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Munin posted:Btw, others please feel free to disagree, but I think in this thread it's probably better to focus on the Politicians and Politics side of that issue and approach the societal context from that perspective.
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ClubmanGT posted:The Bank of Japan attempted some degree of currency intervention yesterday. Can we get a link on this? Some commentary? Kenishi posted:No surprise there. They only bought 10 trillion yen worth of assets back (127Bil USD). That's negligible compared to prior attempts at intervention. What were these prior attempts? Could you elaborate?
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Sep 20, 2012 15:41
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hadji murad posted:The Japanese Finance Ministry has been burning money at a record rate trying to stop the strong yen, with as much effect as anything else they do. Ok, can you give me more info on what/how they've failed in doing? Is the strong Yen hurting exports or is there more to it? I learned a bit about how the tri-part power structure in Japan, that it is between the politicos, Beaurocrats and the mega-corps, with the two latter being the important ones but not in any great depth and from fairly biased sources, so it would be cool to know more about that.
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Sep 20, 2012 18:15
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Pollyanna posted:Posted on a friend's Facebook: Haha, holy poo poo. Is your friend some kind of Right-Wing joke or something? I can't stop laughing at "Evil Cultural Socialists"! Ahaha, socialists in Japan...
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Dec 14, 2012 18:26
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Kenishi posted:Colleges seeking to double foreign students Or maybe you meant assistance to students there? I ain't heard many complaints from those of my friends who decided to go out but then again none of them were lacking money.
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Mar 10, 2013 05:45
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Pompous Rhombus posted:BoE's also ought to encourage (or at least not penalize) English teachers who want to spend a year or two overseas on professional development as well, either as an exchange teacher or doing a Master's or something. One of my co-workers (non-tenure) is leaving her job to do a working holiday in Canada to bootstrap her English ability, which I think is really admirable and awesome, but it'd be great to see some institutional support for that kind of thing.
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Mar 13, 2013 03:35
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Kenishi posted:There's also another reason why you haven't seen megacorp agriculture companies like Mosanto, show up in Japan. Mr. Fix It posted:What a bunch of fear-mongering and straw-men. Borrowing a line from ErIog, do you by any chance work for JA? That's the only way I can make sense of your arguments.  Because for any example you'd care to give I could probs drag up three that showed how it hosed people over. And also way to see the difference between how a thing would be reported and how it would be, guy. Are you an economist by any chance? Do you often have problems telling real things from false ones?
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Mar 19, 2013 16:06
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Mr. Fix It posted:Who's calling for a sudden influx? There's a ton of other reforms that need to happen before opening the gates. It's moot anyways, since no reform will happen and the government will somehow get a TPP that doesn't touch agricultural tariffs. It is funny to see you laud those land reforms, as rural Japan whithers away due to migration to places with actual work and olds dying off. Rural Japan doesn't need protectionist tariffs, it needs economic growth. Which it won't get as long as resources are misallocated to keeping Grandpa Taro's farm barely afloat.
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Mar 19, 2013 20:58
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The Japanese community here in Iceland is fairly OK, but seeing as it's only a couple dozen people keeping in touch is my impression from meeting them during the yearly Japan Festival at my uni. They are a hell of a less organized group though than the German expats I hang with every month or some of the Viet or Thai peeps, partly though because they took their whole families with them, like people said.
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Mar 28, 2013 15:48
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Reverend Cheddar posted:Basically tastes like raw chicken but with even less flavor. I know no one under the age of 50 who eats whale (they all agree on the 'no flavor whatsoever' point). Even the 60+ generation doesn't exactly remember it fondly; they remember it much like I remember those awful 'fiesta pizzas' that we got in elementary school. I'm guessing there's a powerful lobby group with some 'research harpoons' pointed at someone's head.  It's basically like a good steak only a bit more fatty. That's Minke at least. Dunno what whales y'all are eating, the differences between Minke and Fin are pretty big and if I remember right they also get some of endangered ones.
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Apr 23, 2013 11:57
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Samurai Sanders posted:From what I have heard, Germany is an absolute model of how a country in their situation should deal with their former war atrocities, across the board. I didn't bring it up much, 'cause it's old hat, but I never got the idea that it was ignored or that they didn't know about it and the few times I did they seemed to be very knowledgeable about what Germany had done. This was a Gymnasium (highest tier German highschool) though. Dunno if it's different in other types. Contrast that with the Japanese university students we get here and it's pretty grim. There was at this one party where we were explaining how the Nazis indirectly gave Iceland its independence and some ijeet brought up Japanese warcrimes and most of them either didn't know much or didn't feel comfortable talking about it, which in a way is worse. Ehh. Anecdotal, I know. But it seems to fit.
