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
That's not a problem in the U.S. A law was passed in 2008 prohibiting exactly what you're talking about:
Posted in: Davos wowed by device that reads 'code of life' in hours
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Fadamor
From the manufacturer's website: http://www.lifetechnologies.com/us/en/home/about-us/news-gallery/press-releases/2012/life-techologies-itroduces-the-bechtop-io-proto.html
Posted in: Davos wowed by device that reads 'code of life' in hours
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Fadamor
Yeah. That's why it's in the "Commentary" portion of the website. That's where opinions tend to get published.
I have a TomTom GPS and have been quite happy with it so far. You DO need to understand a bit how it works, however, or you end up being one of the caracitures described in this commentary. There is one part of my weekly trips where the GPS wants me to enter the HOV lanes - but during that time of day the lanes are running in the OPPOSITE direction. If I blindly followed the instructions, a fatality certainly would have happened. A GPS in the car is like a GPS in a cruise liner or an aircraft: The GPS never overrides the Captain's/drivers responsibility to operate their machine safely.
Posted in: GPS is the traveler's enemy
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Fadamor
Tail strikes are serious business. With the aft pressure bulkhead damaged, this plane is down for an extended repair. This is the same cause that ultimately resulted in the crash of JAL 123 in 1985. Seven years after a tailstrike, the improperly repaired aft pressure bulkhead ruptured, severing all hydraulic controls to the tail assembly. 32 minutes after the rupture, the plane crashed into Mt. Osutaka.
Posted in: ANA plane has mishap upon landing at Sendai airport
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Fadamor
@Virtuoso,
You need to learn a bit more about game strategy. With time running out, the Giants were in the driver's seat and could put the game on ice by using up as much of the remaining clock as possible before giving the ball back to the Patriots. The Patriots needed to get the ball back with as much time on the clock as possible. Considering where the ball was the Patriots were conceeding that the Giants were going to get a go-ahead score and they had two options: fight it out and hope for a turnover (extremely unlikely) or "part the seas" and let the runner score untouched - preserving as much of the clock as they could. They chose the latter.
Bradshaw entered the line of scrimmage expecting resistance, but when he realized there WAS none, he tried to stop but his momentum carried him over the goal line. This wasn't grandstanding on his part, just a great example of Newton's First Law of Motion.
Posted in: Giants edge Patriots 21-17 for Super Bowl title
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Fadamor
LOL true but isn't that a bit of "the pot calling the kettle black?" The comments section of JT is also well known for being filled with pointless/baseless comments.
Posted in: Record 10,000 tweets per second at Super Bowl tops Japan women's World Cup win
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Fadamor
PROOF! Cigarettes lead to crime! Time to ban smoking in order to combat crime!
Posted in: Cigarette vending machine thief's getaway foiled by snow
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Fadamor
Sounds like the herbivore Japanese men are being relegated to (cue dramatic horns) Dun dun DONNN! "The FRIEND ZONE"!!! (cue screams of horror and wails of dispair). Japanes guys are not doing their part to keep the Japanese population from collapsing. BE MORE AGGRESSIVE! GROPE ON THE TR... wait, OK, maybe not that.
Posted in: China outperforming Japan in campus romance
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Fadamor
Apparently "Artistic Gymnastics" is the actual name of gymnastics we're used to seeing at the Olympics. They used "artistic" back in the 18th century to differentiate it from military gymnastics. The FIG mentioned in the article above was founded in 1881 and has governed the sport ever since.
Huh. Learn something new every day.
Posted in: Japan opts out of hosting gymnastics World Cup
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Fadamor
Drinking and smoking are usually ignored, unless the drinking is so bad that the serviceman can't perform his duties the next day. The Code prohibiting harming yourself was mainly put in there to address "malingerers" - people who would do ANYTHING - including harming themselves - to get out of doing their duty.
That said, when I was stationed on a ship based in Hawaii, we had a guy get so sunburned he couldn't work and they sent him to "Captain's Mast" using this section of the UCMJ. "Captain's Mast" is shipboard judiciating for things that don't warrant a full Courts-Martial. Punishments are usually much lighter too - forfeiture of liberty for a set amount of time and/or a dock in pay were the most common punishments at Captain's Mast.
Posted in: U.S. Marine fights conviction for suicide attempt at Okinawa's Camp Schwab
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Fadamor
Cut them some slack and take them at their word for now. They've just started this change so it will take two or three years at least before we can see if this is a serious attempt or just a PR move. The deciding factor will be if the new people are allowed to participate, or if they will be cowed into just another herd of salarymen.
Posted in: Rakuten wants people who can be active internationally with business skills and language skills.
