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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Foxie
This the most beautiful Christmas Tree posted by JT this year in my ranking. It must have taken many hours to fill this one up. Merry Christmas to everybody.
Posted in: Merry Christmas
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Foxie
Serves them well for doing such a stupid surgery in the first place,
Posted in: France advises 30,000 to have breast implants removed
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Foxie
I eat hakusai every day in winter and if I die I die, I don't care anymore.
Posted in: Radiation fears affect New Year meals
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Foxie
What a heartbreaking story! I am so glad that girl found her family back and the one that adopted her should go to jail.
Posted in: Indonesia girl back with family after 2004 tsunami
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Foxie
The monk came all the way from Mt Koya, no wonder he walks slowly, he must be so tired from this long pilgrimage.
Posted in: Spiritual reminders
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Foxie
Arthur, I love Western Russia and its great food. Please send us a Russian baker over here. Hokkaido is Siberia anyway, they just named it Japan for some reason.
Posted in: Blizzards hit northern Japan
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Foxie
Thanks Elbuda. Yes the snow was no laughing matter. I had to take out my Antarctica boots to shovel the snow.
The good thing is that it became much warmer, from -28C to -2C. Good thing I am still well stocked up with ouzo. Merry Christmas to you too and everybody on JT.
Posted in: Blizzards hit northern Japan
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Foxie
Don't spoil all our well researched theories now....
Posted in: Two quakes rock New Zealand's Christchurch
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Foxie
On August 20 2010, one month before the 7.0 Mag hit Christ Church 58 Pilot whales stranded in northern NZ
Then on the weekend before the 6.3 Mag hit NZ February 22 there were more than 100 Whales stranded in the south of NZ.
The only problem with these theories is the timespan.
Posted in: Two quakes rock New Zealand's Christchurch
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Foxie
About 50 whales (melon headed) were stranded in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture on March 6, 2011. Five days later, the magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck Japan. This is not without precedent. Maybe the whales can sense something humans can't.
Posted in: Two quakes rock New Zealand's Christchurch
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Foxie
Those whales got stranded on November 16th. Here is ElBuda's comment: This mass suicide of whales happens every time before a major earthquake!! The Kiwis better get ready for another major quake!!
Posted in: Two quakes rock New Zealand's Christchurch
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Foxie
Bonding - I think it is a good choice too. After the tsunami, I was really happy to have JT. We all posted many comments and we all cared about each other a lot more. I remember that I got really worried not reading cleo's posts for a while. I think she didn't have electricity for a while. It might have been a one-sided bond but it was there, in my heart, the same way I felt about the experiences of many people on JT or in Tohoku. At that time, JT posted a photo of a little girl handing out food in a shelter with the most beautiful smile, it would be the perfect picture to go with kizuna. Anyway, let's hope for a better 2012 and Merry Christmas to all JT posters.
Posted in: 'Kizuna' chosen as kanji character of 2011
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Foxie
Ironically, the term "genocide" did not even exist before 1944. It is a very specific term, referring to violent crimes committed against groups with the intent to destroy the existence of the group. Human rights, as laid out in the U.S. Bill of Rights or the 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, concern the rights of individuals. In other words, Turkey cannot be responsible for something which did not even exist in 1915.
Posted in: Turkey warns of sanctions against France over genocide bill
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Foxie
Sure, that genocide was horrible. Nobody denies that. The problem here is that FRANCE wants to put sanctions on Turkey for a crime it committed itself and never acknowledged it either.
The Algerian Genocide refers to the deliberate and systematic destruction of the Algerian Muslim Arab population of the French Algeria in 1945 and during the Algerian War (1954-1962) by French Army. It was implemented through massacres, mass murder and torture. The total number of resulting deaths is generally held to have been between 350,000 to 1,5 million.
Algeria called on France to apologise in 2005 for crimes committed during the colonial era. Bouteflika also urged Paris to admit its part in the massacres of 45,000 Algerians who took to the streets to demand independence as Europe celebrated victory over Nazi Germany in 1945. French authorities then responded by playing down the comments, urging "mutual respect".
Posted in: Turkey warns of sanctions against France over genocide bill
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Foxie
I think France has no right to put those sanctions on Turkey. Maybe Turkey should also put sanctions on France for the Algerian genocide. Just leave the past in the past and get on in the present. I am really getting tired with this problem.
Posted in: Turkey warns of sanctions against France over genocide bill
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Foxie
Gurukun: Never heard about that from them personally, it might just be fabricated propaganda. And they all went to NK school. Do you have any proof of this?
Posted in: North Koreans in Japan tight-lipped over Kim's death
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Foxie
Has anybody noticed that although we see so many people crying, I haven't seen one real tear yet except from his son and the mistery woman standing behind him who are showing watery eyes.
Posted in: North Koreans in Japan tight-lipped over Kim's death
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Foxie
I can't speak for all of them but I do have several friends from NK and we do have honest conversations. I guess after 20 years I would know whether someone is honest or not. It is only natural that one loves his mother country, people tend to look at the good things in general. I also have many NK friends that got displaced by Stalin to central Russia. They have the same feelings than the ones here, they had it much harder there than the ones who came here. 100% integration into a country is not feasable, people like to protect their roots and it is completely understandable. Why do foreigners here send their kids to Tokyo International school? Why do they talk to them in 2 languages? Why do they keep their culture alive? Why is it ok for those foreigners to do it but not for NKs? We are foreigners here and so are they. Japan is not a colony from Britain, so immigration and integration are a completely different problem and it is very natural that people form groups just as they do when immigrating to non-British colony countries.
Posted in: North Koreans in Japan tight-lipped over Kim's death
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Foxie
She just realized the difference bewteen Shimizu's ice and Berthillon's in Paris.
Posted in: Speedskater Shimizu gets 'speed' divorce from Reiko Takagaki
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Foxie
Gurukun, Maybe you should do an effort and speak to some of the NKs here. You would get a very different attitude.
Grieving is done in silence worldwide, why can't that be respected?
Posted in: North Koreans in Japan tight-lipped over Kim's death