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
- 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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Good_Jorb
Nice parents, I wonder if they will ever feel remorse for essentially signing a death sentence for their own children.
Posted in: Afghan Taliban publicly execute man, woman for eloping
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Good_Jorb
grafton- I think your agrument is close to correct, expect replace religion with any sort of belief, such as; Nazism, Maoism, Tribalism, Supremacism, and so on. There is huge list of non-myth based belief systems that have caused equally as brutely death and destructruction.
In particular the follow sentence should really read;
Any difference between one type of person and another type of person will always result in violence/getting people killed. It's human nature.
Posted in: Can Islam and the Western world coexist peacefully?
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Good_Jorb
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1120/p25s22-woaf.html
Posted in: Crew retakes U.S. ship from Somali pirates; captain still held
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Good_Jorb
The difference between the terrorist and the pirate in this case is that pirates didn't start from being indoctrined with radicalization at the local mosque. Pricary in Somalia started because they lack a navy and/or coast guard and the international community took advantage of it. Fisherman from other countries started stealing fish, a staple food in Somalia, in such amounts that it started to have a serious effect on the local food supply. International waste management companies started dumping biowaste(used needles and such) and toxic waste, again effecting the fish and effecting the local food supply. In response locals created patrols that were suppose to scare fisherman and waste dumpers away. Unforunately human nature being what it is, they became greedy and their activities spiraled out of control and turned into what it is today.
Posted in: Crew retakes U.S. ship from Somali pirates; captain still held
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Good_Jorb
It is a dumb question, as it has nothing to do with the story or the comments here. Unless you are going for a double entendre with terminate.
Posted in: Flight student charged with piloting stolen plane from Canada into U.S.
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Good_Jorb
He could just as well be a right-wing nut, you know the ones who do not like foreigners being in Japan, including Americans and American soldiers.
Posted in: American consul general in Okinawa doused with coffee
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Good_Jorb
I would hate to see what happens when they decide to enforce sexual harassment.
Posted in: Dealing with sexual harassment in the workplace
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Good_Jorb
Or niether party has any real credibility, it's a shame that American politics has fallen so far, but as I said before that is what happens when the parties pander to extreme left and right. Viral partisan politics is going to do nothing to help the current situation.
Posted in: House, Senate pass Obama-friendly budget plans
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Good_Jorb
I believe I have a seen a Japanese porn where the very thing you are talking about occured. So you never know what might blow someone's hair back.
Posted in: Man arrested for wiping saliva on woman sleeping on train
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Good_Jorb
If I had to label myself, it wouldn't be right winger or a capitalist, I fully advocate for social democracy, reforming capitalism democratically through government regulation to remove social inequities. The key here being democratic, not violent, to bring about change. That way the will of the people is being recognized. Violent protests/revolts like those in the London may not represtent the will of the people and the protesters could be seen as tring to force their beliefs on a country that doesn't agree with them.
I can understand voilent revolts in non-democratic countries but England is a democracy, protest by voting, protest by electing people who will change the system, protest by informing people in an educated manner that the current system isn't the only way.
Posted in: G-20 leaders begin financial summit; London police report one death, 86 arrests
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Good_Jorb
Anarchist don't know exactly what an Anarchist is (Anarcho-capitalism Vs Anarcho-communism and so on).
Advacating violence as means of social change does make some Anarchists idiots. Compare the changes Gandhi brought India through passivism against imperialist England and the changes brought by Anarchists anywhere in the world.
Posted in: G-20 leaders begin financial summit; London police report one death, 86 arrests
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Good_Jorb
That could explain why Japanese overall have such poor English abilities.
Posted in: The most effective method for students to cultivate English pronunciation and listening skills is via speaking and body language of assistant language teachers. If the classes are badly managed by inexperienced teachers, students will come to hate English.
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Good_Jorb
Consuming that much meat is bound to give you a serious case of meat sweats, add ethanol sweats and balmy summer day and you have a stadium filled with ode de fat guy.
Posted in: Warning sought for burger the size of one's head
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Good_Jorb
Two wrongs make a right?
Posted in: Man kills his 2 sisters, decapitating one in front of police officer in Massachusetts
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Good_Jorb
US and Japanese automakers are inter-related, in particular when it comes to parts suppliers(within the context of the North American Market). If US automakers fail, then parts orders will slump even further and in order to stay economically viable those part suppliers are going to have to increase the price of their parts. That is if the parts suppliers don't go out of business entirely, reducing the supply pool and increasing prices. If the price of parts increase, the price of the car increase, equating to less sales.
As well Japan's automakers have a lot joint ventures with American automakers that could be at risk.
Posted in: Japan stocks plunge as U.S. auto crisis mounts
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Good_Jorb
They should have wrote "Sen Harris Blake(R)" as most of the news media does. At any rate, he just stated what he heard had happened, so I don't see how it baised the story.
Posted in: 7 residents, 1 nurse die in N Carolina nursing home shooting
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Good_Jorb
1) Who's brain in a jar is creating this reality? 2) Who is the "man"? 3) Where do members of the white institution meet? 4) Is bigfoot just a guy who hasn't shaved? 5) Can HAARP control everything it's purported to be able to? 6) Did Tesla create and energy weapon that could overload a whole region's power grid and cause people to procreate.
Really, I think the nuttier the conspiracy theory the less I want to the truth.
Posted in: Which conspiracy theory would you most like to find out the truth about?
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Good_Jorb
Odd and slightly silly comment.
They didn't fly from Japan to Paris just to clean up Paris and preach about cleaniness. The volunteers, as per the article, live and work/study in Paris.
Posted in: Japanese teach Parisiens about street tidiness
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Good_Jorb
Teleprompter- That was some nice editing you did there, thanks ;).
I was aware the article title is, Obama turns to web to bypass news media.
By bypassing the news media and using the internet to answer questions, he is directly speaking to the pundits and/or pseudo-pundits aka bloggers. They are now becoming a far greater force to be reckoned with then the "traditional" media outlets and they are the ones responsible for lowering the bar for political discourse in America and are ruining the Democratic and Republican parties. When I say ruin, I mean they parrot the party line, never question weather it is fact or not and become mindless sheep(like those in Animal Farm), so the parties do not have to come with intelligent party platforms. They never expect their own party to come up with actually solutions, they just bash the other party. That is why Obama is bypassing the news media.
Posted in: Obama turns to web to bypass news media
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Good_Jorb
If North Korea were to target Japan, it might be because of the following;
as well
Posted in: Japan goes into crisis mode for possible N Korea missile launch