JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Financial Advisor
- Select Asset Management KK, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥100,000 ~ ¥999,999 Paid Training Commission Based
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- Corporate Business English Trainers
- ACT Systems, Inc.（株式会社アクト・システムズ）, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥269,500 ~ ¥280,000 / Month
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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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Mark_McCracken
How is this final season of Lost viewable in Japan?
Posted in: Fans search Waikiki Beach for answers to 'Lost'
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Mark_McCracken
That narrows it down to about 60% of Japanese women in their 20s and 30s.
Posted in: Hideaki Ito spotted with heavily intoxicated woman
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Mark_McCracken
No. The ability to vote should remain a benefit of citizenship. If you want to vote in Japan, become a Japanese citizen.
Posted in: Should permanent foreign residents have the right to vote in local elections in their country of residence?
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Mark_McCracken
Yes, the US military has had to make choices as to which relief planes could land and fit into the congested airport. Did they favor US military aircraft over foreign help? I wouldn't be surprised - possibly because management knew the contents of specific planes was more useful than others.
I'm very pleased to see the US military so involved with relief efforts in Haiti. Given the US military presence in Japan, I hope Japanese leaders are watching very closely. When the next major earthquake strikes Japan, and the US military again offers help, hopefully the Japan's leaders will be able to vividly recall the relief efforts in Haiti and allow help from the capable US military. The lives they save could be our own.
Posted in: Anger, frustration hindering Haiti quake relief
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Mark_McCracken
I doubt if Bush was being sarcastic. Most likely he was briefed on the need for cash and the lack of need for blankets and bottled water before the press conference with Presidents Clinton and Obama. Donations of blankets and bottled water may have been made with good intentions and make the donators "feel good", but, apparently, those donations are not helpful.
Posted in: Aid arrives for frenzied Haitians as death toll soars
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Mark_McCracken
I doubt if Bush was being sarcastic. Most likely he was briefed on the need for cash and the lack of need for blankets and bottled water before the press conference with Presidents Bush and Obama. Donations of blankets and bottled water may have been made with good intentions and make the donators "feel good", but, apparently, those donations are not helpful.
Posted in: Aid arrives for frenzied Haitians as death toll soars
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Mark_McCracken
No, that is not obvious at all.
Posted in: NPO seeks to teach Japan virtues of 'waste not, want not'
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Mark_McCracken
"Apple includes eigoTown.com audio books as Best of 2009" would be a more accurate headline.
Posted in: Apple selects eigoTown.com audio books as Best of 2009
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Mark_McCracken
The fires, distracted by the entertaining Edo period ladder-top stunts, burn more slowly.
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Mark_McCracken
Yoshinoya and Sukiya no doubt have access to sophisticated data on their customers, which makes our speculation about customer preference somewhat meaningless.
Posted in: Yoshinoya's dilemma: Whether to lower prices or not
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Mark_McCracken
Yoshinoya and Sukiya no doubt have access to sophisticated data on their customers, which makes speculation about customer preference somewhat meaningless.
Posted in: Yoshinoya's dilemma: Whether to lower prices or not
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Mark_McCracken
Wendy's had great burgers and lousy service. I also see Zensho has reduced the number of El Toritos in Japan to just 6.
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Mark_McCracken
Yes, a little bit.
Posted in: Are you better off than you were this time last year?
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Mark_McCracken
Of course.
Dumb question.
Posted in: Should freedom of expression include the right to offend others?
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Mark_McCracken
If the New York commercial is the colorful one on youtube that ends with a giant Rubik's cube in Times Square, it's kind of lame compared to the dancing-parade one they did earlier this year.
Posted in: All five SMAP members attend PR event for new commercial
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Mark_McCracken
I expect to see it soon at my local 100 yen shop.
Posted in: For dry-eye syndrome
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Mark_McCracken
...and 20,000 yen for the Shinkansen.
I hope they open a Burger King in Kansai soon.
Posted in: Bourbon Whopper
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Mark_McCracken
Apparently unaware that Umeki Miyoshi, born in Hokkaido, won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Sayonara in 1957.
Posted in: Manga artist Takashi Okazaki has a close call at Emmy Awards
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Mark_McCracken
What venue was this photo taken? It looks like an office. Couldn't afford a hotel ballroom?
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Mark_McCracken
I don't know.
What I do know is that Obama's behaving an awful lot like a Republican. Using acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize as a forum to explain, “Some will kill. Some will be killed.” and "Evil does exist in the world." makes him sound a little like Reagan.
I also know there are plenty of Obama supporters who assumed Obama would bring an end to these wars. Those who did have got to be plenty disappointed.
What do Oprah and the women on The View have to say about it, I wonder.
Posted in: Obama, receiving Nobel Peace Prize, says war sometimes justified