JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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Confrontation
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U.S. Navy investigating how parts fell off aircraft near Atsugi
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Apple dethrones Google as company with most respected image in eyes of consumers
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JFA plans to hold Under-20 Women's World Cup match in Fukushima
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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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- Assistant Language Teacher - Kanagawa Prefecture - late-March start
- Interac, Kanagawa
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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Beelzebub
With the increasing glut of lawyers, there are some who predict that Japan will turn into a litigious society, like the United States. The problem is, it takes at least two years to get a ruling about anything, even a murder in front of 10 witnesses. The court system here moves at a glacial pace.
Posted in: Claims against attorneys on the rise
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Beelzebub
OBL, like Cuba's Castro, may be mellowing out in his dotage. Eventually he'll release an autobiography produced by a ghostwriter and, basking in his status as a bestselling author, go around making appearances on Oprah and Jon Stewart's Daily Show.
Posted in: Osama bin Laden softens tone in audiotape message, but to what end?
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Beelzebub
WilliB: "Keep things in perspective?" Try telling that to the family of the dead kid.
Posted in: New Jersey student's suicide resonates on campus, beyond
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Beelzebub
Roaches have a kimon (trachea) and anything that clogs it will kill them. One surprised me in the bath and squirted him with liquid shampoo, did the trick in nothing flat.
Posted in: Exterminators lock horns with 'super gokiburi'
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Beelzebub
Malicious mischief by spoiled little brats at an Ivy League school. I hope Clementi's family appeals to Don Corleone to make sure they get real, old-fashioned Sicilian justice.
Posted in: New Jersey student's suicide resonates on campus, beyond
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Beelzebub
Now everybody and his brother who goes abroad will be carrying back the limits of duty-free smokes. There may be a loophole here too, if they don't raise the duty on cigarettes carried in duty-free.
Posted in: Japan hikes taxes on cigarettes by 40% to curb smoking
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Beelzebub
While not mentioning nationality per se, I've seen so many problems crop up when foreign visitors have dietary proscriptions. Learning about the country you are visiting also involves sampling its food dishes. Pork is easy enough to avoid, but some people demand that food be served on special plates, or they won't touch this or that for all kinds of reasons. It gets to the point that there's nowhere you can take them and no way to please them. Fussy eaters are a royal pain in the ar-- and my advice to such people is 'please stay home'.
Posted in: In your experience, which country's tourists are the least well-behaved whenever you have seen them out and about?
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Beelzebub
Washington works!!??
Posted in: White House chief of staff Emanuel to resign
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Beelzebub
I remember in 'Ivanhoe' when he spoke the immortal lines, 'Yondah lies da castle of my fodda'!
Posted in: Actor Tony Curtis dead at 85
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Beelzebub
I don't get it -- if Japanese are so fond of 'nature', why can't they live in harmony with their gokiburi? Let the roaches be sold in pet shoppes, like kabutomushi, and kept at home in little plastic cages having slots through which the kodomo can feed them sections of watermelon rind.
Posted in: Exterminators lock horns with 'super gokiburi'
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Beelzebub
Let this be relegated to the category of famous last words.
Posted in: Credible terror plot against Britain and France uncovered
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Beelzebub
I have been there. It's a nice, cozy little place, but even better there's a fantastic garden called Kiyosumi Teien right across the street. Easy walk from the Hanzomon line, Kiyosumi Shirakawa station.
Posted in: Fukagawa Edo Museum reopens
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Beelzebub
Sarge, whatever it is you're smoking, pass it over and give me a toke.
Posted in: NATO: Bomb blast kills 2 troops, 30 militants die
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Beelzebub
LOL! How do you know the writer him or herself wasn't a product of 1950's educational films?
Posted in: Snack foods a threat to nation's youth
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Beelzebub
Ningen Kakumei by Ikeda Daisaku. Never read it, but I'm in awe of its sales figures.
Posted in: What books or movies would you recommend to anyone wanting to gain an understanding of Japanese people's way of thinking and culture?
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Beelzebub
I feel much safer now knowing she's not out walking the streets.
Posted in: If freed from jail, Lohan still shackled by order
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Beelzebub
Is that what they mean by 'killing with kindness'?
Posted in: Woman executed in Virginia amid outcry
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Beelzebub
Poor China. It's cutting off it's own nose to spite its face. Or to coin one of its own aphorisms, this incident will be analogous to 搬起石头砸自己的脚 -- lifting a rock only to drop it on one's own foot.
Posted in: China holding 4 Japanese for illegally filming military targets
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Beelzebub
I suggest prior to Mr. Ahmadinejad's next visit to NY, a trap door be installed at the speaker's podium, underneath of which lurk several hungry crocodiles. (On second thought, he would almost certainly give them indigestion, which would constitute cruelty to animals.)
Posted in: U.S. walks out on Ahmadinejad U.N. speech after 9/11 remark
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Beelzebub
Maybe they were checking to see if they could use the chemical weapons for their originally intended purpose.
Posted in: China holding 4 Japanese for illegally filming military targets