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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Seawolf
Diver City-sounds like a cheap copy of O-Daiba, same spell in katagana. Or maybe it's on reclaimed land along the bay and the producers figured out it will be well below the water line once The Big One hit's!
Posted in: Gap to open 1st Old Navy store in Japan
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Seawolf
Canon and Nikon don't want you to know this, but DSLRs with bulky mirrors are on their way out, so don't invest to much into high-price lenses but buy used ones, 'cause they will be useless with "mirrorless" cameras.Those lenses are high-margin products for Cakon, so they will do anything to keep development of their own models secret up till the product is ready for sale.
Posted in: Mirrorless digital camera
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Seawolf
It's all written in advertising vocabulary, but seriously, I appreciate the fact that they also "upgraded" the shock absorber at the bottom, being proactive "if anything else fails, this might still save some lives" instead of the usual mentality of "our system is perfect, we don't need to think about accidents"!
Posted in: Mitsubishi Electric announces ultra-high-speed elevator tech
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Seawolf
Either JR is miscalculating the number of affected persons, or NTT is not saying the real reason, because those numbers are really not high enough to warrant a 4 hour blackout.
Posted in: Docomo services disrupted for 4 1/2 hours, affecting 2.52 mil users
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Seawolf
I'm sure todays kids would feel perfectly fine in the trunk - as long as they can play their PSP and Nintendo!
Posted in: NZ police alarmed at breastfeeding motorists
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Seawolf
People in the Kanto region really are not used to snow/ice and have no idea how to react unless it is shouted at them from the public speakers on the lampposts; but the worst must be those that are supposed to keep the roads clean, do they even have those big trucks used to put salt on the icy roads I wonder? Personally I am happy that it finally snowed, even Karuizawa had been cold and barren up to last weekend. Now it's blindingly white all around - and cold.
Posted in: 53 injured in snow-related accidents in Tokyo region
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Seawolf
This announcement has been making the rounds now on the net worldwide; not at all in a positive way, but all around angry voices about the EULA, as mentioned above everyone from developer to seller to teacher to student has to use apple products! And there is an even bigger outcry about how apple is hiding this in the fine print and trying to look like the savior of education! And even if 15 bucks for a book sounds cheap, the question is, is it really your's than? I read at one place that this would be the prize for one year, plus you cannot resell it or even give it to your younger siblings/friends. While digital learning material will come to the classroom definitely in the near future, this one is not the way it should be done. When the i-pod first appeared it was expensive and for apple computer users only. This was opened by way of competition making it necessary only, now Apple is trying to kill competition before they can get a foot in the door.
Posted in: Apple unveils digital textbooks app for iPad
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Seawolf
Style got it's price - 9.800 to be exactly (no, not mentioned and later edited off, JT-style, looked it up on az). With many other, cheaper choices around, will it sell, esp. since it only comes in one-color full set, no choice to make your own combination?
Posted in: iPod nano 6th generation watch conversion kit
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Seawolf
Stephen Jez: You are totally wrong on this one, making notebooks tough got nothing to do with it. In au's list-up of their new android smartphones, 5 out of 8 are waterproof. Not waterproof is the htc, motorola, and one of the sharp phones mainly because it is a slide-out model. And my favorite for now, Fujitsu Arrows Z is shockproof as well. With a thickness of 10.7 mm and 131 g, a 4.3 inch screen it's not different from all the other ones, not ugly at all! Going waterproof might by the biggest plus to give up my dumb-phone with it's cheap rates cause we got a little kid running around.
Posted in: Coating protects smartphones under water
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Seawolf
Nothing new here. The manager of a restaurant I once worked in, changed the homepage every day a tiny bit because that would give higher ratings. And we were top spot most of the time for the neighborhood!
Posted in: Operator of restaurant rating website Tabelog says paid posters manipulated rankings
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Seawolf
Saw it on TV last night. While I would agree in most cases, these persons (one man, two women in their 30s-40s) looked well prepared, helmets and snow shoes with them. Did they actually wanted to be rescued? Or did they think it to be safer to return the next day?
