JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- ZAIHON, Inc. (日本財務翻訳株式会社), Tokyo
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- Full-time English Teacher - Osaka
- Epion English Language Schools, Osaka
- Salary: ¥200,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month Depending on your ability and experience
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- Part-time English Teacher - Osaka
- Epion English Language Schools, Osaka
- Salary: ¥10,000 ~ ¥15,000 / Day Depending on how many days a week are worked
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DarkKnightNine
@whiskeysour: Have you ever worked with the Japanese. I think they'll have the rules and laws covered. They'll probably have 3,720,500 rules embedded in their memory chips (of which only 5 of them make any sense) and have to carry around a pocket manual that they absolutely cannot deviate from in any way and have to ask they head robot (who is reading from the same manual) if they ever have an original thought. Oh wait a minute were still talking about the robots right?
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DarkKnightNine
Typical Japanese response. Take the hardest route to an easily solvable problem. If they really want to solve the labor shortage, they should stop being so racist and ease their anal immigration laws. Instead they spend millions trying to build robots that will never be able to move and/or reason like a real human. When we get to the point that they can, we'll either have Battlestar Galactica, Terminator, The Matrix or an iRobot like world. Don't these scientist watch movies?
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DarkKnightNine
@netrek The whole world is pimping themselves for the latest "isomething" including probably YOU! We work to feed our desire to consume stuff that most of us don't need but want just to fit in and/or to justify our existence. This peer pressure is even more intense among the teenage demographic. But it can't be denied that it exists everywhere. The difference is now teenagers are being directly targeted by heavy marketing campaigns, so it can't all be blamed on parents. Kids are constantly being bombarded by marketing to the point where they feel like they need the newest latest whatever just feel some level of self worth.
Posted in: Osaka man arrested for employing 50 high school girls as prostitutes
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DarkKnightNine
@skipbeat what fantasy country do you live in? That sounds like almost every country in the world. Materialism is what drives the entire modernized world. People work to consume; it's a never ending cycle.
Posted in: Osaka man arrested for employing 50 high school girls as prostitutes
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DarkKnightNine
This is all BS. I'm only offended if the girls were forced into this life. To say that they were underaged and didn't know what they were doing is pure BS. More young girls know how, when and why to seduce a man by the time they're 15. In the U.S. girls are having babies by that age if not younger. These girls knowing made a decision to pursue this line of work so IMO they are not victims of any wrong doing. Not to mention the age on consent in Japan is legally 13.
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DarkKnightNine
To add to the growing list: Geena Davis - Long Kiss Goodnight & Cut Throat Island, Rhona Mitra & Kate Beckinsale - Underworld, Lori Petty - Tank Girl, Pamela Anderson Lee - Barb Wire, Sharon Stone - Quick & the Dead, Charlize Theron - Aeon Flux, Kathleen Turner - Undercover Blues & V.I. Warshawski and yes I do watch a lot of movies.
Posted in: 5 most impressive movie women who kick butt
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DarkKnightNine
@whiskeysour: I like your choices. I forgot all about Ironman 2. Scarlett Johansson definitely kicked some serious butt in that movie.
Posted in: 5 most impressive movie women who kick butt
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DarkKnightNine
How could limit this to only five movies, lest you forget Demi Moore in G.I. Jane and her famous one liner "Suck my.....". Then there's Milla Jovovich in the Resident Evil (Bio Hazard) movies who just rocks! We can also go way back to Cynthia Rothrock who was one of the baddest western females to ever star in a Hong Kong action flick.
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DarkKnightNine
Beautiful photograph! Nice make-up and lighting but that costume design is just a little too much. Maybe it would be better without the overstated stick growing out the back.
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DarkKnightNine
Pressurized Beer Canisters on a flight?! No thanks! I think I'll fly JAL from now on.
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DarkKnightNine
You guys don't seem to understand HDR photography. Which I'm 99.9% sure this is NOT! The purpose of HDR is to bring out details in both the highlights and the shadows. It gives an image the dynamic range closer to what the human eye can see but no camera (no matter how good) cannot by combining multiple exposures metered for both the shadows and the highlights. Everything in this shot is lacking in detail from the buildings, the tree line, the sky, even the lights in the foreground.
