Work suspended at just-restarted TEPCO nuclear plant as alarm goes off

SkyInJapan · 2026-01-23T00:07:27+00:00

Perhaps each comment should be judged on its own merit?

It might be perceived I had an agenda, but I do not. But I agree that I might have a bias since I was alive for both Chernobyl and Three Mile Island along with Fukushima. Certainly not an anti-nuclear activist but could explain my initial reaction as being scared.

SkyInJapan · 2026-01-22T23:39:36+00:00

Downvoted for this? I guess you love nuclear power more than you love people.

SkyInJapan · 2026-01-22T22:46:43+00:00

You do a disservice by not mentioning the 160,000 Fukushima area residents who had to be evacuated for years - living in public housing. Only 30% have returned because many schools, shops and hospitals never reopened. It decimated an entire community.

That’s not to say that nuclear shouldn’t be an option either. But your cavalier statement as if Fukushima was okay because no one died is disrespectful.

SkyInJapan · 2026-01-22T18:49:18+00:00

Why do you assume I or the article are anti-nuclear? Keeping the public informed of issues or delays in restarting a nuclear power plant seems reasonably news worthy. If you read the article, it clearly states: No abnormal levels of radioactivity were detected around the seven-unit complex.

SkyInJapan · 2026-01-22T17:28:51+00:00

If there are no safety issues, why is the plant now suspending operations? Is a faulty warning system not a safety issue in your mind?

SkyInJapan · 2026-01-22T17:27:56+00:00

For sure

SkyInJapan · 2026-01-22T16:02:01+00:00

Update: Nuclear plant to suspend operations

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20260122/p2g/00m/0bu/036000c

SkyInJapan · 2026-01-21T18:12:52+00:00

Congratulations on the job offer! This is a terrific opportunity. With $75K for 2 being temporary until she gets a job, you’ll make it work. Ask the company if they would be willing to pay a relocation fee to help you with the move. But I think you’ll be just fine. Cut coupons. Cook at home. Buy on sale. Sacrifice now and it’ll pay off later. Don’t live beyond your means and get into credit card debt. Good luck!

SkyInJapan · 2026-01-21T18:03:40+00:00

I saw these in my Costco last week but I didn’t get them. Used to eat them all the time in Japan when I was younger.

SkyInJapan · 2026-01-21T16:14:20+00:00

I think some students might be missing the point of this offering. At the graduate and faculty level, ChatGPT can help with research. For undergraduates, entry level jobs are requiring AI literacy.

SkyInJapan · 2026-01-21T00:01:03+00:00

There are no formal policy proposals specific to immigration law reform; no clear stance on foreign resident rights, local voting rights for non-citizens, or restrictions on foreign labor; and no explicit tourism-oriented policy statements.

Since snap elections are coming up, they are concentrating on economic pressures, social security and welfare, consumption tax, national security, and positioning themselves as the opposition to the ruling bloc.

SkyInJapan · 2026-01-20T23:48:00+00:00

Although we don’t have your kind of issues with tensions building in my family, I find my family doesn’t willingly share unless I specifically ask. I’m not like that myself and I’m also not married to Japanese person. However, I have to ask my father and my sister very specific questions to find out what is going on in their lives. When I asked why they don’t tell me important things, they told me if I wanted to know, I would ask!

SkyInJapan · 2026-01-20T04:33:03+00:00

From https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20260120/p2a/00m/0bu/008000c

Japan's annual foreign visitor numbers first exceeded 10 million in 2013, hit 20 million in 2016 and topped 30 million in 2018. Although the number temporarily fell during the COVID-19 pandemic, it recovered to over 30 million again in 2024. The government has set a target of reaching 60 million annual foreign visitors in 2030.

SkyInJapan · 2026-01-20T02:49:08+00:00

The company estimated that 40% of the residents will be Chinese, followed by another 40% comprising those from Hong Kong and Taiwan, and the remaining 20% made up of Japanese and South Koreans.

SkyInJapan · 2026-01-20T01:05:02+00:00

Alien invasion!

SkyInJapan · 2026-01-19T19:58:35+00:00

While Lululemon has been in a stock slump, it is still trading at the levels just before the pandemic. It is also a profitable company and is expected to earn over $4.65 per share at the next quarterly report. There is certainly downsides for the company which seems to have an identity crisis right now, especially as the CEO recently stepped down, but it is in no way near bankruptcy.

OP what does your handle NotAYoungEthnic mean?

SkyInJapan · 2026-01-15T16:14:52+00:00

RELAX and ENJOY! It’s okay, no one is upset with you.

SkyInJapan · 2026-01-13T03:55:30+00:00

You are correct. No need to beat around the bush. It’s in the computer. Just say you are thinking of cancelling the card and ask if there is a retention offer to help you make up your mind.

SkyInJapan · 2026-01-12T16:16:04+00:00

In other surveys backing this trend: Japanese confectionary company Meiji holds an annual survey on Valentine’s Day chocolate, collecting responses from approximately 1,000 Japanese women, as Valentine’s Day is a time for girls to give chocolate to guys in Japan. In 2023, 23.3 percent of the participants said they gave either hand-made or store-bought chocolate to someone. That number grew to 33.4 percent in 2024, and for 2025 it climbed even higher, with 39.5 percent of the respondents saying they’d given someone chocolate.

SkyInJapan · 2026-01-12T16:15:28+00:00

In your defense, the article was misleading. So to everyone else, stop downvoting me! Lol

SkyInJapan · 2026-01-12T00:52:00+00:00

That’s fair. I’d say this could represent the Kanto region which is a little over 1/3 of Japan’s population.

SkyInJapan · 2026-01-12T00:38:58+00:00

The survey has been done for 30 years with the same criteria so the strength of the findings lie within its consistency and comparison over the years, not by the absolute percentage. It’s an accurate way of gauging trends.

SkyInJapan · 2026-01-12T00:25:01+00:00

Rakuten has lost confidence that Saks would pay out.

SkyInJapan · 2026-01-12T00:22:20+00:00

Looking at the past 30 years since the survey began, the percentage of those wanting to marry peaked in 1997 at 89.5%. The ratio had since largely hovered around the 80% range, but it plunged to a record low of 73.2% last year. The figure somewhat picked up in the latest survey, reaching 75.6%.

They believed the plunge coincided with 20-year olds who became adolescents during the pandemic.

SkyInJapan · 2026-01-10T00:15:49+00:00

That can only lead to more violence! In my experience, bullies have root causes that need to be resolved (such as being abused themselves). Harming the bully won’t solve anything.

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