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Too busy carrying out similar checks on the reactors themselves? Oh, no, I forgot, they skipped most of those too.

Great heart-warming heroic story.

Most tourist guide books have a page illustrating the coins in circulation.

The majority of foreign visitors come from Kanji background countries, ie Korea, Taiwan, China etc., so the 五円 coin is no problem for them.

People flying in from the west who have not done a stroke of homework might raise their eyebrows for a second or two over a 5-yen coin, but there is really no need to change anything for them.

*Add an Arabic numeral 5 if it's easy. 

One thing though, it might be worth telling visitors that Japan is still a cash-oriented society, where cards are accepted but not always so easily as in the west.

Some detailed background and reporting here:

http://megalodon.jp/2012-1231-0038-44/enformable.com/2012/03/uss-ronald-reagan-measured-0-6-mrhr-direct-gamma-shine-from-clouds-130-miles-from-fukushima-daiichi/

BB Athough of the female sex bodily, it might grow up with gender issues, requiring a sex change.

elephant200. She = Park? What part would you suggest that she had in it?

Anyway this has all the makings for a good conspiracy theory and cover-up. (Except that all they have to do is check the GoPro dashcam.)

One thing is sure, it does not look like a boy.

Good on him. I trust he will prove to be a good choice. (Interpersonal relations could be a test though.)

She went to the police apparently but they simply advised her to cancel the event. When asked directly why they were cancelling her speech, the welfare council continued to repeat 'for safety reasons'.

Only three years! That means they must be leaving themselves an option of leniency with (former) President Park.

Stuart, take it as a badge of honour. Look on the bright side, you got 2 pluses too! There are (grumpy) people here who vote on other things, not just the central idea in a post.

I got voted down last week for saying that judging by the damage, the ships must have come together, containership portside to Aegis starboard, allowing for either a same-speed or overtaking collision scenario.

It happened early Saturday, so it has taken five days to get the log book off the container vessel?

People died in this collision, so faced with the possibility of legal action, some reluctance to comply immediately with an investigation is understandable from the standpoint of the two ships concerned. Cover your ass first.

Put banana skins on the floor in the main entranceway.

Ah, all was revealed!

Haha, simples... see, all it takes a is a little detective work.

(Er, a little bizarre, the whole thing, surely.)

Ooooh.. this name-calling is getting nasty.

Dan: "the child who was offended should feel happy that there was another person in "their" group, not offended."

There wasn't anyone else.

Just the one kid who probably felt the teacher was obliquely alluding to him/her.

WilliB, I read that it was a seminal Sunni mosque, which is why IS chose to base itself there.

Atsuko Ikeda lives just down the road from here. She will be glad to have someone take over, I can guess.

Long shot, but I wonder if this is partly why Honda could not provide the upgrade for McLaren at the Canada Grand Prix?

Someone sent me an unofficial link to keep my old XP PC plugged into MS's upgrades, but shortly afterwards I discarded and bought into new systems anyway. US cash machines were said to be still running on XP, so behind the scenes MS could never abandon them.

16 June, reported here:

https://japantoday.com/category/world/russia-claims-it-has-killed-is-leader-al-baghdadi#comments

Quote: "Baghdadi has left the fighting in Mosul to local commanders and is believed to be hiding in the border area between Iraq and Syria, according to U.S. and Iraqi military sources."

Surely the Russians killed him last week?

Oh, this is just in the USA... for a moment I was surprised, imagining it was in Japan.

Would have been nice to get a respected scientist from each side to comment here.

Actually Microsoft does continue to support it, but not officially.

Future war scenarios used to describe such attacks on computer systems, but perhaps war has already started.

What does 'compound' imply in this sentence?

Quote: "Analysts say his death will likely ...compound efforts by South Korea's new liberal president, Moon Jae-in, to improve ties with the North."

Confound? Frustrate?

Since no-one has commented, may I say that the death of a cat is a sad event for me.

My second emotion is anger, and a wish to stop or prevent the perpetrator from doing this again. Let us really hope the police have some luck in the hunt.

Maybe the kid is either L,G,B or T, but surely not (yet) a member of the LGBT 'community', or are people automatically a member even if they have not yet met another, and do not even realize there is such a varied community? Automatic membership?

Yes, there is a fault line running across Kyushu, connecting Ashikita, Kumamoto and Oita, going under the sea and running along through Shikoku. This was one of the concerns, whether the whole thing was shifting, and whether it would eventually cause the dreaded Nakai Trough shake that Laguna mentions with 350,000 projected fatalities.

No, kurispusu, it's just a fashion, like the clothes and the beard.

And 'Allah' (meaning 'the male deity')  is only one of the names that different languages and religions use to indicate an intelligent power that some people sense and others do not.