JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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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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- Part Time Assistant Language Teacher - Kanagawa Prefecture - late-March start
- Interac, Kanagawa
- Salary: ¥9,000 / Day per 4 class shift
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DJJapan
The Swine flu virus has nothing to do with it. I don't know how they did their research on this one, but who has the true desire to go there? If they wanted to market the destination then they should have the state of Utah as a backup and try and do tourist campaigns in Japan for this. I know there are a few companies that link Utah and Japan but not enough to justify direct flights.
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Without a doubt it is the Chinese who are the worst. They have no idea about personal space. They will stop at an exit when there is a crowd of people behind them. They are noisy and spit. I have never had a bad experience with a French person and I have come across a couple of people who were full of themselves, but they were O.K.
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I'm in a similar situation to pawatan and wouldn't mind switching industries but need something that would still recognize my current capabilities in my job and to be able to bring something to them rather than being offered something that is below what I do now. It can feel a little depressing that you can't get what you want and feel that they do mislead you for something just so they can get commission but they have to deal with numbers just like the rest of us. For the most part though when it comes to foreign companies they are looking for Japanese staff with English ability who know the Japanese market. I've never been in or probably never will be in a position where I have been employed in Japan and the person competing for that same position was Japanese. (Nissei is considered the same level as me) There are some companies that really do their research and know what they do and do it well and then you have the ones who couldn't get anything else here other than being an English teacher or are absolutely impossible to work with so the only thing they could do apart from opening an Eikawa was to open a recruiting company.
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DJJapan
Wow! Lucky guy. Kono should be careful with what he says though because out of choice I know which one I would go for!;)
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Stereofreak: I agree. Out of all the countries in Sth America, Chile is either the safest or at least the 2nd safest country there. I didn't know that many Japanese tourists go there though? Most of the Japanese people that I know that go to Sth America go to Peru, Brazil or Argentina. Either way it really seems that this guy got involved with the wrong people and the same can happen anywhere in the world.
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How bizarre! How could he rape one women when another women was in the next room and the women in the next room heard nothing? Then she got raped? He was able to rape 2 women whilst in a drunken state then they call the cops at 9 a.m which was 4 hours later? Prior to publicizing the info from the police department they should at least find out what happened because I think everyone will come to the conclusion that all he did was a 3 some and then did a runner.
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Wow! This news has made my week;) Another reason to go out tonight and have a few beers to celebrate. My Kanpai speech will be dedicated to her.
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Richard III: Are you really sure that they don't become adults until their 21? I find the age gap mentally between me and my Japanese peers (most of the time) about 10 years at least younger than me. The following story only represents one individual that I saw and the majority of Japanese parents that I do know are pretty good. I was walking along the street and a young mother was riding her bicycle with 1 kid on the front and one kid on the back. At the same time she was using her keitai to send mail. She had to suddenly stop because of an oncoming vechile off a side street which was more of main street as she was on a side street. She fell over and hit a fence. The kid on the back got injured and fell out, she put the bike on the bike stand and put him back in with his head slightly bleeding and just said "Daijoubu da yo" The kid in the fron was O.K as it was that big of a fall, but even more unbelievable is the fact that she just continued to do the mail on her keitai while the kids were in shock and crying. WTF!
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DJJapan
According to his confession (Through the police whilst getting almost tortured) he said that he had done this over a hundred times? Not defending the guy but why does it seem that these people spill their guts so easily? For doing what he did though he doesn't deserve the phone book he deserves the curb stomp!
Posted in: Chiba man admits to assaulting over 100 young girls
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Sydenham: Which means that if we as foreigners offered them that gateway of opportunity then they really do have a chance. The only problem that they have depending on the type of product that they have can sometimes be the reverse scenario of having to deal withthe legal process and hurdles of getting their product into a country. Being a Shochuu lover I had the idea of trying to get Shochuu into the U.S. The bigger manufacturers already do this but the smallers ones and usually better ones aren't willing to go the further step because of what is involved and therefore keep it domestic as it may in the long run limit their expansion, but in return keep it simple. Shouchuu comes under the distilled spirits law in the U.S so for each type of product that is introduced in has to go to a government approved laboratory, then a law firm and the bottle size is also decided. From my discussions with the manufacturers they could be flexible with the bottle size, but it was all the other details that boggled them and since it is in another language plus the fact that they already have a limited production they easily give up and can't create the real potential market that is there. In the case of Sake this isn't the case because it is considered a wine and therefore doesn't have the same amount of hurdles to go through. I have dealt with JETRO myself and from my perspective they are 1) Only there to maybe look at the big Japanese companies and 2) Are about as helpful as tits on a bull.
> Lastly, what about the fact that Japanese start-ups don’t seem to be able to connect to buyers in the global markets? > If they were to show some sort of decent presenation and exitement about what they are doing or what they have done then perhaps they would. I called another company about another really potential opportunity for their product. They had just started out and I told them that I would like to have the chance to promote it overseas. It was probably a 2 person operation and I did speak in fluent Japanese as well as discussed with the secretary and she said that she would pass on the details to the company owner and get back to me. I called 3 or 4 times. Now you would think that perhaps at a thought of expansion he would have called me back straight away. This didn't occur and yet they now have their homepage written in English as well as Japanese. For what purpose? Because I called and thought that they may get more overseas inquiries? They plant their seeds for the products that they have but they don't plan their business which is based on mostly passion or handed down from their parents to go a further step than what they are doing for fixed customers, but can't easily make the transformation from local to worldwide because of the wall that is in front of them. This of course is not only limited to Japan, but so many bankruptcies could be avoided if they just gave themselves a further scope of opportunity. The company that I work for manufactures a product that when it started that product it was for internal use. One day an American came along and said he would like to be able to buy and sell that product in the U.S. They agreed. Now that product is the largest manufacturer in the world for it. They gradually expanded over time and it is in it's own right a success. This occured in the 1970's when there was no such thing as internet and the main international communication technology then was Telex machines. We have the internet and less barriers for communications, but the cultural, language and general mindset has maybe only given reason to put up more walls perhaps?