Posted in: Nagano ski resort to bill 3 lost snowboarders for rescue
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Seawolf
I guess it's the same with "old man falls off roof during typhoon": these guys think just because it was good one year ago it's ok this year too. Sadly the body gets weak faster than the mind. One of them was 101 years it said on the news, sad way to go.
Posted in: 13 elderly people taken to hospital after choking on 'mochi;' 2 die
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Seawolf
Wow, Christmas sure is over and finished here on JT, can't believe all that negativity and thumbs down regarding her! Come on get a grip on reality: you are TOO OLD for her! I still love "my" 80's music, than again I do admit that most of it sounds "cheesy" for today's youth. And calling her "shallow", no way, eccentric, yes sure. Just glancing at the Wikipedia article about her achievements, Guinness World Records, Grammys, etc and her millions of sold albums and singles (to a target group that mostly sees no problem in acquiring music for free!) one would think she has been doing this for many years, whereas she only shot to fame beginning of 2009, just three years ago! I saw her once when waiting to board a plane at Narita, in June two years ago, from afar, without realizing it. Actually nobody seemed to recognize that girl with the body suit and high heels then...! As for her "copying", she openly says she admires Madonna, and she took ideas from many different artists, mainly from the 80's, but for me that's not copying, because she combines these for her own style.
Posted in: Lady Gaga to appear on 'Kohaku Uta Gassen'
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Seawolf
The only two rules needed would be to disallow clubs to run there and to disallow competition runs. As there is always police around and other "guard"-men on their jiji-chari it should be no problem to enforce. The main reason that it has been so popular with runners in the first place is that there are no crossings and subway stations are close by.
Posted in: Rules considered to cope with increase in Imperial Palace joggers
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Seawolf
Went by that location last year, narrow valley stretching from the "once-famous" Kusatsu Onsen to Nakanojo city. They built a new road high above the valley with bridges stretching back and forth with one road leading towards the Yamba dam and threw in a new railway too. That alone must have cost a huge amount of money. While the road might seem justified, the railway for sure is not. But it's hard to back off from a "clean" energy-producing project now, peoples priorities have changed.
Posted in: DPJ approves Yamba dam project, backtracking on 2009 election pledge
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Seawolf
Looks like it's safer to take a flight with take-off in the evening rather than early morning...than again, maybe they don't check later in the day as rigorous as in the morning?!
Posted in: ANA flight delayed after pilot exceeds blood-alcohol limit
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Seawolf
Saw it on TV last winter, scary. The problem is not around the observation deck (was that already there last year?) but more with the tower construction of steel pipes. Snow will accumulate in those corners and once the sun comes out it will slide off the rounded surface. The_True: have you ever seen "snow" in Tokyo? It is very wet, high water-concentration. That is why it sticks much easier onto building corners and also why it doesn't melt so easy during sunshine.
Posted in: Locals worried by ice, snow falling from Tokyo Sky Tree
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Seawolf
I feel sorry for those in the areas directly affected, because the sleazebags at Tepco will now use this declaration to not pay money saying along the line "The government said it is safe to go back to your house, we will no longer support your temporary housing costs."
Posted in: Japan to declare Fukushima nuclear plant in stable condition
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Seawolf
And after stereotyping good Japanese way against bad USA way she contradicts herself - again. Because a broken ankle you can not change, but your working attitude you can change. Ok, true story from my side: the owner of a Restaurant I worked with was very bossy, sometimes unfair even, noisy. His shops are expanding now, doing good business. Another place, the chef was very narrow-minded and able to manipulate the friendly boss. That place is bankrupt now, the boss divorced, but the chef got a new job. The work place is a much more complicated thing than a "complicated" fracture.
Posted in: Accepting it as it is
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Seawolf
...well, this tournament is already finished! It wasn't a sudden accident that took her mother away, but the finale to a longer sickness. It's a pity that her mother wasn't able to tell her to go on skating no matter what happens beforehand.
Posted in: Asada vows to skate for her mother