JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Corporate Business English Trainers
- ACT Systems, Inc.（株式会社アクト・システムズ）, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥269,500 ~ ¥280,000 / Month
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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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UnagiDon
As always when news stories like this appear on JT, what seems to be totally lost on many of you is that when the J government talks about "foreigners", this is primarily aimed at the other Asians who make up the overwhelming majority of foreigners in Japan.
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UnagiDon
Good - here in Toronto we've been subject to highway blockages and street closures for days by the supporters of these terrorists, who are only now protesting the violence because their side has lost. Disgusting to see such support for child-soldiers and suicide-bombers displayed so openly.
Posted in: Sri Lanka says Tamil Tiger rebel chief has been killed
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UnagiDon
Looks like a scene from Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.
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UnagiDon
Wow - this story is really bringing the paranoiacs and full-time gaijin victims out in full force. Can't wait for Debito's usual level-headed and well-balanced view on this one.
Posted in: Proposed resident registry card for foreigners creates Big Brother concerns
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UnagiDon
Unless you're blessed with Canadian Citizenship, in which case residents of either country can combine their benefits paid when living abroad to their home country's systems - see "Agreement on Social Security between Canada and Japan".
Hardly a case of denying basic human rights or "expecting all foreigners to pay a higher tax burden." Rather it's just that some governments have got their act together and signed reciprocal agreements with Japan.
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UnagiDon
On June 23, 1985, two baggage handlers at Narita were killed when a bomb in an Air India luggage container exploded. It had been planted in Vancouver by Sikh terrorists and had been meant to explode mid-air on the Air Indai flight. So not an act of terror aimed at Japan, but also not true that "no terrorist acts have never been committed in Japan by foreigners."
And a moot point, since no one should really be linking terrorism to these ID cards, whether it's the J gov (have they?) or the usual JT brain trust.
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UnagiDon
Well she is a minor celebrity, so they weren't far off the mark.
Posted in: Aki Hoshino mistaken for minor at Macau casino
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UnagiDon
That would depend on what "full Islamic control" as I have no idea what that means, but presumably they mean something Talibanny.
Posted in: How should the West react if Pakistan falls under Islamic extremist control in the future?
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UnagiDon
If that's bondage gear then I was definitely overcharged by Mistress Raven.
Posted in: R&B Singer AI, in bondage gear, kicks off national tour in Shibuya
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UnagiDon
Amen to that!
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UnagiDon
"looks like a porn star burn victim..."
Posted in: Human-looking robot smiles in Japan classroom
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UnagiDon
nigelboy;
Interesting, but still shows a majority against revising Article 9 itself.
Posted in: Japan warns against U.N. inaction on N Korea rocket launch
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UnagiDon
GW;
Thanks for perfectly illustrating the point I was making in my 1025 post - impeccable timing!
Posted in: Japan warns against U.N. inaction on N Korea rocket launch
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UnagiDon
Maybe, but any J government that takes that view is going to have a really hard time selling it to a public overwhelmingly against the idea. Remember what happened when Fukuda brought it up as a hypothetical.
Posted in: Japan warns against U.N. inaction on N Korea rocket launch
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UnagiDon
kandamanada;
In the 6 or so years I've been posting here I've lost track of the number of times I've heard this, and it is no closer to reality now that it was back then. It's nothing more than wishful thinking from those who have a negative view of Japan and seem to be hoping for a renewed militarism (in a time of declining defence spending) to justify their own biases. Ain't gonna happen.
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UnagiDon
Disconnect here - how can "thousands of fans" be there if it was a surprise visit? Stunning coincedence or assuming everyone in the screaming mob was a fan? I demand answers!
Posted in: Ayumi Hamasaki
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UnagiDon
While I don't often agree with some14some, I do with that previous point. The only thing that would cause Japan to develop nuclear weapons would be the removal of the US security treaty.
Posted in: Japan warns against U.N. inaction on N Korea rocket launch
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UnagiDon
Definitely nicer and classier than yet another picture of Aki Hoshino.
Posted in: Kimono queens
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UnagiDon
I've met it - it even has a reservoir tip.
Posted in: AKB48's Umeda named Tokyo Tower image girl
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UnagiDon
boboh;
Or maybe both views have some merit? Or how about "the whole "this is a cultural trait cuz JT posters say so" argument is typical of the many Japanophobes who post here"?
Japan is not an ideal country or culture, but neither is it the pits - seeing Japan through crap-coloured glasses is just as bad as seeing it through rose-coloured glasses.
Posted in: Man beats pedestrian to death in Kanagawa; says it didn't matter who