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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GJDailleult
Bottom line is very simple - she is NOT a credible candidate. Politics have nothing to do with it, it wouldn't matter is she was communist, socialist, fascist, big government, small government, Republican, or Democrat. She is not credible, period. As to the reasons why she is treated as a credible candidate by so many people, now that would be a news story.
Posted in: Palin links resignation to 'higher calling'
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GJDailleult
I'm not American but I am an expert on the country, because growing up I could see it from my house. Just had to pop my head up over the sofa and there it was. Anyways, when future historians are studying the reasons for the decline and fall of the USA, the fact that this woman is even anywhere close to positions of power and the reasons behind that fact will be near the top of their list.
Posted in: Palin resigns as Alaska governor; keeps plans secret
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GJDailleult
The technology exists now for all flight data and voice recordings to be transmitted to a central location in real time, but the airlines are dragging their feet because of the costs. Now that two planes have gone down in the ocean in a month, with no way to determine the causes because the black boxes are not recoverable, that resistance isn't looking so bright. Basically the airlines are endangering the lives of everybody who flies in order to save money.
Posted in: Air France plane hit the sea belly first
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GJDailleult
I am! Shaking head. Education Ministry no can! English speak.
Posted in: Anti-drug poster featuring Yukie Nakama to go up at schools nationwide
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GJDailleult
And TP, when are you and your friends going to explain exactly what a non-tepid and effective response would be? One that positively influences the situation and doesn't just make Americans feel good about themselves and their principles.
Posted in: Republicans call Obama timid on Iran
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GJDailleult
Nowhere in this article or these comments does anyone explain HOW Obama is supposed to influence the situation in Iran. Just complaints that he should be expressing support more strongly and showing more leadership. So the guy who is "words, words, words, all talk and no action, and thinks he is a messiah" is being criticized for not talking and not acting like a messiah. Nice irony. As for no action, well he could have done like Bush41 did after the Gulf War - lots of words of support and then hanging the Iraqis out to dry. Or he could have shot his mouth off and talked tough, giving the Iranian government and endless loop of the "Great Satan" to run on the state-controlled TV. Both really great ideas those.
And by the way, Mousavi and his supporters are not trying to get rid of the crazed mullah dictatorship - he is part of the crazed mullah dictatorship. He is trying to get rid of Ahmedinajad. Major difference.
Posted in: Republicans call Obama timid on Iran
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GJDailleult
What a surprise, Republicans playing domestic political games with foreign policy. Even if they have legit concerns over the policy, going on Sunday morning blabfests is not the way to go about expressing them. That is just showbiz for middle America, and a way to influence public opinion. Of course if Republicans think public opinion should affect foreign policy, that pretty much says it all. And if they don't, what was the point of appearing on the programs other than to score political points. No surprise Luger didn't join in on the fun, being on the Foreign Relations Committee he's got his credibility to protect. Unlike the rest of them.
Posted in: Republicans call Obama timid on Iran
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GJDailleult
Watching a bit of the speech on CNN last night, that sure looked like one scary, Nuremberg-style crowd of supporters the Ayatollah had. No doubt that was by design, in order to try and scare and intimidate the opposition.
Posted in: Iran's supreme leader says election was not rigged
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GJDailleult
No surprise at all. The real mystery is how did a couple of clowns and minor players in the sport like Ecclestone and Mosley ever get control of F1 in the first place.
Posted in: F1 in turmoil as 8 teams announce breakaway series
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GJDailleult
Nowhere near enough. The problem in the USA and other rich countries is not capitalism, it's that they stopped being capitalist years ago. Giving your money to somebody to bet on next week's stock prices, or to buy a company and then flip it is not capitalism, it's gambling. Allowing the "financial sector" to use their middleman position to siphon billions out of the real economy is not capitalism either. What the USA needs to do is get back to the capitalist model that built the country in the first place. Investing capital in new ideas, new technologies, new ways of doing things, and better ways of doing what you already do, instead of just gambling in a system rigged to inflate asset prices through debt. And they have no choice because the casino economy is dead.
Posted in: Obama unveils biggest financial rules overhaul since 1930s
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GJDailleult
I thought she didn't believe in evolution. Maybe politicians who shamelessly use their kids to get publicity will soon evolve too.
