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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horserfella - mobile phone conversations are irritating to those around the speaker pretty much everywhere so why single out the train? randomenigma - you're absolutely right. BUT a friend of mine HAD to take a call and lowered her voice and covered her mouth - she was more or less ordered off the train! Another friend speaking to her friends (in person, in Danish) on a train was shushed by a woman standing next to her!
Posted in: What cell phone habits by some people bother you the most?
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Scary!
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As 2020hindsight also said, I really do not understand why it is considered rude to have a phone conversation on the train yet it's fine in any other public place....There may be requests to switch off phones but this is not enforced.
Posted in: What cell phone habits by some people bother you the most?
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bcbrownboy - pierce does not always mean going all the way through. Evil woman, what an awful means of discipline! Never heard of a time-out?
Posted in: Foster mother arrested for piercing 7-year-old daughter with pin in Hokkaido
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She wasn't injured? An exaggeration by someone then?
Posted in: Man arrested for hitting 15-year-old girl with metal bat in Yamaguchi
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No martial arts films, boys?
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Sorry, there is a lot of room for doubt here. If you were woken by someone kissing or groping you, you then find your phone and take time to type a message? Surely your reaction would be stronger than that?
Posted in: Man arrested for kissing woman during overnight bus trip in Shimane
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"50m from a police station" - so? If she was waiting to cross then the lights would have been green (or blue, whatever) for cars. It would take no more than a couple of seconds for the car to slow, perp to grab her bag and go. So no time for cops to react.
Posted in: Bag with Y1 million snatched from woman 50 meters from Osaka police station
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The poor jogger for having to come across the situation. What must trouble someone so much that they should kill themselves in what must be an excruciatingly painful way..?
Posted in: Policeman dead after setting fire to himself in Yamaguchi
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Yet another weird family murder....
Posted in: 15-year-old girl arrested for abandoning mother's body in Okinawa home
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Spidey, this is true but you can't watch them 100% of the time. Children can be very fast and these things can happen in a frighteningly short space of time....My sympathy to the parents.
Posted in: Body of missing 6-year-old girl found in pond in Fukushima
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KumaNiku - well said.
Posted in: Suspect arrested in deadly Australian fires
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Kwatt - OK, that might be the case but I am sure that births are not induced to be sure that there is a doctor available. I'm also even more sure that women do not enter hospital around their due date to ensure they have a doctor or bed (which you were originally saying), unless there is a problem which may need monitoring.
Posted in: Mother and child die after birth in toilet in Aichi apartment
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Disillusioned - the infant mortality rate in Japan is among the lowest in the world
Posted in: Mother and child die after birth in toilet in Aichi apartment
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Sorry Cleo, what I said may have come across wrongly. Indeed in a way we are lucky to have given birth here. No offence was intended to you. My remarks were directed towards Kwatt.
Posted in: Mother and child die after birth in toilet in Aichi apartment
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Kwatt - Cleo is not "lucky", she is a normal woman giving birth in Japan. I have given birth here, many of my friends (Japanese too) also and noone knows what on earth you are talking about. Yes, this is Japan. The pre-natal care I received was second to none. What are you basing your theory on? Load of nonsense! This is a very sad case with not much back-up information.
Posted in: Mother and child die after birth in toilet in Aichi apartment
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space monkey and neverknow2, sincere condolences.
Posted in: Australia rethinks evacuation policies after wildfires kill 181
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PepinGalarga- read the reports. The fire moved faster than a locomotive.
Posted in: Australian fire zone declared a crime scene; death toll 130
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It's completely irrelevant.
Posted in: Should the abductee issue be part of the agenda for the six-nation talks on North Korea's nuclear program?
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For those who thought people could have escaped sooner: one person who was interviewed said that at one point the fire was 70km away - within 30 minutes it had covered that distance and engulfed everything....noone could have predicted that. My condolences to everyone involved...Gambatte brave firefighters.
Posted in: Australian fire zone declared a crime scene; death toll 130