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Apr 23, 2013 19:52
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Oh hey guys, you don't have to argue about this because, see, there was no invasion of mainland Asia by the Japanese. So says Abe, PM of Japan! http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/politics/AJ201304240082 http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2013/04/24/2013042401169.html (Stole this from Throatwarbler in the China thread) That said... dilbertschalter posted:Germany went through de-nazification Cliff Racer posted:still statist  I wish I still had my laughing Hassan Nasrallah avatar.
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Apr 24, 2013 15:18
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mystes posted:I don't think he actually intended to declare that there was no invasion, although it does sound like that. I think he was just trying to get away with sort of convincing right wingers that he was undermining the Murayama statement but without actually retracting it, by saying "what does 'aggression/invasion' even mean, anyway?" At any rate, this is so dumb that hopefully everyone will just interpret it as a retraction and he'll have to actually apologize and state a clear position. Does anyone have some good online reading on the Japanese ultra-right? Ya hear about the vans and read about the assassinations and poo poo back in the day but I haven't really found any good reads on what they like today.
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Apr 24, 2013 15:49
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hitension posted:2% of Japan are Communists? 
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May 30, 2013 03:24
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When the first Fukushima incident happened, Icelands crisis response team offered to help. These are guys that had helped out in half a dozen different places, most recently Jamaica where they'd done a lot of good. The Japanese dithered for so long about it that it became moot, as their speciality was dealing with poo poo when the crisis was at its worst, not the aftermath. Was fun having to explain to people when we were asking for donations why they'd said no to our help~
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Aug 23, 2013 15:26
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ArchangeI posted:Well, Iceland is on the other end of the world and the price of undersea powercables is enormous. That said, there were a few Japanese students in our geothermal science whatever, so eh, maybe. Still doesn't change the fact that it's NIMBY-ism that's stopping poo poo from happening rather than them lacking the know-how. Always been a bit surprised though that they haven't tried out tidal more, seeing as it would probs work fairly well there.
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Sep 24, 2013 01:28
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Stringent posted:I've always had a knee jerk fear that the likes of Tepco doing geothermal could end up polluting or somehow loving up the onsens in some way. Some problems have been mentioned but off the top of my head, the main problems are: 1. Limits of renewabilty: You can only make the plants so big before the uptake of water becomes unsustainable, i.e. you're taking more water out than is put back in. You can put water back in manually but it's a complex logistical feat if you don't already have a very effective and reliable water distribution system. (Iceland is also at the forefront in these matters, but then again we have certain advantaged thanks to having designed our water distribution system with the idea of recycling warm water used for heating and energy generation again. Not sure about how that might work in Japan) So you might have competition with the onsens, but it is not very likely if you're careful. Of course, we're talking about Tepco here so they might well tap the wells far too much... 2. Local area pollution: While we've made a lot of inroads since we first began using geothermal energy, you still can't escape the fact that geothermal energy creates steam and when steam is created much of the minerals that remain need to be gotten rid of. Our novel approach of selling it to tourist and pumping it into the Blue Lagoon is only partially successful in getting rid of all it and the rest end up in run-off, which has somewhat elevated levels of whatever minerals are in the water. Decent filtration means you maybe get a bit higher levels of them than you'd get anyway but Iceland and Japan have a pretty different ecosystem so those higher levels might wreak more havoc there than here. This means that if the plants are located close to the onsens, which if they're near the center of the hotspot would be most efficient, you might have some local pollution effects. Again, a little forethought might forestall it, as would placing them a bit off but geothermal is already pretty marginally profitable if used solely for energy generation, or at least was when I learned about it. Zo posted:You can definitely and gently caress it up by overproducing, which will cool off the local area (i.e. the effective area of the plant). It will eventually regenerate - this is the "renewable" part - but your plant might be unprofitable for a while. This is mostly just economic impact on the plant itself. VideoTapir posted:Don't forget thermal pollution of waterways, if there is any warm-water outflow from the plant.
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CronoGamer posted:What makes Soka Gakkai more cult-like than other religious groups? I knew people were wary of them because of their ties to Komeito, but where does the cult aspect come from (aside from, apparently, aggressive recruiting)? The Ikko Ikki.
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TheBalor posted:Whatever happened to roving gangs of violent youths assaulting old people, and why don't they just assault these particular old people? No, this is more the norm over there, as far as I know. All fear the Obasan.
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