JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Financial Advisor
- Select Asset Management KK, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥100,000 ~ ¥999,999 Paid Training Commission Based
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- Corporate Business English Trainers
- ACT Systems, Inc.（株式会社アクト・システムズ）, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥269,500 ~ ¥280,000 / Month
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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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GJDailleult
There was an article on the Business Week website yesterday saying that the technology now exists that could send all the information now recorded on the black box back to a central location in real time. The airlines are resisting though because of the costs involved. If they are unable to find the black box this time though that will be looking pretty shortsighted. A plane falling from the sky for unexplained reasons is not exactly good for passenger confidence.
As for teleprompter's bomb post - well, no terrorist organization has claimed responsibility, but if you think about it, why would they? If there is no evidence of a bomb, they could just sit tight until they do it again. A scary thought. Better find that box I think.
Posted in: Brazil mistakes sea 'trash' for plane crash debris
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GJDailleult
Yeah right. He had his shot, now he is yesterday's news. Nice puff piece by AP though - that good old left wing, liberal American mainstream media at it again I see.
Posted in: Romney raps Obama's 'tour of apology'
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GJDailleult
Wow that is sure a shocking comment she made!!! She "would hope" they reach a better conclusion. If this is all the US right wingers have then they should be very, very careful. Women and Hispanics have the vote too.
Posted in: Sotomayor says she chose word poorly in 2001 speech
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GJDailleult
Actually, according to the DNA research, the true percentage of multiracial Americans is much higher. One number I have seen is that 30% of "white" Americans have some recent African ancestry. Don't know how accurate that is or how scientifically accepted it is, but that is the number given. The point is though that in the past in the USA, and Canada too, multiracial people who were able to "pass" as white in appearance did so, those who weren't able to were identified as black or native. Then after a couple of generations their descendants knew nothing about it. "Multiracial" is nothing new, it's identifying people as multiracial that is.
Posted in: Multiracial people become fastest growing U.S. demographic group
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GJDailleult
Word on the street, as Huggy Bear would say, is that he was set to star in a big drama or movie starting production in the next few weeks, and the contracts were already signed before the arrest. So too much money at stake to waste time on the ritualistic "voluntary" time off.
Posted in: Kusanagi returns to showbiz after arrest
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GJDailleult
I see lots of posts here about Japanese TV, but that isn't actually what the article is about. Japanese TV has always been mostly stupid and mostly rubbish. What's new and what the writer is talking about is the trend where being (or pretending to be) a stupid and ignorant young Japanese person is seen as cool, funny, and entertaining. Not just the show is stupid, but the person on the show is too. You can almost see the cynical production meeting - "Let's put on a quiz show, they are easy and cheap to produce, and let's go for a young demographic for our advertisers. Oh but young Japanese people are stupid and ignorant. Ok, let's just put stupid and ignorant people on the show so they can relate to the contestants. Problem solved!" Even Nep League, which is one of the few Japanese programs I actually regularly watch and is ususally reasonably intelligent, sometimes suffers from idiot guest syndrome. I'm not sure what it all means, but I'm pretty sure it isn't good.
Posted in: Idiocy versus intelligence on Japanese quiz shows
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GJDailleult
Still driving around in the victim's car two days later. Getting angry enough to kill a woman he just met for the first time in person a few hours before. Pretty strange and scary behavior. As for why he may have been angry, it says she was unemployed but told (lied to?) her father that she was going to work. No disrespect to the victim intended, but if you read between the lines, one possibility is that it was over money.
Posted in: Man arrested for murder of woman in Nagano love hotel
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GJDailleult
Might not just be kids with two passports abandoning ship. There is the potential for a real brain drain as young and educated Japanese people bail out and emigrate, with what's left a country of old folks and pachinko players. That would make a bad situation that much worse obviously.
Posted in: Longevity of life a mixed blessing for Japanese
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GJDailleult
About the elderly and infirm fatality percentage question, after a little searching I can't find the exact number, but it must be very, very low. As of yesterday, 72 of the 79 deaths were in Mexico, and of the first 45, 84% were in the 20 to 54 age group. Also, more than half of those hospitalized in the USA are between 5 and 24. So for anybody figuring H1N1 is an old folks problem and not theirs, sorry but not true.
