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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Azrael
Caveman Lawyer, are you sure there is not a free market out there? Isn't the fact it exists the exact problem after all?
Posted in: Prep school owner arrested for selling child pornography through online auction
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Azrael
This may seem an unrelated question, but why is the ex-husband's mother living there? Being that the stabbed child was presumably from the new marriage, could some ijime be part of the picture?
Posted in: 10-year-old boy stabbed to death in Osaka; mother stabs herself
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Azrael
The mister in hotpants has nice legs.
Posted in: Bubblegum Brothers to reunite after 12 years
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Azrael
My computer has the Monkey King! n.n;
Posted in: Microsoft says next Windows won't be as annoying
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Azrael
In no particular order: Hawaii 5-0, WonderWoman (series with Lynda Carter), Cheers (that show with Ted Danson in a bar, the song was so nice), The Muppet Show (when Jim Henson was around), The Twilight Zone!
I have more favorites, but well... These are just five of them XD.
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Azrael
Must be strangely amusing to see your grandma's photos in a display at the department store XD. It looks like the prince and his family are having fun!
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Azrael
She looks very nice in the photo, yet she needs a fashion adviser. Flawless knees, too.
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Azrael
Respectability and a degree of prestige.
The blogosphere phenomenon that turned every Joe and his cat into "journalists" also brought about the notion that anyone can be a journalist, no studies, research capabilities, diploma or grammar whatsoever required. Plagiarism is also one of the ills of the blogosphere and internet publishing.
Even if AP, ACAN-EFE, REUTERS and other sources of prestige publish online, as other posters have previously noted, it is not infrequent to see footnotes stating an article has been "corrected," "edited" and so on. This removes responsibility from the author of the piece and makes online newspapers un-quotable and unreliable as sources of information for researchers, students and book authors.
Just as today scholars (I am a PhD. student) can only take credits for publishing on printed journals, I do suppose there will come a time when publishing news in newspapers will be considered a point of prestige in a journalist's career. Sales of newspapers may decline, but not as much as to make newspapers extinct or irrelevant. Paper cannot be easily changed and printed word asks for reliability and responsibility. This is why I think, being published in print media will come to be a point of prestige and respectability for professional journalists (if it isn't already!).
Posted in: What can newspapers offer that digitally delivered journalism cannot?
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Azrael
I think saying "too beautiful" related to her supporters abandoning her is in this case an euphemism to describe the discomfort and disbelief (good grief! they may have said) she caused to her supporters by doing a DVD featuring soft-porn (aka, gravure), among other things. Saying "too beautiful" is a sarcasm for "all too willing to wear skimpy outfits and sell the photos," no more than that.
Posted in: 'Too beautiful' Aomori politician losing supporters
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Azrael
I agree with AlfGarnett. People need to be frugal again. I lived in a military dictatorship 14 years of my life, we had to be frugal with everything. I used to make my own clothes, have one or two pairs of shoes for school (uniform) and sneakers (also school, but to go out, too). I also know how to cook from raw materials (no need of fancy pre-made stuff which makes grocery shopping more expensive) and there was no need to go partying at all. I spent most of my time studying and reading books, and that is still paying off. Today I try to live by simple rules I learned back then about spending, and now I think it'll be best to adhere to those more strictly in order to keep ends meeting. If people were less dependent of pre-made things, frozen foods and fashion, their budgets would shrink considerably and so would their garbage "contributions."
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Azrael
Indeed, public nudity and sex on the beach can get anyone arrested anywhere - including Latin America and the Caribbean (despite the fantasies of some earlier poster). Yet I think the punishment is harsh, I think it's only adequate they got arrested and prosecuted. They found what they were looking for.
Posted in: Britons get jail time for sex on beach in Dubai
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Azrael
Most suicide news have the usual "he wasn't the type to commit suicide," "he acted so normal today," "he was such a good person," "I thought he was happy" comments. Suicide is not predictable. I think it's best to leave the matter to forensic investigators.
