JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Financial Advisor
- Select Asset Management KK, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥100,000 ~ ¥999,999 Paid Training Commission Based
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- Corporate Business English Trainers
- ACT Systems, Inc.（株式会社アクト・システムズ）, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥269,500 ~ ¥280,000 / Month
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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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DarkKnightNine
You are all making assumptions. I'm going to assume that there were no kids around since it was early in the morning (most kids were probably already at school by 11:00AM) and not all parks are popular, so this could have been one of those tiny off beat neighborhood parks that hardly anyone goes to. If that was the case, where's the crime? Two consenting adults and no physical contact. Hell I've seen worse done in parks with people watching. Try going to Yoyogi Park in Harajuku on a warm summer evening.
Posted in: Taxi driver, woman arrested for making up-skirt videos in Osaka park
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DarkKnightNine
Lucky that wasn't my son or daughter. The police would have to arrest two people. But knowing the J-police, he'd probably get off with just a warning after being released from the hospital, while I'd probably spend a year in jail.
Posted in: 9-year-old girl assaulted on way home from school in Hyogo
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DarkKnightNine
Wow! Don't know what I was thinking. For some reason I always think 1 meter is equivalent or about the same size as one foot. Being American, I always forget the metric system of measurement. In this case, I was imagining something that was only 4ft. tall. Thank you to all the readers who very nicely explained my judgement error.
Posted in: 3 family members die after falling into feed silo
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DarkKnightNine
It doesn't matter what Obama does, the rules have never changed. An African American, has to be an honor graduate from Harvard to even be considered for the same job as caucasian with a C average. This is the double standard that society has always placed on people of color. Obama could solve health care, end both wars, fix the world economic crisis and still some would complain he didn't do enough. Meanwhile a caucasian could start 2 wars, completely rob the treasury making himself and his cronies richer than they already were, cost the nation thousands of young lives, cause a world economic crisis that is still affecting millions of people worldwide, and be dumber than donkey shiznit and still be considered adorable by some. Chicago losing is just one more stone to throw at Obama's glass house. There are just people who just want to see him fail so they can say "see we shouldn't have hired the black guy". Chicago losing is not Obama's fault but there are those who will try their best to make it about him.
I think Hehehohohaha said it best:
Posted in: Chicago's Olympic loss is blow to Obama, too
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DarkKnightNine
How do four adults suffocate inside of something that is just 4m tall? I'm assuming of course that if they fell in there must have been an opening at the top of the thing so air could get in and that the adults in question are at least 4m tall or taller. Couldn't they have just stood up? Excuse me if this is an ignorant question. Not exactly sure what a feed silo looks like. Are there blades or something dangerous on the bottom that would have prevented them from standing up?
Posted in: 3 family members die after falling into feed silo
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DarkKnightNine
Again. Mobile Dating site. Don't these idiots read the news? On another note, you'd be a fool to commit a crime with a Japanese partner. If he or she gets caught, you can bet your life you're gonna get ratted out.
Posted in: MSDF member arrested for having sex with 13-year-old girl
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DarkKnightNine
"PleasureGelf" that was one the most hilarious posts I've seen on any forum in a long time. Cheers, mate.
Posted in: Legal loopholes give rise to bars, salons employing underage girls
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DarkKnightNine
English language menu is not trivial. When you really want to use an electronic gadget to it's full potential, you really need to understand the menus. The more advanced the gadget, the more you need to understand. I just bought a Canon Kiss X3 (as it's called in Japan) last month. It has so many buttons and settings, I would be completely lost without the English menus. To strip a gadget of a particular feature for no apparent reason is just stupid. This was a blunder for Panasonic. Obviously they have the ability to provide English (or whatever language) menus, why exclude it? In a tough and competitive economic climate, you don't want to give any prospect pause when considering your product versus the competition.
Thank god for real camera makers like Canon and Nikon. You shouldn't just buy a camera anyway. When you buy a DSLR you have to think of the ecosystem i.e. lens and attachments. If you really think that far, you would never buy a Panasonic DSLR in the first place. They make cool video cameras though.
Posted in: World's smallest digital single-lens reflex camera
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DarkKnightNine
Imagine that shock to his wife when she found her husband (a person who is supposed to protect people) is a perv. Surprised he didn't use the drunk excuse.
Posted in: Saitama cop arrested for trying to steal woman’s underwear on Twilight Express
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DarkKnightNine
I don't know what it is with these Japanese men that they can't control their anger. I get pissed at my girlfriend all the time, but I would NEVER put my hands on her. And to punch and kick a woman holding a baby? WTF?!
"Disillusioned" I think I would have to agree with you that it seems like alcohol is more of an excuse because it seems to be the culprit in all of these domestic violent cases. Once again, Japanese society living in denial so nothing will ever change.
Posted in: Naha man arrested for abusing wife, 8-month-old daughter
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DarkKnightNine
I would have to agree with all of the posters here that although the iPod and iPhone rock as far as GUI and usability, the sound is atrocious! The supplied Apple earbuds are garbage at best. However, the iPhone becomes a different device when you pair it V-Moda earbuds. Awesome sound! I haven't heard the Walkman but Sony generally makes great sounding products, so I would assume that the Walkman sounds great. Before I bought my V-Moda earbuds, I used Sony's earbuds exclusively. And the sound on my PSP is awesome, although I wish Sony hadn't decided to limit the volume. If any Sony product could give the iPod a run for it's money, I would say it's the PSP. Freakin' awesome gadget and in many ways way better than the iPod. The only problem is once again, Sony screwed the pooch with it's proprietary format the UMD. When will Sony learn that trying to force closed media formats on the general public is just bad business? Until they learn that lesson, they will always lose to the likes of Apple.
