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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- ALT - Mie Prefecture - Yokkaichi City - June start
- NPO法人グローバル教育推進機構（GLAD), Mie
- Salary: ¥230,000 / Month For a full working month. Some months differ.
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- Business Teaching Positions - Part-time - Kanto Region
- Interac, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥3,000 ~ ¥5,000 / Hour
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Maria
Can't get tuners anymore. When I asked in the shop, they said the manufacturers have stopped sending them out.
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Maria
Hope that's not a real sword...
Posted in: This way
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Maria
Talk to one sometime, it's easy. I've had many a good chat with them. Many of the cabbies I've had in the front of my cab are retirees, and cabbing is the only way they can continue working, be it full-time of part-time. A lot of them are not from the city, they've left their hometown (where they can't get a job) and family (who need money) to work in the city. Thank god they don't jostle for custom like in China - I'd hate that. The station system is fair, they wait in line, we wait in line, eventually everyone gets somewhere.
Posted in: Nap time
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Maria
Timing... There's also the not insignificant matter of the 70th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack at the end of this year.
Posted in: Skull believed to be of Japanese pilot discovered at Pearl Harbor
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Maria
Cheers for the article update Kronos. They do give a few examples of errors, which seem to be less in grammar, and more in vocabulary , and mishearing / misunderstanding the speaker.
Posted in: I've studied many translations in different fields but nothing exceeds court interpretation when it comes to the amount of errors made.
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Maria
That pervious post of mine came out very stream-of-consciousness. I did try to make paragraphs! Piglet: where do you live? because in Nagoya, I have none of the problems you refer to. And I've taken a fair few cabs unnecessarily short distances in my time.
Posted in: Nap time
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Maria
Piglet, really, do you think that they wait there for hours without cab fare? You do realise that that's not the 20 same cabs, parked out there all day. They actually move up the line quite quickly. I was talking to a cabbie a while ago, he said business was really bad, to the point of one day making only 1000yen. In these times, you'd not want to spend more on petrol than you earn. Paying them on commission? Yeah, a manager would do that.
Posted in: Nap time
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Maria
So you'd rather they wasted gas and money, and polluted the air more, randomly driving aroud loking for you, instead of waiting at one of the many designated taxi ranks?
I can appreciate that someone with a leg injury might prefer to stand and wait for a cab, but otherwise, Mohammed, go to the mountain - it isn't that far.
Posted in: Nap time
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Maria
By whom? From J - E, and E - J?
Posted in: I've studied many translations in different fields but nothing exceeds court interpretation when it comes to the amount of errors made.
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Maria
I agree that the idling engines are a disgrace.
I also sympathise with the cabbie's lot- a lot of them work long hours, are far from home, and aren't spring chickens any more. Let him nap.
Posted in: Nap time
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Maria
5 ages in one short article! Doesn't the article's author know anything about these people other than their DOB?
Posted in: Yoshino Kimura to appear in last drama before taking maternity leave
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Maria
@lovenot: what would you do after months of hard training (which would've been mentally as well as physically draining)? A spot of Tarkovsky? A night at the opera, (ooh, Wagner)? Dip into one of Chomsky's books? Me, I'd want fried chicken and cheesecake, gin, and a hot bath. Does that make me ignorant? Not at all, just tired.
"nama" has a number of translations; I would imagine she means fresh food? I'd also imagine that they've been on a strict diet in the time leading up to the World Cup, and since she and her team won, I think they can all do whatever the hell they want.
Posted in: Japan women eye World Cup/Olympics double
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Maria
Right. So according to you, our 2 options are suck it up or leave?
I choose to stay, but to avoid buying food which I suspect is contaminated. and if i end up buying only imported food, then that's what I'll do!
Posted in: Beef, milk, tea, spinach and other vegetables have been contaminated due to the Fukushima nuclear crisis. How much worse do you think this is going to get? For example, do you think rice will be affected?
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Maria
Now I want to know what the Japanese for "I'm gutted" is.
Posted in: Japan women eye World Cup/Olympics double
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Maria
I apreciate that she says “It’s human nature to want more,” but I can already see the weeping and accusations if they don't get the gold. What's the point of putting pressure on so early and heavily - why not revel in this victory a bit longer?
Posted in: Japan women eye World Cup/Olympics double
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Maria
Smaller than a laptop, so easier to carry around. But I shan't be buying SONY any time ever - their stuff breaks down within a couple years (I'm talking about audio products mainly). This is way over-priced. I have a region-free 10 or 11-inch, swivel-screen, chargeable player that I got off Amazon for a tenner, and it works a charm
Posted in: Portable DVD player
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Maria
What an odd question - why shold rice be exempt? because of its special, magical, Japanese-staple-food powers?
Posted in: Beef, milk, tea, spinach and other vegetables have been contaminated due to the Fukushima nuclear crisis. How much worse do you think this is going to get? For example, do you think rice will be affected?
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Maria
Not very reassuring, is it. No wonder things don't change very quickly around here!
Posted in: People try not to pay too much attention to what is happening at Fukushima. It is as if they are looking through a kind of filter trying to think, 'that can't happen here.'
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Maria
Where's Wally?
Posted in: The big heat
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Maria
Quite right too, that she, and the others, be arrested. Disgraceful and illegal behaviour and knowledge of said behaviour. She must have known.
Posted in: Ex-Murdoch aide Brooks arrested; Police chief out