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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MeanRingo
Sorry Zenny, I'm starting to think you dost protest too much. If you kidnap a child and take them to a hotel, you are by rights inviting misery upon yourself. I don't know why you have gotten so defensive about taking your son to a hotel. Nobody called you a pedophile. Don't worry about it. But when you take a child from the front of a store and then take them to a hotel, you start to invite certain descriptions of yourself. So again, let the posters here have their opinions. They deserve just as much play as your opinion, even if people are posting just because they "like reading their own opinion."
Posted in: Unemployed 30-yr-old man arrested for kidnapping 5-yr-old girl in Chiba
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MeanRingo
Love it. Zenny is all up in arms about posters taking liberties. And then he takes his own liberties in interpreting what others are saying, but it is OK, because they are HIS liberties. Zenny when you hear hoof beats my friend. Sure the assumptions may be proven wrong, but don't defend this guy from your high and mighty pedestal. He is a nut bar and needs to be jailed.
Posted in: Unemployed 30-yr-old man arrested for kidnapping 5-yr-old girl in Chiba
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MeanRingo
The Japanese should send a unit of J-cops to deal with the outlandishness of Juarez. They should have the place cleaned up... NEVER!!!! It must be worse than Faluga (sp?).
Posted in: Last police officer in Mexican border town missing
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MeanRingo
If she was there why didn't she just nail the guy with a frying pan? Sheesh!
Posted in: Lawyer's widow disputes police version of husband's murder
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MeanRingo
I think privacy has always been something of a mirage.
Posted in: In view of what has been happening with WikiLeaks and various file-sharing software, is privacy a lost cause?
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MeanRingo
Love it rico808. You just trash a lot of people for judging this woman, and then make your own judgment about her by saying she is not the type of role model young people should have. A little hypocritical, don't ya think?
Posted in: Meet Aki, queen of the 'gyaru-mama'
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MeanRingo
I'm surprised Fox isn't just replaying the first season like they did over and over and over and over again when I had cable.
Posted in: Jack Bauer will always be having a bad day
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MeanRingo
...It is better to call your friends than 119. They take way too long to get there. R.I.P. Ummmm, he called at 630 and his buds took an hour to get there. How long does it take for the po-po? Actually, maybe you are right.
Posted in: 27-year-old man dies after being found beaten, stabbed in Tokyo park
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MeanRingo
I have absolutely no problem with homosexuals, but I always used to tell my wife that the guys out and about in Osaka town looked rather gay from a western point of view, at least mine. The Bon Jovi hairdos, the fluffy keitai attachments, the PURSES and MAKEUP. She just couldn't believe it. She thought I was crazy and horribly insensitive. Within a month of moving to Toronto, she changed her mind. And there are a lot of Asian men in Toronto, and almost all are more manly than the average Taro, from her point of view. I know the notion of manliness is cultural. I just find it amusing that so many Japanese men look very feminine to me. So, for solidarity, stop dreaming of Beckham and man up.
Posted in: Tokyo salon owners sound off on current state of male style
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MeanRingo
With the stash he looks like a 1970s Japanese dude.
Posted in: Happy birthday
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MeanRingo
Why stop at SA men? Why not take the study and just say one in three men admit to rape? Stats are funny.
Posted in: More than 1 in 3 South African men admit to rape: study
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MeanRingo
LoveUSA, if the books were "boring and stupid" (the description makes you sound like an intellectual lightweight BTW) why did you read them?
Posted in: Harry Potter stars sad to say goodbye
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MeanRingo
Klien2: You can't really blame NK bizarreness on anybody but Kim Jong Il.
Um, I think you are forgetting about the Dear Leader. That is the problem with American education, it tends to lead to myopia and delusions of grandeur. I won't lay as much of the blame for the whole issue on the US as Shinjuku boy, but WOW do Americans know how the Ef things up. This is just one example. And those who want to cry "We saved the day" in WW2 are eating as much propaganda as those visiting Yasakuni. Sure, you helped out during WW2, but many men and women fought and died to hold the tide LONG before you decided to join the party and take all the glory. Unfortunately, power corrupted and pies across the world got fingered to the ends we see now, with a world of voices shouting "Screw off and stay in your own backyard." Think how lovely the world could be without the US of A's desire for hegemony.
Posted in: Tensions high after North, South Korea trade shelling
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MeanRingo
I fully agree with making youth a Kodak moment. I tried and tried and tried to get my wife to make a video of our natural act, all five sweaty minutes of it (I'm kidding), using this as my main argument. When I am 80, I wanted to see us bang like thirty year olds. Sadly, the only shape I am in now is round. The wife still looks pretty hot though. I'm gonna have to have her read this article. Wish me luck!
Posted in: Why are Japanese women so eager to bare themselves?
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MeanRingo
Star Blazers rocked. I remember coming home from half-day kindergarten and watching it. I balled the day they took it off the air. Then I started watching Battle Of The Planets. Hope this comes out with some subtitles.
Posted in: 'Space Battleship Yamato' blasts off
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MeanRingo
Perhaps the best head, but not sharpest mind. I'm sure.
Posted in: Best dressed
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MeanRingo
yup tamanegi, I agree. This is really just the next "thing" in suicides. It will be all the rave for a few moments and then it will wear itself out until another arse offs him/herself in an "Innovative" way.
Not to be too cold, but I liked the dude that tied a rope to a tree, put it through the hatchback window and then laced up his neck. One stomp on the gas peddle and it was all over.
Posted in: Man broadcasts own suicide live on video streaming site
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MeanRingo
Wow! Lovejapan21, you must be well liked at your school, by students and teachers alike. I hope the 21 doesn't stand for your age. That kind of superiority usually takes longer to cultivate.
Posted in: Grounding the JETs
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MeanRingo
Some very interesting points made above. It is interesting that this program has spawned an international pool of current and former "teachers" who have largely had a similar experience of the host culture, although that is spread across a pretty broad spectrum. As a former JET, there were certainly times when I absolutely hated my job. Were it not for a small collection of friends, and a lovely girlfriend (who became my wife) I would have left after my first year. If I had I would not have seen some of the positive results of my time there. There is literally a generation of kids (I taught in a junior high and did a lot of one shots to local elementary schools) that hopefully discovered that learning English can be fun. I'm sure the majority haven't picked up the language, but I'm sure I helped instill a passion for language in more than a few. I think that is the job of JETs. Sure the program needs an overhaul. So, make it better Japan. Make it better JETs. But don't scrap it. Personally, I would concentrate all ALTs in the elementary schools. Make English an option in junior high, and then let high schools and community centres (so the oldsters have a chance) host JETs for more cultural-type classes. In essence, try to build a desire to learn the language at a younger age and then support that love for learning as they age. It would cut a lot of the waste from the system, increase the opportunities for those who develop the desire and hopefully breed a more proficient speaking ability in the populace.
Posted in: Grounding the JETs
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MeanRingo
Are they the one's driving around in those black vans?
Posted in: Anti-China protest