JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- 加治金属工業株式会社, Tokyo
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- Berlitz Japan, Inc. (ベルリッツ・ジャパン株式会社), Kansai
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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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TrentonGaijin
Wow, the Harley haters are out in droves on this one.... Don't want one? Don't buy one. I don't want a Honda, Yamaha, BMW, Ducati, or any other brand, but I don't spend my time telling people they're made in China, will rust out in a year, or that "most people" that buy one hate it. Perfectly happy with my Electra Glide (bought at Red Baron in Sagamihara). Stop dragging out the stories from bikes made in the 70s & pretending they apply to the bikes made today (or even 20 years ago)- aside from aesthetic similarities, they're totally different bikes.
Posted in: Harley-Davidson restoration project stirs admiration in Japanese Internet community
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TrentonGaijin
Couldn't stand their music in the '80s, but by '04 I had every album (the only hip-hop I own or listen to) (ironically I was living in Israel at the time). RIP MCA....
Posted in: Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys dies of cancer at 47
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TrentonGaijin
Should've stayed partnered with Ford.... Although, to be fair, I'm not sure if it was Ford or Mazda's idea to dissolve their partnership....
Posted in: Mazda suffers Y107.7 bil full-year loss
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TrentonGaijin
Cute, but something seems to be missing.... Except maybe the girl in front & the gaijin on the end of the 2nd from back row (maybe the back row as well, but can only see their heads in the photo).
Posted in: Hooters to open 2nd Japan restaurant in Ginza in early June
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TrentonGaijin
Seems Pres Obama's been taking lessons in namecalling from our own Gov Christie....
Posted in: Obama calls misbehaving Secret Service agents 'knuckleheads'
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TrentonGaijin
I don't have any issue with this item. My issue is with the women who seem to want to pick & choose which guys can look at them. If you don't want people looking, wear something else.... Or go buy a "chest line cover." Won't work though- I even look at the women wearing full burghas (obviously not in Japan). All in the imagination....
Posted in: Cleavage cover to keep prying eyes away
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TrentonGaijin
What brand pen did Misaki-chan use to write his name- still looks fresh after a year floating in the Pacific....
Suggest Mr Baxter send it to Nagasaki-san, the hermit of Sotobanari Island- we all know soccer balls make great friends for people living alone on islands....
Posted in: Teenager thrilled his soccer ball lost in tsunami made it to Alaska
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TrentonGaijin
The issue isn't that they bought prostitutes, it's that they brought people without proper security clearances into an area (i.e., their hotel rooms) where classified information was kept. I'm sure no one thinks this is the first time SS or military personnel have visited prostitutes. Especially where it's legal. Which probably contributed to their getting caught- they've probably tried to stiff prostitutes on the bill many times, but this time she could complain to the police.
Posted in: More Secret Service resignations due over sex scandal
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TrentonGaijin
Eat less & exercise more. The former really isn't too hard, but admittedly the latter takes some effort. Actually lost 15kg just by moving back to the U.S.- no convenience stores with good snacks & drinks and no good restaurants on every block. At 84kg I don't need to lose much weight, but exercise daily for the other health benefits (benefits I doubt this pill will provide).
Posted in: U.S. to decide on obesity drug in July
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TrentonGaijin
Why is it always "Zimmerman" & "Trayvon"? Why can't it be "Zimmerman" & "Martin" or "George" & "Trayvon"?
Why have we only seen a mugshot photo of Zimmerman & a (at least) 5 year old picture of Martin (when he was a smiling little kid)? I'm not sure if they're authentic, but some of the later photos of Martin that I've seen portray a much different image.
In Trenton, NJ there's a shooting or stabbing a couple times a week & no protests. Monday afternoon (2pm) a 22-year old was shot dead. Monday night (10pm) a 48-year old guy was shotgunned in his car by 2 carjackers (who then couldn't steal the car because neither could drive a manual). Amazingly, no witnesses to either has come forward....
Same story in many large U.S. cities....
Posted in: Zimmerman charged with second-degree murder in Trayvon Martin shooting
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TrentonGaijin
When he heard guys talking about their schoolgirl uniform fetish, he didn't understand that they weren't talking about wearing them.....
Posted in: Policeman in schoolgirl uniform arrested for flashing
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TrentonGaijin
Good luck to Couples. Then come back at 72 for a really "age-defying" win....
Posted in: Age-defying Couples shares golf Masters lead; Ishikawa fails to make cut
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TrentonGaijin
My old neighborhood made the news.... I've always been tempted to take off in a cruiser that some cop left running. Maybe when I get to 73 I'll give it a try. Didn't know they had alarms though (must be different than theft alarm because they aren't usually activated while the car's running). Next thing will be a remote cut-off device that will allow cops to shut off the car as it drives away (of course, if they're dumb enough to leave the car running, they may forget the remote in the car).
Posted in: 73-year-old man arrested for attempting to steal police car in Kanagawa
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TrentonGaijin
Aside from "No Foreigners" signs on some hostess bars (where I wasn't going anyway), I don't remember any discrimination. Usually quite the opposite & I often felt like a rock star- especially in the smaller towns where foreigners aren't a common site. While I might have been initially offended by the label "gaijin," I eventually embraced it & have continued to call myself "gaijin" long after leaving Japan (trust me, even though I'm American I feel more like a foreigner in Trenton than I ever did in Japan).
I need to find that t-shirt.... Bet I can find them on eBay next week....
Posted in: How do you feel about being a ‘gaijin’ in Japan?
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TrentonGaijin
Good luck....
Posted in: Late bloomer Akiko Suzuki looks to skating future
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TrentonGaijin
I guess gone are the days of the overly polite Japanese drivers.... Used to be impolite if you didn't dim your lights (to parking lights) at stop lights or stop to let people enter traffic from gas stations. Only ran into impatience (not to point of obnoxious though) on the Tomei & other expressways.
Posted in: Man stabbed to death in road rage incident
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TrentonGaijin
One of my favorite sites & even have a Miyajima "safety drive" omamori in my car (hope they don't "expire" since I won't be able to return for another for quite a few years).
Posted in: Floating gateway
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TrentonGaijin
@ The_Pope- right on!
I hope Obama's determination that anyone involved will be held accountable "with the full force of the law" extends to himself & Congress for deciding that it's okay to send Soldiers on multiple deployments to Iraq & Afghanistan year after year. This guy had already been to Iraq for 3 tours (sustaining a serious head injury during one) before getting sent to Afghanistan.
I'm not condoning what he did & perhaps it would've been better if he did what a lot of his fellow soldiers did- use his weapon on himself. But then he would've just been another "non-combat related" casualty report that no one pays any attention to anymore. At least this way he's started us wondering how much is too much for us to be expecting of these guys.
Posted in: Accused U.S. soldier flown out of Afghanistan
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TrentonGaijin
A tragedy & my condolences to all those affected, but I don't think more gun laws would've made a difference. If the victims really were chosen at random (i.e., he wasn't planning to specifically kill them) & he just wanted to kill people, we should be glad he didn't look up the "recipe" for an IED & blow up half the school.
NJ has some of the strictest gun laws in the U.S. with each city/town's police chief deciding who will get a license. Judging from the daily shootings in Newark, Trenton, Camden, etc either those cities have really lenient police chiefs or people are somehow getting illegal handguns.
Posted in: Ohio shooter says he chose victims at random
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TrentonGaijin
"Times of Trenton" & "Japan Today" seem to have the same sort of stories lately (albeit random stabbings instead of random shootings)....
Posted in: Woman stabbed by Shibuya Station in Tokyo