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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Cos
"Why do you care about the sex of the victims? One sex more valuable than the other? "
So why do you care about the article ? It's not a question of value of people. Still, that's different if it's a baby, a grand-mother, a teenage girl, a middle aged men, members of a same family... They tend to be victims for different reasons, don't they ? Then, if I had a dear one missing, I'd read all those articles hoping they give age/sex informations.
Posted in: More dismembered body parts found in canisters in Osaka
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Cos
Murders happen anywhere. There are crazy people in all social classes. Anybody can go to parks.
"My husbands family come from Tennoji ku but they always tell me how posh it is. Im confused??!"
Yes, a part of Tennoji is extremely wealthy. Always was. I have found a series of marble plates indicated such or such famous person lived in the place in the past. There are incredible houses there, especially if you can see inside all the modern and antique art they have. That's the old elite (already well off before the bubble), they did post-graduates abroad, are experts in Japanese traditions and old culture, etc.They are low-key. But that's not a friendly place at all. Very old Japan, with walls around the houses, streets empty after dinner time. I guess nobody goes there unless they are invited, or called for work.
The other side was a buraku, and further a bordello-district, also a Korean ghetto. That's no longer. I wonder when the other posters went last time. The vice area closed in the 60's from I heard. The rest has been renovated recently (still some work being done). Now there are shiny new shopping malls, new ritzy mansions, and you won't meet one homeless worker in the corridors of the stations (15 years ago, they'd gather there by thousands). In Shinsekai, these days, it's so clean that you can eat on the ground. The Koreans have become the biggest bourgeois in the country, their side is spotless too. There is still one bit of Nishinari-ku that remains weird. I don't mean misery has actually disappeared, but they pushed it out of Osaka-city. Yakuza, well, the real ones live up North, near my place -so I'm safe, they keep it quiet for their families.
Posted in: Head, leg parts found in Osaka park
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Cos
Tepco lost contact with this planet so long ago. Something paranormal happened and now they live in their own dimension. Or they are inside some manga or anime, like Sazae-san. We see the show everyday, it's always incredible.
But well, those poor devils that took the jobs surely don't care much and didn't expect more. Society forgot their existence. Administration lost their file for nenkin. Now that Tepco too lost their file and the adress of the park where they usually have their cardboard.
Posted in: TEPCO says it has lost contact with 143 nuclear plant workers
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Cos
Fadamor, I don't think the dog lacks exercise. I know people that have tiny delicate dogs like that and they all have no other choice than carrying them to the softer ground in a park and make them walk and run there. The dog is too fragile to walk all the distance, and they get their paws bleeding if they walk on the pavement. What I don't get is why that type of pet is so popular.
Posted in: Doggie bag
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Cos
"20 years ago, Sendai was promulgated as the back-up for Tokyo! "
No, no, 65 yrs ago, Washington DC became a back-up. Now they'd prefer Pekin ? Seriously, Japanese politicians in Tokyo are just like Saint-Simon said about the king and princes in his time, they can disappear, nobody will notice before several years. Look at Belgium, one year without government, business as usual.
The real problem is about industry. Management, research, marketing, production of so many companies are mostly in Kanto. Cut them the electricity, and it's half of the supply of everything that is stopped.
Posted in: Japan to consider backup capital city for emergencies
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Cos
"the people need to work together to rebuild this area of Japan"
No, that would be stubborness not courage. Japan does not need "this area". It's like in 1945, Japan didn't need Mandchuria, so they left it and that didn't kill Japan, on the contrary. In addition, Japan has not a clue on the way to rebuild in the delay of a man's life.
Close that zone, make people move away. Close the tsunami hit zones, make people move away. Close Tepco, too, I don't want my tax money being used to rebuild nostalgic villages on moving sand dunes. Nor to save the face of the Tepco execs, the local politicians that were getting pork belly, etc. Nor to rebuild contaminated rice paddies for farmers in their 60's, 70's, 80's.
Priority is totally reverse. Forget the memory, think of future. Number 1, children and their health. Number 2, young families that need to be relocated, get new houses, find new jobs, start again companies. Number 3, get a new electricity company to plan future with less (or no) nuclear power. Then move the elderly in groups of same town, so they don't lose all their social life.
