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
Best to avoid integrated PC units. Upgrades and repairs usually mean the computer is gone for a couple of weeks back to the retailor. Expect expensive service bills, just to fix simple things like fans or PSUs.
A couple of friends with iMacs have experienced this nightmare. IMacs are also notorious for overheating, since everything is crammed so tight together. PC towers are the way to go.
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JeffLee
As long as the guests don't look out the windows, it might work.
"Osaka - city of dreams."
Posted in: Frasers opens new serviced residence in Osaka
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JeffLee
It's not that big of secret, is it? I went after reading about the area in an English-language guide (Lonely Planet?) about five years ago.
Posted in: Pristine nature and gorgeous views are only Y2,000 away at Tanzawa
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JeffLee
Ummm. In other words, it IS too heavy. Typical Mac apologist.
Posted in: How the iPad won over an unbeliever
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JeffLee
Quoting a source who admits not knowing anything? Gotta love the Japanese media.
Posted in: Erika Sawajiri cancels product launch appearance at last minute
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JeffLee
My Office 2007 applications on XP takes 3 seconds to initialize/start up on a three year old system. (I just timed it.)
Win7 is really speedy. My netbook takes well under a minute to totally boot up, and also shutting down is just a few seconds.
However, my friend's Mac iBook Air seems to take forever to get things done.
Posted in: Microsoft's new IE9 promises zippier performance
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JeffLee
The Gypsies subject to the move are indeed "illegal." Their camps are in violation just about every French regulation on habitation and residency. Furthermore, they refuse to send their kids to school and adjust to other social norms.
I'm not sure about these groups, but many of the Romanians are there exclusively to commit crime. They send their children into the cities every morning to pickpocket people. The cops can't put the kids in jail, so it just goes on...until someone like Sarkosy steps in.
Posted in: France defies EU criticism on Gypsy expulsions
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JeffLee
So why are millions of Asian immigrants still so desparate to come to the U.S.? With a shrinking middle class, America is less and less a land of opportunity, right? So what's in it for Asians, particularly if they come from China or South Korea, where economic growth is nearly 10 percent a year and the middle class is exploding in size? I don't get it.
Have they been brainwashed that America is actually a land of opportunity?
Posted in: Many will be left behind when job market picks up
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JeffLee
Not according to Geroge MacDonald Fraser , who was a solderl in Burma in the summer of 1945. He recounts that the Japanese troops he and his fellow British soldiers encountered were a major pain in the ass, and in absolutely no mood for surrender.
Posted in: Was the dropping of the atomic bombs necessary?
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JeffLee
Natural sugar is nasty, nasty stuff, responsible for a host of very serious health problems, from diabetes to obesity to hyper activity in children. Yet there still hasn't been a documented case of artificial sweeteners causing serious health problems in humans, that's after billions of gallons of diet drinks being consumed. I'll go for the sweetners every time.
Posted in: Cola wars return as Pepsi MAX takes on Coke Zero
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JeffLee
What are the Chinese up to? The Tama River starts just outside Tokyo and then runs past some of the most intensely industrial areas on the planet. There isn't much real forest along its banks, apart from in Okutama, where the land is so steep it's not useful for anything apart from hiking or growing wasabi.
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JeffLee
Then we live in a different Japan. I've never been able to set up my email account in my Japanese handset. My friends overseas with Blackberries have been doing that for several years now, basically using their handsets like mini-PCs.
Posted in: New iPhone arrives
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JeffLee
But...Blackberries have been out for ages. Why all the fuss about a smartphone now?
Posted in: New iPhone arrives
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JeffLee
Quite a few places in the world suffered serious housing shortages in the postwar period. Japan is the only one where I know that the client to this day is forced to "gift money."
Posted in: Why Japanese property managers are so strict on renting apartments
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JeffLee
Ummm.......Seriously?
Posted in: Asako Hara shows her form on the LA street dance scene
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JeffLee
Klien2 I couldn't disagree more with your comment. When I bought my first MP3 player in 1999, no one at my gym in tokyo had ever seen one before.
Nearly all the IT innovations start in the U.S., from wifi, to e-commerce, to smartphones, to MP3 players, to the frickin Internet itself.
Posted in: Why Japan matters: iPad mania, cloud computing and social intelligence
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JeffLee
Elbuda - plenty of canucks in the kansai will use that if they can connect to vancouver, calgary, etc. That's because there are no direct flights from kansai to canada anymore.
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JeffLee
What are the "factual errors"?
Posted in: Dolphin hunt film canceled in Tokyo after protests
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JeffLee
Expanding the Euro common market beyond the wealthy nations in Western Europe was an idiotic decision. Now the Germans, French, Belgiums and others will be paying the massive price of their folly.
The motivation for Euro expansion was capitalist greed, anyway - to provide a dirt-cheap and abundant labor force to undercut local wages. Expansion served the interests of the ruling elites, but has been devastating to the 97 percent of population who make up everyone else. The chickens are coming home to roost!
Posted in: Is Euroland about to spark a 2nd great recession?
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JeffLee
The French/Europeans. It's an open, non-proprietary system, so operators can run anything they want along their tracks. Shinkansen's tracks are dedicated, and extremely expensive to build and maintain to boot.
When overseas clients make a choice based purely on technology and cost, they invariably chose the world-standard European system. When politics and Japan's ODA play a role (ie, Vietnam and Taiwan), then they choose Shinkansen.
(Note, the Hitachi trains sold to Britain are built to meet Euro standards.)
Posted in: Which country has the best high-speed rail technology in the world?