* * * * * * * * * T E R R I E 'S T A K E * * * * * * *<br>A weekly roundup of news & information from Terrie Lloyd.<br>(<a href="http://www.terrie.com">http://www.terrie.com</a>)<br><br>General Edition Sunday, October 07, 2012, Issue No. 681<br>
<br>+++ INDEX<br><br>- What's New -- Bicycles versus Cars in Tokyo<br>- News -- Dramatic advance in iPS cells<br>- Upcoming Events<br>- Corrections/Feedback<br>- Travel Picks -- Kibune, Kyoto and Abishiri, Hokkaido<br>
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with surprise recently that the Infrastructure Ministry is <br>considering putting some of the Shuto metropolitan <br>expressway underground, tearing down the aging overhead <br>structures. While it will certainly improve the scenic <br>
value of downtown Tokyo, given the cost of around <br>JPY4.3trn, we can think of better ways to spend public <br>money. <br><br>The Ministry is apparently weighing three different options<br>for dealing with the 40-year old expressway system, and the<br>
underground option is one of them. The other two are to <br>simply continue repairing the aging sections, but this is a<br>losing battle as apparently there are twice as many repairs<br>needed monthly as there were five years ago (once cracks <br>
appear, you can no longer ignore the problem), OR to simply<br>remove the freeway. If they were to do this, they would <br>force traffic onto newer routes, such as the Central <br>Circular Route and the Tokyo Outer Ring Road, which open <br>
next year. Our take is that this last option will <br>exacerbate the traffic congestion problem and is <br>undesirable.<br><br>We can think of several other ways to deal with the <br>problem. Firstly Tokyo could start limiting the number of <br>
vehicles transiting the city -- think of Singapore and its <br>various toll charging and vehicle registration systems. <br>Singapore reckons that since it introduced its VQS car <br>ownership bidding system, they have kept annual vehicle <br>
growth down to just 1.5% a year, and now they plan to <br>reduce vehicle growth to just 0.5% from February next year.<br>Sure there would be lots of complaints from the auto and <br>freight industries if you tried to reduce traffic, but the <br>
idea would be to throttle back slowly, focus on getting <br>commercial users to switch to night-time deliveries, and <br>use higher day-time tolls to get non-commercial users to <br>take public transport.<br><br>The problem with forcing people on to public transport is <br>
that it is also crowded during the most desirable times of <br>the day. That won't be the case in 20 years time, as the <br>number of people working slips by another 15% or so, but <br>for the time being the government should look at automating<br>
commuter flows and charges, much the same as it should be <br>following the Singaporean model for road traffic. As the <br>Cool Biz campaign has proven, government mandated changes <br>in fundamental behavior are possible, and the government <br>
could reward consumers and companies by encouraging them to<br>change their work start times from 09:00am to an hour <br>earlier or later. The reward would be reduced commuter pass<br>costs (train companies would be subsidized by the <br>
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-----------------------------------------------------------<br><br><br>[...Article continues]<br><br>But the way we'd really like to see the government reduce <br>congestion on the roads, and improve national health <br>
figures at the same time, is to do a lot more to encourage <br>cycling in Japan. Bicycles are cheap, fast, and minimally <br>polluting, and would seem to us a natural way to get to <br>work and home each day. How much more efficient are <br>
bicycles than cars? The debate is still going on, but <br>without considering the costs of maintenance (for a car <br>engine or the bicycle engine -- you), apparently bicycles <br>are about 10 times more efficient. For an amusingly <br>
detailed description of how to calculate this number, check<br>out this page:<br><a href="http://www.lafn.org/~dave/trans/energy/bicycle-energy.html">http://www.lafn.org/~dave/trans/energy/bicycle-energy.html</a>.<br><br>
Since the earthquake in 2011, the number of cyclists on the<br>roads in Tokyo has increased dramatically. We think this is<br>because after having to commute by bicycle out of necessity<br>in the weeks after the quake and Fukushima, bicycle riders <br>
have discovered that they can get to the office quicker and<br>stay in shape at no extra cost, both at the same time. We <br>know many people (including us) who have completely changed<br>their lifestyles and commuting patterns because of this <br>
