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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JeffLee
Which means the distributors are selling their products to themselves? Hardly a brilliant business model for the vast majority of AMWAY people..
Posted in: Amway Japan
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JeffLee
If the beauty is "vanishing," it would be due to all that concrete that is covering it these days. And if the Japanese are losing their values, etc., it's due to the uniquely Japanese postwar ethos of work, work, work, build, build, build, destroy, destroy, destroy.
Posted in: New magazine SAMURAI.JP launches in search of Japan’s lost values
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JeffLee
Elbudamexicano: neither you nor your brother have actually flown on these airlines so I'm not sure what the value of your comment is.
I HAVE flown these airlines on numerous occasions (Jetsar, Air Asia) and had great service for the price. The AA airliner had leather seats ($30 one way from Bangkok to Phuket) and Jetstar flies into one of the world's finest terminals at Changi Airport in Singapore. Jetstar has a flight that arrives at 8:25 am in Saigon, the first flight of the day, which means customs, immigration takes about 5-10 minutes.
The old legacy airlines in developing countries are more likely to be dirty than these new upstarts, which are going all out to attract passengers, I'd say.
Posted in: Flag carriers join battle for low-cost sector in Asia
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JeffLee
Malarky! Tokaimura and Monju are testiment that "safety measures" have always been non-existent. Those incidents also underline the fact that Japan never learns any lessons from its nuclear fiascos.
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JeffLee
"Superior" but can't actually be used? Umm, that kind of makes them "inferior" to the (very effective) French devices.
I certainly don't see Japan as a fully fledged tech power. They make great cars, cameras, trains and other analog items, but the digital revolution has basically passed this country by.
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JeffLee
Motytrah, I totally agree. I bagged about a dozen free NWA flights to Asia from Tokyo back in the good old days.
Posted in: Delta announces new SkyMiles partnership with Agoda.com
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JeffLee
A strange article. It gives no stats on visitor numbers, even though it's a key piece of information of its premise. Also, no interviews with visitors who are there. And then the cheerleading finale.
Does that refer to the 1930s and '40s? That's the last thing the world needs now!
Posted in: Can Tokyo DisneySea become vibrant again?
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JeffLee
That's discrimination, it's clearly unfair to Delta's customers who live outside Asia.
I'm a member, and I've experienced the opposite since the Northwest merger. I've got plenty of points but I get "flight not available," etc on their website about 99% of the time, or exorbitant mileage requirements that make purchasing with money a better deal.
After 15 years of membership, I'm feeling increasingly shut out of this "loyalty program."
Posted in: Delta announces new SkyMiles partnership with Agoda.com
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JeffLee
So why is taking so recover Fukushima? The workers should just march in, rip everything down and rebuild. If there's no danger, why are the scientists and workers keeping their distance? Or...maybe the environment there really ISN'T so friendly, eh?
Posted in: Does Fukushima show a split in philosophy between Asia and Europe?
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JeffLee
If people weren't "against things," many societies would still have slavery, genocide, war, etc., etc.
How dare citizens, whose taxes keep the system afloat, be against things that are bad and dangerous.
Posted in: Protest
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JeffLee
My handset charges by USB, which seems a much better (and cheaper) solution than this.
Posted in: Cordless chargepad
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JeffLee
"Solar doesn't supply power at night."
Yes it does. My 600-yen solar-powered outdoor lights come on automatically at dusk and stay on throughout the night. That's thanks to something called a "rechargable battery."
You're not alone, though. A number of pro-nuke commentators are dismissing solar power on the basis of outright misinformation ("lies"?).
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JeffLee
While agree with the gist of your message, I must point out that Tepco isn't alone in this fiasco. There have been Tokaimura, Monju, Hamaoka, etc, etc., run by other operators. The incompetance and stupidity have long been industry-wide and regulatory-wide in Japan.
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JeffLee
Blame the anti-nuke movements?!? Now that's sleazy! No, the plants are being shut down by the government, which cites years of consistent blunders by plant operators and regulators.
Nice try, Kyodo, but if energy prices rise, it'll be the direct fault of TePco and their bureacrat lackies for their stupidity. The anti-nuke movement has been ignored the last several decades, and thus played almost no role.
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JeffLee
I don't understand these ear canal headphones. Sticking unsterilized objects right inside your ear canal is something doctors have been warning against for many years.
Even though they're painful, unhygenic and need to be just the right size to fit the canal, about 90% of the earhones in Yodobashi are this type. I don't get it.
Posted in: Listen through this
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JeffLee
So wherever you go (the subway, the rural areas, etc) you need to have an internet connection just to get it working? I really can't see that working in Japan, where public wifi hotspots are so lacking.
Posted in: Google-powered laptops to go on sale in 7 countries June 15
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JeffLee
Could not agree more. Do you resort to a primitive technique developed by ancient people who didn't know about the existance of cells, the function of blood, and otherwise lacking basic medical knowledge?
Or do you opt for modern Western medicine, which has more than doubled the average lifespan, eradicated most of the world's deadly diseases and drastically shrunken infant mortality rates?
Indeed, let's use some common sense.
Posted in: Young acupuncturists get holistic in Tokyo
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JeffLee
Yes it can be, as Sioux points out. Placebos can be powerful and effective. The problem is they don't need to be acupuncture, slamming objects up the anus and other hocus-pocus measures. Mere sugar pills can give the same effect, given the patient's state of mind. In fact, some alternative practioners do secretly dish out sugar pills (for a steep price).
The danger? It's when seriously ill people mistake "feeling better" with a real cure (physiological improvement) and then forgo treatment capable of making a physiological improvement for themselves... or their children.
Posted in: Young acupuncturists get holistic in Tokyo
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JeffLee
No, I DO get it. Traditional is used for the placebo effect. ("I feel tired these days.")
Modern medicine is used when proper, effective cures (ie, a physiological improvement) are called for.
Hence, your "different needs." In fact acupuncture was developed in ancient times FOR serious needs. However, some Western snake-oil salesmen tinkered with it to use it as a placebo treatment, for lots of $$$.
Sorry if I seem harsh, but I've known people who bad-mouth modern medicine and praise traditional medicine. But then once a real medical threat arises with them of their loved ones, guess where they rush off to? Yep, modern hospitals. The hypocracy is so obvious yet they don't even realize it. Nuff said.
Posted in: Young acupuncturists get holistic in Tokyo
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JeffLee
Zenny, exactly, suit yourself. If your child is in a serious car accident and bleeding to death, where would take him/her? To a herbalist or alternative practioner? Or to a Western-style emergency ward at a modern hospital?
I know what choice I would make.
Posted in: Young acupuncturists get holistic in Tokyo