JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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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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Bento
I can see pick your own lettuce shops becoming popular.
Posted in: Saving the planet
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Bento
Nothing generates quite so much copy amongst some, as items about ladies under garments,probably inversely correlated with potency.
Posted in: Barrage of complaints force Miss Universe Japan to change costume design for finals
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Bento
yep sick! sick enough to do the act, and others sick enough to try and make a joke out of it..what do you think ilcub76(ill has two l's in it) Hopefully (time and careful investigation) will reveal this was an accidental death,hastily mislabeled as murder, and the woman 'rescued' the baby..if the alternative is true well its hard to comprehend.Especially as it happened in a country where perversions are,if idle gossip is to be believed, "far less" common.
Posted in: Baby taken from slain mom's womb found in New Hampshire
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Bento
Drugs should be given away free(pharmaceutical grade) to all those idiotic enough to want them..this would remove at a stroke the main motivator for the majority of the crime associated with the illicit trade, which is money not the actual drug.I don't care if halfwit harry down the road is happily sozzled 24/7..but i do care if he burgles my house to fund his losers habit. Cut the price of it by increasing the supply of it..
Posted in: Gunmen kill Mexican policeman, family in home as drug war escalates
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Bento
hey smith, it seem s i'm not the only one using brackets! "Now, did they kill the woman to get the baby, or did they kill her by chance and took the baby? Both are horrific, but to kill the woman for the specific purpose (premeditated) is slightly harder to swallow than the idea that MAYBE there was another reason and in the end they realized there was a baby in the woman and took it out after the fact. Again, both are sick and unforgivable acts.
I didn't realize this has happened before (recently). I knew from reading that these were the people who committed the recent murder (caught), but still. Sick sick sick." thats your post cut and pasted(in case its slipped your mind).
Posted in: Baby taken from slain mom's womb found in New Hampshire
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Bento
smithinjapan, You appear to be having difficulty understanding what "a direct quote" is..so to further your education i will give you an example of one.. This is a "direct quote" from one of your posts on this thread so direct in fact that i was able to use the copy and paste feature.. "It's true, you don't hear about things like this day in and day out in other countries because it happens FAR less, and is not a day to day disease that is going out of control like here."
and as i'm feeling generous today i'll give you another direct quote of yours from,coincidentally enough ,the same thread again using the cut and paste feature(how delightful modern technology is) "Not at all. I said it HAPPENS in other countries, and gave you proof on how you are wrong that it's not reported and goes unpunished" Its little wonder you get confused when you appear to find it impossible to recall accurately what you have posted only seconds before" "Happens in" "Happens far less in"...squewed recall depending on perceived need. moderator:i take it you are being balanced in your censoring today?How about removing the post from smith in japan that accuses me of being a big part of this problem,it seems unfair that this remains and my posts asking for evidence to back this up are removed..what say you?
Posted in: Police sergeant arrested on suspicion of filming up-skirt videos
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Bento
moonknightskye..you may be old enough to imagine what might happen but why should you be protected from the actual image of death while you are entertained/informed(partially) reading about the event? Print the picture..force people to look at it before they post..that might just cause the air heads to move on before they suffer the world with their "wisdom"
Posted in: 4-year-old girl falls to death from 10th-floor apartment in Yokohama
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Bento
"These kind of tragic events just shoots to shreds the whole pro-life movement." "How sad for the little boy who was born into our world to only die moments later." Zurconium you contradict yourself magnificently. Unless your stating that the 600,000 feotuses hoovered to oblivion annually don't count as patent life forms.(they have umbilical chords and the desire for life). If you are really worried just look on this as a really late term abortion and stop fretting. I hope the woman got shot of the placenta at the same time..otherwise she may have a toxic shock, she needs to seek medical treatment.
Posted in: Newborn boy dies after being found in Tokyo Internet cafe toilet
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Bento
Happily Japan is a lot further behind than 20-30 years in the numbers of unprovoked murders committed, league table..and a century or two behind in the random sniper victim, league table.For a "society" to be judged meaningfully it must be judged in its entirety not on a selective basis.
Posted in: 20-year-old man arrested for killing woman in Tokyo apartment
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Bento
smith,the problem referred to was the problem of men(not this man) looking up girls skirts(not this girls skirt)..thanks for your opinion on how this particular incident should be dealt with..still doesn't help solve the "problem" of men feeling the need to film up skirts..or the much bigger problem of people thinking this is actually worthy of space on a news site.. don't butcher my quotes, where did i say they "never" report it to the press and that "nothing is ever done about it " correct i did not say that(but don't let facts get in the way of a good rant) As to it happening "far less" in other countries, care to back up that assumption with some facts?(given that you yourself think that evidence should be supplied to back up an assumption )The actual reality is far more likely to be this,(its another assumption with out facts so you may want to skip it) it happens just as often in other countries but is simply not reported or noticed or indeed worried about as much as it appears to be in Japan.You believe that this squewed response is down to some deep seated perversion rampant in a society(in which you are a guest) whereas I tend to think that if its an issues, its simply one because the level of violent crime is so low relative to the place you call home(whichever one of the western nations that may happen to be) "just to prove how wrong you are on all counts"..sounds more like a 5 year old in a school yard that an adult on a discussion board(hang about on rereading that its slightly unfair to 5 year olds) Thanks for the link, i didn't click on it, but your subsequent resume of its contents went someway to proving yourself wrong on the "it happens far less in other countries front" "looks like i win" well yes.."the winner of this years how to argue like a 5 year old, cup is..."..congratulations on your self nominated victory now bend down and do your shoelaces up like a good boy.
