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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- ALT - Mie Prefecture - Yokkaichi City - June start
- NPO法人グローバル教育推進機構（GLAD), Mie
- Salary: ¥230,000 / Month For a full working month. Some months differ.
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- Business Teaching Positions - Part-time - Kanto Region
- Interac, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥3,000 ~ ¥5,000 / Hour
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Call me a Sci-Fi Otaku but I think this beastie looks damn sexy at night with the warp core like blue lighting. Not too much and not too little. I can only imagine the kewlness of a light and hanabi show that they will put on from the Tree on New Year's.
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what, I whacked my hair tree tower going through that doorway?!
Posted in: Tokyo Hair Tree
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Matthew SimonMay. 18, 2012 - 08:29AM JST
but what does it all mean? OMG a double rainbow!!!
btw, the lens is causing the tree to appear to lean to the left. no worries, it's not fallin'
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I like how the retard states "IF" like it's not been a HUGE problem in other countries for the last decade or so. KARMA BIATCHES, KARMA!!!
Posted in: Police crack down on illegal foreigners in Beijing
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Pukey2 wrote
Exact same problem in Vancouver, Canada. HongKongers in Richmond are fed up with the BS because they are being blamed by being grouped into the same lot by those less informed "whiteys". There are more Ferraris, Lamborginis, Maseratis, Aston Martins, Land Rovers and Skyline GTRs in Richmond, BC than I have ever seen in Tokyo day for day.
Street racing in Vancouver is a big problem too so I understand the anger in Singapore. Innocent people get killed or injured in Vancouver far too often from street racing. Then there is the same problem that Singapore has with the cost of living going up and crowded public transit. The mainlander Chinese don't seem to understnad that they are NOT IN CHINA and talk SO DAMN LOUD on the trains and buses that one can only stop and glare at them as if you were trying to burn a hole through them. Bus drivers even yell back into the bus telling them to keep it down. Also they account for a rise in gang activity and muggings but at least they "do their own people" because they tend to flaunt the bling and carry wads of cash to keep up appearances. If they only knew that doing what they are doing is not making people wish they were them but wishing that they just go home instead. Singapore, case in point.
I can only imagine the traffic jams caused by the mainlander Chinese in Singapore. On my last visit to Vancouver It took double the time to drive everywhere because there were so many "N" and "L" cars ALL driven by Chinese that I'll assume were mainlanders. They all seem to drive like they are window shopping and barely get up to the posted speed limit all the while wandering lane to lane without signalling. Yielding (give way) is a foreign concept to them as well. Four way stops which should be clockwise once someone starts the order is more like I'll do what I want because I'm more important than you and they just push their way through. Fender benders are quite a common sight and always 95% of the time there's a Chinese person involved. Most of the time it's only Chinese involved doing some arm waving crazy dance in the middle of the road blocking traffic for a minor fender bender that would take a few licks of paint and a buff but no the drama!
Posted in: Ferrari crash fuels anti-foreign sentiment in Singapore
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For those that say this wouldn't have been a win in the U.S.... SHUT UP PLEASE!!! It America (the U.S. of A.) that is known the world over for this type of civil action of the stupid. Japanese were never like this 50 years ago. Now that Hollywood has been in Japan for almost two full generations, where do you think Japanese are getting these ideas from. I'll bet real money that the parents are very young and in that generation that is turning Japan into graffiti gangster, wannabe badass, let's kill someone before we turn 20 because we can get away with it.
This lawsuit screams the attitudes of blame everyone else for my actions which goes hand in hand with "super size this and that", "shoot first ask questions later" and "I'll sue you for everything". Remember that stupid cow that sued McDonald's in the U.S. when she burned herself with a coffee that she placed between her thighs and crushed after driving away from the drive through? How about the guy who broke into a house in the U.S. to rob it and injured himself on a skateboard left on the stairs inside the house? He sued because he was hurt while making a living and now could not support himself. Lawyers that take these cases are half the problem but where do you think people get these ideas from?
Posted in: Parents awarded Y12 mil after child injured smashing milk bottles together at school
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Toyota... are you listening to reality?!
Here is a winner hands down and yet Toyota has yet to bring it to the North American market ... wait for it... the Estima Hybrid (aka Previa). It's the Camry platform and we know the Camry hybrid sells like crazy for Taxi companies and the logic would be that if they sell in Japan to taxi companies like MK then why not in the US and Canada to Taxi companies and soccer moms? Then make an all electric version of that see it sell even more than the RAV4 EV. I mean really Toyota, what were you thinking?!
Posted in: Toyota unveils first all-electric SUV in U.S.
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It's time to spend the money that would have gone to food aid for NK and send a few well placed missles into take out the GPS jammer, all NK military bases and the NK idiots in power. I'm sure at this point the world has had enough and China really can't be too far from saying to the western world, "if it happens, we didn't see it coming".
Posted in: N Korea GPS jamming hits S Korea flights
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Exactly!!!
I used to buy Uniqlo black, navy, red, orange & dark grey T-shirts that even after a year or so might have faded enough that I wouldn't wear them anymore in public but they were still in great shape to use around the house. The crap T-shirts that Uniqlo has been selling for the last four years is weak and 'pills' easily after a few washes (pilling - those little fabric balls that appear on the surface of the T-shirt).
