JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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Confrontation
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U.S. Navy investigating how parts fell off aircraft near Atsugi
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California court to decide if SeaWorld whales are illegal 'slaves'
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Kuroki reported pregnant 2 weeks after denying relationship with Akanishi
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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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VoXman
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And when the US is gone. Will the Iraq's honor the sacrifices the US made on their behalf? Will they put up a statue like the French did in Normandy?
We'll see what the substance the Iraqi people are made of.
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Timorborder;
You are spot on. Anyone who is friends with Japanese Americans will attest that they're Grandparents who suffered the indignity of internment camps came out of that experience with a pure hatred for Japan and their forefathers for starting a war they had to pay for with their civil liberties, businesses, homes, and futures. I think only in Hawaii will you find Japanese Americans whose decendents to this day speak Japanese. On the west coast its a dead language for them.
Posted in: Pearl Harbor ceremony focuses on U.S. response to Japan's attack
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Bdiego,
If what you say is true about fashion then nothing that comes off the runway is truly fashion since none of it relates to what people actually buy. Customers using the service has nothing to do with fashion, since when I used the word in my post I meant it as metaphor for what they see as their ideal "look". Meaning having that purse that every other OL wishes they had. Whether these people are fashionable or not is your opinion, since in fact it is a matter of opinion. And though they may lose interest in the concept clearly there is a niche market for it. And intead of using dot.coms as an anology, I would have used "Pet clothing" stores its a much better example to use. We are in Web 2.0 now. Dot.com days are over, or did you not get the news. Google.com at 300 billion net worth is one of the most valuable companies in the world.
Posted in: Renting brand-name items getting popular
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VoXman
The rest of the world is wrong and Japan is right. Gotta love that train of thought.
"Not only is she a once famous actress that nobody hardly remembers" ... how provencial
My favorite;
"She could have joined Greenpeace and pushed her cause in a respectable manner."
As should the Japanese whalers abide by their agreement by only taking what is needed for science and not for what they think is the market value of the whale meat.
Posted in: Daryl Hannah makes splash with whale campaign
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VoXman
"If you have to really fake the image of a hand bag that costs me 40,000 yen to rent, then I probably don't need it. You can take that money, go to Hong Kong, and get a knock off and still have money left over, and still get the same effect. Why, renting one that is not yours is just about the same as owning a fake one. I say go with owning the fake one."
Going with the fake one would be spotted in a minute by those who own these things. And it would be far more embarassing o get caught at that special occaission with a fake. My wife has about 6 LVs and can spot a fake better than J-Customs.
"This business model will simply fail in Japan. There's no point in having a different purse every month if it's not yours and everyone you know knows it. The business model works in the US because people are simply more superficial about it. Temporary image is the goal."
Clearly you know little about women and fashion, if a woman could change her purse to something new each month she'd be in heaven.
BTW fashion just like makeup is a shallow thing we all inherited from antiquity. Its not purely some American thing. Japan just takes it to a high art.
Posted in: Renting brand-name items getting popular
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VoXman
Aren't there enough national parks to anonymously slash little farms?
Posted in: Two men arrested for possessing 108 cannabis plants in Fukuoka
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VoXman
oooo the dear leader, the great hopiate spoke with a mere motal like Aso?
Posted in: Aso among 9 leaders to speak with Obama on phone
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taniwha
Despite 80% of what you say was way off topic, I see you get your facts on the out comes of elections from Lib-Dem propaganda machine. Bush won because of a court order recount in Florida, because Gore insisted on it. And a recount of overseas US citizen votes as well. Kerry lost by electoral votes that not candidate has any control of. So you can turn off the auto-lie machine now.
Posted in: Rays of hope from Obama
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VoXman
psst..........S-0-K-a
Posted in: Soka Gakkai boosts advertising on TV
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VoXman
I think a lot of Japanese see the homelessness as a choice of those who want to drop out of society and its rigid structure.
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VoXman
Thanks to the Brits for taking the spotlight off the Yanks over here.
Posted in: British skinny dipper released into friend's custody
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VoXman
Actually it is a big deal. Japan very rarely wins Nobel prizes for science. Google it and find out.
Posted in: 2 Japanese and 1 American share Nobel Prize in physics
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VoXman
Banned Sedgeways! Of course, what about the Bicycle manufacturing consortium.
The hills are alive with the sound of Sedgewa-a-a-a-a-y-y-y-ysssss
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VoXman
Or give it to my wife and I. Damn we've been trying to have a kid for 6 years.
Posted in: Woman arrested for abandoning newborn baby in Internet cafe toilet in Yokohama
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VoXman
For the record, US radio stations were faced with this problem by the record labels and the solution they came up with was exactly what TAKA stated above. Once the recording artists and labels realized how much it would cost to have their product advertised the equivalent number of times it would normally be played under the old system. They quickly backed off that argument and "gleefully" thanked the broadcasters for their free service they provide the billion dollar recording industry.
Posted in: Should radio stations have to pay royalties to artists whose music they play?
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VoXman
From the tone and meter of the article sounds like what they really want to say id; "kill 'em all".
The writer is sweating 2000 yen a month, when most 1st world countries do pay their inmates a minumul amount....
Posted in: Cozy prisons coddle foreign inmates
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VoXman
its a guide for people who spend obscene amounts of cash in resturants.
Posted in: Critics dispute Michelin regard for Tokyo food
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VoXman
Ossan,
Posted in: Japan seeks to arrest anti-whaling activists
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Rodney King
Only you think that behavior is strange. Eveyone on this board knows that in Japan it is common for Japanese to turn in lost wallets and purse to the Police or train authorities. Just as common as rain around here.
Posted in: Russian sumo star arrested in Japan for marijuana
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hokkaidoguy
A free western press helped bring the Berlin wall down.... Nothing but good can come from exposing how China treats its citizens and steals from the west.
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