JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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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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- Translator
- ZAIHON, Inc. (日本財務翻訳株式会社), Tokyo
- Salary: ¥6.0M / Year Negotiable
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Now if only they offered an edible product.
Posted in: Domino Pizza offering unique discounts
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Saran gas though first discovered by Germans (before Nazism) was also standard in both the US and NATO bag of tricks for many years.
Posted in: Aum trials end 16 yrs after sarin gas attack on Tokyo subway
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Standard operating procedure.
Posted in: Glitch reported on ANA's Boeing Dreamliner
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10 million? it was 5 I tell you and I handed it in.
Posted in: If you found a bag with a huge amount of cash, say 10 million yen, would you hand it in to the authorities or keep it?
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@gogogo Have seen this so many times here it sickens me. Language skills are great and should be commended but it does not make you instantly all powerful in the world of business. I know a number of Japanese companies that hire based solely on Japanese ability and then wonder why they end up with people having no business acumen.
Posted in: Adopting English as workplace language in Japan has its downside
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I get "pinged" from China all the time, also have soft bots from there testing all the open ports and seeing if they can log in, this has been going on for years. Firewall I've set up logs it all. Could be that this wasn't a "targeted attack" as normally they just run through all on-line computers that have any open ports.
Posted in: Computers in Diet hit by China-based cyberattack
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Poor woman, bet she's the only actor that has ever had to do a reverse season shoot.
Posted in: Emi Takei endures heat for Sokenbi tea winter TV ad campaign
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I hope they don't have the same problem with batteries that Sony did.
Posted in: Toyota to sell China-made hybrid vehicles by 2015
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I'm in Hamamatsu, and we've strong gale force winds here. I battened down the hatches last night but one of the tarp covered outbuildings I use for storage might lose it's covering. Tried to reinforce it again but the battering wind and rain forced me back inside after about five minutes. This is a hell of a storm.
Posted in: Typhoon strands several thousand commuters in Tokyo
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Maple syrup is great but this study is hardly groundbreaking similar results were released six months ago: http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2011/03/31/Maple-syrup-may-help-treat-diabetes/UPI-13931301577969/ A well time to make pancakes.
Posted in: Pure maple syrup linked to liver health
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@Godan Similar situation in my case, and I agree with what you are saying however I keep trying and do on occasion win a battle or two. The war on the other hand is a different matter. I doubt that Japan will change its overall attitude towards non-Japanese no matter how hard we try to assimilate, at least not in my lifetime but then I never expected that it would and am willing to accept it and have made a great life for myself here.
Posted in: Norway killer's manifesto praises Japan for not adopting multiculturalism
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Oh the drama of it all, I doubt I'll be able to sleep tonight.
Posted in: AKB48 to hold competition to choose which member will sing 24th single CD
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I know it's just the lighting and possibly the angle of the shot and pose, but in this photo she looks like a transvestite.
Posted in: A toast for Ai
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Hippo:
LOL, couldn't agree more even though I know it's considered cute (or whatever) in Japan to have a 27 year old woman speaking and acting like she's 13. If I were forced to marry her the first thing I would do is buy a gun and shoot myself.
Posted in: Yuko Ogura turns her attention to marriage after settling dispute with management
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The Nigerian 419ers are going to love this.
Posted in: Seven Bank, Western Union to start overseas money transfer service
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So let me get this straight, if I rape a woman then she cries out and I strangle her to shut her up it is not premeditated because I was shocked at her reaction to the fact that I had just beaten the crap out of her and raped her? Full life in the most unsavory jail cell with only the occasional cockroach as a companion.
Posted in: Ichihashi admits to raping, strangling Hawker, but denies intent to kill
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Ume-"chan" -sensei, well at least the writers are taking things seriously, I suppose the first episode will be about her doing the first ever brain transplant in Japan, too bad it won't be her own.
Posted in: Maki Horikita to play doctor in postwar drama
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Maybe it's a trick of the light, but the girl on the right either needs a longer skirt or realize that support hose is not the best thing to wear in a photo shoot.
Posted in: Samantha Muse All-Stars
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I work in both systems, primarily in inches in my wood working as I like the sound of 29 9/64ths" and great fun when you need to divide it by three and I was brought up with measurements in board feet , in metal work I work mostly in metric although sometimes in the American attempt at compromise using tenths, hundreds and thousands of inches. Oh yes, I do also work in traditional Japanese measurements if the customer or job requires it, for me it's just strapping on a different tape measure. Anyway time to go out for my late afternoon walk of 15 chains, then come back and quaff a few gills of ale.
And @MrDog:
Posted in: Why doesn't the U.S. adopt the metric system?
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@legs, did the same thing here, newest party is watching the electric meter spin, it's only money after all, and a great form of amusement.
For me the alternative to nuclear electric power is feeding my caged gerbils steroids so they can stay in the wheel cages longer and longer and run for hours. Who needs nuclear power when you have rodents hooked up to the grid.
Posted in: 70% of Japanese oppose restarting closed reactors: poll