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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Tahoochi
Job well done Nadeshiko Japan! The US played hard as well... but only one team can win.
Posted in: Japan beats U.S. in shootout to win Women's World Cup soccer
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Godan, I agree completely, but sillygirl also has it right.
miamum:
Aren't you contradicting yourself there? If overseas experience is seen as "lazy", then why are those without overseas experience threatened by it?
Either way, I don't think Japanese people feel threatened by returnees. The company I work for has 6000 employees in Japan and is very committed to sending people in their 20's and 30's to our overseas branches to provide them with experience. On top of that, when they return, they are generally promoted and given more responsibility than others their age. Experience = knowledge = confidence in our company and everyone treasures that. The problem is, whether you've been overseas or not, as long as they are living in Japan, there is no need for the Japanese to speak a word of English or learn about other cultures. This may be the same for other people living in their perspective native countries, but the level of multi-culturalism is noticeably low in Japan for any decent exposure to other cultures compared to other countries, even other island countries.
Posted in: My advice for young Japanese is simple: get out of Japan. One of our weaknesses as Japanese is our ineptness at communicating with other cultures. Even people who speak English well are closed off psychologically.
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@miyazawa3: I hope Japan is loose for the game as well... can't go in too wound up. Loose, but focused. On the other hand, I hope the US will lose ; )
Posted in: United States has the trophies, Japan the game
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Graham DeShazoJul. 17, 2011 - 12:28PM JST
........Baaahumbug!
Posted in: Transformers
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Thanks for your input guys.... especially ambrosia. And I agree with all of you, but I just want to say that my original statement (soccer is more popular in Japan) was definitely said with soccer as a spectator sport in mind.
I've no doubt the US has more soccer players.... but my comment was based on bass4funk's comment in which he complained about Japanese people who are not usually soccer fanatics who become soccer fanatics when team Japan wins. My response was: That's because there are more people who watch soccer in Japan.
Posted in: United States has the trophies, Japan the game
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Tahoochi
Ok ok, I admit it was an exaggeration. Soccer is not a thousand times more popular in Japan than in the US.
NetNinja, I have spent 5 years in the US and yes, there's plenty of soccer at the amateur level. But let's face it, as smithinjapan says, it's not at the professional level, and the popularity of pro level soccer in the US as a spectator sport is far more minimal than it is in Japan. When I said that soccer is much more popular in Japan, I obviously meant it at the pro level (ie. as a spectator sport) and not at the little Johnny or Sally and their soccer mom level. My apologies for not being clear enough there, but I thought that was a given, since you were talking about all those people at work talking about the game after and if Japan wins.
smithinjapan: As for wagon jumpers, I don't know how you can calculate that sort of thing as to who has more, and I suspect it's a difficult point to argue because of the size and population density differences between the US and Japan. But how do you explain the popularity increase of women's soccer in the US after Brandi Chastain took her shirt off in celebration at the '99 world cup? How do you explain the major boom in the PGA viewer ratings and golf in general as a sport after Tiger Woods came to the scene?
I guess my point is that it's hard to argue "who has more wagon jumpers", but I'm pretty sure every country will have people who support their own country's team in a world cup final even though they are not great fans of that sport, and it will always seem extreme whilst you are in Japan if you are not Japanese, especially if you are not supporting team Japan.
Posted in: United States has the trophies, Japan the game
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OsakadazJul. 15, 2011 - 10:51AM JST
Osakadaz: What's your source??? That would mean each ATM had an average of US$190,000 in it????? I don't think so.
Posted in: 5 youths arrested over ATM robberies in quake-hit Tohoku
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Thanks for the clarification CrazyJoe.
JT: Something lost in translation here? According your the article, it sounds like the guy was just hanging around at the scene and tapped a cop on his shoulder and said "Excuse me..... I did that"
Posted in: 20-year-old man arrested for murder of taxi driver in Fukuoka
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@NetNinja & bass4funk: America is "No.1" in everything, and especially with their past history of world cup wins and their recent wins against Japan (2-0 in both games) the US is favored to win. Americans have tons of pride, Japan is the underdog, so if Japan wins I think they've got every right to celebrate. The both of you are American I presume? ....and you live in Japan, so of course you're gonna hear about it if Japan wins.