I know many people in Kobe killed themselves because they had to move.... BUT, it's mostly because they were 5~10 years in temp housing hearing falses promises all the way and at the end, they were forced to accept housing that had been designed without asking them what they wanted. After a shock, people need to be given a fair deal in the shortest delay.They have to be evacuated to real housing (rental houses, flats, at worse hotels) not gyms, given money to buy food, clothes, cook. They need to be told they can't go back from day 1. It's 5 months too late.
Posted in: Alcoholism, suicides rising among farmers hit by nuclear crisis
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Cos
"So anyone can get a heart attack like that no matter how fit they are? "
Yes but no.... If you have some undetected irregularity, no matter how perfect is your lifestyle, that may happen. But I don't believe that high level athletes have 500 times the % of such defects than general population. I believe they are 500 times more junkies.
Posted in: Former Japan soccer player Matsuda dies of cardiac arrest at 34
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Cos
If I had been the Koreans, I'd have given a lift to those 3 creatures and delivered them by helicopter on those rocks in the sea. Then even give them South-Korean passports. And forget them there. Let them fish their food and collect rainwater to drink till the end of times. I mean they want to live there, no ?
Posted in: 3 Japanese lawmakers give up and return home from Seoul
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Cos
"Easy solution. Turn up the air con!"
In my former mansion, that was what my neighbours did. And we had tons of gokiburis. Actually they loved the cool rooms and ventured in my (non-air con ) place only in the hours were neighbours were not at home and cooling.
Posted in: Watch out -- a Level 4 gokiburi alert has just been called!
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Cos
Solution is collective. 80% of a mansion/street has to put stuff and no invasion. If you are the only one, you do it for your place, but it's like taking water from the sea with a teaspoon, as new ones are "produced" next door.
Here, we all renew regularly hosu-dango (boric acid), just in case, prevention. No goks around in 10 years. I have no air-con, my neighbours rarely use theirs and we prefer keeping doors open 24/24 half of the year, we water our balconies (for cooling and for the sake of plants). As I don't put my mosquito net doors, so far, invadors are : newspaper and religion salespersons, stalkers (but this mansion is equipped to deal with them), birds, cats, itachis. OK, the 2 last didn't come into my flat, but I met them in the stairs.
Posted in: Watch out -- a Level 4 gokiburi alert has just been called!
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Cos
Weird choice... Obviously in Kobe, only sky-scrappers stayed up. Of course, after, people couldn't stay in their flat just after and had to go elsewhere for a few weeks, but those in small villas on the ills, they had their roofs collapsed on their heads and their land sliding down, and survivors had to leave for months or years.
"no water or electricity for a couple of days or even longer. "
Better than dead forever. But I undrestand the feeling is they simply don't want to buy.
Posted in: Nobody cares so much anymore about a good view. Instead, they’re asking what will happen when the next big quake hits.
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Cos
"When international marriages break up, Japanese courts virtually never grant custody to foreign parents, especially men."
But what proportion go to court ? About half such marriages break. I know hundreds of divorced foreigners who have kids. I don't think they went to courts. They all have custody of their kids or weekly days of visit. Maybe it's a Kansai thing, as here most divorced J-Dads keep seeing their kids. I don't say they get along greatly with ex-families all the time and find the good arrangement easily, but they deal with it normally and no party fear they will be cut from the kids nor from support.
I think it's important to precise. It's not all black as the article says. Obviously, the problems often occur when a Japanese person moved abroad to follow a spouse... and then wants to go back to Japan after marriage ends. Or when foreigners settled in Japan want to go back home, taking the kids. At least one selfish parents. Maybe 2 selfish parents. Yes, the current law is bad. But I doubt that changing would solve all problems of such families. Well, I'd say use contraception if you are not ready to make the effort of living in your future kid's country of residency.
"Meanwhile many parents will continued to be denied access to their children."
No, it's children being denied access to a parent.
Posted in: U.S. says it won't tolerate loopholes in child abduction issue with Japan
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Cos
Totally naive article. You have as many chances to see Japan extraditing those parents as you had to seem extraditing ex-president Fujimori.
