JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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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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- Part Time Assistant Language Teacher - Kanagawa Prefecture - late-March start
- Interac, Kanagawa
- Salary: ¥9,000 / Day per 4 class shift
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Ah_so
Listening to music through headphones or talking on a mobile phone is dangerous for either car users or cyclists. The police are right to enforce the law.
Posted in: Police caution more than 10,000 in Tokyo for breaking new bicycle rules
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Ah_so
Let's understand what we are talking about here: it was a stink bomb. Using the word "acid" may be chemically correct, but it is very misleading.
Posted in: Confrontation
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Ah_so
LoveNot: what a pleasant sentiment. Someone who is trusting, elderly, with a desire to help gets scammed by people taking advantage of her generous nature. You seem to think that trust is a virtue worthy of punishment. I think it is tragic that we have to assume ulterior motives.
Scams that take advantage of generosity are everywhere. In London in summer you get the charity scam - pretty girl turns up with a collecting tin at a pub for some made up charity, probably for disabled children. The drinkers are a bit merry and are happy to donate. They take a huge amount of money and most people never know they have been scammed - even those I have told refuse to believe at first.
Posted in: Woman conned out of nearly Y4.5 mil in bank transfer scam
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Ah_so
Good to read quite sensible comments on this page. Unfortunately the average person with little understanding of the issue would assume that the Falklands are like a pre-97 Hong Kong, that need to be returned to their "rightful" owners. In fact, the real remnant of colonialism is Argentina itself.
Posted in: Argentina says Britain has nuclear weapons in Falklands
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Ah_so
2% of Japan's population may be Japanese, of that 2%, probably 1.5% are of Korean ancestory living in quite concentrated areas. I lived in Niigata with a population of about 3.5m and at the time a known foreign population of about 3,500. It may have been a massive under-estimation, but it was never more than 0.1%, or 1 in a thousand.
Posted in: Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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Ah_so
Japan is a nightmare for development. Monstrosities can be built anywhere, with little or no care given to how it affects the area it is in or the value it is destroying. A short walk around a major town or city will tell you that.
Posted in: Views of valuable cultural assets threatened
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Ah_so
I do not tweet, but I expect most of them were mind-numbing drivel, all starting with, "OMG!"
I will not write any more, knowing little about American Football, a sport that was ruined when forward throwing was instoduced in 1906.
Posted in: Record 10,000 tweets per second at Super Bowl tops Japan women's World Cup win
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Ah_so
Global warming may be happening, but the fact that it is unseasonably warm in one country while another has higher than average snow fall is not in itself evidence of global warming.
Posted in: Hard work
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Ah_so
I used to work for Panasonic. It was old fashioned then and in decline years ago. It has continued to lose ground since then and will carry on its decline unless it turns around its business model.
Posted in: Panasonic forecasts worst-ever net loss of Y780 bil yen
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Ah_so
Japanese people would never put a big mac or cola in a rice cooker.
However, cola is quite good for cooking with. Slow cook chicken legs in cola for 2 hours. It is fantastic!
Posted in: Try cooking a Big Mac in rice cooker
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Ah_so
If there was ever a case of an eye for an eye, this is it.
Posted in: 5-yr-old boy may lose sight after man adds battery acid to eye drops
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Ah_so
herefornow: wise words. The rating agencies took a hammering because of their inability to rate mortgage debt properly, but what they are good at doing is rating countries and traditional businesses.
Japanese electronics has been so slow to react to the changing world, missing the non-domestic mobile phone market , the mp3 player and allowing Samsung to steal the TV market from under its noses.
Posted in: Moody's lowers rating on Sony, Panasonic
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Ah_so
In answer to your questions:
Probably never.
Almost certainly none, which is the right answer because it is not Nazi science, but based on Japanese pseudo science of the 1920s.
No, it does not matter.
Posted in: The importance of blood type in Japanese culture
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Ah_so
Exactly - that's why there are 13 in a baker's dozen.
Posted in: Errors result in highest ever number of entrance exams retakers
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Ah_so
Japan_cynic: I was reading down to find the first use of the word "racist". I had been disappointed, with just a couple of uses of "discrimination", but no one went out and used the r-word.
Well done for highlighting this shameful practice, and revealing that Japanese people really do not like Japanese people and actively discriminate against them(selves). I wish they all Japanese shared your enlightened opinions on race relations.
Posted in: Japanese stores offering foreigner-only discounts
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Ah_so
They could never get back 134 billion yen, whereas the directors might have 16bn between them.
Posted in: Olympus sues 19 current, ex-board members for Y16.54 bil in damages
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Ah_so
In the mid-90s Japan had the world consumer electronics market sewn up. It missed the opportunities of the cell phone and then the smart phone, despite being a couple of years ahead of the rest of the world in phone technology for so long.
The MP3 player was another miss, which Apple totally dominates.
The Koreans have now taken over the television markets.
Japan still dominates the camera market, but that is about it.
Posted in: Sony's Stringer reportedly to step down as president
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Ah_so
TheQuestion: But that is why the location absolutely does matter. In Japan there would not be even a "remote possibility" that a 15-year old would have a real gun, so no one would take it seriously.
In the USA there is a very good possibility that the gun would be real which is why the police had to shoot.
Posted in: Texas police kill 8th-grader carrying pellet gun
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Ah_so
I completely agree with the police's actions, despite approving of gun control. There have been enough massacres at US schools to know that a child is quite capable of wreaking havoc. He was not some 8 year old playing cowboys in the garden. The police were in the school for a reason - presumably they had been called by the school who believed that one of their children had pulled a gun.
However, I do not thnk that this would have happened in Japan - no one would have believed that a 15 year old would have had a handgun and would presume it to be one of the many replicas and BB guns you can buy from hobby shops. The police would probably not have even been called.
In gun-saturated USA, you cannot make that assumption and so lax gun laws have resulted in another needless death.
Posted in: Texas police kill 8th-grader carrying pellet gun
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Ah_so
...light entertainment show?
...way of dealing with disasters?
...method of learning foreign languages?
...way to sort out the economy?
The possibilities are endless.
Posted in: Brainless, primeval organism helping scientists figure out human intelligence