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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Suzu1
Probably the same reason you don't see many sales of British, German, Italian, French, Swedish or Korean cars either. The market in Japan is tough to enter and total sales are in decline and unlikely to recover. On top of that at least a third of existing car sales are for the mini-type 660 cc vehicles that offer little profit - hence little motivation to spend the money required to build distribution. The real goal of foreign makers has been to open up the Japanese market for car parts - that is where the real money is.
Posted in: What do you think are the main reasons why U.S. car sales are so low in Japan?
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Suzu1
There is no parole in the Federal prisons so if they are sentenced to 2 years, they will serve 2 years. They will also, of course, serve the time in Federal prisons which means that in all likelihood they will be sent to another state away from friends or family who could visit.
Posted in: Two Japanese auto suppliers to pay price-fixing fine in U.S.
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Suzu1
This is just going to provide an opportunity for the sokaiya to rejoin the game under the guise of watchdog activism.
Posted in: Olympus scandal triggers Japan shareholder activism
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Suzu1
I guess this is what it takes to pay the bills these days at the shrine.
Posted in: Dog days
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Suzu1
Serrano - That is a false analogy. Gates was a career civil servant, not a politician with a party affiliation.
Posted in: Romney weathers attacks from rivals in debate
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Suzu1
Lots of seconds in 21 minutes.
Cleo - That is a typical, snarky sentiment voiced by those who do not comprehend the distances in rural counties of the U.S. There are simply a handful of officers to cover thousands of square miles.
The accompolice has now been charged with murder. Oklahoma's felony murder law permits prosecutors to seek a murder conviction if an accomplice dies during the commission of another felony crime.
Posted in: Oklahoma woman asks 911 operator for permission to shoot intruder
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Suzu1
This is a brave young woman who kept calm and saved two lives - hers and her baby's. Thank God she had a shotgun and knew how to use it. When seconds counted, the police were minutes away.
Posted in: Oklahoma woman asks 911 operator for permission to shoot intruder
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Suzu1
Funny, in the immediate years following the shooting of the NPA head, Japanese papers wrote that the would-be assasin was most certainly a foreigner because no Japanese person could possibly hit him with a shot from that distance.
Posted in: Aum fugitive turns himself in after 17 years on the run
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Suzu1
Rape is a horrible crime, but the fight against it is not helped when these studies come out using a definition of rape that almost no sensible person would use. If your husband or wife pressures you into sex when you really don't feel like it, they consider it rape. If a girl feels that she was taken advantage of after she had a few drinks which made her more promiscuous, they consider it rape. Diluting the meaning like that does nothing but drain resources and focus away from rape through force or intimidation - the definition most people use.
Posted in: 18.3% of American women have been victims of rape or attempted rape at some time: study
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Suzu1
Of course, Canada is pulling out and the rest of the world is doing the same. The money being currently wasted on useless measures would be better spent on helping vulnerable communities adapt to climate change.
Posted in: Canada pulls out of Kyoto Protocol
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Suzu1
The Hells Angels granted a Japanese biker club, Deadly Drive MC, official "hangaround" charter status last year. They'll all be riding Harleys.
Posted in: Harley-Davidson Japan
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Suzu1
nigelboy - Actually this would be the very kind of story that would get reported on the local news (even on the West Coast). Someone gettng mugged and thrown into a pond is the kind of story 11 o'clock news producers love to run. In any event, you seem to be under the impression that the only crime that happens in Japan is what you see reported in the newspaper or on the television news.
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Suzu1
The pending bill seems to be very reasonable. Requiring a farmer or rancher to first hold a shotgun license for a minimum of 10 years before getting a rifle license is pointless.
Posted in: Police oppose proposals to liberalize Japan's gun laws
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Suzu1
Michelin is trying to expand its tire business in Japan. Its restaurant guide's expansion to Japan is a part of that effort, providing cheap but effective advertising.
Posted in: Tokyo beats Paris again as world food capital
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Suzu1
The marijuana being sold today is far from a natural product - try to smoke a wild hemp plant and see how high you get. The THC levels in today's product are so high that the use of marijuana is not a social activity as it was once considered. The takeover by organized crime in its manufacture and distribution has made marijuana a true drug.
Posted in: Reefer madness: Marijuana throws brain regions out of sync
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Suzu1
Today's WSJ reported that Woodford's firing came after he hired an auditor to look at the extraordinary fees Olympus paid to two advisers, one of whom is located in the Cayman Islands, in the Gyrus deal. While a standard fee is 1% of the deal amount, Olympus paid 36% of the deal to the shadowy advisers ($687 million). The WSJ reported that it was unable to find contact information for the advisers.
Posted in: Olympus shares plunge 24% following British CEO's ouster
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Suzu1
The fact is that Obama couldn't get his own party to vote for his plan because it is clear that it is going to flush more money down the tubes with nothing to show for it. He didn't need a single Republican vote - the bill failed to pass the Senate because of Democrat votes against it.
Posted in: Obama blasts Republicans for blocking jobs bill
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Suzu1
The article obviously doesn't consider rifles to be weapons. Japan exports plenty of those.
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Suzu1
What doesn't bode well for Honda is that its U.S. sales last year fell behind Hyundai's for the first time.
Posted in: U.S. sales of Toyota fell in Sept; Honda higher
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Suzu1
However the American press loves to bash Japanese companies
The names be similar but the Ford rollover controversy involved FIRESTONE tires, not BRIDGESTONE.
Posted in: Bridgestone to boost tire production capacity at South Carolina plant