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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Apple dethrones Google as company with most respected image in eyes of consumers
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JFA plans to hold Under-20 Women's World Cup match in Fukushima
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- Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) in Kanto region
- RCS (RCSコーポレーション), Kanto
- Salary: ¥180,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month includes performance bonus
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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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Good_Jorb
Foolish me, yes what do the residents of L.A. have to do with how the mayor sets city policy, I mean it's not like he was elected by the citizens of L.A. to represent the will of the majority of L.A. citizens. If it is will of the majority of the citizens of L.A. it's the mayor civic duty to oblige them, that is how a little thing called democracy is suppose to work.
As for contacts; most contacts have time/renewal clauses, I.E. the contact is to be reviewed and renewed ever 6 months/ever year or what have you and at that time contacts can be terminated. As well most contacts have termination clauses with stipulated fines. The boycott would probable be enacted by simply choosing not to renew the contacts with Arizona, by paying the fines set out in the termination clauses and by not entering in new contacts with Arizona. It clearly states that not all contracts would be terminated in the article. All noise or not, it's still well within the rights of L.A. to choose not to do business with Arizona.
Posted in: LA approves Arizona boycott over immigration law
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Good_Jorb
Boycotting is not meddling, it's simply choosing not spend their money in Arizona, if a majority of the residents of L.A. dislike how Arizona immigration law works, then mayor is just acting on behalf of his constituency and has ever right to choose where L.A. money is being spent. The real question is why do you think you can dictate what L.A.'s spending policies should be?
Posted in: LA approves Arizona boycott over immigration law
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Good_Jorb
How is it a fallacy? The law -requires- police officers to question the validity of someones citizenship if "reasonable suspicion exists that the person is an alien who is unlawfully present in the United States". The police are required by law to ask them. Had the Pakistani men been walking around in Arizona, in wouldn't be a stretch that by their appearance alone some police would think that had reasonable suspicion to assume that they were illegals weather or not they had just financed a terrorist bombing.
Posted in: 3 Pakistani men arrested over Times Square bomb plot
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Good_Jorb
Being an illegal immigrant is a crime, ergo, if the police believe you to be an illegal immigrant (criminal), then they will ask you to present your ID. The problem is the only really evidence of being an illegal immigrant is the lack of having a proper ID. In the case of the Pakistani guys, they probable have a paper trail showing money being transfer to the bomber.
Posted in: 3 Pakistani men arrested over Times Square bomb plot
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Good_Jorb
Why would they care, these people are accused of committing crimes, of which the police assumptive had enough evidence to get an arrest warrant for. A little different then walking down a street and having to prove you didn't commit a crime by presenting your ID.
Posted in: 3 Pakistani men arrested over Times Square bomb plot
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Good_Jorb
America is already there:
http://www.veteranstoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/WestboroBaptistCNN.jpg
Posted in: Muhammad cartoonist head-butted during lecture in Sweden
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Good_Jorb
Democracy and corporation are two words that generally don't go together.
It doesn't surprise that the media is dissatisfied with Japanese corporate communications, a lot of corporation seem to have trouble enough writing contracts that aren't so vague and ambiguous that you have every clause rewritten.
It seems sometimes that full disclosure is almost a bad word in Japan, but then again they don't even try to pretend that to care about securities market efficiency. The only thing that might change Japan is if there is push in the bigger corporations to change to IFRS accounting standards to keep access to foreign capital markets and it trickles down to the smaller companies(but it's doubtful).
Posted in: Nearly half of foreign media dissatisfied with Japanese corporate communications
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Good_Jorb
It will probably have to happen, conventional oil wells/reserves are already all starting to become third tier and forth tier (signs Peak oil). So offshore reserves will have to be expolited but even then the time from now until then, the demand is going to well beyond the supply and once expensive alternatives will not be so expensive relatively speaking.
Posted in: In light of the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, do you support offshore drilling for oil anywhere in the world?
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Good_Jorb
Actually, the bio-diesel I use comes from the by-products of corn/grain haverasting and the engery required comes from a methane power plant (ala Thunderdome), no government subsidies, in fact the government loses out in missed fuel tax revenue (Got to love farmers and there distain for big government). I haven't heard of 3.5mil gallons of bio-fuel leaking into the ocean, killing what could be a very large amount of the food chain in a very significant area.
