JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Corporate Business English Trainers
- ACT Systems, Inc.（株式会社アクト・システムズ）, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥269,500 ~ ¥280,000 / Month
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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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JohnBecker
It wasn't that late when they started the game - 8:00 or 8:30 local time.
Posted in: Japan beats Cuba 5-0 to reach WBC semifinals
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JohnBecker
Thanks to JT for putting up a high-resolution image that richly deserves it.
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JohnBecker
The qualifications for the job are, realistically:
A) Cute B) Speaks well enough
If Fuji hired a woman who meets the requirements and is university educated as well, so much the better. Considering that she has enough of a brain to get a degree (save that discussion for another time) she'll probably do a lot of learning about meteorology on the job and become much more knowledgeable than any of us.
Posted in: Miss Sophia University is new weather girl for Fuji's 'Mezamashi TV'
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JohnBecker
She's 46??? Based on the picture above, I would have guessed 30. Lovely woman.
Posted in: Miho Takagi announces on Fuji's 'Tokudane' program that she's getting married
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JohnBecker
This is ridiculous. Copyright laws state that intellectual property cannot be reproduced without permission. Google's stance appears to be that reproduction is their right, unless the copyright owner tells them it's not OK. This can't stand up in any court, can it?
Posted in: Though Google's explanation is difficult to understand, the contents of the settlement have both pros and cons for authors and publishers. I'm curious whether a culture of disseminating publications online like music content will now proliferate.
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JohnBecker
"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy" ---Benjamin Franklin
Posted in: Alcohol-free Kirin beer
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JohnBecker
Mino Monta wouldn't want the job. Not enough TV time.
Aso is no more than a placeholder until September. The LDP didn't want to put any of their more viable personalities in the PM position only to be stigmatized as the one who lost power to the DPJ in the next elections. And there's no way in the world Aso will resign or call early elections. The LDP will hold on until the last possible second.
Posted in: Poll: 71% want Aso to resign
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JohnBecker
"If anyone can push the auto companies into bankruptcy, it is this administration and Nancy Pelosi."
Actually, the auto companies have been doing a great job all on their own. They made hay while they could still sell SUVs and big trucks, and never developed the more fuel efficient models that would have saved them right now.
This falls along the same lines as the financial meltdown. Too much greed, not a thought about what might happen just a few months down the road. As long as housing keeps appreciating at inflated rates, as long as gasoline stays artificially cheap... no problems.
Back when there were a dozen car companies and hundreds of banks, none of these problems would have mattered. We could have lost 25% of the companies and not really felt it. But there has been so much consolidation in both industries that a handful of companies can fail and take the entire economy down with them. And the U.S. government (both the Republican and Democratic flavors) stood by and let it happen.
Posted in: White House ups pressure on U.S. automakers
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JohnBecker
During my first visit to Japan, my friend and I had a couple of hours to kill one afternoon. I suggested pachinko, because I'd always wanted to see what it was about. She'd played it once, when she was 10. No expertise there...
We walked into the parlor and made it clear to the nice young lady behind the counter that we wanted to play but didn't have a clue. She walked out and plopped us down in front of a "Star Wars Fever" machine.
Long story short: I didn't have much of an idea of what I was doing, but I walked out two hours later with a 75 ml bottle of energy drink and a bag of chips. The nice young lady led me around the corner to the "teller's window" and told me to hand in my chips, for which I received..... 54,000 yen! I played again a couple of days later and won another 20,000 yen.
I played once again two years later, blew 1,000 yen and left. Done with pachinko. I wouldn't call it a pleasant experience, but it certainly was fun for a first- (and last-) timer.
Posted in: An addict’s guide to pachinko
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JohnBecker
All things being equal, Rio should win. All things are not equal however. Rio would be a stunning setting. (Imagine how many times you would get to see that famous aerial shot from behind Corcovado looking toward Sugarloaf.) But Rio is problematic. Above all else, the pervasive crime and poverty would be tough to overcome. Every argument for Rio, no matter how convincing, has to be followed by a fatal "but..."
The U.S. and Spain have had the games too recently to be considered.
Whatever arguments there are against Tokyo, I have to believe they are less compelling. The timing is right, the city has few problems that would bother the IOC, the local populace is nuts for the Olympics, the money will be there.
Yokoso Olympics!
Posted in: Chicago, Madrid, Tokyo and Rio de Janeiro unveil Olympic plans
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JohnBecker
@nano: ....or maybe Mothra pushed the plane into the ground. You forgot that one.
From the latest stuff I've read, it sounds like icing.
Posted in: 9/11 widow among 50 killed after commuter plane crashes into home in Buffalo
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JohnBecker
That's the most accurate and, surprisingly, the most charitable description of her "singing" that I've ever heard.
As a guardian of John's legacy, she's been invaluable. Other than that, she's just the publicity parasite she's always been.
Posted in: Yoko Ono sounds off
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JohnBecker
Strikes me as an answer in search of a question.
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JohnBecker
The only major economy in the world with a pegged currency (for all practical purposes) is the Chinese yuan. Take away that artificial constraint, and the yuan explodes. That would cause some serious economic problems, but it's something that has to happen sooner or later.
Posted in: Would pegged exchange rates stabilize the global economy?
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JohnBecker
@USARonin - Anheuser-Busch may be a European owned company, but their Budweiser beer is very much an American beer. Compare it to the real European Budweiser and tell me I'm wrong.
Posted in: Chocolate beer
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JohnBecker
Over here in the States, Sam Adams Black Lager has overtones of chocolate. They also do a great cherry wheat beer and a cranberry lambic. There's more to beer than (the American version of) Sludgeweiser, thankfully.
Posted in: Chocolate beer
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JohnBecker
In addition to Mr. Felt's bravery and patriotism, you have to admire the guy for his shrewdness. If he'd taken this information to a Congressional committee, chances are his shallow grave would never have been found. Going to two young reporters who were still idealistic and too "dumb" to know there's no way they should have been able to pull this off, was a masterstroke.
R.I.P. and thanks to a man who put his country first.
Posted in: Mark Felt, Watergate 'Deep Throat,' dies at 95
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JohnBecker
Use Firefox.
Posted in: Microsoft issuing emergency fix for browser flaw
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JohnBecker
10,000 is a "best seller"?
Posted in: Mai Asada turns classical music CD into best seller
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JohnBecker
Anytime anyone has ever asked me what to see in Tokyo, I always make the same suggestions, then add: tsukip Tsukiji.
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