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
Tatanka;
Good point re indemnification, but I gather this is not intended to be used by patent lawyers, but rather by engineers and research managers.
Posted in: Research engine navigates patent jungle
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UnagiDon
omarbabilon;
Which blood type is the one that lets people understand humour?
Posted in: Blood type is a good tool to understand different human behaviors. Most Japanese have some knowledge of each blood type and its trait so blood type often becomes a good conversation piece.
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UnagiDon
Only if people are allowed to maintain their outdated and simplistic stereotypes about Japan's supposed lack of creativity.
Posted in: Research engine navigates patent jungle
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UnagiDon
That's nonsense - people can still invent and create whatever they want and as long as it has the essential elements of patentability and they take the steps to patent it they will be safe. Fear of lawsuits is overrated and when done is more reflective of the bullying tactics of large companies, foreign and domestic, than anything inherently wrong with the patent system.
Posted in: Research engine navigates patent jungle
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UnagiDon
Seatbelts should be mandatory for all occupants of the car, full stop. At least if adults don't wear them that's their choice. Poor kids have to rely on their parents.
Actually, seat belts aren't enough for a five year-old. Smaller kids need a booster seat too and these should be made mandatory as they are here in slightly more socially-advanced Ontario.
Posted in: Father, daughter, 5, thrown out of car after accident on Kyushu expressway; girl dies
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UnagiDon
So Coleman's terrible sin is that he has a perceived bias vis a vis Japan? What a huge difference from the fair, balanced, and neutral perspective on all things Japanese displayed by your posts, right Dogdog?
Posted in: Japan struggles to boost homegrown food
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UnagiDon
Sounds like a great tool, though the first use I thought of was as a way to help back up cases where a competitor's patents are infringing on mine. Triple damages and all that great stuff.
Posted in: Research engine navigates patent jungle
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UnagiDon
So if it's okay to stare at or interrupt geisha or others to snap a photo with them, then it's okay for the Japanese to do the same to those exotic big-nosed foreigners in their midst, right?
Posted in: Some tourists seem to have the impression that Gion is a theme park, and geisha and maiko are walking the streets as part of a performance.
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UnagiDon
Amen to that!
Another complex skill lost to many JTers is the ability to read English, e.g. ignoring the word "some" in a sentence like "electric vehicle that will get some of its power from solar cells equipped on the vehicle".
Posted in: Toyota secretly developing solar-powered green car: Nikkei
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UnagiDon
Much better - this time last year I was working for a tyrant of a boss. This past summer he got axed and I was given his job. Heh.
Posted in: Are you better off generally than you were this time last year?
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UnagiDon
Japan does produce its own fighters, but these are either licensed F-15s (as others have noted) or an improved version of the F-16 called the F-2. Japan has also started building its own domestically developed maritime patrol (P-X) and cargo (C-X) aircraft, as reducing reliance on the US exports is a good idea, as the effort to get the F-22 shows.
Japan is developing its own stealth aircraft but right now is only researching a technology demonstrator to be built by MHI called the ATD-X which may fly by 2015, which this article didn't mention.
In the interim, maybe they will buy Typhoons. They should, since that is a much closer type of aircraft to the F-22 (air superiority) than the F-35. The F-35 may be stealthy, but it is too mult-purpose for Japan. Japan needs a plane to intercept and shoot down aircraft (or missiles) far from Japan, not a tactical support aircraft like the F-35. The F-35 will also probably cost too much and will come with the US' onerous export restrictions - bad idea.
Posted in: Japan likely to drop plan to buy F-22 fighters
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UnagiDon
To protect Japan against the bigger and deadlier planes being built and bought by some of the nasties in Japan's neighborhood, esp. China and Russia.
Posted in: Japan likely to drop plan to buy F-22 fighters
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UnagiDon
Whose lead was China following? US? India?
Posted in: Aso orders preparations to send warship to fight piracy off Somalia
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UnagiDon
herefornow;
Thank you for illustrating the point I was trying to make.
Seeing Japan through rose-coloured glasses is bad, seeing Japan through crap-cloured glasses and pretending that you have some superior insight is way worse.
Posted in: A very Japanese Christmas
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UnagiDon
Snow is fun, and I dig winter. Just wish it was shorter.
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UnagiDon
smithinjapan;
No, the "anger" that the Chinese show to Japan is because of a violently xenophobic education system that demonizes Taiwan, "the West", and Japan in particular. Do not blame the hostility and virulent nationalism of China on Japan - it is the conscious act of a Communist Party that needs to justify is own existence through nationalism and the atrocities of the Japan of 60+ years ago. Now that China's economy, the Communist Party's other claim to legitimacy, is beginning to tank, expect more nationalist outbursts from China given the slightest pretext from accommodating idiots in the LDP or SDF.
Posted in: Chinese warships head for Somalia in groundbreaking mission
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UnagiDon
More ground troops will only help if they're used the right way. Rely less on airstrikes which kill too many non-combatants and alienate the Afghans further. Use the ground troops to do the fighting, even if more will die this way than hitting a building from the air with a JDAM. In the long rung, you'll have less NATO casualties this way and a shorter war overall if the locals are on side.
Posted in: Afghanistan could get 30,000 new U.S. troops
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UnagiDon
adaydream;
And even better, presumably no one looking after climate change with ties to the oil industry. Spending more on R&D and basic science is one way to ensure the US (or any other country's) long-term prosperity.
Posted in: Obama names 4 top members of science team
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UnagiDon
sydenham;
Indeed - it's a defence mechanism for some. They try to convince themselves that they're smugly superior to the locals by criticizing what they see around them in order to avoid realizing their own self-imposed misery.
Posted in: A very Japanese Christmas
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UnagiDon
I enjoyed every Christmas I spent in Japan, and a lot of that was because it was different from back home. I know a lot of others have already said it and it should be common sense, but who in their right mind would expect Christmas to be the same in Japan? Enjoy the difference.
Posted in: A very Japanese Christmas