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- Export/Import Personnel
- Yamato Soysauce Miso Co., Ltd. 株式会社ヤマト醤油味噌, 石川県
- Salary: 月給 23万円 ~ 25万円 相談可
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- Administration Officer
- Destination Asia Japan, 東京都
- Salary: 月給 8万円 ~ 10万円
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- PR／Translator
- 株式会社CMC ( CMC ), 東京都
- Salary: 月給 31万6000円 ~ 35万円 相談可
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- International Account Manager
- Cosmo PR Corporation (株式会社 コスモ・ピーアール), 東京都
- Salary: 年収 500万円 相談可
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- 営業アシスタント
- 株式会社 天時情報システム, 東京都
- Salary: 月給 25万円 ~ 35万円 相談可 歩合制
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Steve Fabricant
If the Ministry of Education is serious about getting a good return for the taxpayer's money (that's a question....), why can't they hire a few experts and do some research about what works and what does not? It's obvious that China and Korea (even NK from what I hear) are doing something right and Japan is not.
A lot of the preceding posts made good points, and I'll add some of my own ideas:
1) Requiring basic training in teaching a foreign language so the enthusiastic new teacher can do more than mumble "hi, kids, what's your favorite sport?", The assumption that little kids learn language by contact or immersion is valid, but the current system of an hour or two a week of English does not provide that.
2) videoconference interviews to weed out applicants who might be 'native speakers' but are generally unintelligible (like one from the sub-continent who taught in a school I know well),
3) adopt a proven English-language teaching system and its associated materials and provide the new teachers with training. Kumon might not be the best of its kind, (maybe because it does not use native-speaking teachers) but has an organized A/V system that also lets kids proceed at their own pace. I'm sure there are others too.
4) Recognizing that perfecting pronunciation and grammar is not nearly as important as giving young students confidence that they can communicate in another language.
Posted in: Gov't plans to increase number of foreign English teachers to 10,000
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Steve Fabricant
Not exactly breaking news, only that we've just been guessing the size of the bribes until now.
That Karzai - whattaguy. English teachers take note - this could be an example to your students how having good English can benefit the whole family!
Posted in: Tens of millions in CIA 'ghost money' paid to Afghan president's office: New York Times
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Steve Fabricant
"Gutted the military"???? If it's too weak to fight now it's due to fighting two unneeded wars that dragged on forever. A few less handouts to contractors for unneeded weapons systems - that would be a good thing.. .
Posted in: Dempsey tells U.S. troops in Japan: Avoid war by preparing for it
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Steve Fabricant
I don't find it hard to believe that someone proposed it for the Airshow, but to think it was a good idea???. Was there going to be a simulated mushroom cloud too? Supposedly the grownups are in charge of important events like that. Maybe next time they'll set their sights a little lower, like dropping Agent Orange in Southeast Asia.
Posted in: Hiroshima A-bomb re-enactment dropped from U.S. air show
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Steve Fabricant
The current childcare is dreadful, with places nearly impossible to get in many metro areas even for women who are ready and willing to go to work. It would be one of the easiest, cost-effective, and most successful of possible reforms. Fund training for childcare and early-childhood education workers; build facilities, provide subsidies to employers. Every would benefit and perhaps the threat of demographic contraction will be postponed for another decade or two.
Posted in: Abe says women are key to Japan's economic revival
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Steve Fabricant
Raising fines "with a stroke of the pen" are actually a cost-effective way to reduce these events. Fines were raised a lot for DUI in Okinawa and there is occasional random breathchecking. Drunk-driving arrests and accidents have decreased. I agree that there is very little active policing per se here as compared with the US, but I suspect that the awareness that if there happens to be a cop who sees you running a light you'll pay dearly suits Japanese better and will have the same effect. As for epileptics etc. not declaring their condition, there needs to be a campaign. And then jail sentences for offenders.
Posted in: Cabinet OKs bill to toughen penalties for dangerous driving
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Steve Fabricant
Takata is really to blame, and I suppose that's why investors foresee some expensive liability suits coming. The car manufacturers could hardly be expected to do the destructive testing of the gas wafers that Takata quality control presumably already did, let alone do enough crash tests to find a defective one, As for why the smaller makers aren't also involved, I doubt it was because of their aircraft experience. More likely different seatbag makers were involved..