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Fadamor
Hmmm. Unless Marine boot-camp is radically different from the Navy boot-camp I attended in 1978, this guy is lying through his teeth if he claims he was surprised they charged him. As part of our instruction on the uniform Code of Military Justice, it was made clear that if we intentionally harmed our self in any way, we were subject to a Courts-Martial. The boy got off light yet it seems he wants to keep poking a stick at the organization that COULD have jailed him for the rest of his enlistment, THEN given him a BCD. Hey dipwad, you're still getting the BCD for helping with a robbery.
Posted in: U.S. Marine fights conviction for suicide attempt at Okinawa's Camp Schwab
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Fadamor
(Flashing back to my elementary school days) Teacher: "You brought candy to school? Well I certainly hope you brought enough for EVERYBODY!"
Here, eating and drinking is not allowed at all on the metro, but it's not because of a "being considerate" reason (like THAT would ever work in the D.C. area!) It's because they don't want to have the cars gummed-up with spilled food and drink one month after the cars are put into service.
Posted in: Good manners
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Fadamor
I'm going to assume they were in the onsen at the time of the avalanche. If so, their bodies would have been kept warm by the hot spring for the two hours they were under the snow. On the minus side, the snow would have forced them underwater. Death by drowning.
Posted in: Death toll climbs as heavy snow grips northern Japan
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Fadamor
This story reminds me of the "snowmageddon" storm last Winter in the D.C. area: Quitting time rush hour with freezing rain changing to sleet, then changing to snow resulting in highways that were sheets of ice. Cars were stuck for five hours or longer. It was then that people started taking a look at whether the all-electric vehicles would have lasted. As it was, the hybrids had to switch to their gasoline engines because the batteries were draining.
Posted in: Over 200 cars stranded in Aomori snowstorm
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Fadamor
@yubaru. If Okinawa was anything like Washington D.C. when it snows, the carnage on the roads would be horrific. Woe be the driver who has to share the road with "snow rookies".
That said, this year we've (the D.C. area) basically had zip-point-squat snow so far. A dusting or two, but nothing that accumulated. 60°F outside right now when we're usually dodging snowflakes this time of year.
Posted in: Hard work
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Fadamor
I'm not going to criticize Japan over how they celebrate Valentine's Day, because we did basically the same thing in elementary school. Raise your hand if you were expected to bring in a Valentine's Day card for every girl (in my case) in your class? In return, I received a card from every girl in the class and the cards conveyed all the emotion you would expect from a bunch of elementary schoolers. Where we used el cheapo kiddie cards, Japan uses more expensive chocolates. Other than that, the emotional investment is about the same. (With the obvious exception of those who actually have feelings for the one who will receive it, in which case the day is very stressful.)
Posted in: Lots of chocolate, but little love on Valentine’s Day in Japan
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Fadamor
@pamelot
The referenced article actually talks about a "single-parent family of three" (i.e. three people) but that is irrelevant for my point. Someone making minimum wage (currently $7.25/hour) and working as much as thay could (40 hours/week, 52 weeks) would bring in $15,080 before taxes. The referenced article claims that this family would end up with $37,777 in disposable income. EPIC FAIL and here's why:
The source's chart has some intriguing flaws... The source of the chart lists "Medicaid and CHIP" as an income at $16,500. This is insurance, not income, that only gets used if family members have to go see the doctor. And most importantly, the insurance money DOESN'T GO TO THE FAMILY, BUT TO THE PHYSICIAN/HOSPITAL. FAIL number one. Similarly, the School Lunch subsidies do not count as income because the money for the lunches goes directly to the schools. The family never sees a penny of it. FAIL number two. Section 8 Housing Assistant provides a voucher, not cash, that landlords will use to get reimbursed by the government. There is no way for the family to take that voucher and buy a soda at the local 7/11. FAIL number three.
I imagine you get the idea, now. It is a physical impossibility to "have more disposable income" than the total amount of income you receive. No matter how many times someone tries to prove otherwise, you can't receive more than you're given. You can SPEND more than you're given, but that's called "credit", not "disposable income".
Posted in: After Florida win, Romney makes gaffe on poor
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Fadamor
*loser
"looser" means something is not as tight as it once was.
Posted in: Man arrested for calling 110 number 109 times to insult police
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Fadamor
If you're using the emergency number just to swear at the person on the other end, it's a prank call because there's no emergency. I understand the operators also have to deal with elderly who just want to talk to someone. Then there's the people who call from their keitai when the police have pulled them over and try to get the operator to tell the officer to let them go. There's a whole lot of non-emergency calls that go to 110.
Posted in: Man arrested for calling 110 number 109 times to insult police