JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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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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- Translator
- ZAIHON, Inc. (日本財務翻訳株式会社), Tokyo
- Salary: ¥6.0M / Year Negotiable
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yokomoc
I'd speculate this isn't necessarily a suicide but possibly a yakuza murder, especially given her hostessing past. That being the case the blog wouldn't have been posted by her either but by her killer(s) as a cover for the murder. Given alleged yakuza involvement in tarento agencies there could be any number of reasons for this - owing money, 'sending a message' to certain other parties, personal issues...
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yokomoc
Influence is a hard thing to define - cultural, poltical, economic, religious...? And influence carries on posthumously - someone like Einstein is maybe more influential than almost all the world leaders, more so now than when he was alive. Some people are only influential in combination with others and I also couldn't include any politician from a country with free elections as they're only as influential as the people allow, and CEOs are just employees.
At the moment top three would be Rupert Murdoch, Colonel Gaddafi, OPEC leaders, then it's hard to pick after that.
Posted in: Name 5 people who you think are among the most influential in the world.
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yokomoc
himehentai, in the study the participants stated who they found most attractive:
So it accounts for the 'eye of the beholder'.
Posted in: Men act stupid when talking to beautiful women, study shows
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yokomoc
In what sense? Your average 'savviness' of net users is constantly on the increase. Anyway this is, again, OT and irrelevant to the what the discussion is supposed to be about.
Posted in: How important have social media like Facebook, Twitter and mixi been in disseminating information and organizing quake relief aid activities during the current crisis in Japan?
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yokomoc
Lol don't start me, but why are you arguing about the users? The article is about Facebook and social media as news delivery systems which have been excellent in my experience. You can't account for people being stupid.
BUT, if you do want to discuss users I've found that they way people use it has much improved even in the last year or so, although I never really found people posting the much ridiculed "what I ate for breakfast" updates anyway.
Posted in: How important have social media like Facebook, Twitter and mixi been in disseminating information and organizing quake relief aid activities during the current crisis in Japan?
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yokomoc
This hasn't been my experience. And if you don't use social media then how would you know this? This is just your perception.
Of course, but it helps when you get more wheat and less chaff.
Posted in: How important have social media like Facebook, Twitter and mixi been in disseminating information and organizing quake relief aid activities during the current crisis in Japan?
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yokomoc
Likewise, but I know a lot of people who don't read Kanji well or at all.
You do get people who post constant fluff but the good thing is you can hide posts from specific people or apps etc. After a bit of fine-tuning my feed is pretty well balanced, with the odd crap music video from Youtube thrown in :D
Ahaha, well the correct answer is it's both the tools and the user ;)
Posted in: How important have social media like Facebook, Twitter and mixi been in disseminating information and organizing quake relief aid activities during the current crisis in Japan?
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yokomoc
Hey I don't doubt that but with IM you can only reasonably chat with a few people at once without it taking up all your time, and you both have to be avaiable at the time. You can also IM on Facebook.
With email you can contact a lot of people at once but addresses may be out of date, you spend an age getting the addresses of all the people you want to contact (unless you're super-prepared and have an "everyone to contact in an emergency" list!), you then get hit with countless replies to your inbox, some of them out of office messages etc. and if people don't Reply All then your sending further individual replies and if people do Reply All then someone who you barely know may end up with an inbox full of emails from strangers.
I would too - it would be good research, though quantifying quality control isn't simple. On this I'm speaking purely from personal experience - the information that I've accessed through friends' posts on Facebook was of a much higher quality than going directly to any news site, forum, blog etc.
Consider this, a researcher blogs about nuclear energy as a hobby - typical audience would not be very large. Suddenly the desire arises in the general to have some informed opinions about nuclear reactors, radiation dangers etc. The guy posts a blog analysing the Fukushima situation and giving his analysis. Whereas normally his post would go largely unnoticed, people he know decide to share this with the greater world who are delighted to read an informed opinion and pass it on the their friends...etc. It only takes a few hours to reach a huge number of people.
This is basically what happened - except wasn't a single blogger it was a number of them, so you would also have had the ability to check postings off against each other and weed out any charlatans or misinterpretations fairly quickly.
Now the SAME thing happens with email and forums but the time it takes to spread is much greater and it can take longer before any misinformation is shown up. Efficiency is the key here.
Posted in: How important have social media like Facebook, Twitter and mixi been in disseminating information and organizing quake relief aid activities during the current crisis in Japan?
