JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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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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- Translator
- ZAIHON, Inc. (日本財務翻訳株式会社), Tokyo
- Salary: ¥6.0M / Year Negotiable
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- Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) in Kanto region
- RCS (RCSコーポレーション), Kanto
- Salary: ¥180,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month includes performance bonus
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Richard_III
Am I the only one thinking that something must surely be done to protect this important international cultural heritage?
For surely the World will be a miserable, dark and ill-begotten place without the cultural contributions made to humanity and civilisation by Japanese talents' and comedians.
We may never know again whether some ramen is oishii or not; the implications of which must be sending shivers of fear down the spines of all high minded and culturally aware people in Japan.
Posted in: Is television going the way of other obsolete media?
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Richard_III
Not much. Mostly these people on the protests are a bunch of middle class rich kids who've never had to work for a living - though I'll take my hat off to them for their imagination and creativity in the things they do to try and hide their upbringing.
Posted in: Some 4,000 environmentalists and anti-capitalists are demonstrating against the G-20 summit in London. How do you feel about the protests?
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Richard_III
A difficult case this: I hate smokers as much as the next man, but I also hate being told what to do by petty-minded-little-people, whom I often want to punch as well.
Given that he was smoking, and smoking in a non-designated area, which is generally seen as a heineous crime, my sympathies lie in this case with the conductor.
Each case is different.
Posted in: Saitama train conductor assaulted after asking man to smoke in designated area
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Richard_III
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: It's truly delightful to have a photo of the Queen on this Japanese news site.
They should certainly do it more regularly.
Posted in: Taking the global stage: Obama seems everywhere
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Richard_III
I used to have the impression that Japanese people were quite creative and original. Sounds like exactly the same crap on the TV.
Posted in: Celebs line up to promote new cell phone broadcaster BeeTV
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Richard_III
Just another sorry episode in the catalogue of poor manners, inconsiderate behaviour and downright rudeness found on the trains here.
Posted in: Man arrested for wiping saliva on woman sleeping on train
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Richard_III
I thought invading another country's airspace or sovereign terrritory was an act of war.
I'm so riled by this, that I'm going to write a similar comment over on the KCNA homepage.
Posted in: N Korea warns Japan that intervening in rocket launch will be act of war
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Richard_III
hoserfella at 03:23 PM JST - 31st March
This HAS to be a joke. No taxi driver would be so stupid, would he?
Being a regular user of taxis in Tokyo, this is hardly surprising. I guess most of them have to ask their wife's to tie their shoe-laces before they leave for work.
Posted in: Man arrested after taking taxi from Tokyo to Fukuoka and refusing to pay Y359,230 fare
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Richard_III
I still don't think this internet thing will catch on.
Posted in: World Wide Web turns 20
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Richard_III
Surely it's Keio where the rich and priviledged go, and they always want to make a big hulabulloo about it with the "oh, I went to Keio you know; it's one of the best universities in Japan ....". Very boring, most of these Keio people I've met.
The really smart kids go to Todai and most of the grads I've met have actually impressed me quite a lot. More like Cambridge grads than Oxford. That is, quietly confident in their intelligence and knowledge, but not ramming it down your throat. I always find that rather admirable.
Posted in: Tokyo University
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Richard_III
Clearly North Korea is a terrorist state: their current policy is to drag this out as long as possible so the television viewing public in Japan continue to be bored senseless by this issue on the news.
Posted in: Do you believe some Japanese abductees are still alive in North Korea, and if you do, why do you think North Korea hasn't come clean on the issue?
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Richard_III
Almost tragic.
They'd better not speak at the Expo, otherwise the total vacuity of the initiative will be all too apparent.
Posted in: Ambassadors of Cute
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Richard_III
Striped ties, white shirts and black suits for the men. White shirts with an open collar against the black suit for the ladies.
New recruits are very boring and conservative in their dress sense here. None of the two-tone shirts, flashy ties or suits bought on wacked out credit cards that I saw when I was on the milkround as a young un.
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Richard_III
The chubbier gravure seem to do better than the skin and bone variant. That lass Nonami Takizawa looks a load better since she gained a bit of weight.
Posted in: Sayaka Isoyama to try Core Rhythms diet method
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Richard_III
The novelty would soon wear off. I'm thinking Hogarthian Before and After type rapidity.
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Richard_III
"I just found a piece of cheese under my desk" seems to be about as interesting as you can get on Twitter.
Posted in: Facebook courting Twitter lovers
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Richard_III
To the credit of the Japanese media, I only thought there were three teams in this WBC thing: Japan, Korea, China.
Posted in: WBC a big hit with TV viewers in Japan
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Richard_III
You and me both. Much as I hate being in their company and find them for the most part rude and inconsiderate in public places (for instance, smoking, snorting, pushing in etc), there is a side of me that occasionally feels sorry for them; a side that wants to empathize with their crappy downtrodden and underpaid jobs and probably loveless marriages.
This sense of comradeship with my fellow man lasts maybe all of 2 minutes every month.
Posted in: Work-life balance more important than ever
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Richard_III
From what I've seen of Japanese fights, they mostly consist of shouting a lot and sticking your chest out.
Never seen any of the headbuts, kicks or punches you'd expect back home.
Posted in: Three youths in hospital after gang fight in suburban Tokyo
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Richard_III
A bunch of gormless zombies if you ask me. Use of keitai's while walking make them even more oblivious to their surroundings.
Posted in: What cell phone habits by some people bother you the most?