JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Corporate Business English Trainers
- ACT Systems, Inc.（株式会社アクト・システムズ）, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥269,500 ~ ¥280,000 / Month
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- English Instructor (Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe)
- Berlitz Japan, Inc. (ベルリッツ・ジャパン株式会社), Kansai
- Salary: ¥125,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month
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- FT English Teachers for Kids - Osaka
- Kohgakusha Co., Ltd. （株式会社興学社）, Osaka
- Salary: ¥255,000 ~ ¥275,000 / Month Travel Expenses, Encouragement of Japanese learning*
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Yeah, right! The 'full browser' on Japanese phones are pathetic. They can't render most simple internet pages.
Posted in: KDDI au unveils new mobile handsets for autumn/winter season
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n3312 I use wwwJDic which is free and connects to Jim Breen's JDICT.
Posted in: iPhone dictionary packed with vitamin J
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I wonder who tipped the police off. Some jilted lover? Yes, it is ridiculous that they stop the show. What he does in his private life has nothing to do with the drama. Imagine if they had the same attitude in the West. All the great music that come out of the late 60's and 70's would have been pulled! "We decided to pull all the albums of The Rolling Stones because were arrested for using drugs" quoted a record company exec.
Posted in: TBS pulls drama after actor Taishu Kase arrested over drug use
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This is a lame article. Digital TV offers the consumer a lot including a better quality image and High Definition. The whole article is about one persons opinion on the motives of the officials.
Posted in: Vested interests will make killing with digital broadcasts
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Koizumi and Hosokawa are the only recent Japanese prime ministers that I have had any time for.
Posted in: How do you think Taro Aso will do as prime minister?
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rjd_jr's comments are completely wrong. I've heard of kids not being allowed to climb trees without supervision. Kids need to learn on their own. What has happened is unfortunate but playing without adult supervision is part of being a kid.
Posted in: 6-yr-old girl critical after hanging herself on overhead ladder in park
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I blame Mr. and Mrs. Joe-America. Too greedy. Wanted the dream house that they should have known they can't afford.
Nah, just joking. But I think there is blame all along the chain. It's simplistic to blame Wall St. as a whole. As my name suggests looking back at the mistakes should allow you to avoid them again, but this is the first of such a crisis. Lack of understanding is probably the biggest culprit.
Posted in: What do you think of the recent financial upheavals in the U.S. that have seen Lehman Brothers file for bankruptcy, Bank of America buy Merrill Lynch, the collapse of Bear Stearns and the U.S. government take over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac?
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A lot of posters here seem almost to be happy that rich traders are losing their jobs. Smacks of jealousy to me. I'll agree that working in the industry you have to be prepared for bad times as well as good times and these traders should know that. However, it's never any fun to lose your job in a market that doesn't look like recovering for a long while. So I feel for these guys. Also, I think you can blame the CEO. He kept on hiding the real position of the company and also didn't take enough painful steps early enough to svae it.
Posted in: Bank of Japan injects Y2.5 tril into markets as Lehman Japan also files for bankruptcy
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I quite like Ajiko, which is headed up by Ua. I only have one album and I'm not sure they did anything else. Hiki is not too bad, but I don't really listen to her anymore and her English songs (lyrics) are painfully bad. Some 'Every Little Thing' is OK, but I think it's more that I find Kaori Mochida attractive.
Posted in: What do you think of Japanese pop and rock music? Heard anything you like?
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It looks more like a bull to me. This has been around in Marunouchi for a number of years now. I think that this is a global event that started in Switzerland...
Posted in: Cow Parade Tokyo Marunouchi 2008
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None of these ladies would make my list.
Posted in: Lux 2008 Shine Awards
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picard You don't need both hands for an iPhone. One handed is fine.
Posted in: Japan cautious in iPhone's bid for world dominance
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It used to bug me that my ex=girlfriend wanted to buy from the famed Ginza window. I explained to her that it didn't affect the odds at all and she understood that. Her explanation was that she 'felt better' about getting a winning ticket from that window. ANyway, going by the numbers Cleo posted it looks like there is 56,796,000,000 of prize money compared with 120,000,000,000 of punters money, giving a return of 47.33% I.e, for every 1,000 you put in expect 473 yen back. Not sure how this compares to other countries' lotteries.
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One handed text entry on the iPhone is a doddle.
Posted in: Apple's iPhone goes on sale in Japan to cheering crowd
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Zen Builder, did it occur to you to research anything before you rant? The packet deal for the iPhone allows for unlimited data, so heavy data sites will make no difference in charges. The 'full browser' that some phones purport are a joke. Apple has the only credible 'full browser'. Lack of saifu is much more of a concern. But no '1 seg'? Who cares!!!
Posted in: Apple's iPhone goes on sale in Japan to cheering crowd
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I've seen it work with people in the same department. But that does take some work, and the participants have to be sensible. My recomendation is a different department where you're not likely to meet during the work day. I've done it before and I'm in the same situation at the moment. It can have potential to be distasterous, though.
Posted in: How do you feel about workplace romances?
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I guess that none of them have metabolic syndrome. It usually occurs in obese people who have a resistance to insulin or have diabetes.
Posted in: Free metabolic syndrome check
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Zen Builder
A teen thinking that it's a bit of a lark dating an oyaji and getting paid for it relly doesn't know what they are doing in the bigger context. But the oyaji does. That's the difference. The owner's of the clubs should be penalised, but they probably pay the police off...
Posted in: Police raid 'blind-date cafe' in Tokyo, taking 31 high school, college girls into custody
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roughneck
You'd be the first on my double blind test list. I'm not talking about comparing short grain with long grain.
A presumptuous methinks. How do you know what my staple food is?
Posted in: To protect Japanese farmers, the government promised that imported rice will not go into Japanese direct consumption. Foreign rice, including California rice, will be used for secondary purposes like prepared food.
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That's just silly. I'd like to see a double blind test to see if Japanese consumers can tell the difference between local and imported rice. It would be a good idea for a game show or something. Japan should probably give up on farming rice altogether and import it. It costs so much to locally grow rice that they have to levy hefty tarrifs on imported rice to stay competitive.
Posted in: To protect Japanese farmers, the government promised that imported rice will not go into Japanese direct consumption. Foreign rice, including California rice, will be used for secondary purposes like prepared food.