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
there´s another BIG problem: by law, J banks are not responsible for any problems or misuse of their cards. So, no refunds or compensation later. I remember of a case of a men who had more than 20 mil sacked from his bank account and the bank just washed their hands.
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LostinNagoya
You´re wrong. I have been to a lot of countries and never felt so disattached from the locals like I feel here. Well, as I told before I came to the point of only wanting the J-money, and that´s all.
My two cents this week: A friend of mine, loving Japan, a true nice person felt like s**t when he sat next to a Japanese woman. Immediately she got up from her spot, moved some meters from him and travelled standing, meaning she is allergic to foreigners. I told him to not take this seriously, but I see his disappointment with Japan growing little by little. So sad.
Posted in: More Japanese shunning the outside world
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LostinNagoya
You work for Cirque du Soleil?
Posted in: Ambassadors of Cute
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LostinNagoya
Couldn´t be more true than this. The funny point is that Japanese have a bad word for those foreigners who worship them...
Posted in: More Japanese shunning the outside world
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LostinNagoya
Finally a JT topic on which all of us agreed, hahaha.
Posted in: Ambassadors of Cute
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LostinNagoya
Good Jorb. >Who also apparently can't go home. One of the reason I left Japan was the asinine complaining of foreigners in a certain field of work. Japan is eventually going to be left with bitter Japanese and bitter foreigners feeding off of each others bitterness and not be able to communicate.
problem GJ is that yes, Japanese are getting bitter by the day. Foreigners feel that. And really, as I said, there are a lot of foreigners who gave up communicating with J people but don´t care about it that much. What really they care, at least me, it´s the J money. eheh.
Posted in: More Japanese shunning the outside world
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LostinNagoya
Gosh, if these three ducks are thought cute, I wonder the ones that aren´t.
Posted in: Ambassadors of Cute
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LostinNagoya
Translation: "I'm too lazy to learn even basic Japanese."
I am lazy, too. I don´t like Japanese, or think it´s worth studying it. And I don´t want to communicate or learn the Japanese culture. Uninteresting. On the other hand, if a Japanese tries to communicate in Japanese I just smile, wave and walk away. Now if he or she tries to speak in English, I have some patience. But soon I get bored with the ¨do you know we have four seasons?¨-thing so I just smile, wave and walk away. I have seen thousands who behave like me. So, we are to be blamed too. We have in this country the imperfect equation: lots of foreigners who really don´t like Japan, plus the Japanese who can´t speak a real international language. And the ones who do, they are and speak too naive.
Posted in: More Japanese shunning the outside world
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LostinNagoya
I think Japanese students have realised they can´t ¨globalize¨ in a personal level.
Posted in: More Japanese shunning the outside world
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LostinNagoya
That guy who patented that bag you attach to your lower leg, concealed by your trousers? That bag that has a tube attached to your johhny? That bag that allows you to pee when you´re on a bus without a toilet? Imagine how rich he´s gonna be!!! I for sure will be one of his customers.
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LostinNagoya
I think you people should not take sides so fiercely on this matter. People believe or not. One´s opinion will depend on individual factors: books, friends, places, family etc...the background is what makes one non-believer or not. I do believe in life after life. I have seances in my house every Wednesdays with a close friend, and the phenomena are clearly out of our reality. I have seen dead people who say that the real life is not what we perceive, but what we will experience after death. I have heard that death is not at all what we think, the process involved is not of a ¨final moment¨, but of a ¨final libertation. I have double projections, which only the initiated can understand its deep beauty and sometimes fright. And I came to realize that this different world that our eyes can not catch is only possible because of something greater than everything we know, God. But I don´t try to convince people of this, and I don´t expect they would be convinced even if I tried hard. And I know a sceptic would never convince me of his point of view.
Posted in: Do you believe in life after death?
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LostinNagoya
Problem is that J-women behave like movie stars. Better be sexually flexible here.
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LostinNagoya
I haven´t bought a newspaper in ages. Besides all the news being free online, you can watch their development minute by minute - which is somehow a neurotic thing. But the real problem with me: it´s impossible to read a newspaper inside the crowded trains, even with the open space around me, gaijin, - I don´t know why newspapers haven´t yet realised they would sell more in a compact, magazine-size format. Newspapers and maganizes need to reinvent themselves, fast.
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LostinNagoya
If you are not allergic, then consider yourself among the luckiest! It´s a nightmare, you want to scratch your eyes off, your nose either is inoperable or dripping, your body is constantly in a mild fever. The worst part is to wake up in the middle of the night breathless. So, these masks above they are terribly ugly, but they are a great relief too.
I have found the holy grail of hay fever: nose strips, like Breath Right. Man, if you are allergic, try them!
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LostinNagoya
And this reminds me of one very interesting point: there´s a whole lotta world outside the English-speaking community that most people just don´t have any idea about. Our world is shiny next to theirs.
Posted in: Half and haafu
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LostinNagoya
I am looking for it on the web. This article was in a national Brazilian newspaper and one of my students brought it to the classroom. He was spitting fire! I will paste the link here, as soon as I find it.
Posted in: Half and haafu
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LostinNagoya
yeah, sadly the half-nationals are noticed, but for the worse. Mostly. Of course there are those brainless examples which the not-hear-not-sees love, such as the tarento Becky. However your next-door half does know hell when he goes to school, go shopping etc. That´s why I can not bring myself to be a father while here in Japan, never! I want my child to be happy, to grow up without having to deal with discrimination problems even at places like kindergartens. For those who love to be blind, we have to admit this problem and discuss it deeply. Have we forgotten that just last year, in 2008! a high-school! demanded that all foreigners had their hair dye black, because the light colors were ¨not natural to the Japanese¨?
Posted in: Half and haafu
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LostinNagoya
It´s more about this ¨tarento¨ self-promotion than real charity motivation. Sad.
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LostinNagoya
My answer is yes, there´s life after life. To know if there´s or not life, one must study deeply this subject. Our daily experiences are too shallow to show us the phenomena involved. I suggest two lines of study for those who want to discover the right, or wrong, answer: For those scientifically inclined, any book on Einsteian quantum physics and its other dimensions still unanswered mysteries. For those scientifically and spiritually inclined, if you read only English any book on NDE, if you read other languages try Kardecism - preferably in original French.
Posted in: Do you believe in life after death?
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LostinNagoya
Looking from far, very far, actually from the other side of the world, Tokyo is a wonderful thing. But come live here for a few weeks and all the illusion surely will evaporate. It´s actually somehow a well built city, but it lacks the human passion other cities mentioned above do have.
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