dicemoose
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Comment · 8 years ago
One of the reasons why it's harder to buy some used homes in Japan is because it's harder government backed housing loans for housing that do not meet earthquake standards. For older buildings it's also harder or not possible to get tax breaks.
Comment · 8 years ago
Building standards were first implemented in Japan in 1952 and were revised in 1981 and 2000. Apologies for not having an English source, but of the people who were killed because of the house or building that they lived in, 98% were living in a building/house that did not meet the standards of the 1981 revision to the building codes.
https://www.kobe-np.co.jp/rentoku/sinsai/20/rensai/201409/00...
Comment · 9 years ago
Is it important to learn the kana and kanji at the same time as learning how to converse in Japanese? I'm a native speaker, but it was a lot easier to learn kana and kanji because I already was able to speak some Japanese.
Also, I hope you try some immersion Japanese again. :D
Comment · 10 years ago
`'One-punch'' assaults have cost 90 Australian lives since 2000, most in booze-fuelled bashings, a study has found.`
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`NSW had the highest number of king-hits (28), followed by Victoria and Queensland (24 cases each).`
So not night after night at all, but more than a couple (this article is from 2013.
http://www.smh.com.au/national/90-killed-in-singlepunch-assa...
Comment · 10 years ago
Putting aside the content of the article, the photo of the "Cherry tree with temple in background. Chubu Region, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. " is actually a photo of Matsumoto Castle (in Nagano Prefecture).
Comment · 11 years ago
One underlying reason for the split between the Imperial Japanese Army, and Navy was that the Army was generally made up of members of the Choshu clan who were rivals of the Satsuma clan that was mostly responsible for the Navy.
The two clans put their rivalries aside temporarily to overthrow the Tokugawa Shogunate, but from the Meiji Era the rivalry was responsible for the lack of coordination between the Army, and Navy through the Second World War. [1]
Comment · 12 years ago
Google does not have majority share in Yahoo! JAPAN. There reason Yahoo! JAPAN uses Google instead of Bing (unlike the rest of Yahoo!) is because Yahoo! JAPAN felt that Google offered a better search product in Japan than Bing.
Comment · 12 years ago
The 50k JPY figure comes from the budget for social welfare in Japan. Here is an article where it is broken down for 2009: http://diamond.jp/articles/-/16672
But, let me try it with figures from 2011.[1]
107,495 billion JPY for total social welfare 32,463 billion JPY for national health insurance
The author deducted the amount spent for national health insurance from total social welfare.
That leaves: 75, 032 billion JPY
It should only be for the adult population, but I can't find numbers for just adults, so I divided by 120million.
625,266 JPY annually or 52105.5 JPY a month.
IIRC social insurance is not included in the general budget.
As far as the 170k JPY calculation, that was just my imagining what would be a reasonable basic income. I have never crunched the numbers on it.
But, it comes out to 2.04 million yen a year. Since the GDP per capita in Japan is 3.76 million JPY, this would be quite the redistribution of wealth.
Comment · 12 years ago
Zhou Enlai said,“two thousand years of friendship and five decades of misfortune,” about the relationship between China and Japan.