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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Hoolie
For those who wonder what the fuss is about the weapons, the "replica wooden swords" in question are bokuto, practice swords for aikido and iaido. Bokuto are (usually) crafted from a solid piece of maple, and weilded properly hit harder than a baseball bat. As mentioned above, Musashi fought the majority of his duels using these - against steel swords.
Posted in: Man stabbed to death; another injured in Nagoya street brawl
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Hoolie
Not sure where you're living, Masterkun, but my experience has generally been the opposite.
My child has never ridden in a car without being in a proper safety seat, his Japanese mother will not take cabs with him because the cabs don't have safety seats, and the seat that we use in our own vehicle was a birth gift from his Japanese grandparents.
Every person in my (Tokyo) condo's parking facility uses child seats, though one woman initially had her infant seat in the front passenger seat where the airbags are a hazard for the kid - other neighbours put her to rights and the seat was moved to the back within a few days.
What I don't see used properly in my neighbourhood are booster seats - the kids who have outgrown child seats (over 17kg) still should be using a booster until they are over 140cm tall.
I do see unrestrained kids in vehicles on the road quite frequently, however, the worst case being a sunroofed minivan with Tokorozawa plates where the kids were not only unrestrained, they were standing on the middle bench seat and poking heads and shoulders out through the sunroof while the vehicle was in motion.
For the most part, when I see unrestrained kids, the vehicle usually has countryside plates... Yamato, Kasukabe and the like.
Maria, it is required by law as of a few years ago, and if you have an unrestrained kid or a child not in a proper safety seat when you roll up on a seatbelt check or are pulled over for something else, you'll get a point on your license for each unrestrained kid (and adult!) or smaller child not in a safety seat, and at 6 points your license is suspended. I've seen traffic cops loudly berating parents for not using them as well.
Posted in: How much attention do you think drivers in Japan pay to child safety seats or making sure their kids wear seat belts when they are in cars?
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Hoolie
It's a poor translation - what happened according to the Japanese press is that when the guy was pulled over, he refused to roll down (open) his window, which led to the police entering the vehicle by force because his behaviour was deemed to be highly suspicious.
If he had simply rolled down the window and given them his license, he would have been fine. Assuming he was concerned about the odor of the mary jane, if he had even exited the vehicle, license and shaken papers in hand, and closed the door behind him, he still would have been fine.
Instead, he sat there in a panic, and provided them with reasonable cause for a search.
Posted in: Man in possession of marijuana locks himself in car in Ginza
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Hoolie
I work for a health and nutritional supplement company. In keeping with our corporate principles, there is no smoking in the office, in the building, on the grounds, or in the general vincinity of the offices where any of our associates or customers can see our staff. They are further forbidden to smoke anywhere while visibly wearing articles of company logo clothing, and there is no smoking allowed at company functions.
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Hoolie
Simple - firearms are tightly controlled and the average person here doesn't have access to anything deadlier than a knife.
Posted in: Man arrested for stabbing brother in love triangle with ex-wife
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Hoolie
Possession, sale, distribution or production of child pornography should all carry the same sentence - life imprisonment without parole. Simply remove the offenders from society permanently.
There should also be a criminalisation of the sexualisation of pre-pubescents or pubescent children. This goes for the marketing geniuses that try to sell thong underwear for 6 year olds, bikini videos of 12 year olds, or create groups like Morning Musume. Lighter penalties for these groups though... shall we say an hour of bastinado for each child involved, followed by a year in prison?
Posted in: What is the most effective way to eradicate the sale and possession of child porn?
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Hoolie
Not true. They can be carried, and can lawfully be used in self defense. The caveat is that the police will make the determination if the sue of the device/spray was warranted, and if they find that it was not, then you will find yourself facing assault charges.
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Hoolie
Met my wife via one. We just celebrated our ten year anniversary, and have a great family life.
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Hoolie
Michael Jackson, though it finally seems to be dying down. Why so many people idolized that kiddy fiddler is entirely beyond me...
Posted in: Which celebrities - Japanese or foreign - are you sick of reading or hearing about recently?
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Hoolie
Smithinjapan... you obviously know nothing about motorcycles.
Most of them ride Honda VFR750P, and I know skilled guys who've tried to outrun them on Hayabusas or other liter-plus sportbikes who've been nabbed in the end.
Demonstration of riding skill: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1Vsnw1u5g4
The reason they have such trouble with these kids is that they are bound by procedural regulations regarding juvenile offenders dictating that they can't harm the kids in the process of arrest/detainment unless they are presenting a clear and present danger to another individual.
