JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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To be healthy, live in the big city
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Japan's nuclear safety standards flawed, says commission chief
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Teacher nabbed for using miror to peek up girl's skirt
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From carnivores to herbivores: how men are defined in Japan
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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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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Foxie
This is the end of an era. I still remember watching the first landing on the moon in black and white, had to get up in the middle of the night. This mission too ended in the dark. Thanks God the Russians are continuing the mission.
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Foxie
Life imprisonemnt should just mean that and not parole after 10 years. I can only hope that this will never happen. He should remember his wrong doing for the rest of his life in a prison cell and not outside.
Posted in: Hawkers 'pleased' with life sentence for Ichihashi
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Foxie
Wow, so he wants to swim from Shanghai to Japan? Good luck to him, I hope he will get some medals. He is a great swimmer.
Posted in: Women's World Cup victory inspires swimmer Kitajima
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Foxie
How about McKoyuki, Paul? Loved to see a pic of this new venture.
Posted in: McDonald's opens mega-store in Roppongi Hills
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Foxie
@Piglet: Taxi drivers get 45% of what they make in sales, which is not much. Working 18 hours in a row isn't easy, so it is more than normal that he takes a nap. It is ridiculous that taxi drivers have to work so many hours. There should be laws like for truck drivers to only work 8 hours. Under Koizumi liberization the taxi system changed allowing in too many taxi companies. Thus we get too many nowadays.
Posted in: Nap time
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Foxie
Hippo - my J-husband just said that he and all his friends always peed in the pool when they were kids. This is not a pool anymore.
Posted in: The big heat
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Foxie
That's slightly overpriced.I guess I will be starting to teach kids how to mix syrup with mineral water too for half the price.
Posted in: Little Hilton's Summer School teaches kids table etiquette, cocktails and crafts
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Foxie
I am seriuosly asking myself now why we never see or get any food from Russia being the country next door. If it is just because of these Kuril islands, then, maybe it is time to wake up and forget that story.
Posted in: Japan bans all cattle shipments from Fukushima over radiation fears
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Foxie
Me 2 love 2PM. They should tour all of Japan. I wonder who the others are that are performing at that concert.
Posted in: 8 Korean groups to perfom in Japan
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Foxie
It is sad to see talented people ending up this way. He did have a harsh life. RIP
Posted in: Japanese rocker, arrested for unruly behavior on flight to Saipan, hangs himself
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Foxie
And when will they start cafes like that with handsome Asian guys with nice legs where women can enjoy cake with coffee?
Posted in: Vietnamese cafes in Calif too racy for some
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Foxie
Maybe, mabe not. Look at what happened in Burma and North Korea, both Buddhist countries. And yes, we are in 2011. Why then are there still countries like that? Power is a dangerous thing. The Dalai Lamas have lived in exile for many years now but what if they hadn't? I'd rather have the Tibetan people live in a free country, without the monks and without the Chinese.
Posted in: China calls on US to retract Dalai Lama invite
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Foxie
Your V8 Mustang with glasstop looks really great.
Posted in: Ford Japan Ltd
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Foxie
Lyon, Paris, Tokyo, Seoul, Palermo
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Foxie
WOW JAPAN! You girls did it! I am so proud of you. This was the best thing that has happened to Japan in a long while. An inspiration to every girl here in Japan.
Posted in: Japan beats U.S. in shootout to win Women's World Cup soccer
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Foxie
Who knows what would have happened? The Tibetans might have fought the theocrazy and there wouldn't be any more Dalai Lamas today otherwise I don't see how it would have ended. What do you think then, Nessie?
Posted in: China calls on US to retract Dalai Lama invite
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Foxie
I grew up eating things that had expired long ago. It must have been my mum's hobby. Never got sick even if the instant soup expired 10 years ago.
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Foxie
I am not saying that all is perfect under Chinese rule but it seems a lot better than under the Dalai Lamas theocrazy.
Earlier visitors to Tibet commented on the theocratic despotism. In 1895, an Englishman, Dr. A. L. Waddell, wrote that the populace was under the “intolerable tyranny of monks” and the devil superstitions they had fashioned to terrorize the people. In 1904 Perceval Landon described the Dalai Lama’s rule as “an engine of oppression.” At about that time, another English traveler, Captain W.F.T. O’Connor, observed that “the great landowners and the priests… exercise each in their own dominion a despotic power from which there is no appeal,” while the people are “oppressed by the most monstrous growth of monasticism and priest-craft.” Tibetan rulers “invented degrading legends and stimulated a spirit of superstition” among the common people. In 1937, another visitor, Spencer Chapman, wrote, “The Lamaist monk does not spend his time in ministering to the people or educating them. . . . The beggar beside the road is nothing to the monk. Knowledge is the jealously guarded prerogative of the monasteries and is used to increase their influence and wealth.”24 As much as we might wish otherwise, feudal theocratic Tibet was a far cry from the romanticized Shangri La so enthusiastically nurtured by Buddhism’s western proselytes.
Posted in: China calls on US to retract Dalai Lama invite
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Foxie
She is only 24 but looks a lot older. My legs were much better at that age.
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Foxie
Congatulations on that breaktrough. I hope that we will soon be able to get that enhanced stainless steel. It will save many lifes.
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