JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) in Kanto region
- RCS (RCSコーポレーション), Kanto
- Salary: ¥180,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month includes performance bonus
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- Assistant Language Teacher - TOKYO - late-March start
- Interac, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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- Assistant Language Teacher - Kanagawa Prefecture - late-March start
- Interac, Kanagawa
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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I've seen them moving out to Tokyo....to Shanghai, Singapore, etc. The Japan of 40~30 years ago (the only country of Asia that was in the economic race) no longer exists. Then the importance of the big capital cities has also become less important as you can start a Silicon Valley in the middle of the woods. It's neither bad nor good.
No. These are the decorative offices. J-government is operating from Washington D.C. and multinational companies from many different places. Don't worry, they have always had eggs in the offshore tax paradise baskets. If that bit of Tokyo sunk, nothing would cease to function. I don't worry for the companies and government. Of course, a disaster in Tokyo would makes more victims than one in the middle of Sahara. That's an issue for zones that concentrates a lot of population. The question is more about rescue logistics. If 1 million of people require medical care in Tokyo, while local hospitals can't operate, what is the back up rescue plan ?
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An assumption from readers on that board. He was not CEO. but he has been a top director of the group for 20 years (an exec for 30 years). In 2007~2008, he was director of Olympus UK and :
So, he was there for that sale, and he was even the guy in the highest position and the one that knew the most about both parties Olympus and the British seller, and the under-tables. Totally not plausible he was unaware that some world record commission had been paid in 2008, illegally. Back then, he did not picked up his phone to tell to British trade authorities. Note that he just an average European manager, and there are dozens of big companies in UK and Europe involved in all kinds of under-table commission scandals.
Ex-CEO, jail inmate like Loïk Le Floch-Prigent of ELF who was one of the biggest industrial CEOs in Europe or Kim Woo-Choong who was the one of Daewoo that was the biggest in South-Korea. What he does now looks like a plea bargain to avoid bearing the responsibility of 30 yrs of bribing and book cooking.
Trusted... well nominated. Maybe to become a fuse. In case of investigation, some European authorities could prosecute the board of Olympus for illegal commissions, false accounting reports the books, breaking the rules of stock-echange market. Japanese board members would never be extraditated, but a European CEO, yes. Later for the image, Olympus could say : "He was the only criminal in our group, not even a Japanese, he's no longer here, we're clean again".
Posted in: Woodford ramps up campaign to oust Olympus board
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Well, again a weird superhero. Before becoming Batman, this Mr Woodford made a long career in that company and the bad smell didn't disturb him during years. As long as he could benefit that was perfect, then when his career was facing a wall, he can quit and burn the boat. He can shake hands with the Tepco guys.
Would have been right to prevent the scam years ago... now he does what it takes to save his own skin.
Posted in: Woodford ramps up campaign to oust Olympus board
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They make me think about these guys (in Middle-East ?) that where protesting against that hot drama actor from Turkey because all the women were spending their time glued on the TV instead of worshiping them.
Yep, there is a rule on this board that many posters will come to say they prefer XXXXX from any countru to XXXXX from Japan. That said Korean, Japanese, American or whatever, those TV soaps are the "pan et circus" to deter the masses from thinking and questioning real issues in the country. I guess North Korean dramas would be even better. Are they showing some ?
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His brother could be suspected of wanting the job sooner. Even if I doubt that makes a big difference to be Crown Prince or Emperor. Now, either they retire and replace the Emperor in duty and title, or they announce the Emperor's duty is reduced to give greetings on New Year, Sakura and O'bon... or they let the Kunaicho abuse a tired old man.
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8 months too late. Should have been fired mid-March and ordered to take a shift as temp worker to help clean the mess. News today would be "a temp worker from Fuku dai-1 quits", and that news we never hear, but we should keep more respect for all those temp workers than for the director of disaster. He did the good thing after the disaster ? Nothing special that a guy does his job. It's not being a hero, even if that contrasts with the many times he and his buddies Tepco execs failed at their task.
I don't care. I try, but I can't. He's the last person in all Fukushima Pref that I care about. The only news is he is not fired. Nobody got the guts to fire him. Sad news.
