JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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To be healthy, live in the big city
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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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Teacher nabbed for using miror to peek up girl's skirt
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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
If you are new to Japanese, this book will probably do the job. But it is a waste of money. Just buy a kana book and learn hiragana too. Should not take long.
Posted in: Kodansha's Katakana Workbook
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Ah_so
Is this another way of saying:
"Hey look at me! I've got a Mac and I am just sooo cool. Look at you with your PCs, you repressed hypocrites. I have a lovely Mac. It may just be a step up from a Fisher Price child's "computer" and have one button on the mouse, but it says a load about my personality. Anyway, I need to go out and buy a really large double latte decaff."
Anyway, thank God I did not go anywhere near Vista. No one could explain what it did that was special anyway. Even on XP by Explorer is now defunct and any attempt to upgrade Media Player renders it useless.
Perhaps I should switch to a Mac - apparently they never crash.
Posted in: Microsoft says next Windows won't be as annoying
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Ah_so
I have always erred on the side of sceptics and require proof for things, but there is another way of looking at it:
1) Man made global warming is a fact - Outcomes: a) change behaviour, save the earth b) ignore, be a sceptic, ruin the planet
2) Global warming is a myth Outcomes: a) change behaviour, mildly inconvenience yourself b) ignore, be a sceptic, find out that you were right all along and the irritating environmentalist were just whingeing do-gooders.
So the outcomes are either 1a or 2a OR 2a or 2b. Or a case of better be sage than sorry.
Posted in: Prince Charles says global warming more important than financial crisis
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Ah_so
Japan would add no value to the security council and would not like the burden of making controversial decisions. J
Simply having (for now) the world's 2nd largest economy is not in itself a qualification for a permanent UN seat. If anyone is to get a seat, it should be India. However, Pakistan would kick up too much of a fuss.
Posted in: Does Japan deserve a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council?
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Ah_so
Match of the Day - British football programme - De-de-DER-de-de-de-de-de
Grandstand - BBC's much-missed Saturday sport show. Had it has my ring tone for about a year.
Posted in: Name your five favorite TV show themes.
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Ah_so
The US and European economies are going to sink, dragging the exporters of Asia and South America with them. I think the effect on Japan will be worse than the recession years of the 90s.
Posted in: Is a global lost decade on the cards?
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Ah_so
I see the "Christmas Cake" myth still lives on among gaijin. This is 2008 not 1988!
Posted in: 11-year-old girl named 'best idol with glasses'
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Ah_so
On youtube:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XNKSMknWnF0
I love the way he makes a pack of grown men (including police) flee in terror by being...nakled (14 seconds in). Then evades capture after being surrounded by 4 J-police with long sticks and riot shields by running away and jumping in the water (50 sec in)!
Why the 50 police? just ignore him - he will get cold and get out in the end. No need to tazer or shoot him.
Posted in: Naked Briton detained after swimming in Imperial Palace moat
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Ah_so
The economic uncertainty is without doubt the most significant global event for decades. The endless headlines on that Palin woman and the US election are nothing compared to this. While this subject is relegated to an insignificant story about the Nikkei, the coming storm is going to shape politics and economics for years to come.
Posted in: Nikkei stock index falls to 4-year low
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Ah_so
talko666 - if it makes you feel any better, both the modern kilt and tartan are English inventions.
Posted in: Don your kilt and follow the bagpipes to Chiba
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Ah_so
Confusing question and it seems to have been interpreted as one about CNN and Fox, whereas "media" should include all media, such as print, internet, radio and TV.
Most people want straight "news" to be neutral, but are happy to seek out newspapers that support their point of view.
Posted in: Do you think it is OK for media organizations to support candidates in elections or should they remain neutral?
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Ah_so
The fact that they are (presumably) identical twins obviously makes them both have a predisposition to committing the same types of crime.
Posted in: Twin brothers arrested for raping woman in Kanagawa
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Ah_so
The pay does not sound too bad. And they do not seem to mind sitting around outside a station for hours waiting for a fare.
Posted in: Sex and the city: Tokyo's taxi drivers see it all
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Ah_so
Hooray for common sense. Formal education that early is an absolute waste of time and probably does more harm than good.
Even in formal schooling, children acquire kanji at a fairly slow pace for a good reason - their brains are not able to cope with them at that age. An adult is actually much better equipped, in my opinion, and can learn in a week what the ichi-nen-sei learns in a year.
Posted in: Overzealous mothers prep their infants too early for school
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Ah_so
If the blame lies anywhere, with one individual, it is with Alan Greenspan. He had interest rates down at 1% during what were quite clearly still boom years in 2003 and 2004 and brought them up so slowly over the next few years that the whole complexion of the money markets changed.
The returns on cash were negligible that investors needed to chase higher returns. At the same time, people who could never have afforded loans suddenly could - after all, 1% on $1m is only $10,000 and affordable to the poor.
This created the perfect conditions for the storm that followed.
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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Ah_so
Politics, in the sense it is understood in the West, does not exist. What do the parties stand for? What are the issues that raise the public's emotions? Questions I cannot answer.
Posted in: Japan is a country where people have no interest in politics. When I went to America, everybody seemed to like their country. It was like ‘Go America!’ But we don’t have that in Japan. The attitude here is ‘Who cares? As long as I’m happy.’
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Ah_so
London's top art galleries are all free as well.
For food at about $10 for main courses, try the Stockpot restaurants. They have been around since the 1960s, I think. There is one in the Kings Road, Old Compton Street, Panton St and possibly Neal Steet. A great mixture of tasty Italian and British food. There is also something similar behind Selfridges.
Posted in: Bargain Britain? If you know where to look
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Ah_so
Mods - 8 of the 10 threads in the "popular topics" section on the homepage are related to the US election. While this is of great interest to some, and mild interest to many, this is a Japan site.
Would there be away of highlighting those topics about Japan which are popular and segregating those from stories from the international news section?
Posted in: Palin mocks Obama as McCain claims nomination
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Ah_so
Just let the monkey be and stop wasting time and resources on catching him. How much harm can he be doing it?
Posted in: Wild monkey continues to elude Tokyo police
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Ah_so
There is a video available on the internet of people "doing it" on the train in Japan.
Posted in: Manner poster