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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Beelzebub
These things are all the inevitable result of overpopulation. There more people there are, the smaller the slice of the pie. The US population has nearly doubled since the end of WW2. World resources have remained the same and people in newly developed economies all want cars and air conditioners, which means the resources the world has left will be consumed at an increasingly faster rate. And AK-47s are so cheap and ubiquitous that the days are over that an imperialist power can send in its troops and grab resources without incurring high casualties. Mr Kuhn is correct to be feeling anxiety for America's future.
Posted in: America feels ready to snap
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Beelzebub
What NK really needs is STEALTH technology to make it disappear from the planet.
Posted in: N Korean leader visits school in China
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Beelzebub
To acknowledge an incurable condition regarding the population's addiction to electronic devices of all types, I respectfully propose that Japan apply to the UN to change its name to 'Nerdistan' and the sun symbol in the centre of its flag be replaced by the Nintendo corporate logo.
Posted in: Boy falls onto train tracks while looking at handheld game console
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Beelzebub
"Mission Accomplished" (again).
Posted in: Attacks in Iraq kill 56
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Beelzebub
If I see anything in my inbox that looks even remotely like a commercial message, I delete it without opening. Social Media is just a euphemism for spam.
Posted in: Companies struggle to deal with workers' Twitter addiction
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Beelzebub
Wassa matta -- you gotta tweeto-phobia?
Posted in: Companies struggle to deal with workers' Twitter addiction
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Beelzebub
With employment opportunities plummeting, it doesn't surprise me that more young women are turning to the world's oldest profession. Vice is one of the few industries that's still thriving.
Posted in: Osaka man arrested for employing 50 high school girls as prostitutes
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Beelzebub
I don't get it. I flew Garuda from Narita to Jakarta back in the mid-1980s. What's the big deal?
Posted in: Garuda Indonesia to launch Jakarta-Tokyo flights
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Beelzebub
Americans were humiliated by 9/11 and looked around for someone to kick. That was the real reason for the Iraq War -- not WMDs and certainly not replacing a tyrant with democracy. Fighting two wars simultaneously has bled the country white economically (a tax cut in wartime is sheer folly) and even West Point graduates are not reenlisting. If there's a silver lining, at least the combat experience Yanks are getting now will come in handy to provide savvy, battlefield-tested NCOs for the next war.
Posted in: Iran inaugurates nation's first unmanned bomber
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Beelzebub
Thank you, Sarge, for your regular posts. They are effective reminders of the truth to banker David Hannum's observation about a sucker being born every minute.
Posted in: Fixing American 'dumbocracy'
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Beelzebub
The market for writers trying to break into fiction these days is awful I've been told. iUniverse is a vanity publisher. And since the narrative doesn't seem to involve Japan, I wonder why JapanToday.com decided to post this review.
Moderator: The book may be of interest to our readers who are all over the world. Furthermore, like all major news websites in the world, JT does not publish material only about its host country, but on a wide variety of topics that may be of interest to our international readership.
Posted in: The Butcher’s Thumb
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Beelzebub
MOS burgers tend to fall apart in your hands while eating them. Or else they drip sauce on your trousers. The cook who creates these products apparently equates messy dining with good taste.
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Beelzebub
They're clearly freaking out from the higher ocean temperatures. Coral would probably do the same thing, if they weren't anchored to the sea bed.
Posted in: 58 pilot whales die in New Zealand beach stranding
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Beelzebub
Huh?? It looked to me like it said you could buy it from the UK, resell it in Japan and turn a handy profit.
Posted in: Soaring yen threatens disaster for most, but profits for some
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Beelzebub
If you'd be kind enough tell us who his masters are, I'd be happy to look up their beliefs for you in Wikipedia.
Posted in: White House says Obama is Christian, prays daily
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Beelzebub
I would add that a criminal so rendered then becomes a burden on his family and society. Why not let him keep his body intact, but oblige him to spend the rest of his life working to compensate his victim?
Posted in: Saudi judge considers paralysis punishment
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Beelzebub
@Starke, don't you mean 'insurance companies'? But let us not digress from my point, which is that it is unethical for physicians to perform amputations, mutilations, etc.
Posted in: Saudi judge considers paralysis punishment
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Beelzebub
I hope responsible doctors tell this judge where he can stick his ruling. Any physician who performs such a procedure is violating the Hippocratic Oath and should be expelled from the medical profession.
Posted in: Saudi judge considers paralysis punishment
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Beelzebub
This is what, when we were children, we used to call a 'white lie'.
Posted in: White House says Obama is Christian, prays daily
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Beelzebub
From the prices of imported books sold here, the exchange rate would appear to be around 160 yen to 1 US dollar. Even when the yen soars, the prices of foreign goods do not necessarily become cheaper. A jar of Skippy peanut butter, for instance, goes for about the same now as when the yen was 125 to the dollar. Merchants will set prices according to what they think consumers are willing to pay. There's little advantage for consumers.
Posted in: Soaring yen threatens disaster for most, but profits for some