JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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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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Apsara
I've had a free one-way flight NZ-Japan, a free business class return flight Japan-HK, and another free business class flight return Japan-Beijing all from air points, so I'm not complaining.
Posted in: What is your experience with airline frequent flyer programs? Are they a good idea or not?
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Apsara
rogerbentham, they are the names of the chess pieces- silver general. gold general etc. If you want to know more, I'm sure a Google would turn up plenty of info in English.
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Apsara
GW, all mainstream models are skin and bone. With today's industry standards, they wouldn't be models if they weren't.
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Apsara
The word "tweasers" in the article should be spelled "tweezers". Actually I disagree with the use of "tweezers" in any case- tweezers are small. Tongs is the appropriate word here. Armchair proofreader out.
Moderator: Thank you for the correction.
Posted in: Outing litter louts
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Apsara
No that was a different moat I believe ;-)
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Apsara
"Seiyu, as Wal-Mart is called here?" Are Seiyu and Wal-Mart owned by the same people? If not, I don't think Seiyu is really in any way comparable to Wal-Mart- there is nothing like the scale or spread at all.
Posted in: Japan warming to cheap foreign gadgets amid slump
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Apsara
I don't care what the lady said or how she said it, punching someone old enough to be your mother on the jaw hard enough to break it because she asked you to stop playing games on a cellphone is borderline psychotic behaviour. To those of you who even begin to think it's a reasonable response, you scare me. I hope there aren't too many of you out there. What would you think if it was your own mother that was hit? I suppose you would go out looking for the guy...to punch him. No wonder society is so messed up when there are people who think that hitting someone will solve their problems.
Posted in: Man held for punching 50-yr-old woman on Saitama train over playing games on cell phone
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Apsara
Anybody who thinks it's ok to talk on the phone in a crowded train (as mentioned above), has obviously never been on the Saikyo line at rush hour because that would be ludicrous. Good luck if you can even move your hand to get the phone to your own ear, and your conversation would be directed right into the ears of someone else as your mouth is only centimetres away from other people's heads on a train that packed. A number of times on the Saikyo line I have thought that I was not far off cracking a rib.
Imagine someone jiggling their elbow while playing a game in your ribs, arm or back for 10 minutes or more and you can understand why this lady was annoyed. I also agree that 50 is not old- how old are some of you people, 10? 50 year olds are usually still strong, active adults, not stooped-over elderly people with canes.
Posted in: Man held for punching 50-yr-old woman on Saitama train over playing games on cell phone
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Apsara
Scary- I live on the Chuo Line, and on Mondays I work near Tokyo station so I was there not long before that incident. I'm with Disillusioned- for a few years now I have made sure to stand well back from the yellow line even and try to keep an eye on the people around me- I hate to be first in the line for a train, even if it means I have to stand. I know this kind of incident is rare so it seems paranoid, but all it takes is one crazy person, and the Chuo line seems to have a lot of them...
Posted in: Man arrested for attempted murder after pushing woman off platform at Tokyo station
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Apsara
What a ridiculous thing for the guy to claim. As the priests said, a devout Buddhist would not steal, much less from a temple. He must think other people are complete idiots.
Posted in: Statue thief claims he is just 'serious Buddhist'
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Apsara
That wouldn't be an unusual amount for someone to carry around in Japan though.
Posted in: Three men arrested for robbing drunken salarymen in Tokyo
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Apsara
My 38-year old Japanese boyfriend has twice in the last 3 years spent 3 months in India and Nepal and had his explanation that he was travelling and sightseeing (true) taken at face value. One time he had his luggage opened and quickly searched, but that was it, so it's not a given that all older Japanese guys taking long trips to India are seen as drug smugglers. Lots of my Japanese friends travel in India several times a year even (including my 51 year old yoga teacher- Japanese guy) and haven't reported being x-rayed for drugs on their way back in. Perhaps this guy looked particularly sloppy or did something suspicious.
There are more Japanese backpackers on long trips out there than you might think, umm, Scrote- lots of people go on working holidays, for a start.
Posted in: Drug suspect, caught at Narita, had 273 packs of cannabis in stomach
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Apsara
She looks quite different to how she used to- I didn't even recognise her from the photograph. She has obviously Botoxed and siliconed her face beyond recognition.
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Apsara
On other websites there have been a number of posts about this kind of thing recently. Not an early April Fool's Day joke at all, it really happens, and quite often. Apparently the police say there's nothing they can do.
Posted in: U.S. Embassy warns Americans to avoid Roppongi bars due to drink-spiking increase
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Apsara
I don't see that that would necessarily save the country money anyway- sure smokers tend to die earlier, but all the extra medical treatment they need while doing it must cost money, and the taxes on cigarettes aren't high here.
All those old men I see who obviously smoked at least a pack a day for decades and are now towing around oxygen tanks with them are obviously costing the taxpayer more money than a healthy person of the same age.
Posted in: Doctor apologizes for saying people should smoke themselves to death
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Apsara
Let's forget this is for India and imagine it is back in the States, Australia or the UK- does anyone think for a second that this T-shirt would get past the idea stage? I highly doubt it. And as for this comment: "I know some women who completely bare their breasts for newborn babies! Selfish lasses have no concern for how much they are warping children with that!", there is a big difference between this photo and a picture of a breastfeeding mother for example- all pictures of breasts are not created with the same intent, and this pic has nothing to do with breastfeeding. Do you think that pictures of topless models should be handed out to kids at schools? I see nothing offensive about breasts per se either- I have a pair myself, but there is a question of appropriateness. This T-shirt is not.
Posted in: TBS turns viewers off with its topless T-shirt project
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Apsara
How odd to have a picture of a semi-nude celebrity above the caption "school for all children". Did no-one anywhere along the line before that T-shirt was actually made think that might be the teeniest bit inappropriate? Truly amazing.
Posted in: TBS turns viewers off with its topless T-shirt project
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Apsara
I know people who can do that, and as you would imagine, it's not possible to do it on large waves. That's what they do to have fun if the waves are small. Smithin Japan, I take it you do headstands on your board even during typhoons?
Posted in: Surfing
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Apsara
gougers? That's "gorgeous" that you wanted, I think.
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Apsara
That guy looks like he has a mohawk. Probably helps him balance ;-)
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