simple discovery. Tokyo may not be ideal for bicycle <br>commuting, but it is doable.<br><br>Now you would think that the powers that be would see the <br>cycling trend as something desirable. Surely having a new <br>generation of healthy workers who are able to able to use<br>
time more efficiently and who don't pollute is something <br>that should be encouraged? Unfortunately, our lives are not<br>controlled by intellectually aware people, but by petty <br>authorities in local government who don't give a toss <br>
about ecology, the economy, or macro-health issues. They <br>simply want to have nice clean sidewalks and order in their<br>lives. And so they in conjunction with the police are <br>engaged in another crackdown on cyclists, demonizing <br>
cycling in the media and over-emphasizing the errant few at<br>the cost of the many.<br><br>For sure there are some pretty horrible cyclists around. <br>Take your pick of demographics, our favorite example is <br>junior and high school kids without an ounce of commonsense<br>
(that not being taught in schools any more). You see them <br>every day riding on the wrong side of the road, no lights <br>at night, and no helmet -- it is no understatement to say <br>that they are the terror of Japanese car drivers <br>
everywhere. But these kids and their ignorance of how to <br>use the roads have been around for decades. Certainly if <br>the police wanted to deal with them, they could have done <br>so by now. <br><br>The authorities say that the number of traffic accidents <br>
and violations involving bicycles is increasing <br>dramatically. Two numbers that are trotted out frequently <br>in the media are that there were 3,956 traffic citations in<br>calendar 2011, while at the current rate in 2012 there will<br>
be more than 5,600, a 70% increase. That may or may not be <br>meaningful given the increased number of cyclists and also <br>the crackdown by the police. Instead, figures for actual <br>accidents caused by bicycles are probably a better <br>
indicator. In this case, of the 428,787 traffic accidents <br>in the first 8 months of 2012, 19.7% involved bicycles. <br>Hmmm, sounds bad.<br><br>However, looking back at earlier data, especially looking <br>at casualties, we can see that the actual incidence of <br>
cycling accidents is slowly reducing. There is a very good<br>if slightly dated study into Japanese cycling habits and <br>accident causality (link is below), which found that there <br>are three demographic segments which are prone to accidents <br>
involving bicycles. They are: junior and high-school kids <br>who are careless riders, mothers with young children who <br>are overloaded and can't control their bicycles properly, <br>and aged frail pedestrians who are less aware of someone <br>
bearing down on them and thus tend to be struck more often <br>and who are injured more seriously. You can see the study <br>here: <a href="http://bit.ly/OMV2of">http://bit.ly/OMV2of</a>.<br><br>What this study by Shinichi Yoshida tells us is that not <br>
only should the police be concentrating their compulsory <br>education efforts on junior and high school kids, but that <br>bicycles should be taken off the sidewalks because the <br>number of doddery old people is going to keep increasing. <br>
Instead, as in other advanced countries, cyclists need to <br>use the roads and preferably do so via special cycling <br>lanes. OK, lack of available space makes this difficult for<br>now, so instead, if cyclists are required to share the road<br>
with cars then not only the cyclists but also car drivers <br>need to be educated on bicycle safety. <br><br>Since the National Police Agency has commissioned an <br>advisory panel to look at the problem, we hope that they <br>
will recognize that the nature of cycling and those <br>commuting by bicycle has changed significantly in the last <br>couple of years. Now you have a lot more responsible adults<br>as a major new rider segment, and that these people are <br>
also car drivers who know the road rules. Therefore, any <br>new regulations and rider education programs should be <br>recognize improved cyclist sophistication and reward the <br>cycling public for their improvement. <br>
<br>Specifically, the use of the roads should be modified to <br>allow more effective and efficient commuting as well. <br>Long-term this means cycling lanes, but short-term it means<br>changing out-of-touch laws that encourage flouting of them.<br>
For example, one law that particularly irks us is having to<br>move to the sidewalk when wanting to turn right, then <br>having to wait for a whole set of traffic light changes to <br>be able to move again... If we're wearing protective gear <br>