In other coutnries, the kids don't stop, they get their rear tires "nudged" and down they go.
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Hoolie
A couple of people have mentioned Krav Maga. If you want to learn a martial art strictly for real street application, this is the one. Krav Maga techniques are designed to incapacitate an attacker as quickly as possible, using any available resources at hand. A strong second would be Hapki-do, which is essentially a variation of jiu-jitsu with additional striking and weapons training. The key goal in a street fight is to disable your attacker and get out of range, both of these styles teach techniques that are very well suited to that strategy.
If you want an example of what you would learn studying Krav Maga, hit Youtube and look for Bas Rutten Street Defense.
Posted in: What is the most efficient martial art to learn for one's protection in the real world?
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Hoolie
Lutfreak:
There are actually quite a number of them. The bike club I ride with is in the midst of preparing for a Toys for Tots run for one of them right now.
In a case like this, the child is unlikely to go to an orphanage - more often they will go to live with their father, grandparents, or other relatives.
Unfortunately, that means the same family that produced her mother.
Posted in: Woman held for taking indecent photos of 6-yr-old daughter for sale
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Hoolie
I take my son out for little trips like this all the time.
Nothing unusual there.
If they were at the bottom, sounds like they got picked up by some undertow. Tragic, but accidental. A lot of people don't think about wearing lifejackets if they're casting from banks or wading... I've got some that autoinflate within five seconds of hitting the water.
Posted in: Father, 4-year-old son drown on fishing trip in Kumamoto
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Hoolie
Nope. The current law allows for up to three years imprisonment, and in a case where someone has been killed by the drunk driver, maximum sentences will be handed out all 'round.
The police are still looking for a few more "enablers" of this sort to crucify, as well. They still need to drive home the potential repercussions for the rest of the populace.
There is no way he's getting off lightly.
Posted in: Club host held for giving drinks to woman who caused fatal accident
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Hoolie
It doesn't say he drowned. There are many incidents in which novice divers have activated the CO2 charges on their buoyancy compensators and shot themselves to the surface while holding their breath, the subsequent expansion of air in the lungs causing massive and fatal pulmonary barotrauma (burst lungs).
Posted in: High school student drowns during diving practice in Chiba
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Hoolie
Said as if Japan isn't already a socialist country... national socilaism is still socialism after all.
Posted in: LDP warns voters against change in Aug 30 election
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Hoolie
A friend of mine intervened in a similar situation back in 2003, ratpack, and was summarily charged with assault, fined three million yen, given a year in prison suspended for five, and then deported. The guy who had been beating on the woman was also charged with assault, fined, but was given an unsuspended sentence.
In an unrelated case, a Japanese friend restrained a chikan on the Saikyo line, and broke the pervert's wrist in a scuffle as he and the victim were attempting to get him off the train. You guessed it - the guy doing the right thing got assault charges, a massive fine, a suspended sentence and - insult to injury - had to pay for the perv's medical treatment.
Keep in mind that it is actually not lawful to use physical force in defense of another here unless that person is a member of your family or in some other way was connected to you prior to the altercation. You are actually expected to simply call the police and stay out of the way.
Posted in: Man arrested for umbrella attacks in Shinjuku
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Hoolie
Truth of the matter is that where a child is raised hasn't got as much to do with how they turn out as who raises them. Japan has some distinct advantages, and distinct disadvantages, as does any other industrialised nation.
The primary disadvantage in Japan is the expectations that companies place on working fathers, which often results in the fathers being absentee parents. Some fathers make up for this on the weekends, and some forego the promotion track in order to be better fathers 'round the clock.
Posted in: Is Japan a good place to raise children?
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Hoolie
When I was a teenager the thing to do was to put our forearms against each other and put a lit cigarette in the middle, then let the cigarette burn down towards our arms. First one to move lost.
Second and third degree burns were commonplace.
Posted in: 14-year-old boy in hospital with iron burns after card game gets out of hand in Fukuoka
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Hoolie
Denden - I agree- raincoats and hats are more effective anyhow. You'll be happy to know that as of last June carrying an umbrella while riding a bicycle is a traffic offense that carries a fine of up to 50,000 yen. People are slowly getting the message, too.
http://www.police.pref.hiroshima.lg.jp/050/71saisokukaisei.html
Posted in: Two women attacked by man with umbrella in Shinjuku