Posted in: Sarah Palin accepts David Letterman's apology
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GJDailleult
Surprised he brought up the elephant in the room, but that is what it comes down to. If he is wrong, and health costs will not bankrupt the USA, then if Americans want to continue wasting money lining the middlemen's pockets, they can go ahead. What's a few trillion between friends. If he is right and the USA will go broke, then everything else is irrelevant. All the arguments about socialism, quality of treatment, Canadian hordes etc. won't matter. They won't be able to pay for their "superior" system anyway.
Posted in: Obama warns U.S. will go broke if it rejects health care reform
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GJDailleult
This is the second report in a short time where the suspect claimed to have made an extremely high number of similar assaults. Either the admissions are nonsense or there are some very serious problems with the reporting of assaults and/or the police.
Posted in: Chiba man admits to assaulting over 100 young girls
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GJDailleult
Dick Cheney is a leading expert on the topic of making America less safe. Too bad he didn't show the same patriotic zeal eight summers ago though, might not be one of the leaders-in-the-clubhouse now if he had. Score is still Bush-Cheney 1, everybody else 0.
Posted in: CIA head suggests Cheney almost wishing U.S. will be attacked
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GJDailleult
Sad story, but unfortunately there will be many similar stories coming over the next few months, as year after year these tragedies continue to occur over the Japanese summer. Such accidents obviously occur everywhere (drowning in the second leading cause of death for 14 and unders in the USA for example), but it does seem that growing up and living in densely populated urban areas leaves some people with a lack of understanding and respect for the dangers of water and nature. Whether or not that was a factor here, it will be in the coming months.
Posted in: 6-year-old boy drowns on fishing trip with father in Chiba
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GJDailleult
An alternative question to the one above is "how exactly does not nationalizing private BANKRUPT companies fix capitalism?" I'm not sure nationalizing will work, but if you don't believe in it then you are putting all your faith in creative destruction. Better be sure you still have the money and ability to do the creative part, or else you just get the destruction part. That would be a whole lot of fun for sure.
But don't worry guys. As long as Uncle China keeps handing over your allowance money you should be able to get by. Somehow I don't think this is what Dick Nixon had in mind when he went there though.
Posted in: Obama pitches pay-as-you-go plan for US Congress
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GJDailleult
Americans have been putting a torch to the "world's greatest economy" with their free market fundamentalism, crackpot economic theories (Laffer curve anybody?), and destructive tribal politics for a long time now, going all the way back to Milton Friedman. "Ship our industrial base off to China - great idea!!!" "Build a bubble economy where people can flip real estate, buy cheap made-in-China stuff, and work in the "innovative" financial sector - great idea!!!" "Bankrupt the country on a search for imaginary weapons of mass destruction - great idea!!!" And on and on. And why were they all great ideas? Because they were American ideas of course.
Now that the house has finally caught fire, some of them blame the fireman - "We didn't have a fire until you showed up!" Some of them say the fireman doesn't know what he is doing - "Our favorite firemen would do things differently!" Well myself, I am not sure that the fireman knows what he is doing either, but it's not my house so I don't much care. I didn't make the bed, I don't have to lie it, and I don't have to hope the house doesn't burn down around me. Good luck USA, you're gonna need it.
Posted in: Obama pitches pay-as-you-go plan for US Congress
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GJDailleult
I have no idea what article the above posters were reading. The writer's point seems to be that Japan has been slammed for years by outsiders, but it turns out now that those outsiders didn't know what they were doing either. Japan was just guilty of screwing up first, and so now maybe the critics should back off and worry about their own countries. I think there is no reason why you can't agree with that and at the same time think that Japan is really messed up - which of course it is. But criticize it for what the problems are, not for how it differs from the "ideal" Western model, which is just a different style of screw-up.
Posted in: Japan can do without preaching on how to fix its economy
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GJDailleult
That's how things work in a bubble. You make money and then the bubble bursts and you don't. Has zero to do with the president is.
Posted in: Obama promises more than 600,000 jobs this summer
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GJDailleult
This may sound like a daft post but...I havn't really watched the qualifiers much until Saturday, and one thing I noticed a few minutes into the game was that there didn't seem to be any dyed, host club, Johnny's entertainment haircuts out there for Japan like there used to be. I'm wondering if that is just a coincidence or was there a team/management decision to try and present a tougher, harder image? A trivial point I know, but a good change I think.
And it doesn't really matter what is said in the media, as posters above said, the real objective will be to get out of the group and then hope to get lucky.
Posted in: Okada raises bar after jubilant Japan reaches 2010 World Cup