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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Cos
Yes, on treadmill or wherever, the daily hour of "cardio" has proven efficiency over the last 5000 years. It is surely a big part of what is needed to maintain lifelong health. But they can't take much money (if any) from people for something so basic. Also, so many want to hear that they need to spend only 3 hours a week the bum up from the couch.
Posted in: Tokyo fitness expert launches English personal training services
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Cos
ODA should disappear, Tohoku rebuilding or not, because the system is getting old. That was a good thing at some point. Over the years, it has been abused by corruption and whatever unrightful political manipulations in many countries. I'm really tired of hearing the Chinese and Koreans say "Japan did not pay for the war 3 generations ago nia nia nia...".
So it's a good opportunity to close the door and turn the page.
Then, in a few months, the current problems will be covered. That will be time to start other types of international development and solidarity programs involving Japan.
Posted in: Do you think Japan should cut back its ODA commitments to other countries and allocate the money instead to earthquake and tsunami relief efforts in the Tohoku region?
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Cos
Yes, Smith, loss of time, phoning... Kan should have tweeted "All op' leaders help, chodai. Meeting tomorrow 8 a.m., my office.". Anyway they were not willing to help. Surely Kan can be criticized for many things. But those that were asked their ideas, and prefered staying in the hide doing nothing for one month, they should simply retire from political life.
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Cos
The silliest one in this story is Mr. Obama. In many countries, it's a condition for most State jobs, particularly those with defense responsability, to make this information public. And people who find it bothering are told to look for another career. Just like you have to show your official degrees and licences for some positions. He had to show this certificate when he was a candidate for the election, because all candidates should, asked or not.
Posted in: Obama releases full birth certificate to end controversy
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Cos
That seems a bit far-fetched. Sounds likely he was guilty of few rapes, then the police loaded his boat with all the unsolved rape cases they had in their drawers.
Posted in: Chinese man appeals death sentence for 116 rapes
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Cos
Tokyo people are consistent.
@Richard, Osaka's mayor is in his late 60's. You mean Osaka Prefecture's governor. Yep, he is half the age of Ishihara. As they like antiques there, we'll send him back to Tokyo when he retires.
Posted in: What do you think about Shintaro Ishihara's re-election for a 4th term as Tokyo governor?
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Cos
Merci Jane !
Posted in: Jane Birkin performs at free charity concert in Shibuya
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Cos
3 weeks... it's time they quit the emergency shelters. It seems Japanese governement is repeating the mistake of Kobe : letting people in the ruined area too long. And relocating them much later, to places where they don't want to live. Why don't they do the contrary ? They should immediatelely move everybody from the shelters to hotels, rental flats, volunteer people's houses wherever in Japan, so these people can take a bath, have privacy, eat hot meals , well live in normal comfort and dignity. I'm sure there are vacant bedrooms in Japan for everybody and each shelter can relocate into a same town so they can meet everyday their relatives and neighbours. Some adults need to stay to rebuild and check how work progresses ? Maybe , but the kids and elderly have nothing to do there. They can go back to live in their towns later when new housing and facilities are installed and Winter is over. They don't have to camp during months in a gym and eat cold food. That's totally depressing and they are getting sick.
Posted in: Hygiene worsens in some shelters with evacuees not having had a bath since quake
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Cos
I don't know if that was national or at European level, but in France, the travel agency organisation suspended touristic trips until the end of April, on official request. That means all the agencies had to cancel all the tours to anywhere in Japan and I'm afraid they also dropped all offers of booking individual trips, for flights and hotels. Then many countries tell their nationals to avoid the whole country, even if that never made sense at all for Southern Japan. They don't say until when...
Tourists don't have much choice as that would be complicated or very costly to organize their trips to, let's say in Okinawa or Shikoku, in such conditions. I really hope all those measures drop quickly. Would they cancel tours in Italy for any kind of problem in Scotland ?
After 9/11, that was different. The US refused to let foreigners visit by not issuing nor renewing visas, by asking a new type of passport, etc. My brother-in-law and European coworkers were unable to visit their company's head office in Minneapolis during 3 months and they had to do their meetings in Canada. Japan has not changed the conditions for visas or anything. Correct me if I am wrong on that point.
Posted in: Uneasy tourists shun Japan amid radiation fears
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Cos
I don't have a telly. Do they do it on all channels ? If so, it's useless. 2 or 3 channels with non-stop. They can keep the others with usual light entertainment if people bedridden in hospitals, children or whoever needs that to destress.
Posted in: How do you feel about the nonstop television coverage of the earthquake, tsunami and ensuing nuclear crisis? What effect do you think it has on the public?
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Cos
This family has to expose every bit of their lives to the media. Many celebs are attention o's, but few go as far as sending their Mum to tell about their ex-in-laws... Record beaten.
Posted in: Sawajiri's mother says Erika apologized to ex-husband's parents for divorce
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Cos
"You mean 'former' model, correct? I know many women here look great well into their 40s but...what's she modeling (hopefully, not dentures, or a woman's hairpiece) and where's a good recent pic of HER?"
Browse her name for pictures, links don't pass here. She is not a "former" model, she is in all magazines, she does many covers. She is modeling fashion (even luxury brands) and lifestyle for wealthy women in their 30's and 40's. I think she looks great. I don't know if she had something done, but if it is, the result is excellent.
