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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- FT English Teachers for Kids - Osaka
- Kohgakusha Co., Ltd. （株式会社興学社）, Osaka
- Salary: ¥255,000 ~ ¥275,000 / Month Travel Expenses, Encouragement of Japanese learning*
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- Translator
- ZAIHON, Inc. (日本財務翻訳株式会社), Tokyo
- Salary: ¥6.0M / Year Negotiable
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LFRAgain
GJDailleult,
Here, here! I'll absolutely second that.
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LFRAgain
Whatever helps you get to sleep at night.
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LFRAgain
Nope, this disproportionate backlash has nothing to do with some Americans being pissed off about losing automotive manufacturing market share whatsoever. Nope, not at all. Sheesh...
Branded -- Your opinion does not become that of the majority simply by virtue of you, Junnama, and quest posting prolifically in response to anyone and everyone who disagrees that Toyota is the root of all evil in the automotive industry. I’m referring, of course, to the quantity versus quality conundrum: While you excel in the one, you fall far short in the other, relying largely on circular logic, hypocrisy, and answering most questions with blog-worthy canned rhetoric and blatant untruths to essentially bully the thread into letting your opinion hold sway.
There are plenty of posters here who disagree with you. But as you can see by how few are posting here anymore, they've likely gotten tired and bored with your implacable bias and moved on.
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LFRAgain
ThonTaddeo,
There's no reason the women can't give to charityon Valentine's Day and still initiate romance. You've still got a chance, mate! ;-)
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LFRAgain
the manager noticed something was strange after he saw shoes outside the room but no one inside.
Once at a restaurant I worked at, a fellow dine-n-dashed with a fairly clever ruse. He left "his" windbreaker and ball cap on the seat at his table while he "went out to his car to get something." Never saw him again.
These girls may have just left an old pair of shoes there. It's not as if shoes in Japan aren't ubiquitous enough, with everyone owning multiple pairs to fit the occasion. Or maybe they simply placed another costomer's shoes in front of their table.
Personally, I suspect the restaurant employee was able to catch up with them because they were, well, stuffed. Kind of hard to run when you've downed 30 dishes in a single sitting. In any case, no one's ever said these girls were particularly bright.
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LFRAgain
Not a bad idea. That's how it would've been done 70 years ago or so where I'm from.
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Branded,
Actually, no. The point is to stop manipulating and ignoring facts in order to portray Toyota as being somehow measurably and definitively worse than other auto manufacturers on the planet -- which is exactly what's happened with this, complete with the no-so-subtle racism of "How Japanese of them to do this" that permeates nearly every dialog on the subject.
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LFRAgain
Guys, it was a dine and dash, not murder. Prettyt tame stuff by most standards. While I admit it certainly isn't a victimless crime, it hardly rises to the level of prostitution, drug use, or bank robbery.
But I agree with Timborder to some extent: These kids need a good scare to nudge them towards behaving a little more responsibily. A night of lockup in the local jail might do wonders for these kids' attitudes.
But in my experience, getting caught once is usually enough to dissuade this kind of offense in the future. It was a thrill-seeking endeavor, and little else. They're done with this little experiment, I think.
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LFRAgain
A bit of an exaggeration, don't you think? Dining and dashing has a long and proud tradition all over the world. Chased my fair share of kids when I used to work in a restaurant.
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LFRAgain
Not that I atually expect any evidence to be forthcoming, but I would be remiss to not ask if can you actually prove that the defects are a result of cutting corners or costs. So . . . Can you? Prove it, I mean?
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LFRAgain
Yeah, instead Ford said absolutely nothing and waited for Toyota to take the brunt of public criticism, while quietly fixing the same problem with its hybrids, while folks like you devoted all of your energy to tsk-tsking Toyota. Ford knew about the issue for as long as they have been producing their hybrids, and sat on it the entire time, choosing to say something only when Toyota's cars came under scrutiny.
