How do you explain the presence of moquitoes in Japan?
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Mosquitos breed in standing water. It doesn`t have to do with cleanliness. There is rain, and there is a monsoon season that makes puddles last long enough for mosquitos to breed and multiply. Natural water sources can also be a breeding ground for mosquitos if the water is still enough.
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Back in the 70's and 80's we heard of numerous American protests of whale killings by the Japanese.  But, no one complained about whale killings by Eskimos in Alaska.  Then in the 90's and after 2000, we still heard of whale killings, but seeems the protesters have dwindled, or, the media doens't cover it anymore.\nAs far as one respondant is concerned, about steer (beef) killings, well, let me just say that the steer are replenished, while the whales might be exterminated.  Whale may be a part of the Japanese diet, but, are there whale farms to help repopulate the whales?
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Prostitution will be there definitely, wherever there are men and women. This is supposed to be the world's oldest and profitable profession without any investment worth the name. So, there is nothing to talk about Japan in isolation. When men and women enjoy, it is called prostitution. Why is it not called so when animals do the same?
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I don't know anyone personally in the Netherlands who can do this, but you may find books or videos to be helpful. There are plenty of sites online with picture-filled tutorials and some with video illustrations.\n\nI'd suggest contacting your local Japanese association, maybe an ikebana club or a bonsai organization and see if they can refer you. If you have an authentic Japanese restaurant or tea house around, that might also be a good place to see information.
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The most difficult part of assessing these sorts of things is that if you haven't been there and seen it yourself, you really don't know what is being observed. As long as there are no facts to confuse the issue, the imagination is free to run wild. \n\nI've read about the Bimini Road before, and find it very plausible that it could be a natural deposit of broken up beach rock. In that depostional environment it is common for the seabed to form hardened layers that can be broken up by a storm and might resemble large flagstones.  As a geologist, it seems to me that the most obvious way to prove that Chinese sailors dumped these rocks is to sample the rocks and determine if they are allocthonous- that is from somewhere else (like China??). Since no one seems willing to present this sort of evidence, the claims don't seem to be scientifically supported.\n\nThe Yonaguni Island  is actually more interesting to me, although I see a dangerous assumption being made by anyone saying these are ten thousand years old. The website is very vague about the water depth, but it appears these may be in only 20 feet of water. That would make it possible for these to be man-made and only be a few thousand or even a few hundred years old. The area of this island is quite active tectonically, and subsidence could have only been within the the last millenium. Dr. Schoch also reports that all of the seemingly shaped rocks are part of bedrock, that is there are no large blocks of stone that would help prove these are manmade. He also reports similar styles of weathering of the local rock on some beaches on the island, so the whole thing could still be naturally formed. Again, there are geologic methods that could probably be used to prove how long these rocks have been submerged, and the fact that no one seems to be trying to prove anything here makes me suspicious that there is nothing to prove; that it is much more profitable to keep generating controversy that makes for good tourism and dive attractions. \n\nTo see how the rock could be tested to determine when it was submerged this could be employed:\n(I quote)\n\n "Burial dating:\nIf a quartz-bearing material accumulates 26Al and 10Be while exposed at the surface and is subsequently buried deep enough that it is completely shielded from cosmic rays (e.g. by deposition in a cave, sedimentary deposit, or deep water body), then the 26Al/10Be ratio will diminish over time, recording the time since burial, according to (Granger and Muzikar, 2001) "\nfrom\nhttp://web.ges.gla.ac.uk/~dfabel/CN_explain.html\n\nSo as a geologist, I remain a skeptic because the parties who have made these discoveries are not attempting to prove scientifically that the evidence is real, for whatever reason.
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Do you mean the Japanese word negima?\n\nWhat an enigma!
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The game is actually quite popular in South America and the Carribean.  Also, Japan has a rich baseball history.  The game is one of strategy and action and requires a great deal of skill.  It is also spectator friendly as you can take the family to the ballpark or go with friends and enjoy the sites and sounds of the day and the game.
