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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Fadamor
Even if the other four ARE corporate shills, you can't survive long in D.C. with a "my way or the highway" attitude. You have to at least PRETEND that you're listeneing to other people's views. Sounds like this guy hasn't learned that yet.
Posted in: Jaczko's response to Japan crisis criticized by U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
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Fadamor
HEY! Who are you calling "old"?! I'm older than this guy and I'm not old! (SHEESH! Young whippersnappers these days have NO respect for their elders!)
Posted in: 49-year-old man kicks 9-year-old boy in face, breaking his nose
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Fadamor
Patrick is correct. Gordon Prange wrote an excellent book on the Pearl Harbor attack titled "At Dawn We Slept". He was able to access documents from both the U.S. and Japan shortly after the war in order to piece-together a detailed description of the views and actions on BOTH sides of the Pacific leading up to the attack and the reasons why things happened the way they did. Yet even he wasn't given access to things that were still classified at the time. Items declassified in the years subsequent to the publication of his book reveal that SOME of his conclusions would have been different had he been given access to the newly declassified data.
Yuri is also correct. Even if the Japanese Embassy had not delayed the delivery of the war declaration and had delivered it just prior to the attack - as intended - the U.S. still would not have been able to mount any sort of Hawaiian defense in time. The timing was planned so that the attack would occur only minutes after the declaration of war was handed to U.S. officials. Washington would have had to send a telegram, then have the telegram delivered to the base commanders before the defenses could be activated. It IS a puzzle as to why neither the submarine piers, nor the oil tank farm were targeted during the attack. The shipyard WAS attacked, but they appeared to concentrate on the ships in drydock, rather than the drydock facilities themselves. This lapse in the attack allowed the U.S. to send out their submarine fleet virtually unscathed and the shipyard was able to perform some amazing repairs in record time only months after the attack. The intact oil farm meant that the surviving ships didn't have to wait until tankers from the mainland arrived before they could disperse.
Posted in: Gemba says he feels 'deep emotion' about Pearl Harbor
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Fadamor
Foxie, the U.S. didn't interfere with Russia's election. It was Putin's "United Russia" (yeah, right!) party that interfered with the election through election fraud. Clinton's comments came AFTER the election.
Posted in: Putin accuses Clinton of instigating protesters
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Fadamor
kwatt is a perfect example of someone believing what they want to believe regardless of the facts presented. (Must be a Republican)
Fiction: "the US already knew the approach of the J navy to Hawaii."
Fact: The U.S. knew Japanese Carrier Force One had sailed, but its location was unknown after it left port and its destination wasn't known until the planes descended on Pearl. The Carrier Force's route intentionally took it out of the commonly used commercial routes in order to avoid detection.
Fiction: "US highest ranking officers got an information that J navy fleets were approaching to Hawaii. US Admiral decided the carrier fleet to move out of the Bay in case of Japanese attacks."
Fact: Both the Army and Navy Commandants on Oahu received a message from Washingtion stating "War Warning: Take appropriate action" The first question they asked themselves was, "What the heck is a 'War Warning" and what would be an appropriate action?" The Army General incorrectly guessed that sabotage was the highest threat and lined all his aircraft up out by the runway - away from buildings and fences that saboteurs could use as cover. This, unfortunately, made them ridiculously easy to destroy in a few strafing runs by fighter aircraft. If they knew the carriers were coming, why make it easier for Japanese A6M Zeros to destroy our defenses? As for the U.S. carriers, you have to know that in 1941 carriers were NOT the primary naval vessel in the fleet. That role was still retained by the battlewagons. It wasn't until the middle of WWII that tactical doctrine shifted from the battleship being the highest value ship of a fleet to the carriers being the highest-value ships. So if the navy really DID know the attack was forthcoming, then the BATTLESHIPS would have been at sea ahead of any carrier sorties.
Posted in: U.S. marks 70th anniversary of Pearl Harbor
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Fadamor
Meh. If the vessels and/or processing facilities were damaged during the tsunami, then OF COURSE some of the donated funds will go towards restoring the businesses. This is a non-issue to me.
Whales are food for animals higher in the food chain. As long as a particular species of whale is not endangered, there should be no limits on hunting for food. People keep trying to impart some special status to whales when the truth is that they're not that intelligent. If they were as smart as people try to make them out to be, then pods would avoid ships of ANY kind after the first of their pod is taken. It's not like thse ships are stealthed and can sneak up on a pod undetected.
Posted in: Japan using quake disaster budget for whaling aid
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Fadamor
Genkigonzo, JT didn't write it. It was written elsewhere and distributed by the Associated Press, of which JT is a subscribing news service. I suppose you could give JT kudos for deciding to run THIS particular AP release over the dozens of others that AP releases every day.
I have to laugh at their copyright disclaimer at the bottom, though. It seems they left something off:
Considering that the AP's entire BUSINESS is built on subscribers being able to redistribute the AP's work, methinks they forgot the part at the end that says "without written permission from the Associated Press".
About the meat of the article, I have to wonder if this is another one of those Japanese things where something is ambiguously said, but the meaning is clear to a native speaker. That's one of the harder aspects I've found in trying to learn the language. The direct translation may be having "deep emotion" but the full meaning actually means more? Perhaps a native speaker can weigh-in on this possibility?
Posted in: Gemba says he feels 'deep emotion' about Pearl Harbor
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Fadamor
Okimike oversimplified things a bit. There are circumstances that must be met before you could "legally" shoot someone on your property: The primary circumstance is the owner has to demonstrate a reasonable fear of bodily harm from the intruder. In the case of this story, a 9-year-old "intruder" isn't going to be a threat to an adult to the point where the adult could claim self-defense.
