JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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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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Maria
Where does the mayor himself (and his family) live? Does anyone know?
Posted in: Mayor of village near Fukushima plant urges residents to return to homes
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Maria
I just saw the US version the other day (after having seen and enjoyed the Swedish original) - I enjoyed both. The US version is probably a little harder to follow if you haven't read the book. Both women do an excellent job.
gyouza: Do you mean shakuhachi - the bamboo flute?
Posted in: Enter the dragon
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Maria
Which bit was the failure - the murder or the suicide?
Moderator: The son's suicide, according to police.
Posted in: Woman dead, son unconscious in apparent murder-suicide
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Maria
AF: Are you delusional? Especially given your supposed nation or origin - land of the random gun-totin' attack.
Posted in: Woman, daughter attacked by man with scissors on Aichi street
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Maria
A good article, worthwhile. Wish JT could have something like this (also restaurant reviews and the like) done for other major cities in Japan.
Posted in: Tokyo's best no-smoking bars - or liver damage without the lung damage
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Maria
It's illegal to smoke tobacco under 20 - surely if kids want to roll marjoram into rolling paper, they can! I've heard of these "herb shops", they sell stuff which has slipped under the radar of the drug listings, but can still pack quite a punch. It's a funny country, innit. It's only about a decade ago or so that Village Vanguard was selling mushrooms!
Posted in: Shibuya herb vendor raided after 3 teenagers fall ill
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Maria
God, this whole thread, all these comments, the initial article, it's deeply sad, disheartening, depressing, and just plays straight into that wretched old chestnut that makes Japan, and living here, out to be somehow special and more different than any other new place or situation we find ourselves in throughout our lives. Everything takes adapting to, a tweaking of behaviour. Only a lonely, unhappy fool expects the world to adapt to them. The fact that taking off shoes indoors even has to be mentioned... and chopsticks too (used by how many countries in Asia again? )... I find the self-enforced isolation of some of the posters specially saddening. Depriving your children of a full life experience of another country, not allowing them to form their own memories and opinions, because of your own preconceptions and half-baked ideas... What a shame. There's nothing I'm prouder of than having the opportunity to be raised in a bilingual household - it's enriched my life no end. This whole "us vs. Them" mentality makes some of you sound like absolute tinfoil hatters, quite honestly. I repeat, it's such a shame.
Posted in: How foreigners’ daily lives change when they live in Japan
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Maria
One hour train delay, no? People calling work to postpone meetings, students to advise their teachers, workers at dept. stores and other shops which would be left un- / understaffed as a result of the delay... I can see why there would be an increase in calls.
Posted in: Docomo services disrupted for 4 1/2 hours, affecting 2.52 mil users
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Maria
That is a lovely story, isn't it.
Posted in: Brothers reunited in Japan after 6 decades apart
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Maria
Pinch of salt if that. Since the majority of pople n japan are A (they say), just take a look at the A characteristics, diet etc., to see how these "results" are skewed.
Posted in: The importance of blood type in Japanese culture
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Maria
The comedy group Namikibashi released a DVD of sketches of spoof cultural education. It's called "The Japanese Tradition", or 日本の形 and it is pretty damn funny. Check them out on Youtube.
Posted in: How to be funny in Japan
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Maria
"her beau"? What is this, the 1890s? They have something like 5 kids together, I think they've moved beyond courting.
Posted in: Jolie, Pitt meet Obama in Oval Office
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Maria
I have no doubt that Ms Ono has given a lot of money already to support Japan in its crisis; quite probably she just hasn't felt the need to publicise it. This is a charity concert, which requires publicity, to get bums on seats.
The posters here who are mocking her, and knocking her actions - why??
Posted in: Yoko Ono visits Fukushima to meet children
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Maria
Only took them 66 years.
Posted in: Japan returns remaining 1,200 Korean royal archives
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Maria
I read recently (in the GW I think) that 85% (ish) of adoptions in Japan are of adult males, so that they can carry on the family business, name or whatever. I don't think that adoption of infants is very common at all. I feel nothing but pity for this woman who, as some posters (the ones who actually read the artcile properly and thought about it) pointed out, had nowhere to go but a hostel, with her child. Terribly sad.
Posted in: Woman arrested for murder of 11-day-old daughter in guesthouse
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Maria
Oh good god people, get over yourselves. So you're getting old, and have been around longer than this guy. So what? Since this idea has been around a while and yet hasn't been implemented, why not comment on possible reasons? and not just react in a stompy, door-slamming and rather immature "if the locals dont care about their own well being, why shud I." kind of way!
Posted in: Don’t concentrate everything in Tokyo
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Maria
Oh good god people, get over yourselves. So you're getting old, and have been around longer than this guy. So what? Since this idea has been around a while and yet hasn't been implemented, why not comment on possible reasons? and not just react a stompy, door-slamming and rather immature "if the locals dont care about their own well being, why shud I." kind of way!
Posted in: Don’t concentrate everything in Tokyo
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Maria
25% off is not a bad deal. I could claim 4 of these, and only 2 of them require a little effort. Now, where's my hairbrush?
Posted in: Domino Pizza offering unique discounts
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Maria
Kit Kats have been assocuiated with exam studnets for a while now haven't they? I forget how the conneciton started. I actually like the linmited editions kit Kat brings out. I wish they still made the mango one.
Posted in: Kit Kat messages encourage students
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Maria
It's nothing like the Hawker case, and everyting like a rape that turned into murder. And seesaw1 - you're an ass.
Posted in: Woman found bound and murdered in Aichi apartment