JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- 秘書及び業務サポート
- 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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Columhcille
Mmm!! They're right about smells being so powerful! The smell of caves oddly enough always brings me closer to home. More caves in my home state than anywhere in the world. Lol odd smell to like. Anyway I think comfort foods can be discovered at adult ages too! My mom never cooked...maybe a couple foods we got to eat at grandmas house were comfort foods but that deffinitely wasn't an everyday or even every month thing necessarily. Can there be comfort smells? As an adult, my husband is a french chef and I loOove cooking so we always experiment to come up with new favourites that warm the tummy and the heart and soul!! With a hearty welcome from texas y'all're welcome to join us at our table for dinner any night!!! Haha. ;)
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Columhcille
Traveling to and from america isn't as bad as ppl may want to make it out to seem. One bad experience is just supposed to mean everyone has a bad experience? Ppl are impatient traveling and stressed out because its exhausting. Lolive been to 16 countries and the US certainly wasnt the most difficult travel even with security as it stands today.but I think one thing that should be improved upon is that international airport staff need to be aware that diff cultures have diff personal bubble sizes. Lol what's not invasive to one is invasive to another. At least us airports don't have soldiers patroling with machine guns out at the ready, standing back to back going up and down escallators looking like they're gonna shoot u if u do anything suspicious. Been to a couple airports like that outside the US.
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Columhcille
work hourly instead of salary. then follow steps 1-4 as suggested by sf2k
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Columhcille
Wow, that's gonna make the Unions unhappy with Obama. Sweet.
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Columhcille
This is sooo gross.
And here's the dumb question of the day; regarless of if this is healthy or not, the question should be.. in a country wtih the BEST food in the WORLD. WHO WOULD WANT to buy crap like this when the native cuisine is delectable!? Yah, if you're a foreigner, you get to missing the foods your used to after a whil, but .. settling for fast food? bleh! I'd rather hit up a shabu shabu place.
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Columhcille
@tkoind2 "...And where collective suffering is almost desirable and admirable"
Eh I can see that, but geez, in Japan, any 'collective', suffering or not is desirable. They can't even do school work solo...critical thinking activities without groups you say? Individualism does not exist in Japan. That's why all the ones who don't want to be part of the social hive leave the country for someplace that being an individual is socially acceptable.
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Columhcille
SO what I'm REALLY gathering from this thread is that EVERYTHING in Japan is expensive.. lol Yah, I agree. I only ever got to be in Japan for one month, but one evening spent the night at friend's house when we first arrived, so I didn't yet realize the price of food was so high. They brought a whole bag of lovely bing cherries to the table and put them in a bowl... between mostly myself and one other foreigner, we ate ALL of them. It was only later we learned that bag of cherries cost them like.. $20. >< omg.
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Columhcille
Personally, I enjoy wearing thongs better than gstrings. Not a comfort thing, just I don't think I have quite the figure for them.. I think someone a little longer torsoed with absolutely no extra body weight looks better in them.. So for me, thongs or the lace shortie ones -not the boy shorts tho.. I dunno what the lace shortie ones are, but they come up a lot higher than the boy shorts that are lower around the thigh. I think that only accentuates thighs to make them look larger, but the nice lace shortie ones accentuate the butt better and I think draw a lot of nice attention there in a way that other types of underpinnings don't.. ... kapiche? o.0 Am I making any sense? Any other ladies out there agree? lol. In any case, better to shop for your body type and be able to pull it off looking hot than not. ; )
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Columhcille
I agree with Alphaape on this one. It's close to the border where drug cartels rule and the cops can barely maintain a semblance of control that other US cities might have. The US MX border is THE most traveled border in the world and I'd bet has one of the worst crime rates. You can't blame the cops in this situation.
First off: why would a kid pull a gun of ANY kind on a COP?!?! He was ASKING to get shot.
Second: why did he NOT put it DOWN unless he had an intent to USE IT?!
Third: many people who are propperly trained to use pistols are trained to shoot twice. The shot to the head of the teenager was propbably an instinctive reaction because of training. When using a hand gun like that you're taught to shoot once to the torso and as you get the kickback you automatically allow the force to draw the weapon up for a automatic secondary shot to the head in line with the one from the torso. It's not always a thought "oh Im just gonna shoot him again for good measure". That's what this man was probably trained to do. And in a tense situation like that you do just that.. what you're trained to do.
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Columhcille
The tree and lights go up the weekend of Thanks Giving Holiday! Never too early for lights and beautiful decorations. I'd like to see it more in the year because it brings positive and uplifting spirit to people. Makes life a little brighter. ^.^
Posted in: Christmas decorations and illumination displays are already up in many parts of Japan and in some other countries, too. Do you think it is too early?
