Posted in: Abductee's mother pins hopes on fresh Japan-N Korea dialogue See in context
Listen to the words of your own grand daughter(Megumi's DNA test proven daughter), who described the passing of her own mother.
Yokota Megumi's dead, she's not coming back and Kim Jong Un isn't Jesus who can raise the dead from the grave.
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Posted in: Ohtani may be S Korea's most-beloved Japanese athlete See in context
There is some misunderstanding.
Koreans don't hate Japanese individuals, Koreans only hate the Japanese government and the rightwingers.
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Posted in: Nissan, Honda to explore partnership in electric vehicles See in context
Following Honda, Nissan too is switching from Chinese-owned Japanese battery company to Korean battery company to build its future EVs.
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/nissan-looks-tap-korean-battery-supplier-sk-us-ev-production-yomiuri-reports-2024-03-15/
Nissan looks to tap Korean battery supplier SK On for US EV production, Yomiuri reports
March 14, 20248:53 PM EDT Updated 15 hours ago
TOKYO, March 15 (Reuters) - Nissan Motor (7201.T), opens new tab is preparing to tap Korean battery supplier SK On for its electric vehicle production in the United States, as it reviews its current supply from a Chinese company, Yomiuri newspaper reported on Friday.
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Posted in: S Korea starts procedures to suspend licenses of 4,900 striking doctors See in context
@Jonathan Prin
More doctors should please everyone
Everyone but the doctors. Korean doctors average $400K/year in median salary. Doubling of doctors would crash all that down.
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Posted in: Exporting next-generation fighter jet would serve national interest: Kishida See in context
@Triring
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/India/india-clears-project-to-develop-amca-5th-generation-stealth-fighter-aircraft/ar-BB1juUwU
India Clears Project To Develop AMCA 5th Generation Stealth Fighter Aircraft
In a major development, the Cabinet Committee on Security has cleared the project to design and develop the Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft fifth generation stealth fighter jet project to be undertaken by the DRDO.
India's not buying GCAP, mark my words.
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Posted in: Exporting next-generation fighter jet would serve national interest: Kishida See in context
@Triring
You're forgetting India which may become one of the biggest operators excluding Japan and UK.
India won't buy GCAP. India has a policy of developing own fighter jets under Modi's "Make In India" policy and is currently developing three jets simultaneously, Tejas Mk2, TEDBF(Naval jet), and AMCA.
@Peter14
Perhaps you meant to say they would offer a cheap cut price version to New Zealand
New Zealand doesn't have an combat air fleet and navy of its own, is under Australia's protection.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_New_Zealand_Air_Force#Current_inventory
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Posted in: Uber Eats starts robot deliveries in Tokyo See in context
Do I have to tip the Uber Eats delivery robots?
Having to tip $10 was the reason why I never used Uber Eats, but if the robot is tipping free I might try it.
Oh well, they ask for tips at the fast food kiosks, whom am I kidding.
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Posted in: Exporting next-generation fighter jet would serve national interest: Kishida See in context
For multinational projects like GCAP, export territories are dived up among partner nations.
UK is likely to get Middle East and Australia, Italy gets Europe, and Japan gets Asia.
Within Asia, there is just single potential market, Singapore. Taiwan would also like to buy, but Japan cannot sell to Taiwan due to the fear of Chinese retaliations.
This leaves Japan wanting to demand Australia as its marketing territory, but I doubt UK would concede Australia to Japan.
In other word, export rights are surprisingly not important to Japan as they have literally no markets to sell GCAP to and Japan shouldn't be obsessed by it.
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Posted in: S Korea to take steps to suspend the licenses of striking trainee doctors See in context
@virusrex
since the changes supposedly would make medical services cheaper and more accessible
This is not the case. The public wants to double the chance of their children going to medical schools and land that $400K/year sweet sweet jobs.
@Wesley
Japan should poach these trainee doctors
There is no chance of Korean doctors moving to Japan since doctor's wage in Japan is significantly lower than the wages in Korea.
@purple_depressed_bacon
That makes sense...not.
That's the Yoon administration for you.
@Fighto!
Import thousands of doctors from overseas - likely from SE Asia - and grant them immediate PR.
Importing doctors is not possible because all doctors working in Korea must hold Korean medical license.
@1glenn
It sounds like the SK doctors are more concerned with maintaining a shortage of doctors, and thus maintaining higher wages (?), than they are about improving patient care.
That's the case. From their perspective, these trainee doctors worked their butts off to get where they are and are looking forward to their $400K/year life, and Yoon comes in and takes it all away by flooding the market with doctors.
