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nobby posted an update in the group
Akihabara Geeks 4 days, 8 hours agoGigabit wireless router!! I’m on the hunt in Akiba for the new Buffalo WZR-D1800H 1.3gb wireless!! Worlds first, yes the Japanese beat the Americans again. (netgear announced their R6300 gb wireless after Buffalo press release).802.11ac hasn’t been ratified yet but that won’t stop you buying dongles for your laptop. I will check BIC camera again…[Read more]
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nobby posted an update in the group
Cool stuff 3 weeks, 2 days agoA commercial showing members of wildly popular all-girl band AKB48 passing bite-sized candies seductively from mouth-to-mouth is under fire in Japan for encouraging homosexuality.
The advertisement, which aired in March, shows the school uniform-clad young women—all in their late teens or early 20s—intimately exchanging the sweet, with the…[Read more]
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nobby started the forum topic Radioactive cherry blossums in the group
Tokyo current events 3 weeks, 6 days ago235±50.4 Bq/Kg of cesium from cherry blossoms in Tokyo.
Original Japanese blog here;
http://ameblo.jp/takasakilive/entry-11221467795.html
Though the author says its in one of Tokyo 23rd wards but wont say […]
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nobby posted a new activity comment 1 month, 1 week ago
In reply to: lentildude posted an update in the group TokyoVeg Fructose: (Corn Syrup) Sweet, But Dangerous You need to minimise Fructose ASAP! Especially kids. Most of the carbohydrates we eat are made up of chains of glucose. […] ViewI read online somplace the budo derivative concentrate of Fructose is labeled as 果糖ぶどう糖液糖, ぶどう糖液糖 or 異性化糖
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nobby replied to the forum topic recommend a legit agent for xtra work in Tokyo? in the group
Film making, Acting & Extras 1 month, 3 weeks agoCount me in!!
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nobby posted a new activity comment 2 months ago
In reply to: mangabb posted an update in the group Tokyo current events Friends from back home just emailed me about a news report and tsunami warning from a 7.4 quake around 8pm. I didn’t feel a thing? ViewJust in time for the 1 year anniversary! No didn’t feel it in Tokyo, its more than 500km away!
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nobby commented on the post, Meguro hot spot 2 months, 2 weeks ago
What gets me is the reaction (non) of the parents in the first video. I mean here’s this gaigin in the middle of a busy playground with a geigercounter beeping away and not even a blink from anybody. Amazing…
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nobby posted a new activity comment 2 months, 2 weeks ago
In reply to: allan posted an update in the group Cool stuff OK I wasn’t going to post any more train posters but JR gave me another laugh this morning so here it is. What a cool poster! ViewI’ve seen similar scenes Friday nights at Ikebukero. Drunk sallary men nearly falling on the tracks.
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nobby posted an update in the group
Tokyo current events 2 months, 2 weeks agoAmazing snow today in tokyo . 3 – 5 cm! Allan did you measure the snow for radioactivity by any chance?
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nobby started the forum topic safe(r) radiation free food, restaurants in Tokyo List in the group
Places to Eat 2 months, 3 weeks agosome info from Japanese blog okfood.blog.fc2.com/blog-category-3.html
Think I will be eating from these place a little more now. .
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nobby posted a new activity comment 2 months, 3 weeks ago
In reply to: allan posted an update in the group Cool stuff Here is another Yamanote sen classic. I look forward to more JR signage! ViewI had to study the JR hieroglyphics for several minutes, is it an IQ test?? I can imagine how many meetingswent on in JR over this campaign.
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nobby started the forum topic Radioactive pizza in the group
Tokyo current events 3 months, 1 week agoI read this about an Okinawa pizza shop using Fukushima cesium laced firewood in its pizza ovens… Hot Pizza! 1260~8060 Bq/Kg of cesium from ash from ovens.
My wife was telling me just yesterday Okinawa would […]
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nobby replied to the forum topic Hot apartments in the group
Tokyo current events 3 months, 2 weeks agoWell you find that hard to believe, I find it hard to believe that a functioning test nuclear reactor is in close proximity to Haneda airport! (Ukishima, Kawasaki city), Despite a protest movement by residents […]
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nobby commented on the post, You Can’t See It, and You Can’t Smell It Either 2011 3 months, 2 weeks ago
I love this clip! Rankin always has a message in his art. He did a bit on tobacco industry too.
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nobby replied to the forum topic Set up own English school? in the group
Working in Japan 3 months, 3 weeks agoIt does get complicated when you are renting a premisis, paying the commercial keymoney (though you can find an agent to reduce this fee nowadays). Then if you hire staff you need to provide health insurance. […]
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nobby posted on the forum topic Cesium in baby powder in the group
Raising Children in Japan: 5 months, 1 week agoDefinately not good, even if minute levels of cesium. “Cesium-137 that enters the body is distributed throughout the soft tissues, especially in muscle…. Radiation is more dangerous for infants because their cells are dividing more rapidly and radiation-damaged RNA may be carried in more generations of cells, . The risk for children depends on the [...]
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nobby started the forum topic Fukushima 8 months later. in the group
Tokyo current events: 5 months, 3 weeks agoOn Saturday, Japanese government representatives and TEPCO officials escorted a group of Japanese and foreign journalists inside the badly damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant for the first time since March 11. This was the first time media were allowed in after a tsunami and earthquake eight months ago triggered the world’s worst nuclear…[Read more]
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nobby started the forum topic Radiation spiking around Tokyo – Typhoon in the group
Tokyo current events: 8 months agoLook at this report. Not sure what to make of it.
http://enenews.com/report-radiation-level-spiking-around-tokyo-typhoon-nears-fukushima-plant
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nobby started the forum topic Contamination revealed in the center of Tokyo in the group
Tokyo current events: 8 months, 2 weeks agoFollowing Katsushika Ward’s decision on August 18 to close sandboxes in 29 schools due to the radiation measuring 0.25uSv/h~0.57uSv/h, Chiyoda Ward also found highly contaminated spots in two schools and Suginami citizens’ group reported on September 2 to the Suginami Mayor radiation levels of the highly contaminated area in Koenji.…[Read more]
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nobby posted on the forum topic Radiation in Japan in the group
Tokyo current events: 9 months, 3 weeks agoLooks like they changed their full-scale reading for the monitoring
stations.
It used to be a couple of hundred Ngy. Look how high it is now! It gives
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AKB48 girls are actually very highly talented performers!