JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- 秘書及び業務サポート
- 加治金属工業株式会社, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥4.0M / Year
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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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- ALT - Mie Prefecture - Yokkaichi City - June start
- NPO法人グローバル教育推進機構（GLAD), Mie
- Salary: ¥230,000 / Month For a full working month. Some months differ.
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Thomas Smith
Would be more valid where the foreigners create the industry and how it runs, where teachers are just another foreign entertainer class in Japan. Stay while you are young and underpaid but "return to your home" before you make a move to management or get paid on par with Japanese staff (unless you teachers are getting the bonuses now). Blaming foreigners for how that imdustry works feels a bit like "blame the victim".
Posted in: Foreign staff at Tokyo brokerages find flattery gets them everywhere
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Thomas Smith
This seems absolutely like what Japanese employees do, while foreign workers are more ballsy about stating their opinions, making their case, and taking their boss on.
Sounds like sour grapes to me. Or a terribly small sampling size, one off anecdotes etc.
Posted in: Foreign staff at Tokyo brokerages find flattery gets them everywhere
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Thomas Smith
Netninja Children of age 10 would not be mature enough to understand the repercussions of their actions ...obviously. If you say they deserve the abuse for that reason, well, I just don't follow the logic.
Posted in: YouTube video has girls asking: Am I pretty?
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Thomas Smith
Great documentary on Frontline last week. Makes Kan look a bit better than you'd expect but lays the blame squarely on TEPCO mostly. Highly recommended if you got the time to watch an internationally vetted play by play.
Posted in: Noda says no individual to blame for Fukushima nuclear crisis
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Thomas Smith
South and Central America are highest in the world for intended homicide too. Very dangerous lately. It pays to know about where you're going.
Posted in: Japanese, U.S. tourists report rapes in Argentina
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Thomas Smith
> only in the USA. Sad.
Again, misinformation. Would be a better world of it only happened in the US.
Posted in: One dead, 4 wounded in Ohio school shooting
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Thomas Smith
Okay that's just untrue. Perhaps you werent as news savvy or something, but there were often reports of smaller scale school shootings reported back into the 70s even.
Posted in: One dead, 4 wounded in Ohio school shooting
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Thomas Smith
> happened, every media outlet declared that the shooters were "social outcasts" who had been "bullied" and were part of the "trench-coat mafia". None of that information turned out to be true.
That's interesting, I've heard all this is vetted and have heard it rereported as such even recently. If you have another source for the info, please post it, I want to read up.
Posted in: One dead, 4 wounded in Ohio school shooting
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Thomas Smith
> Japan is only one of the countries that the USA taxpayers want to defend itself.
Interesting, I've never heard this before. Do you have a source for this information?
Posted in: Noda apologizes to Okinawa for DPJ's handling of U.S. base issue
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Thomas Smith
Funny seeing all the comments saying pigeon toed walking is caused by sitting seiza, but missing the fact that men who sit that way constantly do not have the problem. It IS a learned behavior even by those girls who do not sit that way, and is how you're taught to walk in kimono.
Posted in: Some Japanese customs that may confuse foreigners
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Thomas Smith
Interesting, no Japanese wins when the event isn't "thrown" like some of the Prides. I guess we'll see if it continues...
Posted in: Ben Henderson claims Edgar's title at UFC 144
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Thomas Smith
Wow.
Posted in: Ishihara agrees with Nagoya mayor's Nanjing massacre denial
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Thomas Smith
Foreigners find it painful to sit on the floor, really?? Somehow not any of the foreigners I grew up with. Sounds a bit more like "what some Japanese think is confusing to foreigners".
Posted in: Some Japanese customs that may confuse foreigners
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Thomas Smith
Hearing a lot of "communal behavior = morality" in this article, which we know isn't always so. But humans being genetically communal, that's no news.
Posted in: Science overturns view of humans as naturally 'nasty'
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Thomas Smith
Curious to know how they used fiber optic cable which uses light particles to test lightspeed particle acceleration. I'm sure there's info on how it's setup, too late for work to look it up.
Posted in: Hitches emerge as culprit in 'faster-than-light' particle
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Thomas Smith
After the war, all options were on the table including direct prosecution of the Emporer (who was directly responsible for war-like actions of the government at that time). It was decided the Japanese people/psyche would not allow execution of the supreme leader and god. Along with this, other "path of least resistance" type decisions were made as well. This is likewise why Nagoya and other cities were bombed/burned while Kyoto was left completely untouched.
Posted in: China complains to Japan over Nagoya mayor's Nanjing massacre denial
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Thomas Smith
Interesting point.
Posted in: Serbia snubs Jolie's Balkans war film premiere; only 12 show up
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Thomas Smith
Haha when I first read charcoal burner, I was thinking of the slang term and wondered how it fit into the story. Racist alarms were going off for a second there, I had to reread it hehe.
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Thomas Smith
For the record: Some14some well played sir!
For those saying the US should track the KKK and such, it does that's one of its primary functions, along with gang/mafia activity, and federal serial crimes (murder, rape, etc). There is a whole division devoted to investigation of hate groups of all kinds.
As far as any street in the US having higher crime than the US, that's pure hogwash. ALL types of crime has been steadily declining for decades and is currently at its lowest point since the 1960s despite what you see on tv. This is not true for Japan, however. But it's easy to verify, both countries post yearly reports on annual crime statistics on the net for all to see. A little research isn't hard to do, but an honest view of a country that gets too much unearned attention may not be what you're after.
Posted in: U.S. moves to isolate Japanese, Russian crime groups
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Thomas Smith
I honestly thought we were a lot farther along than that. But as they said, it's where you come from.
It IS good to see western nations say "we've still got a long way to go," not something I ever here in Japan.
Posted in: Interracial marriages in U.S. hit new high: 1 in 12