JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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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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- Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) in Kanto region
- RCS (RCSコーポレーション), Kanto
- Salary: ¥180,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month includes performance bonus
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- Assistant Language Teacher - TOKYO - late-March start
- Interac, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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Beelzebub
Takarakuji should pay her an added bonus for her endorsement of their lottery, which is certain to sucker more people into buying tickets.
Posted in: Actress Sayuri Kokusho celebrates Y1 mil lottery win
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Beelzebub
To natto and tofu can be added soya milk (tonyu). It's flavour is a little grassy to some, but it's like drinkable tofu and any supermarket or convenience store sells it. It will help you lose weight if you reduce your solid food intake.
Posted in: Slimmed-down comic sings praises of tofu & natto based diet
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Beelzebub
There's nothing disrespectful in either the photo or the caption. Look at the body language of the man and woman. It would seem some posters in here can't resist their urge to be contentious no matter what the subject matter.
Posted in: Remembrance Day
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Beelzebub
There seems to be a certain lack of understanding here. Japanese have a cultural affinity for strolling through cemeteries, like Yanaka, Tama, Aoyama and Zoshigaya, to name four Tokyo examples, mingle with the past and perhaps view the graves of famous people. Some may be interested for historical reasons, but I suppose there is also a sentiment that once a person is dead any negative feelings can be washed away. Anyway strolling through such places is a very Japanese thing, and I must confess to having done it myself a few times.
Posted in: Remembrance Day
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Beelzebub
This product is also guaranteed to drive Ei-kaiwa teachers nuts. 'Is this a pen?' 'Yes, it's not.'
Posted in: Pen-scissors combo
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Beelzebub
Peace, 100kg would be a wide receiver. We're talking about refrigerator-sized hulks here, easily over 130kg, with shoulders so wide they partially block the aisle.
Posted in: How should airlines handle obese passengers?
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Beelzebub
What to do about people who are just huge, but not obese -- like NFL linebackers?
Posted in: How should airlines handle obese passengers?
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Beelzebub
I only saw one nationality mentioned in the sentence that preceded. Have you checked your eyes lately, sensei?
Posted in: Ueno massage shop operators suspected of being N Korean operatives
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Beelzebub
That's a lot of money to pay for a doorstop.
Posted in: Bush memoir sells 220,000 copies on first day
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Beelzebub
I feel genuine pity for the trees that were felled to make the wood pulp that wound up becoming Bush's book. What a waste.
Posted in: Bush is back, and eager to help history judge him
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Beelzebub
That's nothing. I run into Her Highness all the time in chat rooms. Always wants to talk about her Welsh Corgi. A tad boring, but what can you do...She goes by the ID 'Queens_English'.
Posted in: Queen Elizabeth joins Facebook
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Beelzebub
Another word for this is 'rapidly dumbing down'.
Posted in: Seibu Railways to introduce 'maid trains'
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Beelzebub
Until 1945, Haneda-Taipei was a Japan domestic flight.
Posted in: China Airlines launches new Tokyo services
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Beelzebub
During the Vietnam war, this is what they called a 'fire-free zone' toward which 'protective reaction strikes' were directed. As a cartoon in the Stars & Stripes explained it back then, as opposed to an 'air raid', a protective reaction strike means 'never having to say you're sorry'. Different wars, same strategy (and probably same outcome).
Posted in: U.S. drone strikes kill 14 militants in Pakistan
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Beelzebub
This is a reliable indicator that the bonen-kai season has already begun...
Posted in: Woman trapped inside Osaka subway car for 4 1/2 hours
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Beelzebub
It's pretty clear that China's propaganda is for domestic consumption and it doesn't really expect foreign viewers/listeners to take it seriously.
Posted in: Beijing denounces Nobel prize as a Western tool
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Beelzebub
American voters have long ago ceased to understand the process of cause and effect. Deliver tax cuts while waging two wars, and you're surprised you've got a deficit? Likewise for the health care plan. The voting public thinks somehow either of the two parties it empowers will magically defy natural laws (like the law of gravity). Is this stupid, or what?
Posted in: Obama, GOP talk compromise, conflict
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Beelzebub
I'm sure they'll be sold out within the first three days. What's a paltry 168,000 yen when Keiko-chan will be able to show off to her peers at the office that she can warm her lap with this cho-kawaii piece of pink wool?
Posted in: Hello Kitty blanket
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Beelzebub
I can't think of anything more suspicious than a package from the Middle East addressed to a US synagogue. It practically screams 'check me!' Surely such lack of subtlety suggests the sender intended it to be discovered?
Posted in: Mail bomb plot just narrowly averted, officials say
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Beelzebub
The Walkman was a real godsend to Japanese rail commuters who wanted to screen out their fellow humans. Now they've got games, cell phones, iPods and god knows what else to enable them to crawl into their bubble and make the world go away. This is nothing but infantile thumb-sucking for adults and has very little to do with enjoying music.
Posted in: A Walkman obit: Remembering the portable player