JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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Confrontation
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U.S. Navy investigating how parts fell off aircraft near Atsugi
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California court to decide if SeaWorld whales are illegal 'slaves'
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Kuroki reported pregnant 2 weeks after denying relationship with Akanishi
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- Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) in Kanto region
- RCS (RCSコーポレーション), Kanto
- Salary: ¥180,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month includes performance bonus
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- Assistant Language Teacher - TOKYO - late-March start
- Interac, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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- Assistant Language Teacher - Kanagawa Prefecture - late-March start
- Interac, Kanagawa
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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Classic, sounds like Joe has a sense of humor!
Posted in: Joe Odagiri apologizes for signing name 'Kumi Koda' as autograph for fan
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The picture of the day, is a picture of an advert? Give us a break please, I have to look at these puppets every time I use the seven 11.
Posted in: Watchful eyes
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I don't think he'll be invited to the annual "Press Club" Christmas party!
Japan needs more freelance journalist, problem is no-one reads what they write so very hard to make decent money.
Posted in: Yakuza involved in Fukushima clean-up: reporter
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That was a cool eclipse. So cool in fact that at one stage I wished I had two pair of gloves on. Only wished it was at a lower angle, my neck is still suffering today.
Posted in: Sky-watchers get rare treat: total lunar eclipse
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Bryan,
It's a crow. There are no ravens in Tokyo, only up in the very north of Hokkaido, and only rarely there too. This bird is a carrion crow. There are 2 species of crow here that are regularly seen, carrion crow (hashibosho garasu) and jungle crow (hashibuto garasu). Jungle crows are the cheeky ones that will rip open the garbage. They have massive beaks. The carrion crows are really cool birds when you spend a bit of time to get to know them. Very very clever animals!
Posted in: Crowing
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Wearing an Oiran costume? Looks like she's more not-wearing it. NIce!
Posted in: Kumi Koda wears sexy oiran costume for new album
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Sky tree can really be appreciated when you are looking outside of the city and look back at it, it stands in the middle of nowhere with nothing tall around it. But I guess that won't last long. The name "sky-tree" is so corny, they should've gone with the other entry "Edo-Tower".
Posted in: Towering tree
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Yasushi Akimoto would be the man to talk too, he's a world leader at cloning.
Posted in: Japan, Russia see chance to clone mammoth
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Hans,
They are called seismologists, and yes they do use the term aftershock. If you can't see the pattern of earthquakes/aftershocks this year (whatever you want to call them), then you really need to see a doctor, I would go really soon, because the pattern is blindingly obvious. I'll summarize:
Before 3-11, hardly any quakes.
After 3-11, suddenly hundreds of them every day, slowly getting less and less. Almost none nowadays.
Hmmmm, can't see the pattern? Still look random?
Posted in: M5.3 quake hits near Tokyo
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YongYang, This morning was a Shindo 4 here where I live, we haven't had a shindo 4 here since March. They definitely have had some up in northern Chiba and Ibaragi, but today's shake was Southern Chiba. Earthquakes/aftershocks do follow a pattern. The frequency of them gets less as time goes on. I'm not saying the risk is now gone, I'm just saying that 9 months has passes, I feel a lot more easy than I did just 3 months after 3-11. The risk will never go, but the chance of a big shake hitting will return back to what it was pre March.
Hans. Emergency kits are for survival in the days immediately after a big disaster, when electricity and gas are off, trains, shops and supermarkets are closed, and you can't buy any water anywhere. Me and GW won't be sharing ours.
Posted in: M5.3 quake hits near Tokyo
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noriyosan, Open your eyes, you are not seeing the whole picture. 99% of the problems were caused by years and years of bureaucracy . The current government were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Worse thing this country can do is go back to LDP. It's time to move on, the system isn't working, the events of 9-11 proved that.
Posted in: 'Nadeshiko Japan,' '3.11' voted top buzzwords for 2011
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Biggest shake we have had out here in Chiba since the March quakes. It was a real up-down jackhammer banging type, rather than the sideways shaking we have had usually. Just long enough to erase any chance of sleeping on through it. And on a friggin Saturday morning damn it. 2 ornaments fell off shelves, and a bit of food, but nothing broken. A good little reminder to stay prepared just in case that big one still comes. But thankfully 9 months have now past so the probability is getting lower and lower!
Posted in: M5.3 quake hits near Tokyo
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Pearls Before Swine, or neko ni koban.
I'm sure what it really wants is a bowl of meat, a car window to stick its head out of, and a bitch for the night.