Posted in: Police sergeant arrested on suspicion of filming up-skirt videos
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Bento
I don't deny any reality..properly trained or not these guides can never be sure they are not in the same locality(bullet range) as drunks out shooting,whether for fun of food..whether for deer or bear (so these two species occupy separate ranges?.. that's probably news to rocket scientists)..it is self evident that you have a better chance of surviving an encounter with a bear if you have the means to shoot it dead..however that same means can also shoot you or another human dead..whether by accidental discharge or incompetence, once discharged the bullet doesn't care..guns do not assure human safety whether out of bear country or in it(which was your original statement with which i disagreed),some humans think they do..but graveyards contain many people who arrived there unexpectedly after finding out the hard way that what they thought assured their safety actually caused their demise. Apparently it does take a rocket scientist to understand that guns have killed far more people (in bear country)than bears ever will.My mistrust of people with guns is just a survival instinct.
Posted in: Bear-viewing hikes in Japan Alps
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Bento
whilst other humans seem to think "off planet"
Posted in: Serial cat killer on the loose again in Tokyo's Setagaya
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Bento
Smith, so will you be kind enough to let us know how the problem should be dealt with? "It's not that they don't have these incidents in other countries, because we all know they do, it's that they do nothing about it here aside from blaming the women, or trying to ignore the issue, etc." Well i agree that this sort of thing must occur in other countries also..but other countries do even less about it than what you intimate Japan does, including not bothering to report it in the press. This is a none news story..in England if an Officer raped a woman it might make the national news..if one beat his girlfriend to a pulp it might make the local news..
Posted in: Police sergeant arrested on suspicion of filming up-skirt videos
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Bento
what? don't blame you for your opinion?..why? did someone force you to have it?
Posted in: 3 death row inmates executed
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Bento
nanda,"Bento, my implication was that whoever killed the mother and brother also killed the cat" why the need to imply this when all three are lying dead is a cold fact and the likely killer is obvious. no your implication was the perp of that crime might be the same person as has recently started maiming cats in the area.If it was merely as you claim then there would have been no need to go to the extra trouble of typing "unsolved murder" and highlighting the area in which it occurred.A simple statement about it would have fulfilled your desire for "good example of a crossover..." You included "unsolved" not because it is/was unsolved but because you wanted to imply a connection with this particular cat killer.
Moderator: Readers, please focus your comments on the Setagaya crimes, not unsolved murder cases.
Posted in: Serial cat killer on the loose again in Tokyo's Setagaya
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Bento
ossan..you statement was "human safety is assured by being properly armed in bear country"..this is not the case as there is a much greater risk of being shot by a hunter than being killed by a bear(check the stats) in a utopia where all hunters are responsible,as you claim to be, then your statement may be accurate however we are talking about the real world where drunk fools go shooting for fun.Human safety is not assured by the carrying of guns..it is compromised.Without guns people would think twice about putting themselves in situations where they had previously only gone "assured" by their weapon.
Posted in: Bear-viewing hikes in Japan Alps
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Bento
water and a lot of blood..under the bridge
Posted in: 4 U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan
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Bento
"Comments made about being properly armed are meant as examples of how human safety is assured in bear country in the US and the hope that these "bear watchers" don't end up in some awful accident." An accident like, a hunter rustling in the undergrowth being mistaken by another of the shooting party for a bear and being shot?Human safety is not assured by the carrying of guns..
Posted in: Bear-viewing hikes in Japan Alps
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Bento
your right normal people are to busy shouting "don't waste any more of my time hang the witch" on other threads. Its poor behaviour as we look at it, but as the perpetrator looks maybe it is enjoyment , meat eaters gain enjoyment from consuming other animal species..what makes the death of one animal to provide food for a fat human any more acceptable than the death of another for fun...Only vegans have the right to preach about animal welfare.I bet some of the animal rights maniacs could even manage to postulate the introduction of capital punishment for animal cruelty as being reasonable.
Posted in: Serial cat killer on the loose again in Tokyo's Setagaya
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Bento
in the days wbefore animal cruelty issues became fashionable, staged fights were organized between bears and lions, the bears always won.Stay away from bears.
Posted in: Bear-viewing hikes in Japan Alps