JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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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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- Translator
- ZAIHON, Inc. (日本財務翻訳株式会社), Tokyo
- Salary: ¥6.0M / Year Negotiable
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How very tragic. The poor kid. You never know when an otherwise even tempered dog may turn vicious. When I was a boy, my neighbor's dog suddenly lunged at me and almost bit my face. The dog then quickly came from behind and bit me in the leg. I was able to kick the dog in the head and stop the attack. From then on I carried a long heavy stick when I walked near their house. An oak walking stick is a good idea for many reasons, both two and four legged.
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Like something outta Dr. Suess.
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The eruption of a giant volcano in Yellowstone Park that could potentially end life as we know it.
http://www.denverpost.com/popular/ci_11355973
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ENOUGH, STOP !!! This is obscene. What is the price of the tuna left in the ocean?
Posted in: Tuna sells for Y9.63 million at Tsukiji fish market
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genocide? Its called war.
Posted in: Israeli forces bisect Gaza, surround biggest city
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The new face of Japan
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a bit embarrassed about being on the show with his wife... she doesn’t let Matsuzaka use knives just in case he...
No doubt, a healthy relationship.
Posted in: Daisuke Matsuzaka and his wife to make first appearance on 'SMAPxSMAP'
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Helter shelter economics. When I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the slide Where I stop and turn and I go for a ride Till I get to the bottom and I see you again
Posted in: Park tent village moved to gov't building to accommodate overflow
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All those smiling dippers and no one is helping the poor old dude on the right being attacked in broad daylight by a giant mollusk ?! Or is he doing Shinshun hatsuzushi?
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I have a dream! That one day everyone learns to live within their means and become so thrifty... after all the economic carnage is over, credit card companies will be forced out of business! I have a dream! That a man will be judged by the content of his bank account and not by his credit score ! Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty, free at last!
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Yet another reason to skip breakfast
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A very stupid idea. They already get their bloody tax when you fill up!
Just another way for big govt to grow even bigger and make you pay the tab to keep an eye on you.
Posted in: Oregon looks at taxing mileage instead of gasoline
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There is reason to hope. Stay happy Makino!
Posted in: Japan auto sales plunge as young lose interest
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Wow, what a juxtapose on JT! : 100 girls with nothing better to do but set up shop on the sidewalk swapping lucky bag items and 300 unlucky homeless (mostly men) in a tent city worried about survival.
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Boo-hoo :~( From the Founding Fathers to the Beatles, no one likes taxes anymore than me. Welcome to the world. Unfortunately, everything is subsidized in our virtual economy, whether its Detroit, health care, Wall Street, watermelons or Madoff economics. The globalists must keep labor cheep, banks lending, politicians crooked and corporations selling. Something only "finds its niche" if it makes a profit. Soft drink companies have made a niche hooking billions on sugar & caffeine while sending them to a diabetic grave. It doesn't make it right. The criteria governing food production should not be canonized purely by greed in any country, just because everything else with a price tag is.
They don't like American cars, they like McDonalds. They like Disneyland, they don't like root beer. I think Japanese can speak for themselves. They are finally waking up to the fact that they have been sold out by globalist policies that are now biting back. Sure, Japan has benefited from globalism, who hasn't unless you are in N. Korea?
Wan-wan. You are barking up the wrong tree. Japan needs to increase its domestic food production. In the end, hungry people will care little about how it gets done.
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Gosh, you sound very bitter dog. Raising, growing, harvesting and killing food is part of a timeless cycle that hinges on the spiritual. Food is cultural & no matter where you go, guess what? ...without it, we perish. Farming is not the same as Joe-six-pack factory work and obviously, you have never put meat in the freezer or grown a carrot, but you can explain the virtues of imported food perfectly because it all tastes the same to you.
This article is about increasing the % of homegrown food in Japan & food security for a dependent & resource poor nation. Japan is 100% food sufficient in rice, precisely because of protectionism. If the globalist "free(?)trade" scammers had their way, Japan would have been forced to import every grain of rice a long time ago, while the last vestige of farming in Japan was destroyed. As it is, Japan is forced to import tons of surplus rice from the US that it doesnt need or want because of wasteful managed trade deals. Free traders in bankers clothing have destroyed good paying value added jobs in the U.S. with NAFTA & GATT in exchange for dead-end WalMartyr and McDelusional servitude careers for the harried debt driven masses. Your thinking would kick 65 year old farmers off their land and into the factories, where they could get retrained just in time to be laid off and die.
To you maybe, but NOT to 120m Japanese. When the s#!t hits the fan, I'm sure 120 million hungry Japanese people will be glad they listened to you.
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My point exactly. You cant grow giant fields of rice the way corn grows in the US. Most rice paddies are terraced in mountainous Japan & serviced by a series of engineered gravity flow irrigation ditches. The paddies have to hold water for half the year, thereby limiting the actual physical size of the field.
Simplistic thinking. Rice is a communal crop. No doubt planting and harvesting equipment makes it easier to grow rice today than in the past. However, with just rohjin doing all the work now & no kids left on the farm, the work is just as, if not more labor intensive given the shortage of farm helpers. The biggest problem is that farmers don't know what their costs will be from year to year, or if they can even break even at harvest. What kind of businessman would invest under suck risky conditions? That's asking a lot. Farmers provide food for the public so they can eat, drink and be merry, but they need a safety net/social contract to keep them on the land.
Dogdog, Why shouldn't certain human activities/economies/cultural values be protected? Why should money grubbing Wall street trade dealers dictate that every tribe on earth submit to the kind of clusterf#&k rules of engagement that hurt hard working salt of the earth people the world over? These are the same people that want you to eat GM tomatoes in your GM sandwich because they own all the genetic varieties and stand to make millions as you masticate away in virtual gastronomic bliss. Enjoy.
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Nature is not the same as nurture. Domestic food sufficiency (DFS) as a ratio of caloric intake will not go up as population goes down. On the contrary, DFS will go down as new farmers are not recruited (or born) and older farmers with experience and knowledge die off. Result? A greater dependency on imported food for dependent urban people.
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People don't need to be "forced", they need incentive. Any present cost to urban tax payers is a result of myopic international trade deals that have consistently under cut the profitability of Japan's farmers. Its not like people don't need to eat.
Japanese farmers are unproductive as compared to what? The large industrial mega farms in the West? Japanese farmers are hard working, very productive and very efficient. Traditionally, J-farmers have never had a lot of land to waste.
This is ignorant. The small holdings are small because of Japan's geographic limitations. The very nature of farming small plots is labor intensive. Growing food should not a horse race for international markets to pick winners and loosers. Would you take the farmer's land away and flatten out the hills and mountains?
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There is plenty of land that can be put into production. Hokkaido is something like 200% food self sufficient and presently there are farms everywhere that are abandon. Japanese people have been lulled into a false sense of security by decades of relative prosperity. If the country suffers from war, economic or currency collapse, doing nothing with the existing land now virtually insures that 120m people will starve at some point. Just because Japan can never reach 100% self sufficiency doesn't mean it should not make the attempt. It is a matter of national security. This is a wake up call for Japan.
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