JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- 秘書及び業務サポート
- 加治金属工業株式会社, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥4.0M / Year
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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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- ALT - Mie Prefecture - Yokkaichi City - June start
- NPO法人グローバル教育推進機構（GLAD), Mie
- Salary: ¥230,000 / Month For a full working month. Some months differ.
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Smorkian
Uh, I get 2 days on my Galaxy S2. My iPhone never got 2 days after I made the iOS upgrade. Where do you hear the Android phones can only go half a day??? It's not correct.
Posted in: Samsung targets 2 mil sales of new Galaxy device
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Smorkian
Yes, but you are exposed to second hand smoke, smog, and other pollutants that are far more likely to cause you health problems in the future. 1mg of Plutonium? I hope you are not seriously worried about that. I think you need to read more on Plutonium if you think that is the case.
Posted in: Radioactive strontium found in 3 locations in Tokyo
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Smorkian
Googles..... Oh Jesus, no. No, no way.
Ms Kaneda on the left there is especially cute. Congrats, ladies!
Posted in: Triumphant ladies
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Smorkian
They carry several BlackBerry models including a new one. But with so many nice Android offerings, why would you want one?
Posted in: DoCoMo unveils 24 new mobile devices
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Smorkian
Eh, you would have only been third if you had won anyway.
I predict the Fighters will knock off the Hawks. Hawks haven't played a meaningful game since August, maybe July. Look where that got them last year - now those were tears! Poor Sugiuchi was crying in the dugout as my Lotte celebrated on their field. Hope they lose again!
Fighters/Swallows is about the best case scenario for me at this point.
Posted in: Dragons clinch Central League title
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Smorkian
It's just the big city, same as big cities worldwide.
Posted in: Man slashed with knife after confronting thief at Tokyo Station
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Smorkian
I own both iPhone and an older Android model and I GREATLY prefer the Android phone. The iPhone's contract is about up so I will ditch it and Softbank for a Docomo Android model. I don't like the lack of flexibility, I don't like having to deal with crappy iTunes for everything. I don't like arbitrary bandwidth restrictions not imposed by my carrier (can't download over 10Mb over 3g! Ridiculous.)
Posted in: Apple sells more than 4 mil new iPhone models in 3 days
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Smorkian
In the paranoid blogger community, perhaps. Not in any reputable publication.
Posted in: Fukushima reactor on track for cold shutdown by year-end: TEPCO
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Smorkian
Softbank will stop themselves as always. They've managed to collapse in the climax series in every recent year. Since the last time they even made the Nippon Series little Lotte with its tiny payroll has managed to WIN two of them.
Posted in: Dragons clinch Central League title
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Smorkian
Yes, ssway, we know you fear all of this. You mention this in every single post. Every one. Do you think of anything else? No? How sad.
Posted in: Fukushima reactor on track for cold shutdown by year-end: TEPCO
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Smorkian
ssway
Are you incapable of making a post that doesn't mention radiation?
Posted in: Japan's aging Air Self-Defense Force plans major overhaul
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Smorkian
Protesting is good; violent protests, not so much.
I can't say if I support the protesters or not - there's not really a unified theme or manifesto or anything so I am honestly not sure what the protesters really want to achieve, other than vague objectives.
Posted in: Do you support the 'Occupy Wall Street' movement which is spreading globally?
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Smorkian
cleo
I was dismayed to see recently that Malaysia has started this as well. Sad. I hate the security theater we see with this fingerprint nonsense.
Posted in: Japan eyes simpler immigration procedures, including automatic gate
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Smorkian
ssway
Putting it in ALL CAPS doesn't make that statement any more correct. Let's stick to facts and not lies, OK?
Like this. ~250,000 people died as a direct result of 6 and 9 August, 1945. Tens if not 100's of thousands died from the later after effects. Total death toll from Fukushima Daiichi - 3, all workers, none as a direct result of the radiation. This will surely increase over the next 30 years but to compare it to Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings is completely and utterly ludicrous, not to mention horribly disrespectful to the hibakusha.
Oh cmon. West coast of America got measurable traces, that's all. This is an ocean problem and a Japan problem.
Posted in: Japan feared aftershocks at nuclear plant, report shows
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Smorkian
The US Army hasn't trained any Iraqi trainers to train their own troops by this time? Geez.
How about letting Iraq worry about Iraq. I think the US has done more than enough there already - not a lot of it good.
Posted in: U.S. drops plan to keep troops in Iraq
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Smorkian
Well, duh. So did everyone else.
Posted in: Japan feared aftershocks at nuclear plant, report shows
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Smorkian
Not a chance of getting a Japan-based review? I couldn't possibly care less about Verizon, Sprint, AT&T or the US dollar. How does it work in Japan? What are AU and Softbank selling them at? Any specific Japan features? How does it compare with other models on the Japanese market including Japan-specific models?
Posted in: Review: It's not an iPhone 5, but so what?
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Smorkian
Actually you are right to be worried. I use those gates and had problems on re-entry a few years ago. For some reason my exit was not recorded in their automated system and I didn't have the officer give me a stamp when I departed. I got it cleared up, but it took a good hour of checking my flight records, etc.
I always get a stamp now.
Posted in: Japan eyes simpler immigration procedures, including automatic gate
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Smorkian
I think inside Tokyo station is more confusing than the ground above!
Posted in: International tourist center to open in Tokyo's Marunouchi on Jan 2
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Smorkian
Lunchbox is indeed wrong - Yui is quite talented. Definitely one of the best pop singers in Japan.
Posted in: YUI's song for disaster victims tops Oricon chart