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Cos
Ours prefer motorbikes. Preferred. I rarely see them these days. That used to be different.
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Cos
Yeah ? For me, he is the only one not suspected. Even if he wanted, even if he had his Dad... Now, the yakuza don't want to give him the time of the day. He already made them lose lots of money by refusing to continue the old system and by firing the rotten apples in public services that were sending them the dough. I wish him a good health as he clearly lives dangerously. What we've seen is the "yak connection" of the politicians that were mayors, governors and others before his election as governor. During decades some huge amounts of public money was embezzled, and the big projects that put Osaka in incredible debts (Kansai Airport's sequel, Osaka port, World Trade Center, all the ghost towns in that zone...). All that was in connection with the yakuza in building business.
Concretely for us living here that was the crappiest public service possible... and increasing taxes due to the debts. That was the same feeling when everybody in Japan got aware of the nenkin scandal. People paid for years and were announced : "we've lost the money, you'll have to pay more from now just to cover the debts of the past" just as the economy was going down. So for the last 10 years, citizens of Osaka have voted against the former "established politicians", many jiminto giins that had been in the position for decades, for generations, have lost too. When people saw who supported Hiramatsu, they could only think : "not them again"... The first time, he was elected as "independent", but this time he was leading all the ousted parties that try to gain back their old power. That said Hashimoto is not the ideal mayor. He was the only possibility to get a change. I don't know personally anybody supporting his drunkard claims to make the city a new Las Vegas. I hope it's provocation and bad jokes.
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Not sure they did it. The mistake was failing to include Uchida in the national data base. But even if he has been in the DB, they wouldn't have checked his prints as they take print samples only for foreigners (don't they ?) or for Japanese nationals arrested for something serious... If I understand well, they got prints to compare only because he was involved in the second murder, so that was too late for this person anyway. Maybe he had a criminal record, and his prints in the DB from the start ? The article doesn't precise.
Posted in: Evidence misfiled for 12 years may have allowed killer to walk free
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If that was the case Hiramatsu would be re-elected.
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Cos
I would not cry for her being cut from her daughter since she did exactly that to the other parent.
And you're sure they are no Brazilian parents that could get their kids living in Brazil thanks to the deal ? I can understand that for the average Brazilian it can be more expensive to go visiting a kid living in the US than for the average American... but well, you have riches and poor in both countries, and at least they have the right to visit, to keep contact, etc. Then riches live where they want, they hop in a plane to spend the week-end on another continent for kid's birthday, super. And the poor has to make the difficult choice of living/struggling in the foreign country just to stay near the kids and meet them often, or going back to live in home country without financial means to travel and see the kids no more than once in a decade. Unfair. I feel for them. I have many friends that have not seen kids/parents in years simply because they can't afford to travel. Life is unfair. That's not due to the treaty.
Not at all. Japan is the one not part of it. France, my old country, has signed the agreement. There are thousands of French-American divorces. Really you can't imagine the number. There was an epidemic and everybody married an American... briefly. 99% of families find arrangements for the kid custody ... and in the 0.1% of those that abduct the kids to get them exclusively, you find an equal proportion of citizens of both country. They make the news... I didn't check stats, but it seems that yes, a number of kids abducted into France were returned to the US, usually after the French police arrested the abductor. But a roughly equal number of kids abducted into the US were returned to France thanks to US authorities. They are reported the same way in the news. For this matter, I think the US authorities have been consistent and fair over the years. There should be no double standard.
No. Japan does well for the abductors only. I don't think the kids (that are also citizen) benefit of it. Living abroad (or in Japan, as both cases are possible) and keeping regular contact with Japanese/family family is better than living in Japan and totally cut from half of your family.
Posted in: American father wins custody of daughter taken to Japan
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The link you gave Cleo.
Posted in: American father wins custody of daughter taken to Japan
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No way. I have never had drug at my reach in my parents' house. And surely not on holidays abroad with my parents. Weird family.
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Yes, this 69 yr old snack pillar oyaji was surely a heavy gamer....
Posted in: Female manager of gentlemen's 'snack club' stabbed to death
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It's one case. A special one.
