JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Corporate Business English Trainers
- ACT Systems, Inc.（株式会社アクト・システムズ）, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥269,500 ~ ¥280,000 / Month
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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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PepinGalarga
Looks like he got the stuff. I'd like to see him against Juan Manuel Lopez, WBO Super Bantamweight Champion from Puerto Rico, who is fighting as I write this. GO JUANMA!!
Posted in: Salgado, Nishioka claim WBC titles
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PepinGalarga
she knows what she's doing.
Posted in: Dancer, biker, newscaster— Meet NHK World’s Yuko Fukushima
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PepinGalarga
It's a consolation prize for not getting the Olympics.
Reading CNN is so funny, how they spin it. It's like watching Fox News. Perhaps according to CNN Jon Favreau should have got it?
I think he still has got a lot of work to do, but this should open a lot of doors.
Posted in: Obama's Nobel honors promise, not action
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PepinGalarga
The pictures should be released. it is what it is. The names of the people working there are already pretty much all in the public record, so there should be nothing to hide. They can also blur the faces of any CIA or sensitive personnel, as when other secret documents are declassified. This is just evidence of torture, and Obama flip flopping on this is not good at all.
Posted in: Congress set to act to keep prisoner abuse photos hidden
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PepinGalarga
Maybe he was trying to make himself a hemp rope. He kinds deserves what he got for being so stupid.
Posted in: High school student caught with cannabis resin
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PepinGalarga
a one time compliance then receiving a bonanza of aid is very tricky to arrange. NK would have to comply with everything, and there's no guarantee that they will keep doing what they are doing after they get the money anyway.
I would like to see this list of conitions, just to make sure that the Alien Abduction, er sorry, Abduction of Japanese issue is not in there. Otherwise the US as member of the "six-party talks" should require that Japan return all 100+ abducted US Citizen children.
Posted in: S Korea, Japan say no aid until N Korea disarms
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PepinGalarga
The picture is purposely angled to show maximum damage, when we know it may not be so significant. Brownie's doing a heck of a job here.
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PepinGalarga
Haeundae is great. Good party scene. Follow the other posts tips and go during the right times of the year. Big tip: stay away from Texas Street and other dubious areas if you wanna keep your shirt on.
Posted in: Pusan festival mixes Asian film, Hollywood glamor
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PepinGalarga
Let me correct myself: there may be a special tariff or anti-dumping quota in effect, but that may only delay the inevitable. Inefficient or non-competitive industries need to move into some special niche markets and either focus on high-value added products or creative designs.
Posted in: Domestic jeans makers panting for survival
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PepinGalarga
Any low-tech textile made in Japan cannot compete with China.
In China, textile industry is extremely low cost, and low margin (less than 5%). Smart companies like Uniqlo are taking advantage of the supply glut.
Proud companies in Japan might as well get ready to close. There are no protectionist measures to help them.
Japan has to focus on high-tech textiles based on leading edge high-performance materials or nanotechnology.
Posted in: Domestic jeans makers panting for survival
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PepinGalarga
I do believe that it's partially effective to at least keep those obviously sick home. In Japan you're supposed to go to work even if you have Ebola or Bubonic Plague... It's a way to let people save face.
Posted in: Nissan heat sensors guard workers against flu
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PepinGalarga
So they wont rely on the influence of one person, but "several". Sounds like the Joker is talking.
Posted in: England's World Cup bid learns from Obama's Olympic flop
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PepinGalarga
How could it be that this girl has never been to a bar before? What hellhole has she been in the last 5 years?
Posted in: Maki Horikita drinks up at Suntory Cocktail Awards
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PepinGalarga
I was there last year man. What a party.
Haeundae is the name of the beach where the festival is held, but i doubt that's why they called the movie like that.
Posted in: Pusan festival mixes Asian film, Hollywood glamor
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PepinGalarga
if the US bases would close in Okinawa, the economy there would collapse overnight. They cant rely only on tourism.
Posted in: Okada says U.S. troop burden on Okinawa needs easing
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PepinGalarga
Those military commanders have little loyalty to their new commander in chief. Their agenda is to keep the ammo flowing and the bombs falling. Politically, Obama is in a very delicate situation as every decision he makes is second guessed, and losers like McCain try to quarterback from the back of the bus.
Counter-terrorism, counter-insurgency... why not be pro-something... Stop going against the current, and repeat the same mistakes of every invading force for the last century.
Afghanistan is a nation so different culturally from Iraq, and even Iran. Very traditional, and not as open to foreign things. In Afghanistan, the enemy is the average afghan person living in the remote mountainous regions, and there's many more children ready to join the fight once they are old enough to carry a weapon. Non-combatants could care less about what the US is doing there, they just want life to go back to normal, even if it means dealing with the Taliban.
If we work on community development, and increasing the literacy and education rate, there we can loosen the grip of the fundamentalists and dependence on opium farming. It will take a few generations, but it's the only thing thas has not been tried in the last 100 years. Eliminating insurgents will not be fulfilled by raining bullets and missiles into the general population until everyone around is dead, or even on some remote mountaintop.
We had a big chance when the Russians left, and we blew it then, and look how much it cost us. Let's not blow it again.
The average American doesn't care about the average Afghani any more than they care for the average Saudi, regardless of the injustices taking place in both nations. I agree that the Saudi government is not a state sponsor of terrorism, but how many of the 20 hijackers were Saudi???
I would agree with a surge 100% if the main objective was to achieve national security while rebuilding, community development and education were the main objectives. Just a surge to have more boots and more guns on the ground will lead to failure.
Posted in: Obama rules out cutting troop levels in Afghanistan
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PepinGalarga
did they do Squid-flavored pepsi already?
Posted in: Azuki-flavored Pepsi
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PepinGalarga
sellout. she's gotta pay the billz like everyone else. got no more skillz.
Posted in: Yuming and Kurumi mix it up with Gap
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PepinGalarga
Obama's generals' are trigger-happy republican-leaning officers that would love to go at it their way and make him look out of control in the process. They are really pushing their luck by making policy statements without checking with the White House.
Look at what's happening in Iraq now, all those communities that the soldiers have left have returned to their old tribal ways, and most of those that collaborated are now persecuted as traitors.
McCain lsot the elections by a landslide. Yeah Obama's numbers are not as good now, but he's the only one that has the mandate to fix the situation, and the only one responsible for what happens.
If we're gonna get out anyway, we should get out now before we get people's hopes up. Afghanistan's tribal governments haven't changed at all for centuries, and they will go back to the way things were the day US leaves.
The comments about Saudi are spot on. If we hold the same standard of justice and rule of law, then we should also be invading Saudi.
The US should build schools, and help rebuild, in order to secure some goodwill, instead of blowing up buildings with drones, often killing civilians.
Posted in: Obama rules out cutting troop levels in Afghanistan
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PepinGalarga
if a patent was filed in the US, most likely it was also filed in Japan. How interesting it would be to see how the IP rights of Paice would be protected in Japan, or if they would be steamrolled.
Posted in: U.S. trade officials to probe Toyota patent claim