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
I think this is a very positive step. It would help a lot if trains and subway could carry bicycles. But Europe is a step ahead on this, there are some cities being built for bicycles only:
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/05/12/science/20090512-SUBURB_index.html
Posted in: Companies offer special benefits to bicycle commuters
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LostinNagoya
Japan in 2050 = Florida without the sun and beaches.
Posted in: Longevity of life a mixed blessing for Japanese
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LostinNagoya
Well, here we are. The economy is getting worse by the hour. However many people are feeling better now - things seem to have slowed down and it´s not a bad thing at all. I see my friends enjoying more time now around a coffee than going shopping, like everybody else before.
Posted in: What measures do you think governments have to place top priority on to reverse the economic downturn?
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LostinNagoya
I remember I saw something on CNN saying that the total credit card debit in US is more or less $20,000 per person. Americans do spend more than they earn, not everybody of course. So, in the end of the day, this new regulation will do well. I think people will start using debit cards more. I already do.
Posted in: Big changes in store for U.S. credit cardholders
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LostinNagoya
At least they´re talking. A Palestinian state would bring balance to the region, Arabs would feel less humiliated by the two ¨best-friends¨ and peace would eventually with Arabs raising from their forced poverty.
Posted in: Israeli PM, Obama have different views on Palestinian state
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LostinNagoya
It doesn´t taste as the hot espresso. But can you drink the hot one in the Japanese sauna-summer?
Posted in: Iced Espresso
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LostinNagoya
It´s a nice car. But people aren´t so eager to buy cars these days, a lot of them giving up cars. Hybrid cars have to become cheaper and greener, or they will not succeed.
Posted in: Toyota rolls out new hybrid Prius
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LostinNagoya
A&D: Angels and Demons.
Posted in: Which summer blockbuster are you looking forward to seeing most of all?
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LostinNagoya
Star Trek. A&D is laughable, too shalow, I have heard.
Posted in: Which summer blockbuster are you looking forward to seeing most of all?
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LostinNagoya
combinibento:
don´t be so naive combini. The reporters were all Japanese, foreign reporters are now allowed because they are not member of a japanese press association, and can´t become members either.
Posted in: Proposed resident registry card for foreigners creates Big Brother concerns
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LostinNagoya
All four victims had Spanish names and sunrnames, you can easily infer that they were born in US but had strong cultural ties to Mexico. It´s wrong to say that this implicates that they went south for the wrong sort of partying - buy that´s what must have happened. And Mexico is the new Colombia, the land of drugs and crimes, unfortunately, because mexicans are so gentle and hospitable.
Posted in: Killings of 4 young Americans in Tijuana sow fear
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LostinNagoya
While Mona smiles inward, Adriana smiles outward broadly.
Posted in: Cosmetic touch
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LostinNagoya
What really bothers me is that the government instead of making foreigners blend with the J society with less separatist measures, it makes the gap wider law after law. My guess is that fewer and fewer foreigners will want to live in Japan. +1 here returning to US after this spring :)
Posted in: Proposed resident registry card for foreigners creates Big Brother concerns
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LostinNagoya
If you don´t call what Israel has been doing for 61 years in the area as an eradication of the Palestine legacy, then you know nothing.
Posted in: Netanyahu urges pope to condemn Iranian threats
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LostinNagoya
As nonsense as this Pope is, he is smart enough to not side with Israel. It´s ok to keep diplomatic relations with Israel, but he knows that the times that the world supported the israeli cause are long over. People have shifted their support from pro-israeli (soon after WWII), to indiference, to pro-Palestinean.
Posted in: Netanyahu urges pope to condemn Iranian threats
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LostinNagoya
stress causing bad breath? Would´t be more correct to state that stress makes Japanese smoke 20 cigarretes a day, and that causes bad breath?
Posted in: Stress causes bad breath epidemic
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LostinNagoya
Was she riding a motorcycle, or what happened to her hair? She is beautiful, but I doubt she can beat westerners curves.
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LostinNagoya
Do not carry less than 100 thousand yen in your wallet. Do not show a credit card which is not gold or platinum. Do not appear with a hairdo which is not the latest trend, even if it makes you look like an anime character. Do not, god forbid, make a mistake about details of brand bags. Do not forget to teach her some English over the drinks, that´s why she is dating you: because you are an English native speaker.
Posted in: What are some first-date mistakes to avoid?
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LostinNagoya
Here´s one of the best sites ever: they upload an space/earth image taken by Hubble daily. It´s fantastic, wonderful to see these images. Makes one humble - usually Earth would be the size of a fraction of a pixel in contrast to nebulaes/galaxies... Hubble is one of the things that really the world has to thanks US for.
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/
Posted in: Astronauts grab Hubble Space Telescope
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LostinNagoya
Do you guys have any update on this case? I hope he´s well, but I wonder how he vanished in such an small island.
Posted in: Relative says search still on for missing poet