JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- 秘書及び業務サポート
- 加治金属工業株式会社, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥4.0M / Year
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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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- ALT - Mie Prefecture - Yokkaichi City - June start
- NPO法人グローバル教育推進機構（GLAD), Mie
- Salary: ¥230,000 / Month For a full working month. Some months differ.
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Fadamor
OK, so the quiz show is named "Anime King". What is it... an anime trivia quiz show? Only otakus need apply as contestants. No wonder they did the promo in Akiba! :-)
Posted in: Aki Hoshino attends quiz show PR event dressed as anime character
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Fadamor
I got a chuckle that cranes "frolic" at all. Looks to me like they're getting into the springtime "Show Off For The Females" mode where the males battle for pecking order. (hmm... I guess that's where the idiom came from, huh?)
Posted in: Crane dance
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Fadamor
Your teachers must have LOVED you in school. There's a valid reason for doing that, but you wouldn't care about that, would you? So be it, just one less I'll have to stand behind while they spew-off about their "rights" to walk out with merchandise that may or may not have been paid for.
Posted in: Costco reshapes wholesale industry
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Fadamor
The only thing getting stoned does is make you completely useless as a member of society. Shocker these potheads are finding it difficult to hold a steady job. If I have to fire someone due to the economy and I have to choose between someone who only works an 8-hour day and someone who spends half the day raiding the snack machine, guess who's going to be unemployed?
Posted in: For many Japanese, laid-back overseas vacations a one-way ticket to nowhere
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Fadamor
Why was a housewife "entrusting several million yen as an investment" with a photographer and why did she decide to try and get it back?
Posted in: Remains of missing Kanazawa housewife found buried on beach
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Fadamor
The issue is who becomes the arbiter of what can be seen and what has to be covered-up?
While I doubt you'll find anyone who'll defend depictions of rape where there's no consequences for the perpetrator(s) and child abuse via (amongst other things) sexual assult, I have to wonder where the Governor will draw the line as to what constitutes "extreme" sex? Just because he might feel that the missionary position is the only "normal" sex there is, doesn't mean the rest of the adult world agrees with him. The vagueness in the law that leaves it open to so much personal interpretation seems to be what has the publishers most troubled.
Posted in: What’s really at stake in Japan’s revised pornography laws?
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Fadamor
Costco selling Mexican food in the food court only makes sense in areas where there is a high Mexican presence (like Southern California). I wouldn't think it would be smart for a Costco in Japan to cater to that small of a clientele. That said, it sounds like a Mexican restaurant in Japan might be a good niche market for a mom and pop operation that Costco wouldn't infringe upon.
Posted in: Costco reshapes wholesale industry
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Fadamor
Probably photographed by the Royal Photographer. Such people are "invisible" during functions and are rarely counted as a person in the room.
Posted in: New envoy
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Fadamor
AdamB, there's a point where it no longer becomes a home and instead turns into a prison/death-trap. A fenced-in balcony prevents using the balcony for escape in the case of a fire just outside the apartment door. There's no way to completely eliminate risk yet still maintain "quality of life". The only way to eliminate risk of falls is to live in the flatlands and never use stairs. How likely is THAT going to be a viable option?
The kids will still have to be watched in order to ensure their natural inquisitiveness doesn't cause them harm.
Posted in: 3-year-old girl injured in fall from 5th-floor balcony in Kobe
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Fadamor
As long as she's making more money than me, I won't be calling her names. It would just make me look envious. Glad to see she's selling well even overseas, where the knock-off market takes a big chunk out of original artist's sales.
Posted in: Taylor Swift basks in Asian limelight
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Fadamor
@AdamB, I have to believe YankDownUnder was on the wrong page. Neither WordStar nor YankDownUnder indicate what pages they were looking at.
This story just goes to further the axiom: "War is Hell". When countries start fighting each other, the ways in which we can torture and slaughter those captured have no limits. After reading about the Bataan Death March, this news about a "Unit 731" doesn't surprise me at all.
Posted in: Japan excavating site linked to WWII human experiments by Unit 731
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Fadamor
I wouldn't go so far as to say "no makeup", but it certainly wasn't layered-on so much that she looks like an oil painting.
