JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Corporate Business English Trainers
- ACT Systems, Inc.（株式会社アクト・システムズ）, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥269,500 ~ ¥280,000 / Month
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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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IvanCoughalot
Anyone care to argue against the death penalty if these two are guilty?
Posted in: Parents charged over death of 3-month-old baby in January
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IvanCoughalot
Standard leap-to-the-defence-of-poor-innocent-victim-Japan response from Smorkian.
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IvanCoughalot
I wonder if Japan will be as hot on releasing this as they are most other goods from overseas? If so, I look forward to seeing a squeaking tarento pretending they know what this is in about five years' time.
Posted in: Google-powered laptops to go on sale in 7 countries June 15
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IvanCoughalot
The thing about kiwifruit - they're a little tart, but worth eating.
Posted in: Norika Fujiwara touts kiwifruit
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IvanCoughalot
I think she's very attractive indeed, and 19 is by no means jailbait, as some cruel posters above have commented. I'm not sure finding a simple gesture "difficult to master" says much about her future career options, however. And this certainly would not motivate me to buy the product.
Posted in: Tomobile
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IvanCoughalot
JB is very young and has many fans, most of whom are young girls
Posted in: Justin Bieber looking forward to coming to Japan
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IvanCoughalot
Can anybody else hear ducks? I'm sure I heard quackery the minute I started reading this "article".
Posted in: Young acupuncturists get holistic in Tokyo
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IvanCoughalot
I thought she was advertising ladies' sanitary products.
Posted in: Tomobile
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IvanCoughalot
I'm with Oberst. There is no news worth knowing in this article, so you might as well give us a picture to leer at.
Posted in: Perfume's song 'Polyrhythm' to appear on soundtrack of 'Cars 2'
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IvanCoughalot
Anybody got any word on that coward Shimizu's intention re. his salary? Or has talk of taking responsibility brought on another bout of dizziness?
Posted in: Kan to forgo PM's salary until nuclear crisis brought under control
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IvanCoughalot
That's not even a bra - it's a form of boob tube if anything. And not exactly overburdened. Give that girl a meat pie!
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IvanCoughalot
miamum - you're right. Every time someone leaves my office we wind up in the same dismal restaurant, having had pretend meetings for weeks about reaching a decision on where to go, then there are the speeches, which are invariably prefaced with a feigned panic of "Eh? Eh?" as though they hadn't expected to be asked to speak, followed by a rote-learned list of platitudinous guff, delivered by the leaver and several Chosen Ones, while everybody else nods sagely and mutters "So desu ne".
Weekly routine meetings are now at the three-hour mark, where nothing that could not have been circulated in a memo is accomplished, but which close down the entire section for most of the afternoon.
Let's face it - the locals will always, always spin out the simplest task into the longest possible rigmarole of byzantine nonsenses. Which is why nothing ever gets done here and why most of them need sixteen hours t do a day's work.
Posted in: Long, polite briefings reflect Japanese crisis style
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IvanCoughalot
Wait a minute - there was "an intimate exchange" between the two and then "He started touching me"? How does that work? Surely there must be some touching in intimate exchanges?
Posted in: Man disguised as a woman arrested for beating up his date
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IvanCoughalot
And the award for most tenuous link between film and a recent event used for publicity purposes goes to...
Posted in: Yakusho hopes new film will make people laugh again after March 11 disaster
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IvanCoughalot
Hell's teeth! What the deuce do you mean by that? Damned impertinence, you're asking to be given a drubbing.
Posted in: Buzz builds at word of British royals' California visit
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IvanCoughalot
Oh, I say! No point in going off half-cocked, what?
Posted in: Buzz builds at word of British royals' California visit
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IvanCoughalot
I think you're being a mite unfair there, Madverts. I've found that North American fillies do seem to get a bit wooable when confronted with a British accent. You don't have to be mega-rich and famous (although it would certainly help, I'll grant you), just turn on the David Niven and they're putty in one's hands, don't you know.
Posted in: Buzz builds at word of British royals' California visit
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IvanCoughalot
That's a recurring theme among Japanese models. Apparently it's to make Japanese blokes feel stronger. If a woman looks all helpless and baffled, a big strong Samurai arm around the shoulders to lead her to safety would naturally follow.
Except most Japanese blokes I know wouldn't so much as stop picking their nose for long enough to help.
Posted in: Anne chosen as Tokyo Metro poster girl
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IvanCoughalot
I spent two years in Kochi City. Anyone who's awake at 11:45 is very likely to have had a skinful. It's not exactly the city that never sleeps, but they can shift some stuff down there.
Posted in: Man smashes wrong door in case of mistaken identity
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IvanCoughalot
Without a question. We're all going to be expected to pay more for our utilities because we're so skint, and you can bet your boots we'll be taxed to the rafters with the disaster as an excuse (although our leaders will continue to find ways to spend the revenue to nobody's benefit but their own). If we need to leech more revenue, we haven't got enough. Thus we can't afford to throw it away buying Daimlers for dictators any more.
Posted in: Do you think Japan should cut back its ODA commitments to other countries and allocate the money instead to earthquake and tsunami relief efforts in the Tohoku region?