Posted in: Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Mazda recall 3.39 mil vehicles over airbags
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Steve Fabricant
The NHK radio piece on this yesterday again brought up the "return of all bases south of Kadena Air Base" thing. This idea seems to be like Casper The Ghost fading in and out of focus - what's the story? If it is a real proposal it would certainly be an effective lever to get acceptance of the Henoko plan.
Posted in: Suga seeks Okinawa's understanding for base relocation plan
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Steve Fabricant
@madmel, You seem to be looking at the technological side of the picture and you might be right, But every arms-manufacturing country has an incalculably huge financial interest in maintaining the charade. The Russian's latest toy might pull 3.7 g and hit 2000 mph so we need to design something that can pull 3,8 g and go 2100 mph. It's not rocket science ;) We're talking jobs in congressional districts and fat campaign contributions.
And then guess what the "bad guys" will do.
Posted in: Japan's military chief says F-35 is best fighter
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Steve Fabricant
Aircraft companies have become very comfortable with massive P.R. and lobbying campaigns to promote their products. After all, it's a do-or-die proposition for them. Maybe the worst example is the C-130 and variants, which the US Congress has literally pushed on the Pentagon in excess of their expressed needs. When the history of the post-cold-war era is written it will be obvious that the decline of the US and the accompanying drag on Western Europe was due in large part to stunts like this.
Posted in: Japan's military chief says F-35 is best fighter
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Steve Fabricant
No surprise attack - they were not exactly quiet leaving Okinawa this morning.
Posted in: U.S. deploys stealth fighters from Okinawa to S Korea
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Steve Fabricant
Since most of the debt is to Japanese citizens, wouldn't that put more money into their pockets? The propensity to save or spend seems to be key to whether the economy expands or not.
Posted in: Expectations high for radical policy shift from new BOJ chief
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Steve Fabricant
.... exactly. But I suppose it wouldn't hurt to do an expensive feasibility study.
Posted in: Tohoku Electric Power scraps plan for new nuke plant
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Steve Fabricant
Hydrofluoric acid was used in Breaking Bad whenever someone or something needed to totally disappear. Better living through chemistry.
Posted in: Man arrested for trying to kill woman with poisoned shoes
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Steve Fabricant
*"Not sure what Okinawa has to do with this or did he forget to mention them as well in the first threat? *
He's another of them commie base-haters
Posted in: N Korea threatens U.S. bases in Japan, Guam
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Steve Fabricant
Whatever you call it - naivete, lack of street smarts, complacency... the Japanese seem to have it spades and display in unsafe places. I watched as a handbag was lifted off a chair back while a party was going on in Manila (it happened so fast that I didn't even realize it). I worked with 3 fairly toughlooking guys who thought it was safe to walk on a main street at night in downtown Nairobi, and my wife was looted of her purse in Italy and a brand-new coat in Finland of all places, a couple of summers ago. They should give Japanese passports out with ripoff-hazard ratings for all countries printed inside.
Posted in: Japanese travelers abroad lack street smarts
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Steve Fabricant
There are plenty of Chinese in Okinawa. Most of the students in Japanese Language schools are from China, and a lot of them overstay and end up working in the backrooms so they can save money, just like on the mainland.
Posted in: Okinawa's off-base housing may suffer infestation of Chinese bugs
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Steve Fabricant
Matt and David are both correct. It's a scary disease and the vaccination is readily available, but a lot of stupid people refuse to have it for reasons that may have some tiny medical validity but are insignificant in respect to the risks of not getting it.
Posted in: Rubella infections hit 5-year high
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Steve Fabricant
There is some excellent commentary on Chavez and Venezuela on BBC World Service. They obviously were anticipating this and have some top reportage happening now.
Posted in: Venezuelan President Chavez dies of cancer at 58
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Steve Fabricant
I welcome the respite from internet access and would not pay a dime for it. But I agree that ANA has very cramped seating, and JAL transpacific flights are still using old aircraft with seats reminiscent of clapped-out Thai taxicabs.
Posted in: Lack of legroom, uncomfortable seats flyers' biggest complaints