JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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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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- Assistant Language Teacher - TOKYO - late-March start
- Interac, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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- Assistant Language Teacher - Kanagawa Prefecture - late-March start
- Interac, Kanagawa
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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Rickyrab
I'm Jewish, but more than 20 years ago I gained a brother shortly after midnight on a Christmas Day. This naturally led to Christmas coming with a birthday cake and candles as well as the movie and Chinese restaurant visits typical of American Jews on Christmas. Of course, it's sometimes tough to find a non-Chinese (or non-Japanese) restaurant open on my brother's birthday, but there have been years where we dodged the question entirely (by going to Disneyland, Disney World, on a cruise, etc.) Also, Hannukah sometimes intersects Christmas, leading to a menorah displaying its holiday candlelight on the kitchen table along with the birthday cake.
Posted in: Christmas minus Christianity
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Rickyrab
Japanese companies that want to be English-speaking-only would find their business opportunities much better if they were to migrate to anglophone countries. Mind if I suggest America?
Posted in: Adopting English as workplace language in Japan has its downside
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Rickyrab
Ironically, Hiroshima and Nagasaki are among the safe places.... I wonder what the people of the postwar era would've thought of that...
Posted in: Japan to offer 10,000 free trips to foreigners to boost tourism industry
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Rickyrab
Muslim countries = a bit too eager with the noose and the stoning-pit.
Posted in: Japanese woman sentenced to death in Malaysia for drug smuggling
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Rickyrab
that's especially true of America, SusieUK... LOL
Posted in: Burger King to offer all-you-can-eat Whopper campaign for two weeks
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Rickyrab
This is an issue here in New Brunswick, NJ, and in nearby New York City. New Brunswick needs more bicycle lanes and wants a law against sidewalk bicycling. (Never mind that some sidewalks around here are so wide and underpopulated that they make decent bicycle trails.) In New York City, there are bicycle lanes in numerous places (thank you, Mayor Bloomberg), and sidewalk bicycling is a no-no. However, bicyclists are asked to stay in their lanes. That wouldn't be an issue if bicycle lanes weren't obstructed by parked cars, construction projects, and other obstacles. My advice to Tokyo et al: be flexible with bicycles. Don't allow them on the sidewalks, but do allow them elbow room so they can maneuver.
Posted in: Police to get tough on sidewalk cyclists
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Rickyrab
I suppose Gaddafi was assassinated, as opposed to dying in battle or being executed, but there's no real way to tell for sure because it happened on the spur of the moment after he was captured. Someone hurt Gaddaffi fatally.
Posted in: Pulled from drain pipe, Gadhafi was shown no mercy
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Rickyrab
if McCain had been elected instead of Obama, it would've been bye-bye Amtrak. Just remember that next time the GOP stands up for election with a wrong-way guy at the helm.
Posted in: Pack light or pay up for holiday flights
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Rickyrab
Let's face it: if you want whaling to continue, whales must survive as a bunch of species. Furthermore, there's the ethical problem that whales are relatively intelligent animals. If you can find a way to make a stupid whale for the meat, be my guest; however, whales as they currently are constitute a problem for the ethical eater. Other than that, my idea of whaling is Captain Ahab waving harpoons angrily at Moby Dick, so refer to someone who knows more about whaling and whale meat.
Posted in: Sea Shepherd intercepts Japanese whalers in Antarctic waters
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Rickyrab
Moral of the story: If you lean over the edge of the platform and a train's coming, move back!
Posted in: Woman standing on platform dies after being hit by passing train in Fukuoka
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Rickyrab
note: Blago is a moron because he broke the law, and he broke a code of ethics that he swore to uphold. Moreover, he did that very blatantly, and thus wound up embarrassing himself all the more because of that.
Posted in: Obama, 2 aides met with Blagojevich investigators
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Rickyrab
Blago is a moron, Obama's trying to start his presidency, and the sooner Blago is out of the way, the better.
Posted in: Obama, 2 aides met with Blagojevich investigators
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Rickyrab
Sure, get someone who's allegedly from Kenya but is really from Hawaii, like we did.
Posted in: Japanese workers face horror of mass firing era
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Rickyrab
Why does this remind me of the Disneyfication of Times Square?
Posted in: Last call for Kabukicho red-light district
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Rickyrab
Hmm. I wonder where the Yoshiwara of Edo is going to slink off to now.
Posted in: Last call for Kabukicho red-light district
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Rickyrab
and thank you, Make-a-Wish foundation, for making a courageous kid very happy.
Posted in: First-ever Japan Wish flight takes off for Disneyland
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Rickyrab
No offense, but I thought Tokyo Disneyland would be closer and better than the LA version (it has DisneySea, after all!) But the original Disneyland is where it all began, and there's history there that's not quite in the newer parks.
Posted in: First-ever Japan Wish flight takes off for Disneyland
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Rickyrab
In other words: BAWWWWWWWWW, as they say on the image boards. Or as I say, much whin(g)ing about nothing!
Posted in: Tourists to be barred from Tsukiji tuna auctions for a month
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Rickyrab
(Shrugs) If he can't speak English, then it'd be harder for anglophone physicists and him to understand one another; however, he still has a scientific community to talk with. If there's a lot of people who speak only one language, and a lot who speak only another, then there'll be two separate scientific traditions emerging, each with their own discoveries and theories.
Posted in: Physics requires the ability to think creatively using mathematical formulas, so English isn't essential to pursue theoretical physics in Japan.
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Rickyrab
LOL at troofing. Since it has already been established that Barack was born in Honolulu, not in Kenya, and that it would have been pretty inconvenient for Dunham to fly to the other side of the world from Hawaii (a prestigious travel destination and thus one which would command high prices with airlines) while pregnant on a student budget anyhow, the people making conspiracy theories oughta just give up and move on. Unless you think ET begat Obama on a flying saucer or something.
Posted in: Hawaii's latest lure: Obama tourism?