JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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To be healthy, live in the big city
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Teacher nabbed for using miror to peek up girl's skirt
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Japan's nuclear safety standards flawed, says commission chief
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From carnivores to herbivores: how men are defined in Japan
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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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
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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
I'll stick with my PC Netbook. This thing looks really limited on the hardware side, like most Apple products. No camera, card reader, etc.
Chip is 1 Mhz, which seems really underpowered in this day and age.
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JeffLee
A free-lance media entrepreneur, I use mine for churning out translations and magazine articles, which have netted me several million yen in revenue in the last few months.
Macs are too big, heavy and clunky, with th exception of the Air, although that's woefully underequipped and grossly overpriced.
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JeffLee
Organic vegetables are the biggest danger. They are usually grown, literally, in sh*te, and so contain tons of highly dangerous bacteria. The huge and recent food poisoning incident in the US came from organic spinach, causing salmonella outbreaks. Funny how the food advocates like the author overlook such incidents and are obsessed with cows. How many people have died of BSE throughout the history of the world? 140? Chicken is about a million times more dangerous.
In addition, the author seems to be unware of the extensive series of food-labeling scandals in Japan in recent years. In this area, Japan is anything but a model.
Posted in: Tracing meat - Japan has the right idea
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JeffLee
Do OLs really "whip out" chopsticks? I have trouble forming a mental picture of that.
Posted in: Living sustainably easier than you might think
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JeffLee
The headline is misleading. It should read, "Japan (once again) refuses US calls to abide by international norms"
Posted in: Japan, U.S. discuss ways to resolve custody disputes
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JeffLee
I think if the country were North Korea, etc. this activity would make sense to me. But in this case, apart from those who died from 1941 to 1945, I can't see why a significant number would be barred from going to Japan (until 1984.)
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JeffLee
If "many came and married British women" how is she so sure that the deceased actually WANTED to go back to Japan?
If a person marries a local and takes up residence there, that often means they've willfully adopted a new home, and so should be buried there. After all, we don't get the choice of where we're born but we usually get the choice of where we end up.
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JeffLee
Everyone who has ever predicted the end of the querty keyboard....has been wrong. Deja vu all over again.
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JeffLee
Wrong, the patrol cars also say "POLICE" in letters bigger than the Japanese writing. And the reason? The J authorities are scared sh*tless of having us all here.
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JeffLee
Japanese BUSINESSES like tiny trash boxes. Allows them to save space to place more merchandize or equipment, and more importantly, gives the illusion that an effort is being made. It's form over function.
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JeffLee
"What can you do"? Nothing now. The Bush administration's toxic policies have already sown the doom and misery for us all.
From the get-go, the US should have gone after the Saudis. Yes, the Saudis. All the 9/11 perps but one were Saudi. Bin Laden is Saudi. None were Afghani (or Iraqi). Saudi money has been financing Al-qaida. Yet in 9/11's aftermath, the Bush administration made Saudi an even closer "friend"! Washington then enlisted Pakistan - which had just given North Korea its nuclear bomb technolgy - as a military ally! That's why we're in this awful mess.
I should add that Reagan sent CIA advisers to train al-Quaeda's forerunners to shoot down aircraft with Stinger missiles provided by the US taxpayer. That gave the fundamentalists a huge boost, spiritually and technically.
Posted in: 8 CIA employees, 5 Canadians killed in attacks in Afghanistan
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JeffLee
it's gonna get a lot worse, after the stimulus money runs out. The financial system hasn't reformed itself, and this time it's going to be a disaster due to all the increased public and private debt.
Posted in: Good riddance to 2009
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JeffLee
They all have hair dyed an artificial color. Too bad.
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JeffLee
Japan WAS colonized - by the Americans from 1945-1952. The US dictated a new constitution, sweeping land reform, abolition of the zaibatsu corporate groups, dismantled the aristocracy, etc., etc., all measures that stand today. Much of postwar Japan's main political and economic instutions were created by a foreign power.
The 19th century Europeans were never interested in Japan because it had no natural resources. Modern Western business leaders aren't so interested in Japan for FDI because it's a low-profit economy.
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JeffLee
I really, really don't understand that view. We fly Jetstar Singapore to Saigon, and it's fabulous. $150 return!!, reserved seating, morning departure out of Changi's No. 1 terminal, leather seats, internet booking, instant confirmation, etc., etc.
Same as a quality legacy airline, - in some ways even better - but at a fraction of the price. What's to complain about?
Posted in: Jetstar celebrates 1st anniversary of Narita operations with Y8,880 fare to Australia
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JeffLee
Japanese tourism sucks. Some of the most fascinating spots - like Gunkanjima - are largely off-limits to tourists. Another is the emperor's wartime HQ under a mountain in Nagano, another a truly spectacular pristine beach in Chiba (restricted to "fishing industry officials only."), and another the ancient tombs in Nara. I had wanted to go to Gunkanjima, but now won't with these so called "tours."
Japan needs to learn from the likes of Ankgor Wat or the Egyptian pyramids, where tourists are free to roam to get a real feel for a place. Rather than be herded into groups and jammed into buses.
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JeffLee
I just love this Olympic spirit. The Olymopics originated in ancient Greece, the cradle of Western civilization, and the Japanese clearly don't understand its spirit. For them, it's all about winning and nationalism.
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JeffLee
Kerion:the speaker? For a portable device?!? I hope no one sits beside me on the train with the music blaring out of its speaker!
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JeffLee
Michael Moore is the most powerful man in america. Right after he criticized the IRaq war, public support for the war quickly fell to around 30 percent from around 70 percent. When he criticized the US health system, the government then introduced ambitious reforms. he also criticized GM's layoffs and gun control, issues that have since entered Americans' conscious like never before. Around the time of the anti-capitalism movie, the bush administration started its socialist agenda of government ownership of the big banks and automakers. MM is a man of great insight!
Posted in: Less for Moore
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JeffLee
Sabiwabi - Police departments in US, Canada encourage officers to take breaks in public places, where they can interact with the community and be quickkly available if there's trouble nearby. It's in direct contrast to Japan, where cops must eat lunch unseen behind the walls of their offices and kobans, out of sight and out of touch with the public.
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