines, though broken power lines can be a hazard in themselves. The locals have a unique form of tunnel vision that allows them to see scenic views in between transmission lines!
Posted in: TEPCO to hold bids for 17 million smart meters
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wanderlust
US is now re-installing some analogue meters, as the WiFi radiated from 'Smart Meters' has proven to be too disruptive, and in some cases harmful to householders - many cases pending in California.
Of course, a Japanese utility is not likely to care one iota about householders health...
Posted in: TEPCO to hold bids for 17 million smart meters
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wanderlust
Just because it is printed on paper and in your hands, rather than delivered digitally does not make the contents any more authoritative, substantive or honest. It is the quality of the research and writing, the skills and integrity of the writers and editors that make a publication reputable and wanted. Repeated cutting and pasting are the bane of internet journalism, along with poorly formatted pages and far too much poor advertising.
An informed reader should be able to go through both, and sift the rubbish from the good content.
But in practical terms, we have copies of newspapers from 150 years ago, written documents from 1,500 years ago, yet are unable to read digital files from 15 years ago. Only time will tell which will last the longest...
Posted in: Newspapers in Japan defy new media challenge
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wanderlust
Modern medical endoscopes use CCD chips on the end to record images, and are easily fried by radiation, which shows up as white spots. Fibre-optic endoscopes in patients were phased out in the 90s...
Posted in: Endoscope shows radiation, steam, rusty metal inside Fukushima reactor
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wanderlust
*Japan has the highest safety standards of any country with nuclear power, with the best safety record. * There are an average of 15 reportable incidents each year since 1994, according to the Japan Nuclear Energy Safety Organisation. A total of 728 since 1966. Then you must add the unreported incidents, cover ups and falsifications of data to get the true figure.
Except for Chernobyl, more workers in Japan have died in NPP and faciilty accidents than in other countries - just check out Tsuruga and Tokaimura. These are also not reported in safety data outside of Japan. The numbers of "nuclear gypsies" subcontracted to clean and repair the plants who have died from cancer and other radiation-induced diseases is not known.
Safety Japan - not...
Posted in: Japan to let some nuclear plants operate after 40-year limit
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wanderlust
Few of these large M&As ever achieve synergy. Bureaucracy increases, work decreases. Administration stifles research. Expect fewer and fewer real new drugs. Many of the larger companies such as Pfizer are now selling off the acquisitions that they greedily bought in their rush to become the biggest, realising that it just hasn't worked...
Posted in: Pharmaceutical firm Takeda to cut 2,800 jobs in Europe, U.S.
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wanderlust
By the beginning of next year, I guess that more than half of them will end us as presidents, chairmen or advisers to the numerous small firms that supply components or other services to Olympus. All will have been forgiven or forgotten. The J-media is certainly playing down their activities.
Posted in: Olympus president, 5 other execs to resign in April over cover-up
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wanderlust
They'll find a way to allow exceptions in every case, so you're looking at 60 years of life.
However, more public and expert scrutiny of the so-called stress tests should be allowed, and more realistic scenarios examined.
Embrittlement of metal components, thinning of pipes due to pressure, and integrity of welds should all be tested as often as possible. In the Tsuruga Bay incident when a steam pressure pipe burst and killed 6 workers, their sole testing criteria was that reactor 'A' was similar to reactor 'B', the pipes were of similar age, and as 'B' was OK, 'A' should be too.
The workers at Fukushima spoke and wrote of using heavy lifting equipment to pull large pipes into place for welding as the design and manufacture were so poor; and of course as soon as the quake hit, the cooling pipes separated from the reactor vessel, in a LOCA (Loss of Coolant Accident), meaning that there was no way coolant could be supplied, without re-connecting the pipes, or improvised engineering.
Posted in: Japan to let some nuclear plants operate after 40-year limit
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wanderlust
Considering the track record of Japan police with their massive losses of data through file sharing, it does seem strange to appoint a Japanese cybercrime and security specialist to this position.
Posted in: INTERPOL appoints Japanese executive director for new global complex
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wanderlust
One person's bribe is another person's consulting fee, marketing expense or negotiation percentage. Have to exclude power breakfasts, lunches, dinners, hostess bars, golf round or tennis game, corporate boxes at sports events, drinks at the club and the rest, they are not really bribes, just the cost of doing business.
Posted in: Marubeni to pay $54.6 mil penalty for role in Nigeria bribery scheme
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wanderlust
Lonely Planet Guides and other travel books for years have been plagued with accusations that "writers" - whether real or not - turn up asking for discounts/ freebies/ benefits in exchange for good reviews. Just another form of marketing or PR. Only the gullible get taken in by them...
Posted in: Yahoo! restaurant reviews and rankings manipulated by fake comment companies