JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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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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- ALT - Mie Prefecture - Yokkaichi City - June start
- NPO法人グローバル教育推進機構（GLAD), Mie
- Salary: ¥230,000 / Month For a full working month. Some months differ.
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- Business Teaching Positions - Part-time - Kanto Region
- Interac, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥3,000 ~ ¥5,000 / Hour
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Monaka
It's a nice design.
(That map in the background looks like it's from The Village where No. 6 was taken.)
Posted in: Big fan
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Monaka
Should've stuck with Orser!
Posted in: Ice rivals
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Monaka
Saw her perform on SNL... ouch.
Posted in: Lady Gaga to perform at June 25 charity event in Chiba
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Monaka
Sadly, that's his factory that's seen in the foreground of the infamous video of the tsunami hitting Rikuzentakata. The four-sided blue sign with white "Suisen" characters that was atop one of the buildings can be seen on the right side of the video.
Also, check out Suisen's homepage; there's a sad message there.
Posted in: Sake brewer loses all to tsunami, vows to rebuild
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Monaka
I have a 15-year-old boxed bottle of Suisen in my closet. I kept putting off opening it. I was just going to dump it out... but not anymore.
Anyone know how long sake lasts unopened?
Posted in: Sake brewer loses all to tsunami, vows to rebuild
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Monaka
Anybody know if there are lists of evacuees on-line anywhere? I'm trying to find out if some of my friends in Rikuzentakata and Ofunato are OK.
In the area there are reporters getting live TV feeds out and obviously AP photojournalists transmitting their photos, so I don't see why this isn't possible.
Posted in: Evacuees
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Monaka
In the '90s, I lived and taught in Ofunato, the city next to Rikuzentakata. In Rikuzentakata, I remember: Mr. Tanaka's drivers' ed. school, doing the annual bike race along the streets, Johnny's Jazz Bar, Akari-chan's (one of my 4-year-old students) mother's gasoline stand...
A few of our students came from Rikuzentakata. In the years after teaching, I have always thought about what became of the students. Did they go to university? Did they stay in the city? Did they get married? Did they have families of their own?
Now it pains me to have to wonder whether or not they have passed away.
Posted in: Devastation
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Monaka
I think these may be ume (plum) blossoms, rather than sakura (cherry) blossoms; ume bloom at this time of year.
Posted in: Birdie
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Monaka
No need to go in there; all he had to do was watch Malcolm McLaren's 1984 "Madame Butterfly" music-video.
Posted in: 49-year-old man dresses as woman, enters female public bath area
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Monaka
Looks pretty... pretty garish! I prefer the Griswolds' display.
Posted in: Blue Shinjuku
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Monaka
That "yamamba" look is so 1999!
Posted in: Check-out time
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Monaka
Every country she tries to go to should do the same thing. America can have her and keep her.
Posted in: Check-out time
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Monaka
Heh, heh... a Canadian teen milking money from U.S. tweens... ya gotta love that!
Posted in: Bieber's 'Baby' is most-watched video on YouTube
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Monaka
How 'bout "Raunchy Ronnie's"?
Posted in: Debate swirls over best abbreviation for McDonald's
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Monaka
"First Guy to Touch the Ground Loses"
Posted in: Kansai International Airport brings in Segways to beef up security
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Monaka
Wearing red, CANADIAN-made Louis Garneau helmets!
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Monaka
Canadian officials are asking the athletes to bring some snow with them when they come. Hope he can bring some too---the snow-snakes are the worst at this time of year when there isn't much snow and the temperatures are above zero.
Posted in: SMAP singer Masahiro Nakai to be TBS' main commentator for Winter Olympics