JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) in Kanto region
- RCS (RCSコーポレーション), Kanto
- Salary: ¥180,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month includes performance bonus
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- Assistant Language Teacher - TOKYO - late-March start
- Interac, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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- Assistant Language Teacher - Kanagawa Prefecture - late-March start
- Interac, Kanagawa
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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76waystofly
If men had been attacked like this, there would be ten "alleged" Taliban militants dangling from gallowses in Kandahar Stadium by now.
Posted in: Afghan teacher wants acid thrown on her attackers
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My God, who's kidding who?
Posted in: Obama says there is no time to lose as he unveils economic team
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Maybe the murderer suffered from a mental handicap.
Posted in: Man arrested for killing father with golf club in Toyama
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Who knew after all these years he could breathe underwater?
Posted in: Sea Santa
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Oil tankers generally have radars equipped aboard their ships to notify of vehicles of all sizes in the surrounding vicinity. I'm not an expert on maritime law nor the surveillance equipment used aboard these ships, but I just thought this would be an idea:
Post guards 24/7 along the periphery of your ship; maintain close satellite data with US intellenge of any threats in the area; and when you see a bunch of ragtag "skinnies" racing toward your liner firing Kalashnikovs into the air -- neutralize them.
Maybe this is easier said than done, and my apologies if I sound like I'm oversimplifying the matter.
Posted in: Somali pirates hijack Saudi oil tanker
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Whether you're one of the mavericks making money live vultures off this mess -- the way those "in the know" are in offshore spot currency trading, US foreclosures and real estate buy ops -- folks, just ask yourselves:
What would Bob Marley do?
When CNN International and that alien from the Andromeda galaxy: Fox's own Shepard Smith -- keep bodyslammin' their trash with the day's numbers, just remind yourself:
everything's gonna be alright...everything's gonna be alright...
Not that I'm encouraging any of my distinguished fellow bloggers to hop on the first flight to Trenchtown, but in situations like this -- a few Red Stripes and laughs with friends will help everyone out in the long run.
Posted in: Citigroup to cut 53,000 jobs worldwide
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Good luck to any prosecutor that can prove beyond a reasonable doubt a bar owner has the uncanny ability to distinguish between which customers drive to his establishment, which ones are passengers, which ones hitchhike, and those who pogo stick their way to the saloon.
Liable for prosecution? I'm no grammar scholar, but the syntax of that phrase seems a bit off.
Unless the prosecutor can prove a passenger is an expert on the metabolic breakdown of ethyl alcohol in the variety of sizes of the human form, I doubt any prosecutor would waste his or her time on the prosecution of a passenger who may have entered the vehicle of a drunk driver; at the risk of providing convincing testimony to not knowing the level of the blood alcohol content of the driver beforehand.
Posted in: Should bar owners who serve alcohol to customers knowing they are driving be liable for prosecution if the customer is involved in a traffic accident? Should passengers in cars driven by drunk drivers be also liable for prosecution?
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One toke? No. Taking a few hits off a bowl at a given number of parties in your lifetime? Probably not. But smoking marijuana to the point it becomes a habit? Get a chest exam done, whatever your age, and let the pulmonologist decide.
Any substance used in excess can be harmful: granted. However a buddy of mine has been smoking pot every night for about twenty years; I've known him about ten. I can say without a doubt I've witnessed his motor skills become slower, he's lost much of the ambition he had to succeed in life, he looks older than a man of his age should -- yet after he feeds his young children every night, he goes down to the basement alone to light up: in spite of the impact it may have on his family. He's a good guy and has a terrific family, but I'm old enough now to see the impact substance abuse has had on people I've known throughout my life.
I'm sorry if I sound like I'm preaching the anti-drug crusade, because I really wouldn't have too much of a problem sitting around with a group of people passing a doob to one another; I've grown accustomed to passing it on to someone else for decades. But if I had to be perfectly candid with this guy I mentioned, I'd ask him: "Would you want your daughter bringing home a guy who smokes like you?"
His answer: "Heh heh heh. Is Family Guy on, man?"
Posted in: Is smoking pot harmless?
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76waystofly
In a perfect world, Rod would ask Misia to perform live with him from the slums of Tokyo.
Posted in: Rod Stewart to tour Japan next March
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Ex-radical???
Posted in: Ex-radical Ayers distances himself from Obama
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Yeah, four marijuana vending machines for every person...
Posted in: Is Japan becoming a 'drug heaven?'
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76waystofly
Oh c'mon...what man hasn't had his wallet emptied of that good green aphrodisiac at the end of the night?
Posted in: Jilted man arrested after refusing to pay for 500-km taxi ride
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The Man.
Posted in: So who exactly is running the global show?
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Beyonce's curtailing her trip to Japan???
NOOOO!!!
Oh, the humanity...
Posted in: Beyonce curtails Japan trip to celebrate Obama's win
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January 22, 2012. Retiring to her study, President Palin prepares her agenda for the next day.
First: schedule invite with the President of Africa; Second: sale at Neiman-Marcus; Third: get Charlie Gibson fired; Fourth: schedule round table with Prime Minister of South America; Fifth: call Joe Biden for botox advice.
Posted in: Palin says woman on ticket could help in 2012
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Let Mullah Omar coexist with Ahmadinejad, Kim Jong-Il, Mugabe and Edward M. Liddy: the bad guys more often than not get what they deserve from their own in due time.
For the past seven years I have tempered my criticism of the Bush administration based on the cards the United States were dealt following September 11th; in spite of shifting the Coalition’s focus from Afghanistan to Iraq; the bounty the US was accused of generating a civil war in Iraq over; or even his hinting to avenge the mistakes of his “daddy” during Desert Storm. The fact that al-Qaeda has been crushed in Iraq, and the likes of Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi and Saddam Hussein aren’t “hanging” around Baghdad anymore should be seen as a very good thing.
But to hear former CIA chief Porter Goss allude with an air of assurance to his knowledge of Osama bin Laden’s whereabouts during a press conference some four years ago, coupled with an anxious “clandestine” redoubling of special operations in Pakistan since September to capture or kill bin Laden…
It’s simple: if the departing President does not deliver Osama bin Laden’s cadaver by Inauguration Day, 2009, then the criticism against him, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz et al for opening the front in Iraq will have been entirely justified; and his legacy as commander-in-chief will be seen as one of the worst in American history.
Posted in: 21 killed in attack on U.S. convoy in Afghanistan
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Sarah Palin: you should be gosh-darn tootin' ashamed of yourself; paying $120K for a DKNY outfit! Anyone who's anyone knows spending less than $200K before leaving Saks Fifth Avenue would look like a pauper!
Incidentally, how much were Biden's eyelifts again?
Posted in: Palin denounces her critics as cowardly
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Barack Obama? Capable of becoming a "dictator"? Preposterous!
It's not like he could seduce enough people to fill Invesco Field at Mile High, or Grant Park in Chicago, or the Tiergarten in Berlin -- the way Kim Jong-Il could fill the May Day Stadium in Pyongyang!
Actually, wait a minute...
Posted in: U.S. congressman warns of Obama dictatorship
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What a revolutionary achievement in the study of cognitive manipulation!
Perhaps NeuroFocus can scan my brain waves and hear me beg for mercy; from having to endure the agony of seeing Masanobu Takashima's goofy face again in another hokey Lawson commercial.
Posted in: Research firms scan brain waves to improve marketing
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I would suggest nyotaimori.
What??? C'mon...she's a freakin' knockout!!
Posted in: Yoshino Kimura blinded by the light