@Jaswinder Sandhu
That decision would be a disaster for the country as those doctors would move to other countries
Very few countries pay Korean doctor's wages, the US maybe, but nowhere else. It was amazing that Korea was able to keep its healthcare cost affordable while still paying $400K/year average salary to doctors.
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Posted in: South Korean doctors hold massive anti-government rally over medical school recruitment plan See in context
For those lacking the context, this doubling of new medical school enrollment has nothing to do with medical system needs and everything to do with appeasing voters wishing to put their children through medical schools.
Korean doctors average $400K/year in salary and every parent wants that sweet sweet life for their children, so the competition to get into medical school is fierce, you have medical school intent 4th graders solving Calculus problems and speaking fluent English.
This voter appeasing agenda is opposed by doctors themselves and the big businesses, who fear that the brightest students who would be designing Korea's future 1nm AI processors and self-driving EVs go to medical schools instead. In Korea, there are literally college majors where you are guaranteed a $100K/year starting salary job with the likes of Hyundai, Samsung, LG, Naver, etc upon graduation just for enrolling, but even these would be losing talents to medical schools.
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Posted in: BYD to launch new EV in Japan yearly through 2026 to gain foothold See in context
A review of an actual Honda designed and built EV(e:NY1) for Europe and not the rebadged GM EVs.
https://insideevs.com/reviews/709568/honda-eny1-fast-charge-review/
The e:NY1 Shows Honda Isn’t Trying Hard Enough On EVs
Honda is a company with an unmatched reputation for engineering, but it’s hard to see it from behind the wheel of an e:NY1.
Feb 23, 2024 at 3:54pm ET
To me, this feels like a model Honda haphazardly put together just to get something on the new platform out the door. The manufacturer couldn’t seriously have thought it was a real contender—in what is a very competitive segment of the EV market here in Europe—with the specs and hardware that it has.
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Posted in: BYD to launch new EV in Japan yearly through 2026 to gain foothold See in context
The BYD EVs are far superior to Toyota and Honda EVs. The only exception being Honda Prologue which is a rebadged Chevy Blazer and Acura ZDX which is a rebadged Cadillac Lyriq.
But all three suck next to Tesla and Hyundai/Kia EVs. Hyundai/KIA EV sales are exploding in the US even though they don't get the $7,500 US federal EV tax credit, but is No. 2 purely because of product superiority against all rivals, including Tesla.
https://insideevs.com/news/710816/hyundai-ev-sales-february-2024/
Hyundai U.S. Ioniq EV Sales Increased 40% In February 2024
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/hyundai-and-kia-emerge-as-teslas-biggest-u-s-rivals-bc610384
Hyundai, Kia Emerge as Tesla’s Biggest U.S. Rivals on EVs
Updated Jan. 18, 2024 12:34 am ET
A pair of allied Korean carmakers push to launch electric vehicles ahead of competitors
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Posted in: Defense minister urges ruling parties to approve fighter jet exports See in context
@OssanJapan
What needs to be changed in the ctual Article 9 in the constitution which bans the use of military force to settle territorial disputes.
Actually that's not how LDP interprets Article 9.
LDP says it's kosher to preemptively attack the Southern Kurils and the Liancourt Rocks because they are Japanese territories illegally occupied by Russia and Korea, and Japanese preemptive attack constitutes a policing action on Japanese territory and not an invasion of a foreign territory.
A preemptive Japanese attack on North Korean nuclear missile base with hypersonic missiles is what's triggering the Article 9 debate, not the preemptive Japanese attack on the Southern Kurils and the Liancourt Rocks which LDP and Japanese MOD consider to be entirely constitutional.
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Posted in: Defense minister urges ruling parties to approve fighter jet exports See in context
Japan doesn't have to export fighters as long as it's willing to export GCAP parts to UK and Italy, who then can export fighters assembled in UK and Italy.
Japan declining to export fighter jets is totally fine with UK and Italy, they will simply div up the world markets between themselves and thank Japan for its deep rooted pacifism.
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Posted in: S Korea's Yoon calls for unification, on holiday marking 1919 uprising against colonial Japan See in context
@Hiro
just them being China neighbor alone, they would never allow the unification to happen
It is not China's decision to make. China's primary objective is to prevent the spill over of chaos across the border, not be dragged into another Korea War and lose half a million troops.
In fact, China already made a secret "non-intervention" agreement with the ROK which led Kim Jon Il to seek nuclear weapons as a regime survival tool. China won't get involved because of the nukes, Kim would simply nuke the invading PLA troops and an invasion into North Korea requires neutralizing those nukes which China isn't capable of but the ROK and the US drills for it every year.
