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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UnagiDon
cleo;
Have fun with mrgalactic - there is a whiff of something vaguely chimpy, or perhaps yarinny, about his posts.
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UnagiDon
Apparently "taxpayers" don't either.
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UnagiDon
Cuz that simplifies the pictures "message" of dichotomy by having an inherently wealthy "businessman" walking by a homeless person. Methinks Yuriko-chan spent some time there waiting for such a "businessman" to walk by to get the shot she wanted.
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UnagiDon
No, it's a shame they don't read JT where they could learn so much from such well-informed and intelligent proposals as adding salads to the McDonald's menu.
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UnagiDon
Poor thing - maybe you can suggest having separate benches for taxpayers only? Kick the tourists off them too?
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UnagiDon
Obama's approval rating amongst Canadian is probably better than Harper's.
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UnagiDon
This is exactly the kind of that most religions would say is proof of an impending apocalypse of some sort.
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UnagiDon
While I don't agree with all his points, he's essentially saying that the people of Japan have been poorly served by their government on this issue (and others), and that I'd tend to agree with.
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UnagiDon
Aussieooo;
Then shouldn't those causes of whale death, which each of us contribute to and causes the death of a far greater number of whale and other animals, be getting more public pressure and outrage from SS, Australia, and the public in all countries? Rationally speaking, anyone truly concerned about whales and the ocean should be using their energy addressing the big killers like these, but they focus on whaling because;
1) Posturing against "the Japanese" gives an easily identifiable enemy
2) That works even better when the enemy is "foreign" and thus easier to demonize, especially in a country with an iffy history vis-a-vis racism against Asians.
3) It's easier to demonize someone else for a graphic and visually-striking way of killing whales, rather than looking at how your own lifestyle has a far greater impact.
which are the reasons why Rudd has taken this on, and why the public laps it up and supports groups like SS.
For the record, I am an opponent of whaling (for the harm it does Japan), but I'm a bigger opponent of hypocrisy (note spelling).
It is political for the reasons I mentioned, but it should be a legal issue, not a subjective "moral" one.
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UnagiDon
I think they're talking about teachers, not foreigner ESL "teachers".
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UnagiDon
ultradodgy;
JT posted it because it's guaranteed to get tons of posts.
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UnagiDon
Nice shot - snow on the trees is always a winner.
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UnagiDon
M&A Specialist/Forensic Accountant/Bounty Hunter. Preferably all at once.
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UnagiDon
I voted for "One of the best", but thought it meant in providing material for comedians.
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UnagiDon
JT Moderator.
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UnagiDon
I disagree - they look like expensive tramps.
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UnagiDon
Special effects are a big part of the problem with remakes like The Day the Earth Stood Still. Too much emphasis on CGI and big explosions, less on characters and plot. The original "Day" was probably too cerebral for a modern audience.
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UnagiDon
But not linguistically, how many of them speak "Chinese"? How may languages and cultures are there within "China"?
China's supposed continuous thousands of years of history may be true, but it's the same as saying that Europe has had thousands of years of continuous culture - different languages and cultures within one bigger meta-culture with loosely similar values. Nothing really to brag about, except for those countries with an insuperiority complex.
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UnagiDon
mushroomcloud;
If China's economy heads south and China sees even more unrest in the rural areas, more student grumblings, and more unemployment, you'll quickly see the CCP start to stir up nationalist sentiments again. It has staked its existence recently on economic growth, and if it can't deliver on that and faces unrest, it'll really quickly fall back on flag-waving and stirring up China's latent (but strong) xenophobic nationalism against Taiwan, Japan, Vietnam, or even India and "the West". A war is more likely in the near term, not less.
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UnagiDon
adm kenshin;
Yep, I've been involved with a lot from beginning to end so I know the costs, and as I was not working at a "multinational giant" I can safely say that the costs are expensive, but not that bad. Many small firms and universities file patents, hardly giant corporations. I'd rather have them be more expensive than cheaper so that the various national offices or WIPO aren't flooded with more garbage filings from self-proclaimed inventors. If some brilliant technology or process is invented but someone can;t afford to patent it (not that likely), then they're a bad businessperson if they can't rustle up some VCs or license it to someone who can patent it.
That's just silly and if that does happens that is the exception, not the norm. An "invention" is an imprecise term, anyway, and patents are not filed on a product.
Good point - trolls do a lot, not sure about most.
I don't even understand that question, sorry. Sounds more like an opinion than a fact.
They do? It does happen, but I'd hardly say it's endemic. I've had far more cases personally where a competitor's patent app is denied because it has been reading on mine, i.e. the opposite case to what you describe.
Good luck with that. I've found that people who rail against the idea of patents are those who can;t operate within that environment, so rather than work within it they want to throw it away, and that ain't gonna happen, nor should it.
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