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
What a terrible story - it's hard, but unavoidable, to imagine the last minutes of the poor mother and son's lives. What the daughter must have seen, too. Oy. The man must've just completely cracked.
Posted in: Man suspected of killing wife, son with pickaxe
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Maria
Correction: Oh wait, it was zichi up there at 06:58am, talking about Culture Day. A lot of unis seem to have their festivals around this time.
Posted in: Boy stabbed during college festival in Tokyo
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Maria
@tokyokawasaki: Do you actually live in Japan, wiht a question like that? I assume JT has edited the article or something, since I can't see the words "Culture Day any more, but Culture day, or "Bunka no hi" 文化の日 is a national holiday in Japan - it's tomorrow, actually.
Posted in: Boy stabbed during college festival in Tokyo
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Maria
It mus suck for celebrities who actually want to give back to the community, as anyone should. Anytime they do anything good, they get accused of doing it for the publicity. Good for Norika.
Posted in: Norika Fujiwara visits evacuees in Fukushima
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Maria
JT has been selective with its use of "boy / man" to describe minors in their late teens. So far, it looks like if the perosn committed a crime, you call him a man (as you did in a crime article last week), and if the person was a victim, you call him a boy. Why the variation, when they are both 19?
Posted in: Boy stabbed during college festival in Tokyo
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Maria
An heir in line to the imperial throne (and the beloved child of parent who will have no other shildren) is sick - of course she's going to be taken to hospital.
Posted in: Princess Aiko hospitalized with cold symptoms
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Maria
Cleo - the Meat Guy used to sell big bags of frozen brussel sprouts - doesn't he still? They were nice!
Posted in: Celery most disliked vegetable among adults: survey
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Maria
Modern jazz has always been a big deal in Poland, if I remember correctly. Not my cup of tea personally, but this does sound worth a go.
Posted in: Poland New Music Festival
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Maria
Didn't exactly make an effort there, did they.
Posted in: Kim Kardashian files for divorce after 10 weeks
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Maria
Tomatoes are a fruit, anyway. Also, it's surprising how many Japanese kids dislike tomatoes - I don't know if it's an unpopular food in other countries. It might be that "old watermelon" texture that larger tomatoes have, that puts them off? I love tomato juice (unslated) and baby tomatoes, me, but not so much the larger ones.
Posted in: Celery most disliked vegetable among adults: survey
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Maria
Hand it in. 1) You don't know where it came from, it could be stolen, and when you try t spend it, they'll come after you. 2) It could be another in the recent spate of anonymous donations for Tohoku. 3) If someeone claims it, it's because they were absent-minded / doddery enough to forget it,but it is theirs. 49 If nobody claims, it, it is, as many posters have laready said, yours, minus tax. All in all, keep it, and either you'll be shafted, or you've shafted someone else.
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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Maria
Nicky - you can buy all of those things and more, and have them delivered to Japan very quickly and cheaply, through a website called iHerb. I've been buying from them for a couple years now, they are incomparable re. service and range. I take a lot of the stuff Foxie mentions too: turmeric, barley grass, astaxanthin, coconut oil, and use toiletries only from this company. I should exercise and get some sun next!
Posted in: More evidence that coffee cuts skin cancer risk
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Maria
Well, he was an idiot, and got off lucky, in this security-conscious, privacy-tight world. He was showing off - he is 56, not 15.
Posted in: Air traffic controller who leaked Air Force One flight info suspended for 3 months
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Maria
It's up to the person being bullied to change, then? This reminds me of those articles and books that talk about battling cancer with your mindset - "This person I know had cancer but thought positively all the time, and meditated and chanted, and kicked the cancer blahblah." Like those who don't survive are somehow to blame. Tell that to a 13-year-old, or someone with only months to live.
Posted in: Three steps for coping with bullying, privately
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Maria
That is not a flattering look for her, and she knows it, poor thing has an expression on her like she's wearing rotten fish.
Posted in: Princess Mako turns 20
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Maria
"Makoto and Akira"? How interesting that they've chosen to use gender-ambiguous names.
Posted in: Is this the world's weirdest travel guide?
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Maria
According to the BBc, after the meeting in which they fired him, they basically confiscated his car, escorted him back to his place to pack after demanding he hand over his key, then strong-armed him to the airport! Very dodgy behaviour if they have nothing to hide.
Posted in: Olympus discloses $687 mil advisory fee amid row over CEO's ouster
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Maria
Mod: check the spelling in the last line - it should be "prostate", not "prostrate", although he probably was lying down a lot.
Moderator: Thank you. It has been corrected.
Posted in: Empress marks 77th birthday
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Maria
Congratulations Moe!
Posted in: Moe Oshikiri passes sommelier's test
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Maria
This report come shortly after one telling men not to have screening for prostate cancer. So, what *are *men supposed to do over and above the usual (eat healthily, exercise, don't smoke etc.)? Or should they just do nothing and let cancer take its course? Because neither of these articles have any suggestions.
Posted in: Vitamin E boosts prostate cancer risk: study