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Posted in: S Korea's Yoon calls for unification, on holiday marking 1919 uprising against colonial Japan See in context
Garthgoyle
A unified Korean peninsula is not possible.
Surely it can.
Kim Jong Un drops dead from a head attack/stroke.
Infighting between Kim Yo Jong and Kim Joo Ae.
OPLAN 5015 condition is met and an automatic invasion is triggered.
The ROK takeover of North Korea in about 2 weeks.A unified Japan/South Korea would happen
That would imply an ROK invasion and take over of Japan since the ROK is militarily the more powerful of two. It was once assumed that the ROK had more firepower than Germany+France+UK combined, but turns out the ROK had more firepower than all of EU combined based on ammunition support of Ukraine.
https://www.technology.org/2023/12/08/more-than-the-entire-eu-combined-which-country-became-the-largest-supplier-of-artillery-shells-to-ukraine/
“More Than the Entire EU Combined.” Which Country Became the Largest Supplier of Artillery Shells to Ukraine?
Posted December 8, 2023
Contrary to some earlier predictions, South Korea has transferred more artillery shells to Ukraine than all the EU countries combined.
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Posted in: Michigan cop's mistake leads to $320,000 deal with Japanese man wrongly accused of drunken driving See in context
How much of the settlement money did Ryohei’s American lawyer receive as his legal fee?
The standard is 33%.
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Posted in: Michigan cop's mistake leads to $320,000 deal with Japanese man wrongly accused of drunken driving See in context
Sadly, cops never wrongfully accused me of drunk driving during my four past pullovers, so no payout for me.
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Posted in: South Korea's fertility rate drops to fresh record low in 2023 See in context
Actual dive into numbers reveal an interesting fact.
Full 52% of all births are from top third in income tier.
Full 91% of all birds are from top two thirds in income tier.(Middle class or higher)
In other word, it's the extinction of the poor, not the rich. Top one third still average 2+ births. This is why Korean public is surprisingly unconcerned with falling birthrate, since the birthrate is being calculated against the baby boom era of the past which was unsustainable.
Since the rich are still maintaining a 2+ birthrate, the birthrate decline will stabilize at some point and pretty much all newborns are from middle class or higher.
@Fighto!
Problem is, I am not sure their tech is up to scratch to perform these tasks.
Never heard of Boston Dynamics, the subsidiary of Hyundai....
If any country deploys terminators first, it will be Korea... Already the ROKAF is investing heavily in stealth drones to accompany manned fighters, three drones per manned jet.
https://www.defensenews.com/unmanned/2024/02/26/south-korea-eyes-mixed-fleet-of-manned-unmanned-warplanes/
South Korea eyes mixed fleet of manned, unmanned warplanes
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SK had better emulate Japan's policies
In Korea, women aren't as oppressed as Japan is. Fertility rate is higher in countries where women are oppressed while lower in countries where women are freer.
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Posted in: Abductees' families say they won't oppose Japan lifting N Korea sanctions See in context
@DDK
it is impossible to claim that all those who disappeared have been abducted by North Koreans. Japan has its fair share of unsolved crimes.
Indeed, Kim Jong Il have a full accounts of all Japanese abductees to Koizumi back in 2006, the rest went missing in Japan.
And Japanese families are demanding Kim Jong Un to raise those who went missing in Japan. If Kim could, all the world leaders should kneel down before Kim and hail Kim as the second coming of Jesus.
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Posted in: Abductees' families say they won't oppose Japan lifting N Korea sanctions See in context
if the victims are not returned home, they "will vehemently demand tougher sanctions."
Kim Jong Un is not Jesus able to raise the dead. If he could, all the evangelicals in the US would immediately swear allegiance to this second coming of Jesus.
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Posted in: Japan diversifying seafood export destinations after China ban See in context
When I buy seafood at my local Japanese supermarket, I always check the label to make sure I don't buy anything from Japan.
Fortunately, they stock Bluefin from Spain, Uni from California, Nori from Korea, etc.
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Posted in: Japan's Defense Ministry hosts Singapore Airshow display for 1st time See in context
Japanese weapons are unwanted around the world except for the license produced ones which the originating nations need to send to Ukraine.
Since 2014, Japan had recorded single arms export, the radar to the Philippines.
Actually a new opportunity came up. Australia is looking to buy frigates, and shortlisted Japan's Mogami among four candidates.