Like here, no ? There is one video where you hear the mother losing her temper with the kid, well it's scary. There are videos of the mother in court, not a healthy looking woman. Her trip to Hawaii is surrealistic... She looks like she has lost some of her marbles. I think this part of the file is kept out of the media. I came back and read the father's letter and that confirms the impression. Ki no doku. She surely loves her child. But we don't want to read one more story of a depressive irrational mother killing her kid and then suiciding. There is no reason of not giving custody to the healthy young father. I hope the girl can go back to the US in the best condition possible and she can visit her grand-parents in Japan for holidays regularly. Then the mother... depends how her treatment works.
Posted in: American father wins custody of daughter taken to Japan
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And what if he went to live there ? The problem is not a parent or both relocates to another country after a divorce. It's that they don't arrange to let the kid get a permanent contact with both and refuse to arrange regular visit to/from the parent not living with the child.
Posted in: American father wins custody of daughter taken to Japan
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Courts in 2 countries have heard from her and they have checked if what she said was true. They both gave custody to the other parent. You think she should flee both country with the kid now ?
I couldn't care less about Japan. It's just a place for me like anywhere else. There are women that did like this Ms Inoue in many other countries. Like that Russian woman living in France, divorcing her French husband and taking the toddler away, hiding in other countries. I think the same about all of them. They are wrong.
Posted in: American father wins custody of daughter taken to Japan
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Anyway, that's not a criteria. Kids tend to say they prefer staying where they are, in the town they know, with their school friends, but when they actually move and change school, they like the new place. Even children abused by parents tend to say they want to keep living with them. Karina has been abused by her mother and by her maternal grand-parents. Cutting her from contact with her father is abuse, repetitive abuse. The 3 should never ever have her custody, only visitation in presence of the father (or guardian if he became unable) and maybe a policeman or jail staff.
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Have been hunted by them... They ran into our car. The car front was 1 meter shorter after the shock. And they ran away. That was a lady boar and her 3 piglets. I still have the image of them running in the snow... before the car lights stopped and we were in the complete dark. My Mum was driving back her 3 piglets from grandma's in the middle of nowhere, and we were thinking we'd become icicles that night. I guess you get warmer once the car is totally covered by snow. The next car passed 15 minutes later. For me that was like 10 hours. I was disappointed as I thought the boars had left some hair on the car, so I could get it to make a brush. There was nearly nothing. They are incredibly tough.
25% in my experience : in the woods, when I kick the inoshishi with a stick he/she goes away, normally. Obviously, not the case in the article. At least in Japan, they don't have rabies. So my fear here is the bears or even the monkeys. French boars don't even realize you are not cuddling them. My town regularly has to pay hunters to cull about 1/2 of the local boar herd. Maybe once every 3 years. It's a woody area, and they have no predators. In Middle-Age, whenever there was a year poor in fruits, nuts, acorns, the village was ransacked by the boars before they could take their crops. Some say that if food was really scarce, boars would chase humans to eat them. Anyway they make people fall when they pass in the villages, and you can die of the injuries. Or they bite when they have rabies. Traditionally Christmas was called the baconic party... the Celts were revenging by catching and roasting a few fat boars. That's after eating all your Autumn veggies that they have the biggest layer of lard, the juiciest hams. Don't wait Spring to get them with only bones and skin.
Oh no... if you want it to come and visit again and again, to ransack your garden and fields whenever you plant something. Be nice to the boar. Give it a treat. You'll get a 150 kg muddy inoshishi-tomo sleeping on your tatami... It's crispy a slice of tatami. And they are very social. Boars never fail to bring you their big family, their pals.
Sure, if you have a big garden, you need a few dozen of big restaurant fridges to keep all your cabbages, potatoes, pumpkin, rice, tsukemono, fruits, etc, of the year. And you count on Tepco for the electricity. Benri.
Posted in: Wild boar enters home in Motegi; injures resident
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Why so positive ? Reminder (from wikipedia, you'll get confirmation from all other sources except Bhutan royal propaganda services):
That's probably not over. Nearly all the Bhutanese that live in Osaka have left to escape persecution. They must me delighted to see how people love the royals.
I have nothing to say against them, nor the Tenno, and that type of royalties. As kitsch and vain they are, they have no political power, their people are free to keep or dump them.
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