JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) in Kanto region
- RCS (RCSコーポレーション), Kanto
- Salary: ¥180,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month includes performance bonus
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- Assistant Language Teacher - TOKYO - late-March start
- Interac, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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- Assistant Language Teacher - Kanagawa Prefecture - late-March start
- Interac, Kanagawa
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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You are right, I put my glasses on and I know I goofed : I should have written "funnel-shaped thighs"
Posted in: Samantha Muse All-Stars
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Good Lord ! Those legs and those knees ! And the one on the right : fat thighs and frail legs...
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The first six comments I find to be very pertinent and reasonable. Kan is neither one nor the other : just slipping into demagoguery and a systematic flattering of J's extreme right.
French aphorism : "he who sows wind will reap a storm".
Posted in: Kan promises to find remains of fallen soldiers on Iwoto
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Yumimoto,
Although you are conceptually right, you allow yourself to be carried away, and your description of what happened on and after liberation day is a bit too simplistic. But details would be too long to give, and I just want to correct a significant mistake : Pétain was judged and degraded and sentenced to death by firesquad, the sentence was then commuted into lifelong detention by general de Gaulle who was chief of the post-war provisional government. This for basically two reasons : marshal Pétain was already very old, 89 years old, and senile and no longer mentally fit for capital punishment to be of any significance to him (maybe) ; and also Pétain still had with many middle-aged or old French the glorious image of the military commander who reversed catastrophic situations during WW1 and so to speak saved his country. He lived until he was 96 in confinement in a military fortress off the western coast of France.
The Resistance spirit and personal involvement of some was also existent (to a different degree and with different modalities) in many countries that suffered under the nazi tyranny : Italy, Greece, Spaniards came to France for fighting with us, Armenians did it too, etc etc. Do not forget also that inside Germany there were some very brave opponents, some of whom tried to eliminate physically Hitler. Has Japan ever had actual resistance from the inside to the tragic military regime that led it to its devastation ? I think not.
Posted in: Paris hardly skipped a beat during Nazi occupation
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Thanks, thetruthhurts, for insightful comments. Reading you was a relief after reading that
according to Bebert61 (whose nickname makes me feel sorry for him).
France never had it soft, and if you want a modest example just think about the thousands queuing up for food in Paris, the thousands who could not enjoy the dubious joys of black market, or obtain special favors from the occupation authorities etc.
I am afraid the account given here of Mr Riding's book puts too much emphasis on the ones who collaborated or just passively accepted a sad state of things. I do believe, with him, that some "leniency" on the side of the occupiers and the Vichy regime was essentially a political posture, and I am all the more sorry to realize that many did not have the wisdom to see it and to avoid the trap.
Further, I am a bit tired of seeing again and again the same old stories about the "unfortunate" Céline, about Piaf and Chevalier. It is so easy, and it is so easy for Bebert61 to moan about the hardships Céline had to put up with. The phenomenon of collaboration of the intellectuals was much more diffuse and deserves deeper analysis ; Jean Cocteau used to throw lavish parties in his villa of Maisons-Laffitte, to which German officers were invited...
And will a commentator of Mr Riding tell us whether space has been devoted to those who took to arms and physically fought totalitarism and terror ? What about a few words for instance about the ever modest movie actor Jean Gabin who came back to his homeland risking death in a tank, and never ever made a fuss about it ?
Posted in: Paris hardly skipped a beat during Nazi occupation
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Smithinjapan :
You are absolutely right regarding the legal precautions in the wording of news. All the same, it amuses or gets on nerves (depending on the individual), but I personally feel that it has the perverse effect of making things more remote from reality, of putting a sort of standardized makeup on the hideousness of crime.
Just befor moderator realizes that I am drifting out of topic : I agree with you about "OUT", interesting but not a remarkable book, heavy, long, a car that sometimes has a fuel supply hiccup and then manages to pickup speed again ; to make it worse, the French translation that I read is really mediocre. I believe Ms Kirino should be known for "The Real World", not for "Out".
Posted in: Severed legs discovered in Niigata parking area
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Sorry : "before" !
Posted in: Severed legs discovered in Niigata parking area
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A tad tired with JT's omnipresent "what appears to be" !
Now about the body parts strewn all around the country : time to read again "Out", this amazing thriller written by Kirino Natsuo... It is fiction, but in blood and gore japanese reality is on par with the best fiction.
And another comment about the investigation framework : putting things into categories is a national mania, does it help making progress ?
