JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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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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- Part Time Assistant Language Teacher - Kanagawa Prefecture - late-March start
- Interac, Kanagawa
- Salary: ¥9,000 / Day per 4 class shift
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Neo_Rio
Valentine's Day...
....because there's nothing more romantic than being forced by society and your significant other, to buy them things, or face a night of no nookie.
Posted in: Lots of chocolate, but little love on Valentine’s Day in Japan
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Neo_Rio
I've met lots of girls like this, and typically they just like to use men for sex. Starts off fun, but then she starts to hate herself for being that way, starts disrespecting the man because he allows it... and then it's all over before any sense of long-term understanding and friendship is discovered. A pity really.
You can sort of tell she's like this just by the music videos she attaches herself to.
Anyway, just my 2c.
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Neo_Rio
Land of all greed, and the home of deranged?
Posted in: Shoppers scuffle, pepper-spray rivals in U.S. Black Friday spree
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Neo_Rio
There's an awful lot of dreck on TV in any country you go to. You just have to watch it long enough to figure out what each country finds important.... and then switch it off.
Posted in: Japanese viewers tuning out, turning off their TVs
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Neo_Rio
Maybe all the idiot traders got suckered in to selling the yen off for the US dollar during the huge move, but we know the Japanese finmin can't withstand a good intervention like the "Gnomes of Zurich" can. The smart money just waited for the finmin to place their selling trap, but it was so obvious as to what price point the intervention was finished at, it was laughable. Ready to buy into the retracement with no fear whatsoever.
Thanks for the free money.
Posted in: Japan unlikely to win currency 'war of nerves' against speculators: analysts
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Neo_Rio
@okimike67
Agreed.
Atlas has shrugged.
Posted in: Grounding takes gloss off Qantas brand
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Neo_Rio
If they're offering free trips to Okinawa, sign me up.
Posted in: Japan to offer 10,000 free trips to foreigners to boost tourism industry
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Neo_Rio
Sorry, but this goes beyond the pale. From my understanding of the situation, Fukushima is going to stay a radioactive contamined zone long after we're all dead. Nobody should be doing anything near the plant other than workers risking their lives trying in vain to clean the mess up.
Posted in: Fukushima to get power theme park for children
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Neo_Rio
Of course it doesn't make sense that the yen is strong... but that's how the FX market works. People sold off the yen after the earthquake, and somebody had to be there to buy it! Hence the price went up.
Posted in: Azumi says yen's strength not economically justified
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Neo_Rio
Yep... Australia has no transport infrastructure to deal with the rising refugee populations, because everyone and his dog wants to move there. End result is a lot of these cities are experiencing traffic gridlock now because the state governments would rather build football stadiums than deal with public transport issues, or even fix hospitals. House prices are ludicrous because if it's one thing Australians like to do when they get together, is develop property and whack huge price tags on it. Just look at what they've done to Niseko in Hokkaido.
Posted in: Melbourne named world's most liveable city; Tokyo 18th
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Neo_Rio
I'm inclined to recall Japanese history in relation to the mercury poisoning in Minamata.. You'd have to be insane to think that history isn't going to repeat itself this time around.
Posted in: Rice shipped from Fukushima Prefecture
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Neo_Rio
Seems like Japanese politicians have no idea how the foreign exchange market actually works. ...because if they actually knew how it worked, they'd brown their undies.
Posted in: Vice finance minister describes yen's recent moves as 'violent'
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Neo_Rio
"becoming increasingly weird" by what standard?
Posted in: Akihabara becoming increasingly weird
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Neo_Rio
How about banning psychotic people!!
Knives don't kill people, psychos do!
Posted in: Violent game launch canceled after Akihabara rampage; gov't discusses regulations on knives
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Neo_Rio
Society has already made prostitution fashionable in Japan. Women are brought up to only have respect if they are with a guy makes an "effort" for her, and taught to feel bad about themselves if they simply "give it away for nothing".
What we're seeing here is the extreme end result of society's mores. It's not that these girls need the money - it's because society chastises them into it anyway, and if they're going to do it at all -- may as well profit from it, right?
Posted in: Police raid 'blind-date cafe' in Tokyo, taking 31 high school, college girls into custody
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Neo_Rio
It's honorable only because there are men dumb enough to pay to spend time with a woman - as if the man's time has no value in and of itself. Then again we're talking about salary men who have been trained to devalue their work and time to in order to make corporate profits - so the shoe fits.
Posted in: Hostessing an honorable profession, young women say
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Neo_Rio
I know a lot of guys here who dislike fat western women for being fat. While on one hand you can say that this is mean and superficial - on the other hand, fat women are generally unhealthy, greedy, and don't take good care of themselves. Call it a generalization, but we don't have time to talk to everyone and usually physical appearance causes people to make snap judgments about things involving their own personal happiness.
These are all VALID reasons to avoid fat people of either gender - especially when considering a life partner. It's not so superficial after all - and the only people who say that it IS superficial are too scared to step foot inside a gym!
Posted in: Foreign women in Japan sometimes remark how hard it is to get a date with foreign men. What are your views on this?
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Neo_Rio
While I do think that Japanese women are generally better at knowing what to do to attract men - I'm not going to claim that they're all perfect either. In fact, there are some Japanese women who think a little TOO professionally about getting men - if you catch my drift. You can easily spot them out because they're typically vacant, passive-aggressive, and deliberately to find rich men. Similarly, I have met some rather nice foreign women here who do take good care of themselves (too few unfortunately)
In any case, man, woman, Japanese, foreign - if you're not doing your best to improve yourself and make yourself somebody who somebody else would be proud to be with - you have nobody to blame but yourself.
Posted in: Foreign women in Japan sometimes remark how hard it is to get a date with foreign men. What are your views on this?
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Neo_Rio
It's quite simple really... Japanese women try VERY hard at doing themselves up in ways to get men - and quite frankly they outdress, outmanner, outfitness, and lastly but most importantly - put out - more than the average western women.
Posted in: Foreign women in Japan sometimes remark how hard it is to get a date with foreign men. What are your views on this?
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Neo_Rio
Traditionally, men have wanted wives in order to ensure that the child the woman has is "theirs". To that end, men have treated women like personal property - and had that enshrined in religion (marriage) to scare women into behaving.
Meanwhile, women learnt to fulfill their role in the kitchen and be paid for their work - essentially high-class prostitution (but we can't call it that because it's not "PC". Society still approves the ownership of women by men).
That model is no longer sustainable these days. Most men don't want a slave. Women have equal rights in our societies (with exception of orthodox Islamic states such as Saudi Arabia where women REALLY ARE a man's property). Women these days do not need to tie themselves to a man to get by financially - or prostitute themselves.
There's no reason why two rational people can't decide to have a child together. There is no need for marriage.
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