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yokomoc
For me anyway, Facebook has been the single most important source of news & means of sharing information since the earthquake happened:
During or shortly after the quake several friends (and myself) had posted updates so within minutes of it happening I had a snapshot of peoples' experiences and tidbits of info about what's going on in the city and elsewhere as well as reassuranes everyone was okay. For two hours after the quake I couldn't use my mobile phone for calls but could access the net.
Since then it's proven remarkably efficient at delivering information whether it's blogs (for example by nuclear scientists), well-written news articles, data readings on the radiation, scientific analysis. When the first blackouts were scheduled I read the schedule on Facebook before anywhere else, and within an hour an English translation had also shown up. There's also an inbuilt quality control in social media where rubbish articles get filtered out quickly, while the good stuff gets shared and spreads.
Then for people back home who were reading the sensationalized crap in the media there, it's through Facebook and other social media that we were able to reassure everyone that we were in fact, perfectly fine in Tokyo (with photographic proof!) while only taking a few minutes out the day to do so - Note: not living in some kind of sad virtual world as some people seem to believe.
Like I said, it's the efficiency of the social media that sets it apart from the old media sources.
Posted in: How important have social media like Facebook, Twitter and mixi been in disseminating information and organizing quake relief aid activities during the current crisis in Japan?
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yokomoc
Messaging through Facebook is already fast replacing personal emails. Probably down the line it'll be the interface that changes with more integrated apps.
Posted in: E-mail has just about replaced letters and faxes. What do you think will replace e-mail in the future?
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yokomoc
Is she seriously trying to blame the Obamas for the global rise in food prices?
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yokomoc
List them please.
Sam, the majority opinion of scientists in the seventies was for warming. The new ice age theory was given the cover of Newsweek and so got a lot of exposure, but was always a minority opinion that lost traction as more research was done and the science improved. Thing is though, it 'could' still happen in theory, because of knock-on effects of warming. The ocean oscillation systems that move heat around the earth are still a pretty grey area and freshwater from Arctic melting is expected to slow the conveyor belt. Either way it's not good.
Posted in: Scientists connect global warming to extreme rain
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yokomoc
donkusai, the AP article's basically a rewording of the original nature article. Nothing wrong with that and I hope it continues so we get more grounded science articles on JT.
Posted in: Scientists connect global warming to extreme rain
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yokomoc
How so?
Posted in: Scientists connect global warming to extreme rain
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yokomoc
Lol, only took the fifth comment for arrestpaul to make himself known...again. Paul, the reason these are the FIRST study to demonstrate cause-and-effect is because until recently, models were simply predicting what WOULD likely happen as the major effects of climate change hadn't yet kicked in. You can't demonstrate something that hasn't happened yet. These studies simply show that the effects the models have predicted for years, ARE NOW OCCURING, in fact the model predictions were less than has actually happened. This is also true for some other effects like the accelerating rate of ice melt in Greenland.
Posted in: Scientists connect global warming to extreme rain
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yokomoc
I do that sometimes if I'm not reading, but only because after spending the day in an artificially lit office I can't hack the overly bright lighting in the train. I've thought about wearing sunglasses just for this and know that some people do the same.
Mostly I can't get how people here sleep at any time of the day. On the morning train, after you've had your night's sleep, showered and had breakfast (I hope!) how can you be sleepy again? Then after work my brain's always too fried to get drowsy. The Spanish have it right in my book, an hour or two siesta after lunch does you the world of good. But I can dream...
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yokomoc
I'm sure the lovehearts on the cover are meant to show much little sister really loves her big brother in a purely fraternal way.
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yokomoc
But that's the point - it's not. If someone could show me a similar product like you described above not only existing (doubtful) but selling 30,000 copies I could almost believe it's some kind of weird desire for a sibling they never had. Without that it's simply 30,000 grown men sitting at some watching a DVD of a faceless little girl saying the recognised expression used by street-walkers to approach potential clients.
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yokomoc
I got the chills just reading this. It sounds like something out a horror movie. I wonder if these guys hear little sister voices in their heads as well. Creepy.
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yokomoc
I thought semi-finals were supposed to be boring affairs... Credit to both teams for putting on such an entertaining match, and would everyone agree the Asian Cup's been more entertaining than the World Cup last year, despite (or maybe because of) the obvious quality difference?
Zach-Japan have really built on the world cup performances, and now look a very good all-round team. Is this the best Japan team of all time? I think it would be hard to argue against.
There's really very little between Japan, Korea and Australia so I'd expect another tight match in the final. Let's hope it's another cracker.
Posted in: Japan beats South Korea to set up Asian Cup final clash with Australia