JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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Confrontation
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U.S. Navy investigating how parts fell off aircraft near Atsugi
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California court to decide if SeaWorld whales are illegal 'slaves'
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Kuroki reported pregnant 2 weeks after denying relationship with Akanishi
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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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Soochi
Er.... you don't get fired because the global economy has gone belly-up. You may get released, made redundant, let go or whatever your HR dept. decide to call it, but not fired. Who writes this stuff?
Posted in: How not to get fired in a bad economy
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Soochi
nandakandamanda - I too apologise for leaping to an assumption. It sounds like you speak with bitter experience. Re-reading your comments you probably have every right to feel let down by the present system.
Posted in: Suicide on TV condemned in Britain
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Soochi
nandakandamanda, you really need to get down off that incredibly high horse of yours.
Posted in: Suicide on TV condemned in Britain
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Soochi
GW
Possibly you are right but "flying off the handle" is hardly a fair or accurate way to describe the debate currently taking place in the UK.
It is worth remembering that the Crown Prosecution Service hasn't brought charges against any of the many hundreds of UK citizens who made the trip with their loved-ones over to Switzerland despite them clearly being linked with a criminal act. I too hope the law will change eventually but safeguards have to be put in place to protect the vulnerable from coercion - or managers who want their hospital beds empty. Speak with any Health Professional working for the NHS and they will tell you the same thing. Smithinjapan's reply to Scrote couldn't be further from the truth..... "No one in their right mind would jump from granting a terminally ill patient's request to die to killing the elderly in order to pay less taxes." I work with the terminally ill and the elderly and trust me, they would and they do.
Posted in: Suicide on TV condemned in Britain
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Soochi
" has previously been shown on Canadian and Swiss TV and at numerous film festivals, where it provoked little controversy."
OK, fine. So what's so different about showing it in Britain?
Because it comes in the wake of the Daniel James case, a 23 year old paralysed rugby player who died in a Swiss assisted suicide in September and also the Debbie Purdy case, a 45 year old woman with multiple sclerosis who lost her High Court case to clarify the law on assisted suicide in October. The topic is now being debated in Parliament with an increasing number of MPs calling for a change in legislation. The impact of a TV show like this being shown on TV last night is massive. The repercussions for our society and the way in which doctors and family mambers care for the sick and elderly are equally huge.
My question is quite the reverse, "Why didn't it provoke more controversy in Canada and Switzerland?"
Posted in: Suicide on TV condemned in Britain
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Soochi
That's nine countries in the Americas and three US-influenced countries in East Asia.
Yes, correct.
Except cricket has Test Status teams and National Federations in each of the five continents the Olympic Rings represent, as does rugby. Baseball as a gloabl sport is a poor comparison by any stretch of the imagination.
Posted in: 7 sports make case for 2016 Olympic place
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Soochi
They were Brits - Royal Marines. RIP the day after Armistice Day.
Posted in: 21 killed in attack on U.S. convoy in Afghanistan
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Soochi
And yes I just get the Award for the worst spellerist....
Posted in: Tomoka Kurotani named 'Woman With the Most Appealing Teeth'
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Soochi
It is as real as Bara Brith and Welsh Rarebit boyo'.
I want to see the winner of "Woman with the most Appaling Teeth" instead.
Posted in: Tomoka Kurotani named 'Woman With the Most Appealing Teeth'
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Soochi
Vandalism and anti-social behaviour aside, my problem with the Halloween Yama party was always that it was sh1te. A bit like a really, really bad office Christmas party - but in a smelly, crowded metal tube with no bar or bogs.
Posted in: Tokyo police, rail authorities hope to scare Halloween pranksters
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Soochi
>She looks like a man,
???!!! What kind of blokes do you hang around with?
Posted in: Glamour girl Jessica Michibata makes the right moves
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Soochi
Lesser drivers said the same about Senna. Hamilton will treat Kubica's whine with the contempt it deserves. Or he could do a Tom Cruise..... "That's right! Ice... man. I am dangerous."
Posted in: Hamilton denies arrogance accusation
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Soochi
Hang on. So does this mean she doesn't *need *to wear glasses, she just happens to look "good" in them for an 11 year old girl. Great - Creepy and bonkers!
Posted in: 11-year-old girl named 'best idol with glasses'
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Soochi
>have you ever had a child stuck in a plane for 12 or 14 hours straight? it ain't no picnic.
Yup, two of them 2 or 3 times a year in cattle class. We took sprog No. 2 on her first flight at 4 weeks. Wouldn't even consider anything but direct with them.
Posted in: Top tips for flying with tots
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Soochi
Whoever suggested this as a top-tip needs to be removed from the gene-pool for the sake of all humanity. Here's a thought, how about you do away with the "next flight" altogether and go direct! Genius!!!
Posted in: Top tips for flying with tots
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Soochi
>Contracting offers a freedom of mobility that permanent employment just cannot offer, not to mention a way to avoid the office politics that can make work life tedious.
Only one reason folk turn contractor in UK skilled sectors and that is spondoolies - usually double if not pushing three times as much.
Oh, and you get to sod off at 5.30 on the dot. I'm amazed the pay is less in Japan though, why on earth would anyone do it!?!?
Posted in: Top 5 contract employment myths
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Soochi
MrDickMorris....
"pasty flab-monster"? Sound like you have anti British views,
Nope, being a Brit and living in London that would be odd. Just anti-p1ssed-up Brits abroad views - be it Tokyo or Magaluf. What would you have done, shook is hand and bought him a pint.
The rozzers should have tasered the fat-knacker. Now that would have been funny.
Posted in: Naked Briton detained after swimming in Imperial Palace moat
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Soochi
****Yeah, a naked man is so dangerous in this day and age ..yawn...**
In a city where random attacks by deranged nutters are now a daily occurrence I for one would be a bit apprehensive if this pasty flab-monster crawled out of the water, ar3e naked and chucking rocks at me for no reason.
Posted in: Naked Briton detained after swimming in Imperial Palace moat
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Soochi
What standards and who sets them?
The Australian Primary Principals Association together with the kids' parents or guardians would be the sensible choice. The idiotic choice would be Henson himself.
And the article isn't about pornography or moral lecturing, it's about the Principal granting access to minors without consent.
Posted in: New row erupts over Australian artist cleared of child porn
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Soochi
X-Chromosome Japan more like.
Looks like he's auditioning for a camp Japanese remake of Knight Rider.
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