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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- 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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Noripinhead
Actually, I'm surprised he got life in prison. These kinds of cases usually end in a relatively light sentence. I think given the high profile and international attention, the court probably gave him the stiffest penalty they were allowed under Japanese law. There was no way he was going to get the death penalty.
Posted in: Hawkers 'pleased' with life sentence for Ichihashi
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Noripinhead
I think these days everybody has the ability to know a little about almost everything but there is not much depth of knowledge or intellectual curiosity due to Wikipedia and instant answers from googling things. We've lost something along the way...
Posted in: Inquiring minds now turn to Google, not friends
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Noripinhead
The lack of a subject in Japanese makes it easy to misinterpret. In English, something needs to be done to something else for anything to make any sense. But in Japanese of course it's not always clear who's doing something to what--ironic when that issue is the most critical in a court of law. The vagueness of Japanese is interesting given the general precision of life in Japan (trains coming on time, more or less, and a general sense of anal retentiveness).
Posted in: I've studied many translations in different fields but nothing exceeds court interpretation when it comes to the amount of errors made.
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Noripinhead
"Schools break for summer vacation." So who's going to repair them?
Posted in: Schools break for summer vacation
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Noripinhead
I guess my first impression after picking one up was that I wasn't able to see what's "under the hood". Mind you, I haven't really played around with it yet, so I'm just looking for information and curious if you can indeed see the system and settings, etc. as you can with a regular computer.
Posted in: Apple profit rockets with hot iPad, iPhone sales
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Noripinhead
Instead of building bridges that go nowhere, the government should be widening the roads and making bike paths throughout the city for easy commuting and recreation. That seems like a no-brainer. The reason why Japanese cyclists are so brainless is that the infrastructure is absent. The environment gives rise to the chaos, naturally.
Posted in: Cyclists confront increasingly bumpy situation
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Noripinhead
I have to admit I was almost suckered into buying one of those iPads. It's a poor excuse for a real computer. Where's the real functionality? And the screen display was surprisingly bad. It's all hype. Tell me that I'm missing something.
Posted in: Apple profit rockets with hot iPad, iPhone sales
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Noripinhead
I think in terms of America's perceptions of Japan, the tide really turned way back in 2005 when "The Last Samurai" came out. It was a Hollywood film that glorified bushido, the way of the warrior. An American movie with that kind of message would have been unthinkable in even the 1980s. A tea ceremony at the Pearl Harbor Memorial is peaceful and more touchy-feely than bushido at least.
Posted in: Pearl Harbor memorial to host Japan tea ceremony
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Noripinhead
Cool. Reminds me of the opening of "Hawaii Five-O".
Posted in: Big bird
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Noripinhead
Nice postcard blue sky. Hard to believe that it's in Japan.
Posted in: A day at the beach
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Noripinhead
Looks hot enough to fry an egg on.
Posted in: Iron man
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Noripinhead
Definitely felt it here in Tokyo. A long rolling quake but I was too tired turn on the telly.
Posted in: 5.6 quake rattles Japan near Fukushima site
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Noripinhead
Somehow it reminds me of a scene from "Apocalypto".
Posted in: Sunny side up
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Noripinhead
90 seconds is late? Is everybody running on atomic watches?
Posted in: Reconstruction minister resigns over offensive remarks; Hirano takes over
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Noripinhead
"Miss Earth Japan Contest"? Is there a separate Earth in Japan? Before you answer that...
Posted in: Ex-AKB48 member Shiho Watanabe places second in Miss Earth Japan contest
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Noripinhead
This thing about waiting 10 minutes and getting mad is something strange about Japan. People can line up for an hour and half for a bowl of ramen but waiting 10 minutes for a busy emergency relief official can't be tolerated? What's up with that?
Posted in: Reconstruction minister resigns over offensive remarks; Hirano takes over
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Noripinhead
Can't wait to take a trip in one of those 787s. Looks like a Dreamliner indeed. Boeing makes good planes. Always have.
Posted in: Boeing Japan
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Noripinhead
I saw it as rolling hills looking toward the sun rising in the East. Hardly insulting.
Posted in: Big fan
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Noripinhead
That's a huge skeleton of a....predator? Or a scavenger? Paleontologists are divided on the question in regards to T-Rex. I guess when they say "natural postures" he's not upright like Godzilla. That was proven to be physically improbable after computer-based structural analysis.
Posted in: A sight for saur eyes
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Noripinhead
Can you say "prima donna"?
Posted in: Reconstruction minister resigns over offensive remarks; Hirano takes over