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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Combinibento:
Did you notice that the background decor reproduces the inside of the great mosque of Sevilla (Spain) ? So, you are definitely right. This being said, it is a beautiful picture and an elegant performance.
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TNS = TOTAL NONSENSE
And tipping is an archaic behaviour, offensive to the dignity of whoever expects it or asks for it.
In France we have abolished it more than 40 years ago, when "service compris" became the law. We do tip, rarely, rather discreetely and only when we feel that we have some special consideration for a person who has treated us in a non-standard way.
Not so different from life in Japan, after all !
But where it becomes different is when French people travel : they do not know that tip is sometimes an institution (the US) or that people have corrupt minds (SE Asia for instance) ; they aggravate people in not tipping, but on the other hand they reaffirm a principle in which they believe.
The Japanese, on the other hand, tip liberally because the poor chaps have been taught into doing it ; but by so doing they corrupt, and they create undesirable expectations in countries which would never be tip-minded if it was not for misguided J- and US tourists.
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Hey Masuko-san, this is just wishful thinking !
No emissions : yes if the electricity you use for recharging is produced without emissions from the powerstation.
160km range : maybe, if you are ready to take the risk of having the car dying under you just when you return home and park it ; and if you drive extra careful (strong accelerations are "dame", just creep along), and avoid driving at night because switching the lights on will shorten the range, and of course no use of A/C which is an energy guzzler.
Believe one who has been in the car industry, at the carmaker's who is presently world champion for the number of e-cars sold, and who of course has driven e-cars : they are only good for the fleets of some companies where they are sure to come home and be plugged at regular intervals (assuming, of course, that the companies are willing to pay the heavy price and the extra-cost of battery maintenance because these darn things do not last the entire lifetime of the vehicle they are in, and changing an entire battery pack is awfully costly ; actually, the best way is to buy the car and have the batteries on a lease contract that includes automatic replacement when needed).
BTW, how come that neither Masuko-san nor the incredibly competent journalists tell us which battery technology is used on this little thing ?
Probably another Mitsubishi dud, after the direct-injection gas engine etc etc...
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WilliB
The german original "Kabinenroller" was actually made by Messerschmitt after the war but had no component whatsoever borrowed from the fighter planes !
The engine went up to 250cc on the latest versions, which with low weight and good aerodynamics made it very fast ; it was also very famous for flipping over easily, and with the closed aircraft-type tilting canopy it was a deadly trap... All in all it will be remembered as a "killer".
The one on the picture is a very crude copy, just the body lines are respected ; the original did not have a steering wheel (just an airplane type "handlebar") and the cockpit was closed by a perspex canopy that tilted to the side for access.
To another reader : in Europe, microcars with displacement of less than 125cc can be driven without a driver's license, but they are plated (and insured, of course).
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I have not made any specific checks, just writing out of my recollection.
Bartholdi's "Statue of Liberty" was created by the French-Alsatian sculptor on a request by a French fund created for offering this monument to the USA on the occasion of the first centennial of the Declaration of Independence. Actually, the pieces that constitute the monument were entrusted to the City of New York in or about 1876, NYC having to organize and spend for building the stone base and erecting the monument.
Obviously, Bartholdi initially sculpted a small scale model, and from that model were produced the bronze pieces that are the "skin" of the monument, skin which is attached to an iron inner structure that was designed by no less than Gustave Eiffel.
The complete monument was assembled in a "blank run" in Paris (wherefrom some very strange photos where you can see this giant lady towering above the roofs of a popular district) and disassembled for shipment.
The original model was used at the time for producing several replicas of varied dimensions which can be called "copies", some in bronze some in cast iron.
The bronze one that you can see in Paris where Pont de Grenelle intersects the Ile aux Cygnes is the one that France lent to Japan a few years ago for the celebration of the "Year of France in Japan". I can remember its arrival there and installation at a place where surely no one would go and see it, on the port of Tokyo.
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You may find it interesting to know that there is a similar tradition going back several centuries in Italy.
Of course, the pieces are the ones of western chess game, they are clad in renaissance period garb and they are moved by the players on a chessboard pavement in the city of Bassano del Grappa (province of Veneto, north of Venezia).
The event takes place yearly at a date determined by local tradition.
Anyhow, it is nice to see that and that young Japanese are able to do a little bit more than vomit the rubbishy national contemporary culture.
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Yes, true lack of talent.
Mechanical puppets
On a background of asian kitsch
And hysterical characters.
I even met one (I will spare her having her name written out publicly here) who thought that being a J-pop singer is something that she had accomplished well because she had studied music in daigaku...
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Alleluiah !!!
Do we need JT to snowjob us with all this MS inspired b$hit ? No. And suffice it to say that Vista has been a spectacular flop and that professionals continue to use XP to their satisfaction.
I have been using XP Pro on the same machine for 7 years now, and managing and maintaining it sensibly : I never had any infection, never had any reason to reinstall.
