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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ThonTaddeo
God bless you, Hiroki Sato!
Posted in: Man saves woman from train after she falls onto tracks
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ThonTaddeo
How did they decide to put French ahead of English (and above English on the signs) in the opening ceremony even though British Columbia is mostly English-speaking?
Was it a coin toss, or did the Francophones have some reason for being on top?
Posted in: Canada's French-English strife flares at Olympics
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ThonTaddeo
You can say that again! 300-pound person + 50-pound bag: OK; 140-pound person + 51-pound bag: pay an extra $50! That makes no sense!
I'd love to see them do this. Families with small kids would get a bigger bag allowance too, since their kid weighs so little.
Posted in: Actor-director Kevin Smith ejected from plane for being oversized
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ThonTaddeo
Shufu, what difference does it make to the African children if things are given to them on Valentine's Day as opposed to ny other day?
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ThonTaddeo
I agree, Sctaber. The Olympics is about athletes putting forth their best performances and inspiring the world; not about nation-states.
Some day I'd like to see an Olympic Games where nationalities aren't even mentioned or considered. Politics has no place in sport.
Posted in: All 3 Reed siblings go to Olympics in ice dancing
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ThonTaddeo
As happy as I am to see people donating to the underprivileged, I'm disappointed that they chose Valentine's Day to do it. Valentine's Day is the one day out of the year where, in Japan, the woman has the burden (or privilege) of taking the initiative in initiating romance. The entire rest of the time it's the guy who has to put his ego on the line, and so we men find it very gratifying when a woman can summon up her courage to confess on a day like this. I'd hate to see this day taken away in favor of a charity gesture that could easily be shifted to any other time of the year.
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ThonTaddeo
The outfit she's got on now looks just fine on a young woman in the real world. There's nothing particularly high-schoolish about it. She looks radiant enough to me.
Posted in: Fuji TV newscaster Aiko Kaito poses in high school uniform for CD
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ThonTaddeo
What exactly were aid workers expecting with such a heartlessly sexist distribution plan?
That men (particularly single ones who wouldn't have a woman eligible to get food for them) would just starve to death because they were unfortunate enough to be born the wrong sex?
It's like a self-fulfilling prophecy -- don't provide food to men because they might be dangerous, then watch them actually become dangerous because they've got no food!
"They’re treating men like we are animals," says Mr. Louis. Indeed. Treat people like animals and that's what you'll turn them into.
Thievery is despicable but providing food only to one gender is even more so.
Shame on the aid workers for not coming up with a better solution. Hand out bracelets, stamp their hands; serve ready-made meals eaten on the spot; there are any number of better solutions than to deny food to anyone who wasn't lucky enough to be born female. What a disgrace.
Posted in: Haitian women targeted by sexual predators, thieves after quake
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ThonTaddeo
The GSDF does battle with the National Police Agency? How can I iad in their recruiting efforts?
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ThonTaddeo
Tmarie, thanks again for your further commentary; again I agree completely with you. "Control the house and money" is the key phrase -- the homemaker has a level of autonomy that the salaryman can only dream of, because she can arrange the home as she sees fit, to her own standards and not to someone else's. Sure, being a housewife isn't easy -- but she's queen of her castle. And she goes out into the working world only if she wishes to; her husband can only dream of having that lifestyle choice!
The typical working man, on the other hand, is obeying a boss all day long. He can't tell his boss to be quiet or that he'll be with him in a few minutes or whatever -- no, he has to obey. It's an outrageous demand that he should have to contribute half of "the housework" when the extent and quality of that housework is determined by another person. In effect, he has a second boss right in his own home.
A person who works long hours without control of his daily life is a slave. We would chastise a husband who set all the rules for the home and demanded that his wife do them exactly as he dictated, yet we have less of a problem with wives who insist that their husbands bring home the bacon while simultaneously ceding total control of their homes and the fruits of their labor to those wives.
May I ask that you not joke that you "could become a Japanese wife, quit [your] job and control the house and the money"? Obviously you and your hasband love and care for each other deeply, but there's going to be a place in the back of your husband's mind where he realizes how powerless he is compared to you, and being reminded of one's own powerlessness is a sure ticket to depression and anxiety.
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ThonTaddeo
Tmarie, I couldn't agree more with your points. It's gratifying to see a woman notice this stuff.
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ThonTaddeo
Geinoujin and their ∞-ly ridiculous stage names. Why do journalists allow them to defile the languages that the media use to describe them? Good on Shabasaki Ko for taking a somewhat normal, printable, pronounceable name.
Posted in: Ko Shibasaki shows her skills in the kitchen
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ThonTaddeo
Mike McFly, I like your idea, but surely the Japanese organizers will never allow it. They'll demand that the Japan-based games are played in Tokyo, regardless of who the actual champion is.
I definitely prefer this kind of championship to the nationalist, jingoist World Baseball Classic, in which players are torn from their real teammates and made to play on temporary all-star teams based on the players' nationalities. Let's have a Real World Series between club teams, competing from the champions of four leagues: National League (16 teams), American League (14), NPB (12), and KBO + Taiwan (?). That could be a somewhat-balanced setup.
Posted in: Matsui backs games between Japan and MLB champions
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ThonTaddeo
Every American under about 40 should be dancing in the streets with the thought of that awful bill not passing. It's yet another giant subsidy for the baby boomers at the expense of the young. Forcing someone with a low probability of using insurance to pay massive amounts of money for it so that older, richer people with a greater possibility of needing health care is a crime.
Posted in: Obama, allies plan to scale back health care overhaul
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ThonTaddeo
Well, the perpetrator is obviously Japanese. Had he been foreign, he wouldn't have gotten away on a bicycle without being apprehended by koban cops.
Posted in: Man eats at Yoshinoya before robbing store with knife
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ThonTaddeo
Like many foreign-looking people who ride bicycles in central Tokyo, I've been pulled over dozens and dozens of times and made to wait and answer more questions while they make sure I'm not a thief.
No other hassles from the police aside from when riding a bicycle, but it sure is humiliating being stopped and questioned again and again despite not having done anything wrong or even anything suspicious. Society doesn't benefit when the police are scapegoating innocent people based on skin color -- the National Police Agency needs some serious reform.
Posted in: Tell us about any encounters, either good or bad, you have had with Japanese police.
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ThonTaddeo
"I truly believe so," McGwire said. "I believe I was given this gift. The only reason I took steroids was for health purposes."
I'm not sure what I find more offensive about McGwire - that he was a cheater when he played or that he's a liar in how he's portraying his use now.
Posted in: Mark McGwire admits using steroids
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ThonTaddeo
Sexist? Indeed; you propose to give the girls a choice while the boys have none.
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ThonTaddeo
I'm dismayed by the fact that Tiger is being raked over the coals for his affairs, yet no one seems interested in his wife's domestic violence. (She attacked him with a golf club!)
Posted in: Tiger Woods' sponsors start backing away
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ThonTaddeo
Like so many other businesses in Japan, Tokyo is just about all that matters. How about finding the place where people are most likely to want your product? Kyoto, for example, is Firenze's sister city. If I lived in a non-Tokyo major city in Japan and a company like this one went out of its way to choose my city over all-powerful Tokyo, I'd go regularly just out of loyalty and appreciation.
Posted in: Bringing Italian cafe culture to Japan