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
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.
Posted in: The spirit of hospitality
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JeffLee
She worked in a cabaret? As a singer, dancer, performer? I read elsewhere she was just a hostess.
Posted in: Ginza hostess' involvement with Oshio ends in tragedy
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JeffLee
I've flown Air Asia and Jetstar and both were great.
Posted in: Budget airlines thrive amid gloom
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JeffLee
I hate and avoid Japanese hotels. To whit: At one 5-star, we were denied the breakfast buffet at 9:50 a.m. on a Sunday morning, because they said it ended at 10 a.m.!! They said the staff needed time to clear things away. WTF?!?! One of many such experiences.
Japanese hotels deserve the bad times. They're more interested in their wedding groups (who are usually NOT repeat customers) than with guests. Millions of rules, stringent check in/out conditions, limited services...all at astronomical rates. NO thanks!
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JeffLee
YuriOtani:
So where was the anti-war movement? The resistance movement? The "Banzai"-shouting population was firmly behind the expansion in Asia. Meanwhile, Hitler had several assassination attempts against him. 2,000 Germans were implicated in one attempt.
Japan's military was a conscript force, drawn from the civilian population, and it proved itself to be highly motivated and fanatical.
The Japanese military murdered 10 million people in Asia, far more than Japanese who died. How Yuri Otani and others can portray the Japanese as the victims is obscene.
Posted in: Poll in U.S. finds support for World War II atom bombings
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JeffLee
Here's a few of "justifications":
1)Japan continued to ignore the Potsdam Declaration following Hiroshima
2)The U.S. wanted to show that the 1st bomb wasn't a one-off, and that more cities would come under threat.
3) The U.S. "Majic" code-breaking operation showed that Japan's Cabinet was still in support of continuing the war in Hiroshima's aftermath.
Not so "remote" now, eh?
Posted in: Poll in U.S. finds support for World War II atom bombings
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JeffLee
I support the bombings. My father was 18 and serving in the army in Europe in 1945. If Japan had continued the war, he would have been deployed for Operation Coronet, and if he bought it there, me and my entire immediate family and the family line would never have existed. So I say, DROP THE BOMBS!"
Posted in: Poll in U.S. finds support for World War II atom bombings
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JeffLee
It'd be interested to see how the Japanese authors did their "research." Did they travel around interviewing bankers and analysts in places like New York and Zurich, I wonder?
Posted in: Jewish human rights group protests 'anti-Semitic' ad in Nihon Keizai Shimbun
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JeffLee
Why was she identified but not him? Both are politicians (public figures), and he is the one who's married, after all.
Posted in: 'World's most beautiful' politician Fujikawa dodges scandal
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JeffLee
"...back to his hotel room where he tried unsuccessfully to woo the woman." - Sounds like attempted rape, not sexual harassment.
"...refused to provide details in consideration of the victim." - Concealing or downplaying sexual harassment or rape is always the wise choice.
Posted in: Fuji TV announcer reprimanded for sexual harassment in South Africa
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JeffLee
A female Japanese Forrest Gump
Posted in: The China Lover
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JeffLee
The vast majority of Japanese people support the death penalty. Until that changes, get used to it. As combini bento said, this is Asia. It sure as hell ain't Canada, where I come from.
Posted in: 3 death row inmates executed
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JeffLee
That's interesting, since there is no full fledged international airport in either Tokyo or Yokohama - whose combined population equals Canada's.
Narita is located in the rice fields of Chiba Prefecture, 70 clicks away from the two cities. What's more, Narita's limited size means its slots have long been filled, ruling out any additional capacity.
I advise the authors to visit, say, Singapore.
Posted in: Most expensive, most livable … with Tokyo, it’s all about who you ask
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JeffLee
Melatonin. One cap at bedtime for first 4 days of the trip. Works every time.
Posted in: What do you do to overcome jet lag?
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JeffLee
A flawed premise. Japan (and other Asian countries for that matter) deals with criminals far more harshly, using the death penalty. All other "Christian" Western countries (apart from US) ended this.
Prison and sentencing also tend to be harsher here. Usually bereaved family menbers are seen in the news calling for bloody revenge, as in death. Sorry, that's the reality of modern Japan, where majority of population supports death penalty and harsh sentencing.
Posted in: Western justice and Oriental order
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JeffLee
I assume the JAEA issued an open tender, inviting all capable manufacturers, Japanese and foreign, to take part in the bidding process and selected Fujitsu purely on price and performance. Right?
Posted in: Fujitsu to build next-generation supercomputer
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JeffLee
If you stop using XP or IE, then you're giving in to the hackers. I don't want them to have the satisfaction.
Posted in: Microsoft warns of serious computer security hole
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JeffLee
And the sidewalk?!? A sidewalk would have prevented this tragedy. I'm amazed at the lack of sidewalks in construction-saturated Japan. Little kids sharing busy roads with trucks and cars is a common sight here. My neighborhood has few sidewalks but it does have telephone poles installed right on the road, despite the area being "developed" during the postwar period. An accident waiting to happen.
Posted in: 72-year-old man arrested for hitting 8-year-old girl with car in Chiba
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JeffLee
Tokyo is ideal for cycling - density, mild climate, flat topography. The problem, alas, is the human factor. Bike lanes and other iniatives are utterly lacking. Indeed, municipal authorities have been cracking down on cyclists, thru stricter parking enforcement etc.
After the Kyoto Protocol, Japan trumpeted istself as a CO2-reduction leader. The cycling apathy and crackdown make Japan look like a hypocrite.
Posted in: Tokyo residents pedaling to work in increasing numbers
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JeffLee
with 160 rooms, shouldn't it have more facilities than just a restaurant, lounge and meeting rooms? How about a spa, swimming pool, fitness center, etc?
Posted in: Accor to operate new Mercure Hotel in Yokosuka