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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Smythe
This form of Honda bike, though older in the 60s to 80s with its step-through frame was the ideal bike to so many learners that are now with 35 to 40 yrs of riding experience & on larger to faster bikes, but the all realized this was such an ideal bike to learn on.
Friend of mine, spotted a Honda Passport, being one of the names, & spent another month looking for it to find it in prime condition park behind a business shop for the business owner.
Posted in: Honda Super Cub
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Smythe
Ryoko still has the youngster look, but when you look closer. Shida does have the teenager bit in here that is hard to beat. All three are good looking & well dressed to my mind.
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Smythe
For many years I have used a scalp sort of scratcher each time I hit the shower which is daily if not sometimes twice a say.
All I know is it feels good to scratch my scull each time. Only thing I have to do is make sure it is cleaned after.
This one might be even better, for who knows as most count on their soap or whatever.
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Smythe
Be best of all if France took over its old colony & the load would be off the USA, Canada & other countries plus they would have to supply free medical services, free rebuilding, free schooling & just so much more.
I think many, in other countries would appreciate the above.
Posted in: Sarkozy announces big French aid plan for Haiti
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Smythe
Fore sure she was a big name to most of the Cdn newspapers, to also on the TV screens from start to right now. After all she deserved it plus her training along with attitude one just have to love the gal.
Posted in: After all the delays, Vonn shines light on Alpine skiing with gold performance
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Smythe
Sorry for the above relates to restaurants in Canada, not the USA & definately not Japan for I have never travelled out of Canada for some 40+ yrs in rare conditions.
Posted in: Doggy bags slowly infiltrate Japanese dining scene
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Smythe
I rarely go to restaurants, but once in a while I will (say something like 3-5 times since '91) and that is when I ask for a small portion as I will have seen what others were receiving & knew that was a meal or two in just one dish.
On rare situations I have noted most will ask for a "doggy bag", since the meal was THAT big, & know basically all will use it the next day.
Posted in: Doggy bags slowly infiltrate Japanese dining scene
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Smythe
Good action photo & just the best of camera people are allowed to do their job.
The padded ex-boards are still where comp speed-skaters often damage legs or ankles.
Basically, as an ex speed skater, I can assure you most of us only had both arms in full swing at the start, to settle down to both arms resting on the small of the back, now when it came a bit closer to the end & especially the corners that is when the eight arm is in motion to when in the final struggle for the most of power that is when both arms tend to be used & sometimes an opponent close to your side will obtain a fist-full.
Fortunately the Olympics do NOT use the North American standard, of the past, being a MASS start like 8 to 28 or 38 speed skaters all taking off NOW with all arms swinding & yes some that fell might have been slashed by a blade on one's speed skates to where yes I have received a blooding nose or stitches in my lips due to a fist swinging back & made contact with me. So the end of the race that day.
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Smythe
True the man took his life in his hands & I hope him the best in the future. To do that for a drunk, one really has to wonder after?
Mind you being a drunk about to get on a train rather then driving a car in "not able to remember mind" or killing someone else or thier family in similiar driving . I guess that is thankful to the rest of us.
Posted in: Man saves woman from train after she falls onto tracks
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Smythe
Basically I ignore the big indoor do of yesterday of all Olympics, glad I did, for accidently looking for a decent program I would run across this Cdn costy show-off & what I saw was quite watered down or dreamed up by someone that did not know much.
Did see some of the gear used by some come Noon time & must admit the Russians seemed to have the most contrasting.
All those running around with the, so called flame, in basicaly 90% white two piecd to also toque could have had at least some contrast or AT LEAST a red toque with Canada in white at the front of the sides!!
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Smythe
To be honest with the rest of you I am pleased that Whitney Houston had a voice I did appreciate above so many of the later, in time, female vocalists, I just hope she goes over well in Japan & they like her as I did. Life has not always been a life of joy for her.
Posted in: Whitney Houston
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Smythe
Agree that Whitney's voice was one of the best in her prime. Obviously this is her last try.
Posted in: Whitney Houston
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Smythe
I remember when the Winter Olympics was held in Norway & Canada was pounding its chest due to three gold medals. Only to find one was by a speed skater & the other two by a woman in the Bialthlon meaning shooting as well as cross-country skiing.
Canada Federal Govt being so much against f/arms shooting, they never raved about the three Gold Medals after said knowledge. Does tend to make us shooters shake our heads & same with some other Cdns wondering why?
Posted in: Winter Olympics kick off Friday with indoor opening ceremony
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Smythe
Obviously so many of us do not know what size dish is with the food in it. It is simply to hard for us to assume other then think this was pure gluttony along with planned idea of stealing much the same as stealing in a store of things like clothing, to you name it.
So in honestly we are sort of left baffled though a bit left down when it comes to STEALING.
Posted in: Stuffed teenage girls arrested for trying to eat and run at restaurant
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Smythe
That was a very good photo & it had many of us WONDERING what they were talking about with some good assumptions I will agree. There was a saying in an American m/c board of "When a man sees a lovely looking women in full leather gear----the first thing he starts to think is about a new truck" Well something along that line. Mind you in this photo you are looking at some lovely looking young women with some very powerfull leg muscles. The most we ever had back in the 50s were WOOL tights for advanced speed-skating. Also being the North American style of mass starting which is a thing of the past due to the Olympics which is even different leg stroking..
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Smythe
Obviously the Police will be sniffing around every darn place he has been just in case they find similiar patterns like above. A Colonel is pretty high ranking to use Cdns & highest I have knowen was a low rank Private like myself to meet him about to retire as a Major.
Posted in: Top Canadian military official charged with 2 murders
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Smythe
You can bet your bottom dollar or Yen that President Obama & his gang are going after makers of cars in other countries rather then American desgned & make vehicles. He has to try & protect the American makers & get his propaganda people to lean heavy on ANY failure of a foriegn car/truck maker. Unfortunately Toyto was becoming the largest car maker in the world & its reliability bit of prestige sort of dropped.
Posted in: Toyota to recall 437,000 vehicles worldwide for Prius, other hybrids
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Smythe
The many electronic controls are to the wishing of women drivers, like automatic trannies, to power steering & so much more. For they cannot handle the steering, braking, shifting of gears, to just so much more.
Having been a farmer in past yrs muscle was needed to handle a well used second-hand tractor to so much more, but most men were able to do it. Remember old single cam disc brakes were all we had & so often the tractor or whatever was worked on by the farmer with his limited machine shop, tools to knowledge. Yet had to count on the rough mechanical equipment just a few yrs back.
Posted in: Prius problems put spotlight on car electronics
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Smythe
Very good photograph. I did not know a thing about the yukizuri, but that can make sense especially when snow is is heavy & wet.
Posted in: Light-up
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Smythe
Making bubbles our of what? Mind you look at the kids & the magic before their eyes.
A good photo, for sure, but there had to be this one parent with a ruddy fag hanging out of his mouth.
Posted in: Bubble era