That's not to say it's not a nice shot, because it is. It's just not HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography as many of you seem to assume. It is a long exposure shot. Completely different from HDR.
Posted in: Festival of Seaside Lights
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DarkKnightNine
What gave you the impression this was an HDR shot? It could just be a slow shutter shot. Given that there are no details in the tree line or the sky I would say this is NOT an HDR photo.
Posted in: Festival of Seaside Lights
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DarkKnightNine
And then we have the brainwashed, braindead Flash drone who cries about a technology that's dragging his PC to a slow crawl and yet thinks he or she needs it because Adobe has told them so, not because they actually know something about technology. If he or she did, they would realize like the idiots who are hooked on oil that Flash is bad for your PC in the same way oil is bad for the environment. Wake up people and get a clue. Geez.
Posted in: Toshiba unveils world's lightest laptops
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DarkKnightNine
And one would need a dual screen for what exactly? Especially on the road where a mobile device is most likely used. Other than as a bragging rights gimmick, a dual screen on a notebook is both useless and stupid. I have two 30" HD monitors connected to my desktop where they actually serve a purpose as I require as much screen real estate as possible when editing HD video and/or film projects. Other than in the afore mentioned professional environment, having a dual display on a mobile device just makes you look like the nerd you probably are with no added benefit.
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DarkKnightNine
Really?! What reality does this idiot live in? As far as know, people are broke, hungry and struggling to make ends meet, not jetting off to Abu Dhabi on some rich Sheik's expense account riding around in Maybachs.
Posted in: Japan puts out welcome mat for embattled 'Sex and the City 2'
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DarkKnightNine
Imagine being lucky enough to wake up to that beautiful face (scratch that), beautiful everything (face, body, voice...), every morning. Her husband must live in pure bliss.
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DarkKnightNine
Yeah it seems like Hollywood is always jamming something down our throats for their own revenue purposes. If they actually started to care about the cinematic artform instead ROI, 3D might actually evolve into something enjoyable for the theater audiences.
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DarkKnightNine
@Disillusioned That is the most pathetic thing I've ever heard of... You actually watched these crimes being committed and didn't try to apprehend the suspect? Foreigner or not, if you live in a society, you have a moral responsibility to try and help it's citizens as you are temporarily apart of it. I used to live on the Saikyo line when it was first built. I apprehended a groper on my way to work but in that instance, I was more angry at the woman for allowing it to happen than the groper. The train was not full as it was still a new line. The suspect got on the train, sat unusually close to a young woman across from me and opened a newspaper covering his lap and hers. When I saw discomfort in her facial expressions, I had all the evidence I needed and leapt into action. He tried to run, but me being an ex-Olympic speed track and field sprinter from my University years, he had no chance. I caught up with him, grabbed by the collar and dragged him to the nearest train authorities for which they thanked me. Case closed; back on the train, late for work but the boss understood. No condemnation for being a foreigner in sight. Would suggest to you would be heroes out there that you DO NOT under any circumstances punch or kick the suspect as that would be against the law.
Posted in: Police nab 77 in 3 prefectures during one-week crackdown on train groping, molesting
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DarkKnightNine
One only has to look at the trend in Hollywood movies and their impact on society to know what happened to the traditional values you speak of. In most modern Hollywood movies over the last decade or so, the women are portrayed as the Heroes and the men are just competent sidekicks. Perhaps men no longer feel a need to protect their female counterparts. Personally I think it's over-the-top stupidity but it gets people into the theaters.
Posted in: Police nab 77 in 3 prefectures during one-week crackdown on train groping, molesting
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DarkKnightNine
Oh yeah the "Big Bad Government" is coming. Is that something like the Boogieman or "dem terrists"? The right has been selling this fear BS for years now to privatize and deregulate everything so they can rake in profits without any government interference or protection of the average citizen. Wake up! Can you really be that stupid?! Fortunately most Americans aren't buying this BS anymore, but it's still hard to believe people like you still exist.
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