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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Blue_Tiger
People with too much timeo n their hands....
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Blue_Tiger
One word came into my mind as I saw her in this get-up: skank. Too bad that she looks like a trashy 'tute. She might have actually won....
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Blue_Tiger
In World War Two, wasn't there a set or two of plans to try and tetch off Hitler and his buddies? And here I thought that the USA and Great Britain were at war with the Taliban and Al-Qaeda....
Posted in: House lays groundwork to probe CIA plan to kill al-Qaida leaders
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Blue_Tiger
Interesting that Koreans -- who are aggressively teaching their children English starting in Elementary school -- still speak Korean in Korea, and only happen to speak English either (A.) Outside of Korea (and still speak Korean when they are among themselves in other countries), or (B.) when they are around a Western Foreigner (whether that Western Foreigner speaks English or not). What is further interesting is how Koreans are quickly becoming more bilingual (and multi-lingual, for that fact) over and above the Japanese, further integrating South Korea into the International Stage. Japan could learn a lesson from Korea and their English Education....
Posted in: A fervor for education in English without a national strategy is a recipe for the decline of Japanese. If everyone tries to speak English, the richness of Japanese could be reduced to a local language in which no intellectual conversations take place.
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Blue_Tiger
Nobody's saying that, Altria. However, it is interestign that Japanese parents tend to bring their children back to Japan, where the foreign husband or wife has no recourse. Interesting that it is admitted that J-parents separating form their foreign spouses and bringing children back to Japan is a growing trend.
Posted in: Most child abductions by Japanese women are a result of spousal violence.
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Blue_Tiger
Mookoo, this didn't happen in Tokyo....it happened in Okinawa. And if I'm a cop, amd I see soemone slashing a buddy with a knofe, trust me, the perp is going to get a bullet somewhere so he'll remember it. But, as mindovermater stated, these aren't real cops....more like Keystone Cops...
Posted in: Liquor store intruder slashes 5 cops in Okinawa
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Blue_Tiger
I'm hoping that Tokyo DOESN'T get the bid, and that Boz II Men coem and see the REAL Tokyo. Well-said, Noborito...
Posted in: Boyz II Men add their voice to Tokyo Olympic bid
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Blue_Tiger
Barack Obama. He's turning out to be a paper champion. Glad I didn't vote for him....
Posted in: Which celebrities are you tired of reading and hearing about?
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Blue_Tiger
While some foreign husbands may be violent, I've heard that Japanese men can get quite unhinged at their wives, for even trifling reasons. This sounds just like another lame excuse. Join the Hague Convention already, Japan! Please, enter the 21st century....
Posted in: Most child abductions by Japanese women are a result of spousal violence.
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Blue_Tiger
Good going, Yukiko! Hopefully, this will be an encouragement to other women to be courageous, and to gropers to watch out (but in the latter case, I doubt it seriously)....
Posted in: Miniskirt Police singer nabs groping suspect on train
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Blue_Tiger
There is only one reason, and one reason alone, that North Korea is doing this. It has vewry little to do with the 6-party talks, and more to do with one, mitigating factor. If North Korea seriously starts dropping nukes, they'd be immensly stupid, something I think Kim Jongil is not. However, he will continue doing his thing for some tme to come, basically because he knows he can, and any U.N. "Sanctions" that come about as a result will carry no teeth, and there is one, glaringly clear reason why....
Posted in: North Korea threatens to shoot down Japanese spy planes
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Blue_Tiger
It really makes me wonder what people really are like when I hear over and over ad nauseum about how terribly Michael Jackson was, and as proof, the $20M out-of-court settlement for a kid who -- at first -- said Michael Jackson was NOT a pedophile and WAS NOT going to press chargesw, until his parents came along and decided to press, and the boy changed his story. He was later tried in court, only to be found not guilty. Now, he has passed away. Tragically, he was a relatively young man at age 50. The real tragedy, though, is the fact that there are those who continue to drag his name through the mud. I have a little advice for anyone who has chosen or who later will choose to, see Jackson's death as some event to spew venom:
(1.) So you didn't like his music, and you weren't a fan? Who cares? Obviously, nearly a billion people were his fans to the tune that he sold 750 million albums, not including the number sold as a part of the Jackson Five. He has the highest selling album of all time, said album having an as-yet-unbroken record of 7 #1s. So yu didn't ike his music? Okay, good for you. Now, let those of us who did mourn the death and cut-short life of a man who was immenently talented.
(2.) So you think he really WAS guilty? Who gives a rip? He was tried in a court of his peers and found innocent. This was no OJ trial, where the evidence presented wasn't enough, no smoking gun was found, and he feigned remorse. This was a trial where, though he had gone through a similar situation a dozen years before, Jackson willingly took the stand in his own defense (for the record, O.J. didn't), the jury seeming to agree that he was, indeed, innocent. If he really was guilty, where was the boy and family who were given the $20M settlement? Why were they strangely silent? And don't give us the legal mumbo-jumbo, because if Jackson seriusly had been a pedophile, the earlier situation would have weighed heavily, and the boy and his family subpoenaed.
(3.) So he was just another man and his death should be covered as such? When your heroes, idols, or other celebs or heroes that you emmulate and revere (if you have any. I've come to see that people who p_ _ _ on other peoples' graves generally have existences that are bereft of any true or real heroes) pass away, if I don't like that particular person, can I run over their grave with the same ferocity as many have run over Jackson's? What goes around comes around...
(4.) So you think its okay to p _ _ _ on other peoples' graves? Remind us again why it is important to mourn the person, hero, or celeb yo revere when s/he/they pass....
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Blue_Tiger
Ah_so:
Maybe not here in Japan, but in the USA, it is. It is Innocent until PROVEN GUILTY. Michael Jackson was never proven to be a pedophile, so history must look at him as he was: tried, but found innocent (not guilty).
Posted in: Michael Jackson dies of reported cardiac arrest at 50
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Blue_Tiger
Its safe if you're a gerown up, to some degree. If you are a child, it isn't safe, thansk to the recent story of two parents leaving their children to broil in the car while they went into the house and snoozed.
Posted in: Japanese urged to take pride in their safe society
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Blue_Tiger
He was a nicon and a juggernaut if entertainment when I was in Jr. High and High School. I liked a lot of his songs, but wasn't a huge fan. Nevertheless, this is a huge tragedy. I first heard of his death during a free period at the school I teach in, and was stunned. As with 9/11 and the Challenger disaster, I'll always remember where I was when I heard aobut Jackson's passing. My prayers are with his family...
Posted in: Michael Jackson dies of reported cardiac arrest at 50
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Blue_Tiger
PaulieWalnuts - Put that legislative decision to a public referendum, and see how far it gets (so far, traditional marriage is 26-0 in the USA when everybody gets a chance to vote).....
Posted in: Gay marriage leaps ahead in Maine, New Hampshire
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Blue_Tiger
Proof, Den_Den, to back up such a ludicrous statement, if you please....
Posted in: U.N. blames Israeli army for Gaza attacks
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Blue_Tiger
Den_Den, form y part, it is a belief that there are sports that are made solely for women, and there are sports made solely for men. Boxing is the latter....
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Blue_Tiger
women's boxing is a joke....
Posted in: Take that
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Blue_Tiger
The UN blames Israel for Gaza attacks, and this is news? How long has the UN blamed Israel for EVERY-thing thath as happened in Gaza or anywhere else?
Posted in: U.N. blames Israeli army for Gaza attacks