Posted in: Shoken’s fifth bride is model Rika Tomita
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Cos
I don't get why she marries him. She has a nice career of herself. No need for her to marry a boyfriend. He must be much wealthier than he seems. Or they are both wedding fetishists.
Posted in: Shoken’s fifth bride is model Rika Tomita
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Cos
I don't know... One more. Today's. Another couple unable to provide the most basic care to a child.
Everyday in the media, they give the news. Who cares ? Weather forecast. Who cares ? Trucks pass in my street all the time and propose to take away old TV sets. Who cares ? Please, pass a short message "You have kids and you don't know how to deal with them ? Call free number 333. We come and pick up the stuff you don't need."
Posted in: 3-year-old boy's ankles and wrists bound with rope for 20 hours
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Cos
" the fact that the woman was sleeping."
The fact she says she was, and it cannot be checked.
I don't sleep so deeply, but maybe I don't drink enough. Suppose I did (pick up a guy I don't know and sleep in his bed + drink or take drugs + wake up in those circumstances), I still don't imaging letting the guy "continue", there would be witnesses hearing me screaming and scars on the perv. Suppose I did (let him continue quietly), going to the police days later with that story would seem totally weird.
How to say ? The guy surely deserves beatings, STDs or whatever for his attitude. But there is no way that trial is not politically motivated.
Posted in: Assange's Swedish sex crimes file is leaked online
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Cos
Please don't let that old anachronic guy talk to young people. Even the optimistic ones would want to jump under a Shinkansen after hearing him.
I know the big sterotype of lifetime employment in Japan, but precisely, it is a stereotype, not reality. Maybe 20% of Japanese people have had the smooth "one company career" from after-war till now. All the others are not all living under cardboards in parks. There is a life outside Toyota-Matsushita. Many people change of companies and find interesting positions after a restructuration or resigning (as the kaisha life was depressing). Some change of field of activities. Actually, nearly all the really successful people I know in Osaka have "failed" at the classical big company career in the first part of their life. Losing a job at 50 can be traumatic. At 25, it's a chance to change of landscape. Some entered a smaller business, as a "second chance job", and as the company grew, they were given more responsabilities, so they are now at the top positions of dynamic businesses. Having seen several companies and getting used to unstability is huge advantage in today's world. Others have studied over years to get the degrees for a profession, and now, they are self-employed lawyers, accountants, website designers, or whatever, and their variety of experiences and habit of learning new things all the time helps them too. And I won't even list all those that created their companies. Entrepreneurs are the future of Japanese economy. The fewer they are, the darker the future. There is not much to hope from the people that got the "luck" to spend their first half of adult life as zombi employees at JAL, maintaining a sexless marriage with a stranger picked up randomly for the sake of conformism.
Even if the 20-somethings don't get many opportunities in Japanese economy, they can go to study and work abroad.
Posted in: The younger generation is confronted by unstable employment prospects. That means many will be excluded from the workplace in the first half of their adult life, which in turn, will deny them the opportunity to find jobs later in life or even get married.
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Cos
44 000 families took their kids to compete at that circus ? That's really scary.
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Cos
"while you are correct in saying that we don't have all the details in the case, and that nothing may have happened"
It is not "may have", it IS "nothing has happened" according the articles in Japanese. The guy was arrested at midnight (early dawn ?). The girl was on the bicycle parking with her elder brother but the guy told the boy to go and call his Mum. Then he told the girl to come with him in a taxi. Nobody saw them. The mother looked for her and then called the cops.
He went to a business hotel in another part of the city, a place where he lived before -not smart to suddenly appear with a kid if you don't want to be noticed. No more informations.
It is confirmed that he has no official job nor official house. Maybe he's a rich heir like Paris Hilton and he stays at hotels and travels. Maybe he has the kind of jobs and living arrangements that are done without any official document. I'm surprised so many of you believe the first case is more likely. And well, Japan, year 2011. It's not 100% safe, but random crimes are not the majority. You risk more to have your kids kidnapped/abused/killed by your current or ex-family (or at their request) than by an unrelated guy.
He can be a pedophile. Or a lunatic. Or neither.
Posted in: Unemployed 30-yr-old man arrested for kidnapping 5-yr-old girl in Chiba
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Cos
@Monkeyz, we know nothing don't we ? The thing is the guy is presented like the robot-portrait of a yakuza, those guy that do the dirty job and don't mind getting arrested and playing dumb so the rest of the mob is not getting investigated. That can be just "by chance" that the article is written that way. No idea. Is it "defending" him to say that ? It's better if he is a gangster than a pedophile for you ? You have a preference if that happens to a kid in your family ? I don't, I find any hypothesis equally awful. But if he is not alone in that story, it's scarier as the police has arrested only one guy and that would mean this family is not safe now. I'd be them, in doubt I'd move away without delay.
Posted in: Unemployed 30-yr-old man arrested for kidnapping 5-yr-old girl in Chiba
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Cos
I know there were many cases of pedos or just weird otakus that have kidnapped kids.
But he seemed to have information on the family to know about the brother, and the police seems to have found him much quicker than they usually do. The yakuza often hire that type of homeless guy that easily admit the crime and say to they are just nuts. That kind of itazura is really the most efficient way to scare a whole family and make them pay anything.
Posted in: Unemployed 30-yr-old man arrested for kidnapping 5-yr-old girl in Chiba