Posted in: 49-year-old man kicks 9-year-old boy in face, breaking his nose
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Fadamor
I work PART TIME as a football referee and because I work high school games, I have to go through a criminal background-check with the State Police EVERY YEAR. People who are employed to work with vulnerable people need to be verified through criminal background checks, not just rely on their honesty.
Posted in: Kyoto hospital worker jailed for tearing toenails off elderly patients
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Fadamor
@vg866,
Show me in any of the ENTIRE three sentences of Notasap's post where he specifically requested the South Korean government to do ANYTHING about the carttons or the cartoonists who drew them. This was obviously a plea directed at the cartoonists themselves. When I refer to "Korea" (or "Japan", or "America", etc) I'm referring to the population as a whole - not just the government. I also never misinterpret a request to cartoonists as being a request to the government because I DO know how to read without drawing conclusions that have no basis.
Posted in: Japan returns remaining 1,200 Korean royal archives
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Fadamor
I've probably been reading English since before your father was just a sperm cell in HIS father. Notasap ASKED (and even used "please" when he did) if there could be "an end to the anti-Japanese cartoons?" He never demanded anything, yet that's what you accused him of "in other words." (FAIL ONE) He never even IMPLIED that the authors of said cartoons should be censored by the South Korean government. (FAIL TWO) And he never called for their incarceration. (FAIL THREE)
There is nothing wrong with my ability to read and what I read from you has zero to do with what I read from him.
(My apologies to Notasap if "he" is actually a "she".)
Posted in: Japan returns remaining 1,200 Korean royal archives
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Fadamor
Re: Museums and their "acquired" exhibits...
Back in the day, travel was much more difficult and a museum in Europe could have a valid reason for exhibiting artifacts from halfway around the world. With the ease of global travel, however, the justification for a museum outside Egypt to have Egyptian artifacts is greatly reduced. Unless the artifacts are on loan from the original country, historical artifacts should be returned to their countries of origin. This would improve tourism as then more people would visit those countries to see the artifacts.
Posted in: Japan returns remaining 1,200 Korean royal archives
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Fadamor
FAIL. You're using "other words" that have no relation at all to notasap's post. Notasap never called for the cartoons to be made illegal NOR did notasap call for anyone to be arrested. The fantasy world in your mind is the only place those desires reside.
Posted in: Japan returns remaining 1,200 Korean royal archives
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Fadamor
I spent a brief period (three months) TDY at the base's Water Transportation Department (WTD) while waiting for my ship to return from deployment (circa 1979). Back then the WTD was still responsible for the Memorial maintenance and tours (the National Park Service has taken over those responsibilities now.) One of my jobs was to row out to the memorial in a fiberglass dinghy at low tide with another sailor and scrape barnacles off the part of the memorial that entered the harbor waters. Low tide on that day was near dusk, and the dinghy kept bumping against the portion of Arizona's superstructure that had been cut away below the surface. Eerie, to say the least, as it felt like someone was pushing against the dinghy while we worked. We were the ones doing the pushing, though. Everytime we went to scrape a barnacle, we pushed the dinghy against the Arizona's hull. To this day I remember thinking about all the souls that were trapped just below our dinghy.
Posted in: 70 years after Pearl Harbor, USS Arizona still weeps
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Fadamor
The ICAO mandates that all international air traffic is handled in English so there is only ONE language the pilots and ATC personnel need to know besides their native language. But just because someone took English classes at one point doesn't mean they know it NOW. I would need to listen to the tower's tape before I'd be able to tell if this was a tower English problem or a pilot English problem.
I should note that "ATC clearance" could mean that they had not been cleared for their filed IFR flight plan yet. If the tower cleared them for take off without that clearance, then the airport needs to look at THEIR procedures as well. (If this was the issue, why was the plane handed from Ground to Tower without an IFR clearance?) The key phrase I would be looking for to eliminate this possibility is "Cleared as filed" from either Ground or Tower prior to clearing them to take off.
Posted in: Chinese airline pledges to improve crews' English skills after unauthorized take-off in Japan
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Fadamor
Want to cause an uproar? Install one of those 3G/4G signal blockers in the driver's compartment. Voila! No cell phone use.
Posted in: 8 bullet train drivers used cell phones while driving: JR Tokai
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Fadamor
It's really scary what some pilots DON'T understand, but think they do. Case in point, this recording from four or so years ago between a JFK Ground Controller and an Air China flight crew that had just landed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AFv48IWhJw
Posted in: Chinese airline pledges to improve crews' English skills after unauthorized take-off in Japan
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Fadamor
I agree. If an adult is going to slash a 6-year-old with a knife, there's going to be a lot more damage than "a light wound to the palm of his right hand." This story smells funnier than last-week's tuna catch.
Posted in: Boy reports being attacked by man with knife in Nagoya
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Fadamor
Until car drivers are not automatically at blame, the cases of hit-and-run will continue.
Overly simplistic. Drivers are not automatically to blame here where I live, yet we still have cases of hit and runs.
Posted in: Man killed in hit-and-run incident found in drainage ditch days after death
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Fadamor
Exactly. A canary in a pretty cage to look at, but you can't let it out because you lose control over what happens to it. This is true of most offspring of countries' leaders (whether figureheads or those with actual power). I'm sure Obama's daughters are absolutely joyous over not being able to do anything spontaneous outside the confines of the White House. Anywhere they want to go has to be vetted by the Secret Service prior to it happening. When you're a designated national treasure, you have no life of your own.
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