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
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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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TorafusuTorasan
No, the headline would say "bids" or "offers." Pledge is a donation.
Posted in: Japan pledges $500 mil for Pacific islands
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TorafusuTorasan
@Farmboy, better make that "in knee high rubber boots"--and after reading this creepy article, there's no way you'd get me to reach into the bottom of a boot to confirm Ebbesmeyer's claim!
Posted in: Oceanographer says beachcombers on West Coast may find bones in tsunami debris
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TorafusuTorasan
Not a good work environment for the claustrophobic. I'd be constantly thinking about being smothered under avalanches of cheap snacks or camping supplies. Are DQs so perilously packed with stuff because there is no storage space--everything goes directly from the truck to the shelves--kind of like Toyota's parts supply theory?
Posted in: Lame applicant pool plagues Don Quijote
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TorafusuTorasan
Actually, I think Neko Hirsoshi got Cambodian citizenship. But the point I wanted to make about Japanese adults not being able to hold dual citizenship is the same.
It seems like sumo puts a lot of emphasis on the place each wrestler represents, such as hometown or birth country, even though the wrestlers have lived and trained in Japan since adolesence. In the case of Kyokutenho, that's more than half his life and all of his adult years in Japan.
Posted in: Veteran Kyokutenho wins 1st sumo title
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TorafusuTorasan
I agree with Daijoboots and Jannetto about the inadequate writing. JT should beef up its sumo coverage from time to time. If I only read JT, I would have missed the fact that the tournament was going on the last two weeks.
It's interesting that Kyokutenho is listed as Mongolian, even though he became a naturalized Japanese citizen about 7 years ago according to the Daily Yomiuri. Is it possible to have dual citizenship between Mongolia and Japan? I think that is not the case--look at someone like Neko Hiroshi giving up his Japanese citizenship to try to get onto the Olympic squad in Myanmar. Is Kyokutenho still identified as Mongolian just to make the fights seem more interesting (i.e. appealing to nationalistic sentiment)? Anyway, congratulations on the culminating victory of 20 years in the sport!
Posted in: Veteran Kyokutenho wins 1st sumo title
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TorafusuTorasan
@JB--yeah, and the way the ball moved on some of those strikes was amazing to watch.
Is that last paragraph about Darvish's salary tacked on there to stir debate? Seems like nobody is biting. Five years from now (heck, by the end of this season), Darvish's $9 million per year is going to seem like a bargain. It is controversial that his former team got so much money to negotiate, but they lost their best player and the revenue potential that comes with it. From casually watching NPB baseball news this year, I've barely seen any extra coverage of the Ham Fighters, so their visibility/popularity seems to have taken a big hit with Darvish's exodus. Who is their ace pitcher this season?
Posted in: Darvish wins again for Rangers
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TorafusuTorasan
"tensions rise" along with hackles and dander. I imagine this will not be a bloody jolly luncheon then.
Posted in: Tensions rise over British queen's regal jubilee lunch guest list
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TorafusuTorasan
Should that caption read "sliced", or am I entering an unfamiliar realm of expensive fruit jargon?
"a presentation pack", "an ornate box" Are these primarily for summer gift giving? Why buy such expensive fruit unless you want to impress your associates? If it's just for your own consumption, most fruit can be found at local supermarkets at prices comparable to the U.S.
Posted in: Melons fall short at only Y1 million for two
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TorafusuTorasan
"not doing Obama any favors"
No, that job is being done by people like Rand Paul, saying Obama couldn't get any gayer. Like Rand Paul should throw in his two cents--he shares his name with a psuedonymous female novelist. Politicians revealing middle school level homophobia (let's see Mitt walk this tightrope without screwing up) are gifts to Obama. A few more weeks of hearing every possible application of the word "gay" and most voters are going to be weary of it.
Posted in: Newsweek stirs buzz with 'first gay president' cover
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TorafusuTorasan
"anti-immigrant sentiment is on the rise"
Woah, this may have been the wrong month for that Facebook cofounder to trade his U.S. passport for a Singaporean one--just to cut his tax bill by a few million dollars. Hope he doesn't show up driving a Ferrari.
