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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OssanAmerica
Have the Europeans all lost their cojones? Don't they realize that this position is exactly what the pirates want to able to continue their activities? No freaking wonder they couldn't do anyhthing about Bosnia by themselves.
Posted in: EU force says anti-piracy raids endanger hostages
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OssanAmerica
Yes I did. Saw a lot of movies but didn't see any of those.
Posted in: Hornet's nest
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OssanAmerica
The orginal B&W series goes back to like 1939. Starred Keye Luke as Kato. But your right, Kato was "katou" a young Japanese but the anti-Japanese sentiment and build up to WWII called for blurring that point it seems. The 1966 series that had Bruce Lee was of course in color and that's the one that many of us remember. BTW I just saw this Rogen/Chou Green Hornet (in 3D no less) and it was pretty funny. Silly but funny.
Posted in: Hornet's nest
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OssanAmerica
I live in the United States, watch a fair amount of movies. I have no idea who this Rogen is.
Posted in: Hornet's nest
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OssanAmerica
Still wondering if I should go see it. Grew up watching Bruce Lee playing Kato so not sure if I'm willing to tarnish my memories.
Posted in: Hornet's nest
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OssanAmerica
So you agree with Sting who says; "the best way is by starting a debate, not by forcing foreign opinion." And therefore disagree with the approach taken by O'Barry and Psyhoyos?
I'll respond to this as soon as I can stop laughing.
Posted in: Sting meets dolphin advocate Ric O'Barry; advocates debate
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OssanAmerica
Why cleo? It's called being "unbiased".
Posted in: Sting meets dolphin advocate Ric O'Barry; advocates debate
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OssanAmerica
No it's not. Chinese military and territorial expansion is a real threat and concern to all of our Asian allies.
Wrong. China has been the unspoken enemy of the USA since the communists kicked the KMT off he mainland, right through the Korean War when Chinese troops killed US and other UN troops, and are now bent on military and territorial expansion in Asia. All of China's neighboring Asian countries are turning to he United States to counter balance China's advances.
Posted in: Obama holding first White House dinner for China in 13 years
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OssanAmerica
Why? We're the ones feeding Hu.
Posted in: Obama holding first White House dinner for China in 13 years
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OssanAmerica
Wow you really don't have a clue do you? We don't have a crucial relationship that could dictate war or peace with our allies. Nor do we have as many complaints and issues, both economic and strategic about any of our allies as we do with the Communist Chinese Dictatorship.
Posted in: Obama holding first White House dinner for China in 13 years
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OssanAmerica
"Some big questions remain: Who will cook?"
I think they should order take out.
Posted in: Obama holding first White House dinner for China in 13 years
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OssanAmerica
The fundamental flaw in your thinking is that "stricter gun laws" would prevent criminals from procuring and using guns. Criminals don't abide by "gun laws" they buy them from criminals who sell them because their whole intent is for criominal purposes. With "stricter gun laws" as you suggest the victim could have been unarmed, but the criminal would be armed.
Posted in: Silence greets calls for changes in U.S. gun laws
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OssanAmerica
Yes I would probably make similar gestures back at them. But I would't go grab my shotgun and kill them. If NKorea doesn't like the US and SKorea conducting excercises near their border no one is stopping them from doing the same near SKorea's border. It doesn't justify firing artillary on a known inhabited island and killing people, does it?
Posted in: South Korea, Japan continue hard line on N Korea
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OssanAmerica
Totally disagree. The North Koreans have abducted an estimated 400 plus South Korean civilians, far far more than any Japanese, and you can bet their survivors aren't going to remain quiet or ignored under the current anti-NKorea mood in South Korea.
Posted in: South Korea, Japan continue hard line on N Korea
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OssanAmerica
Some people feel that NKorea was successful in pulling off their attacks on SKorea as they had correctly calculated that China would not only defend them from any UN actions but any actions by SKOrea and the United States would be seen by China as a threat to themselves. However, only of NKorea's goals has always been to keep SKorea and Japan at odds and in this regard they appear to have completely miscalculated. And more signficantly they seem to have miscalculated to what extent SKOrea would keep putting up with NKorea's continuous provocations.
Posted in: South Korea, Japan continue hard line on N Korea
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OssanAmerica
A pleasant thought for sure but ironically it is NKorea's benefactor China that has made it very clear to the world that bringing up the living standards and economy of a dictatorship doesn't bring it any closer to democracy, as the dictatoprship simply tightens it's grip on the people and now with the improved economy becomes an even bigger threat to it;s neighbors. No, I'd say the Kim regime needs to be ousted first before we can help the people of NKorea.
Posted in: North Korea's military: A bad hand played well
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OssanAmerica
No it's quite plausible and "China" is correct. The United States has it's own problems but the above describes China's.
Posted in: China has some major issues coming
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OssanAmerica
I agree with many posters in that almost all 40 year olds I know would've taken down most of these brats. But of course the victim could have been drunk, especially at that hour, and taken completely off guard. On the other hand maybe incidentrs like this will put an end to the ridiculous habit of Japanese businessmen passed out drunk all over the place including train station stairs at night.
Posted in: 8 youths arrested for 'hunting old men' in Yokohama
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OssanAmerica
An unwritten practice has been for decades that Chinese fishing boats enter the waters and they are told by the JCG to get out. Which they do, often ciomming bak after the JCG boat leaves. This "unofficial" relationship has worked without any major problems until this particular Chines capt who was apparently drunk decided to ram the JCG boats.
Exactly.
What other law are they going to apply? He would have been charged, fined and deported. End of story.
The district presecutors dropped the case obviously because of pressure from the government. Japan folishly expected China to behave in a mature and non-belligerent manner, perhaps requesting Chinese police authorites the right to question the drunk captain and atttend the proceedings. They didn't expect China would act like a hostile two year old.
THe US-Japan alliance was never wavering, it isn't based on one USMC air station. IOt was and stioll is an issue, but a far cry from what you make it out to be.
Intersting speculation, but that's all it is; speculation. The biggest problem with that is that there no way the JCG col make a Chinbese fishing boat captain, drunk or otherwise, chase JCG boats from behind and ram them twice. The videos clearly show the Chinese boat could have gone in any direction but chose to target the JCG ships. This idea of "provoking" the chinese fishing boat is sheer nonsense.
Posted in: China has some major issues coming
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OssanAmerica
It boggles the mind to think that there's even a demand for turtles here in the U.S. that they have to smuggle them in. I'd x-ray all those turtles for hidden drugs.
Posted in: 2 Japanese men arrested in Los Angeles in turtle smuggling case