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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Pestronika
I own a Kindle and an iPhone. I have great eyes and am generally patient, but I HATE reading on the Kindle for iPhone app. Screen is too small, you need to flip pages too often, eyes get very very tired (which they don't do with the Kindle proper). It's better than nothing, but it's not very enjoyable.
Posted in: Are you going to buy an e-reader or do you already have one?
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Pestronika
I own a Kindle and an iPhone. I have great eyes and am generally patient, but I HATE reading on the Kindle for iPhone app. Screen is too small, you need to flip pages too often, eyes get very very tired (which they
Posted in: Are you going to buy an e-reader or do you already have one?
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Pestronika
It's a mirrorless camera, not an SLR! Please correct this, it looks silly to call this an SLR when the body isn't even thick enough to have a mirror.
Posted in: Lumix SLR digital camera
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Pestronika
It's more bizarre than frightening, I think.
Posted in: 'Shallow-brained bureaucrats' crackdown on love hotels unlikely to thwart teen prostitution
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Pestronika
Plenty of great beer in Japan, dude. It's not all Super Dry and happoshu.
Posted in: In malt we trust
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Pestronika
It's interesting, but the HDR is a bit overdone I think. I like HDR that enhances the emotion of the image. Graphically this is interesting but I don't think the blended exposure adds any meaning to the image.
Posted in: Bright and early
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Pestronika
I always like her. She's got personality, and of course she is a winner!
Posted in: Golden girl
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Pestronika
Subways and trains are great, and I have ridden them all over the country. My favorite, even over Singapore, HK, and all the other nice places.
I have no complaints except the lack of aircon in the station in Tokyo subway in the summer! The rest is great, though.
Posted in: How do Japan's subway and rail systems compare with other countries?
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Pestronika
Amazing the lengths people will go to justify their greed, isn't it? If you want to loan music to a friend, support DRM-free music or lend your CDs. But just pilfering it off the net? No different than not liking the prices on Vuitton so buying fakes instead. Not the worst crime on the planet but not something you should pin on your chest as a badge of honor, either.
Posted in: Apple's iTunes music store starts selling Beatles songs
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Pestronika
Why does everyone assume she is rich? She's not eikaiwa-sensei poor but she may not be rich, either.
Posted in: Actress Sayuri Kokusho celebrates Y1 mil lottery win
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Pestronika
Stupid controversy. Why would little kids be looking at GQ? The actresses are 24 which puts them way, way beyond any question of whether or not it's 'appropriate' to pose for such pictures (as if it's anyone's decision but theirs to begin with).
Posted in: Steamy 'Glee' GQ pics have many steaming
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Pestronika
Or, alternatively (this is the "I don't hate young people" interpretation) - maybe the people who like these girl groups have their own tastes, and those who don't find these girl groups enjoyable have their own reasons. One person's impeccable taste is another person's pile of crap.
Posted in: Why are girl bands and glamour groups like AKB48, SKE48, Morning Musume and Miniskirt Police so popular in Japan?
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Pestronika
Fun music, lots of cute girls. It's escapism.
Posted in: Why are girl bands and glamour groups like AKB48, SKE48, Morning Musume and Miniskirt Police so popular in Japan?
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Pestronika
She's quite obviously not a little girl. Japanese women tend to have thin legs and she's wearing 6 inch heels to boot. That doesn't make her a 'little girl'.
Posted in: Maid to order
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Pestronika
Um, I think those heels give away that she's not actually a maid.
Posted in: Maid to order
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Pestronika
I've had plenty of nice Thai, Chinese, and Korean food here. It's not sold at Family Mart. You need to go to the places where the Thai, Chinese, and Korean people go. You know, just like you do everywhere else in the world!
Posted in: One man’s culinary paradise is another’s cultural wasteland
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Pestronika
Lovely, um, picture. Quite healthy lasses!
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Pestronika
Good. Add this to the list of the many things I like about Japan.
Oh, it's difficult for the government to take away people's property? Waaaaah big developers! It SHOULD be virtually impossible to do.
Posted in: Eminent Domain laws in Japan notoriously weak
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Pestronika
How is this a band-aid solution?
-Don't smoke on the street where not permitted by law -You can smoke in **private businesses **
How reasonable! A private business can allow smokers should it so choose (and plenty do ban smoking completely). Non-smokers can choose to avoid these private businesses should they not like the smoke. Non-smokers cannot easily avoid smokers on the public streets.
Posted in: Make way for the Butt Police
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Pestronika
You can get plenty of friendly, personal service in Japan. I wouldn't expect it at a burger joint or a chain coffee shop, but try going to a small, family-owned store, or a local izakaya, or a small bookstore and you'll get taken care or really well.
I don't know why people would try to get something outside the norm from a fast food place. What do you expect? The person you are working with is a hourly paid baito worker who only cares about their job to the extent the manager wants them to. The manager doesn't care about doing anything outside the normal. I don't know why this would be surprising to anyone. If you got to McDonalds in Canada do you expect them to serve stuff that isn't on the menu?
There's plenty of cases where I can get frustrated by customer service in Japan. There's a much higher percentage of cases in my experience in other countries than Japan. If you want to focus on the bad experiences instead of the overall good ones, then I suppose you can go through life with that sort of negative outlook.
Posted in: In Japan, the customer is not king