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
China...drinks...Japan's...MILKSHAKE!
Posted in: Japan, China reach agreement on undersea gas exploration in East China Sea
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UnagiDon
A nice sentiment, but would 10% be enough even if it does come to pass?
Posted in: There is no effective cure to save Japan from a population crisis. In order for Japan to survive it must open its doors as an international state to the world and shift toward establishing an 'immigrant nation' by accepting immigrants and revitalizing Japan.
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UnagiDon
Calling this article garbage would be an insult to trash everywhere.
Posted in: For Japanese men, dysfunction starts in the cradle
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UnagiDon
Not a huge fan of enka but don't despite, but He's got a good voice, and more power to him. And yes, he's making way more cash than the disaffected JT hoi polloi complaining about him.
Posted in: Mix master: Jero breathes new life into enka
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UnagiDon
PuffinMuffin;
Bingo, but 外人さん or 外人さま are also acceptable.
Posted in: Do you consider the word "gaijin" racist?
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UnagiDon
Fair dinkum!;
I get more offended when I get stereotyped as an American.
I hear ya - I get WAY more offended if I get stereotyped as an ESL teacher.
Posted in: Do you consider the word "gaijin" racist?
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UnagiDon
How about a soup dispenser in every seat? Now we're talking.
Posted in: JAL improves Economy Class service on Hawaii route
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UnagiDon
I'm sure this is what happened to Nick Baker, and I plan to use this defence if ever nailed at Narita for the heinous crime of possession of antihistamine in my luggage.
Posted in: Unsuspecting passenger returns cannabis after sniffer dog test botched at Narita
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UnagiDon
Some fun stats for Sushisake and the other neo-Luddites - we'll skip past the obvious benefits of the space program which others have already covered, e.g. weather and telecom satellites
In 2006 the US spent $6 billion on manned space flight, and $154 billion on alcohol, so cutting back on that sake might be a better way to spread the wealth.
The ROI on space expenditures is about 8:1 in the US, and a lot of that return is going back into education, not to mention the fact that space makes a lot of kids go all starry-eyed and want to stay in school, or go on to become scientists and engineers.
Others have covered the "it's in our nature to explore" argument but that doesn't seem to have worked - would you be okay with cutting arts and music funding since they also don't contribute anything meaningful and that money could be better spent on education and feeding the poor? Personally I don't
Unmanned space exploration like Phoenix is just one aspect of scientific research which is done for its own sake, simply to expand our knowledge, and we don't really know where that knowledge will lead. The results of Phoenix's mission will give us a better understanding of planetary climatology, which I'm pretty sure will have some benefit to climatology here on Earth, but the best part is all of the stuff which we can't even imagine and remains to be discovered. You'd turn your back on that, when such discoveries could and will do far more to better the human condition than retreating into a shell.
Posted in: NASA spacecraft lands on Mars
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UnagiDon
Negotiating with the Iranians? If memory serves, wasn't he last president who did that a Republican, who also negotiated nuclear arms reductions with those pesky Soviets?
Posted in: Obama criticizes McCain for 'naive' foreign policy
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UnagiDon
Her experiences do seem to be contrary to those women (Japanese and other) I know who've given birth in Japan, but then again a good news story gets less hits on JT...
Posted in: Giving birth in Japan
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UnagiDon
And what the hey is biosophia anyway? Cleo and Nessie's explanations make sense, at least.
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UnagiDon
Is Lingling there yet?
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UnagiDon
Looking forward to the BYOB version, with corking fee.
Posted in: Drop-by IV drip service helps stressed Tokyoites
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UnagiDon
So we've learned that Japanese parents are too strict, AND not strict enough. Sounds about right and makes typical JT sense.
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UnagiDon
I'm sure the Vietnamese, South Koreans, Indians, and of course Tibetans & Taiwanese would beg to differ...
Posted in: China urges 'calm' as anti-Western protests continue
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UnagiDon
JT Moderator, of course.
Posted in: Which professions do you respect the most?
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UnagiDon
This is almost as much of a non-story as tough guy with the purple shirt and tie saga a while back. If JT is trolling for stories of persecution by J police, surely there must e some legit stories about there other than these tales of pampered middle-classers who essentially are disobeying laws or police instructions?
Posted in: Roughed up by the cops in Shinjuku
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UnagiDon
Evil Strel Partners empire -
Posted in: Aderans maps out plan to fend off Steel
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UnagiDon
The advice is okay, ignoring the fact that most reasonable adults should already know all of it, though I guess the key is "should".
Posted in: Dealing with a difficult boss