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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Brunobear
It is bad enough someone has to answer their cell phone in company of others, but they always have to shout when they speak. I would rather have the dentist drilling my teeth than listen to someone else on a cell phone, noisily pretending they are important. It is really bad when I am eating my McDonald's meal and the person on the table next to me starts shouting on his phone. I feel like tipping my king size coke over his dopey head. We should invent nice red street phone boxes where people can make their phone calls in private. Could be a recession buster!
Posted in: What cell phone habits by some people bother you the most?
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Brunobear
The first and main raid on Darwin was way back in February 1942. My father was on an Australian Naval Ship in the harbor. Few Japanese alive today have anything to feel guilty about except to know it happened by another generation, with a different outlook, three generations ago. It is just history now. I was at the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne last year and saw an old Japanese man crying. He came to pay his respects to his father who served in the Japanese Navy in WW1 and his father's ship was one of the escort ships that escorted our troops from Melbourne to Egypt, and possibly then to Gallipoli in 1915. That was another generation of Japanese, just one generation earlier. That is life. Japan has been a wonderful business partner and a great ally for Australia since 1945. The movie "Australia" is just entertainment - and little attention is paid to the facts. It gives you a Sydney "we a are all ockers", view and sound of what Australia is like. I cringed all through it, as did my sister in San Francisco. The aboriginal actors were great and the war scenes were exciting but looked digital. Still worth 1000 yen to see.
Posted in: Australia
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Brunobear
Sadly, The US like Japan is bankrupt. The US had public debt of 85% of its GDP of US$14 trillion while Japan has a whopping public debt of 183% of its GDP of US$4.3 trillion. Most of Europe has public debt in excess of 50% of GDP with some countries as high as 90% of GDP. The most prosperous country in the world is Australia which has zero% net public debt to GDP and rich in agriculture, minerals, energy in 45% of the world uranium, and has a highly educated and skilled workforce that speaks English. I provided the strategy in 1991 that put Australia on its path to be No. 1 in the world in 2009 and safe from the financial disaster that is making many former G20 countries, basket cases. No one is lining up asking me what simple strategies I think the world has to do to get it out of this mess. The world is asking lawyers to save them. God help us all. I am just lucky I live in Melbourne.
Posted in: Obama pledges to halve U.S. budget deficit in 4 years