JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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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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- Full-time English Teacher - Osaka
- Epion English Language Schools, Osaka
- Salary: ¥200,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month Depending on your ability and experience
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What am I supposed to plant my teeth into ?
Posted in: Tokyo Sweets Collection 2008
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Paradichlorobenzene is the base chemical that was used in the old style pungent mothballs.
Posted in: Nissin recalls 500,000 cups of noodles after insecticide contamination
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What news polymer are these manikins made of ?
Posted in: Kano Sisters
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Welcome to wonderful Japan.
Group discipline is awesome ; I guess they are going to think about a sort of Bushido of deri-health. Job security will fill the gaps of shakai-hoken, and I wait for the next installment to know how they are dealing with the nenkin issue.
Definitely a big leap forward from old fashioned enjo-kosai !
How not to vomit when you read about J-society ?
Posted in: What runaway girls do to survive
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This Frenchman does not know who she is and what the background is. And this is of very little importance.
The photo is awful, ridiculous, unprofessional, and nevertheless... my God what beautiful legs ! The knees are as someone said flawless, none of this bony protrusions seen too often on J-girls.
Poor little Lindsay was bit by a mosquito ? See the bump on her left thigh... Any itching, Miss ? Can I do something to it ?
Posted in: Lindsay Lohan
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Japan remains the kingdom of copycats !
The exterior styling of this (low) IQ is so shamefully copied from the SMART that I would not be astonished hearing about a legal procedure by Daimler Benz group for plagiarism. I hope they will think about it, Japan needs to be hit on its fingers with a heavy ruler so that the lesson is not forgotten.
This being said, amannin1 is perfectly right about the gas mileage, and the SMART I owned until recently (for use in the Paris area) was just as disappointing. Where amannin1 is wrong is about performance : if the SMART I had was quite limited in top speed (but who cares ?), it was respectable in acceleration and on twisty/hilly roads. The exterior package is diminutive but roominess is impressive (for 2 adults, do not misunderstand me).
Posted in: Toyota says new small iQ offers quality
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What a lousy photo !
Posted in: Naomi Kawashima
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A 100 investigators....
Hawker case : how many investigators ?
Posted in: Kochi company executive stabbed to death
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Everybody here uses the word "porn".
But where is the pornography ?
Where is the prostitution ?
Invasion of privacy is closer to the sad reality.
Posted in: Ex-'juku' instructor charged with enlisting student to photograph classmates in changing room
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The Japanese have got to stop making a sign the meaning of which they do not understand.
They are excusable to a certain extent as these posts show that quite a number of Westerners also do not understand the "V" sign.
The "V" sign was Winston Churchill's invention, and it meant "Victory", the victory alluded to being the one of the allied powers over a number of tyrannies (Germany, Italy and Japan). It is not at all peaceful in its essence, and seing millions of ill-inspired Japanese do it in each and every occasion has something pathetic.
Ever more so when it comes not from a Shibuyette but from a kind of hermaphrodite representative of trash culture.
Posted in: YOSHIKI
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Lousy article !
Not a single figure we can look at, not a word to make distinctions between the connection technologies (ADSL, FTTH, coax cable...).
Why not publish a chart taken out of the study ? Otherwise, your comparisons are just chit chat my dear friends.
Posted in: For quality broadband, it's Japan by a mile
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Thenewfront : I agree with you, and I think that the finesse to which jeffrey alludes with his "tatemai" is a thing of the past, a ghost, a dream that he entertains for not seeing how desperately crude the japanese culture has become.
Posted in: Marie spreads a bit of cheer
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I saw the film and was amazed by about everything in it : the juvenile actors, the difficulty of the exercise, the trueness of the plot and its straightforward approach of social evils in Japan, and much more...
But I suspect that acting at that young age, and particularly to give life to such a desperate story, can be very destructive four a young soul ; particularly so if after this brilliant performance there was no recognition or empathy in his own country and no followup.
Posted in: Cannes winner Yuya Yagira, 18, hospitalized after reported drug overdose
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Just another perversion, rather common in Japan, maybe less so elsewhere ?
The preoccupying thing is : what could this mania evolve into once the shitagi sniffer has had enough of it ?