Posted in: Ferrari crash fuels anti-foreign sentiment in Singapore
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TorafusuTorasan
If Clinton was the first black(s') president, then Obama can be the first gay(s') president. It's logical once you see the extra punctuation.
Too bad we don't have Minnesota's Michelle Bachmann in the presidential race anymore. She could have become the first Swiss President after conveniently forgetting to notify anyone important (i.e. the public, her constituents) about her dual citizenship that she qualified for in 1978 and officially received this year. I guess it's none of our business, just like her copious farm subsidies.
Posted in: Newsweek stirs buzz with 'first gay president' cover
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TorafusuTorasan
Interesting that the exact same AFP-Jiji photo of kids chomping ice cream was featured inside the Japan Times today. I understand showing ice cream in a story about summer, but be different and go with the crayon angle. Show some kids crying because their outsourced crayons have too much wax, unpopular colors, etc.
Posted in: Manufacturers fear summer meltdown due to power cuts
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TorafusuTorasan
C.J. Wilson is getting paid more than $15 million per year--50% more than Darvish--and he "lasted only one third of an inning"?
If his motivation is that low, I wonder about another highly paid Angels player--Pujols--coming off a World Series season with the Cards. When you have that much star power on a last place team, you have to wonder if these guys are just coasting on their reps and past glory. Darvish is doing well because he has more to prove.
Posted in: Darvish bounces back with victory over Angels
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TorafusuTorasan
He kept it a secret until the band came out to play. That reminds me that it's my wife's birthday tomorrow...
Posted in: Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys dies of cancer at 47
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TorafusuTorasan
I like the story about Yauch getting his wife Dechen Wangdu's favorite band, Rancid, to play at their wedding reception.
Posted in: Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys dies of cancer at 47
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TorafusuTorasan
@Nudge--If the towns are abandoned, who is going to hold the welcoming party? There are two possible reasons that towns were abandoned in Tohoku. One is because all the buildings were washed away. The other is that the radiation contamination was so high that the government told everyone to leave. In the first case, there is no place for the marines to stay unless they want to pitch tents and camp out in one of the coldest regions in Japan. In the second case, when the residents are allowed to return to their homes, they are going to be mighty surprised and ticked off if they find marines living in their homes! Next idea.
Posted in: Panetta hails 'important' deal on Marines in Japan
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TorafusuTorasan
A few more games like this and Darvish will be spending his days off sitting with the Bush family in a plush suite at Rangers stadium.
Posted in: Darvish outduels Kuroda, striking out 10, as Rangers down Yankees 2-0
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TorafusuTorasan
"Lynch mob" is just lazy generalization because you haven't named any examples of those groups or individuals that are problematic. Just a bunch of generic stock villians like "the media." Watch how easy it is to list a name and an example of lynch mob rhetoric:
What do you call Rick Santorum's main financial backer Foster Friess saying on Fox that Obama should have a bulletproof teleprompter? Wait, let me dig into my bag o' names...got two... "boy scout" or "kooky kloseted klansman." Which one would you apply to Friess?
Posted in: Prosecutors: Zimmerman ignored warning to back off
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TorafusuTorasan
@Laguna on "lynch mobs"--yeah, what's up with the few on here trying to revive a term that doesn't fit the situation. Mostly harmless flash mobs and cash mobs are what you have these days. Lynch Mob to most people alive today was a rap-metal band fronted by Ice-T, whose influence is visible in the increasingly hysterical faux-ebonics ramblings that are starting to dominate this thread. Lets prove who can make up a more ridiculous approximation of street slang, because that will help prove a point about Martin's guilt or something.
Posted in: Prosecutors: Zimmerman ignored warning to back off
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TorafusuTorasan
What's the big difference with or without the parentheses? How will a defense attorney get past that glaring "without any dangerous weapon being used" (i.e. Cleo's brick wall) proviso of the law? Yes, I know--try to bring up Martin's checkered past etc. But then try to get past Zimmerman's previous conviction for assault...get this... on a police officer.
Posted in: Prosecutors: Zimmerman ignored warning to back off