JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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Confrontation
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U.S. Navy investigating how parts fell off aircraft near Atsugi
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California court to decide if SeaWorld whales are illegal 'slaves'
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Kuroki reported pregnant 2 weeks after denying relationship with Akanishi
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- Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) in Kanto region
- RCS (RCSコーポレーション), Kanto
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- Assistant Language Teacher - TOKYO - late-March start
- Interac, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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- Assistant Language Teacher - Kanagawa Prefecture - late-March start
- Interac, Kanagawa
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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GenevaMan
Any kind of beef is fine, as long as it doesn't get the benzedrine, anabolic steroid nor methandrostenolone treatment.
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GenevaMan
The Nikkatsu had the absolute monopole on theater movies in the 80's. That is why japanese cinema had the time of his life through video cinema. The Nikkatsu produced porn out of pure lack of imagination and desperate need of ¥¥¥. If one desires to watch interesting funny softcore, one has to check the video cinema that were released during this time.
Also, I agree with some JTnautes here. There is nothing to celebrate, when we consider the place porn has taken in Japanese society today.
Tamarama, no offense, but you might be aware that today japanese are not feeling horny watching Ukiyoe. This is a western cliché. All this talk we hear in the West about how japanese sex is sophisitcated and easthetic is BS. I am all for sexual freedom, however today homo japonicus desire is focused on the infantile, passive, submissive, dumb, mini-skirted teenager. Basically, today's japanese porn describes a mighty japanese man dealing with silly, submissive, (too) young girls, which is a "carnivalesque inversion", considering that japanese men are now beleaguered, mostly bitter and rely pretty much on masturbation or prostitution to get satisfied, and that more and more women are dealing with their sex life in a less "men-centered" way and can deal with their sex life more than before.
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GenevaMan
I could see many of my J-friends being stucked in the worst and most sinister jobs, crappy romances, boring lifestyles, failed marriages and family life... Most of them don't chose something else, not because they don't want to, but just because they have no idea that somehing else is possible.
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GenevaMan
Krav maga
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GenevaMan
As much as I agree with the posters who stated that grads and diploma are not the key to get a good situation, but this is specially true for Japan. If you study accounting in Europe, then you will get accounting skills. I am amazed to see that in Japan, they are not taught anything at all, and are basically relying on this good-for-nothing background to be dispatched like soldiers in different companies, without any regards to their skills, capabilities and personality. I work with Japanese employees and most of them are not qualified for even lifting a pen, but they still have those high flown titles and take themselves really seriously. This model can't last any longer. If Japan pretends to be a capitalist country, then they need to change this "corporate" culture which is no different to a welfare system.
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GenevaMan
The uniform is ok. I just don't understand the red card around the neck.
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GenevaMan
True. But I was assaulted three years ago in a train. One nutter attacked me when I was sleeping (there was nobody around, it was closed to Atami, at night). I quickly woke up, slap the guy (once), then he ran away in a random station. I ran after him; five minutes later, the cops arrived and stomped on me. The bloke looked at me, laughed and ran away. I explained to the cops what happened, but it took almost 30 minutes after they released me. And of course they never looked for the nutter. If you decide to beat the cr3p out of Ichihashi, then you have to make sure he won't be able to use his legs before the cops arrive, otherwise he'll quietly reach the whorehouse where he is hiding.
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GenevaMan
Noooooooooo!!!!!!!!
Missing the last train is always the first step on the way to the love hotel.
Posted in: Would you like trains and subways in Japan to run all night?
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GenevaMan
I would LOL, but I won't. If one had a slight idea of what is going on in Iraq, one would know that those attacks are **just **symptoms. What Bush started in Iraq and in the Middle East hasn't even reach its climax yet. We will pay for this stupid war for a century, probably more.
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GenevaMan
pawatan,
The difference of a "good" virus and a "bad" virus is how it manages to spread. Ebola is a "bad" virus, as the symptoms are spectacular and quick. AIDS is a "good" virus, as someone can live with it for years, looking healthy, and spread it around. Basically it will never stop as long as we have to deal with this kind of initiative and article. AIDS is officially spreading among gays and foreigners; but they are usually more aware of AIDS and are usually not that shy getting tested , more than the filthy salaryman who pays for sex once or twice a week, and knowing for sure that unprotected casual sex is quite common among youth, I am sure that AIDS will suddenly be a bomb very soon in this country, unfortunately.
