JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Full-time English Teacher - Osaka
- Epion English Language Schools, Osaka
- Salary: ¥200,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month Depending on your ability and experience
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- Part-time English Teacher - Osaka
- Epion English Language Schools, Osaka
- Salary: ¥10,000 ~ ¥15,000 / Day Depending on how many days a week are worked
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- Core Developer - コアディベロッパー
- Midokura Japan K.K. - ミドクラジャパン株式会社, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥4.0M ~ ¥10.0M / Year Negotiable
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LostinNagoya
Technically they are superb. I love the touch of humor some of them have (I particularly remember one that was a copy of the rumba dance scene from The Maskara). Also Japanese coms have a touch of romance, of slow time, that I liked too. But the ones with young people on the beach, jumping and making kissing beaks are terrible.
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LostinNagoya
IMHO, Black Widow, 2014 World Cup should be held in Europe, then 2018 in Brazil. Seven years won't be enough time to Brazil get ready for an event that big. As for security, one thinks that they are working backstage. But IMO, this sort of international security is also beyond Brazilian govt's power, they must be co-working with other national security (Argentina, Paraguay, USA) on this issue. BTW, love Brazil and Brazilians!!
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LostinNagoya
BlackWidow: I am living in Sao Paulo, so one reads news about 2014 almost everyday. However, I doubt Brazil will be 100% ready by the time the opening ceremony starts. I expect Brazil will show the world something between what we saw in Germany and South Africa: not first world, but also not the African raw reality. As for the elected President, she is a mystery: people say she is not politically apt and she is not get involved in the 2014 preparations: it's beyond her realm.
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LostinNagoya
@ BlackWidow: 2022 is not so far. You would be surprised to learn that the 2010 Cup was promised to South Africa 36 years before the event, in 1974, as part of the election of the former Fifa's president Joao Havelange. In Joao Havelange's biography it becomes clear how politics, money and good will are mixed to bring World Cups to politically arid regions.
Expect 2026 to be in the news soon: India and China will bid for that Cup.
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LostinNagoya
Burakumin: the host country makes a vow to allow all the 32 countries nationals unconditionally to enter its territory (of course, criminals and the likes are barred). It's part of the bidding book countries have to submit to Fifa. If Israel qualifies, it surely will be allowed to play in Qatar. By the rules of the bidding book, countries somehow become hostages of Fifa during the 30-days tournment. That's why analysts say that Fifa is somehow more powerful than the majority of its members. What diplomacyand war can't achieve, sometimes sport can. As for Brazil, if I read right, it was given the rights of holding the 2014 World Cup because it was the sole candidate. Can you believe that? 2014 had only one candidate, 2018 and 2022 nine.
Rockbuster, Qatar already built a stadium with the technology they will use in 2022. While it was 40C outside the stadium, inside players and fans would feel it was 22C - thanks to a monster Germanic air-conditioning system that will be a benchmark in sports, analysts are saying. Plus, Qatar promised 9 of the stadia will be de-constructed and donated to developing neighboor countries after 2022. Something that sounds nice: you build wonderful stadia and them give them away to your neighboors, it must have won some votes. As for accomodation, I just read that Qatar asked the same neighboors to help accomodate them.
I reckon that Qatar wasn't the best choice. I was rooting for USA or Australia. But I guess the underdogs must have their chances too.
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LostinNagoya
I think FIFA did the right thing: England surely is favorite in any kind of bid, but why bring rain to already wet grounds? The first thing you associate with England is the Queen, and then football. No need to promote the sport in the island. The same for Spain/Portugal/Holland/Belgium. Russia was the right market bet. Qatar should not be thought as the "tiny country", but what it means to the arabic world. Will not the 2022 World Cup the first huge event hold in an arabic country? I guess there are almost a billion arabic fellows comemmorating on behalf of the Qataris. USA, Australia, Japan, Korea, all them already hosted a World Cup or the Olympics. Time to clear space for more members in the club.
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LostinNagoya
I am really speechless: Russia and Qatar. Not that they don't deserve it. Russia is a world power that needs the World Cup to show the world its beauty. As for Qatar, well, the mouse knocked out the elephants. Bribery? I don't believe so. FIFA is betting in 3-world countries, a good market strategy in my opinion. 2018 will stay in Europe, as Europeans wished. 2022 will open a new market to soccer.
Congrats Russia, Qatar!!
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LostinNagoya
She is an entertaining TV character, no doubt about that. A clown without make-up or costume. That said, I think that after the Bush Years, Americans will never elect again a person who can make The Vanishing Magic Show with their money - something that Palin seems more than capable of doing willingly.
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LostinNagoya
My grand-grand-grandmother is so excited about this. Wow! Beatles!
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LostinNagoya
Don't you think we're making way too many a speculation? It's an "apparent" suicide, it's not conclusive. Anyway, RIP.
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LostinNagoya
I feel sorry for the Japanese players and fans. It must really hard to swallow a defeat after after winning 2 sets, dreaming of winning another set out of three sets. They have to start all over again, wisely with higher players this time.
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LostinNagoya
I think that there should be some kind of a "XYZ-kilo Maximun Limit". Everyone would understand that. And if one can't fly because he/she is way too wide and heavy, then travel by train, by bus, which offer more room for all that fat.
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LostinNagoya
Gamova is the nightmare of every team facing Russia, it's a pleasure watching her boring holes in the opponent's court. The Jumping Tower.
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LostinNagoya
I saw him wearing a really exquisite suit. Which didn't become him at all. He will be remembered as the president who ruined USA, till she became second, then third, then...
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LostinNagoya
Japan among the 4 top ones? You kidding, but then when you review the pool where J-Team was placed, something very funny comes to your eyes: all the strong teams are on the other pool. Brazil, Italy, USA and Cuba fought for the 2 other semi berths, while Japan had to battle against real powers Russia and China. Was it orchestrated by J-officials and $Fivb$? It seems so...
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LostinNagoya
eh, dengue fever? In Portugal? Geographically it's almost impossible, as the flebotome lives only in warm countries. And dengue fever does not kill this way. Wrong autopsy.
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LostinNagoya
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This is what I call an amateur's opinion. Qantas has just grounded a 747 due to malfuncioning. So it's a maintenance problem, is that clear now?
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LostinNagoya
Funny...why do I have this feeling that these gokon-goers mentioned in the article are all a creation of the author?
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LostinNagoya
*Call me crazy but being in the air for another 90+ minutes after watching one of the engines blow out makes me want to invest in new ways to dump fuel from planes... * It's much more dangerous to try landing with the tanks full of kerosene than flying it over 90 minutes. Besides, the captain must follow his training, and he surely did. Everybody is safe and sound, isnt' it the most important aspect of this event?
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LostinNagoya
It's time to get prepared, if they want to do well in the next WC.
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