Posted in: Walkman outsells iPod in Japan
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DarkKnightNine
spudman, I totally understand your frustration with Softbank, I had to get my girlfriend's mother to get my iPhone because I don't have a credit card (by choice, I hate them) and because my girlfriend already has an iPhone and apparently you're not allowed to buy more than one (also a stupid rule). Imagine the hell we had to go through to convince my future mother-in-law to sign off on that because of Softbank's discrimination. I can't for the life of me figure out why Apple went with Softbank for the launch of iPhone in Japan, they have the absolute worse service of all the carriers. AU and DoCoMo are leagues ahead as far as service and customer care is concerned. But I suspect Apple just wanted to get the iPhone into this market and created a following first, so they went with the carrier that had the easiest terms for THEM! Now that they are here, I suspect sometime in the future we will see this being tied to one carrier business model dissolve. If not, you can forget about the iPhone's future in Japan or the U.S. for that matter because ATT is just as bad as Softbank.
Apple has made some awesome choices, but choosing Softbank as their exclusive carrier in Japan has got to be one of their worst ever!
Moderator: Back on topic please. The subject is the Walkman outselling the iPod.
Posted in: Walkman outsells iPod in Japan
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DarkKnightNine
So what else is new? Always some perv looking up little girl's skirts. And why is it that these guys always want to look up little girl's skirts? Aren't there any Japanese men that are attracted to grown women? No wonder there are so many single women in Japan. Once a girl passes 16 in Japan, she's an old maid.
Posted in: Truck driver arrested for taking photos up skirts of school girls
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DarkKnightNine
Oooops I forgot to mention a few games and a lot of useful apps as well.
Really "Jaegger" it seems like you're the idiot! No use for Apple stuff? Almost everything useful that has evolved in media entertainment in the past decade is a result of Apple's involvement.
Where would digital animation be without Pixar? Where would digital media download be with Apple's iTunes Store? Where would open standard formats like H.264, AAC, MP3 and Blu-Ray (which is based on H.264), HDMI etc... be without Apple's push for open media standards rather than closed proprietary formats like some companies with their own agenda?
If you own a high end video camera, more than likely you attach it to your computer by a Firewire cable (another Apple invention). Oh and even your beloved USB port on your computer. Apple didn't invent it, but they were the first to include it on a computer and push for it's acceptance as a standard.
Interfacing with a computer with a keyboard and mouse? Apple again. Touchscreen on a portable digital device? Wow! Apple again! Apple has always pushed for standards that make using electronic and digital gadgets easier to use.
"No good use of Apple stuff?" Dude you must have slept through the past five years or just don't know much about technology.
Posted in: Walkman outsells iPod in Japan
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DarkKnightNine
I wonder if the people here commenting about "using the iPhone as a music player is for idiots" actually use or own an iPhone. I have owned every iPod since it's debut and I can tell you that even though the 32GB on the iPhone may seem paltry, it really isn't. I have several movies, podcasts, audio books, TV shows, music videos and decent amount of music etc... on my iPhone. Not to mention emails with attachments, all of my contacts, my schedule etc... and I'm still amazed that I have room left over. I mean really how much media do you need to carry around with you in your pocket at any given time? Unless your daily commute is from Okinawa to Hokkaido, the iPhone's 32GB will serve you just fine. It should be also noted that because of the large number of people buying iPods and iPhones, it has driven down the price of Flash based memory which has opened the market for SSD harddrives in Notebook and Netbook PCs, Flash memory for video cameras and DSLRs and eventually desktop PCs. Thanks Apple. What has Sony done besides try to be another Microsoft by trying to tie the industry into their own proprietary formats like the stupid and ill-fated ATRAC introduced with the first digital Walkman. Thank god that wasn't a hit. Poor Audio quality in an extremely compressed data format, No thanks. And speaking of file formats, all of the aforementioned music on my iPhone is in Apple's Lossless data format (NOT MP3) given me sonically lossless sound indistinguishable from the original. Although it's file size is larger than standard MP3s, I'm still able to get a lot of music onto my paltry 32GB iPhone. Way to go Apple. Nuff said!
Posted in: Walkman outsells iPod in Japan
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DarkKnightNine
I fail to see how the Wii (A game console) is a competitor to the Walkman (portable media player). Who the heck writes these articles? They obviously know very little about tech gadgets.
Posted in: Walkman outsells iPod in Japan
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DarkKnightNine
Every single time one of these guys get caught is because they found some underaged girl on a bulletin board. You'd think they'd learn by now.
It makes me wonder about Japanese society in general. Where are these girl's parents? Why are there so many customers desiring underaged prostitutes? The survival of any business depends on demand. If there was no demand for underaged girls, there would be no business to support it. So you have to wonder about the sexual desires of Japanese men.
Posted in: Man arrested for employing student at 'delivery' call girl business in Kanagawa
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DarkKnightNine
niibu_yaa you're absolutely wrong! You be amazed how much a company starts to share responsibility once something like this cuts into their profits. Having been an executive at several major Japanese companies, I can tell that for certain that unless money is taken out their pockets, this will continue. Getting them involved with even parking monitors will add to the workforce and save lives. How could it hurt?
Posted in: Baby boy dies in locked car while mother plays pachinko in Akita
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DarkKnightNine
All excellent ideas!
Posted in: Baby boy dies in locked car while mother plays pachinko in Akita
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DarkKnightNine
Typical childish Japanese behavior. Been married to a Japanese woman twice and twice divorced. Not looking for marriage no. 3, don't think Japanese women (people) EVER mature.
Posted in: Uno Kanda and husband’s cell phone snapping contest