JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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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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- Assistant Language Teacher - Kanagawa Prefecture - late-March start
- Interac, Kanagawa
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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Kijimuna
Look, all I know is that I mentioned this article at my drum circle and my girlfriend had to put down her macrame and clear the dreads out of the way to wipe tears from her eyes. GET THAT EARTH HATING MONSTROSITY OUT OF THIS PEACE LOVING COUNTRY.
Posted in: Nuclear warships in Japan touch a nerve
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Kijimuna
ハ？
Posted in: Japanese learn English using Obama speeches
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Kijimuna
Hey, whatever you need to tell yourself as the country's debt push effective tax levels over 2/3 and your disintegrated pension system means you need to work until you're dead. At least you're special.
Posted in: Aso says world religions can learn from Japan
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Kijimuna
"Yoshimi said that tradition is reflected in the longbows, which are better suited for long-range attacks on a general area rather than picking off single adversaries. “The bows haven’t really been adapted for this kind of shooting, because there is a big part of the sport that is spiritual, rather than practical,” he said. “That’s a lot of its appeal.”"
This sounds like 'yes we suck, but in our hearts we're the best' to me.
Posted in: Samurai archery, an ancient sport, still thrives in Japan
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Kijimuna
Looks like the Russians aren't the only ones taking advantage of a lame duck presidency. No real outrage here over Israeli killings of civilians as long as Hamas continues to fire rockets, build military installations under hospitals and fire on Israeli troops and gunships from mosques. Israel has been waiting years for the Palestinian leadership to stop shooting rockets and make a deal. There's an ideological barrier to admitting that a Jewish state is here to stay, but the real reason Palestinian leadership won't tolerate peace is because peace highlights Palestinian failure. It takes more guts to make a deal and build a country out of the West Bank and Gaza than it does to fire homemade rockets out of your yard while putting your neighbor's mother on the roof to stop retaliation. Not necessarily pro-Israel but definitely anti- the curent Palestinian regime. Losers are as losers do.
Posted in: Israeli forces enter Gaza City neighborhood
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Kijimuna
Poor self esteem. Or something. Ask the US video and music industry. They seem to understand.
Posted in: Why do you think "best" awards are so popular in Japan's show business world?
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Kijimuna
"The love hotels in the road outside WOMB must have done a good business last night."
Unless he showed up with his date, not by that guy in front.
Posted in: Glitterball
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Kijimuna
Hotties! Woot woot.
Only kidding!
Posted in: Kano Sisters
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Kijimuna
Yamato Life deserved to go bankrupt. Not indicative of the general condition of Japan's good companies. TOPIX is less than 1x PBR.
Posted in: Japan is not immune. Confidence has fallen off a cliff.
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Kijimuna
It can't happen here, he said. http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2005/12/18/public_enemy/?page=full
Posted in: Raw anger in McCain's crowds as Obama strengthens
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Kijimuna
Had no idea these were still around. This retread strikes me very much like all the Hollywood remakes of older tv shows and books. Evidence of a total bankruptcy of ideas.
Posted in: Japan's hit Tamagotchi virtual pet toy goes color
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Kijimuna
I'd be interested in hearing from speakers of other East Asian languages. I have spent more time on Japanese than other languages. I am a native English speaker and found Mandarin much easier for grammar. Obviously there are more characters. Pronunciation wasn't bad either once I got used to it. Hangul is cake but the rest of Korean I didn't find that different from learning Japanese. I still don't speak Korean well enough to compare, except that learning the Korean pronunciation of kanji compounds common to the three languages makes vocabulary acquisition much quicker. Any Thai/Viet/Tagalog speakers? How was that?
Posted in: How difficult or easy is Japanese to learn, compared to other languages?
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Kijimuna
Now THERE'S a badass
Posted in: Stalking the predators
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Kijimuna
Suckas got played
Posted in: Yakuza 'misunderstood' by foreign media
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Kijimuna
This humble reader has it on good authority that Mr. Eita had his name placed into said maiden's dance card for that evening, but that he was unable to release her gloved form in a fit of wanton passion. I am further told that Mr. Eita escorted the maiden home, riding atop the very same carriage!
Posted in: First scandal hits actor Eita
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Kijimuna
I am deelighted to see this up in JT's headline section one slot above Speaker Pelosi's visit to Japan. It warms my heart to see JT drawing attention to the fact that that may have finally found someone for that one guy in Yojimbo to marry. May I add that I am thrilled to see a 12 year-old in a sundress getting such attention. Looking forward to your comments fellas!
Posted in: Japan's representatives appointed for Elite Model Look 2008
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Kijimuna
Take cultural stereotype. Cast the potential customer as clueless. Fold cluelessness into story using cultural stereotype as main ingredient. Half bake, and voila! A career in cultural sensitivity training!
Posted in: How to disagree agreeably
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Kijimuna
As a JT reader I applaud, along with Shukan Post's fine readership, this excellent article for recognizing that domestic disputes loud enough for a call to the police are usually crappy neighbors trying to give others a bad reputation.
Posted in: Police suffer from inappropriate emergency calls
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Kijimuna
bamboohat, sounds like we view this similarly, as we use the same adjective. Agreed there is little benefit to shaming the deceased, though a lack of appreciation for the full consequences of a choice made young suggests the need to get the word out more, not less.
Posted in: Osaka suicide mother charged with murdering her own daughter
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Kijimuna
Which of course utterly defeats the representative notion of nation-based athletic competition and sportsmanship...
Posted in: What do you think of American swimmer Michael Phelps' long victory yell after he wins a race?