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Korean campaigns for removal of Japanese flag from French stores
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Japan's U.N. envoy under fire for telling other diplomats to shut up
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LDP policy chief apologizes for Fukushima disaster gaffe
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Iceland kills first fin whales in controversial hunt
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Starbucks Refreshers to hit store shelves June 25
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- International Account Manager
- Cosmo PR Corporation (株式会社 コスモ・ピーアール), 東京都
- Salary: 年収 500万円 相談可
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- Research Officer (Trade and Economic)
- Australian Embassy / オーストラリア大使館, 東京都
- Salary: 月給 51万9167円 ~ 51万9167円
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- ERP Consultant, System Engineer
- Nakamoto & Associates, 東京都
- Salary: 月給 25万円 ~ 70万円 相談可 インターンシップ
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- Restaurant Service Attendant
- Mandarin Oriental, Tokyo - マンダリン オリエンタル東京, 東京都
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- In Room Dining Ordertaker
- Mandarin Oriental, Tokyo - マンダリン オリエンタル東京, 東京都
- Salary: 給与についての記載なし
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Aliasis
Bradley Manning was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, I wish they'd have had the guts to give it to him. It's great to be controversial for people who represent peace/humanities/human rights, until you stop awarding it to countries who's governments might hate you but can't hurt you.
Posted in: Is Nobel Peace Prize losing some of its prestige?
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Good to hear some Japanese voices speaking out against this. Even if some of the AKB girls are over 20, the adult age here, or even 18, the adult age in most other developed countries, the fact that their image is "cute/sexy high school girls" and they portray themselves as being young, it's just disgusting. Not saying what they're doing should be illegal, but people who get off on this stuff seriously have issues, and it's all too accepted in Japan. '
Posted in: AKB48 may represent Japanese culture, but underage girls in sexy clothing … to me it’s basically legal child porn.
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Aliasis
Yay! The US is slowly but surely progressing to the 21st century. :) Hopefully within the next decade it'll all be completely legal, everywhere in the country.
Posted in: 140 same-sex couples wed in Washington state for first time
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Aliasis
It's so sad to think there are still pets there. I wonder if it's even possible to rescue animals, if they are still alive, after a year and a half of abandonment. Animal welfare should be a value that Japan has.
Posted in: There is no way that animals can be rescued if we keep waiting for the government to respond. It is strange that pets have no protection unless private citizens take some sort of risk.
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Aliasis
Is this number accurate? If the average person does (or should) eat 2,000 calories a DAY... 12,600 is an insane amount of calories that I think even the average overweight person could not eat. Am I reading this wrong? What kind of Christmas dinner is this? Like, twelve Big Macs from McDonald's per person?
Posted in: Top 10 tips for a healthier Christmas
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Aliasis
I have very little doubt that the woman is telling the truth, because this crap happens to women every day in Japan. Men, on the whole, treat women like absolute crap, like their purpose is an office ornament, a baby maker, or a tool for their sexual amusement. Women in the work places are rarely taken seriously, and there are enough perverts here where I am more than willing to believe nearly any claim a woman makes. This is a country where a woman being sexually harassed at work is NOT a minority situation.
Scumbag. Hope he gets put behind bars for sexual assault.
Posted in: Company manager arrested for trying to kiss job applicant during interview
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Aliasis
Oh my aching heart. Dogs get sad if you tell them to stop eating their own poop, let's be real.
No type of wheat is good for dogs. Dogs are carnivores, they function on meat diets. Yes, they can digest some non-meats (as opposed to cats) but meat is what they should be eating. This cake sounds irresponsible for a dog's health despite Nagatani's insistence, and not to mention teaching the dog bad habits (people food is for dogs, too).
If you want to spoil your dog, feed him some meat (no spices/sauces, totally plain), taking him for a walk and play Frisbee. Spend that 6000 yen to take off a day from work to spend time with your dog, or donate it to an animal shelter and help lots of dogs. Much more Christmas spirit than getting your dog diabetes.
Posted in: Pooches have their cake and eat it for Christmas
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Aliasis
Wow, what's going on here? That's frightening. Hoping for the best..
Posted in: Man abducted from taxi in Tokyo
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Aliasis
Didn't you read? She DOESN'T have to be accompanied to school anymore.
And geez, 10 years old is still a kid, 11 years old is still a kid, heck, teenagers struggle the most with self-confidence and social anxiety. She's growing up in an atmosphere that demands perfection from her, leave her be.
Happy birthday, sweetheart. Hope YOU get the throne some day, it should be yours!
Posted in: Princess Aiko marks 11th birthday
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Aliasis
It certainly has a place in Japanese culture. I'd hate to see it "die".
