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
Sarge, I don't know what your metrics are, but during the Reagon years, I recall double-dip recession, record unemployment, "Black Monday," massive deficits, and moreover, the emergance of "the rust belt." U.S. manufacturing started its slow death from the Reagon years, and U.S compettivess hit new lows.
It wasn't until the mid-90s that things started to recover somewhat, with the IT revolution and the emergance of players like Apple, etc. Apart from the top 3 percentage of the rich, the Reagon years were America's dark ages.
Posted in: 10% jobless is Obama's new world
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JeffLee
Apart from the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
Bernie Madoff's fund also "performed remarkably well" for most of its existence, too.
Posted in: 10% jobless is Obama's new world
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JeffLee
Victimcrat - the bubble was created and then festered during the Bush years. there's nothing wrong with measures that help the poor. What's wrong is when the adminstration of the day fails to properly monitor, regulate and manage the affairs of government. ("You've gone a heck of a job, Brownie!")
Posted in: 10% jobless is Obama's new world
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JeffLee
i wonder if that heat tech works well when skiing? Sweating and then getting cold is the perennial problem.
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JeffLee
So this is a sad story, really.
Posted in: ANA Mohican jet returns to skies after 20 years
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JeffLee
What's the point of having a "quality" car when you throw it away after 40,000 kilometers or before shaken-extortion kicks in? Quality isn't worth it in the disposable society of Japan.
Posted in: Shaking up cost-conscious market with quality products
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JeffLee
Nothing. I use open source software. I tried a Mac once for doing "real world" work - and it didn't work out. I remember not being able to keep different applications running in different langugages at the same time and the OS wouldn't display which applications were currently running, in the toolbar, etc. I usually run 5-6 aps at the same time while working and need to quickly switch them. The Mac also garbled the names of files emailed from Japanese clients. The Mac couldn't cut it. I switched to Win 2000 with Office 2000, and all those problems disappeared. now I'm doing PC open source. My business runs on it...for free.
Posted in: Windows 7 strong, but don't pay to upgrade
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JeffLee
I will never drive in Japan!
I agree with Bogi. It should be the boy's fault for placing myself in front of a moving vehicle that had the right of way. If not, why have traffic lights in the first place?
The charges against the driver are a travesty.
Posted in: 11-year-old boy dies after being hit by taxi in Chiba
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JeffLee
The two above comments are wrong. Windows 2000 was a brilliant OS, rock solid. Never had any problems, while my Mac workmates (I work in media) were having to phone up the "Mac Care" technicians from time to time and paying for upgrades in order to run pretty standard applications. XP has been great as well and 7 promises the same.
True, Vista and Millenium were dogs, but I just avoided using them.
Posted in: Windows 7 strong, but don't pay to upgrade
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JeffLee
LIke a ten-year recession, only to be followed by the global economic meltdown. The writer tries very hard to put a happy spin on a hopeless situation. The busiest stores in my area are the 100-yen stores and Uniglo. Not a rosy outlook, especially given Japan's demographics plus the deflation, which tends to make consumers defer purcahses in expectation of lower prices in the future.
Posted in: Versace fades but doors haven't closed on big spenders
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JeffLee
Well, yeah, but it IS NHK. Which means the "authentic" view of Japan is one that's perfectly in line with the Japanese government's domestic and foreign policies. To site just one example, the Kuriles will be called "the NOrthern Territories," and Russian or Ainu claims to it will be ignored.
Posted in: Dancer, biker, newscaster— Meet NHK World’s Yuko Fukushima
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JeffLee
MrUSA seems like a typical teabagger - blaming Obama for problems that don't even exist.
Posted in: Tension mounts, tempers fly ahead of 2016 Olympic host city vote
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JeffLee
It boggles the mind why a young graduate from a Western country would come to Japan to teach now. On top of dispatch companies siphoning a chunk of your already miserable salary, you have the most apathetic, laziest students on the planet.
Posted in: The McJob of Asia
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JeffLee
Thank god for "manipulation"!!!
If it weren't for Moore, we would never had seen George Bush sit and do nothing for 7 minutes while the country was under attack. We never would have found out that the FBI gave special permission for a group of compatriots of the 9/11 terrorists to fly out of the U.S. on their private jet while all other planes (including the president's) were grounded. The list goes on and on.
I'm glad we have someone like Moore to counter the more egregrious manipulation of FOX, CNN, etc., which refuse to air reports deemed harmful to the state.
Posted in: Showmanship Moore's top commodity in 'Capitalism'
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JeffLee
You're wrong. I just checked Alberta parks website. Its provincial parks require permits only if special supervision or if crew's requirements are beyond those of regular park visitors, or if crew's presence poses a possible threat local ecology. Anyway, coverage of news events is exempt even from those requirements.
You're crazy if think US or Canadian TV news/documentary crews apply for permits whenever they enter a park's boundaries.
Posted in: 'The Cove' director risks arrest to come to Tokyo
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JeffLee
Let's keep it clean, safe and unoffensive, people. This is an international film festival, after all.
Posted in: Tokyo film festival decides at last minute to include 'The Cove'
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JeffLee
This is a regular pattern in Japan, after a foreign consumer technology makes inroads in the Japanese market. After Windows 95's introduction, I recall articles along the lines of "Why the Japanese Hate Personal Computers," etc.
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JeffLee
Correction, 115 not 110
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JeffLee
Yet another case of Japan making up its own screwy rules that diverge from what everyone else in the world is doing. For most major airlines, size is 110 linear centimeters. The criteria above both differ from that. Many seasoned travelers buy bags to conform with the 110-rule. Typical.
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JeffLee
check in is 15:00 and check out 11:00. not bad for a Japanese hotel, but still pretty stingy. elsewhere in Asia, I usually get noon to noon, sometimes with free late checkout til 6 p.m..
That's what Japanese hotels need to do to get more Western tourists.
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