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Columhcille
So basically the fish oil is doing what it's supposed to and producing positive effects in the body but because chemo is toxic to the body and some doctors suggest poisoning the system to make it healthier [which is beyond any logical reasoning] then they aren't happy about the effects of fish oil. Sounds like a bunch of great research to me!
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Columhcille
These kids are all going to get crushed under their desks. Any rock climber or Emergency responder who's worked with natural-disaster zones can tell you the best thing to do in a Earthquake is sit up against a wall or some tall furniture as flat as you can.. Falling objects fall /land at an angle...away from the tall structures like that and create a zone of relative safety against the base of the wall or structure.. just like a falling boulder/rock off a cliff.. they don't just come straight down against the face of the cliffside. If the ceiling came crashing down in that school in the picture, their DESKS are NOT going to hold the debris up to save them. They'll all get crushed. If they sit up against a wall or something tall and relatively strong, they'll have a muuuch higher chance of survival. Look it up. Earthquake triangle of safety!
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Columhcille
Ah... What a relief to know that the same Japan vs Korea feud still exists even after hundreds of years of good old fashioned animosity. 0.0
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Columhcille
I've seen tablets most with games for kids or for businessmen who don't work out of an office, but on the road a lot. Seems to work pretty well for them. Personally I have no use for a tablet in my daily life as it is right now.
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Columhcille
just a tid bit of info for those concerned about the radiation and sickness it may cause... Drink Bamboo Tea.. Buy it or steep the leaves of the bamboo in hot water and drink it that way. Groves of Bamboo survived the Atomic Bombings of Japan , and studies in the US have determined that Bamboo can be used to treat people exposed to abnormally high lvls of Radiation. Cheers!
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Columhcille
LOLOL omg this article had me ROLLING. This was a cute article and yes, for the purpose of being lighthearted and appreciative of the the cultural differences where "attractiveness" is concerned.
I loved this article.. more like this! hahahah. I can understand the authors feelings, though. I felt a little the same way when i was there but I do think it's true that you don't always see what's great about you, but you want to be something else... so it is nice to see that that happens on both sides of the fence. But... it doesn't help that the Japanese women you see walking around most the time look like they just walked off the cover of a vogue magazine. o.0
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Columhcille
Well.. the Koran doesn't demand they cover their identities.. "hijab" ... "veiled" means that women be modest in your dress and in your actions. There are no specifications that they have to wear a burka, that's just personal preference. If you look at the differences between women's "modest dress"/ "hijab" between nations that cater to muslims, there are very different styles of dress in each one and each one claims to follow the commandment of being modest.
The gospel of Christ teaches us to be modest in our dress and actions as well; maybe in a way there's something for us to learn from muslim practice. After all, muslim and christian dress used to be identical .. until some brilliant feudal lord decided that there needed to be a separation and created sumptuary laws prohibiting Christians and muslims to be dressed in the same manner so it was easier to differentiate one from the other.
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Columhcille
erg.. but i guess as far as this goes.. This crap happens ALL THE TIME in Mexico.. and the world wonders why Americans DON'T LIKE MEXICANS all over the border illegally. Wonder why. Only SOUTHERN states understand the issues at the border because it's NOT on the news.. they won't SHOW to the rest of the States what's realllllly going on because they don't want to add to the agenda of political crisis' already going on. THE GOVMNT WON'T TAKE CARE OF IT. They don't WANT people to know HOW SERIOUS AN ISSUE IT IS. I'm just glad the Mexican President is starting to get things taken care of since obviously the US President won't do anything about it. The only place in America I would truly fear for my life..is close to the border. People get shot and killed and kidnapped near the border every day. BY MEXICANS. And that's not racism, that's a FACT. And that's not an exaggeration. Yes it's easier to smuggle drugs through Canada into Northern part of the States, but all the bad crap happens in the south. The smart smugglers have better methods >D lol.
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Columhcille
lolol. omg. sorry. I went away from my comp for a sec and came back forgetting i changed articles and wanted to comment on a different one and didn't see. erg. embarrassing. my apologies.
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Columhcille
Well.. the Koran doesn't demand they cover their identities.. "hijab" ... "veiled" means that women be modest in your dress and in your actions. There are no specifications that they have to wear a burka, that's just personal preference. If you look at the differences between women's "modest dress"/ "hijab" between nations that cater to muslims, there are very different styles of dress in each one and each one claims to follow the commandment of being modest.
The gospel of Christ teaches us to be modest in our dress and actions as well; maybe in a way there's something for us to learn from muslim practice. After all, muslim and christian dress used to be identical .. until some brilliant feudal lord decided that there needed to be a separation and created sumptuary laws prohibiting Christians and muslims to be dressed in the same manner so it was easier to differentiate one from the other.
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