JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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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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- 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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Eddisofbextar
Without laws-with-teeth that financially penalize companies for taking advantage of their employees, this country will continue to see a decline in full time employment, number of babies per person, and disposable income for singles and families. This is really a no-brainer, I am curious why the new (and old) governments have yet to understand this? If you want babies to help pay your upcoming retirement benefits you better protect the employers! Baito single men and enjyo kosai/prostituting girls are not going to do it. Who would want to get married in this kind of situation?
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Eddisofbextar
Foreign residents in Japan are often very transient and are generally not here for more than a couple years.
If voting rights are granted, it should be to the section of foreign population that has made a longer term commitment to staying in Japan.
However, the issue is rather pointless as even the typical Japanese citizen does not follow or even understand the political system here. Even with level 1 certification in Japanese it would be extremely difficult to understand most of the political debates and issues with enough understanding to make an educated decision as to how to vote. This could be solved by publishing pertinent information in multiple languages, having news and government tv programs with multiple language subtitles, and giving application forms and various papers in the requested language. I do not see this happening, as the costs involved would be staggering.
Posted in: Should foreign residents have local voting rights?
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Eddisofbextar
*The traffic speeds will be the fastest in eastern Japan, up drastically from the current 100 megabits per second. *
Actually Jcom has 140mbit internet service.
lameduck is correct however, in that the actual speeds you will see sustained with most internet apps is far less than the maximum. Speedtesting to various locations around the world the highest I managed was 43 MB download and 11 MB upload, but this was far from average for most locations.
the big difference here is that they claim they are making fiber optic internet access when 99% of their target (single family/small mansion) are not wired with fiber optic at all. can you say bottleneck? most residences have the same options many other countries have - cable or telephone line.
Posted in: KDDI to launch 1Gbps fiber-optic service in Oct
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Eddisofbextar
What the heck were these females doing during High School and University? facepalm. Too late now, arafo!
Posted in: Praying for a hubby
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Eddisofbextar
OP and husband ran a red light, thats enough reason to stop them right there.
Jsatsu will show ID when requested, by law. This will be done before showing any tourokusho cards to prevent impersonators of Jsatsu from getting any personal information.
As for asking the salary, this is a privacy issue - which OP and husband decided to divulge. Everyone has the right to refuse to answer such a question.
Looking inside your shopping bag. If you were on foot and were not breaking any laws the police have no reason to stop you at all, let alone stop you just to check your bag(s) - tho I do see this constantly in Shinjuku near the Yodobashi Camera shopping area (young, old, man, woman, Japanese, non-Japanese... i've seen them stop all of them). As for being on a bicycle, I am not sure if the police have more discretion to search bags or not.
advice: 1. learn the language of the country you are living in! 2. don't run red lights. 3. don't answer private/personal questions if you are uncomfortable doing so.
Posted in: My first run-in with the police
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Eddisofbextar
Wow... peds actually doing something for a change. I wouldnt be surprised if they were all charged with assault tho.
Posted in: Eye-witnesses apprehend thief in Tokyo
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Eddisofbextar
The woman that reported the case did not recognize the guy? Or perhaps only just saw "black man" and then immediately closed the curtains and made the call?
elbudamexicano: keys do wonders for opening locks.
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Eddisofbextar
See above first comment.
Posted in: Is Japan a good place to raise children?
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Eddisofbextar
In terms of psychological health from childhood to adult, definitely not.
Otherwise its just about the same as anywhere else.
Posted in: Is Japan a good place to raise children?
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Eddisofbextar
Keep pushing the people and theyll eventually bite back.
When it happens in china... wow... the death toll will be uncountable. Iran will also be quite high im sure. Japan will also see it happen, tho I am guessing it will be far less violent. The will of the people is too easily organized, unlike the old days - before the int0rn37. best of luck to them I say.
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Eddisofbextar
wareware nipponjin!
back to reality however, this isnt just restricted to major populations like Tokyo or Oosaka. Ive seen this in Fukushima, Aomori, Miyagi, Akita, Okinawa and Hokkaido.
As most intelligent people will already know, there are kind people and rude people and a bunch of in-betweeners in every country. But I tell you one thing, if someone tried to drag a young girl into a train bathroom to rape her (Toyama incident) in Canada (or the US I am sure), the guy would get the beating of a lifetime by most every passenger on the train and likely wouldnt live through it.
tell me again xmug how great it is here compared to other countries. It makes me chuckle.
Posted in: Older men up in arms over slovenly female behavior
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Eddisofbextar
Not only earphones, people riding bicycles and driving cars can often be seen using cell phones to send email. While they are moving no less! In one day in the around 2.5 hours of driving I do I can usually see 30 or more drivers, and 100 or more children on bikes using cell phones.
Posted in: 2 girls riding a bike hit by car in Chiba; one dies
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Eddisofbextar
2010, summer: google launch of new operating system is a huge success!
2010, late summer: in a surprise move by Microsoft, the company has purchased a majority share in ownership of Google Inc.
2011, spring: Microsoft announces today the upcoming release of a brand new operating system, code-named Wingles!
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Eddisofbextar
I still cannot comprehend how Japan has a traffic light system where >pedestrians, including children, are given a green light to cross and >cars turning are also given a green light to turn.
If you drive down a straight road with sidewalks for peds, and someone standing on the sidewalk decides to jump in front of your car just at the moment when it would pass him by - for reasons of suicide, neglegence, or ANY other reason - the driver is at fault in Japan, regardless if he has time to stop or not.
Its odd tho, because suicide jumpers in front of trains, their families must pay gross ammounts of money to JR to pay for the delay to everyone.
Posted in: 2 girls riding a bike hit by car in Chiba; one dies
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Eddisofbextar
Its only a matter of time before someone with a video recorder catches someone with lack of regard for their surroundings while riding a bicycle and then sues the government for making rediculous laws that should protect everyone, not just peds and bicycle riders.
I am not saying these 2 girls were doing anything wrong, since there are no details included in the report - but when I think about if I were to hit a ped and then go to jail, or have to pay huge sums of money when the ped for example fails to stop at a stop sign, red light, or similar situations, what happens to my family then? because of the poor judgement of someone else, my family should suffer? I dont think so, tim.
Posted in: 2 girls riding a bike hit by car in Chiba; one dies