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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CraigHicks
Wow, I passed by San-ga-no-yu one hundred times on my bicycle and I never noticed it. This is useful information. I have been to JInata; it's fantastic to jump back and forth between the ocean and the onsen. The ocean is in a cove protected by big rock cliffs, wonderful.
Posted in: Best Tokyo onsen
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CraigHicks
"Once the six-year lease period is finished, the government plans to urge local farmers to consolidate their farmland under the farming corporations, the paper added." This last sentence needs a bit more explaining. Does that mean sell out to farming corporations and be replaced by robots?, (Or more likely cheaper foreign "trainee" farm workers.)
It is not the case that small farmers cannot efficiently use robots. Small farmers already group together to buy machinery and share it. They can do the same with robots. They only advantage of corporations is reducing the farmers to low paid wage earners, or replacing them with cheaper foreign labor.
Posted in: Japan plans futuristic farm with robot workers in disaster zone
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CraigHicks
Very good and smart work by the MPAC. For an ethnic group with little political clout and resources, a very wise and forward looking move. I am grateful for it.
I see some claim that working to overcome stereotyping and prejudice in media is "anti-free-market". Surely this claim came from someone who was not being stereotyped or experiencing prejudice.
Life is all about making an effort for constant improvement of self, environment, and the world; without out there is only sliding downhill to the mud-puddle where all runoff gathers and stagnates. Justifying unrestrained satiation of basest instincts under the banner of free enterprise, and even then at someone else's expense; it Stinks.
Posted in: Muslims seek change in way Hollywood movies portray them
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CraigHicks
The author is almost right, if only he would replace the title with "We have got some major issues coming". How has the US wise wisely spent the 846 billion dollars borrowed from China. Well, two wars cost 1,135 billions dollars (and counting), and apart from the kind act of providing lonely Iran with friendly companion on its border, and toppling a few allied democratic governments who supported the US war efforts (while the citizens were tired of it), there is not much to show for it. Certainly not oil security, certainly not a world in awe of US strength.
Every nation generally gets along by trying to grab a bigger piece of the pie for itself, while (just barely) avoiding large-scale unpredictable military conflict. (This is just an observation, not approval or judgement). Of course, avoiding large-scale unpredictable military conflict includes defense expenditures, which requires money, which you cannot in the long the run borrow (esp. from ...), which in turn requires you do not engage in unnecessary and endless unequal wars of no (or negative) strategic value.
My point is not to judge the authors conclusion, only to point out that it does not have much meaning because I think the author is an American, and as such his best course of self-interest action is, for example, to figure out how to change per-capita oil consumption from 7,800 barresl per year to the developed country mean of about 5,000 barrels per year in a very short time (it must be both possible and easy if all those europeans are doing it). That's exactly the kind of "never say die" spirit which will save America, and engender respect.
Posted in: China has some major issues coming
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CraigHicks
Loki520:If you’re using this event to criticize the “rhetoric” of Sarah Palin or others with whom you disagree, then you’re either asserting a connection between the “rhetoric” and the shooting — which based on evidence to date would be what we call a vicious lie —
I saw Palin's web page with the crosshairs targetting Gifford. Gifford commented that it was potentialy dangerous, giving Palin plenty of time to respond. Palin responded, after Gifford was shot. Sometimes a child, or a child-like adult, can only learn by making a mistake. But apparently she learned, the hard way, and at least she deserves credit for that.
Posted in: Arizona Rep Giffords shot, 6 killed, including judge, 9-year-old girl
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CraigHicks
Taka313 : "Ironically enough, unlike muslim threads, no one here is calling for racial profiling." Maye no they aren't, but perhaps yes they did. Just look up "Sacco and Vanzetti" on Wikipedia to see that, "the more things change, the more they stay the same", or to put it another way, "history repeats itself, but never the same way twice".
Posted in: European anarchists grow more violent, coordinated
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CraigHicks
Lets just suppose drug X has a NET negative affect on user and society. Make it illegal is supposed to reduce availability and make it appear undesirable.
In fact, it often has opposite effect as drug X becomes associated with the heroic underdog, profitable risk taking, you know the rest. Or look at how the drug cartels in Mexico have metastasized, and the pain this brings on the Mexican populace; all funded by American drug sales.
So why not legalize drug X and put the onus on the user to find his or her own way to survival fitness? Sounds fair; but actually what could happen is that a legal industry would immediatly grow up aruond drug X, it would be glorified through advertising, and society would pay the price while a few got rich.
ALready, many are talking how sales taxes would fill in funding shortfalls for education, etc. That's not good, and its not morally correct. Those receipts should go excluisively to anti-drug X advertising. The anti-smoking campaign proves it can be effective. Dont let illegal drug dealers be replaced by legal drug dealers.
Posted in: Latin American leaders question Calif move to legalize marijuana
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CraigHicks
Which brings us to another point: what Haiti needs most after the emeregency has changed from agony to a dull thudding pain is most "favored nation status" or its equivalent, i.e., duty free import priveleges. There's nothing like work to pick up peoples spirits and make a country strong and healthy. But we will see what happens once the special interest groups put in their two cents. By the way the real "Bacchus" is the Roman god of alchoholic beverages, dedicated to eliminiating stress and living carefree. I think the real Bachuss would say "what, me worry?", enjoy the holiday, and leave a large tip.
Posted in: Cruise ships under fire for stopping in Haiti
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CraigHicks
The sea shapard group are truly innovative entreprenuers; creating an entirely new venue and new style for pro-wrestling.
Sometimes those pro-wrestlers get their heads banged and die too; all for the cause.
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