Posted in: Case against Miura formally dismissed; supporters question jail suicide
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Azrael
I agree. I do not like self-service, specially for something as pricey as air travel. I think overpricing and raising the costs, then imposing self-service is most disrespectful. I would choose airline service with humans in it any day over any mechanized "service."
Posted in: Global airport passenger survey reveals self-service most popular; baggage next challenge
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Azrael
Indeed! Betamax and VHS didn't bring down TV and movie industries, did they? This is a frivolous lawsuit.
Posted in: DVD-copying software sparks legal battle with movie studios
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Azrael
I wonder if there is a correlation between this news and that "Have your say" on JT that went, "Why do moviegoers in English-speaking countries tend to avoid foreign movies with subtitles, while in Japan, for example, it's just the opposite?"
Do Americans decidedly avoid foreign films and books (not counting the obliged classics of universal literature, most of whose authors are long dead) and rather exclusively consume their own produce? Do average, everyday Americans shun foreign literature? Is it rare for Americans to speak more than one language?
I do have noticed the US looks in general, insular. Americans (as in the average American you can meet on the internet - a paradox?) tend to be generally unaware of the world outside their borders, and instead have quite stereotyped views of other countries. Generally they have no malice about it, just a sort of pre-packaged view. However I cannot quite judge a whole nation for its internauts. Brain fodder from early infancy and throughout youth forms the base from which authors write. I don't see anything wrong on writing from "behind the fence," keeping literary concerns within the borders of their own country; but how often do Americans look outside? In a way yet empirically, what Horace Engdahl said seems to make sense. I may be wrong, but the US is not part of any "international community" I can think of. Yes, the US is a prominent member of many international organizations... but it's not quite the same. The US is not part of any "region," not even with its closest neighbors Canada and Mexico. The Mediterranean, the Caribbean for example, host numerous countries whose culture is entwined with one another. The US looks orphan sometimes. I think global participation as members of a cultural whole (western Europeans, latin americans, arabs, and so on) give people a pool of exchange where cultural enrichment flows freely. Where do the Americans get this? Does such exchanges reflect in American literature? How?
Posted in: Nobel literature head: U.S. too insular to compete
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Azrael
YAYNESS! ^0^! I want one!
Posted in: Google phone to cost $179; debut Oct 22
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Azrael
I wasn't born when Twiggy was around. This to put into perspective Twiggy's heyday was a long time ago; however, fashion returns.
It is not true that designs always look best on skinny models. At Twiggy's time, fashion design called for flowing garments that didn't require curves beneath them. Before Twiggy if I am correct, there was Raquel Welch, Catherine Denueve and Brigitte Bardot. Way before them, the Gibson Girl. So yes, there have been times in which curvy women with exuberant bosom and child-bearing hips have been the best figure to present fashion. It seems like both images, the twig and the wasp, alternate in time. I think Sophia Loren and her line of fashion and makeup is an example on how both trends can rule parallel, since she's been around for a very long time by now and is still considered Chic.
Personally (and not being twig) I prefer fashion presented by realistic bodies. Skeletal-esque models are not very realistic, even worse considering the global trends.
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Azrael
I don't understand those complaining how skinny she is. Most Japanese tarentos or celebrities seem to be around the same overall body shape, except for the height.
vettegirl at 12:03 AM JST - 21st September described in general the requirements for supermodels nowadays, quite effectively. Supermodels are not anymore after the image of Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista or Christie Brinkley (toned, svelte but with curves). Nowadays, supermodels are more after the image of Kate Moss. Fortunately, some steps (starting in Madrid's catwalks) are being taken to prevent excessive glorification of skeleton-esque figures, since models have already died from eating disorders and young (and not so young), impressionable girls fall prey to eating disorders trying to meet the Kate Moss standard.
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Azrael
It's funny how the rightwing Japanese politicians relentlessly try to coerce the Emperor into visiting Yasukuni Shrine and their advances always get thoroughly ignored by him.
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Azrael
So because you wrote your post yesterday, today your feeling does not exist; only words which describe themselves. You are not here now. You don't exist. You can't reach me when you read this, because I am not here anymore.
Interesting.
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