JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- 加治金属工業株式会社, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥4.0M / Year
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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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- ALT - Mie Prefecture - Yokkaichi City - June start
- NPO法人グローバル教育推進機構（GLAD), Mie
- Salary: ¥230,000 / Month For a full working month. Some months differ.
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BurakuminDes
Since when has the legal age in Japan been 18? Have they recently changed it? Everyone knows Japanese girls are indulging much, much younger than that - I would have thought 13 was considered normal here?
Posted in: MSDF member arrested for having sex with 13-year-old girl
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BurakuminDes
Good riddance LDP rubbish. You've almost destroyed Japan and it's reputation internationally. It will take years for the Democratic Party to even start rectifying the problems in Japan. Record unemployment, millions of pension records "lost", atrocious relations with neighbouring Asian countries, an economy that will possibly never improve, the list goes on. Don't let the door hit you in the backside on the way out, losers.
Posted in: Out with the old
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BurakuminDes
QUAN IS A ROCK GOD! I am DEFINITELY gonna be there! Love the GURGE! Seen them a few times at festivals in Aus and I cant wait to see them here!
Posted in: Regurgitator hope to savor big-in-Japan feeling again
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BurakuminDes
That is a nice shot!
Posted in: Dita Von Teese
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BurakuminDes
...even if they do seem to be making losses right now! I wanna get one of the new, cheaper PS3s too.
Posted in: Walkman outsells iPod in Japan
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BurakuminDes
I'm not misunderstanding - Walkman is one of Sony's many brandnames. I had a cassette walkman in the 80s, in the 90s a CD Walkman, and early 00s a MD Walkman. I hope Sony go on to crush the popularity of Apple iphones and MP3 players - Sony seems to be a much better run and cutting edge co. than apple. I reckon Apple has peaked already and is on the slide.....
Posted in: Walkman outsells iPod in Japan
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BurakuminDes
I'm with bqaudry. If you are lucky enough to catch a glimpse (not that some of these girls make it difficult!) fair enough. But to go out of your way to film is crossing the line.
Posted in: Truck driver arrested for taking photos up skirts of school girls
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BurakuminDes
Good to see the old Walkman make a shock comeback! I still remember mine from the 80s. Looks like Apple is on the slide, apparently they have all sorts of glitches and problems in the iPhone they didn't bother to fix before releasing them. I wouldn't be going near them for at least 3 more years when they have updated a few times and made it better.
Posted in: Walkman outsells iPod in Japan
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BurakuminDes
It seems some Americans are now denying that the President has a mandate to implement the Universal Health-Care Plan, even though he romped home in the election. Working-class slobs don't deserve health care anyway - neither do their children. Those infants should go out and get a job so they can afford their operations!
Obama out! Obama out!
Posted in: Kerry positions himself as Kennedy's political heir
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BurakuminDes
My question is this: will all the meat from the dolphin kill get onto the dinner table, or will authorities/slaughtermen have to create a market for it like whale meat? Is there really a big market out there for dolphin meat? Or is it simply a case of letting these villagers do the kill "because it is their tradition and right".
BTW, calling them "fishermen" is incorrect - Dolphins are actually mammals (Check Wikipedia). Perhaps something was lost in translation of the article?
Posted in: Star of Taiji dolphin-hunt film wants to win over Japan
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BurakuminDes
Man, this sounds like one of the most redneck, racist towns on planet earth! It seems to have the freedom of movement of North Korea.
Posted in: Star of Taiji dolphin-hunt film wants to win over Japan
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BurakuminDes
Ooooh, yeah, LoveUSA. I think you - and all straight women here - want more than a "firm handshake" from Mr. Jim James... Wink-wink...
Jim James has now replaced Brad Pitt and Johnny Depp as the most sought after foreign man amongst the Japanese ladies... Damn him! Why don't they bring back Donald MacDonald, the Hamburgler and Grimace?
Posted in: Mr James
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BurakuminDes
Japan really should run some sort of school programme to stop bullies and bullying. That old saying "the nail which sticks up must be hammered down" seems appropriate: from what I have heard, any kid with a slight difference in schools in Japan is mercilessly "beaten down" so as to conform to the "normal". Unless kids are seen to be identical in every way to their peers, be it clothes, music, family background, hairstyle - they will be attacked. It is killing off the few kids Japan has. RIP to these girls.
Posted in: Bullying blamed after two 13-yr-old girls jump to their deaths
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BurakuminDes
The Rockabilly dudes. Middle guy looks like he has just escaped from a concentration camp.
Posted in: Rockabilly
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BurakuminDes
Mr. Jim James : The thinking woman's sex symbol.
Posted in: Mr James
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BurakuminDes
Correction: DPJ
Posted in: Hatoyama press conference
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BurakuminDes
Should read "PM-elect Hatoyama"... or is there something we don't know about to happen? Is Ozawa going to come in within the next week or two when the LDP gathers to choose their PM, work the numbers, and become PM? Wouldn't surprise me with the fickle state of politics here!
Anyway, good riddance to the bad rubbish that was Aso. Mountain Pigeon could NOT be worse.
Posted in: Hatoyama press conference
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BurakuminDes
It does not surprise me that Japanese teenage boys did this.
I agree with other posters, homeless people here have pride in themselves and what little they have, so this cowardly, gutless act is all the more sickening. Many Japanese even deny that there are any homeless in Japan, or pretend not to see any. Good luck to this poor bloke, wish I could help him out a bit.
Posted in: Three teens arrested for setting homeless man's shack on fire
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BurakuminDes
These masks are too lifelike and have far too much personality and character to be the real politicians.
Posted in: Masked marvels
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BurakuminDes
What is she "half" of? Half human? Half robot? Half a person? Half-wit?
Only someone living in the past, where one could use terms freely such as "half-caste", "full-blood", would use these terms in 2009. Or...the Japanese!
No-one in the world is 100 percent of any "race", so "half"/"haafu" is a completely stupid term.
BTW, she is Japanese (incidentally of a mixed ancestry), not "haafu". Beautiful, too.
Posted in: Marie gives the lowdown on being 'half'