JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) in Kanto region
- RCS (RCSコーポレーション), Kanto
- Salary: ¥180,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month includes performance bonus
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- Assistant Language Teacher - TOKYO - late-March start
- Interac, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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- Assistant Language Teacher - Kanagawa Prefecture - late-March start
- Interac, Kanagawa
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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Vagante
Violence in, violence out. Usually this kind of "parenting" is handed down from generation to generation. Our hope is that enlightened parents will break the chain and not pass on to their kids the vile treatment that they received.
Love and encouragement is always stronger and more successful than bullying and violence in the quest to build a strong and humane society and a better future for our children.
Posted in: 13-year-old Shimane boy in police custody wrote notes plotting his father’s death
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Let's fight the drug war! ... with a poster.
Anything to actually avoid discussing the subject with our children.
Posted in: Anti-drug poster featuring Yukie Nakama to go up at schools nationwide
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Sakura, sakura, Aoki mo sato mo ...
Posted in: 3,000 men pose as customers for opening of Aoki's Ginza store
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I predicted some while ago that we would be seeing more of Aki ...
She has lovely eyes.
Posted in: Oops
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Vagante
I love the irony. A few generations ago, it was quite common for Japanese to share mixed-sex public bath facilities without media attention. Bare-breasted pearl divers were the norm, breast-feeding in public was quite common (and not uncommon in family photos), and porters and delivery workers in the countryside often went on their way more or less naked. It appears that the influence of western "morality" then influenced the Japanese to cover up. A female friend told me recently that these days, some women in the female side of an onsen will wear bathing costumes. Irony is always good for a chuckle, so let's enjoy!
Posted in: Foreign nudists flock to Gunma hot spring resort
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I forecast that in the long run, this will do Kusanagi's career no harm at all. He is a very popular fellow and his supporters will steadfastly defend him.
Fear of nakedness is a peculiar human perversion. Do the police arrest the birds in the parks that go there to sing naked every morning? ... or give citations to the owners of dogs that do not wear pants?
As the T-shirt says: "What's wrong with going naked?"
Posted in: Media continues to smirk over SMAP member's Roppongi impropriety
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Hashimoto appears to be one of the best things to happen to Osaka in a while (apart from them fishing Col. S out of the river). If this lady wants to give her money to go to "welfare", there is no reason that I know to suppose that Hashimoto will not put it to good use.
Of course, if anyone has evidence to show that Hashimoto can't be trusted, it would be good to read that, rather than inuendo.
Posted in: Osaka governor gets Y100 mil donation from elderly woman
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Vagante
Where are those SEALS with their high level of training, stealthy watercraft, advanced SCUBA gear and other sophisticated equipment? ... or should they call Steven Seagal?
Posted in: Pirates recapture U.S. hostage after escape attempt
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Den Den writes that this "wouldn't of happened in Japan." I daresay it also wouldn't have happened in Japan.
Posted in: Japanese pop singer dressed as pineapple robbed in Sweden
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Closed mind, closed heart. Ignorance and cruelty go hand in hand. Every day we read about the exploitation of workers who do overtime for no compensation or about kids who are bullied at school and by their parents. Narrow horizons contain narrow ideas. Japan could be a paradise - a blend of peace, prosperity and happiness ... but not while this insularity prevails.
Posted in: More Japanese shunning the outside world
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I wonder how Saudi diplomats and businessmen abroad get away with "mingling" with females who are not their immediate family ... do they all get arrested and sentenced to lashes when they get back home?
Posted in: Saudi court sentences 75-year-old woman to lashes
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If he had asked her to dress up in a highschool girl's uniform instead of as a maid, he would have got similar photos and might have avoided the attention of the raging mob.
Doesn't this story smack of discrimination against maids? They do a useful job and are pleased to have the work.
Posted in: Teacher forces female student to wear maid's costume in Akita
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Sorry about the crappy formatting - return doesn't seem to work. It's a limerick ... (but you knew that). :-(
Posted in: If we continue to wait for the next Koizumi, the next strong leader, we're going to be waiting forever.
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"Another popinjay like Koizumi ..."
A Nagata-cho popinjay Was Koizumi, some would say He did his utmost To privatize post Delivered, and then walked away.
Posted in: If we continue to wait for the next Koizumi, the next strong leader, we're going to be waiting forever.
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Commercial information can be worth a lot and this kind of whiteboard can compromise confidential information very easily. In the old days, others were responsible for taking notes and then you just wiped it clean. Then the print-out versions would make copies. Now that the information can be downloaded and shared more easily, security issues become more obvious. Interestingly, many companies pay little attention to security of information - they just hope that their employees will protect it adequately.
Posted in: Blackboard bonanza
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The article doesn't tell us what they ate or how it was prepared so now we can expect the reader-experts to fill in the details. ... plus ca change.
Moderator: It was a buffet dinner and authorities have not pinpointed the cause. Hence, they suspended the restaurant’s operation for five days as of Wednesday.
Posted in: 23 suffer food poisoning at hotel in Kagawa
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"As for pieces the size of micrometers, the count will likely be in the thousands, he added ..."
I have two micrometers; they are very useful tools.
Posted in: U.S., Russian satellites collide, creating massive debris clouds
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People who are quiet and keep a low profile are just as important as those who are active and assertive but his father did not understand that. When a boy is unable to live up to his father's expectations, it can lead to misery. Cause -> effect ... all events are conditioned by other events.
Tragedy born out of ignorance is the continuing story of the human race.
Posted in: High school boy commits suicide in Saitama park after argument with father
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That somebody should be arrested for taking pictures of a scene that is clearly visible in public says more about the mental state of the people making this arrest than it does about the photographer. I don't believe this case has a leg to stand on but the cop has now had his career damaged.
If people do not want parts of themselves to be photographed in a public place, they should cover up.
Posted in: Cop arrested for taking picture of woman’s legs on train in Kanagawa
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I hope we don't hear more whining from their quarter about them being photographed as if they are a tourist attraction. The last article I read about Maiko, there were complaints about people photographing them in the street. If you show off in public you have to expect some attention.
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