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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PleasureGelf
I don't know whether or not it's true about avoiding subtitled movies but I've always heard that if a foreign movie is successful elsewhere it will be remade for the American audience. Some examples being The Departed, The Lake House or Insomnia. Wikipedia has a fuller list here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ListofEnglish-languagemoviesbasedonforeign-language_movies
Posted in: Why do moviegoers in English-speaking countries tend to avoid foreign movies with subtitles, while in Japan, for example, it's just the opposite?
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PleasureGelf
Mr. truck driver, you have been negligent. You could have avoided hitting that poor man. You could have sped up and taken off in the air with that truck of yours like in an instant. You could have swerved to the left and gone through the guardrail and crashed somewhere else perishing in a spectacular ball of fire. Or you could have chosen a completely different carreer track, become a cop or something. But since you haven't, your actions practically amount to willful murder.
Posted in: Man dies after being hit by truck, several cars in Ibaraki
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PleasureGelf
600 dollars should make it around 60,000 yen in Japan and 720,000 yen per year. That sounds reasonable to me, considering the cost of oil, to lease it for about 3 years and then see what the future brings.
Posted in: Honda says hydrogen-powered vehicle lighter, more efficient
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PleasureGelf
Posted in: Softbank 4th-quarter net profit doubles
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PleasureGelf
I don't see how switching to dubbing may address the "what are nazi" issue. Without at least katakana to indicate that it is a foreign word there'll be nothing to tell the lazy kids nazis were anything different from the Nachi company somebody mentioned. Anyway, the average movie-goer is not expected to have an omnibus knowledge of everything in the world or beyond. There's this fantastic new invention called the Internet for people who haven't heard of books. Somethins spices your curiosity? Go and look it up on Wikipedia.
Posted in: 'What are Nazis?' Today's kids can't handle movie subtitles
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PleasureGelf
Sinfonia Varsovia is a chamber orchestra. How exactly did they welcome babies and kids with 'full orchestra music'?
Posted in: Classical music concert for babies
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PleasureGelf
what does it mean - atomic?
Posted in: Multi-band atomic watch
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PleasureGelf
That's bad, but why did you get a mouth guard? Will you buy a helmet or full body armor next time you're punched in another part of your body?
Posted in: A punching bag on the Odakyu line
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PleasureGelf
I was once made an offer by the above mentioned company that I simply couldn't refuse. If I had I'd have woken up with the head of Microsoft in my bed.
Posted in: Microsoft abandons Yahoo bid
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PleasureGelf
Who comes up with such gizmos? The whole idea of camera phones is that you don't need to carry anything else if a need to take a pic or a vid arises. If you know you're going to snap a few shots, put a proper digicame in your bag or pocket. Small ones are not much bigger than this funny little contraption, and they actually work.
Posted in: Phonetastic
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PleasureGelf
So you are the British chef at a French restaurant, eating escargots and goose pate and creme brulee for months and months and what you basically do is have a go at macdonalds and decide to get some BBQ sauce to go with your french fries and then trying to make a run for freedom with the precious bottle? How ridiculous is that? This story is an obvious fake from the scratch. The secret service needed to plant their own agent at the restaurant and devised this devious plan to frame the poor bastard, probably drugging him with hallucinogens strong enough to loosen his grip on reality and make him go to the vilest place in the universe and order one of their horrible hamburgers containing a large dose of psychotropic drugs inducing aggression and of course an uncontrolable urge for BBQ sauce. So typical, how could anyone fall for that one?
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PleasureGelf
41.8% couldn't be bothered to answer?
Posted in: Fiber-optic broadband service outpaces ADSL in Japan
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PleasureGelf
Will it be OK to ride over any pedestrian intruders at a bicycle path? Cause I really doubt anything else will keep them off
Posted in: The two-wheel revolution