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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- ALT - Mie Prefecture - Yokkaichi City - June start
- NPO法人グローバル教育推進機構（GLAD), Mie
- Salary: ¥230,000 / Month For a full working month. Some months differ.
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- Business Teaching Positions - Part-time - Kanto Region
- Interac, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥3,000 ~ ¥5,000 / Hour
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Ian Duncan
A Pawnee, Arapaho, or Cheyenne might be interested in the interpretation of "Every life" there. As would people in far-off lands more recently.
Let's take a look at the First Amendment, shall we?
Congress shall make NO law respecting an establishment of religion
Ooops, Mitt. You done gone slipped up again.
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Ian Duncan
I'm glad somebody else noticed this. My bills are up about 40% already on last year, and that's with the house empty in daylight hours. Something's been sneaked through already, before the "official" price hike.
Posted in: No bonuses for TEPCO employees this year
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Ian Duncan
Oh, this is appalling and entirely predictable at the same time. When will anybody at TEPCO be held to account?
Not until TEPCO stop making huge political donations out of the money we taxpayers are subsidising them with, it appears.
Posted in: Water containing strontium leaks from Fukushima plant into sea
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Ian Duncan
Sadly, old people deciding to climb up on the roof during a high wind is bizarrely predictable in this country. Every year, every typhoon we seem to get the same news. I wonder why they do it?
Posted in: Massive storm leaves four dead in Japan
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Ian Duncan
I like it.
Posted in: How do you feel about being a ‘gaijin’ in Japan?
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Ian Duncan
What?
Posted in: BBC and Hulu tie up
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Ian Duncan
Twice as likely to cause a car crash as one of our venerable elders not being able to spot the difference between a brake and an accelerator? Not according to recent other news.
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Ian Duncan
One of the most wonderful ways in which my life has changed is I now no longer feel embarrassed when I'm stuck in a boring conversation with someone I don't really have anything to say to.
I tell him/her something entirely humdrum, such as "I think I'm going to have some wine with my dinner", but as I'm doing it I smile a bit too widely, nod, and make a kind of inhaling noise three times in the rhythm of laughter.
Hey presto! I'm transformed into a master raconteur. What a wonderful place.
Posted in: How foreigners’ daily lives change when they live in Japan
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Ian Duncan
Anyone else remember our great leader Ishihara's campaign a few years ago to rid us of this blight? There were posters all over the subways of him standing, fist aloft, pledging to eradicate the problem. I bet there was a big budget for this campaign, but it seems nothing ever came of it once the money was, erm, "spent".
It's nice to know some things remain constant in this uncertain world.
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Ian Duncan
It seems to me that a lot of the "evidence" of a deep-rooted commitment to family originates from a compulsion to be seen to be performing the expected rituals.
When I take my daughter to the park, the kids are playing with each other, but the parents all stand around awkwardly, as far from each other as geometrically possible, avoiding any form of social interaction. On New Year's Day I had to grab somebody else's toddler, who'd run into the road. His mother was too busy playing with her telephone to take the time to watch her child.
Similarly, I didn't notice an awful lot of unifying bonds last Autumn when a man on my train started having an epileptic fit. As he lay on the floor of the train, banging his head with each convulsion, his fellow Japanese passengers went to extraordinary lengths to avoid looking at him. It was down to the barbarian to assist him. They wouldn't even get out of the courtesy seat for me to put him into the recovery position there until I started bellowing orders at them.
It seems to me that this Kizuna is just another vacant totem which Japanese people will all nod sagely about, without it having the slightest connection to reality, and indulge their delusion that basic civility is uniquely Japanese.
Posted in: 'Kizuna' takes many forms in post-disaster Japan, including marriage and infidelity
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Ian Duncan
Rule number 1: Never, never turn on the TV an New Year. Or in fact, any other time.
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Ian Duncan
Oginome:
You sure about that? http://akb48-blog.blogspot.com/2011/02/mariko-shinoda.html
Posted in: Who is the mystery person on poster for American movie 'In Time?'
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Ian Duncan
My imaginary friend is better than your imaginary friend...ner ner ne ner ner...
Posted in: Spiritual reminders
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Ian Duncan
Anyone who eats fast food on Christmas day does not deserve Christmas at all.
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Ian Duncan
She's not getting a penny out of me until I see the DNA results.
Posted in: Kumi Koda announces pregnancy to fans during performance
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Ian Duncan
I would also extend my policy to whomever it was gave me the thumbs down. To your thumbs down, sirrah, behold my two fingers up. And broad, bared buttocks.
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Ian Duncan
Arse! Reading about this after the event put the kibosh to my fry-up this morning.
Posted in: Eclipsed
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Ian Duncan
Haven' they suffered enough?
Posted in: Yoko Ono visits Fukushima to meet children
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Ian Duncan
Eat this, you will.
Hungry, you will remain.
Thirsty, you will become.
With you people, what is wrong?
Posted in: Tasty, these noodles are: Nissin gets help from Yoda
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Ian Duncan
Ha ha!
Posted in: Tokyo beats Paris again as world food capital