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DJJapan
Give the guy a break! It's his first time to have a sprained finger :( Last time it was a fractured eye brow and he needed 6 weeks for rehabilitation! ;) Kind of reminds me of the role that David Bowie played in "The man that fell to earth"
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DJJapan
Doesn't anybody get it? Of course there will be 600,000 jobs created by the end of summer. It will be the high point of the fruit and vegetable picking season. Just won't be anyone that most of you know who will be the ones who will get the jobs. Oh the next plan would be to replace tractors with people in the cotton fields! ;) Best way to make this all happen. Make border control go on an 8 week vacation.
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tkoind2: Excellent post! One thing though in regards to the government helping people start small businesses. I do believe that they do something on a prefectural level. It also depends on the prefecture. I have a friend in Miyazaki who is trying to get something up and running and he is getting a lot of help and free service from the local government there. It's to the extent that I haven't seen this happen anywhere else in the world and may not either. There also seems to be other programs available but I only have a vague outline of them. Badsey: One of your points to have rich people buy (made in Japan) products. I think they already do that. Those products for the most part are cars and electronics and in consideration of the size of most Japanese households how many TV sets can you possibly have? One of the engines for growth in the past few years here has been replacing tube TV's with flat panel ones. Japan does and will continue to innovate products, but when the occasional bright spark comes along that will go against the establishment and ruffle up the feathers then that nail will have to be hammered back down in its place and everyone knows it. That's why there is always going to be preaching from elsewhere. It can't answer the question of what it will do which is frustrating.
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DJJapan
I don't know why she would want to come back to Japan. I'm not a big fan of China, but for the current and longer term she will have a lot more opportunity there and will be respected more there than back in Japan. Once she arrives back here, none of what she has done will have any meaning and unless she finds a small to medium sized company that will respect her work and language skills (Which most don't as they would probably hire Chinese people for a lower cost) then she will be left with a very narrow choice. This is the same for men also.
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Cleo: I'm not an English teach or a Plumber. So no point trying to stereotype me. What is enough of a salary for several lifetimes also? And why should I be taxed 40%, 50 or 60% for working my arse off? Because I can afford to? Sounds like a bit of the tall poppy coming from you there. If I am successful in my business I pay tax and am not against it. Why should I be taxed more in percentage for making more though? If I get the opportunity to make more and am smart enough to do so then the tax department will overall probably mak more money from me than trying to tax the hell out of me as it is going to promote further stimulation of my business. I don't agree with the fact that some executives get paid a lot of money to run a company into the ground and make a fortune out of it, but I don't agree with government interference into private enterprise, unless the government gets placed in the position of being the majority shareholder in that business. In such a case they are in business, but when they are the receiver of that enterprise they should make the best attempts to put the books back in order and get that enterprise back up and running to be sold off again. When they are in receivership they can control the salaries as the workers are civil servants. When it becomes a private enterprise again they should have no say in it. It goes against what our economies were established for in the first place. What about the executives and CEO's who perform well? In the news we have seen a small percentage of the overall companies where the CEO's make crazy amounts of money. Should a government decide the other 99% of companies salaries also? Absolutely NO! VOR: You are absolutely right. First it is the CEO's then who? But the only thing is that you are specifically referring to the U.S. This discussion I believe covers all the world.
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Cleo and One fo All. You seem to be favoring communism in your posts. How about we have motivated and an unmotivated workforce. The motived ones get paid the same as the unmotivated ones. What is too much salary? If I own the company I am the only shareholder and I have the right to decide what I give myself in returns. If I am not profitable I go out of business it is my risk. If I am profitable the government wants to tax me 40%. I think about the business 24/7 and then what ever I make extra and have sacrificed for 10 years over sweat and the sacrifice of not seeing friends because I have put everything I have and had back into the business you now say that a government should dictate to me what I am entitled to when they have done absolutely nothing to help my business and help it grow and have only taken from me so I can provide back to the society with their pork barrel spending? Additionally I have given people jobs and they don't have the passion that I do for the business. I pay them why is suited for their skill and if their skill is exceptional I shall pay them what I freely want to also. Therefore why should any government dictate to me as the owner of a company what they believe is a reasonable salary when that salary and the profits of the company contribute to society? Business makes money for governments that contribute to society. Not the opposite.
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DJJapan
I wonder if he asked her to turn around? ;)
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DJJapan
If someones name for ID was inside it then I would hand it in. If there is nothing written then I guess I would get a cab home that day rather than a train.
Posted in: If you found a large sum of money on the street, as happened in Kanagawa last week, would you help yourself to some of it, or hand it in?
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DJJapan
We can give the cops a hard time but if she stated that she didn't want to make him into a criminal then to a certain extent she puts a large part of that responsibility onto herself right? Saborichan: The problem with the thug like boys in this country is that they have a few tattoos then you are forever indebted to them with high interest charges.
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DJJapan
Staying at the 8th or 9th station is really crowded and it is Head, Toe , Head, Toe. I'd recommend to go the whole way up and stay at the lodges on the top. When I asked them how busy they were the previous evening they said that there weren't many people staying. Also the walk up from the 9th station to the top at 1 a.m takes just as long as what it does from the 5th station because it is so crowded. Late afternoon or early evening to beat the rush.
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