JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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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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- Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) in Kanto region
- RCS (RCSコーポレーション), Kanto
- Salary: ¥180,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month includes performance bonus
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- Assistant Language Teacher - TOKYO - late-March start
- Interac, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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JohnBecker
"I never thought I'd live to see the day when I would go to Uniqlo with an elf"
"How about with a friend?"
"Aye, that I can do."
Posted in: Orlando Bloom to appear in new Uniqlo ads
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JohnBecker
@smartacus: It's not so much a matter of timing - the photographer was almost certainly shooting 8 or 9 frames per second here. Also, you can see that there's almost no depth of field - he had his aperture open wide, to allow for quicker shutter speed. And because he wasn't using flash, he was probably shooting at a pretty high ISO setting.
Posted in: On the ball
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JohnBecker
I love the conversation view. And labels and filters. I used to be an Outlook snob, but Gmail just works better.
Note also that this change is an option, nothing more. For those of us who like the current setup, nothing changes.
Posted in: Google gives Gmail users more control over inboxes
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JohnBecker
@japaneseno1: Canada, Brazil? Have you never heard of Canadair and Embraer?
Posted in: Ready to fly
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JohnBecker
@OssanAmerica: all the major nations combined could isolate China and send them back to reliance on their own resources and markets, which would vastly change their economy - not necessarily "break" it.
Having said that, getting all the major nations to agree on anything of such magnitude is a pipe dream. The Russians would gleefully step right in, just to poke a finger in the collective eyes of the west. And France would probably join in just because they're French.
Posted in: Japan, China test each other's diplomatic resolve
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JohnBecker
Anyone who is picky about sound is cracking up while reading this. Sound quality hasn't been on the record companies' radar for more than 20 years. And it's never been a concern for the manufacturers of MP3 players.
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JohnBecker
@Sarge: which is precisely how this price was arrived at. Gold is traded like any other commodity, and that's what people are paying for gold right now.
@BurakuminDes: same here in the States. Shops, TV and radio commercials. Lots of companies are falling all over one another to give people low prices paid in low-value cash for something of real, tangible value.
Posted in: Golden days
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JohnBecker
Still shooting a D300, still saving for a D700 (or whatever comes along to replace it).
Posted in: Digital-SLR camera Nikon D7000
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JohnBecker
A few things spring to mind:
Manned space travel is only 50-year-old technology. Not to mention all the related technologies that grew out of the American and Soviet space programs.
Along with the internet and high connection speeds, display and storage technology have revolutionized the way we work with computers.
And don't forget GPS, which still boggles my mind.
And finally cell phones. We are never out of touch. And they have more computing power than the IBM mainframe I worked on back in the '70s
I don't think we've lost our sense of wonder, not when we're faced with something that's truly revolutionary. But when these things are introduced at prices so affordable that anyone can buy them, we don't get the opportunity to admire them from afar. And, yes, we see so much innovation all the time, we become numb to it. For the most part.
Posted in: Where has the wonder of innovation gone?
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JohnBecker
Really? Reuters, a very professional organization, thought enough of it to publish it. It gains visual interest from the fact that a real person is walking the same way the people in the ad are walking. Would have been a little bit nicer if the photog had dragged the shutter to blur her motion.
Posted in: Walk this way
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JohnBecker
Is there an award for best buzzwordist?
Posted in: Increased M&A is likely to be positive for Japan as a whole since it can lead to higher growth potential and result in economies of scale to enable Japanese firms to compete more effectively in global markets.
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JohnBecker
It's hard to guarantee that someone like this has a firmer grasp of reality than he did when he committed his crime.
They'll let this guy out about the same time they let Manson out.
Posted in: John Lennon killer Chapman denied parole
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JohnBecker
Japan colonized Korea in 1910. They were out by 1945. So... 35 years of colonization, followed by 65 years of apologies. It's the continued demand for "compensation" that make all this business ring hollow. Just continued extortion attempts by a small group of losers in a great country.
Posted in: S Koreans rally on Japanese colonial anniversary
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JohnBecker
Sure, we've heard the story before. But it was a beautiful movie to watch.
Posted in: 'Avatar' returns to 3-D theaters worldwide
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JohnBecker
Doesn't necessarily mean the engine blew up, but I wouldn't want to be close to it.
Nice that the AP mentions Rolls-Royce and GE, hopefully preventing the usual know-nothings from slagging on Boeing about engine problems.
Posted in: Boeing again delays first delivery of 787
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JohnBecker
One of the best magicians I've ever seen was on TV. He was on the Tonight Show with Carson. The guy was a specialist - close-up, sleight of hand. His entire bit was done sitting at a card table with Carson, using nothing but crumpled up paper napkins. The camera was set so you could see everything the guy was doing, including getting rid of the napkin while he had Carson distracted and looking the other way. It was an amazing demonstration because it didn't need to be edited - the audience was in on it.
Posted in: And now for my next trick
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JohnBecker
When I looked at the headline, my first thought was, "Who has collapsible pets they want to enclose?"
Posted in: Collapsible pet enclosure
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JohnBecker
Gone also are the days when air travel was only for the rich. In those days, people like you and me had words in their vocabulary such as "tramp steamer" and "steerage".
Air travel nowadays is more akin to mass transit. Get on the bus for 3 or 6 or 13 hours. If you want an "experience", spend more money and fly first class.
Posted in: Don't jump! Ways to fly without wanting to scream
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JohnBecker
First trip to Japan: taxi from TCAT to a business hotel in Kayaba-cho, I had to draw a map (after giving the driver the name and address of the hotel - written in Japanese). Lucky I did my homework.
Second trip to Japan: taxi from Tokyo Station to same business hotel. I gave the driver the name and address written in Japanese. He plugged it into his GPS, no problem.
Also second trip to Japan: taxi from Himeji Station to a hotel less than a click from the station. I had a rough knowledge of where the hotel was in relation to the station, but the driver clearly didn't. We were all over the place. To his credit, the driver shut off the meter and called in for help. Turns out the hotel had changed names not too long before. Still, I'd given him the name and address, written in Japanese. And Himeji ain't that big.
Rudeness was never a factor, due to the fact that I know only a few words of Japanese and the drivers didn't speak English.
Given all of the above, I'd still rather ride in a taxi anwhere in Japan than in NYC. In Japan, the ride is always calm. In NYC, it's always... interesting.
Posted in: London taxis ranked world's best; Tokyo 3rd
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JohnBecker
I see a documentary in this.... "The Corral"
Posted in: A lot of bull