From the outset, Mogami is the most compelling candidate of four, but the problem is that Australia just wants to take the hull and fill it with US combat systems and missiles, so the customization became a critical issue which Japan is terrible at. So if Australia buys off the shelf, then Mogami is a compelling option, but if customization is applied, not so much because of Japanese defense contractor's inflexibility.
https://www.australiandefence.com.au/news/news/plans-revealed-for-australia-s-future-surface-fleet
Plans revealed for Australia's future surface fleet
By Max Blenkin | Canberra | 20 February 2024
In its response to the Review, the Government said it agreed that in addition to Hunter-class frigates, optimised for undersea warfare, and upgraded Hobart-class destroyers, new general purpose frigates were needed.
“The Government will accelerate the acquisition of 11 general purpose frigates to deliver capability sooner and address the risk presented by an ageing and increasingly fragile surface combatant fleet,” it said.
Already four types of vessel have been identified as potentially meeting Australia’s needs – the German Meko A-200, an updated variant of the Anzacs, the Spanish Navantia ALFA3000 and, notably, the Japanese Mogami 30FFM and Korean Daegu class FFX Batch II and III.
These are all vessels in the 3000-plus tonnes class, significant larger than the corvettes pitched to the RAN following the Defence Strategic Review.
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Posted in: TSMC diversifies out of Taiwan with new Japan plant See in context
@garymalmgren
I think the Taiwanese execs could be aware of that.
Taiwan is quake prone after all.
1) Taiwan's quakes aren't as severe as Japan's.
2) The second fab TSMC's constructing in Japan is 7 generations beyond the best Japan constructed on its soil and its node size is incredibly tiny, no one knows the effect the moderate to severe quakes that TSMC will encounter on Japan will have on these incredibility tiny nodes. What is known is that once a line stops, significant chunk of wafers in stages must be thrown out and start anew.
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Posted in: TSMC diversifies out of Taiwan with new Japan plant See in context
@GBR48
Once the supply of chips has been offshored from Taiwan, the US will have little reason to defend it.
Taiwan is indefensible, Japan refuses to allow the US to launch intervention from Okinawa(If Japan allows, then China can legally launch 1,000 ballistic missiles toward Tokyo because Japan just became a direct enemy combatant), thus the US literally doesn't have the bases to launch a military intervention.
All the assets US have are three carriers, a dozen attack subs, and bombers based on Guam. This isn't enough to stop the Chinese invasion of force of 1 million.
So everyone is preparing for the day China invades Taiwan, currently estimated to be around 2027.
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Posted in: TSMC diversifies out of Taiwan with new Japan plant See in context
While Japan is more suitable than Arizona in terms of qualified worker supply and lower wages, Japan has a fatal weakness; it's quake prone and a quake can cost a month to restart the fab and throw out all wafers in production.
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Posted in: South Korea health alert raised to 'severe' over doctors walkout See in context
Many Koreans support the government's plan to increase medical school admissions, with a recent Gallup Korea poll showing about 76% of respondents in favor, regardless of political affiliation.
The reason for this public support is not because public endorses Yoon over the doctors, but to increase the chance of their children getting into medical schools and land that $400K/year doctor jobs.
Korea's industries too oppose this move because it would suck up talents who would go into study engineering and build Korea's next cutting edge microchips and fighter jets into medical schools instead.
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Posted in: South Korea health alert raised to 'severe' over doctors walkout See in context
@itsonlyrocknroll
Is this dispute related to fair renumeration/salary?
Contractual employment practice/policy?
Currently Korean doctors make about $400K/year average as a hospital employed doctor, more if self-practicing.
This high salary was made possible by the artificial shortage of doctors created through limited number of new medical students per year, 2,000/year currently.
Yoon wants to double that to 4,000/year, creating a glut of new doctors that will hopefully pressure down doctor's pay. Doctors are fighting against doubling of medical school admissions to protect their high salary.
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Posted in: N Korean leader Kim Jong Un receives car as gift from Putin See in context
@kaimycahl
I wonder if the car was designed with a range destruct system that can be detonated from anywhere
Of course North Koreans inspect the vehicle thoroughly before putting it into service.
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Posted in: EU to seek security accord with Japan See in context
Don't worry, Japan will not and never can join NATO.
Joining NATO requires the new member to have resolved all outstanding territorial disputes; in other word, Japan must renounce claims on the Liancourt Rocks, the Southern Kurils, and have over the Diaoyu Islands to Taiwan before Japan is allowed to join NATO, which will never happen.
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Posted in: An expanding NATO uses its diversity as strength
Posted in: Bank of Japan ends negative interest rate policy, opting for its first hike in 17 years
But most advanced? Not so sure... looks like we are all going to find out so enough
Posted in: An expanding NATO uses its diversity as strength