Posted in: HIV/AIDS continues steep increase in Japan
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GenevaMan
Boys will be boys.
Posted in: 10 Keio Univ students face charges for streaking through station
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GenevaMan
@pukey and bdaniel,
French WAS a language which was made of many languages. However, the french language, thanks to the "Académie Française" is "officially" a language that hasn't evolve for the past five centuries. That is why french speakers can read books written in the 15th century and understand it perfectly, and that is also why written french is difficult to learn for foreigners, because everything in the oral language is far and different for the "français écrit". If you speak a languge intermingled with whatever words you've heard on MTV, this is not french, you just sound dumb and uneducated.
As I said before, French was intermingled with other language. French grammar and orthograph hasn't evolve at all for the past five centuries and it is not evolving, except for slang.
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Posted in: Which words or expressions annoy you the most when you hear them repeatedly used by other people in conversation?
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GenevaMan
Patrtick I feel for you, because I feel the opposite, or more or less the same. I am native french speaker, and I can't stand when french speakers intermingle their conversation with english words. Words like manager, email, weekend, barbecue etc.. are widely used in french, but some people go too far, when they speak about their "petite girlfriend", or when they use the F-word. People from Quebec are actually doing this often, and it sounds just dumb.
Posted in: Which words or expressions annoy you the most when you hear them repeatedly used by other people in conversation?
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GenevaMan
I can imagine something like 48girls1cup (lol)
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GenevaMan
When Animal Hamaguchi was cheering his daughter during the Olympics, I bet she was so embarassed... must have been funny to attend a Sunday lunch with them after the games.
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GenevaMan
Get all the J-ladies married with foreigners and leave the country, wherever is safer anyway, and in most cases they won't be treated like flesh to have sex with.
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GenevaMan
I went to the Oktoberfest in Hibiya three or four years ago, it was fun. I remember there was a drunk bloke sitting next to me (around 50y.o.). I went there with a german friend, and when my friend said he was german, the old guy said something like: "German? Belly belly good! Sieg Heil!!!"
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GenevaMan
kawaisoo for the lady. This bloke has been so harsh: she was brought to nowhere, got through a divorce right after (which obviously was planned by this bloke quite a long time b4), then he get remarried, the J-lady is geographically and cutlurally isolated with her kids, and then the guy is creating this mess.
Putting the backwardness of some aspects of the japanese law aside and knowing that quite a lot of J-wives are evil, I would stand for the lady in this case.
This case will be used by everyone: CRCjapan, lawmakers, Saitama's housewives, and many more.
And even if he would really wanted to get his kids back to the US, there are tons of companies specialized in extracting children from parental kidnappings.
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GenevaMan
Zainichi problems are nothing common with the Gaijin problem, historically and socially. I am quite amazed that you speak about zainichi (I mean the chosen-jin and some others), as "guests". They don't owe anything to Japan and have the right (not the permission) to live here in Japan if, by the course of history, their roots lie there. The ugly thing in this debate is that we can still see the fear and hate that those zainichi can provoke in some japanese people mind, related to the everyday ugliness of mass-komi, and the use ad nauseum of some non-issues (the abductees beeing one of them). Still, my concern was about the word you used (permission), but overall I agree with you on the citizenship thingy and the term of compromise (If a Chosen-jin doesn't want to apply to J-citizenship and doesn't want to stick to the Japanese community for ABC reasons, then a compromise should be granted).
As a matter of fact, I am quite sure that the Zainichi are definitely more politicized than the Japanese, and I am wondering if the DPJ is not looking for some support from those communities, as they certainly get out of the couch on a election day.
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GenevaMan
Nigelboy, you are confused. I don't want the Japanese to open their borders and I didn't make any reference to this debate (the national one concerning the DPJ proposal) in my previous post.
Concerning the "real" debate, Zainichi are the main concerns. But as nobody treated this question in this thread, I suggest that you start by giving us your opinion about that. But beware: in french, we have one saying: Etre plus royaliste que le roi, which can dangerousely apply to your case. Anyway, no ill feelings. I like your energy (which must scare the Japaneses though).
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