Japanese Technology Spreading Worldwide!

[Takechanpoo]

Rwanda has received funding that will enable construction of feeder roads using Do-nou Technology, an ancient Japanese technique that requires only bags, soil and gravel.

‘Do-nou’ is a Japanese word meaning wrapping soil in a gunny bag. The road construction technology, used over 100 years ago in Japan, is a soil reinforcement technique using geotextile materials preferably gunny bags in civil engineering construction.

On Thursday, the Government of Japan signed a grant contract with Community Road Empowerment (CORE), to provide $294,992 for implementing a project named “Sustainable Youth Employment through Road Improvement taking Locally Available Material Based Approach”.

The project will be implemented in four districts (Rulindo, Gakenke, Nyamasheke and Rusizi) in the next 12 months and at least 12 districts will be reached in the next three years.

“Japan will fund this project for the next three years with four districts benefiting each year. The biggest benefits is to create jobs for youth, rural connectivity using very cheap and available materials,” Japan ambassador to Rwanda Takayuki Mayishita said at the signing ceremony.

http://ktpress.rw/2018/03/japanese-tech ... der-roads/

i dont know whether do-nou is japan originated "technology"or not.

[wagyl]

This technique is utilised throughout the third world.

While the concept of sandbags is common worldwide, uses other than to build a defensive wall, against light artillery or flood, are not so common. Those two purposes are by nature temporary. Having had experience using sandbags to repair a potholed road in Japan I can tell you that this Rwandan project will not last long. The road I worked on had traffic of less than ten cars a week, and then only for about seven months a year, but it only lasted a year and a half before it was as bad as it had been before the repair job. Actually it was worse, because now there were plastic fibres from the decaying bags all over the place.

I think a hint in the origins of this sandbag technology can be found in the fact that it has been used in Japan for "over 100 years," i.e. after the Black Ships.

[Grumpy Gramps]

How is this easier than dump some gravel down? Is this massive manual labour really cheaper than renting a dozer and a dump truck for a few days? (I am not trolling, I actually don't know)

[wagyl]

Grumpy, you are asking the wrong questions.

It is not about what is easiest, it is about creating youth employment. And community empowerment!!!1!

However, it is cheaper, for the Rwandan government, than the Rwandan government renting machinery, because in this case the Japanese government is paying for it all.

[Grumpy Gramps]

Aha

[Taro Toporific]

Japanese Technology Spreading Worldwide!

When I read the title of this thread, I figured the tech "spreading worldwide" had to be Japan's True Engineering Triumph—better than the bullet train—the almighty Washlet.

Pictograms on Japanese electric toilets approved as global standard
The Japan Times | Feb 26, 2018
Pictograms on how to use Japanese electric toilets have been registered as a global standard in a step aimed at making such signs more familiar to the growing number of foreign tourists visiting the country. Six kinds of pictograms — showing instructions on which buttons to press...more...

Japanese-toilet-instruction.jpg

Japanese-Toilet......wow-YouTube-1.jpg

[Russell]

Japanese Technology Spreading Worldwide!

When I read the title of this thread, I figured the tech "spreading worldwide" had to be Japan's True Engineering Triumph—better than the bullet train—the almighty Washlet.

Pictograms on Japanese electric toilets approved as global standard
The Japan Times | Feb 26, 2018
Pictograms on how to use Japanese electric toilets have been registered as a global standard in a step aimed at making such signs more familiar to the growing number of foreign tourists visiting the country. Six kinds of pictograms — showing instructions on which buttons to press...more...

Japanese-toilet-instruction.jpg

Japanese-Toilet......wow-YouTube-1.jpg

Whott?!? No sexual stimulation button?

[dimwit]

Whott?!? No sexual stimulation button?

Ahh! Monsieur is intersted in the Dutch Special.

[matsuki]

Yeah, no "massage" button? Ronery men veggie men's solution for salad tossing.

[Russell]

Whott?!? No sexual stimulation button?

Ahh! Monsieur is intersted in the Dutch Special.

Not only that, but also its pictogram...

[Takechanpoo]

Discovery of superconductivity in quasicrystal
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-02667-x

[Takechanpoo]

TY-AK1_1024x768a-620x466.jpg

TY-AK1, hi-res cd redio-cassette to be sold from toshiba
http://tlet.co.jp/news/ty_ak1.htm

[matsuki]

Reminds me of the 5mins of J-TV I accidentally caught the other day. Bunch of bumpkins sugeeee-ing and yapparinihonsugoi-ing about some new mechanical pencil that protects the lead from breaking. What's next? High speed, HD faxing? 日本すごい。。。

[Taro Toporific]

Bunch of bumpkins sugeeee-ing and yapparinihonsugoi-ing about some new mechanical pencil

Yep, come to think about it...
I've worked for the past TWO weeks without using a pen or writing utensil.

[Takechanpoo]

An investigation at the University of Tokyo has found that one of its most prominent scientists, cell biologist Yoshinori Watanabe, committed scientific misconduct in five papers1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Another former member of the same laboratory was also found guilty in the same investigation.

The university has yet to punish Watanabe, but the year-long investigation has already taken its toll. Colleagues report that his lab members have already cleared out and that he lost his only major grant, leaving his career in tatters even before the university issued its judgment.

