JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Corporate Business English Trainers
- ACT Systems, Inc.（株式会社アクト・システムズ）, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥269,500 ~ ¥280,000 / Month
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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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Beelzebub
No, let's not. I'm perfectly content to watch old black and white clips from the telly on YouTube, which were made at a time when actors could evoke emotional responses and directors didn't depend on faked explosions and obligatory car chase scenes in every production.
Posted in: 3D television: a new device, a new language
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Beelzebub
This seems to be the original article that inspired the Japanese story
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&cid=pesek&sid=a3Di3SzK1Dc8
Posted in: Will Tokyo Sky Tree's completion bring down 'skyscraper curse' on Japan?
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Beelzebub
Hell, you can buy a perfectly good used digital camera for 4,725 yen. Probably get 6 or 7 megapixels for that price.
Posted in: Camera bags
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Beelzebub
Maybe because the steel used for part of the Tokyo Tower was from tanks (U.S. Army tanks, damaged in the Korean War.) Swords into ploughshares?
Posted in: Will Tokyo Sky Tree's completion bring down 'skyscraper curse' on Japan?
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Beelzebub
Let Ms. Masuda be remembered as the Bernhard Goetz of Nagasaki. Or maybe we could call her Madame Iron Butterfly.
Posted in: Elderly woman arrested for beating youth sitting in priority seat of bus
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Beelzebub
As is often the case of words with foreign derivation, haafu was coined because previous terms like ainoko and konketsuji carried too much negative baggage. That said, it puts a label on people and I prefer to avoid it for that reason.
Posted in: What do you think of the word "hafu," the Japanese term used to describe anyone who is half-Japanese?
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Beelzebub
Go to my family estate on the Isle of Skye.
Posted in: What do you do to keep cool and fresh during the summer months?
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Beelzebub
Religion is supposed to be a belief system, not the Mardi Gras. People who think they are being devout because they dress up in peculiar garments don't really understand what it's all about.
Posted in: French parliament debates ban on burqa-style veils
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Beelzebub
Next time I am in Shibuya and feel potassium deprivation, I'll know exactly where to go.
Posted in: Going bananas
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Beelzebub
The choice of language per se is only part of the issue. Self expression, achieving consensus and tenacity in the defence of one's position are closely tied to cultural attitudes. The results of meetings held in English and Japanese might be quite different and over the long run would be likely to set a company on a different course.
Posted in: What do you think of the decision by major Japanese companies such as Rakuten and Fast Retailing to make English the official language at their management meetings?
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Beelzebub
I hope sumo can continue, but I'd rather see it die a quick death than to watch it slowly erode, with one scandal after the next.
Posted in: What sort of a future do you think sumo has, in view of the latest scandal over illegal gambling?
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Beelzebub
It makes a great deal of sense for Haneda to handle flights to Seoul, Taipei and Guam/Saipan since for many people in the western part of Tokyo the time to get to Narita airport takes longer than to fly to these nearby destinations.
Posted in: ANA to launch 5 international routes from Haneda
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Beelzebub
How could the fate of a nation be decided by approximately 0.25 per cent of the electorate (this assuming a voter turnout of 50 per cent, which would be above the national average) who would be voting for a slate of all-Japanese candidates?
Posted in: From TV to politics, Renho blazes a trail
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Beelzebub
Indeed. But to be honest I don't see a great deal of erudite English from native speakers, who presumably received an equal amount of schooling in their own language.
Posted in: Kanji catching on all over, but frequently misunderstood
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Beelzebub
@UdaMan -- shucks, I only use "cool" to mean "mildly cold".
I must concede your point this time: the Google translator will translate 酷 as "cool", but when translating from English into Chinese the process is not reversed. Typing "cool" gives you 涼 (liang) in Chinese.
Posted in: Kanji catching on all over, but frequently misunderstood
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Beelzebub
It's from Spa!, not Shukan Post.
Posted in: Kanji catching on all over, but frequently misunderstood
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Beelzebub
It doesn't "mean" cool, it's pronounced ku (in the 4th tone) in Mandarin and used thusly for the phonetic similarity to the English "cool". The actual meaning is essentially the same as in Japanese.
Posted in: Kanji catching on all over, but frequently misunderstood
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Beelzebub
Twitter is like haiku,”
'What is the sound of one hand twittering'? just doesn't work...
Posted in: Twitter a hit in Japan as millions 'mumble' online
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Beelzebub
Please define 'protect'. Can the drones differentiate between restaurant dish washers, lettuce pickers and drug smugglers?
Posted in: U.S. to use drones along border with Mexico
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Beelzebub
We should not look at this merely as the case of a politician dismissing a commander in the field. Just as the Vietnam War had its turning point with the 'Walter Cronkite moment', it appears that the war in Afghanistan has now arrived at its 'Rolling Stone moment'. By this time a year from now, President Kharzai will be settled into his villa in exile (perhaps in the south of France or Switzerland), and the Taliban will once again be executing disobedient women with their AK47s in Kabul Stadium. Well, it was jolly good fun while it lasted.
Posted in: Obama fires McChrystal; Petraeus picked for Afghanistan