Posted in: 4 charged in underwear theft cases in Aichi, Chiba, Kanagawa and Niigata
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9.9 millimeter thick at its slimmest section ? And what about the thickest section ? All this sounds like a clever design trick played by the engineering office, a bit like what was done with CRT TVs' : make it look slim at the edge, hide the big fat portion so that people will think it is new age TV. Hanging on a wall already exists with most LCD or plasma screen units : the glitch is that most people do not use it (unless they are really deprived of space) because it is so much more convenient to have it on its table stand and ready for orientating as you change position in your living room. Cable-less connection to the tuner : this is more seductive (especially for the few who will hang it), but you are going to add still another source of EM radiation in your environment and maybe you already have more than your health can tolerate. When will J-government start an assessment (with publication of the results) about the health effects of having in your immediate vicinity keitai telephone, cordless house telephone, WiFi, BlueTooth, maybe PLC etc etc ? This has to be elucidated, and legislation must follow, with subsequent certification obligation.
Posted in: Sony unveils world's slimmest LCD TV
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Ha ha ha !
Posted in: Milk
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Here we can read people who display good common sense, against snobbery and J-food bigotry.
I am sickened by this idolatry of "kuimono" ; human beings should have more valuable pursuits than food, and japanese conversation should be able to include more diversified topics than food only.
And about the sushi-mania (which is contaminating all of the global village, unfortunately), what a waste of natural resources and what an abuse of other people's resources ! The mediterranean tuna is threatened with total depletion largely because 85% of the tuna fished there finishes in japanese stomachs...
Posted in: Critics dispute Michelin regard for Tokyo food
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The Ainu lived for centuries in Hokkaido...
Which authoritative voice is going to comment that for us ? Are we sure they always staid gently in this God forlorn island, so as not to aggravate the other ethnic group (or groups), or have they been indigenous to a large part of Honshu and later on pushed back to the North and finally corralled in Hokkaido ?
Why does Ms Sakai not adopt as artist's name a truly Ainu name ?
And finally, I notice that there is a post from a person so ignorant or biased as to think that Koreans and Japanese are "monoethnic". Does not he know that both Korean and Japanese "kun" languages have connections with the family of the altaic languages ? So, let him consider this : language from the Altair area would have come to Korea and Japan without any human migration as a vector ? Maybe these prehistoric altaic guys were sending tapes to the monoethnic Koreans...
Posted in: Ainu rise up from the margins of Japanese society
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Could someone say something about the full lifecycle environmental impact of carbon fiber vs steel, aluminum, etc ? I mean, total energy needed from initial production of the raw material to final recycling, and related CO2 release ?
Posted in: Auto-use carbon fiber development speeds up in Japan
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To seansezso and cleo : To the point !
Let me add that these criminals were enshrined not in the emotional context that would have followed the end of the fighting, but in a surreptitious move that took place in 1978, when the memorial tablets of these 14 people were secretly brought into Yasukuni ; this was one of the most spectacular moves by the revisionist circles, and it dit not prevent then prime minister Ohira from coming to worship, later imitated by Nakasone who made this part of his official calendar !
Revisionism and glorification of those responsible for atrocities that took the life of about 26 million human beings in the Asia-Pacific area has been going at a healthy pace, with complicity of all cabinets, since the end of the Tokyo trials. In December 1948 the ashes of 7 criminals condemned by the TMIEO and executed thereafter were in part buried (and not dispersed as had been imposed by the SCAP) ; the families managed to take possession of these ashes in 1955, and in 1960 they were sealed in a common tomb in Hazu, on which was engraved a calligraphy offered by no less than the speaker of the Upper Chamber of the Diet, saying "Tomb of the Seven Martyrs".
Another absurdity that makes these visits all the more unacceptable (but it is only an absurdity, nothing to deter a Japanese politician or ageing fanatic), is the fact that Yasukuni is a private shrine: it was officially privatized in application of the 1947 Constitution and as a logical consequence of the dissolution of the link between the State and Shinto. One of the most vehement demands of the revisionist right is that Yasukuni should be nationalized again.
Now, for those who believe that all the dead worshiped at Yasukuni are just "plain" souls and for that all equal and all to be respected, I would recommend to think a bit about the implications of what was said of them in 1938 in an article of the Japan Times (written on the occasion of a visit there by Tenno). Forgive me for an approximative rendering, this article has been translated into French and back into English :
"Sanctified under the name of kami, the soldiers become deities in charge of the protection of the Empire. They are no longer human beings, they have become the pillars of the Empire. All enshrined at Yasukuni, they maintain neither rank nor distinctions. Generals ans soldiers alike, they are no longer military personnel, they have turned into as many pillars. It is as pillars of the nation that the Emperor and the people dedicate a cult to them." (Also cited by Frank Gibney in his Letters to the Editor of Asahi Shimbun in 1987).
Posted in: Japan ministers, but not premier, visit war shrine