"319 Terabits (Tb) of data to be downloaded per second, doubling over the previous world record for the fastest internet speed, while being some 7.6 million times faster than the average home internet speed in the US (which is about 42 megabits per second)... Researchers at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology in Japan came up with an experimental optical fiber with four cores"'
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“Smelltones – Cell phone straps that release perfume when triggered by the signal of an incoming call, email or text message” Aimed at Millenials particularly – Teens and Post – High School.
Source: Japans Keitai KunKun offers smelltones for cellphones
Iconoculture – Consumer research Service: Trend Observation: Millenials
http://www.iconoculture.com, accessed 13/09/2006
" the government's Cool Biz campaign cut carbon dioxide emissions in the June -August quarter by some 120,000 tons..the government led initiative encourages office workers to dress lightly in the summer to help save energy used on air conditioning"
Source: Cool Biz made 50% gain in 2006
Jiji Press
Japan Times Newspaper
23/9/2006, page 4
● “Australia and Japan have agreed to significantly increase defence co-operation with more joint military exercises and a closer trilateral relationship with the US”
Source: Defence ties with Japan to deepen by Brendan Nicholson, The Australian, Monday 23rd November, 2015, page 6.
● “The population of Japanese in their 20’s - who use love hotels to escape from small and crowded family homes - fell from 18 million in 2000 to 13 million in 2013”
Source: Japan dumps ‘love hotels’ for backpacker hostels by Robin Harding, Financial Times, Australian Financial Review, Monday 23rd November, 2015, page 19.
● “According to the National Police Association, the number of love hotels is declining by 2 per cent a year , from 6,259 in 2010 to 5,940 in 2013”
Source: Japan dumps ‘love hotels’ for backpacker hostels by Robin Harding, Financial Times, Australian Financial Review, Monday 23rd November, 2015, page 19.
● “How they rate % Student Class
Country Teachers Change time at teaching
Salaries 2010 – 2013 school time
(hrs/year) (hrs/year)
Australia $78,305 6.10 1010 879
South Korea $71,736 4 648 667
Germany $87,902 3.9 683 800
Japan $67,498 0.8 762 736
USA $82,558 6.3 967 n/a
Source: OECD”
Source: Longer hours, but Aussie teachers among best paid, by Natasha Bita, The Australian, Wednesday November 25th, 2015, p2.
● “Japanese stand-up comedienne Yuriko Kotani won this year’s BBC Radio New Comedy Award for aspiring comics last Friday, beating five other finalists at the Comedy Store in London with a five-minute act blending humour and sarcasm.”
● “Japan’s new super-fast trains – capable of travelling in excess of 600 km/h and which are directed underground as much as possible – have arrived at the centre of high-speed rail debate in Australia”
Source: Superfast trains “can turbocharge regions’ by Dennis Shanahan, The Australian, Thursday November 26th 2015, page 5.
● “Tiwi Islanders have finally succeeded in a 30 year battle to bring the first shipment of woodchip grown in plantation on their homeland north of Darwin to market, with about 38,000 tonnes due to depart for Japanese owned paper mills this weekend…Under a five year deal with Japanese conglomerate Mitsui to supply up to 400,000 tonnes of chips or eight to ten shiploads annually, the plantation project could generate $150
million”
Source: Tiwi woodchips will fetch millions in Japan, by Amos Aikan, The Australian, Thursday November 26th, 2015, page 6.
● “The national average of Japan’s minimum wage was 780 yen (AUS $8.80) per hour last fiscal year, so a 3 per cent increase (18 yen) would still not buy more than a bowl of ramen noodles….Mr.Abe told cabinet ministers he eventually wants to raise the weighted national minimum wage to 1000 yen per hour”
Source: Japan to raise minimum wage, by Stanley White, Reuters, AFR, Friday 27th November, 2015, page 31.
● “Most Memorable Overseas Dining
“This would be the 11-course meal I had at Saami, a traditional Japanese restaurant set in a 15th-century building in the hills overlooking the beautiful city of Kyoto. The attention to detail and presentation were like nothing I have seen before” Melanie Cochrane, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Merchant Services, Japan and Asia Pacific, American Express
Source: Traveller, Life & Leisure, Australian Financial Review, Weekend, Friday November 27th - 29th, 2015, LI2.
● “An Actors Revenge (114 minutes) Rated M in Australia Japanese director Kon Ichikawa is best-known in the west for this theatrical, gender-bending melodrama about a kabuki actor (Kazuo Hasegawa) bent on avenging the deaths of his parents. The stylised wide-screen imagery often approaches delirium – especially the use of colour against a dark background, with much of the skulduggery occurring at night.”
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This month, I’m highlighting festivals.
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