wanderlust comments

The CIA, NSA, NRO, DIA and all of the other acronymic agencies can just fax the information to Japan. That's probably as secure as it gets!

Have the hard copy of Yamap - great little book, with many useful tips. Maps are detailed with contour lines, so if you can read them, it gives you an idea of the terrain and climbs. A magnifying glass is useful too, as the maps are detailed, but rather small.

And remember packaging and portions of foods and drinks are getting smaller, as makers seek to control costs and maintain profits.

The only thing worse than finding a cockroach in your onigiri, is finding half of one after taking a bite!

Same happened at the Colosseum in Rome (British tourist), but another tourist nearby confronted him while doing it, and then took a video of him doing it.

Allegations are enough? Show us the proof!

Then resign, or is your resignation an admittance of guilt?

Fujitsu should concentrate on fixing My Number first - to realise a more customer-centric and SECURE experience.

And yet over 65 year old citizens are encouraged to keep working! How will they manage their payments without ATM access? Another less than intelligent idea from J-Gov and J-police.

Probably just a "Business Improvement Order" - stop buying cars to sell for a few months - plant a few trees - get a few directors on their knees bowing in abject apology - then back to business as usual as the MSM looks at another issue.

That's why there are here,

The two 'unsinkable aircraft carriers' in the US Military have always been the UK for European conflicts and Japan for Asian conflicts.

The Imperial Household Agency must be going out of their minds, wondering how a member of the most isolated and insulated family in the country got infected.

He's not been here much lately. Getting out of touch with public sentiment. Showboating around the world has not helped the average Taro and Keiko pay their bills or produce children.

Down in Kanagawa, if there is trouble on Keihin Tohoku (JR) or Keihin Kyuko (private) lines, the two main lines to Tokyo; they open up and share each others' tickets and passes. A nice action.

Ise Grand shrines are disappointing, no photo signs every where and high fences and walls, but at the outer shrine is a great museum showing how everything is built, with real examples. Well worth the trip.

Sengukan Museum - 式年遷宮記念せんぐう館

Don't rely totally on governments or authorities, use something that is called Common Sense.

And with increasing reliance on 'SmartPhones', note that there is not an 'App' for it!

That will go down very well with the folks in the fragile Kei cars hogging the middle lane at 60 kph, swaying in the vortex of trucks flying past, oblivious to traffic around them.

Educate drivers to use the innermost left hand lane more, and only use the outer lanes for overtaking, and move back in after completing the manouevre.

Layers and layers of management paying themselves bonuses for meeting artificial targets.

100s of HR staff on highly paid, Diversity and Inclusion jobs.

The money is not going to patient care, it is going to feed the bureaucracy.

After the noisy and boastful US women's team was beaten 12-0 by a retired bunch of small-town players in the UK, who were hardly trying: the level of women's sport took a big hit, along with the re-publicising of Serena Williams being beaten by 203rd ranked man, Karsten Braasch

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A lot here depends upon who you bribe.

A public servant - that's a no no.

Anyone else - that's marketing or consulting.

Is it the de-forestation and removal of deep roots, with no replacement to bind the soil that causes the landslides? Or is thia just natural?

They said AI and robots would take care of everything!

I wonder if the IAEA have the authority to stop the discharges if the monitoring shows unacceptable levels of radioactive elements in the discharged water?

Or do they just report it to TEPCO and J-Gov, who plead for understanding of a temporary glitch?

The IOC, FIFA, and other global sport organisations with huge, non-transparent budgets and linked to television/ broadcasting and sponsorship seem very susceptible to leaders abusing their positions for monetary gains. Since 1998...and no real change.

The report itself is high quality, well-formatted, nicely written, clear tables and illustrations; but it is not an approval from IAEA, as PM Kishida, his goverment and the nuclear authorities try to make out. The IAEA make it very clear that that is up to the Japanese government and TEPCO.

People who work in these 'Mori Monstrosities' spend half of their lunch breaks waiting, then riding up and down elevators to get their food and drinks, while the service, delivery and utility staff experience even worse waits and delays in their service elevators. They are just not people friendly.

Hasn't even visited the plant yet! Though his politics and history qualifications won't help much with assessing piping, filtration, radioactivity and residues.

Foot in Mouth Disease from Komeito, Tepco and the LDP won't be happy.

He's not going to say anything that will contradict the IAEA's mission to promote the 'safe' use of nuclear power.

But whatever he says, it will be spun out as an IAEA approval to discharge.

Interesting that there is no mention of using AI!

That buzzword usually comes up in these kind of schemes.

In Singapore, most of the MRTs are completely driverless.

Big difference in size, speed and distance compared to Japan, and no earthquakes.