JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Corporate Business English Trainers
- ACT Systems, Inc.（株式会社アクト・システムズ）, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥269,500 ~ ¥280,000 / Month
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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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LostinNagoya
well tetsukon, I know because there's a rental studio two blocks from my home. And I have never seen people playing live inside the mall, street galleries, like you see in other countries. Surely there's music around here, no one is denying that. What the author is saying, and I agree, is that there could be more. But then, if you are happy with the way it's now, good for you. I am not, that's why I flee from here (with Japanese money, eheh) to better beaches every holiday.
Sydenham: your advice is declined, thank you. I also don't envy your taste or notions of live music. But if it's good for you...good for you then.
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LostinNagoya
Why would they bother: with GM out of the map, guess what GM buyers will buy next 10 years? Toyota, Honda, Nissan...do I see any American brand? I guess no.
GM is a victim of bad management in the very eye of the hurricane, this economic crises, the legacy of George W. Bush to the world. GM employess should sue GWB and Chenney.
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LostinNagoya
Ya betcha! My only doubt is if she knows that there are two koreas, which one lauched it, and actually what the hell is a korea? hehe.
Now seriously: you guys can well be in the epicenter of where WW4 started. North Korea vs Japan vs China vs Russia vs US vs the rest of the world.
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LostinNagoya
pawatan: if you are happy with that, then you are very humble guy and I don't envy your taste or notion of live music.
Posted in: Tokyo’s lack of live music
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LostinNagoya
Also, I think that there are misunderstandings here: as live music, I think of the concept of going to a bar and there is this guy there on the corner, playing the piano, or bossa nova, or jazz, the music is part of the atmosphere there. This is quite different from you going to Blue Note, for instance, where you pay for the music, and sometimes there are not money enough to drink along - like the last time I saw Ivan Lins live. Totally different concepts. Gigs, Japan has tons of it. But not free, spontaneous music. As someone said above, there are money involved in the scene here, everything is so professional it is boring sometimes.
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LostinNagoya
tetsukon
I do not know if karaoke is considered live music, that is what you have plenty of. And young people walking carrying instruments does not mean that they are going to play live, or do I miss something here? According what I see, these ones are heading for rental studios to rehearse. Last month I went to more that 15 different places, all Japanese. No live music whatsoever. So, are we dwelling in different Japans?
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LostinNagoya
A SS soldier killed a Gestapo one.
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LostinNagoya
you mean, around US$ 800,000???? for this ugly thing???????
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LostinNagoya
yeah, just for the simple reason that Japan would then be forced to admit its bloody, war crime past. And stop imagining being the victim, as we see in History books.
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LostinNagoya
Despite everything gloomy about Japan, I find their driving very good. They are not perfect, but no one in this world drives perfectly. I think that the prospect of heavy fines, prison and shame (work, neighboors, family) make most of Js to drive quite well. And traffic here is somehow silent, in comparison to US, for instance. I live near Tomei Hwy and it hardly seems that there are cars travelling there.
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LostinNagoya
I agree with the author: in Nagoya, if you visit all the 30 plus places adverstised in japanzine, you will find live music only in 2 or 3 of them. This is a small number in comparison to other countries - I take Thailand, Brazil and Italy where I have been recently. In these countries almost every small restaurant, bar or pub you would have live music. I think it has something to do with nightlife in Japan finishing early. In my neighborhood there are bars that do not even open on Saturdays.
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LostinNagoya
Kay Scarpetta (in the early 1990s) and Hyeronimus Bosch (not the painter). Very entertaining for reading while flying.
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LostinNagoya
I thought he had left thru the back door. I mean, thru the back door to the afterlife. I wouldn´t miss him, well, actually, I would throw a party.
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LostinNagoya
They require participants to have individual personality. That´s it.
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LostinNagoya
tkoind2:
All those shows you mentioned are not western programs anymore after they enter Japan: the translations and subtitles do not match what they say in English. They become Japanese with a Japanese message.
Posted in: Idiocy versus intelligence on Japanese quiz shows
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LostinNagoya
Those serebu are idiots, no question. However someone who loves to watch them and spend her time writing a review about them...this one has graduated with honor from the University of Idiocy, going Phd on the subject.
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LostinNagoya
I have a different complaint: I would LIKE to not be discriminated purely by my caucasian appearance while walking down any street and be given tissues. It would save me some money;
hakujinsensei
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LostinNagoya
This article left out a very sad point: the way seals are hunted. Usually babies trying to flee from a man who is clubbing it to death. It´s horrible. I thought this sort of thing belonged to famine stricken countries, not to Canada.
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LostinNagoya
Perhaps these numbers are real. Other countries are recovering well, and they will import from exporter countries - even if not so much as before.
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LostinNagoya
Now teens have only to vandalize the Mosquito thing and voilá!
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