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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Depends on the show. However with the camera crew present it makes people behave in ways I think they would not behave under normal circumstances.
I actually like the Amazing Race, however I think the show can be a million times better and they come up with stupid rules each year. Also notice that 99% of the time if you aren't a good looking person in a bikini you won't be on the Amazing Race. Sure they do have a couple of teams that are "normal" but for the most part, hot looking in a bikini or you're not going to be on that show.
Posted in: What do you think about the quality of reality TV shows?
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I just want to tell you both good luck. We're all counting on you.
Posted in: 'Naked Gun,' 'Airplane' star Leslie Nielsen dies at 84
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Looks like a one eyed alien on skates.
Posted in: Losing her head
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Multitasking and printing! The wave of the future...
Seriously though, if someone wanted a portable computer, I recommend getting a netbook instead. THREE USB ports on your regular netbook...which means you can use ANY usb printer not just HP wireless ones.
Posted in: Multitasking, wireless printing come to iPad
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The best. Aside from Suicides, trains are usually ON TIME in Japan. You're lucky to have a train on time following a real timetable in the part of America I am from. Also I find it to be more userfriendly in that, dual announcements, LCD screens that show station transfers etc.
The best part, "virtually" zero beggers/homeless people and husslers at Japanese train stations. I cannot tell you how many times when visiting home in America, some homeless person or crackhead hassling for money in the transit systems there.
Posted in: How do Japan's subway and rail systems compare with other countries?
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In the States, you lock yourself in the car, two seconds later your windshield is busted and you are tazed.
So it depends on how you look at it.
Posted in: Man in possession of marijuana locks himself in car in Ginza
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WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH ANYTHING?
If you tie a rope across the street at night, what do you expect to happen? Nothing?
So if she was wearing a helmet it's "all ok?"
Talk about putting spin into the story.
Posted in: Son of U.S. Air Force officer found guilty in rope incident case
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Folks it's also important to take a step back and remember that no one is right or wrong, everyone has different ideas. At the end of the day Tuesday passed an no one is dead, nothing blew up, the sun rose. Dems screw up, Republicans screw up, it goes back and forth all the freaking time. The fact is most Americans are also angry at the Republicans to, but are angrier right now at the Democrats, they just keep voting in new people but keep getting the same ole results.
Posted in: GOP wins the House, falls short of Senate
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I love it every 2 or so years, people going back and forth at each other like they actually care and if they actually believe the government will change. For Washington it will be "business as usual". Tea Partiers less then 50% of them won elections last night not a sweeping out, Democrats retrain the Senate, the House is Republican. Same ole s***t two years from now...
Posted in: GOP wins the House, falls short of Senate
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Ah election season where people actually pretend to really care about politics and talk about they know stuff. Then right after it's business as usual, Washington as usual, until the next election cycle. Democrats, republicans, independents, it's all the same.
Posted in: GOP wins the House, falls short of Senate
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The end of the day the Democrats will still control the Senate by a slight polarity and lose the house. What this means? Nothing. Same ole Washington business controlled by corporations and special interests.
Posted in: GOP upbeat, Democrats brace for losses in election
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Seriously the world is not going to change overnight. It's the same old stuff every single election cycle, it's nothing new. Republicans come in, people don't like em so the Democracts come in, then it's the same old cycle over again. Clinton lost the congress in 1994 and he still gets higher approval ratings today more then Bush.
Posted in: GOP upbeat, Democrats brace for losses in election
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You cannot under estimate bears. One angry bear can easily take on 3-4 unarmed humans.
Posted in: Bear killed after attacking man and son in Fukui
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Jeeze this isn't the first time in history that a meeting has been barred from public view. Meetings of grand scales happen all the time in private. It's open to the media but not the general public. Again all for some bottlenose dolphins which are NOT endangered.
Posted in: Taiji meeting on dolphin hunt set for Nov 2; public to be barred
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The list is not "THAT" different from other girls from other societies.
Posted in: Things Japanese girls do that make guys go, 'Huh?'
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It's the same ole stuff, Republicans come in screw up, dems com in screw up, and the cycle begins all over again. A bunch of talking heads on TV on both sides. Republicans will come in, run the country into the ground, so next round the democrats come in and run it into the ground again, so the public can change their minds once again.
Posted in: All signs point to Republican victories: polls
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Invasion of privacy? When I book my airplane ticket, I got to give my full name, birth date, address, credit card, I got to show a passport/ID at the airport...Then it's either get felt up by a security person or walk through the scanner. I'd walk through the scanner if it means I don't have to take off my sweater, jacket, etc every time I fly.
Posted in: Are airport body scanners an invasion of privacy?
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It said they were detained for blocking the route, nothing said they can't protest as well. As a side note I think i've been to that HUB pub before.
Posted in: I protest
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Actually it is not uncommon even in America. If a bear were to be found in a school, the police would confine it but not shoot it either (depending on the circumstances), the police would either call Animal control unit, or call the local wild life experts to come in and handle the situation depending on how dangerous it is. The police would not shoot the bear unless it was absolutely necessarily.
I really don't see any problem here in the police calling the local hunters club (or whatever it is) because those people are the most likely to have dealt with bears and wild animals, rather then the local koban cop.
Posted in: Bear shot dead after entering Yamagata junior high school
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Yeah the majority of sudden unintended acceleration cases are due to driver error. Just like the 1980's Audi Unintended acceleration cases which was blown way out of proportion by the media.
Posted in: Toyota steps up efforts to woo back U.S. customers