and riding at a similar speed to general traffic flow, <br>there should be no reason for a sophisticated cyclist to <br>not be able to use the road on the same basis as a regular <br>vehicle.<br><br>Lastly, the issue of parking your bicycle. Central <br>
government needs to give guidance to local authorities (in <br>Tokyo anyway), that unless they provide ubiquitous free or <br>nearly-free parking for bicycles around central commercial <br>districts, they should not be stickering and impounding <br>
bicycles just to make the place look cleaner. Every bicycle<br>impounded is one step further away from energy efficiency <br>and another piece of scrap metal. Charging JPY1,000 a day <br>to park your bicycle is NOT an encouragement to use that <br>
bicycle parking space. At JPY10,000 for a cheap bicycle, <br>it's easy to figure out that cyclists will simply take <br>their chances on the streets. Instead, local authorities <br>should receive bicycle parking subsidies from Central <br>
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- Dramatic advance in iPS cells<br>- Why Softbank bought eAccess<br><br><br><br>=> Spain's Gestamp to invest JPY90bn into Japanese solar<br><br>One of Spain's leading solar energy companies, Gestamp <br>Solar, has announced that has signed an agreement with <br>
Kankyo Keiei Senryaku Soken, to build and operate solar <br>farms on the roofs of industrial and commercial facilities <br>around Japan. The plan calls for an investment by Gestamp <br>of up to JPY90bn until 2015. The joint venture aims to <br>
produce around 30MW of power over that time, with the first<br>installation due to be installed by the end of March next <br>year. ***Ed: This is exactly what we need to kick off a <br>wave of foreign investors into the sector, and believe that<br>
this deal signals the start of such a wave.** (Source: TT <br>commentary from <a href="http://zeenews.india.com">zeenews.india.com</a>, Oct 5, 2012)<br><br><a href="http://bit.ly/SLmAVD">http://bit.ly/SLmAVD</a><br><br>=> Songle player dissects songs for structure<br>
<br>Wired magazine highlights a new Japanese PC application <br>called Songle (pronounced "song-lee"), which was developed <br>by the Advanced Industrial Science and Technology <br>Institute. The application can analyze a song on the Web <br>
and tell you how it is structured in terms of chords, beat,<br>melody, and repeats (chorus). The inventors say their app <br>is intended for education and entertainment, and so far <br>they have analyzed and gathered metadata on about 80,000 <br>
tracks. ***Ed: Great for aspiring guitarists who want to <br>learn new songs.** (Source: TT commentary from <a href="http://wired.com">wired.com</a>, <br>Oct 5, 2012)<br><br><a href="http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/10/japan-music-songle/">http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/10/japan-music-songle/</a><br>
<br>=> Japan, Germany collaborate for next asteroid probe<br><br>The Japan Aerospace and Exploration Agency (JAXA) and the <br>German Aerospace Center (DLR) have announced that they <br>will collaborate on the next Japanese mission to rendezvous<br>
with an asteroid. The collaboration will be in the form of <br>a sophisticated jumping robot which can test the geology of<br>the asteroid. Apparently Hayabusa 2 will be traveling to <br>1999 JU3 (the asteroid's name) and it will negotiate the <br>
lumpy topology by using a set of rotating weights that <br>fling it forwards to each new test site. (Source: TT <br>commentary from <a href="http://newscientist.com">newscientist.com</a>, Oct 5, 2012)<br><br><a href="http://bit.ly/R3jAYN">http://bit.ly/R3jAYN</a><br>
<br>=> Dramatic advance in iPS cells<br><br>Researchers at Kyoto university have had another <br>breakthrough in iPS cells, when they announced that they <br>have successfully created viable mice eggs from adult mouse<br>
skin cells, and have subsequently bred two generations of <br>normal mice from the eggs. The procedure involved creating <br>the eggs and fertilizing them in a test tube, then <br>implanting them into a surrogate mother to grow the fetus <br>
to birth. The resulting off-spring then had normal babies <br>themselves, indicating that the procedure is robust. The <br>researchers say that they will now move on to experiments <br>with monkeys then humans. ***Ed: Profound breakthrough and <br>
one that raises all sorts of ethics questions.**(Source: TT<br>commentary from <a href="http://nydailynews.com">nydailynews.com</a>, Oct 5, 2012)<br><br><a href="http://nydn.us/QNulOF">http://nydn.us/QNulOF</a><br><br>=> Why Softbank bought eAccess<br>
