Japan and Japanese

[GrauGeist]

Also remembered we used to have a talking time [a recorded voice, telling time when you dialled the number], 119, I think it's out of service, right now.

Here is an incomplete list:

شماره تلفن و کدهای اضطراری

razi.gums.ac.ir

You used to be able to call POP-CORN (767-2767) from any area code, and it would give you the time.

For the most part, this no longer exists. However, the U.S. Naval Observatory still maintains it's time telephone number: (202) 762-1401

 

[A4K]

Billy Connolly had a great sketch about someone mixing up a phone sex number with the time clock one - "At the third stroke...'

 

[Snautzer01]

Billy Connolly was very good. He had a stint about going on holiday with his family and getting the Bombay truts. Never laughed that hard i think.

 

[A4K]

His stand up was fantastic. Sorely missed on the comedy scene.

 

[Shinpachi]

In Japan
Police: 110
Firefighter & ambulance: 119
Coast guard: 118

Source: JCG

 

[SaparotRob]

I forgot the number for 911.

 

[A4K]

I want the Coast Guards!!!!

 

[MiTasol]

In Australia all emergencies are on 000 (and 106 for the hearing impaired who can do the whole thing by text BUT NOT SMS) but in many (maybe all by now) areas 112 has recently been added.

People are encouraged to download the Emergency+ app for their phones as that provides the emergency services (police - ambulance - fire) with your GPS location.

If you need emergency help but do not (or cannot speak due to an intruder in the house or other reason) then the operator will ask you to press another number and if you do that police will be dispatched. Given that several women were murdered hours after calling 000 recently and the police did not respond for many hours this is not what I would call a true emergency service.

The phone number for all State Emergency Service units (for storm damage, flooding and bushfires, etc) is 132 500.

 

[Capt. Vick]

So in Japan they have a phone number to call the Coast Guard in an emergency? What am I missing here?

 

[Shinpachi]

So in Japan they have a phone number to call the Coast Guard in an emergency? What am I missing here?

Japan is the islands country and people are more familiar with waters than people in the continent.
These waters are often like a free way for neighbors to enter our territorial waters freely if pretended Japanese fishermen even in the daytime.
It is impossible for the coast guard to check them all without civilian cooperation.

Don't hesitate to call 118 anytime

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-yv_uwwmPI&t=34s

JCG protects Japanese waters

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9liWgylUpVA&t=11s

 

[GrauGeist]

So in Japan they have a phone number to call the Coast Guard in an emergency? What am I missing here?

Here in California, coastal areas can get a Coast Guard response by calling 911 - some municipalities here also have their own water-based force, much like New York city's Port Authority, too.

 

[Shinpachi]

Even Kim Jong-un of North Korea dials '118' or its equivalent to inform the Japan Coast Guard of his satellite launch schedule in advance

北朝鮮が 「人工衛星」を打ち上げると海保に通報｜NHK 沖縄県のニュース

【NHK】２２日、北朝鮮から海上保安庁に対し、２４日から今月３１日までの間に、「人工衛星」を打ち上げると通報がありました。 通報内容から、打ち上げが…

www3.nhk.or.jp

 

[Capt. Vick]

Makes sense. Pardon my ignorance.

 

[MiTasol]

Here in Aus our coast gaurd equivalent is VMR (volunteer marine rescue) and each location has its own number though you can get them by calling 000 and asking for police.

 

[Shinpachi]

Kim Jong-un and his family love Japanese table salt.

金正恩父娘　日本敵視も〝アジシオ愛〟　朝鮮中央テレビ宴会映像で判明 | 東スポWEB

北朝鮮の金正恩総書記が先月２７日の宴会で、日本を代表する食品会社「味の素」のロングセラー食用塩...

www.tokyo-sports.co.jp

View: https://twitter.com/ore825/status/1592081497326256133/photo/1

 

[Shinpachi]

I did not know but Japan is now serious about landing on the moon.
Don't be afraid of failure!

H2A rocket with Japan's lunar lander successfully lifts off

H2A rocket with Japan's lunar lander successfully lifts off

An H2A rocket carrying the Japanese space agency's lunar lander launches at Tanegashima Space Center in southwestern Japan, making it the first liftoff in Japan of a major domestic rocket since March amid an intensifying global space race.

english.kyodonews.net

 

[GrauGeist]

I am actually surprised that Japan has not landed on the moon before now.

They certainly have had the technology and industry to build a lunar lander for some time.

 

[Shinpachi]

I am actually surprised that Japan has not landed on the moon before now.

They certainly have had the technology and industry to build a lunar lander for some time.

Thanks but "Don't stand out" is Japan's basic policy since September 2, 1945

 

[Greg Boeser]

The nail that stands out gets hammered.

 

[Shinpachi]

The nail that stands out gets hammered.

That's it, Greg