Posted in: Gulf of Mexico oil spill grows to 3.5 mil gallons
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Good_Jorb
Bio-diesel.
Scary thing here is crude oil, is relatively one the least toxic chemical being exploited from the ground by O&G's. Had it been a sour gas well, there would be nothing left of the ocean in that area.
Posted in: Gulf of Mexico oil spill grows to 3.5 mil gallons
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Good_Jorb
You wouldn't charge your kid money for tutoring him. When you have no actual teaching skills/background and you are charging for your "English Teaching" services, it becomes a bit of a point of ethics. More so if your English ability is, to put it politely, lacking.
Posted in: Why is teaching at English conversation schools in Japan such a maligned profession by some people?
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Good_Jorb
If you have that much of a problem with noise, don't live in an apartment or leave in a "mature" apartment, that doesn't allow families and has strict noise restrictions.
A dog has to do his/her business, and sure parents would prefer that their children don't scream for hours. Get a grip it is not all about you, nimbyism is slowing killing community spirit.
Posted in: New neighbors and the trouble they can cause
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Good_Jorb
When I first came to Japan, I didn't think anything was wrong with English teachers but then I started to meet the "lifers". They hate Japan but because they lack any real marketable skills they can't go home either. So they become these petty bitter people, who by sight alone are enough to depress you and their conversations are so asinine it's painful. Then there is the whole westerns can't get any other job then an English teacher in Japan, an assumption believed by almost all English teachers and a lot of Japanese. If you're smart enough and work in the right professions you don't have to be an English teacher.
Posted in: Why is teaching at English conversation schools in Japan such a maligned profession by some people?
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Good_Jorb
Not everyone is that dependent on O&G, after working contract for a few big O&G companies, I try to do my best not to be put over the (oil) barrel so to speak. O&G companies know they run a fine line between lower production costs and environmental safety but governments and consumers are willing to turn a blind eye as long as they get their petrol/petrol dollar fixes.
I use biodiesel and 2 micro wind turbines, no dependence on Big Bad Oil for me (although they were paid with money earned from O&G shares).
Posted in: Gulf Coast oil spill could eclipse Exxon Valdez
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Good_Jorb
And on the other side you have those blaming everything wrong with their world on immigrants. The call of the lazy, unintelligent and bigots(I.E. skin heads, neo-nazi, etc.) is "immigrants took my job". Get educated or work in a labour job at what the capital market system deems your job to worth.
It seems ironic that the left is accused of being lazy, unemployed and living off the state, yet at the same typical liberal thinking is to call those who accuse immigrants of stealing their jobs, bigots. So it would seem both the left and the right are unemployed.
Posted in: UK campaign gaffe: Brown calls voter a bigot
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Good_Jorb
Pretending to own/be the protector of a huge part of Antarctica.
Posted in: Australia rejects proposal for limited whale hunts by Japan, Norway and Iceland
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Good_Jorb
Oddly 10 out 12 of the Canadian provincial governments choose to pay for adortions, so I don't see how it would divide the Canadian population if it hasn't already.
If the aid is going pay for abortions in poorer African countries (I would imagine that is what they are refering to as abroad) and such , I don't see the problem. Rape, child starvation, extreme proverty and so on are all reason that an abortion may be the more humane thing to do.
Posted in: Canadian gov't defends decision not to fund abortions
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Good_Jorb
could have a bunch* pardon the error.
Posted in: How safe do you think Japanese society is, compared to other countries?
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Good_Jorb
This is a vague question, safe in this case have a bunch of different meanings. Safe from crime, safe from foreign influences, safe as in a non-risk taking society. Perhaps a bit more effort could have been put into the question.
Posted in: How safe do you think Japanese society is, compared to other countries?
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Good_Jorb
I wonder what they are going to do? Perhaps they will have police at bus/train stations and such asking to see their green card. I would if the same people who complain about Japanese police asking to see gaijin cards, will complain about the Arizona law. My guess probably not because the Arizona law won't be targeting white guys.
Posted in: Activists call on Obama to fight Arizona immigrant law