Posted in: Severed legs discovered in Niigata parking area
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Tripling the output volume : 3 times peanuts equals peanuts.
The electric car remains a scam, and one that pleases the political circles very much.
There will be a glint of hope when the prices are commensurate with the service delivered by these electric things, which poses the problem of the cost of the battery packs (they pose many other problems, but cost is number 1 in my opinion).
Practically, the readily accessible means for offsetting battery cost is in selling the car battery-less and leasing the battery pack, which brings another plus to the client as he does not run the risk of having to pay for the replacement of the pack when it dies. This has been done in the past by a French carmaker, and calculations showed that the global running cost to the user of the car (per kilometer) was still slightly below the cost of running a gasoline car. Of course, that approach implies that a support network is available for substituting battery packs etc... Much more difficult than simply bragging about 9000 cars to be manufactured in a year (for sale both by MMC and its foreign partner PSA ?)
A former "insider" who does not like reading b$$$$$$t and has been coaxed into reading only that for more than a year now. Electric car bigotry should not be supported by a really informative press... which opens another field for discussion : the competence of journalists.
Posted in: Mitsubishi Motors to triple electric car output
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My God ! Those Japanese knees !
Posted in: Full speed ahead for Saki Fukuda
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We are reaching the climax of this affair, at least from the Japanese layman's perspective : for the first time ever an iconic symbol of Japan is confronted with a context in which some alleged "values" of Japan have no importance whatsoever, in an arena where the language spoken is not Japanese.
Frighteningly new !
Posted in: Figure skating gets more attention than Toyota's problems in Japan
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The J government is shooting itself in the foot !
In order of "not making it a political issue between Japan and the USA", they should refrain from showing that much concern for Toyota and calling it a national issue.
Now, with J ministers dramatizing the "national cause" side of the affair, they have created a context in which blunders by Akio Toyoda (and they are more than likely to occur, some very old lies and cover-ups are going to come to the surface) will actually create a bilateral crisis, not to speak of the entire J industry being splashed by the s$$t.
Posted in: Japan hopes Toyoda can clear image, cool friction in Washington
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I personally think that refusal to testify in front of Congress by the shacho of this or that company displays crass ignorance of the basics of American democracy ; coming from a foreign mogul, it is even worse and could lead to a political crisis between the two countries.
Now about the technical aspects, this former engineer of a European car group thinks that the statement about an electronic problem ("we will look at it again") paves the way for a later admission that there is actually a problem related to some calculators (engine management calculator) and that the blame put on floor mats, later on pedal hinge system, was an "easy way out" (after all, RHD models certainly have a different pedal assembly from LHD ones and the probability that the same mechanical trouble could happen on cars sold in the US and in the UK is minute...).
As for the Prius, the finger has already been pointed at calculator idiosycnrasies (most likely the ABS function, or the transition between regenerative braking and conventional ABS controlled braking), and for the Corollas that are being criticized I am curious to know whether they have electrically assisted power steering (which goes with management by calculator for integrating parameters such as angle of steer, speed of vehicle and sometimes more).
Posted in: Toyota undecided on president's trip to U.S.
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This is all so gruesome and so insane that the only possible reaction on our side is humour.
Thank you Disillusioned !
Posted in: Student flees with body of 80-yr-old woman on car bonnet in Tochigi
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I logged in for writing about my own perception... Alas, CoolCali had already written the same thing !
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Ah, these bony legs and these knees...
Posted in: Reaching for the Universe
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Smythe :
go have a look at Lemon Camera (in the Ginza area) ; it's Leica paradise and you may find there the meter that you need, in good condition or even overhauled. Sorry for not being more specific about the address, I know visually how to go there when I am in Tokyo but I have not kept anything written.
This Hermes edition is all the more funny, as the Leica company was taken over by Hermes group a few years ago ; shortly thereafter, the Hermes people started having second thoughts and they spun off Leica which was then taken over by an austrian investor.
Posted in: Leica Hermes edition camera
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Best smilists... or best clownists ?
Posted in: Becky and Ryuta Sato win Best Smile of the Year awards
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From France : thank you Beelzebub !
Much ado about a mediocre film... Maybe this empty discussion about the semantics of the title is the focal point of the film.
And above all : fascism, nazism, shoah etc are no material for comedies.
Posted in: 'Inglourious Basterds' one of many tricky movie titles
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No doubt Japan made a major contribution to the advancement of civilization !
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