JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Financial Advisor
- Select Asset Management KK, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥100,000 ~ ¥999,999 Paid Training Commission Based
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- Corporate Business English Trainers
- ACT Systems, Inc.（株式会社アクト・システムズ）, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥269,500 ~ ¥280,000 / Month
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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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Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land
And you feel America has such a system? Don't the children of the wealthy become wealthy and the children of the poor stay poor, not 100%, but at a very, very high rate.
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Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land
Why isn't teaching English in Japan a "proper job"? It pays my family's bills.
Out of curiosity, what would be a "proper job" then?
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Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land
Yes, get back to work, all of you!! *sound of whip cracking
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Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land
Why is it that sports player's unions are so strong, but unions in general have been getting weaker over the years in America?
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Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land
And you are all for wealth concentrating at the top?
Because I tend to think that if the top 10% of America owns 70% of the wealth and the bottom 40% own 1% of the wealth then that's not a very stable, much less fair, system.
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Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land
America's overall wealth will continue to decrease and the rich-poor divide will continue to increase. Add to that the huge amount of poorly educated people and firearms and in 50-100 years America will look like modern day Brazil, or maybe Nigeria.
Americans should be getting out while the getting is good.
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Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land
Why does she have a Japanese last name if her father is American?
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Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land
@Lucabrasi
Are you kidding me? I am the king of sarcasm, but ya know sometimes these things don't come through on the internet and there are also plenty of people who say dumb stuff and contradict themselves. I honestly couldn't tell which was the case here, which was why I asked.
I'll have to get my sarcasmometer calibrated.
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Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land
Way to contradict yourself. Was that supposed to be joke or something?
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Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land
@Wolfpack
Seems to me they are. Also seems to me you are really afraid.
I notice you left pedophilia and beastiality out there. Age of consent is indeed arbitrary. Are there actually laws against close relatives marrying? If there are, you are right, they are arbitrary and oppressive. As long as we are talking about 2 consenting adults, that is. As far as polygamy, it was probably outlawed for religious reasons or because it went against cultural norms, and it does indeed seem arbitrary, but I think it could be argued against on the basis of sexism. It's always one man and many women. There is an unequal power relationship between the sexes. If it commonly went both ways, then it would be arbitrary.
The reasons against gay marriage, of which you've presented none (except preserving the species, haha!), aren't based on logic. They are based on prejudice.
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Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land
Personally, I would love to see fewer pachinko parlors. They are hideous eyesores.
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Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land
I don't live anywhere near Tokyo or Tohoku and I'm not turning my a/c off for one minute.
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Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land
Not so hard, really. But, you are right, you can't really do it indoors. I suppose people could go out on their verandas and set up their bbq grill, but they better be careful.
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Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land
No, not so much. The beer market here is dominated by the big 4 companies. The variety is very small, it is expensive and there are only a very few decent beers. Japan is not to be praised for the state of it's beer.
There is a micro-brew near my city and its beer is way, way better than any of the big, national beers. Japan has yet to have it's micro-brew revolution as the states has had. I've heard there are quite a few micro-brews in Japan, but since they aren't sold in any of the stores here, it's just a myth as far as I'm concerned.
Since, at least in my area, near beer and happoshu are more popular than real beer, Japan deserves only scorn on this point, imo.
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Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land
Because Budweiser is sold in 12 oz. cans, not 350 ml ones.
And the metric system is socialist.
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Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land
Wood, fire, fry pan, oil = frying something. Wood, fire, coals, dutch oven or even tin foil = baking something.
Never been camping? Things were being fried and baked on this planet loooooooooong before the advent of electricity or pressurized gas canisters. Doesn't have all that much to do with the recipe, though. It's all in the cooking technique.
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Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land
Just my opinion, but I think you are going way overboard on this thing. Not such a big deal in my book. Another example of Americans overreacting over a little thing. Also, divorce is not something to be taken so lightly. Especially if him and his wife have underage children, then divorce would be a much worse option compared to what he's done.
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Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land
It shouldn't even be a word now. Why do people say texting instead of emailing?
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Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land
I hate those damn fake sleeves so much, as well as the huge brimmed hats or visors. Afraid of the sun? Add that to the phobia many Japanese have of dirt and germs and it starts to look like many people here would be happier living in a bubble with no contact whatsoever with the natural world. I'm waiting for the sun shade hats to start coming with mosquito nets attached lest an errant mosquito chance to pierce their precious skin.
You could also say, 'As long as I have perfect skin who cares if my teeth look like a bag of broken dominoes.' Not to mention the regular people walking around every day with teeth completely missing. Nobody seems to know that that kind of stuff can be fixed.
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Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land
As am I, SuperLib. Perhaps he will favor you with a reply as he seems to be bored with me.
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