Posted in: True Grit
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Fadamor
You'd go out of business fast if you were giving 10% raises based only on punctuality. Say you have five hostesses and they all made it to work on time this month. Your employee payroll just jumped by 10%. If they managed to be on time for a year, your payroll jumped by 185% for the year after compounding all the monthly increases!!
Offering 100% of the income over and above a set quota would promote fraud by your employees against the customers in order to quickly get above the quota level. The fraud and the bad word-of-mouth reviews would cause the customers to stop coming, and you would end up going out of business. Cause and effect. Anytime you consider changing the business model, you have to examine things from the point of view of, "How can my customers and/or employees 'game' the system with this change?"
Posted in: Ginza hostesses battle back against predatory work rules
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Fadamor
I highly doubt the original True Grit was based on any Samuri movie... that being said, where are the big stars? This was a great movie! Send over Josh Brolin!
The original True Grit movie was based on the book of the same name by Charles Portis published in 1968. There wasn't a single samurai in the book. Though based on the book, the original movie deviated from the book in many places.
The new movie more closely follows the story in the book.
Posted in: True Grit
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Fadamor
My guess is "no", because I'm sure both countries have blocked any reference to the successful overthrows in Tunisia and Egypt. "Keep your citizens ignorant and you can rest easy" is their motto.
Posted in: What do you think about the wave of anti-government protests in countries like Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, Bahrain, Libya and Iran? Should countries like China and North Korea feel uneasy about it?
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Fadamor
@HereForNow,
There's no difference. During the war, the U.S. Navy sent divers down to cut into the hull and try to recover the bodies of the dead. The two divers were killed in a small explosion when their cutting torch hit a gas pocket on the other side of the bulkhead they were cutting into. The Navy then decided the risk was too great and left the ship's crew there.
If Kan's plan ran into a similar problem (say, unexploded ordinance detonating during excavation) I'm sure they would come to the same conclusion as the U.S. Navy did.
Posted in: Kan promises to find remains of fallen soldiers on Iwoto
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Fadamor
Just another in a long line of fodder for the teen magazines. In my teen years it was little Michael Jackson when he was with the Jackson 5, David Cassidy, then David's little brother Shaun. They come they blaze brightly for a few years, then sputter and disappear once they lose the babyface.
Posted in: Bieber on the cover? Are you MAD? Yes, yes we are!
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Fadamor
Sorry Frungy, but "in isolation", docking 100% of the pay for a day worked simply because the worker didn't show up the previous day (and didn't get paid) is theft. The employer is demanding services without compensation. THAT is unprecedented.
God help the victim of a mail-order bride abuse/murder trial if you're on the jury. I'm sure the girls working in the Hostess industry all said to themselves, "I could work for this corporation, I could work for that store, or I could work where I have to push booze on guys who are only there to gawk and molest me. Yeah! That last one sounds good!" Something tells me the Hostess industry was not their first choice, but ended up being the only one they had left - besides outright prostitution.
Posted in: Ginza hostesses battle back against predatory work rules
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Fadamor
Probably she WAS holding onto his hand but didn't have a death-grip on it, so when he fell his hand slipped out of hers. Unless she was the first person off the train, she probably didn't see the gap until she was at it due to other passenger bodies being in the way. Therefore, she had no advance warning to secure a better grip on the child.
The only reason I can see for a gap being that large would be if the engine or cars of a different train model were wider than this Shinkansen train. In any case they should have included something like a plate under the floor of the train car that slides out when the door is opened. That would eliminate the gap and would work at any station.
Posted in: 3-year-old boy falls between bullet train and platform during trial run
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Fadamor
Gee. I've been drinking diet soda since the nutrasweet brand came out back in the early 80's. I average 3 liters a day - 2 liters caffienated and 1 liter caffiene-free. I didn't realize that I've already had a stroke and died. I'm glad I read this article so now I can go figure out where they buried my body. (rolls eyes)
What a crock! Since switching to diet soda, eating or drinking anything sugared gives me a sugar-headache. The only sugars I get in my daily intake are the ones found in the tomatoes on my sandwich at lunch.
Posted in: Diet soda tied to stroke risk, but reasons unclear