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Recruits for Japan's Self-Defense Forces (2013-2017 En.)
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Japan's Self-Defense Forces struggle to meet recruiting targets

A shrinking population and stronger economy make filling the ranks harder
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Recruits for Japan's Self-Defense Forces (1988-2019 or Heisei 1 - 31 Jp)
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Tokyo Electric Power Corps aka TEPCO Unveils Equipment for Fukushima Dai-ichi's Water Release
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TEPCO Unveils Equipment for Fukushima Water Release

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. on Monday allowed the press to view equipment for releasing treated water into the sea from its crippled Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan. Work to install the equipment, including pipes to dilute the treated water with seawater...
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Interestingly, S.Korean media is very nervous about this event when the ocean current will be toward Kamchatka or Hawaii though I don't trust TEPCO and our government's promise for safety either. They promised the safety of Fukushima Dai-ichi half a century ago when they built it but it was a false.

Japanese media reports few but S.Korea

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbTGwUIHP_I
 
Shinpachi said:
True or not, when American meets Japanese in the US.


View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dd7JRWNXRu8
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Shinpachi, @ 0:02 the girl says something like "aru-aru" with a kind of scary face. What does it mean?
I am a great fan of those old Japanese samurai-movies with Toshiro Mifune. I can't quote it but I'm almost sure he uses a similar phrase almost everywhere. As a youngster and then teenager, when I saw those movies for the first time, I was thinking he's saying "Vara-vara" or "Wara-wara", a "magic" samurai-slogan;).
BTW Mifune served with the IJAF - I don't think many people know this.
Cheers!
 
CATCH 22 said:
Shinpachi, @ 0:02 the girl says something like "aru-aru" with a kind of scary face. What does it mean?
I am a great fan of those old Japanese samurai-movies with Toshiro Mifune. I can't quote it but I'm almost sure he uses a similar phrase almost everywhere. As a youngster and then teenager, when I saw those movies for the first time, I was thinking he's saying "Vara-vara" or "Wara-wara", a "magic" samurai-slogan;).
BTW Mifune served with the IJAF - I don't think many people know this.
Cheers!
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You have good ears and eyes with a keen question, CATCH22 :)

The aru-aru (有-有) is a slang and means 'Yes, there ARE as you expect!'
If it was English, it would be coincidently 'Are-are' or '10 things Americans can do' in this case.

'Vara-vara' would be 'Bara-bara' which means 'scattered' or 'undisciplined'.
 
CATCH 22 said:
I am a great fan of those old Japanese samurai-movies with Toshiro Mifune.
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One of my all time favorite movies is "Heaven and Earth".

It almost has a flavor of Akira Kurosawa's direction.

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Heaven and Earth (1990) - IMDb

Heaven and Earth: Directed by Haruki Kadokawa. With Takaaki Enoki, Masahiko Tsugawa, Atsuko Asano, Naomi Zaizen. In 16th century Japan, two samurai engage in massive battles across the countryside, one attempting to conquer and the other attempting to defend his land while repressing his love...
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Shinpachi said:
You have good ears and eyes with a keen question, CATCH22 :)

The aru-aru (有-有) is a slang and means 'Yes, there ARE as you expect!'
If it was English, it would be coincidently 'Are-are' or '10 things Americans can do' in this case.

'Vara-vara' would be 'Bara-bara' which means 'scattered' or 'undisciplined'.
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Thank you very much, Shinpachi!
I see now: what I remember from the movies and what the girl was saying are probably two completely different words. It's quite possible I remembered it all wrong - I watched those samurai-movies long time ago. But what brought the memory back was the face expression. Mifune speaks with short sentences and always makes scary faces with his eyes "popping out". I must check some of his early movies and find a good example.
Cheers!
 
A statistic that is indicative of some aspects of Japanese culture.

from Wiki:

According to a report published by the Bank of Korea in 2008 that looked at 41 countries, there were 5,586 companies older than 200 years. Of these, 3,146 (56%) are in Japan, 837 (15%) in Germany, 222 (4%) in the Netherlands, and 196 (3%) in France.

A nationwide Japanese survey counted more than 21,000 companies older than 100 years as of September 30, 2009.

"List of oldest companies - Wikipedia"

:openmouth: Wow!
 
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