Posted in: Dog given medal, certificate for keeping man, granddaughter warm overnight in overturned car
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One step in the right direction. Noda has shown that he has the brains to realize that the future of the consumer electronics export industry is much more important than the farmers. Bad news for the farmers who we all no work very hard, but the future of the nation's economy is much more important.
Posted in: Noda says Japan will enter discussions toward joining TPP talks
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Witch hunt!!
Don't take the job Eddie, you'll have great success for the next four years because Japan can only continue getting better, but in the end it will all be measured on WC success, and you'll be lynched.
The reason why New Zealand won the WC this year is because they finally didn't go on a witch hunt after loosing in 2007 and kept Henry at the reins. Japan would have been much wiser to do the same. Now we have to start all over again with Eddie, and then who next after 2015?
Japan was ranked 19th in the world when JK came on board. 4 years later after winning the PNC they were 11th. High enough to get regular games with Scotland and Italy. Get rid of the foriegn players and they'll slip back down to 18-19, and will never improve.
Posted in: Kirwan under fire for using too many foreign-born players
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@ExportExpert
All they have to do is develop players? Wrong. Japan has the stadiums, the rest will take a lot of work. You would know, you were in NZ to see the world cup first hand. There is a lot of work to do between now and 2019, and it's a bigger task for Japan than other host nations because they only reason they have been given the cup is so they can pull off something amazing that will help grow it's popularity here and in Asia.
Posted in: Japan's winless exit from Rugby World Cup raises concerns about hosting 2019 event
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This article reads like a high school homework project. Basically just a collection of almost random facts and quotes, with slight hints at relating to the title.
Lots of really interesting articles have been in both Japanese and English newspapers in the last few weeks, offering different ideas about the reasons for Rugby's lack of success. Most of them miss the obvious. JRFU has failed to attract big sponsors. Japan's failure is not because of it's National team and it's coaches or the size of the players, or it's Top League system. The problem is that the JRFU has failed to bring the amateur era into the professional.
As the article above mentions, rugby's popularity peak in Japan was in the 80's and early 90's. At that time, rugby was still amateur. Japan however was semi professional. Big companies had their own rugby teams, Kobe Steel, Toyota, IBM etc. Rugby players were given a job with the companies, with a namecard and a desk and came to the office for a couple of hours everyday to do a bit of paperwork. And at lunchtime they left work and went to rugby practice. They were offered good money, and Japan attracted some decent gaijin talent. Rugby was cool, company presidents went to dinner parties in Roppongi and talked about their rugby and soccer teams, like they were Ferraris and Lamborghinis. When players retired from playing, they just stopped going to practice and hung around the company until they retired, doing a few odd jobs, but basically having a free ride till retirement. The companies had money to spare so it didn't matter.
Then the early 90's came, and the rest of the world turned pro, and the JRFU didn't make any big changes. Meanwhile the Japanese economy collapsed, the professional teams are still company teams, half of them have gone because the companies don't have money waste anymore. J League took over as the 2nd most popular sport behind baseball, and Rugby bosses were still talking about the good old days.
And now we've got the world cup in 2019, and rugby 7's in the Olympics. A great chance for the JRFU to make some serious changes. They don't even have to be creative, just copy the J league model. Professional sport requires money. Money controls everything a team, or a sports union wants to do, it is the same as a business. JRFU is failing to attract sponsors. Look at the sponsors Rugby has. Toyota, NEC, Panosonic, Toshiba, etc. Big old companies. Now look at the companies that have bought baseball teams in the last 10 years. Rakuten, Yahoo, Softbank, and this week Mobage bought Yokohama Bay Stars. New companies that are cool. How can we do that? Is the big question that JRFU has to ask itself at the next board meeting. Unfortunately, the board meeting is probably held at the same sushi bar in Roppongi that they've been going to since the 80's.
Posted in: Japan's winless exit from Rugby World Cup raises concerns about hosting 2019 event
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Sounds amazing!!
Posted in: Cardinals stun Texas to force World Series to Game 7
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Ahhh, that would explain why they all sound the same. And chuck Radiohead in there too. It's all pop, and gives rock a bad name.
Posted in: U2 honored as 'Greatest Act' in last 25 years
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Henry is gonna coach the Babarians later this year against, Australia!!! Henry vs Deans again!! Should be great! Damn shame Cooper will miss you, hope he has a speedy recovery.
All Blacks!!!
No more Whaling!!!
Posted in: All Blacks beat France 8-7 to win Rugby World Cup