JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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To be healthy, live in the big city
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Teacher nabbed for using miror to peek up girl's skirt
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Japan's nuclear safety standards flawed, says commission chief
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From carnivores to herbivores: how men are defined in Japan
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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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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- FT English Teachers for Kids - Osaka
- Kohgakusha Co., Ltd. （株式会社興学社）, Osaka
- Salary: ¥255,000 ~ ¥275,000 / Month Travel Expenses, Encouragement of Japanese learning*
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- Translator
- ZAIHON, Inc. (日本財務翻訳株式会社), Tokyo
- Salary: ¥6.0M / Year Negotiable
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Mittsu
If they broke the law, yes. Anyway, it is almost certain that there will be some form of punishment levied against them - someone will have to be blamed for this.
Posted in: Once the nuclear crisis is brought under control, should TEPCO executives face criminal charges at some point in the future?
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Mittsu
i am sure it can be useful but what is the point of people just spewing out endless thoughts/comments/updates whatever? most of it strikes me as banal.
Posted in: Do you use Twitter?
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Mittsu
revip. Lucky why exactly? sure, work isn't our life but some sense of duty to employer and fellow employees must be expected, no? If no, then people shouldn't expect to avoid a degree of oppprobium or, in extreme cases, losing job.
Posted in: Why did those foreigners who decided to leave Japan in the aftermath of the March 11 disaster come in for so much derision from some people who labeled them with words like 'flyjin?'
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Mittsu
Oh, and leavers didn't "hurt Japan". Just let themselves down and hurt themselves. The ones that have returned and i have spoken to seem to feel a sense of shame at their hasty and selfish reaction.
Posted in: Why did those foreigners who decided to leave Japan in the aftermath of the March 11 disaster come in for so much derision from some people who labeled them with words like 'flyjin?'
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Mittsu
Maybe a littel misunderstood. My point is that as an employer i will find it difficult to rely on those who ran away (yes, some of my J staff also did). If for earthquake because we are going to have another big one sometime - silly: if for nuclear because I question their judgement and i also question why they believe it is ok to fail to meet your duty to arrive at work, why it is ok to expect those colleagues who stayed to keep the company going, how you think it is right to expect to keep your job and exactly how you expect your colleagues to respect you for your show of solidarity and sense of duty. Send family by all means (although still stupid) but people can't just take off and expect nothing to change. Hoarding is a different discussion - this one is about "do I stay or do I go".
Posted in: Why did those foreigners who decided to leave Japan in the aftermath of the March 11 disaster come in for so much derision from some people who labeled them with words like 'flyjin?'
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Mittsu
As a boss who has ataff leave, it is now impossible for me to rely on them. They ledft when they were most needed in Japan. If people worried about family, then putfamily on a plane or even go withn them to drop them wgherever and then come back. we had so many staff just left and then arrived in offcies in other countries and expected to be accomodated. For Japanese colleagues who see expats looked after with housing and good salaries and so on, it leaves a bitte taste. Especially senior staff who will surely have lost a degree of resepct from their Japanese staff and colleagues. And rhat for? surely they must have known earthquake risk in Japan is high? and the nuclear scare is just silly - people panic because nuclear is a "black box" - not because there is any real risk. Some people's reactions were plain silly and certainly deserving of a little bit of disapoointment.
Posted in: Why did those foreigners who decided to leave Japan in the aftermath of the March 11 disaster come in for so much derision from some people who labeled them with words like 'flyjin?'
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Mittsu
He has already said he is going for Olympics in 2020 (even though China just had them so zero chance of Japan getting them). lots of gifts and entertainment to be splashed around though.
Posted in: What do you think about Shintaro Ishihara's re-election for a 4th term as Tokyo governor?
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Mittsu
The public get what the public want - that's democracy. Sad indictment on our Japanese friends' expectations from politicians (and could some of what he says be what they are secretly thinking???).
Posted in: What do you think about Shintaro Ishihara's re-election for a 4th term as Tokyo governor?
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Mittsu
Meguro river was lovely. And plenty of drunkenness.
Posted in: Park place
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Mittsu
Just what the market needs - another canned coffee. Personally when i occasionmally drink canned coffee I go for Boss - love the pipe smoking silhouette......
Posted in: Tully's Espresso
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Mittsu
This is not going to end well. Why can't "the West" just stop interfering with other countries' problems?
Posted in: S Africa leader says Libya accepts cease-fire plan
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Mittsu
I wonder how much of this will go missing.......
Posted in: Safes, cash wash up on shores after tsunami
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Mittsu
More happy news like tarento affairs, fashion and beauty and more upbeat stories about the goings on up north.
Posted in: Four weeks after the March 11 quake and tsunami, on what areas would you like to see the media focus their reporting?
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Mittsu
I get that charities are required for this stuff (after all, we can't go up there and personally give our money to the needy) but it's a pity that something like 30% of money collected by cahrities neve rmakes it to the intended recipients.
Posted in: With so many different charities, large and small, collecting donations for the survivors of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, what is the most efficient way of allocating the billions of yen so that the money gets to the people who need it as fast as possible? And what criteria should be used to decide who gets how much?
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Mittsu
When does it ever become ok to perform?
Posted in: Concerts by Ayumi Hamasaki, Kumi Koda postponed or canceled
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Mittsu
He should say "The situation in Tohoku has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage"
Posted in: Morale boost
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Mittsu
The Japanese way of deflecting critiscism and gaining sympathy - go sick.
Posted in: TEPCO to scrap 4 reactors at crippled nuclear plant; president hospitalized
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Mittsu
Anderson Cooper may be annoying, but that doesn't mean that CNN is all lies. Sensationalist maybe, but not lies. Sadly that is what most news outlets are these days - shock sells papers/programmes.
Posted in: CNN mobilizes its news gathering troops for Japan, Middle East
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Mittsu
Avatar was average and the new one is not likely to improve on that.
Posted in: Tsunami causes delay to 'Avatar' sequel
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Mittsu
They are silly but pander to Japanese love of a uniform and their need to show that they are in this with the workers....... I am worried that they don't also wear their helmets as Japanese protocol and elf and safety would dictate.
Posted in: What do you think of the work overalls that Prime Minister Naoto Kan, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano, State Minister for Consumer Affairs and Food Safety Renho and other cabinet ministers wear when they attend press conferences?