Ford's explanation for the lull felt when switching over from electronic to hydraulic brakes was this: "Some drivers haved experiences the sensation of not having brakes for a time. That's not the case." Not a peep from the public.
But when Toyota said the very same thing about the very same problem, it get publicly tarred and feathered, with accusations of cover-ups and threats of lawsuits from we lawsuit-happy Americans.
Either the lull in braking "sensation" is dangerous or it's not. Either Toyata and Ford are in the clear or they are not. You can't pick and choose here.
That people can't or won't see anything even the slightest bit odd about this, much less Ford's quiet announcement coming right on the heels of the NHTSA's investigation into Toyota speaks volumes about the obvious double-standards at work here.
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LFRAgain
Goya-Champuru,
Why specifically is it important?
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LFRAgain
When it has absolutely nothing to do with the crime allegedly committed, not, absolutely not.
Including that information is a xenophobic and transparent attempt to paint crimes in an "Us versus Them" manner that is statistically unsupportable.
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LFRAgain
If I may be so bold as to add, "And no one does it anymore."
Japanese don't walk around in kimonos, topknots, or carry katanas anymore either, but shhh!! Don't tell anyone! It'll murder the tourist industry!
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The more double standards I've seen over the past week, the more I'm inclined to believe just this. But a fraction of reported problems with non-hybrid Toyotas are legitimate, and but a fraction of those are actually due to a parts defect, while in a world full of highly complex systems, means that sometimes s#it just happens.
As for this Prius hysteria, there's nothing associated with Prius braking problems that weren't evident in Ford hybrids two years ago. Yet Ford somehow has enjoyed the luxury of not being pressured by the NHTSA to recall their vehicles, as Toyota has, despite the NHTSA also being unable to recreate either brake failure or sudden acceleration in lab conditions. Somehow, Ford can causally and quietly offer a software "patch" to help drivers who "feel the sensation of not having any brakes," whatever the hell that's supposed to mean, and American media gives them a free pass.
If that doesn’t suggest some effort, be it conscious or not, to give U.S. manufacturers some breathing room after Toyota usurped the top automotive sales position in North America this year, then I don’t know what does.
But I'm inclined to agree with many posters here. While I'm an avid technophile and will eagerly try anything that makes me go, "Wow!" brakes are still brakes, and they should stop you 100% of the time, every time. If the best way to ensure that it to go with simpler systems, then maybe manufactures should do just that.
The thing is though, hydraulic brakes -- new ones -- can fail too. Been there, done that. It was an illuminating experience that left someone's front yard the worse for wear as a result, but better those petunias than the back end of the car in front of me.
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LFRAgain
Well done, Saints! Knew you had it in you!
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LFRAgain
Oh, dear god, quest. Who's to say he did?!
Your desperation to make this sound like a conspiracy is astounding.
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m5c32,
That's a plausible explanation when you put it that way. Thanks. I'm still skeptical though. ;-)
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LFRAgain
Here's an interesting article, if anyone cares to read it.
It takes a look at the relative average-ness of these supposed problems with the Prius.
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LFRAgain
The thing about these sudden reports of complaints about the Prius, or any other Toyota model out there, is that they are just that -- Very sudden.
Why now, of all times? Did people suddenly remember, "Hey, my brakes didn't work last month. I completely spaced that out." Or, "Wow. I totally forgot about that time last year when my car suddenly sped up on the the freeway and I couldn't stop it." In those cases, wouldn't they have gone to their dealer/repair shop immediately, and wouldn't possible problems or defects have subsequently been discovered sooner?
Exactly how many of these "sudden" reports of problems with Prius or other Toyota models are the result of the pedestrian variety of the "poor me" complex, in which people latch on to current headline news and try to make it apply to themselves? I just find it incredibly hard to believe that these new reported cases are legitimate. It reminds of when a UFO report hits the local news, and suddenly, everybody’s seen it, despite having been nowhere near the alleged sighting. Color me skeptical about these new reports.
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