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please also exempt everyone else in your coming war with Iran too!

sadly I predict at least 1 more "fukushima" scale disaster will be required for anything to change in the JP nuke industry.

can Japanese mobiles even send SMS to each other yet ? (softbank > docomo > AU etc ?)

gyouza, uzneko

yes, cleanup is needed, but send garbage across the country is not the way, do it locally - support the local community

someone is getting paid to move / separate / burn the garbage unnecessarily, EVERYONE knows this, WHY is this being allowed ? (it's Japan, that's why)

total waste of money, money that we don't have, why not raise taxes and waste more and more, this country never ceases to amaze me...

TV reporter happy to be reporting a disaster ? u bet, they live on this stuff !

article has website link fail

price is a bit steep, not enough competition in Japan i guess : 52,000yen per day

(cost me less then half that for heli-boarding in NZ)

link to prices here : http://sbn.japaho.com/sbn/cattour/

I've been flying jetstar Narita to the Gold Coast about 2 or 3 times a year for the past 6 or so years (when ever they started that route) saved thousands of dollars and maybe been delayed 30mins max. (once or twice maybe).

example, I have a flight in June cost me about $500 return, try that on another airline...

In Australia I often fly jetstar Gold Coast to Sydney for about $90 one way, However, this being Japan and JAL with their fingers in the pie, I would be very surprised if they can do Narita to Okinawa for a similar price.

release the prices already jetstar!

with the amount of power co. money loss involved I find it very hard to imagine power companies will not get their wishes (aka bribes) granted.

I still predict it will take at least one more Fukishima scale fubar for things to change in Japan.

well, I know a lot of people in Kanagawa that are feeling the pinch directly due to the accident at Fukushima (aka the power company greed)

moving factory etc to China : maybe this is due to the fact they can make a lot more money paying kids to work in China?

sent from my iphone (thanks kids of China)

imagine SB executives had to take a pay cut for their shoddy network, pretty soon they would be paying to work :)

I just spent a few days in Hakuba, up there SB network is shocking, but not as bad as Shonan !

"mistakenly pressed the accelerator instead of the brake" story of the week...

simple solution : redesign the accelerator of the car

with the number of vacant offices in Tamachi area, I don't think this is going to help any business other than the one that makes the station, complete waste of money

Edano, save us the time and tears, just pass a bill to give tepco 1 trillion yen a month (1/2 for their bonuses), and the 1st born child of every family in Japan for the next 40 years (for "research" - whaling style)

tepco should be made to sell off everything it owns before pulling these stunts

i've ordered one for a friend in Europe.

Personally I prefer my phone for games now, and I haven't touched my psp in over 3 years.

https://www.golloyds.com/index/en

these guys offer the best exchange rates, and transfer fee is not that much either.

I used HIS a few times, but as I now mostly go to / from Australia I just buy tickets off the Jetstar website, wish more airlines were online like this.

i wonder how many votes / bribes these government fools hope to get from this stunt

MaboDofuIsSpicy Dec. 07, 2011 - 09:10AM JST

Look up an ocean current map.

but not so good if you live above Chiba, big circular current up there, notice how many more surfers came down to Shonan this summer... a lot more Chiba number plates in the car parks.

if a company hires over 60 year old FT, the gov will pay (one time payment) about 950,000 yen to the company, it's about half that for PT up to 20hrs / week.

a few over 60 year old Japanese are working at my company, they have way more skills than 20 - 30 year old , I'd hire more over 60's any day!

le me guess : 1 yen tickets (+ a sneaky 30,000yen fuel surcharge?)

minello7Dec. 04, 2011 - 02:14PM JST

what are they going to do with all that used water

pump it in to the ocean of course, someone else can deal with it (it's the tepco motto i think)

John Becker, you better turn off your radio and TV when people come to visit, oh if your TV is too loud people next door might hear the movie for free, don't risk it cut out you eyes and cut off your ears asap :)

great, time to reduce fees amazon!

now, if only google would take on ebay!

next they will be telling us there was no accident at Fukushima, we should put more faith in tepco and the government :)

nothing to see here, move along, move along!

according to some association of "copyright BS blah blah blah" press release, all those arrested were Japanese, and most of those caught were using "share" which is mostly Japanese content. so I assume they only targeted Japanese content "uploaders" - for now.

the other day I noticed Sydney (Australia) bus seat fabric is a graffiti pattern...

(it's not graffiti on the seats - it's actually a pattern in the fabric that's made of graffiti or tags like the crap graffiti you see in Japan occasionally - not the "beautiful" murals you might see in NY)

does anyone know if this was a response to criminals doing graffiti on these buses ?

well, all the cameras on the TOMEI certainly do not work, I've seen people pass me going what looks like 150

movie Armageddon - "American Components, Russian Components, all the same, all made in Taiwan!"

soldaveNov. 18, 2011 - 03:20PM JST

This guy's on $36,000... a month?!?!

nothing amazing there, politicians world wide are over paid