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• Kyushu Mayor calls for pruning and weeding out the weak of society

  
  Japundit - Published news — Authority: 461
  Shinichi Takehara, the 50-year-old mayor of the Kagoshima city of Akune, who posted an entry on his blog blaming modern medicine for failing to weed out the weak, later stated in an address that "in order to establish a vibrant society, we need to delve into the definition of life. Unless we prune it back, our whole ...
  1 week ago

• Japan to face Venezuela in friendly

  
  Soccer News Info — Authority: 154
  The Japanese national team will begin their 2010 World Cup preparation with a friendly against Venezuela on February 2. Although Venezuela failed to qualify for next summer’s finals, Japan manager Takeshi Okada feels that it is a good test as “teams from South America always approach matches wanting to win”. ...
  1 week ago

• Mini-hydropower Generation At Japanese Nuclear Power Plant

  
  Nuclear Power Industry News — Authority: 142
  The outlet nearly all the time discharges 130 tons per second of seawater used to cool the plants steam turbines at the velocity of 4 to 5 meters per second  - Edited by Linton Levy - According to a report in Denki Shimbun, the Sendai nuclear power station operated by Kyushu Electric Power Co., Inc. has recently ...
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• Review: Neon Pilgrim

  
  The Indie Travel Podcast — Authority: 428
  I was very fortunate to receive a review copy of Lisa Dempster’s Neon Pilgrim , a story recounting step-by-step (literally!) her walk of the Shikoku Pilgrimage in Japan. You know what they say, don’t judge a book by its cover, and in this case they couldn’t be more right: this book has a terrible cover and an ...
  3 weeks ago

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  PureLandMountain.com — Authority: 121
  JEFFREY IRISH, SONCHO"Jeffrey Irish, a 48-year-old American, is the unlikely village chief [soncho] of Tsuchikure, a remote farming hamlet in Japans southern Kyushu island. The tall, even-tempered Californian got the position because he satisfies the posts main requirements: He hears and sees well.In Tsuchikure, where ...
  3 weeks ago

• Kamitori and the City

  
  Musings — Authority: 131
  There are apparently two large shopping districts in Kumamoto City. The closer one to my hotel was Kamitori (上通), but from my initial fact-finding on Google Maps seemed too far to walk, which was a bummer as that meant that I had one less place to explore in my free time. As it turned out, the shopping arcade ...
  3 weeks ago

• Arrival and Accommodation

  
  Musings — Authority: 131
  If there’s one thing to say between Singapore Airlines and Changi Airport, it’s that the national carrier gets to depart from the airport’s newest and swankiest flight terminal. Unfortunately, the boarding gate assigned to my flight was the one that was the furthest-most end of the terminal, i.e. gate A20. I ...
  3 weeks ago

• Preflight Checklist

  
  Musings — Authority: 131
  Packing for a working and business trip is really different from packing for a vacation. Specifically, the kind of clothes that go into luggage on a business trip aren’t the same as what I’d wear if I was going just to have fun i.e. I’ll just dress as I please, and usually with no dress sense. I’m pretty ...
  3 weeks ago

• Renault-Nissan signs up for more electric partnerships

  
  Green cars: latest news — Authority: 139
  The Renault-Nissan Alliance has now formed partnerships with more than 40 governments, cities and other organisations around the world after adding two more projects to its list.Nissan has signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly promote zero emission mobility with the Japanese city of Kita-Kyushu; while the ...
  3 weeks ago

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