International City Tokyo

[Mulboyne]

[Taro Toporific]

[Coligny]

Solar panels are getting bit cheaper these days, last check 2 month ago it was 10 man per kilowatt and they even had chassis for flat roofs...

But no battery accumulator systems, meaning, use it or lose it. Quite inneficient but typicalof these arrogant clowns... I don't know a lot of tiny house that don't use solar primarily for battery charging...

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

How about no local taxes and 20% flat income tax rate for international residents instead of corporations? I'll take that.
Mind you, I'm one of the over 40s Japanese companies refuse to hire...job available anyone?

[Coligny]

Dood, you need a sugar mama... having a job is overrated anyway...

[Dreamy_Peach]

Can't see where they they are going to find the space for more greenery in the city, or cycle paths. Unless they go all Chinese on us and simply enforce it with compulsion. Can't see that.

As for taxes, I read in the Nikkei only last week that they plan to raise upper level taxes (for those that earn around 18m per year) to 45%. They're discussing it at the moment as far as I remember. That would be simply evil and vindicative, no matter what the corporate rate is.

[legion]

The give away is the concept of "zone". He wants the foreigners confined.

[GomiGirl]

The cost of setting up an office in Tokyo is HUGE. The rental prices have come down but the usual practice of 10 months deposit is prohibitive and totally unnecessary.

Childcare is woeful - supposedly a lower birth rate but there is a bit of a baby boom on at the moment but the rub lies in the lack of childcare options. Means that there is a whole segment of the potential Japanese national workforce (ie women) who are not able to get back to work if they wanted to. If there was more childcare available, then perhaps there would be less need for "foreign" workers. So a few issues intertwined here.

[Coligny]

Lots of babies... lots of old people...

It's not like if their can't be a possible solution here...

[gaijinpunch]

Not listed in article: The reason his idea will fail is the same reason rich gaijin money is never coming back to Japan:

-Corporate Income tax 2x that of local Asian competition
-Red tape out the ass

Tokyo can lead all it wants, but it'll be dragged down by the morons in Parliament.

where the aim is to get multinational companies to base their Asian headquarters in Tokyo.

So they can be bombed, right? Isn't this Ishihara?

They're discussing it at the moment as far as I remember. That would be simply evil and vindicative, no matter what the corporate rate is.

There are two corporate rates: 22% or 30%. And yes, 45% would be a yet another tick against Japan. Not only are FG's leaving Japan, so are Japanese... the rich ones.

[Coligny]

[Dreamy_Peach]

Childcare is woeful ... If there was more childcare available...

Or family friendly restaurants that aren't full of smoke, parks to play in, pavements that are safe to walk on ....

[Samurai_Jerk]

Or family friendly restaurants that aren't full of smoke, parks to play in, pavements that are safe to walk on ....

And restraining orders that would keep people with avatars like yours far away from childcare facilities.

[jingai]

Solar panels are getting bit cheaper these days, last check 2 month ago it was 10 man per kilowatt and they even had chassis for flat roofs...

But no battery accumulator systems, meaning, use it or lose it. Quite inneficient but typicalof these arrogant clowns... I don't know a lot of tiny house that don't use solar primarily for battery charging...

Do you have any links on this? I thought panel costs themselves were higher than $1000/kw let alone installation. In the NE US around $5000/kW installed is normal for a residential system before incentives.

Installation includes wiring it to feed excess power to the grid which is then subtracted against power consumed at other times ("net metering".) That way the grid is basically your battery and you don't have to spend a lot of money on batteries, which only provide a benefit if the grid goes down.

[Typhoon]

Solar power is the energy of the future . . . and always will be.

[hundefar]

Lots of babies... lots of old people...

It's not like if their can't be a possible solution here...

Kill the old people and feed them to the babies? YOU ARE A SICK MAN!

[Dreamy_Peach]

old people

They are generally quite nice for the most part; but they are very slow. Passage through ticket gates is fumbling, and pace of walking slower than even the slow paced average for most people here.

For Tokyo to be an attractive international city, some kind of zoning or curfew type systems for old people will inevitably have to be introduced so that they don't inconvenience other people going about their daily business. It's inevitable if you think about it.

[Coligny]

Kill the old people and feed them to the babies? YOU ARE A SICK MAN!

Still better than radioactive baby formula...

[Greji]

Kill the old people and feed them to the babies? YOU ARE A SICK MAN!

You just noticed Coligny?

[jingai]

Solar power is the energy of the future . . . and always will be.

That's nuclear fusion : )
Had a buddy working on that at MIT who eventually gave up on it, worked in fission and then became a safety whistleblower.

Solar PV is fast on its way to grid parity, where it can outcompete delivered grid power on price.

[Coligny]

Do you have any links on this? I thought panel costs themselves were higher than $1000/kw let alone installation. In the NE US around $5000/kW installed is normal for a residential system before incentives.

It was a conversation with the flyer girl at the local supermarket, cost of panels alone without the inverter.

Installation includes wiring it to feed excess power to the grid which is then subtracted against power consumed at other times ("net metering".) That way the grid is basically your battery and you don't have to spend a lot of money on batteries, which only provide a benefit if the grid goes down.

It's because you are thinking "on grid" installation... I'm thinking more toward "mostly of grid" with peak covered by the grid if needed. Beside I don't see the point of selling back mah electricity at 1/100th the price I have to pay when I need it from the power company [Citashiun Needed]

[IparryU]

And restraining orders that would keep people with avatars like yours far away from childcare facilities.

a red flag or two waving around that avatar hugh?

snot

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Samurai_Jerk again.

[Mike Oxlong]

I'm thinking more toward "mostly of grid" with peak covered by the grid if needed. Beside I don't see the point of selling back mah electricity at 1/100th the price I have to pay when I need it from the power company [Citashiun Needed]

Vid one of two:

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[Russell]

Vid two of two:

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Nice vids, both of them.

The phrase "Free energy", however, should be "Sustainable energy". It costs money to build these systems, though prices are decreasing. In this case, the solar-panels / fuel-cell system costs US$ 500,000, but there is of course lots of potential to lower this with mass production.

[matsuki]

At the other end of the age scale, nursery and kindergarten facilities are still inadequate with around 8,000 children unable to find a place. Tokyo will allow more areas to be licensed for childcare to help meet this demand

Nice thought again, BUT there are no willing LICENSED kindergarten teachers available to teach these extra 8,000 children

Have to disagree here. I've banged my way through enough hoikushisensei to know that there is such an excess of them, the care centers run through em like disposable diapers. Turnover rate is insane and the only reason it's not worse is the tenancy of Japanese to ignore how they're being used and abused and place a retarded amount of stock in their "responsibility" to their employer.

(because the pay for kindergarten teachers is so low for such a demanding job).

This couldn't be more truer...and probably one of the few cases where "shoganai, no matter where I go, it's pretty much the same" is actually true. Not to mention some unforgivable "cost-cutting/time saving measures" implemented by some "care centers." One of me lemurs was appalled that the new place she was hired at refused to wipe/clean/powder some of the babies/children when doing diaper changes for #1. Poor kiddies...and then the "time/money saved" is offset when the workers have to deal with diaper rashes and all the complaints from parents. WTF