JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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To be healthy, live in the big city
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Japan's nuclear safety standards flawed, says commission chief
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Teacher nabbed for using miror to peek up girl's skirt
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From carnivores to herbivores: how men are defined in Japan
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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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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GG2141
Be careful jamplass, you might learn something from reading the news, if you're not careful....
Posted in: Dutch workers down tools at Mitsubishi plant
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GG2141
Poor Captain Codardo! First forced by the company to run too close to rocks, then knocked into a lifeboat as he was heroically trying to save passengers. When will this mans luck change.
I've long held the theory that modern corporate structure too often promotes sociopaths over the sane. Merely because sociopaths tend to be the loudest and most devious in deflecting blame.
Posted in: Italian cruise ship captain blames company pressure
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GG2141
People forget that Japan was the No#2 economy in the world for 25 years. Only recently they were displaced by China which was having a bubble and has 10 times the population. So Japan is not in as bad a situation as some people would like to make out.
The Japanese Government may be hailed as zero-growth economic sustainability geniuses in the years to come.
Posted in: Azumi worried about Japan's debt rating after EU downgrades
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GG2141
When will this death wish end??
20 years and counting......so maybe.......never!
Having dealt with Japanese management I can totally sympathise with Bhattal. I do note a few foreign heads rolling these days. Bhattal quit, but I do wonder if Mr. Olympus' and his weird situation has not given fuel to boardroom power freaks. It's always an easy sell to bad mouth the high profile minority when you want to advance yourself.
Posted in: Most senior foreign exec quits Nomura
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GG2141
Are they going to be smart about it and only raise taxes on non-essential items?? (exclude childrens clothes, heating oil, education, housing and food)
Posted in: Noda to press ahead with tax rise despite 9 DPJ lawmakers leaving
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GG2141
Get thee to Sapporo and break the McClowns iron grip.
Posted in: Wendy's reopens in Japan on Tuesday
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GG2141
Gurukun. Like the idea, but I think WIll Smith did it in Independence Day. Still a damn good idea.
Posted in: Obama requests Iran to give back downed U.S. drone
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GG2141
US$192,000,000 ($192 million)
WOW! What a douche.
Posted in: Former Daio chairman gambling debt increases to 15 billion yen
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GG2141
I often reflect on how incredibly LUCKY Japan was to have bombed a (once) civilized country. Imagine how it would have turned out if they bombed a Republican ruled modern day America.
Posted in: U.S. marks 70th anniversary of Pearl Harbor
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GG2141
Does anyone NOT expect the reconstruction budget to be anything less than a corruption orgy???????????????
Posted in: Japan using quake disaster budget for whaling aid
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GG2141
They have the laws on paper but absolutely no way of enforcing them.
Posted in: Edano says Japan's corporate governance on par with U.S.
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GG2141
A nuclear power station is really a big nuclear bomb kit in disguise. As they discovered back in the 60's. Once a country gets the basic technology and trains the engineers it's just a secret lab away from joining the nuclear club.
Posted in: Diet delays vote on Japan exporting its nuclear technology
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GG2141
I love this:
“Keeping the imperial family to a small number is not bad in light of national budget,” he told a news conference last month marking his 46th birthday. “Naturally, we need a certain number to maintain the imperial family as is.”
Sounds like a farmer talking about his livestock during a market slump.
Which, in this case, is about what it is.........
Posted in: Gov't to study status of imperial brides
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GG2141
From my experience; Little Shacho Sans whose power is based not on skill or ability, but on semen not running down the crack o' their mamas ass are somewhat mercurial in their interpretation of agreements. I am predicting ze germans will win.
Posted in: Suzuki chief promises 'truth' in Volkswagen dispute
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GG2141
That's just bizarre. Thorium? really??? was the 7-11 out of disposable BBQs? Who kills themselves with thorium?? crazy people! that's who!!
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GG2141
I've always found that the old fellers in charge have these enormous, towering egos which are incredibly fragile. They are like a delicate flower dipped in liquid nitrogen. One word, no matter how gentle, that goes against them and they shatter.
They really do need to take a chill pill and learn to take some criticism.
Posted in: Mudslinging battle raging at top of Yomiuri Giants baseball club
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GG2141
I was driving in a 30 km/h zone a while ago with a flashy light cop on my tail. So I kinda had to do the speedlimit..... It is DIFFICULT to drive at a steady 30 km/h in anything more modern then an ox cart!!! You shift out of 2nd gear and you're speeding.
Posted in: Motorcyclist flashes peace sign at cameras during series of speed violations
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GG2141
it's an interesting situation: The USA is holding the Mother hostage, if her Family in Japan release the child to the Father in the USA they get their daughter back. If not, their Daughter rots in a US Jail for 10 years.
Back in the day we'd do this with a roll of duck-tape, a hacksaw and a Fed-Ex courier. Now it's all nice and legal like.
Posted in: American father wins custody of daughter taken to Japan
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GG2141
All depends on the ink in the contract. I'd love to hear an insider version of how this meltdown occurred.
Posted in: Suzuki cuts ties with Volkswagen
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GG2141
Kennedy tried that. Look what happened to him, and his brother. The US military budget eats some 43% of total tax revenue and personifies the ideal of being "too big to fail".
Posted in: Obama says U.S. to base 2,500 Marines in Australia, rankling China