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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KyotoChris
I personally find HD's ridiculous and pretentious with their loud exhausts and very much overpriced for what you get. They only came back from brink because movie stars started riding them. I own a Honda CBR 600 F4 and Kawasaki ZX 10R bikes and both of these will overshadown HD any day in speed and looks. Also, both bikes together cost less than a lot of new HD.
A friend has Ducati and it's ok but again, another overpriced bike that sucks your money in maintenance. It's too bad HD is forcing it's way to Japan. They must have tremendous advertising campaign because otherwise most riders I know here wouldn't ever touch one.
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KyotoChris
From the story, I don't think any of us know enough about this case to pass judgment on either people involved.
Posted in: Man arrested for abducting junior high school girl in Iwate
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KyotoChris
hworta269: I believe you're incorrect in most Americans having healthcare from the statistics I've seen (from multiple sources). It's the duty of the state to protect the people and if they can spend so much on military and violent defense, they certainly can provide at least basic health coverage to those who can't afford it.
I saw that they just recently raised the minimum wage (to the dismay of a certain 'R' political party but can you imagine working for $7 dollars and change and being able to afford to live, have food, clothes, AND pay medical expenses? The U.S. has great opportunities but it's also VERY expensive to live and raise a family. Most parents both have to work and if there is no extended family there, they also have to pay for childcare if they have a child.
I live in both the U.S. and Japan during the year so I do have some idea of how things are. When I was younger and just out of college I had a job that didn't provide healthcare and had to have some medical attention. The bill out of my pocket was 10 times what someone with insurance would pay. Look at the numbers and you'll see that the insurance companies negotiate service costs with doctors and hospitals while the uninsured (if it's so bad they have to see a doctor) pay FULL price for their treatment. That's very sad.
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KyotoChris
Fawlty Towers
Are You Being Served
Black Adder
Red Dwarf
Father Ted
Miami Vice (yes, I love it!)
Battlestar Galactica (new one, well the old one was fun when I was 8 years old and it was new)
Tales of the Gold Monkey (very short run but fun)
Land of the Lost (another fun one when I was a child)
Coupling ( seasons 1-3 when Jeff was still with the show)
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KyotoChris
He's still a kid so lighten up. No one was hurt and he learned a lesson.
Posted in: Student accidentally sets off fireworks on train
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KyotoChris
She should have handled the question with more tact and diplomacy instead of sounding like a petulant child.
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KyotoChris
Arrested doesn't mean convicted. While there are too many perverted people out there, to believe she had no idea of his intentions (if proven) is to be too naive. Do you really think even a 14 yo female had no idea at all? I doubt it.
Posted in: Dentist held for indecent behavior with junior high school girl in Fukuoka hotel
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KyotoChris
If they want those photos then that's fine for them. Why does anyone else really care. Personally I dislike seeing it and don't see anything beautiful about it but I'm not the recipient of the photos so it's fine. I don't think others have any reason to be prudish about it try to get others who want these done to feel ashamed. Can't everyone just let others enjoy what they want if it doesn't harm anyone?
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KyotoChris
LastBestHope,
Even many in the US don't believe that propoganda. Your leaders even criticize it.
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KyotoChris
I'm curious about those who write so negatively about Japan. If you have this feelings, why even care to read a website with news about Japan in the first place?
Posted in: Poll in U.S. finds support for World War II atom bombings
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KyotoChris
Scooter 28,
Try taking your own advice.
This is why the US rhetoric and rationale for using the bombs said that the Japanese would fight to the last person and never surrender??
The rest of your comment sounds like the reply of a child crying "he picked on me so blaaa." It's doubtful NK would do anything with just Korea and Japan in the political arena. Japan could shoot down whatever they launched at it and NK knows it's isolated enough. (unless you count on your good buddy china) YOU should grow up
Posted in: Poll in U.S. finds support for World War II atom bombings
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KyotoChris
DenDon, that's just not right on so many levels. The system is broken. Drug co.'s, doctors, and hospitals profits are soaring, people are losing jobs and losing insurance, and you want to criticize overweights people? Are you hw proportionate?
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KyotoChris
sfip330
Would that be every man woman and child of Japan who wanted war or the the Emperor/govt.? Punishing unborn and school children and very old people seems utterly unjust unless those people wanted war. The civilians paid the price in the bombings...plain and simple. Very little evidence to the contrary exists. What makes you think U.S. lives (as you allude to) are more important than Japanese? Perhaps you were swayed by all the anti-Japanese war posters that made all of us look like primates??
Posted in: Poll in U.S. finds support for World War II atom bombings
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KyotoChris
Same with me amerijap. It does conjure those thoughts.
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KyotoChris
Or apparently the women who do it to release estrogen. Let's get away from the guy bashing.
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KyotoChris
They probably don't really care that much if non-reading types come to spend money.
Posted in: Tokyo Bay booze cruise with miniskirted bar girls
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KyotoChris
The paper has every right to publish whatever kind of advertisement they choose to be it "anti-semitic," "pro-nazi," a book about how dogs don't bark, they really meow, or that it was Japan who was invaded by the US on December 7, 1941 and not the other way around as we all know. If you start imposing censorship in one area, it sets a dangerous precedent for more extreme censorship of speech and thought in general.
I don't agree with hate in any form or function but I do believe that an individual has a right to how they feel and think as long as it doesn't inflict harm on another (be it physical or mental harm). It's just tiring of hearing whining and making things out to be more than they are.
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KyotoChris
Paying for sex from your wife is ridiculous. If they do take them money then they're just a step above a prostitute. I understand if it's just some sort of sex game but doing it with seriousness is disgusting.
Taka313 good comment about your monthly bill for food and taxi.
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KyotoChris
You're correct I have a part in it unfortunately. I see your point from this and very much agree. Countries would still fight whether or not a complex existed and the weapons would still be produced whether warring or not. I try to justify my work in that I deal with forensics during war and peace of anyone connected to defense. We (my colleagues and i) are always happy when we see fewer cases because that means less people have died.
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KyotoChris
Sorry your relatives are getting hurt by it. I agree with your lobbyist and crony comment too as well as other explanation. My comment was solely from what I've seen in the corporations. I'm fortunate even that I get to live here at home part of the year and in the US the other part so I can see perspectives from different sides.
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