From Another Perspective

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Bottled or Tap

Although you often see "Bottled or Tap" articles, as my mother always said in my childhood, I have avoided some unboiled tap water. Although Kobe city water has been famous for its non-degradation among foreign ships. For a few years I have been using, not so reasonable, BRITA water filters, as I read the two articles:

Back to the tap

Fiji Government Repeals Tax on Bottled Water

I think when it comes to apartments and condominiums, it matters whether their water tanks are in the hygienic environment.

Friday, March 27, 2009

Bar Exam in Japan

There are old and new bar examinations in Japan.

For details, the following website explains:

Japan's push to add lawyers fraught with troubles

"Passing the bar exam entitles the successful applicants to enter the Japanese Supreme Court's Legal Research and Training Institute (LRTI). Completion of a training course at this government-run institution is a requirement for qualifying to practice law in Japan. ...The old system produced attorneys who were scarily intelligent, very good at taking standardized tests or both. ..."

And the leading newspaper also said,

"Students must also pass the bar, and then work as legal apprentices at the Supreme Court's Legal Research and Training Institute, the nation's training center. Previously, apprentices received grants of about 3 million yen annually to attend the institute. The state-paid salaries played an important role for opening legal careers to lower-income students."

However, these English-language articles didn't point out the fact:
it came to light in 2001 that the promising legal trainees had conventionally drived a deadhead train with pro train drivers as one of the programs in the legal training center for a long time.

A lawyer admitted it in a Japanese book. Sorry, it is written in Japanese.

Any accident like the 2005 train crash might have occurred. But no then legal trainees, even those who have subsequently become veteran members of the Bar, had never disclosed the truth for a long time.

In 2005 Japan's train crash: Your reaction A train derailed and hit a building in Japan, killing 73 people and injuring 450.

Any leading judges, public prosecutors, and attorneys/barristers accepted/experienced the dangerous adventure as legal trainees in the past as if nothing had happened.

It is shocking. Why haven't there been any member of the bar like Mr. Kushioka in the transportation world? He had been forced to pull up the weeds during the working hours as a retaliation from the company until the retirement age.

Whistle-blower's just desserts?

Speaking Out Has High Cost

And as you visit in an exam site, there is no total "nonsmoking" campus. Therefore, like the previously cited steel company and the Health, Labour and Welfare Ministry, you will see lots of intoxicated examinees with their frowning faces, coughing out phlegm, reading prep books or leaning against or facing the walls around the entrance of all the buildings there.

It is an inferno. I doubt if they could judge properly in court while resisting their strong urge to smoke, even if they pass the exam.
Although the Justice Ministry didn't make any comment on it,
the proctors or those who supervise the test takers are thought to be university officials at the site.

I made sure that they had represented some tit-for-tat response to the examinee making a complaint about its sad state of affairs as an anonymous caller beforhand. The university have been infamous for ....

Friday, March 20, 2009

Muramatsu Vehicle, world's best welding technology

MURAMATSU VEHICLE(Map No.64) has manufactured Japanese traditional two-wheeled carts for transporting heavy loads called "Rear-car" in Japan. Its welding technology is applied to manufacturing golf carts.

See The Products of Arakawa Meisters
Map No62 D4 in the following site:

http://www.arakawa-unet.jp/sightseeing/history/craftman/images/arakawa_meister.pdf

"Over the Air" means "by Syncing Up on the Desktop"?

RSA Security February 14 press release

See the fourth paragraph from the bottom:

But the latest ... provision RSA's SecurID credentials "over the air" or even by syncing up on the desktop...

Its Japanese-version

"or" here is translated into "more specifically" in Japapnese.

That means "over the air" and "by syncing up on the desktop" express the same thing.

RSA　Security's February 14 press release

And its Japanese version

The fourth paragraph from the bottom:

But the last... or even by

The "or"here is translated into "more specifically" in its Japanese version.

That means that "over the air" and "by syncing up on the desktop"