Posted in: In the age of civil wars or during the Edo period, ninjas' abilities to spy and kill, or mix medicine may have been useful. But we now have guns, the Internet and much better medicines, so the art of ninjutsu has no place in the modern age.
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That's an awesome idea. As someone who prefers temperatures cooler rather than warmer, I always wondered why the "saving electricity" initiative suspiciously only happens in the summer, but in the winter everyone cranks it up. Our apartment doesn't even have a heater, so we use portable heaters, but even that I try to use only when I'm really cold and a sweater doesn't help.
Posted in: 'Warm Share' initiative rewards eco-friendly residents
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Aliasis
I agree, this is a cute story and I've also got an interest in Zen Buddhism.
However, as said above, I'm not sure I'd be comfortable trusting anyone who came up to me to talk about their religion and take me to a secluded place. It sucks that we live in such a world, but cults or other people who might want to take advantage of you use this tactic, and, well, stranger danger, right?
Posted in: Rescued by monks
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Aliasis
Real men can do whatever they want and still be real men. Same for real women. You don't get to arbitrarily decide what constitutes a "real" specimen of any gender due to cultural norms or your perception of how certain genders ought to act.
PS - it's 2012. :)
Posted in: New Tokyo crossdressing bar appeals to first-time drag queens
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Sounds fun! Ni-chome is so great, I love the atmosphere of it. No one is afraid to be who they are, and despite it being a "night district" I always feel much safer there than in Shibuya or Roppongi or other clubbing areas. Since I'm a girl, I don't think it'd be very "exciting" for me to wear "men's clothes" since women can wear pretty much anything that mean wear, but I guess I can see how it'd be interesting for a guy to try women's clothes. Live and let live, I say!
Posted in: New Tokyo crossdressing bar appeals to first-time drag queens
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Aliasis
Men in comments who think women belong barefoot in the kitchen nursing babies: check...
Guess what, it's totally possible to have both parents working and still raise children. It happens all the time, believe it or not, and if you're so worried about it, why don't you stay at home? The necessity for a woman to be with a newborn lasts mere weeks.
Reasons why we need women in the work force? To harness the creative talents of 50% of the population, to promote equality in the workplace, to teach men that women are actually equal that will subsequently lead them to respecting them as human beings and not "baby-makers" or victims to sexually harass and grope on the train, to teach girls to strive for any professional goal they dare to dream of and that they don't have to be satisfied in a domestic role if that's not what they want to do, to more accurately represent humanity in positions of power.
It's not really that hard, dudes. Sexism is the problem, and men ought to take a good look at themselves to see if they are promoting it. Women, strive for the stars, Japan and the rest of the world needs your voices.
Posted in: Without women joining the workforce, the government's tax revenue won't pick up because the population will continue to shrink.
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Aliasis
Find a school that is exclusive in teaching you ONLY in the target language. NO Japanese. Additionally, one that corrects your sentences and drills grammar and natural conversation both. I've heard Berlitz is good about that, but I think all the major eikaiwas are probably overpriced. Private tutors you can get for maybe 3000 yen an hour - very reasonable - but you don't know if they have any training or qualification, or if their just gonna do "free conversation" and not actually teach anything. Whatever you do, it won't be magic, you HAVE to study. If you don't study, you won't learn. And you need to talk, you can't learn just by sitting there passively.
Posted in: Which English-language school would you recommend to your Japanese friends wishing to learn English?
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Aliasis
Ummm are you joking? It's great when men makes the moves but he should just be careful not to RAPE HIS GIRLFRIEND... I'm pretty sure this is not very hard for the average guy to do. Don't rape, don't push your partner to do something they don't want to do, if they say no, stop. If it's not "wanted" then DON'T DO IT.
Anyway, to this real article, blaming herbivore guys is one thing but there's nothing stopping girls from taking assertive roles in a relationship, either. Don't rely on gender norms, don't feel like you can't take the lead because you're a woman. If a guy, or girl, is shy, their partner being assertive can help teach them to be assertive, too.
Posted in: Sex counselor seeks explanations for waning co-ed promiscuity
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Aliasis
That is NOT true at all. Women DO earn less than men, for the SAME work. In most countries, America included, women have every disadvantage. In Japan, it's worse tenfold. Women are constantly degraded, harassed, and not taken seriously in the workplace, and yes, many MANY women do work and want to work their way up the corporate ladder. Yet, they get their butts pinched and made to serve tea. It is so convenient for men to deny sexism by saying "it's what the women want."
Posted in: Japan's secret economic weapon: women
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Albino?
Posted in: Pure white crow spotted in Shimane
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Aliasis
How many times has he said this? lol
Posted in: Jackie Chan: Upcoming film will be last big action movie