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@onibaku, Madverts and sailwind : many many thanks for an exchange of views that is rich and entirely satisfactory to me.
As a Frenchman, I support 99% the arguments developed by onibaku.
With sailwind I want to raise two objections (that will not prevent us from being friends):
I cannot see why "influence" should be proportionate with size ; it is true that it is a natural course of events that the biggest toughest richest one tends to develop more influence, but it is only so because the others lack self respect, or because they are unable to develop the concepts that wield influence ; I sincerely believe that concepts are the primary fuel of influence ; now and as to the "natural law" of size fuelling influence, I think we can easily find counter examples : just look at Japan, always chanted by the media as "the second economy in the world" and totally deprived of influence on the international scene...
concerning Mr Obama (whom we like and in whom we put a lot of trust), he has brought us recently a first disappointment by recommending a bit too loudly that Turkey should be integrated into the EU ; whom the EU invites to become a member is the exclusive domain of the Europeans, and there has been a perception that Mr Obama is not totally deprived of the american unconscious craving for dominance.
We like the US here, but we do not want to see it dressed as the "gendarme" of the world ; and above all, we do not reason in the way of asking which side needs the other one most, because this would be the perpetuation of the dominant-dominated relations, hey teleprompter !
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Dear Mr Blair,
Although I generally concur with your article and share your preoccupation about the ability of Japan to communicate with the rest of the planet in the future, I want to challenge your "... is slipping behind...".
The sad truth is that Japan has consistently been behind, particularly when benchmarked against China, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore etc. I remember reading in the English version of Asahi Shimbun about the global results of Asian countries in the TOEFL test ; Japan was (when I read it, a few years ago) ranking 3rd from the bottom of the list ; if my recollection is correct, only Aghanistan and Cambodia (?) were doing less well.
But overall you are right, and it is clear to my mind that Japan is going to hurt itself a lot at a time when there is no margin for error !
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Zenpun : Wahahaha !!!
In the USA or Europe, you may have a point (I mean it : "may"), but in Japan sex or rather the odor and presumption of sex and the money that goes with these are the driving forces in everything.
Nami and the reporters : a pimp and his herd.
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Timorborder said it all (almost).
The article put together by JT is lacking some very important details : does Pana propose a discount to their personnel ? What outlet(s) is (are) going to be used ?
In other words : is faithful little Taro going to buy his camcorder from the local retailer (please, show invoice to bucho-san), or is he instructed to buy it from a direct factory outlet, with computers whirring in the back room to put his purchase on record in his personnel-department files ?
And, in order to be sarcastic, after how many days can he put it on eBay ?
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... and cuts pilot training by half ?
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Crap jewelists !
And you tell us the figure on the left is an actress ? I had thought she was just out of her potato field.
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Dear Terrie,
Please accept my compliments for wanting to clarify what is still another Japanese oddity (unless it is another trick for painting a rosy picture of a country that always wants to pose as a model of social harmony...). I also appreciated the supplementary explanations of jeancolmar.
However, it seems to me that both of you have bumped into the same conceptual difficulty : you are actually discussing the numbers of those who exist statistically, as jeancolmar says, and they exist as long as they claim benefits. This could explain part of the distorsion, but not all.
Another approach, which could help understand why the J-statistics are apparently disconnected from reality and (more importantly) not at all comparable with other countries, is the definition of the "unemployed" that is used for collecting the surveys' results. If I remember well what I read a couple of years ago (please, check that before giving me full credits and forgive me if my explanation is not true), is considered as "employed" by the survey authority in Japan any person who has had 1 hour of paid work within the month preceding the survey. By contrast, coutries of Europe consider as "employed" the person who has had 1 hour of paid work effected in the week preceding the survey. See the difference ?
I believe without being so darn sure that the widely applied 1-week criterion is in fact a guideline of the International Labour Office.
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When will Japan learn from the West about road safety law enforcement ?
Here (in France) : - seat belt (and child seat if applicable) usage is compulsory - enforcement means fines for the driver who is responsible for compliance by passengers, and loss of DL's points.
Our road safety record (frightening in the past) shows huge progress over the last 3 or 4 years, thanks to stringent measures like the above, and also stiff fines (and loss of DL's points) for using handheld cellular telephone when driving, drinking and driving etc.
Mind you : even bicycle riders are now being fined for telephoning whilst riding !
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And it takes 80 minutes to discover that the smoke comes from cigarette butts, to extinguish it and to start things rolling again ???? Maybe some time is spent exchanging "meishi" between firemen and subway staff...
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A culture dominated by superstition and spiritual void. Bebert (I wish he had chosen a less ridiculously froggy nickname) should open his eyes to the light of history and to the absence of teachings that the Japanese could use to govern their lifes.
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Glad to discover (at last) the depth of J-culture !
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Watanabe has nails in her hairdo ?
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