The case has shaken the community of scientists who study how cells divide, in which Watanabe was a pillar. “Watanabe is a giant of science with incredibly impressive discoveries,” says Iain Cheeseman, a cell biologist at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts. “These are discoveries that have been validated, repeated, built on, and continue to be central to our understanding of cell division.”

https://www.nature.com/news/university- ... ct-1.22394

typically narcissist face

[matsuki]

More J-scientist caught making shit up? Now there's a shocker!

[Russell]

More J-scientist caught making shit up? Now there's a shocker!

I think this is not a clear-cut case, though his conduct raises some eyebrows. He is willing, though, to correct the inaccuracies in his papers, and it is not exactly as if he falsified data.

Anyway, he lost all his funding, so that is a pretty big punishment. Rules of funding agencies have become very strict in recent years, even overly so. It is sometimes a pain in the ass to spend your funding money in a proper way, because of some truly micro-managers out there.

Finally, don't think that this type of problem does not occur outside Japan. There are some famous cases in the US and the EU too.

[matsuki]

Finally, don't think that this type of problem does not occur outside Japan. There are some famous cases in the US and the EU too.

You just don't understand Japanese sagi culture

Of course it can happen anywhere, but hard to ignore the trend of more and more feeeeeimasu Japaneezu being caught up in this type of stuff.

[wuchan]

Finally, don't think that this type of problem does not occur outside Japan. There are some famous cases in the US and the EU too.

You just don't understand Japanese sagi culture

Of course it can happen anywhere, but hard to ignore the trend of more and more feeeeeimasu Japaneezu being caught up in this type of stuff.

It has to do with how the Japanese education system works. In the west post grad students will look at the data and say "WTF?" but here in sun rise land, one does not question the boss.

[Russell]

Finally, don't think that this type of problem does not occur outside Japan. There are some famous cases in the US and the EU too.

You just don't understand Japanese sagi culture

Of course it can happen anywhere, but hard to ignore the trend of more and more feeeeeimasu Japaneezu being caught up in this type of stuff.

It has to do with how the Japanese education system works. In the west post grad students will look at the data and say "WTF?" but here in sun rise land, one does not question the boss.

I will not say for 100% that there are no problems in Japanese research, but I think you two are exaggerating. Researchers tend to be quite open in general, and Japan is no exception.

[Mike Oxlong]

Yep, you attempt to publish internationally, the scrutiny follows. There is no pass for Japanese nationality or ways.

[Russell]

Yep, you attempt to publish internationally, the scrutiny follows. There is no pass for Japanese nationality or ways.

And on top of that, the discussions at Japanese Workshops (held in Japanese in Japan) are often more aggressive than those at International Conferences elsewhere in the world.

Of course, it also depends on the field, but researchers in the hard sciences often have hard discussions, and often do not have hard feelings afterwards.

[Takechanpoo]

http://www.scmp.com/tech/science-resear ... ts-amazing
https://www.facebook.com/worldeconomicf ... 734541479/

[Takechanpoo]

Fears are mounting that a billion-pound contract to build a new fleet of ships for the Royal Navy could go to a Japanese company. The move would trigger dismay in UK military circles and would be seen as a major setback for the country’s shipyards, struggling with dwindling order books.


The National Shipbuilding Strategy makes it clear that Royal Navy warships must be built in the UK for reasons of national security. But ministers confirmed in parliament last week that the new fleet solid support ships, which will carry ammunition and explosives, will not be classed as “warships”, which means they can be built by companies outside the UK.

A list released under the Freedom of Information Act reveals that several foreign companies attended the event when the government launched the competition to build as many as three fleet solid support ships at an estimated cost of up to £1bn.

They include Japan Marine United Corporation and Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/201 ... ?CMP=fb_gu
https://www.facebook.com/theguardian/po ... 8470851323

[Takechanpoo]

Japan looks to Greece for first major defense export

Greece is modernizing its aging fleet of firefighting planes and plans to replace several dozen. The European country has expressed interest in buying the amphibious craft produced by ShinMaywa Industries.


Japan has yet to sell finished hardware since relaxing the exports ban. The country lost to France in 2016 on a bid to supply submarines to Australia, while Spain won a contested Thai air defense radar contract this spring. Negotiations to sell the US-2 to India have faltered over price.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Intern ... nse-export

[matsuki]

My guess, they haven't learned from past mistakes and fail yet again to make a sale.

[Takechanpoo]

Science_PapersPublishedDecline_2005and2015.png

https://worldmapper.org/maps/science-de ... 005to2015/

[matsuki]

Now if it was a map on the increase in kawaii studies and paedo tendencies...

[Takechanpoo]

In this week's issue of Science Translational Medicine, Zaveri and academic colleagues in the United States and Japan report that rhesus monkeys given AT-121 experienced 100-fold greater pain relief than the same dose of morphine provided. Yet the drug did not trigger respiratory depression, addictivelike behaviors, or even tolerance, where more of a compound is needed over time to produce the same desirable effects such as pain relief. AT-121 even appears to counteract addiction to standard opioids, such as oxycodone, Zaveri says. Monkeys hooked on oxycodone and trained to self-administer the drug sharply reduced further drug seeking when given AT-121. "It looks very promising," Bohn says of the new compound.

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/08/ ... -addiction

[matsuki]

Watashi mo gangunam sutairu!

Japanese man arrested by police for installing hidden cam at toilet in Samsung station, Gangnam district and distributing its footage, right before leaving Korea. He said "I took it because I have a lot of interest in women"

https://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mo ... 0001195560