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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Triumvere
We've been over this: he's an accused rapist with lots of money and powerful connections in a country that does not like to extridite it's leading citizens. He was pulled of an international flight minutes before taking to the air. There is no way, given the severity of the charge and the circumstances of case, that he was going to recieve bail. He's a classic flight risk.
It's the same thing as with the humiliating "perp walk"; its a standard feature - like it or not - of the American system, not some sort of special vindictiveness invented for Mr. Strauss-Kahn. Really, its almost as if you know nothing about the judicial system you are critcizing.
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Triumvere
I love kimono - they are so pretty.
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Triumvere
DSK is getting the same sort of treatment any high profile individual accused of rape would get. Isn't that the essence of egalitarianism?
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Re: Banon
Her family may be rich and connected, but that does not mean she will be taken seriously - perhaps if DSK was a nobody, yes, but not with his standing. His status trumped hers. Also if find the idea that own mother silenced her to protect her politcal career to be horrifyingly plausable.
Also, if she is rich why should she need to "grub for money?" Well, I suppose everybody wants more money, even - nay, especially - the rich. Still. She made the interview back in 2007 well before DSK's IMF affair or the current incident. It's not as if she is just popping out of the woodwork now (though I wouldn't be surprised if others do.)
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Triumvere
Bernard-Henri Lévy. Sorry, since you were French I assumed you would know.
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Triumvere
Cops need to carry guns, and to use them when the situation warrants.
Posted in: Heartbroken Kobe man stabs ex-girlfriend, three policemen
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Triumvere
Sorry Madverts,
I can't agree with you on this one. DSK may have never been formally accused of assualting anyone, but the anecdotal evidence keeps on piling up. There is nothing particularly unbelievable about Banon's story - she was originally dissuaded by her politician mother and her fear that no one would take her accusation (against such a rich and powerful man) seriously. This sort of thing happens all the time - just look at how few are taking the current accusations seriously. I find Banon's story to be at least, if not more, plausable as the stale "she's just in it for the money" claims that pop up reflexively any time a wealthy individual is accused of sexual misconduct. The truth is that wealth, powerful people feel entitled to having their desires met, usually get their way, and rarely get in trouble for their actions. Did you know that sexual assaults on hotel maids - often poor minority immigrants, like this one - are common (or at least common enough that hotels have a wide array of security precautions to try to prevent them)? This sort of thing happens with alarming frequency.
And it's not just Bannon. The economist that DSK had an affair woth back in 2008 is on record saying that the "affair" was not entirely consentual - that she had felt pressured to sleep with him out of fear of losing her position if she refused. That gross sort of coersion is why most organizations have rules about management sleeping with their employees. Add to that the stories about how women were afraid of being caught alone with him for fear of what he'd do - talk about a "hostile work enviroment." Then there was that quote he had about his "just losing control" (I forget which apollogy that came from)...
How much more do we actually need before we can say that the scenerio at the Sofitel is a plausable one (as if it wasn't in the first place!). The only thing that really makes it difficult to believe is that a savy politician like DSK would throw away his career in such a manner. But if the man has a history of skirting - and potential crossing - the line for decades and walking away without consequence, then its not hard to see how he might at last step over a bit too far.
P.S. BHL's comments on this incident were absolutely disgusting; the idea that a lowly chambermaid could possibly be allowed to accuse such a rich an powerful individual is, apparently, beyond the pale. I'm not sure why one would expect more from BHL, who is a thoroughly horrid person... but I do hope his sentiments are not shared by his fellow Frenchmen at large. (I do understand the conspiracy theories, but they are starting to get embarrasing - "Roman Polanski" embarrasing.)
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Triumvere
That is the "criminal sexual act" (aka sodomy) charge. Perhaps NY is a little behind the times.
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Triumvere
Gingrich is out? Did I miss something?
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Triumvere
...you are turning the search for the likely Republican candidate into some sort of "liberal media" conspiracy theory? 'cause there's no other possible reason we might want to know who's in the running, right?
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Triumvere
The gentleman is what is known as a "flight risk."
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Triumvere
Odd. I have thousands of photos of places and things, but hardly any with people in them.
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Triumvere
Just... why?
I mean: you've got money... go get a hooker or something.
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Triumvere
Never gonna happen.
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Triumvere
24? Damn. That's not right.
Posted in: 'Talent' Miyu Uehara dead after apparently hanging herself at home
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Triumvere
Surprise!
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Triumvere
...and somewhere the world's smallest violin played.
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Triumvere
Pawlenty is probably your best bet for a Republican president at this point. (Romney has too much baggage.) Too bad no one knows who he is...
...or is that an advantage?
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Triumvere
Somehow I can't see Newt getting the independent vote.
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Triumvere
Mandatory second language study in primary & secondary school is a good thing academically speaking. The fact that most people, even in a country like Japan, will not need that language post-graduation isn't really any better an arguement against forgien language study than, say, it is against History or CLassical Japanese. What I can't understand is why schools don't offer Spanish, or at the very least Chinese and Korean. You'd think those would useful to some people.
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