JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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Confrontation
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U.S. Navy investigating how parts fell off aircraft near Atsugi
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California court to decide if SeaWorld whales are illegal 'slaves'
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Kuroki reported pregnant 2 weeks after denying relationship with Akanishi
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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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Kwaabish
Only if they trained in the US, since Taiwanm like SK and Japan also has a partial ban on US beef...
Posted in: Japan advances to Little League World Series international finals
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Kwaabish
They also seem to harbor deep resentment to S. Korea and the US when convenient.
Just ignore them.
Posted in: N Korea calls for Japanese apology, reparations for colonial rule
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Kwaabish
Yaaaawnnn. Just like the new charges for checked luggage, none of these charges/news matter to most of us who have gold, platinum or executive platinum elite status anyways.
Posted in: American Airlines to charge for front-row seats
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Kwaabish
I'd go to a Japanese Denny's any day of the week over a Denny's in LA or Chicago...
Posted in: What are some differences you have observed between waiters and waitresses in restaurants and cafes in Japan and other countries and also the way in which customers treat them?
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Kwaabish
Japan has much beter service in general for almost every service industry compared to the US or Canada. Of course, once you start paying $300+ for dinner for 2, it starts evening out a little bit, but...
Never had any complaints in hotels in Japan. Bell hops take my luggage at the entrance, stay with me through the check in process and carry it all the way up to my room and no tip needed. In the US, the bellhop would carry the luggage from the cab and toss it at the check in, and waits for a tip. End of service.
The best part of Japan is that the service is better in general, and there's no tipping expected. In the US, not only is the service crap and waitresses surly to begin with, but boy does it get ugly if there's not the minimum 15% afterwards...
Others...
Cab service. US has old recycled police cruisers used for cabs with drivers that can't speak English and don't believe in bathing. In Japan, immaculately clean cars with crisp dressed drivers with white gloves who can at least speak the language of the land.
Train service. Clean, efficient, fast and (pretty) timely. In the US, some subways don't even have time schedules since there's no way that the trains are on time.
Airline cabin crews. US carriers have fat, ugly, old and surly crews manning older, dirtier planes. ANA and JAL have cleaner planes crewed by MUCH friendlier attendants. And the cabin crew cleans the lavatories every hour. You'll be lucky to be on a UA flight where at the end of the flight the lavatory doesn't look like a port-a-potty after a rock concert.
The list can go on and on and on....
Posted in: What are some differences you have observed between waiters and waitresses in restaurants and cafes in Japan and other countries and also the way in which customers treat them?
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Kwaabish
Now only if they could upgrade the cabin crew...
Posted in: Continental completes installation of new flat-bed seats on 25 aircraft
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Kwaabish
??? When was the last time Japan suffered a major famine with people starving? And when was the last time the UN determined that the DPRK doesn't need food or energy assistance? Hell, the norks are even asking for cement... doen't they even have sand and dirt there any more?
Posted in: Military drills up pressure on N Korea
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Kwaabish
Unfitted, baggy suits. Chino Pants and tucked in polo shirts (and cheap looking belt to boot...) Crocs. Mullets. Or Wife beater tanks. Or both. (But will the redneck fashion ever die???) Spandex on any obese person. Back of the hip tatoos. Obvious tourist shorts and t-shirt looks on westerners in Asian cities like Hong Kong and Tokyo.
Posted in: Which fashion trend do you most wish would die?
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Kwaabish
So now it's going to be a little more more expensive copied lesser quality goods from China?
Posted in: Companies brace for end of cheap made-in-China era
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Kwaabish
Send a bill to the Kiwi gov't for the room, board and airfare!!!
I hope the idiot is labelled Persona Non Grata so the next time he's in the vicinity of the fleet or Japanese territorial waters/land, the guy gets incarcerated for real.
Posted in: Japan deports convicted NZ anti-whaling activist
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Kwaabish
SQ, NH, CX are all excellent. It's clean planes, excellent service and good looking people on those airlines that make me want to throw up every time that I have to settle flying on an US carrier on a trans-pacific flight...
Posted in: What is your favorite Asian airline and why?
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Kwaabish
How much of a split is it? I thought that at last count earlier in the year, 40 of the 47 prefectures were against non-citizen sufferage rights...
Posted in: Japan split over maiden names, foreign suffrage
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Kwaabish
He can do fine in other contests everywhere else. Japanese media can also feed him (money) too.
Posted in: Ex-champ Kobayashi arrested at New York hot dog event
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Kwaabish
Yeah, gotta admire those oppressed starving masses in NK.... NOT!
Posted in: N Korea says it must bolster nuclear capability
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Kwaabish
hmmmm.... damn Vienna Convention....
Posted in: U.S. Embassy tops list of unpaid London traffic toll fees
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Kwaabish
How about boosting food production capability instead, dear pipsqueak?
Posted in: N Korea says it must bolster nuclear capability
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Kwaabish
Sex sells and people are buying. So what?
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Kwaabish
And I hope someone does a banner campaign reminding how UAW infested GM and Chrysler had to file for Chapter 11 and how some of Ford's best cars are now being produced in Mexico as opposed to Detroit.
Posted in: Toyota draws fire from UAW for plan to restart Mississippi auto plant
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Kwaabish
Actually, with the thought that Australia may lose this ICJ action if based on the true interpretation of the IWC charter and agreements and the fact that too few sovereign nations recognize the so called sanctuary in international waters, it may be a good thing for the matter to be discussed at the ICJ.
Posted in: Do you support Australia's plan to launch legal action against Japan over its whaling program in Antarctic waters?
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Kwaabish
Again, any South Korean sneezing in the general direction of Pyongyang would be interpreted as declaration war. But... when did the last one "end"? I thought that S and N were still technically in a state of war. Why would anyone have to declare war again? Perhaps the idiots in the North meant "breach of cease fire"?
Either way, what a bunch of maroons...
Posted in: N Korea accuses South of faking warship sinking