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go to\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan
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Mmmm..I wonder why. Last week thousands of squids died in a beach next to my locaction, and a samll whale died this week also.\nWe have La Niña phenomenon here (south Pacific...very very south), means a rise in the avarage temperature of the sea. Maybe with that temperature some bacterias or viruses begin to multiply and they affect the behaviour of animals.\nMaybe there are changes in magnetic fields that affect their orientation.
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go to Japan and look around they are every where
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Oh great another question with multiple answers by people who have no fricken’ idea what they are talking about.\n\n>>>>How come there are an abundant found\n>>>> species of snakes in Australia, but no snakes\n>>>>> in Hawaii?\n\nFirst off lets clear up the common misconception that there are no snakes in Hawaii. There are no LAND snakes in Hawaii. There most certainly are sea snakes in Hawaii.\nThere are no LAND snakes in Hawaii because Hawaii has only existed for the blink of an eye in geological time. Because it is so new all the animals and plants in Hawaii have had to arrive there by travelling across the ocean from nearby landmasses. Hawaii is far too far away from the nearest landmass with snakes for land snakes to be able them to swim that distance.  \n\nFor the same reason Hawaii also has no native land reptiles, amphibians or land mammals of any kind.  Several species of reptiles and mammals have hitched rides with people or been deliberately introduced to the islands, but so far no snakes.\n\nIn contrast Australia as old as any landmass on Earth. snakes evolved in or near Australia when it was still part of the supercontinents. \n\n______________________\nGuelph said “During the last ice age, sea levels were low enough that\n>>>>>>> the Indonesian islands formed a virtual landbridge to Australia.\n\nThere was no land bridge, virtual or otherwise. More importantly snakes and their ancestors have been present in Australia since before it split from Gondwana. No land bridge was needed or used.\n\nKari said “Snakes may have been brought into Australia”. This is total rubbish. There are no exotic snakes living in Australia outside of zoos. No snakes have been brought into Australia. They have more than enough of their own.\n\nCeciel who is obviously a graduate of the Simpson’s school of biological control, is clearly planning to release Himalayan Mountain gorillas to Hawaii deal with the mongooses.\n\nKnowlegdeSeeker said " Colubrids, the progenitors of modern >>>>>> snakes started to show up about 36M years ago."\n\nColubrids are NOT the pregenitors of modern snakes. \n\nColubrids are one of the three major types of modern venomous snakes, the other being the elapids and viperids (See link 1 below.)Colubrids are not a very significant part of the Australian snake fauna and restricted mostly to the northern parts of the continent (see links 2 below). For that reason they are indeed believed to be fairly recent immigrants (See link 3 below).\n\nThe first snakes show up in the fossil record some 100 million years ago in South America, when, as the website you posted shows, Australia was still very much part of Gondwana. In fact the best early snake fossils all come from Gondwana (including present day Australia) and snakes were widepread across that supercontinent by the mid cretaceous, well before it broke up (See remaining links for details).\n\nAfter that the record gets patchy. In fact snakes are amongst the worst represented of all the vertebrate groups. But the general consenus amongst palaeontologists is that snakes evolved in Gondwana and radiated from there to the rest of the world. As a group they never moved into Australia unless it was form South America when the two landmasses were still connected. No land bridge required.
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Here is the website in English:\n\nhttp://www.mof.go.jp/english/\n\nHere is the website in Japanese:\n\nhttp://www.mof.go.jp/index.htm
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Historically, they are an isolationalist society ordered by their emporer. The upside of these cultures  - it forces self sufficiency and produces an accountability amongst it's people to work together for common good. Their "seeking perfection in all they do" ethic, real or constructed, is a model for production practices respected around the world. The down side - it smothers "thinking outside the box" creativity and opportunity outside the rigidly controlled business class structure. I think the biggest reason there is little diversity in Japan is there is little percieved economic opportunity there. Less competition equals less initiative. What incentive is there for a foreigner to go there when they know they can't compete on an even playing field?
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has anybody heard of a japanese company
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http://web-japan.org/kidsweb/folk.html
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It's in the US, here's a map of it:  http://www.nps.gov/moja/mojadena.htm
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http://japanese.about.com/bl50kanji_meiyo.htm\n\nHere is a link - hope its what you are looking for.