Posted in: Invoke Pinkerton Rule to get back abducted children
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Cos
Yes, M.Hori. I agree. Zero subsidies. I mean including for nuke energy. Start today. And you get what ? -Tepco close tomorrow morning. -All others getting a plan out of nuclear ready before September as they would fear to end like Tepco.
That said, I don't it's Mr. Son that should decide Japan's police on his own. People wake you up !
Posted in: Softbank's Son, Globis' Hori trade blows via Twitter
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Cos
I don't see why. Sorry there was no eartquake nor tsunami nor anything concerning Kansai. The shortage is 100% caused by poor management by electricity company. Yes, it's a sort of blackmail to force us to accept long term nuclear projects. I think that all of us in Kansai should stop paying our electricity bills for 3 months as a protest for the Kepco policy.
Then, our energy savings would do nothing for Tohoku. Fines ? Make them pay by the madman in charge. All he does is rebuilding stuff to be destroyed in next tsunami, letting a small radioactive contamination of 1% of Japanese produce become a national food disaster, damaging Japanese produce and produce image and selling power for the next 30 years. Not it's not the shoganai earthquake, it's how they deal with it. Government should pay compensation for the decline of all our businesses, even here in Kansai.
Pesonnally, I cannot save more. Or I stop my fridge, eat my food raw and use only the battery powered lamps. Now tell me why I should live like in the jungle and see all those neons, pachinkos, etc, from my windows ?
Posted in: Gov't asks Kansai to cut energy consumption by 10%
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Cos
Months ago, some farmers have already measure radioactivity in growing rice in Niigata (a major producing region). The harvested grain will be contaminated too. I won't buy imported rice at the price it's sold now. If it's get cheaper, sign for a bag of arborio genmai.
Posted in: Beef, milk, tea, spinach and other vegetables have been contaminated due to the Fukushima nuclear crisis. How much worse do you think this is going to get? For example, do you think rice will be affected?
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Cos
"No animals eat straw, believe me, I worked on a farm for years."
Surely your farm was old style. What do you think the tablets they feed them are made with ?
@Yidiray,
What is happening is the evidence the officials are not telling us the things. But we can't call it a conspiracy as that's hardly a secret.
Posted in: 435 cows shipped after being fed contaminated straw
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Cos
"Any guesses what the next major screw up will be anyone"
Niigata rice. It's already done, they just have to wait a little to gather and ship to your local Aeon that will measure the super-high radiactivity before putting it on the shelves. After selling 80%, bargain sale season, the chain will announce : "3 months ago, we measured...".
Kan should not resign at this point, but be arrested.
"I'd love to know what foodstuffs come from Fukushima. Anyone got a list handy? "
That's useless. Get a list of what they don't produce. You can consider only that as "safe". I mean they have decided to sell us any bit of Fukushima crap. Even stuff they would normally produce in familial garden, this year, they sell it. They mix it with similar produce from other places, cheat on labels, so you can't tell. So you can eat mangos, avocados, coconuts, chick peas, rabbit, polar bear and seal meat, ostrich eggs, foie gras, good cheeses, German rye bread... but if you buy a daikon, a watermelon, potatoes, chicken, etc, that may be from Fukushima, mislabeled as being from Kyushu, Hokkaido or import.
Posted in: 435 cows shipped after being fed contaminated straw
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Cos
Japan has the same law, even harsher. If you have not obtained permanent residency when your spouse dies, they give you 3 months to leave the country. A friend had been married for 25 years, living in Japan all that time with her Japanese husband, but as the 2 never had a full-time salaried job (they did baito and were self-employed, paying taxes, etc), and the Immigration didn't like her origines, well whatever, she was refused the permanent resident status each time she applied. She got the invitation to get out of here, one week after the husband's death. Well as long as you're a foreigner, don't expect too much, you have no rights at all, only favors from the host country.
Posted in: 'Widow penalty' victims finally allowed back in US
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Cos
Kawachi, it's illegal everywhere in Japan to have free-range chickens. Since the outbreaks of bird flu (5 years ago ?), they must farm them inside. Not sure it's a great idea to get meat from those that cheat.
Posted in: Chicken tips