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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Scotch
I can't believe some people are blaming the girl for "going back to the hotel". The article doesn't make it clear or not if this is where everyone was staying for the training camp or if in fact it was her room!
Either way, no teacher should be out drinking with his students and sleeping with them! This guy is supposed to look after them and he takes them out underage drinking. If he's guilty of rape he should be jailed and for failing at his duties as a teacher he should never be allowed to coach again!
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Poor girl. I hope they catch whoever did this. 17 is just too young for someone to die. My heart goes out to her family.
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I'd say one bombing was enough. The second was over kill. But it's hard to comment on such a situation considering EVERY country in this war was committing what would be considered crimes today. I have family who were in Japanese war camps and trust me you have no idea what was done to them. The whole war was a massive waste of human life.
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Scotch
The best way to watch UK TV is to get yourself a free VPN with a UK IP address. Then using that go to the bbc iplayer site and enjoy!
If you don't want to set that up try using sites like sidereel.com that stream some TV shows.
Then you can see the episode in question. Think it's episode 5 or 6 in this series
Posted in: Nissan fumes over BBC TV program 'Top Gear'
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@Skeptical
1) Nissan is NOT Japan 2) You obviously haven't watched the show. They compliment Nissan cars a lot. INCLUDING the leaf. 3) They didn't just drive around in circles on the show. They drove around a city LOOKING for a place to recharge as the battery warning came on when there was no official points in range. 4) It's people like yourself that get ripped in the UK. Mainly due to the fact you can't look at anything objectively and start calling foul when nothing insulting has been made towards you. Just like the show where their insult was towards the large charge times (13hours), the low range (100miles, although the show PROVED it wouldn't go 100 miles on the charge due to UK speed limits), and the severe lack of places to charge it. Look at it this way. My nearest recharge point is 120miles. The car can do 100 miles. Not difficult math but I'm pretty sure I'd run out of fuel before I get there.
Posted in: Nissan fumes over BBC TV program 'Top Gear'
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Elbuda, you decided to insult the whole of the UK and not point out your anger at Jeremy. You were being as bad as he can be. The problem is that we KNOW that he does it for a laugh and joke.
Posted in: Nissan fumes over BBC TV program 'Top Gear'
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Scotch
Now watched the whole section about the electric cars (not just Nissan here folks). Jeremy happily said "I like the leaf" but it was the battery that was his gripe. At one point he drove 26miles and lost 40miles of range. The battery took 13hours to charge off of the mains. The nearest official charge point was 40miles away when already on a journey (something he may have avoided if he had planned for an electric car but he wasn't used to it). All in all he didn't really go up against Nissan. He just expressed that the idea of a battery doesn't sit well with him. The comparison that was mentioned was to think of every thing you have that uses batteries. How long does a charge last? How long until you need to replace the batteries on rechargeable devices like this car? The car was double the price of a normal car. Has roughly the same fuel economy as diesel cars and will need it's battery system removed after 4 or 5 years (less depending on use). You also have to remember that in the UK the speed limit is wel above the Japanese limit so the car will drain much faster
Posted in: Nissan fumes over BBC TV program 'Top Gear'
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Ok now watching the show. Yes he did run around the city with the car BUT he was looking for a CHARGE point as the Nissan showed his nearest one was 40miles away and he had 12miles of charge left. His major gripe with it was that the car itself showed that is would take 13HOURS to charge back up
Posted in: Nissan fumes over BBC TV program 'Top Gear'
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Trust me. Being Scottish we take a lot of stick from Jeremy but we know it's just part of the show and he insults areas all over the UK including his home area. It is unfortunate if a country take it to heart but that is up to them. As for electric cars. Yes they would be great to have. But I fear we are a long way off from having the recharge stations all over the UK, especially when we are still focusing on removing cars from the roads to ease congestion!
Posted in: Nissan fumes over BBC TV program 'Top Gear'
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Scotch
@lucabrasi there is one electric car on the market where the batteries are easy to reach. However I believe it has 200 of them. It was designed to take advantage of the modern technology employed by cell phones and used their most effective batteries. I wouldn't like to change all of them! You may just be luckier if someone agrees to let you plug your car into their house mains for a small charge.
Posted in: Nissan fumes over BBC TV program 'Top Gear'
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Scotch
Top gear have been in Japan. They were showing off Nissan's fastest car at the time (maybe Toyotas I can't recall exactly) and built an entire show around being in Japan. Their fastest car VS their fastest public transport
Posted in: Nissan fumes over BBC TV program 'Top Gear'
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Wow a lot here insulting the UK. You understand every country etc has a different sense of humour etc right?
You want to insult UK cars? Fine. There aren't really any as they are mainly owned by German companies. People in here need to grow up and keep on topic. This TV show is famous around the world for it's humour. It doesn't set out to insult a single country .... it insults them all including it's own.
Posted in: Nissan fumes over BBC TV program 'Top Gear'
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What scares people away from electric cars is simple ..... being limited to the places you can drive due to having to follow recharge points. If all stations had at least one electric charge point more people would buy them. Right now they are few and far between so everyone is avoiding them. That's all top gear were pointing out. OK they made it into a joke, but for anyone who watches the show we expect them to do that and it's what we like to watch.
Posted in: Nissan fumes over BBC TV program 'Top Gear'
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I love how Nissan have made this about them. Everyone in the UK ranks Nissan as the number 1 electric car company. Top Gear however were pointing out that until there is a structure of electric car recharge points they are not going to work! The UK barely has any places that offer to recharge these cars outside the biggest cities! Seriously the nearest place that charges an electric car to me is 120miles away!
Posted in: Nissan fumes over BBC TV program 'Top Gear'
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Scotch
ah yes Japanese movies don't have major violence. I must have watched the wrong "Battle Royale" or "Ichi the Killer".
As for this movie ..... it was ok to kill time. But no major plot to it.
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Scotch
Never mind ..... looks like I'm wrong.
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Scotch
People keep saying about a guy. I thought Inoue was a girls name.
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Scotch
Eeek Mrs Grand Prix looks like a skeleton. Vote for Miss Kimono!
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Scotch
Another case of trying to take the public's eye off of American problems. Toyota is only being hit this hard because they are a foreign company. It's a shame governments use tactics like this to move the public's focus
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Scotch
Errr she's 26th best in the world not 5th :D Love how they always post nice confusing articles on here :D
But yeah .... she looks like she's going to cry.
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