JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- 秘書及び業務サポート
- 加治金属工業株式会社, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥4.0M / Year
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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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- ALT - Mie Prefecture - Yokkaichi City - June start
- NPO法人グローバル教育推進機構（GLAD), Mie
- Salary: ¥230,000 / Month For a full working month. Some months differ.
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Andrew Matthews
No.1 - The Milkman - in the UK they would come by in electric carts (many years before the current fad) - called milk floats. I still remember the whine of the motor, accompanied by the clinking of the bottles. Of course I also remember finding the birds had pecked through the foil top to get at the cream at the top of the bottle.
Posted in: Gone but not forgotten
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Andrew Matthews
I love them as well. But since I have pretty much seen them all, I can now use the commercial breaks for what they were originally intended - getting some more chili, another beer and the all-important bathroom break.
Posted in: Not many surprises in Super Bowl ads
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Andrew Matthews
@Yubaru
That's a courtesan costume? Wow - and I though bikini's were a relatively modern invention.
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Andrew Matthews
Yes - I agree - the books work out better in the head, than in either film.
But given the choice - I go with the Swedish version of the movie than the American.
I did suggest reading the books rather than watching the movie. Frankly, if you watch a movie, you are watching through the looking glass of another person.
It's like listening to the music rather than reading the musical notation. Few can read the musical notation, but we can all read the book.
Posted in: Enter the dragon
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Andrew Matthews
@ Japanese government must apply the law of reciprocity with american companies.
I absolutely agree -
@ The Japanese receive all these gaijins with open arms and look what we receive in exchange.
As long as you treat them the same as Japanese and NOT gaijins.
Posted in: Two Japanese auto suppliers to pay price-fixing fine in U.S.
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Andrew Matthews
OK - IMHO - the Swedish version is FAR superior. I would recommend people watch all the Swedish versions first (You could always read the books first - there are English versions, but I am not sure at this point about Japanese versions).
At least the director of the Swedish movie agrees with me (OK - I agree with him).
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/nov/09/girl-dragon-tattoo-american-remake
Posted in: Enter the dragon
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Andrew Matthews
Of course - if the people wearing them are on the other side of each other - it looks they they are not talking.
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Andrew Matthews
For some reason the theme music from Hawaii 5-0 keeps running through my head.
Posted in: Hitching a ride
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Andrew Matthews
Ummm... all explosives are heat generating. It's the speed at which they generate heat. Of course technically rust is an incredibly SLOW explosion... :-)
Posted in: Envelopes containing black powder sent to Akutagawa Award winners
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Andrew Matthews
Has anyone asked the girls themselves?
Assuming the current members might not answer truthfully due to possible negative impact on their careers (whether you like it to not - this is how they make a living) - Since they are registered in the Guinness Book of Records as the largest pop group, and it seems position is based on attrition, there must be ex-members now willing to talk.
Sometimes listening to the thoughts of the persons involved can bring a deeper insight into what is really going on.
Regardless of how you feel they are marketed, a job based on continually trying to fend of newcomers trying to climb over you (at least this is what I got from reading various websites after seeing this query) seems incredibly stressful and requires an incredible amount of personal strength. It is certainly not an environment which I would enjoy.
Posted in: Do you think all-girl groups like AKB48 are being marketed as sexualized little Lolitas or is it just harmless fun?
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Andrew Matthews
If only they sold liquors. A dash of benedictine or a shot of brandy to hide the taste of their coffee... :-)
Posted in: Starbucks to start selling wine, beer in U.S.
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Andrew Matthews
Hey - As a kid I would have given anything (OK - not absolutely everything - but a LOT) for even obligatory chocolate. The idea that for once, the girl would actually initiate an approach? Wow... OK - so more a fantasy than reality, but at least I wouldn't have spent weeks worrying only to be rejected :-)
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Andrew Matthews
@Nicky Washida
Yes - my downfall was almost the tube when I move to London. Well, that and the winter. I always rode a motorcycle, even when I went to work in London and live 13 miles away from work. But when the black ice hit I had to take the tube. People can drive a car drunk, but if you can't get a motorcycle off the stand and start it up, you are too drunk to ride (so I am told).
As with Landsberg-san I started to hate the mornings after. But the main kicker was waking up oner morning and seeing my motorcycle parked in the driveway, and remembering I had been drinking in a pub that was a police hangout doing yards of ale but not remember riding home. It seems most of the police were biker cops and liked my bike, so they got a police car to drive me home and another cop rode the bike. There was an extra 100 miles on it though, and I only live 2 miles from the pub.
Posted in: The day the drinks stopped pouring
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Andrew Matthews
Exploding? Then unless my concept of the laws of thermodynamics is way off, they are exploding at the very same speed that glass is congealing.
I would trust the reporting if it described things with a little less hysterics.
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Andrew Matthews
I am sure he can claim he is sane on the basis that only an insane man would have left his clothes on to swim across the moat.
Posted in: Man in underwear swims palace moat 'to meet emperor'
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Andrew Matthews
Isn't it a sign of growing old when the pilots seem so young?....
Posted in: Ready for boarding
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Andrew Matthews
@Hategobo - Lawrence Weston... I'll be staying visiting the UK and staying near Bedminster next month - I'll say Hi! for you. But I probably won't watch The Artist there. Somebody would probably think that due to my accent I'm an American and try and sell me special earphones to listen to it in 3D...
Posted in: 'It's silent?': Britons demand refunds for 'The Artist'
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Andrew Matthews
Strange how society's mores can play a part. In the UK, suicide is considered "bad form" so the authorities will bend over backwards to say it is not suicide - "The deceased was depressed and told people he was going to hang himself. Was found in a locked room with the key in his pocket, hanging from a rafter by a kicked over chair. However no suicide note was found, so it's death by misadventure".
In Japan...
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Andrew Matthews
@Hategobo - Yeah _ I'm from Bristol, I am sorry to say you might be able to insert almost any city in the headline... But I refuse to back down on my comment about the shell-suits....
Posted in: 'It's silent?': Britons demand refunds for 'The Artist'
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Andrew Matthews
I have to agree at this point (although I would like to believe that not all Liverpudlians are morons - the same cannot be said of the ones wearing shell-suits).
On the plus side, at least we know that Liverpool will never be bereft of village idiots.
Posted in: 'It's silent?': Britons demand refunds for 'The Artist'