MiuraAnjin comments

JT’s comment section has its detractors but insights from posters like DT above proves the value of an open forum. It would take Kyodo, AP or Reuters days to get that level of relevant, detailed information.

Thanks as always DT.

Cost of putting 1kg in to orbit:

NASA SLS: $14,500

JAEA H2A: $10,000

JAEA H3: $5,000 (predicted)

Space X Falcon Heavy: $1,520

Space X Starship: $970

Musk claims* Space X can drop that to two digits within a few years through economies of scale.

I'd love to see JAEA's predictions.

I know, I know. He claims lots of things.

If it was not antitrust with the Macintosh, why is it antitrust with the iPhone?

It was and is. To my mind their MO became clear with the cynical "upgrade" from System 7 to OS 8.

The root cause of famine, water shortages, climate change and war is over population.

I see nothing but good news here.

Are they going to go back to making those old fashioned swimsuits that the British women use to wear in 1910's too?

This year: shorts. Next year: bloomers.

Coming soon: burqas.

If I were team principal I'd be sorely tempted to take this opportunity to give Verstappen Jr's seat to someone more deserving of it.

If both ladies were catatonic and unable to give consent: rape.

If both ladies' inhibitions had been lowered enough to go along with sex that they might not have when sober: regret. And the only punishment for regret is regret itself.

Bosozoku?

Back in the 1980s (then nationalised) JR and JAL were squabbling over who would get to run the maglev; JR claiming it's a train and JAL pointing out that it "flies". Despite such tomfoolery Japan was decades ahead of the rest of the world back then, but has since stagnated. Now the Shanghai Maglev is up and running and will be joined by many more before the first Chuo Shinkansen pulls in to Shinagawa.

no interest in expanding its war in Ukraine to other countries

except Moldova?

Putin's plans for that Ukrainian neighbour have been all too clear for two years now.

The headline got me excited; alas the article is not about J-Sports, DAZN, Gaora, Abema, Tokyo MX and WOWOW.

KDDI will be able to build a database matching names with purchase history

and the SIM card of every AU user, so they'll know who is buying what, when and where. In short, Amazon's ultimate dream.

But who doesn't like 6 chicken nuggets for the price of 5 promotions?

Laguna.

Ditto.

There will always be those who prefer to visit the castle at Euro-Disney rather tan the 45,000 actual castles in France. I, for one, am not one of them.

What next? Level Shirakawago and replace it with a Ghibli theme park and associated Aburaya onsen lando?

Mr. Kipling,

Sales to Russia have increased but the Russian market is a small portion of China's car export market.

Not anymore. Almost a million of those 4.9m exports went to Russia in 2023, a jump of over 500% from 2022.

Without the west's sanctions on Russia, Japan would have kept the No.1 spot easily.

But Shiino hopes people will see past her looks.

Said the beauty pageant contestant.

Thank heavens for those such as Dr Ueda, who seek to learn, educate and ensure such a tragedy never occurs again.

Alas, for the lynch mobs, vengeance will always be more important than erudition and prevention.

Bus drivers in Kanagawa get 5M p.a (almost double their contemporaries in Tohoku).

https://www.baitoru.com/contents/driver/3632.html

Not dreadful, but about half the 10M p.a. that London tube drivers rake in.

I believe some sources are in order that a mutual defense treaty has been abandoned.

Nicaragua, 1984, is the first one that jumps to mind. Then Germany in 1946. The Vietnam War was caused by FDR agreeing to support Ho Chi Min while also having a treaty with France - look up the battle of Dien Bien Phu and the 1954 Geneva Accords on Indochina. America ignored France's petition for help at the former, and broke the latter on the same day they signed it.

Let's not gloss over that the country is founded on a litany of broken treaties with the independent indigenous nations too. Don't tell Trump, but the country's got precedent.

So would America really put boots on the ground to help defend Seoul?

Yes, if necessary. It is treaty-bound to.

The US has a chequered history when it comes to honouring mutual defence treaties. And one prominent presidential candidate has made his views on such pacts abundantly clear.

Kim's advisors will have noticed that the USA's reaction to Russia's invasion of a European nation was to send munitions - not troops. Israel hasn't received so much as a slap on the wrist for attempting to eradicate an entire people.

So would America really put boots on the ground to help defend Seoul? I know Japan wouldn't. America's resolve may well be tested should Trump win in autumn, and China will be watching with keen interest.

Some NHS junior doctors are indeed on 14GBP/hour, yet have to pay back tens of thousands in student loans for six years of medical school, take out personal indemnity insurance (in case they ever get sued for malpractice), pay annual fees to the GMC to be on the doctor's register and pay for ongoing exams out of their own pockets to become specialists.

London dustmen get 13GBP/hour.

Fuselage is made of aluminum which melts at 660.3 °C.

The fuselage and wings of the A350 are made of carbon reinforced plastic.

I believe this is the first hull loss of an airliner made of such material, although several 787s have suffered "thermal incidents" with their lithium batteries over the past decade.

"In 1991, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission warned of a risk of losing emergency power and METI referred to that report in 2004, but took no action to mitigate the risk.

In 2000, an in-house TEPCO report recommended safety measures against seawater flooding, based on the potential of a 15 m tsunami. TEPCO did not act due to concerns about creating anxieties over the safety of the nuclear power plant.

in 2002, the government earthquake research headquarters estimated that a tsunami up to 15.7 meters could hit the power station.

In 2004, the cabinet office warned that tsunamis taller than the maximum of 5.6 meters forecast by TEPCO and government officials were possible.

In 2008, another in-house study identified an immediate need to better protect the facility from flooding by seawater which cited the 15.7 meters estimate from the 2002 study.

In 2009, the Active Fault and Earthquake Research Center urged TEPCO and NISA to revise their assumptions for possible tsunami heights upwards, based on his team's findings about the 869 Sanriku earthquake, but this was not seriously considered at the time.

The IAEA faulted lax oversight by the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, saying the ministry faced an inherent conflict of interest as the government agency in charge of both regulating and promoting the nuclear power industry. 

On 12 October 2012, TEPCO admitted that it had failed to take necessary measures for fear of inviting lawsuits or protests against its nuclear plants."

Prosecutors search offices of two LDP factions mired in funds scandal

I bet they didn't see that coming.

It is a logical assumption that the defendant killed his wife

It is presumed that he lost his presence of mind

Yet he gets the only irrevocable sentence?

Yikes.

Be interesting to watch (De Beers owner) Anglo American's share price this week.

CO2 emissions per capita:

USA: 15t

Japan: 9.75t

China: 7.5t

India: 2t

The two bad guys named and shamed in this article have a long way to go to catch up.

130 job openings for every 100 job seekers.

At what point will our bureaucrats stop mandating superfluous jobs like the battalions of lightsabre wielding Jedi knights guarding every construction site? Then there are the quangos like JA. In some prefectures JA has more staff than there are farmers!

The ongoing invasion conflicts with the event's theme of "Designing Future Society for Our Lives,"

said Hanako Jimi, the minister in charge of the expo.

The State of Israel is still on the list of exhibitors.