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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Ivan Coughanoffalot
I'd be smiling too, if I stood to benefit personally from a cut of every scrap of work that gets contracted out for this white elephant.
Japan should be ashamed. To throw money at this folly when so many are still suffering from last year's tragedy - and to milk that tragedy as emotional blackmail for the Olympic selectors - is obscene.
Posted in: Making the cut
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Ivan Coughanoffalot
Shows his spirit? Nice redefinition.
You can see the dollar signs in his eyes.
Posted in: Making the cut
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Ivan Coughanoffalot
Because that, of course, is the timescale on which astronomical events unfold. If it hasn't happened since Jaysus came, it's not going to happen. I hope to hell this is a poor translation.
And I'm with REckless above: the term "because Earth has no such planets" is gibberish.
Posted in: Japan, U.S. disagree on possibility of solar apocalypse
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Ivan Coughanoffalot
Come off it. This bloke spends the majority of his time on TV wearing wigs, brightly-coloured costumes and blusher on his cheeks.
I wouldn't be at all surprised to find he's very pro-gay indeed.
Posted in: 'Beat' Takeshi rejects anti-gay accusation
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Ivan Coughanoffalot
In what way? I'd venture in the same way those buildings with no security guards put up a poster with a picture of a security guard looking as tough as a cartoon man can look with saucer eyes, beneath which is the legend "Keeping Strict Watch".
Once again, the ritualisation of words trumps any form of action. And the sad thing about it is you can bet your boots the majority of people under this buffoonish edict will follow the instruction without question. Or at least put on a pantomime of doing so.
Rather than giving this ludicrous martinet the mooning he's so vividly asking for.
Posted in: Fukuoka mayor imposes 1-month alcohol ban for public servants
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Ivan Coughanoffalot
Oh dear. Looks like I'm going to have to stick to the Guinness today, for reasons of public health.
Posted in: Water supply cut in Chiba, Saitama due to toxin contamination
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Ivan Coughanoffalot
This is a bloke who believes putting on a bad wig and carrying a squeaky hammer is comedy gold. I wouldn't lose too much sleep about whatever other opinions he might have.
Not quite as popular as they'd have you believe around these parts. I've never met one in a thousand people who doesn't live here have the first notion of who this infantile dolt is.
Posted in: Beat Takeshi compares same-sex marriage with bestiality
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Ivan Coughanoffalot
“In the end, under my leadership, four ministers will make the decision, and that timing is near,”
What a model of clarity. Who is making the decision, and when?
Oh, don't tell me, it's already been made (by TEPCO), and this is all theatre.
Posted in: Gov't unveils power-saving plan to avoid blackouts for summer
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Ivan Coughanoffalot
I've seen leg ulcers funnier than Beat Takeshi.
Posted in: Beat Takeshi compares same-sex marriage with bestiality
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Ivan Coughanoffalot
If guilty, these two should swing for it.
Posted in: Couple go on trial over starvation death of son
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Ivan Coughanoffalot
Correction: Researchers to check faults beneath Tsuruga reactors, find everything just peachy, and recommend switching them back on again, shrtly thereafter receive a record amount of tax yen as "Research Grants"
Posted in: Researchers to check faults beneath Tsuruga reactors
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Ivan Coughanoffalot
Let's not lose sight of what's really important here:
Now expect this to serve as a precedent, and watch the speed at which all other plants get restarted. The rubber-stamps will be speedily applied in Nagatacho - those political donations aren't cheap, you know. Co-operation is bought and paid for.
It is regrettable that so many people feel reservations about radioactive contamination of their air, food and water, but we've got money to make and bonuses to award. It is your patriotic duty to now say, "Shoganai" and suck it up. What do you think this is, a democracy?
Posted in: Oi assembly agrees to restart 2 reactors
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Ivan Coughanoffalot
This non-issue is really a canard to deflect attention from impoeratnt matters. Such as: shouldn't a country which places so much stock in "supporting our troops" not offer a higher standard of care to them once their mission is over?
Posted in: Romney adamantly rejects same-sex marriage
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Ivan Coughanoffalot
Japanese people...can get more satisfaction from the taste of foam than we usually do.
Translation: Japanese people will take whatever they're given by a Japanese company and make-believe they're unique in being able to find joy in something with no flavour.
Savouring bubbles of air. Sorry, but unless you're trapped underwater, you really ought to aim for a better standard of what's enjoyable.
Posted in: Japanese beer heads cause Westerners to froth at the mouth
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Ivan Coughanoffalot
Have you seen this berk? He says "nya" for a living. And moves his hands like kindergarten kids get taught to do when they're playing animals.
I wish I could get on TV with my elephant impression.
Posted in: Japanese comedian barred from Olympic run for Cambodia
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Ivan Coughanoffalot
That's actually a very accurate description of a popular method.
Posted in: 150 suicides last year attributed to failed job hunts
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Ivan Coughanoffalot
Haven't they suffered enough?
Posted in: Obama becomes first U.S. president to back same-sex marriage
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Ivan Coughanoffalot
Will, 1973 called, and wants its suit back.
Posted in: Men in Black
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Ivan Coughanoffalot
Ah, the effortless joy of the Japanese male. Look at that bloke right in the middle. It was only the first day back after Golden Week and he's already putting on his performance of being exhausted. What a very hard worker he must be.
Posted in: Taking it easy
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Ivan Coughanoffalot
Strange - I would have thought it might be bad fr\or the brand to be linked with a junkie.
Posted in: Pepsi brings back Michael Jackson on its cans