Besides, you guys are talkin' like the US has already lost! Where's you're spirit of competition?!?!
PS......bass4funk: Soccer is a thousand times more popular in Japan than in the states so I don't think you're argument holds much ground. There would be waaay more wagon-jumpers in the states if they win than in Japan if Japan won. Besides, whether you like soccer or not doesn't really matter. People like to support their country and the people representing their country (not just in soccer, and not just Japan).
Posted in: United States has the trophies, Japan the game
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Kersey23: Where are you getting your info from????
According to wiki, minimum to serve before eligibility for requesting parole for a life sentence in Japan is "10 years or never" (and there is no maximum). Besides, you're forgetting some very important pieces of information...... in addition to murder, there's rape and evading the cops for 2 years (which means there was no remorse or "hansei").
Posted in: Japanese prosecutors seek life in Briton's death
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Tahoochi
This is an article about a model releasing a book about beauty...... let's see a picture of her JT.
Posted in: Model Shiho launches beauty book
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theFu: If what you're saying is true, then this product would probably be better off sold as an "emergency disaster kit" with other emergency products inside, as opposed to something for everyday use.
Posted in: Solar backpack
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Tahoochi
"....kicking his legs and punching his face"
And no injuries??? They're either lying about "no injuries", or this cop couldn't fight his way out of a wet paper bag.
Posted in: Police sergeant arrested for drunken assault on train
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ihavegreatlegsJul. 05, 2011 - 12:04AM JST
You mean the Japanese travel agents will tell the Japanese tourists.......
Most Japanese business travellers (like myself) do not do what you claim in your post.
I wish they used newer planes for the more "blue-collar" routes to the US as well though; as opposed to the New Yorks and LA's.... oh well, I guess that's where the money is.
Posted in: Boeing's long-delayed 787 Dreamliner arrives in Japan
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DisillusionedJul. 04, 2011 - 12:10PM JST
...Or they may have been very good swimmers who went out too far and were too tired to make it back like Carcharodon mentioned in an earlier post (Jul. 04, 2011 - 08:17AM JST). I just don't get what the rest of your comment had to do with these 3 boys and this article.
Posted in: 3 children drown in pond in Hyogo
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gaijininfo: Please read Carcharodon's post above.
Disillusioned: What gives? You say that knowing how to swim may not have saved the lives of these kids, but then you go on to complain about how many Japanese tourists' lives you saved and how Japan should be more like Australia and learn how swim???
Posted in: 3 children drown in pond in Hyogo
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Tahoochi
Canned up underground shoulder-to-shoulder with sweaty smelly people in a hot and humid train..... hmmmmmmm... yup. That would drive me insane.
Posted in: Tokyo Metro subway stations to heat up from Friday
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ihavegreatlegs: What does Japanese comedy have to do with this? The author is simply (and obviously) highlighting the wackier side of the current state of affairs in US politics (which btw does not by any stretch represent the serious side).
And btw, your take on J-comedy also goes both ways; you should watch "Hitoshi Matsumoto's Suberanai hanashi", or "Shabekuri 007", or "Ame-Talk" (I could go on...) before making comments that are generalizing and based on a marginal understanding of Japanese comedy and the Japanese language.
All cultures have a "stupid" side and a serious side. No one's gonna think Americans are all stupid because of this article.
Posted in: America's bizarre presidential campaign follows culture
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some14someJul. 03, 2011 - 08:18AM JST
...a major lifestyle adjustment if you have kids going to school, and even bigger if you're a single parent or double-income parents.
Posted in: Nissan plant opens on weekends to deal with power crunch
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TriumvereJun. 29, 2011 - 01:15PM JST
Not that I condone this crap, but Japan seems to be the perenial punching bag when it comes to porn and porn-related controversy. Consider this though: Who knows how popular this stuff is in the black market of "western" countires who have stricter laws than Japan?
Posted in: U.S. Supreme Court overturns ban on video game sales to kids