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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I'm going to get my friend, the "Best queuerist" to get some for me tomorrow I hope.
Posted in: Cranberry Party
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Nevermind, I just found out why God invented Wiki :)
Posted in: Tomoka Kurotani named 'Woman With the Most Appealing Teeth'
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I know this is slightly off-topic, but is there really such a word as laver? I only have one dictionary and it wasn't in it.
Posted in: Tomoka Kurotani named 'Woman With the Most Appealing Teeth'
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I'm surprised, not the "Best toothist" award?
Yes, Ossan, what is this word laver? I've never heard of it. Kind of strange Japanese try to translate every food they've got into Engrish.
Posted in: Tomoka Kurotani named 'Woman With the Most Appealing Teeth'
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Billy certainly is the "Best Exercisist" I think.
Posted in: Billy's Bootcamp to return to Osaka
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Maybe the leader of the group could be named, "Best supportist"? No, I don't think Tetsuya will be attending this year's Red and White show timorborder, apparently he's indisposed.
Posted in: NHK announces 'support group' for 'Red & White Song Contest'
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Jeez, I'm so dissapointed, I thought she could have won the "Best Makeupist" award ...
Posted in: Izumi Mori wins 'Japan Make-up award'
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I'm a little surprised as well as picking up this "job", I thought they might have named her "Best Aromist" as well ... oh well.
Posted in: Model Shiho named aroma ambassador
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It's bad enough accidentally shooting yourself, as accidents do happen, BUT, I would never admit to not knowing which end of the gun I was looking at. What a dummy!!
Posted in: Man arrested after shooting himself with home-made gun in Ibaraki
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This is truly beyond stupidity. I can really imagine a Japanese tourist someday practicing their English is some faraway exotic land trying out these authentic Engrish words, "Best jeanist", "Best formlist" and "Best leathernist". And I can also the native speaker walking away, "What the heck was that person talking about ...".
Quite funny how Japanese come up with this crazy stuff, pity they can't use native Japanese words for them. At this rate we should ready ourselves for the imminent demise of the Japanese language.
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I think Japan is just falling into line with "Western" nations. Japan had it pretty good for nearly 50 years, and with the Cold War finished they have trouble keeping up their extravagant lifestyle as American money just pour into the country now like it used to.
Combine that with the nature of Japanese society (e.g. need good university to get a good job) and the tightening of the economy, things are bound to get hard.
In reality, what stops Murasawa from getting married? Absolutely nothing. What is stopping him is expectations - he thinks (and to a certain extent I agree) many Japanese girls expect a nice wedding at a wedding hall (which are expensive as we know). Most Japanese girls I know have told me that they would like to have a nice wedding ceremony. But if he finds the right girl, what is to stop them from just getting married down at their local ward/city office? Once again, absolutely nothing. It's just a matter of finding the right partner.
Back in my home country not everyone can afford a nice wedding, many people just get a civil one due to the cost. Back home not everyone has a good job. They manage life as best they can.
As mentioned in the article, "... Japan surged to wealth in the 80s". The 80s?? Wasn't that like nearly 20 or 30 years ago? Even from the 1950s after the war, Japan was rebuilding getting the economy underway again. The good times essentially rolled on from the mid-50s till the end of the Cold War (with a few hiccups namely the Oil shocks of the 70s and the end of the Bubble economy in the 90s).
The Japanese born after WW2 have no idea what it is like to poor as they've lived in the land of milk and honey for nearly 50 years. Things get a little tough and they look like they want to call it quits already.
Posted in: Japan's burgeoning class: Working poor
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I think Japan is just simply not prepared for it. Before the war I think it would be fair to say that Japan was hardly a democracy with all the things that democracy supposedly entails. After the war there was a major effort to rebuild Japan as an economic power. The Japanese constitution was forced on it by the Occupation forces.
After that it seems that the attempts to build a legal system that would be developed alongside with industry and social changes in Japan have been lacking (e.g. look at how court cases like minatobyo, itai itai, hibakusha have been allowed to linger (even something comparatively small in comparison like the students -vs- NOVA)).
Any attempts by authorities to make changes have been half-hearted to say the least, as they are very often influenced by lobby groups who are out to protect their own interests(e.g. bureacrats).
I honestly think that the lack of development in a well-meaning legal system to cope with modern times has allowed people (food and environmental scandals) like this to flourish.
Posted in: Why are food scandals surfacing one after another and what can be done about it?
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"How on earth does someone do such a thing?".
I'm probably going to sound extremely cold here, but people do these things just like they've been done so many times before. Unfortunately, we have people who do things like this in the world, it just goes on and on and on until someone finds a solution.
Posted in: FBI says body found is that of Hudson's nephew, 7
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This idiot has just ruined his life completely. Let alone the fact that he cancelled a "fake" wedding, betrayed both his both of his wives and family, but he's also caused considerable damamge to a wedding hall. I'm just wondering how much he'll have to pay for those damages ... once he's let out of prison hehe.
Posted in: Married man arrested for torching hotel before bogus wedding in Yamanashi
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After having played EverQuest for a very long time, I can completely believe this story.
Posted in: Woman jailed after 'killing' virtual husband
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Geez, I wonder whatever happened to the girl?
Posted in: Policeman run over, robbed while on blind date in Fukuoka
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I'm surprised that they haven't got the models named and dressed for us already. Guess Newspaper Advertising day has one up on these guys.
Posted in: TV commercial festival to be held in Tokyo
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I think Taro needs to be put down rather quick.
Posted in: Kuidaore Taro to debut as 'talent'
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I really need to stay away from these Leah Dizon stories, they make me laugh so hard and I always fall off my chair.
Posted in: Leah Dizon and Bun take showbiz insiders by surprise
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"Two words: he was in solitary confinement".
Really? I must be blind as I can't see that in the article.
P.S. "... he was in solitary confinement", is more than 2 words :)
Posted in: Miura's death likely murder, says pathologist hired by lawyer