<br>OK, so now we can see why Softbank was so willing to pay <br>well over the going rate to take over eAccess last week. <br>There appear to be two reasons: firstly because Softbank <br>has raised its monthly subscription fees to match KDDI's <br>
and so has lost a lot of new subscriber momentum, and <br>secondly, because of tethering. On the first point, <br>although the two competitors now have similar prices, KDDI <br>bundles fiber optic service as well, making its service <br>
much cheaper if you're a typical household. Softbank is <br>being pummeled in the market as a result and needs eAccess'<br>extra subscribers. On the tethering side of things, KDDI <br>already offers a tethering service, allowing users to <br>
connect a variety of devices to their iPhone 5 without <br>having extra accounts or devices, while Softbank won't have<br>such a service available until December. eAccess, however, <br>does have such capability. (Source: TT commentary from <br>
<a href="http://e.nikkei.com">e.nikkei.com</a>, Oct 6, 2012)<br><br><a href="http://e.nikkei.com/e/ac/tnks/Nni20121005D0510A12.htm">http://e.nikkei.com/e/ac/tnks/Nni20121005D0510A12.htm</a><br><br><br><br>NOTE: Broken links<br>
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=> No corrections or comments this week.<br><br>***------------------------****-------------------------***<br><br>+++ TRAVEL DESTINATIONS PICKS<br><br>=> Kibune Shrine, Kyoto<br>Sakura and Koyo at the Same Time<br>
<br>Want to escape from the crowds in Kyoto? The temples and <br>shrines in the mountains north of the downtown area can <br>boast of being surrounded by more unspoiled nature than <br>anything in the main parts of Kyoto can, and, being removed<br>
from the city center, have drastically reduced crowds. <br>Kibune Shrine near the town of Kurama, is an excellent <br>example. Neither Kibune Shrine or the village around it are<br>very large, but their location, tucked away into an <br>
extremely narrow and steep mixed pine-deciduous tree <br>forested canyon, is nothing short of beautiful. Walking up <br>Kibune Shrine’s red lantern and maple tree-lined main <br>entrance recalled imaginings I had of Japan as a child from <br>
watching anime like “My Neighbor Totoro.” <br><br>Now for something more impossible, how would you like to <br>see sakura and koyo (red autumn leaves) at the same? My <br>visit to Kibune was during Golden Week. Because of the <br>
mountain location some sakura and ume were still in bloom <br>and, much to my elation, while most of the maple trees <br>were covered in leaves of spring’s freshest green, many <br>were also alight with red leaves. The contrast of the red <br>
against the green leaves was striking, but the spot at <br>Kibune Shrine’s back gate where sakura, spring green and <br>red maple leaves all came together was a sight of beauty I <br>have yet to find a match for. Don’t believe me? Take a trip<br>
up to Kibune Shrine around Golden Week and maybe you too <br>will be lucky enough to see sakura and koyo at the same <br>time.<br><br><a href="http://japantourist.jp/view/kibune-shrine">http://japantourist.jp/view/kibune-shrine</a><br>
<br> <br>=> Yakiniku Beer Kan - Abashiri, Hokkaido<br>The Technicolor Beer Experience<br><br>After a day of visiting the various sea ice related sights <br>of the town we decided it was time to drink some of it! We <br>
then headed to the Abashiri Brewery restaurant ‘Yakiniku’ <br>- literally "Grilled Meat" in Japanese - where we got a <br>cook-it-yourself on the table top meal of beef short rib <br>and much famed Hokkaido King Spider Crab.<br>
<br>Firstly, there is the Okhotsk Drift Ice Blue, a startling <br>bright sky blue color which your brain tells you should <br>definitely taste of fake-chemical raspberry, but actually <br>is a very fine lager made from Abashiri’s famous drift ice <br>
– my favorite. Then we had the Potato Pink which is very <br>mellow and doesn’t have any bitter taste like beer normally<br>does. There is the Shirotoko Draft green beer that tasted <br>of slightly of green tea which might be better to focus on <br>
than knowing it is made from golf ball-like green algae <br>that grow in the crystal clear waters of lakes in Hokkaido.<br>Last but not least, was the Hanamatsu pink beer that <br>tasted like flower petals, and was also a rather fetching <br>
pink.<br><br><a href="http://japantourist.jp/view/yakiniku-beer-kan-abashiri">http://japantourist.jp/view/yakiniku-beer-kan-abashiri</a><br><br>***------------------------****-------------------------***<br><br>***********************************************************<br>
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