JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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To be healthy, live in the big city
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Teacher nabbed for using miror to peek up girl's skirt
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Japan's nuclear safety standards flawed, says commission chief
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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From carnivores to herbivores: how men are defined in Japan
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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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Ah_so
What? Why? I cannot fathom what you are getting at here. Let me get this straight - you believe that evading detection or arrest for a relatively short period of time, and so avoiding being brought to justice, is the cornerstone of a just society?
Explain yourself. It seems to me to be quite the opposite - a symptom of an unjust society
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Ah_so
What a fatuous comment. Would they also be like people who buy a car magazine to help them decide what car to buy? In a country of thousands of restaurants, if you want to know the very best, a guide like this is invaluable.
Posted in: Prominent Kyoto restaurants say no to Michelin
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Ah_so
Narita is a pretty useless airport and I have not been through since 2002. I use Seoul's lovely Incheon to fly in and out of Japan. Using a local Japanese airport and flying to Incheon removes most of the stress and the queues. Changing flights there is easy and stress-free.
The duty free is pretty good too.
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Ah_so
Halloween is about children dressing up and adults indulging in infantile fun, rather than a pagan suspension of taboos. Perhaps this artist's work is in that case the essence of modern Halloween.
Posted in: Is there more to controversial art of Trevor Brown than meets the eye?
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Ah_so
"Inappropriate", as used in a politically correct context, such as, "inappropriate email" or, "inappropriate behaviour".
It is as though everything in the world is carved up into 2 totally objective baskets, the "appropriate" and the "inappropriate".
OK, not used in conversation much, but more the dreaded corporate speak of some jumped up busy-body.
Posted in: Which words or expressions annoy you the most when you hear them repeatedly used by other people in conversation?
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Ah_so
Pulse: check Backbone: check Drunk: check
That's a green light - all systems go!!!
Posted in: Do you think women are more selective than men when it comes to who they choose to date?
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Ah_so
There are no "rights", only realpolitik in the big boys' playground.
Those who have these weapons will do their damnest to keep them out of the hands of those they feel are most likely to use them. When a push comes to a shove, they believe that "rights" are for philosophy students, not for application to the real world of international politics.
Posted in: Should some countries have the right to tell other countries whether they can or cannot have nuclear weapons?
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Ah_so
I love these loaded questions. How about asking the same question with reverse-loading, such as, "Is it wise for democratic industrialised countries to try to prevent emerging nations with unstable or intolerent governments from acquiring nuclear weapons?"
Posted in: Should some countries have the right to tell other countries whether they can or cannot have nuclear weapons?
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Ah_so
Personally I always use Korean Air and change planes, avoiding any need to go to Narita Airport ever.
Posted in: Should public funds be used to bail out big companies like JAL?
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Ah_so
I am a member of Twitter, but have only ever Twatted once. Could not see the point. No idea how it could ever create the advertising revenue to justify its existence.
Posted in: Something to tweet about: Twitter valued at $1 billion
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Ah_so
Exactly. There are also a lot of prescription drug abusers in North America - one star collects so many prescriptions it seems to be some kind of Basic Instinct for her. Kate Moss got done for coke, but it hardly affected her career.
So Nori P. did the odd line of speed - big deal, she was hardly mugging old ladies for their pension.
Posted in: Celebrity drug offenders face public humiliation
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Ah_so
Looks so much nicer than the tattoos I saw on the wannabe yakuza in the onsen in August.
She can come to my onsen any day.
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Ah_so
It is still Japanese curry - quite unrelated to anything from the Indian sub-continent.
Spicy Indian food looks like it will never catch on in Japan. Kare Raisu is always advertised as though it comes from France or Italy; a connection I have never quite grasped.
Posted in: 100-hour chicken curry
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Ah_so
Not sure about that - the pears grow all by themselves. The hard work is the picking and someone else did that for him!
Posted in: 2,000 pears stolen from trees in Ibaraki
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Ah_so
The LDP's pump-priming measures over the last 10 years have done little but provide the facade of continued wealth, when in fact all it is based on is borrowed money at low interest rates.
Japan needs to look at what sort of country it wants to be in 20 years and what it realistically can afford. The ageing population, increased deindustrialisation and the need to pay of debt are all problems that need to be addressed.
Japan needs to have a grown up debate about these issues. Increased child benefit will certainly help address one of these. Other child-related benefits would see an increased number of women in the workforce.
Reducing the construction budget is a must - the Public Works budget is 14% of the government budget, or 7 trillion yen. It is often wasteful and unecessary, leaving a significant proportion of the population in a unproductive part of the economy.
Personally, I cannot see how Japan is going to pay for all those old people and pay off its national debt, but the worst option of all is for Japan to put its head in the sand and that seems to be what it has been doing for the last decade.
Posted in: Beware Japan’s new political beast
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Ah_so
Just had a look - white letters on a pale blue backroung makes the site unreadable.
Posted in: Japan Online Shop English portal site attracts 200 shops in 1st month
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Ah_so
I am sorry you think so. "Gullible" is a very pejorative way to say "trusting" or "honest". Why is it a crime (they "deserve" punishment so you must consider trust to be an offence) to believe that what someone says to you and to start with a presumption of trust?
Is not more worrying that non-Japanese and Westerners are now so cyncical that every claim is immediately met with suspicion of some ulterior motive? The Japanese live in a largely honest society where one can presume honesty. Many Westerners live in crime-ridden corrupt societies where one must presume deceit.
Posted in: Japanese society going over to the 'Dark Side'
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Ah_so
Odd, but the the next line is "Body feels EXCITE", which more or less makes sense.
Actually, don't a lot of English song lyrics read like Engrish? "Rythm is a dancer" - I mean, what on earth does that mean?
Posted in: What do you think about the way English is used in the branding and marketing of products in Japan?
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Ah_so
In fact, I now appear to have taken to writing in Japanese English!
Posted in: What do you think about the way English is used in the branding and marketing of products in Japan?
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Ah_so
I love my T-shirt with the message, "BASE OF VIGOR - Laugh to when enjoy it now". Meaningless, yet wonderful. Personally, I enjoy "clap Engrish" immensly.
Ok, it is not helpful to your English student and English speakers could take offense blah blah blah, but I am passed caring these days.
Oh, did you know that the average Japanese thinks that a "flea market" is actually a "free market". Understandable mistake I suppose and perhaps it is something that would otherwise be lost in translation.
Posted in: What do you think about the way English is used in the branding and marketing of products in Japan?