JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Full-time English Teacher - Osaka
- Epion English Language Schools, Osaka
- Salary: ¥200,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month Depending on your ability and experience
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- Part-time English Teacher - Osaka
- Epion English Language Schools, Osaka
- Salary: ¥10,000 ~ ¥15,000 / Day Depending on how many days a week are worked
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- Core Developer - コアディベロッパー
- Midokura Japan K.K. - ミドクラジャパン株式会社, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥4.0M ~ ¥10.0M / Year Negotiable
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L4dymercury
But SMAP's appeal isn't their music, and everyone knows this. Their appeal is through their tv shows, their dramas, their movies. I don't think Japan could care less if SMAP can sing on key these days, especially when every hour of the day you're guaranteed to see Shingo Katori pimping some English School or a instant lunch meal or Kimutaku on a new drama or Kusanagi on Waratte Ii Tomo participating on the stupid games nearly everyday.
SMAP is Japanese media.
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L4dymercury
Okay, its been a baby a day now. Wtf japan
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L4dymercury
This has such great timing especially since that singer's son just got busted for weed possession.
Posted in: Japan going to pot: Celebrity busts and student smokers have authorities in a tizz
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L4dymercury
I love how double edge Japan's child laws are. Its okay to basically sexually exploit a child (ie: gravure modeling, idoling) but actual sexual acts is considered law breaking. My biggest issue with Johnny's & Associates back in the late 1990s, and even before then, was the exploitation of their acts by having 'onsen' and 'bath house' photoshoots, emphasizing the "BL" aspect of 14 - 18 year old boys.
Isn't the sexual exploitation of pre-teens and those under 18 also immoral and also simply feeding the problem of child rape and abuse?
Posted in: Saga woman arrested for forcing daughters into prostitution
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L4dymercury
They're getting married cause she's knocked up. If he dropped her that'd destroy her career AND his. So like all good Japanese young couples in " opps " situations, they get married.
Duh.
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L4dymercury
Because its ENTERTAINMENT news. Hell, even the Japanese morning news dedicate 15 minutes every hour, between 4am - 10am to Entertainment news. Oh, not to forget the actual Entertainment news talk shows from 10am - 12pm.
Japan sure worships their idols.
Posted in: Seiko Matsuda dyes her hair 'Celebrity Beige' for new commercial
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L4dymercury
I am just cracking up on N. Korea's paranoid beliefs that US/Japan/S. Korea have been planning for 60 years to take over their country.
Seriously, lol.
Posted in: N Korea warns Japan that intervening in rocket launch will be act of war
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L4dymercury
Great to see how people take the issue of DV. Mental abuse is as bad as, or even worst than, a spouse laying their hand on their significant other.
Posted in: Rumors of domestic abuse persist in Fujiwara-Jinnai divorce
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L4dymercury
As if a state run newspaper would be unbiased in reporting the " hostile acts " of two reporters.
Then again, they should have never been there in the first place. Who in their right mind walks into N. Korea while they're showcasing their warheads.
Posted in: N Korea says 2 U.S. journalists will stand trial
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L4dymercury
EXILE is just 2 singers and a crap load of back up dancers. The new editions won't mean a single thing.
Posted in: J Soul Brothers join Exile
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L4dymercury
NTV - Nippon Broadcasting
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L4dymercury
I think reason for her failure was the fact that she came out with a stupid song called Easy Breezey that had an even ridiculous hook with the lyrics " Cause you're easy breezey and I'm Japanesey "
.... If a Japanese song sounds good and has the umph it'll get the western exposure. Not if its stupid crap like that.
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L4dymercury
Hahaha they should have had the cast from the Japanese version of the HSM musical give them flowers
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L4dymercury
Just an apology? What happened to the arrests?
Posted in: Teacher, 38, arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting 11-year-old girl in Ibaraki
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L4dymercury
I'm really sad to see them go, regardless. I love their songs and Kuwata's voice.
Posted in: Fans wonder why Southern All Stars call it quits
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L4dymercury
Cept that's an Airbus A380 ... Dreamliner isn't due out for another two years, IIRC.
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L4dymercury
Nickolodeon child actor, did that MTV produced movie Drumline, became popular. One hit wonder -- Everyone seemed to forget about him until he hooked up with her.
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L4dymercury
Of course, these Juniors need somewhere to make a debut or else they're gonna stay back flipping for their senior's concerts for the rest of their lives!
I don't understand why people like Gokusen beyond the first season. It's clearly a GTO rip off.
Anywaaaaay....
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L4dymercury
I'm part Japanese and my Japanese pretty much sucks. Though, apparently, having Japanese in me automatically means I can speak it fluently? lol.
Anyway, I think apart of the craze is that yes he's a good singer, and he's black, but the only reason why he's getting the reception (I believe) is because he's part Japanese (or asian for that matter). They have some appeal to that aspect -- I at least think.
You make it more in the industry being one of them then you are being an individual.
(Even Leah Dizon, which baffles the hell out of me because her Japanese is terrible).
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