JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Core Developer - コアディベロッパー
- Midokura Japan K.K. - ミドクラジャパン株式会社, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥4.0M ~ ¥10.0M / Year Negotiable
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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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- 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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MrMukatsuku
Tried smoking them?
Posted in: 8 people arrested for use of illegal drugs in open-air live concert in Gunma
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MrMukatsuku
I don't think anyone is having a stab at you seansezso, we're all here trying to find the truth.
Posted in: The do's and don'ts of having an affair
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MrMukatsuku
Preferably not this dude...
http://www.japantoday.com/category/crime/view/psychiatrist-arrested-for-threatening-colleague-in-yokohama
Posted in: 26-year-old woman found stabbed to death in apartment in Tachikawa, boyfriend missing
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MrMukatsuku
Or possibly "I owe you, I cannot pay, you're pi$$ing me off by always asking me to pay, I'll teach you not to pi$$ me off."
As OgieDoggie says: Dig deeper you journalists. Otherwise your readers are left with nothing to do but speculate on the intentions of the players.
Posted in: Restaurant owner stabbed to death by regular customer in Osaka
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MrMukatsuku
Got in a bit quick there Sarge! Guess I'm a slow typist!
Posted in: Tires on 100 cars slashed in Fukushima
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MrMukatsuku
At least it wasn't a group of people who were slashed.
The local tyre sales outlets must be wringing their hands in glee!
Posted in: Tires on 100 cars slashed in Fukushima
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MrMukatsuku
Typoons are bigger and more frequent...
Forget the Dome. Head for the Ropp. 'hills'!
Posted in: Tokyo won't be able to cope with Katrina-like flooding
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MrMukatsuku
blvtzpk - Might I presume that they are only 'warm' because of the studio lights? In all other respects they don't do anything that warrants their appearance in front of the camera!
Posted in: What do you think of the quality of Japanese TV variety programs?
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MrMukatsuku
ack. your positive post NICOLE77.
I was looking for feedback on an idea about how to develop 'talent', in the western sense of the word, not the Japanese (Engrish) sense of the word. Note, I am not suggesting western style stage schools, Japan would obviously want to do it their own way ...
Japanese TV currently harvests talent for corporate profit, rather than culturing talent for 'quality' entertainment. (talent used in the western sense of the word)
Thanks for the Engrish translation of 'debut' and 'talent'.
Posted in: What do you think of the quality of Japanese TV variety programs?
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MrMukatsuku
Having not seen a single positive response to the question of "What do you think of the quality of Japanese TV variety programs?" the judgement must surely be a resounding: "cr@p!"
Everyone wants to be famous, but doesn't want to put in years of work at stage school... are there any stage schools in Japan?
Current technology, used so often in the production of mainstream, J-pop singles, or any single for that matter, means that any old howler can sing like an angel. This promotes an endless stream of talentless bodies that will forever be paraded on terrestrial Japanese TV, who can do no more than warble into a microphone and make out like it's Friday night at the local karaoke bar. Only, next Friday night you are not on the TV, you've been dropped for a new flavour of the month.
The true talent, and I say this with a bucket of salt, are those who come into mainstream media via a 'traditional' Japanese theatrical background.
The point I am making is: The selection process of discovering 'Talent' and putting it straight on the TV is flawed. Talent must be developed before its debut. Oh, and I'm sick of the way the word 'debut' is used here in Japan. A debut is made ONLY AFTER the debutante has been polished and schooled in the ways of 'high-society'. The word debut in the Japanese context literally means: Here now, still debuting tomorrow, still debuting next week, and is gone after a month or so. A debut happens only once folks - one day, one time then your debut is over. I digress... Talent must be developed before its debut.
Being a performer in the TV Media light is a profession, and must be treated as such. Talent must be developed. First, three to five years of stage school would weed out the deadbeat-wannabes - wannabes who want all the fame but don't want to work at it. A school that produces everything from actors to writers to sound engineers. Once you have your stageschool production line going, it should steadily churn out cohorts of real talent. Second, and this will go against the Japanese salaryman ethos of: "Wring 'em dry and throw them away", your talent must be developed and grown through a series of increasing challenges.
I can't see anything like a stage school happening, but I though I'd express the idea anyway to promote a bit of discussion.
Comments? Ideas? Insults?
Posted in: What do you think of the quality of Japanese TV variety programs?
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MrMukatsuku
Sorry cleo, you're not a member of the Evangelical Choir of Consumption - with the current 'quality of Japanese TV variety programs' you dog must have very clean ears.
Oxymoron example: 'the quality of Japanese TV variety programs'.
I had a post removed too! It was a doozie.
Posted in: What do you think of the quality of Japanese TV variety programs?
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MrMukatsuku
Careful blvtzpk, maybe cleo will suggest (cue the Evangelical Choir of Consumption) : 'Buy another television!'. Personally I don't watch terrestrial tv, opting instead for satellite tv, or the Internet. I still pop back to jp native tv to remind me just how bad it is, and to motivate me to use my time in a more profitable way.
Posted in: What do you think of the quality of Japanese TV variety programs?
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MrMukatsuku
Remember ppl, Japan is 'The Church of Consumption' - even when it doesn't look like it... - you ARE being CM'd. (CM = Commercial) The Media here is always trying to sell you something, or someone.
Posted in: What do you think of the quality of Japanese TV variety programs?
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MrMukatsuku
OK Zyb, no need to breath - Rate does not enter into it. Crime is crime. It is not seasonal. It does not keep business hours. Real people get hurt.
What is important is the perception of our hosts, and Rice has shot himself in the foot and handed them the gun.
Japanese people in Yokosuka see a 'Westerner' and they equate this with danger.
Posted in: The serious crime rate for U.S. service members off their bases is approximately half that of the Japanese population.
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MrMukatsuku
"On average, US forces in Japan commit half as many serious crimes as the general public, announced their commander Lieutenant General Edward Rice, based in Yokosuka. Japan."
Peculiar, because close to 500,000 Japanese live in Yokosuka, and an estimated 10,000 US troops live and work on the US base.
Does this mean that it only takes 10,000 Americans to commit the same number of crimes as 250,000 Japanese?
So an American serviceman is only 25 times more likely to perform a serious criminal act than the locals.
Now I understand why, when I lived in Yokosuka, the majority of the local population avoided me, regarding me with about as much affection as you would reserve for a baby-eating monster that could go off-reservation at any moment. The locals that found out I was not American were fine but living in such a charged atmosphere, I got out and moved to ****** - where all of the local kids have a chirpy 'Hello' whenever they see me and the mothers don't regard me as an American looking for a KFC (Kentucky Fried Child).
Posted in: The serious crime rate for U.S. service members off their bases is approximately half that of the Japanese population.
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MrMukatsuku
okapake - Only every man on the planet wishes the same!
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