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
Also Japanese rescue teams are criticised by specialists for not working during night-time.
Posted in: Trackers find trail of missing U.S. poet on island
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LostinNagoya
I rate airports according to their environment. I am an eternal backpacker, so Narita is fine, well designed, but as someone said above, ¨robotic¨, I miss people chatting, etc versus people thinking they are on a catwalk. There´s one thing I love in Narita, though: the Y100 massage chairs. Man those are good! Before and after travelling they surely make you relax.
Posted in: How would you rate Narita airport when compared to other major airports around the world?
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LostinNagoya
Unfortunately, this professor will have the same fate as of that one of another professor, Ward Churchill, from University of Colorado, who dared say, correctly, that 9-11 victims were ¨little Eichmanns¨ - refering to Adolf Eichmann, one of the most influent nazi SS officials. By the way, his fate: he was convicted, even if symbolically, for something that should be deeply analysed instead of just dismissed without further questioning. Professor Churchill said in an essay that 9-11 eleven victims were just the exposed part of a politic system that had continuosly sponsored terror too. Only that this terror was official and applied by US and Israel against all mid-eastern people. And as Eichmann who just sided blindly with Hitler, without considering his actions, 9-11 victims were also some sort of ¨co-workers¨ just by simply being Americans, whose governments continuosly sides with Israel. Professor Robinson´s ideas deserve being analysed too, instead of just being bullied. Jewish people deserve a land, a place they can call their own. But the way they are doing it somehow erases their horrible suffering in WWII.
Posted in: U.S. professor's Holocaust-Gaza comparison stirs debate
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LostinNagoya
I think the author of this article is confused with people walking down the street in one of the major shopping areas in tokyo and with they actually shopping anything. In Nagoya, there´s huge crowds in Kamimaezu area. But there will always be. Going shopping is the national sport of Japan, even if they go out and buy something worth of 2,000 instead of the usual 10,000 in the gold times. They HAVE to buy something, just for the sensation of spending. Sales are down, no matter if the walking crowd is still the same. My friends who have shops in Kamimaezu tell me that. Japanese still go shopping, but they are spending less and less.
On a personal note, I make a comparison of services I receive in The Gap and Adidas shops here in Nagoya and when in US. Japanese staff are horrible, uncouth and they do not service you when you are a foreigner the same way they treat a Japanese. As I wrote here once, I know a Japanese guy who during training for a big depato, he was taught how to yell irashaimasse in a different tone of voice when he saw a foreigner coming into the shop, alerting the other staff about his/her presence and making them to keep an eye on shoplifting.
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LostinNagoya
Another bloody, useless, sad war. Was it worth? I don´t think so. So many innocent lives lost and no good, positive results.
Posted in: Afghan death toll from U.S. bombings rises
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LostinNagoya
tokyohustla: you are wrong. Problem is not Google, but this prejudice it accidentaly cast a light on. But I agree with you on one thing: Google should be careful when dealing with Japan. It´s a country on its own league. Not like the rest of the developed world.
Posted in: Old Japanese maps on Google Earth unveil 'burakumin' secrets
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LostinNagoya
God! This is Japan at its worst! This is something that I really can´t understand. Discrimination against your own, based solely on some jobs that needed to be humbly done by someone. Japan may be a rich country, but never will be a truly developed one until Japanese society openly faces its faults, discrimation, prejudices, ugly past. That´s why German people today live much better that Japanese: they have moved on, faced its past, have overcome it. Japan is still stuck in WWII and in the Meiji Jidai. So sad!
Posted in: Old Japanese maps on Google Earth unveil 'burakumin' secrets
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LostinNagoya
Mystery: according to one of his friends, his Facebook account was accessed for about 1 minute on Friday. So police is looking at this case from another angle; looks like that runaway bride history.
Posted in: Well-known U.S. poet missing on Japanese island
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LostinNagoya
Skip:
I make your words my own: I didn´t read anywhere that ALL Islamists are supporting this outrageous 8 x 50 marriages. And let remind you, these US children were returned to their community LEGALLY, under US laws. So, you´re right that there are SOME bad apples in the basket, not all of them.
Posted in: 8-year-old Saudi girl divorces 50-year-old husband
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LostinNagoya
hahahaha! It´s indecent, and great at the same time! I wish a couple of Japanese had the balls to do something like that here in Japan.
Posted in: Couple arrested for sex on lawn at Windsor Castle
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LostinNagoya
Now the world will harvest the seeds of hatred that Bush cultivated for 8 years. How can we expect peace in a country which had its bloody dictator deposed via a war, which in its turn was launched based on lies?
Posted in: April deadliest month in Iraq so far this year
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LostinNagoya
lol. Odaiba is an international attraction, a multi-cultural spot for arts, music and literature lovers. One of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world, where you can find all the natiolities in the world living there. A city that was an inspiration for NY, who even copied in large scale it´s unique Statue of Liberty. LOL.
Posted in: Statue of Liberty
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LostinNagoya
Skip:
Actually, they were returned after some days, legally. So, US and Saudi countries are even on this, legally.
Posted in: 8-year-old Saudi girl divorces 50-year-old husband
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LostinNagoya
yeah, this case reminds me of that imbroglio in US last year. All those children taken away from their multitude of fathers and mothers, because it was immoral. And if my memory doesn´t fail it, there was a religious aspect behind them. So much to talk about somebody else´s backyard mess and ignore one´s own.
Posted in: 8-year-old Saudi girl divorces 50-year-old husband
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LostinNagoya
In the long run, Bush & Friends - and all those who supported them, elected them, will be The Shame of Modern America. Torture is a shame disguised as ¨necessary¨.
Posted in: On 100th day in office, Obama denounces waterboarding
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LostinNagoya
England is not the prime destination for tourists anymore. Europe is. When you read guidebooks or sites if you intend to travel to Europe, England seems isolated somehow. My brother will have his honeymoon in Spai, France and Italy and doesn´t want to visit England.
Posted in: London reports 2008 decrease in foreign tourists
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LostinNagoya
TexasAggie:
Where did you read that they didn´t know about it in this article? According to CNN, everyone knew. And the DHS had informed and alerted all the City authorities about it. It´s these authorities responsabilities then to inform and alert the local citizes thru newspapers, TVs and radio about this flyover, which wasn´t done, as we see. So, don´t blame Obama personally - blame the local administration for this.
Posted in: Obama orders review of New York City flyover
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LostinNagoya
They are good, but they´re frustrating too. You never are in time get the campaigns.
Posted in: What is your experience with airline frequent flyer programs? Are they a good idea or not?
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LostinNagoya
LOL. Harrison Ford is a persona non-grata in the Ware-Ware Surbaibor, Hiroshima Branch. And he will have even his toes fingerprinted from now on. Second, and most important, we should be careful with bats and spiders - because as we last saw on the screen, neither Batman nor Spiderman didn´t behave properly in some scenes, according to the Prime Minister. LOLOL.
Posted in: Foreign minister says Indiana Jones movie trivializes nuke threat
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LostinNagoya
*“We have watched as scientific integrity has been undermined and scientific research politicized in an effort to advance predetermined ideological agendas,” *
Wise words. So many good scientists were forgotten in their prime, just because of political differences.
Posted in: Obama vows return to U.S. science prominence