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
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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
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FryingMonkey
Welcome home champs! I bet they are glad to be home! To you JT readers; I am an American who loved every inning of every game. Nothing is better than international play no matter the sport. Please stop lumping us all in one basket. Yes, the bulk of the U.S. is not interested in the WBC, that has been established. Move on and again congrats Japan!
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FryingMonkey
taniwha -
No I think you misunderstood what I was saying or I didn't word it correctly. Yes, nations are bailing out their financial industries right and left as of late. This is a completely different animal than changing the global currency. In the future the government bailouts will be repaid (in a perfect world that is) and the dollar will back to it's old self. Like it or not the U.S. Dollar has been the most stable currency along with the U.S. being the most stable government in the world for decades, business seems to like that in a currency. I understand China being a new kid in the big boy land of global economics wants to flex a bit now that they, as you pointed out are doing OK. That's OK, kind of cute in a way. In order to change the global currency we would need to expand the use of the currency created by the IMF in the 60's, special drawing rights I believe is what they are called. It used to be pegged to the buck but now it is uses a few different currencies to base it's value (sorry, can't pull those off the top of my head). So, we would have to come up with how much more of these special drawing rights to create but after you've sorted the pricing out you then must get private companies to bite.... get where I am going with this? I hope so because I hate spelling thing out like this, I'm a terrible on the keyboard. Any way my communist friend, like I said before “Again imagine the COST! Beijing’s central bank governor’s idea = FAIL “ If you can't get the U.S. Or the EU to even give it a second thought then yes this screams FAIL. I must say though you do write nice :)
Posted in: China calls for new global currency to replace dollar
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FryingMonkey
As ridiculous as this idea is, especially in this world economic state, let us entertain it for a moment. Any idea how much that would cost the trading world to revamp the entire system? Oh and then there is time, but then again time equates to money…. Again imagine the COST! Beijing’s central bank governor’s idea = FAIL
Posted in: China calls for new global currency to replace dollar
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FryingMonkey
Yeah! Who needs all that modernization when it’s nice and comfortable here in the Bronze Age. No booze! No bacon! No music! Now no women on the TV! Must be boring….
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FryingMonkey
Seriously! What more can be done that hasn’t been done? It is a sad state with no hope while Kim Jong Dickhole is runnin’ the show. We’ll just have to wait ‘til that sack dies and hopefully someone takes power (preferably without the short man syndrome) and sorts those poor people out. We can’t sanction them any further and with the brainwashing and the UNeducation of the populous attacking that country would be absolutely horrible.
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FryingMonkey
I don’t know, after surviving TWO nuclear bombings in a week and living to be over 90! This guy’s got the genes of a super hero!
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FryingMonkey
Way to go Japan! Knew you could pull it out! Congrats 日本！ Reading through this thread made me giggle a bit, imacat just keeps diggin’ at the states around every corner. This is Japan’s time!
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FryingMonkey
ilcub76 - "Someone ought to taser this officer a few times. I bet he would never use the thing again."
I am not sure how many states require it, but it is required in some states that before an officer can carry a tazer she or he must get tazed while in training of said weapon. I don't think most officers take tazing people lightly. Hell, I know if I had to show up to break up a fight and one of the idiots in the fight came at me I would end it with 50,000 volts or how ever many volts those things pack. Even at 15 years of age you should know better than to rush an officer. Darwin HELP!
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FryingMonkey
What is it with the senior citizens shoplifting? It has been an ever growing phenomenon over the past few years and judging from the number of reports we get from the media they are not very good at it. I implore everyone to sit down with their grandparents and have a talk with them that stealing is bad! ;)
Posted in: Shoplifter arrested after spraying security guard at bookshop in Sapporo
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FryingMonkey
Disillusioned – Obviously you have never been to Japan. To ignorantly place the whole population into a group needing a personality implant is just stupid. If you have been to Japan it must have been forced upon you because anyone who has such a poor outlook on a population’s mental state and still visits or lives in such a place is in itself a bit on the “not so right in the head” area of the mental health spectrum. Also, I could not agree more with medievaltimes.
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