Posted in: 1st new-flu case in Tokyo confirmed; infections number 263 in Japan
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GJDailleult
kidoave- you want to explain exactly how the Administrative Officers were supposed to detect the virus in people not yet showing symptoms, short of quarantining every single person arriving in Japan?
Posted in: 1st new-flu case in Tokyo confirmed; infections number 263 in Japan
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GJDailleult
Nothing illogical about opposing abortion when it is used for what is basically selective breeding of humans, and opposing the imposition of laws which for religious reasons prohibit abortion. One has nothing to do with each other.
Posted in: Obama storms into abortion debate in Notre Dame speech
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GJDailleult
WilliB, I do believe you meant to say predict the "sex" before birth, not "sexual orientation". Anyways, sex selection abortion is already happening and has real consequences for the human race. There is a lot more reason than just a "religious" or "moral" reason to oppose it.
Posted in: Obama storms into abortion debate in Notre Dame speech
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GJDailleult
Just stating the obvious here but abortion is not infanticide. I would love to know though when he came out in favor of murdering infants.
Posted in: Obama storms into abortion debate in Notre Dame speech
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GJDailleult
Amazing how many people here think of Limbaugh as something other than what he really is - a media creation used by the Republican Party to get one segment of their support fired up and make sure they make it out to the voting booths on election day. It was a strategy that worked well for a while. But the Indian went off the reservation and now thinks he IS the Republican party. Maybe he actually is now, but it was never the plan for the "base" to takeover the party from the inside, they were there to be used. But then when you make a deal with the devil, you get what you have coming. Amazing that Cheney doesn't understand how his own party was set up and is supposed to work - keep middle America voting for you so you and your big business friends are free to line your pockets - but then that isn't a surprise because he is a fool. Limbaugh is the death of the Republican party, not saying that is a good thing, just that it is the reality. And Cheney is too clueless to see that.
Posted in: Cheney backs Limbaugh over Powell
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GJDailleult
Hmm, which means either a) they didn't have good solid conservative principles in '92,'96, or '08, or b) they did and they lost for other reasons. I'm leaning towards b myself! Cheney doesn't seem to understand the difference between necessary and sufficient conditions, which I guess is pretty much true for all the Republican base. It's great to keep the base happy and out to the polls to vote, but if that's all you got you're going to lose and keep losing at least until the tail stops wagging the dog. Simple politics.
Posted in: Cheney backs Limbaugh over Powell
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GJDailleult
Somehow I don't think she is going to have the same husband finding problem that many women seem to have in Japan. Just a hunch.
Posted in: Waka Inoue looking for carnivore partner
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GJDailleult
Can't be true. I have learned from several experts here before on JT that Antarctica is getting warmer, that global warming is NOT happening, and that it is all a massive fraud with no scientific evidence to support it. No way I am going to pay attention to the rantings of some flunkies from the European Space Agency and the British Antarctic Survey when Japan Today posters know better.
Posted in: Huge ice chunks break away from Antarctic shelf
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GJDailleult
Expect to see some really astute and perceptive political analysis on this comment page over the next few days.
Posted in: On 100th day in office, Obama denounces waterboarding
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GJDailleult
Blaming bureaucracy is just a nice way to put it. The only logical explanation for using waterboarding 183 times on the same guy is that you are an idiot. If there is still information to be gained, then the technique is not effective. If you have gotten all the information, then why are you wasting your time doing it for the 183rd time? Even if somebody thinks torture works, that is still a sign of incredible stupidity in the CIA. Makes it a little easier to understand why they still haven't found Bin Laden though.
Posted in: Unresolved debate: Does torture work?
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GJDailleult
teleprompter - Uranium is not a weapon, it is a chemical used in weapons. Cheney said there were weapons. And I thought the point of enhanced interrogation techniques was to get information before a terrorist attack. Not much good after the attack.
Anyways, either Cheney is right and they got valuable information, or he is just making stuff up because he knows the documents will never be declassified. Believe whatever you want, but it wouldn't be the first time he made stuff up.
Posted in: Obama open to torture prosecution; Cheney says U.S. gained info from interrogations