Posted in: Uniqlo announces 1st store on U.S. West Coast
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I always find it interesting how China doesn't get in line with the west to tell NK to smarten up because China would rather have that crazy neighbour NK between them and the "free world". Now what would be interesting to see would be China's position if this NK rocket flys over into China and causes havoc on Chinese soil. I wonder how China would deal with NK on that? As sad as it is to say and I hope no one is killed or injured on Chinese soil but I'd like to see that little error occur. Who knows where NK might be after that?
Posted in: North Korea rocket installed on launch pad
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The gas price surge is happening in Canada and the U.S. too. It's worldwide gouging!
What else could it be... a logical price hike? Yeah right.
Posted in: Gasoline prices rise for 7th straight week
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I'll second the THORIUM.
A system by design that when it fails actually shuts its self down. Look it up people. The only reason it doesn't exist in any real form today is because it can't be used to make a nuclear bomb so it was largely ignored during the Manhattan project and in the development of nuclear power stations that followed. Those HUGE contracts that builders of the current old tech reactors like GE and the even BIGGER waste disposal contracts to handle the 97% waste left over after the spent fuel rods are done is another set of reasons. Those are BIG $$$,$$$,$$$,$$$ contracts that would fissle out (sorry, couldn't resist that one) if Thorium reactors started to pop up every where.
Just think about how big oil companies and auto makers joined together to stalled battery technology so the cars would continue to use oil and the status quo assembly line would not need to be retooled. There were electric cars over 80 years ago and then nothing really until just recently. Why? The first electric car was built in 1828.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_electric_vehicle
Patent squatting and buy outs held battery technology back. The same sort of lobbist rule hold true for Thorium.
Here are a few links but you'll find many more online. PUSH for THORIUM as a safer, cleaner power source!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_fluoride_thorium_reactor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium_fuel_cycle
http://www.gizmag.com/thorium-nuclear-power/18204/
Posted in: Experts warn worst-case tsunami could top 34 meters
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Good thing they don't call it "global warming" anymore. I guess the new label "climate change" covers everything so they can still blame mankind for screwing up the weather... (end sarcasm) This cold weather is also affecting western Canada and the north west of the U.S. In Vancouver the cherry blossoms have just started which is about two weeks later than usual and it is still fairly cold. I will take the cooler weather any day over the hot and humid days that are coming... Yes, summer is coming and I am not too pleased given the power issues facing us all.
Posted in: Gusts of up to 100 kph recorded in Tokyo
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Either HTC is not at this Mobile World Congress or this was a deliberate snub. HTC is not a tiny company and yet to hear nothing makes one wonder how this story is being reported...
Posted in: Faster smartphones spark race for ways out of data crunch
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Apparently somebody got into daddy's hidden stash of mushrooms and other mind altering drugs which probably gave him that heart attack in the first place. This fool seems to be blazing up the same smoke So Damn Insane inhaled when he declared the "mother of all battles" and yeah... that went well for that loser. NOT!
Posted in: N Korea threatens 'sacred war' over U.S.-South military exercises
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Um it's called 'gaffers tape' and it's a gaff that they included it in the shot. Gaffers tape is used mark the spot on the floor so actors can 'hit their mark' on cue. Bad, bad photog didn't frame the shot and then uploaded an unedited 'gaff' image for public display. I guess anyone with a camera can call themselves a photographer these days... kawai so.
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" Loud voices coming from megaphones " (Man from Vancouver)
So true, and I too could do without that.
" Early morning sun in summer " (Canadian man) “It gets light at 4:30 a.m. There must be a better way to optimize sunlight efficiently.”
This person must be from the Toronto area where the sunrises at 5:35am in the summer as everyone else in Canada seems to deal with the sun coming up earlier than that in the summer. In Vancouver the sun pops up at 5:06am however it's already light by 4:30am.
Posted in: Things that foreigners find annoying about life in Japan
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I worked for UBS and this comes as no surprise. Even at the bottom this mindset that as long as you don't get caught, it's all golden, ran rampant. I saw plenty of traders over a three year period get walked out of the building in Otemachi. Some of these guys were clearly framed for blowing the whistle on those who bent the rules.
Sad work place when you have to watch your back for doing the right thing. Doing nothing could also get you sacked for those corrupt ones would see you as not being a team player. If you were not dirty then you were a liability to them and out the door you went. I am sure that other places might have similar problems but UBS actually gave me ulcers and I was sick more often while working there than any other place in my life time. It looks like things haven't changed. How sad...
Posted in: UBS suspends traders amid Libor probe
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WOW, IT'S NEWS!? They already were listed as 40 year reactors and one of them was supposed to have been offline and the other going to mothballs within months. This new 'rule' changes nothing.
http://energybusinessdaily.com/power/nuclear-power-2/japan-nuclear-power-plant-locations-and-details/
Posted in: Gov't to introduce regulations limiting life of nuclear reactors to 40 years
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Great, so the farmers get to avoid all the polluted soil and radiation (that is good, no sarcasm there) and we get to eat the contaminated products grown on that contaminated land and harvested by the new technology. Sounds like a great plan IF YOU'RE INSANE!!!
Posted in: Japan plans futuristic farm with robot workers in disaster zone