JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Corporate Business English Trainers
- ACT Systems, Inc.（株式会社アクト・システムズ）, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥269,500 ~ ¥280,000 / Month
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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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BrightEyes
Gotta love the Japanese entertainment industry. Non-stop innovation and creativity.
Posted in: Nikkatsu revives successful porn genre of ’70s and ’80s
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BrightEyes
What Japan wants is a free ride, both militarily and diplomatically.
But I don't really care what Japan wants.
What I care about is what is in the US's strategic interest and clearly defending Japan no longer is.
We should end the alliance and let Japan take care of herself.
Posted in: Does Japan need to host any U.S. bases at all?
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BrightEyes
Japan doesn't need to host US bases, nor does the US need Japan to host them.
Japan has the population, economic resources and technical prowess to defend itself. It is high time it did so.
The US should abrogate the security treaty move bases to US territory and leave Japan to its own ample devices.
Posted in: Does Japan need to host any U.S. bases at all?
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BrightEyes
Um, "poor countries" like Oman?
Something about this smells fishy.
Posted in: Japan leading charge against bluefin ban
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BrightEyes
Sumo is one step away from professional wrestling now.
No one in the real world takes it seriously.
Posted in: Asashoryu, in Mongolia, denies he went on drunken rampage
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BrightEyes
About average. And the bar is low.
Posted in: How would you evaluate Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's first six months in office?
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BrightEyes
Japan is a faithless, inconstant and unreliable ally. It's time to end the alliance. It no longer serves American interests to defend a wealthy technologically advanced and populous country.
Posted in: Futenma commander defends Marine base
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BrightEyes
Not likely.
And until they do, they will continue to complain about the military that has protected them for 65 years and allowed them to grow soft.
At least unless the US finally wises up and realizes that if we don't need to defend Japan from its own diplomatic autism, we don't really need those bases after all.
Posted in: Futenma commander defends Marine base
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BrightEyes
I was in the Kobe quake. I was in Suma ward, not the worst hit area, but it was pretty bad. I never once feared my fellow man in the ordeal that followed. I heard no reports of looting at all. There are a lot of bad things one can say about Japan (including the government's inept response to the quake) but it has to be admitted that (at least back in '95) people didn't loot and there wasn't a lot of crime.
Posted in: Chile quake death toll hits 708; soldiers quell looting
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BrightEyes
Yes, a protester with a hat, sunglasses and mask. Boy, now THERE'S a courageous fellow.
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BrightEyes
This kind of thing is outrageous. I applaud the author for his efforts and urge him to continue with them. If for no other reason, then at least when his daughter becomes an adult and her mother can no longer interfere, he will have ample evidence that he was not indifferent to her.
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BrightEyes
By and large Japanese with their food are like that guy everybody knows. You know, the one who's forever bragging about how smokin' hot his girlfriend is, and she's just the most beautiful thing that ever walked on two legs and if Paris himself were forced to include her in the judgment, well, the Iliad would have been, at minimum, three times as long, etc., etc., etc. Then you meet her and you're thinking "She's all right. Definitely a solid 7, but that's as far as I go." You know that guy?
That's what I think of every time Japanese people tell me how amazing their food is -- that guy. Japanese talking about their food are like that guy.
And their food?
It's a solid 7.
Posted in: How well founded is Japan's gastronomic pride?
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BrightEyes
Why are these ties important? What has Japan done for the US lately?
The Japan-US relationship is basically a free ride for Japan with no corresponding advantage to the US.
I really wish the diplomats would grow a pair and demand that Japan either make itself useful or go its own way.
Posted in: U.S. warns Japan child custody laws could harm bilateral ties
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BrightEyes
@Mark_McKraken
Well, I'm an Obama supporter and I couldn't be happier.
I decided to go with Obama the moment he said he wouldn't hesitate to go into Pakistan if he had actionable intelligence and the Pakistani government couldn't do the job.
Everyone, and I do mean everyone criticized him for that. Hillary, McCain, everyone. "Oh, he's going to bomb our ALLY!" they sad. But he stood his ground.
I was impressed. I backed Obama and I'm very happy he has been as good as his word. Sure, there are many who backed him who thought he was just talking, but I didn't think so. That's why I backed him.
I realize that you might be happier thinking that everyone who backs Obama is a bleeding-heart pacifist. But I have news for you. He has a number of supporters who support him precisely BECAUSE we thought he could handle the job that Bush bungled for more than seven years.
By the way, just out of curiosity, what do you think Obama should do in Afghanistan?
Posted in: Obama, receiving Nobel Peace Prize, says war sometimes justified
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BrightEyes
Enough of this crap. Time for the US to pick up and go. Relocate everything to the Marianas, abrogate the security pact and let Japan provide for its own defense.
Posted in: Tensions rise in Hatoyama cabinet over Futenma
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BrightEyes
My God! Somebody help that woman! She's being attacked by tribbles!
Posted in: Sayo Aizawa picks up SKY PerfecTV! fashion award
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BrightEyes
He throws like a girl.
Posted in: Bush throws out first pitch at Game 3 of Japan Series
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BrightEyes
The problem with Japan is that its people (men and women) are socialized for a society in which they no longer live. For years social contacts were determined by external factors rather than internal drive. Japanese didn't have friends so much as associates. There was a group that would be together for a long time and they would adjust to one another over time. They were never good at approaching strangers and making friends. That wasn't such a big problem when they didn't have to deal with them so much. They would be in the same little village or company or neighborhood or group of mothers for most of their lives and their relationships would develop satisfactorily if slowly.
Japanese society no longer works that way. Groups are as ephemeral as jobs and domeciles. People don't have enough time to develop relationships as they used to. Now they are constantly moving from place to place. Before they can make friends, its on to the next thing. They feel lonely and frustrated and they withdraw.
Posted in: The age of listless, wary, anxiety-ridden and insecure young men
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BrightEyes
As, it would seem, are bananas in the hammock.
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BrightEyes
There seems to be an extreme emphasis on being tan and having no fat at all. Bulk, it would appear, is optional.
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