JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Full-time English Teacher - Osaka
- Epion English Language Schools, Osaka
- Salary: ¥200,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month Depending on your ability and experience
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- Part-time English Teacher - Osaka
- Epion English Language Schools, Osaka
- Salary: ¥10,000 ~ ¥15,000 / Day Depending on how many days a week are worked
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- Core Developer - コアディベロッパー
- Midokura Japan K.K. - ミドクラジャパン株式会社, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥4.0M ~ ¥10.0M / Year Negotiable
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RakishGadfly
Cleo;
> I wonder why people keep bringing up this withered old chestnut? Because they want desperately to believe that it's true that Japan doesn't love them in the way they think they deserve to be loved?
Exactly.
Posted in: What does Japan need to do in order to attract more tourists?
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RakishGadfly
You tell 'em elbud! I'm sure the Defense Intelligence Agency never even considered such a thing so please formally tip them off and ask that they investigate all US military personnel with even a vague family connection to Japan, cuz you know that it's perfectly reasonable to accuse people based solely upon their ethnicity, right?
By the way, he was charged with breaking export control laws, nothing to do with spying.
Posted in: U.S. Army captain gets 1 year for smuggling firearms parts to Japan
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RakishGadfly
Those of you against this research and all subsequent developments will no doubt ask that you NOT be treated with if you or a loved in ever diagnosed with Alzheimer's et al, I assume.
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RakishGadfly
A toothsome lass indeed.
Posted in: Tomoka Kurotani named 'Woman With the Most Appealing Teeth'
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RakishGadfly
I'm very, very disappointed in all of you. I can't believe that nobody punned around with the "lay" in "lay jury".
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RakishGadfly
I enjoy working at home when I can, but I also like going into the office to chat and meet with others, so a bit of both seems to be the best. Not a big fan of videoconferencing, everyone on the screen looks jumpy.
Posted in: Japanese workers discover advantages of teleworking
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RakishGadfly
The Honda dude looks like a cardboard cutout.
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RakishGadfly
What most of you are missing is that you think by "tourists" they mean folks from Europe or North America and most of the answers reflect that bias. They are way more likely to get tourists from Korea or China, and the recent tourism figures numbers reflect that. Stop the equating of "foreigner" with "English-speaking Westerner" - that's a minor market compared to Japan's neighbors, and also a minority amongst gaijin in Japan. Get over yourselves.
Posted in: What does Japan need to do in order to attract more tourists?
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RakishGadfly
LostinNagoya;
So in all those J TV shows and movies where they yell irashaimasse at people entering restaurants, they obviously must have filmed it that way because they knew gaijin would be watching it?
Posted in: What does Japan need to do in order to attract more tourists?
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RakishGadfly
realist;
So find some relatively recent ones and post some links, otherwise I call BS on this statement.
Posted in: What does Japan need to do in order to attract more tourists?
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RakishGadfly
Excellent choice by the US, and can't wait to see the last of "President Bush" in 2 months time.
Posted in: Obama sweeps to victory, says change has come to America
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RakishGadfly
Focus on the higher end tourists to bring in he cash, not the whingy backpackers who complain about price and expect everything to be written in English.
Posted in: What does Japan need to do in order to attract more tourists?
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RakishGadfly
Anyway, congrats to the US for pulling back from the abyss with this election. Bush was taking the US down the road of a fallen empire, and though McCain wouldn't have been as bad as Bush, Obama is much more of a change, which is obviously what Americans want. The Republicans deserved to lose, and stop relying on social conservatism to get elected and need to get back to the actual roots of the party of individualism.
Posted in: Obama sweeps to victory, says change has come to America
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RakishGadfly
Fox calls Ohio? It's Armageddon!
Posted in: Obama sweeps to victory, says change has come to America
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RakishGadfly
taka;
Kampai and congrats.
Posted in: Obama sweeps to victory, says change has come to America
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RakishGadfly
In Canada they're always held on a weekday, whether municipal, provincial, or federal, but at least we too get our federal elections over and done with in 6 weeks.
Posted in: McCain, Obama make final push for votes
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RakishGadfly
I'd file this one under "common sense", except that judging by the number of posters who don't get it I guess it's not all that common.
Posted in: Japanese men need to learn to say 'You are beautiful' to women, particularly to their wives. The phrase is magical and can make both men and women happy.
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RakishGadfly
This article, like may others in the news, shows that Japan is a country and society very much in transition, and a decline is only one possible outcome. The bubble bursting was only one trigger for this and the one that gets the most press, but the end of the Cold War was just as big and has had a significant and ongoing impact. Given the way the global economy is tanking, Japan's economy will also worsen but less so (in relative) terms than other countries, including its neighbours.
Posted in: Japan's burgeoning class: Working poor
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RakishGadfly
555Book;
> China partially embraced capitalism she was able to lift a huge portion of its population from abject poverty in a very short time span. But as evident in many developed countries, when capitalism was left to function fully on its own it will almost always create an increasing divide
Please - China is hardly the example of a country where capitalism is unbridled. The gap between haves and have-nots there is way worse than in any "capitalist" Western country.
Posted in: Japan's burgeoning class: Working poor
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RakishGadfly
We all know that he's actually an alien cockroach so none of this is too surprising.
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