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
Cleo, you got me curious, so I looked it up in the Japanese and guess what, the word's been around in Japan for at least 45 years. Here is how Apache is defined in the 1965 edition of Tokyodo's Gairaigo-jiten:（米） Apaches + 族 アパッチー族（名）（勇猛なアメリカ士人の種族の名から比喩的に）古金属窃盗団。(現）Apache - tribe (noun) (used figuratively from the name of the fierce American warrior tribe) groups of robbers of used metal. The dictionary capitalizes it.
Posted in: Apaches on the warpath in Tochigi
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Beelzebub
Almost all the SM and bondage in Japan involves play acting and no one gets hurt by it. I sense many if not all of these 'S' males get a thrill out of the notion of subduing a woman and would probably flee in panic if a woman took the initiative in a sexual relationship.
Posted in: Minako Komukai puts on bondage show
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Beelzebub
I've noticed a considerable increase in police and community watch patrols in the neighborhood. There are definitely more of those tatekanban signs wired to utility poles warning against purse snatchings, etc. Of course robberies and pilferage do tend to go up during recessions, so there's nothing surprising about it.
Posted in: Apaches on the warpath in Tochigi
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Beelzebub
I do a lot of editing on galleys and the fax is still the most practical way to go.
Posted in: Send fax without using paper
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Beelzebub
Good question. My guess is it's probably a play on words from apaato, which are more common out in Tochigi than manshon.
Posted in: Apaches on the warpath in Tochigi
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Beelzebub
A young American executive who I took around to several major clients had a serious problem with his English diction. This wizened old f**t took him aside and pointed it out to him, explaining why it was a problem and why it would be to his advantage to correct it. He stumbled a few times but by the end of the day he had rid himself an inappropriate colloquialism. I would like to think I did him a favour, but who knows?
Posted in: If a longtime expat starts offering you advice, walk the other way
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Beelzebub
Does this surprise you? It's obvious that from quite a few years ago web site operators began to rate the 'quality' of articles by counting the number of responses generated from irate readers.
Posted in: If a longtime expat starts offering you advice, walk the other way
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Beelzebub
There is no such thing as 'easy access' to Narita Airport, only varying degrees of bad.
Posted in: Mitsui Garden Hotel to open in Ueno in September
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Beelzebub
Japanese brains seem to have a wonderful filter that enables them to disregard things I find annoying to the extreme, like ambulance sirens at 2:30 a.m., off-key karaoke and the smell of smouldering cigarette filters in public dustbins. If they could develop it for export, think of all the happy people there would be in the world.
Posted in: It’s time to get rid of sound trucks
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Beelzebub
The merit-based wage and promotion system went into effect at many companies, but there's still a lot of old-style factionalism among people who attended the same university, etc. and a worker without these sort of connections might be arbitrarily given a lower rating even though he's not necessarily a slacker.
Posted in: New breed of corporate head choppers set up errant workers for decapitation
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Beelzebub
If you boot them out, you are just exporting refugees who will create a problem for the next country that takes them in. If a person goes through the French naturalisation process and is accorded French citizenship, his subsequent criminal behaviour becomes France's problem, and it would be France's job to rehabilitate him or her.
Posted in: Sarkozy threatens immigrants who target police
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Beelzebub
Flags taken down can be hoisted again. I recall reading a piece by a Japanese survivor of Iwo Jima that after the Marines raised the flag on Mt. Suribachi the peak was unguarded and Japanese returned two more times and raise their own flag. There's something iconic about all of this, but it's a bit silly if you really think about it in 21st century terms, where massed troops waving their colours just make easier targets for drones or B52s.
Posted in: Al-Qaida plants flag, burns bodies in Iraq attack
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Beelzebub
I wonder what Al-Qaida members say when they recite their pledge of allegiance... ".. one nation, under Allah, with suicide bombs followed by 72 virgins for all.."?
Posted in: Al-Qaida plants flag, burns bodies in Iraq attack
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Beelzebub
Out of curiosity (or boredom) I tried it. The flavour was rather bland. But I didn't contract scurvy so it's hard to refute their claims.
Posted in: Yuzu drink
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Beelzebub
Sarge, when was the last time you picked a head of lettuce, hosed down a kitchen floor or slaughtered a steer? How many other American citizens with whom you have a personal acquaintance perform such chores?
Posted in: Judge blocks parts of Arizona immigration law
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Beelzebub
Aside from being a huge waste of money, tattoos are lowbrow narcissism pure and simple, and everybody over 40 I've ever met who had one told me they wish they 'hadn't been so stupid' when they were younger.
Posted in: Jolie good time
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Beelzebub
Maybe I'll get one to keep my Sony Aibo company.
Posted in: Magic Pet
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Beelzebub
I think I burnt 500 calories just reading yasukuni's post. Keep up the good work.
Posted in: Majority of weight-loss products fail to cut kilos
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Beelzebub
Street crime is not that serious problem in Japan. From the "24 Hours Police at Work" programmes they're always showing, it would seem security cameras in stores seem to be catching lots of shoplifters. Most of them are old ladies.
Posted in: Do surveillance cameras in buildings, stations and on streets make you feel safer?
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Beelzebub
If there were a race of humans with blue skin she would buy one to complete the full set.
Posted in: A pinch of Salt