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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Weasel
The whole flying experience is what seems to bother everyone. Andy Rooney (an old cranky man on an American weekly news program called 60 Minutes) seemed to best summarize why traveling by air is such a hassle: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/17/60minutes/rooney/main4023256.shtml
You can tell Andy must typically fly with the American airlines when he made this statement, "I like to get up and walk around when I fly but they've made the aisles narrower to get more seats in so they don't want you to move around anymore. And there isn't room for two people to pass anyway and the flight attendants aren't as thin as they used to be, either. "
Classic ranting by Andy
Posted in: Airline complaints: Which bothers you the most?
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Weasel
Go on and dig into your saucy love classics of the 80's, while munching down on a McRib...
http://www.mcrib.com/
Posted in: McRib sandwich
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Weasel
Better make sure 'yer medical is paid up before flying down Fuji-ya on that cutting board with wheels.
Posted in: Adventurous Brit plans to skate down Mt Fuji for charity
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Weasel
This camera is the epitome of technology that has gone berserk. Seriously, it's bad enough that people want to photograph every since moment of their lives, but now the need to document the coordinates on which they took their photographs, and publish this on the Internet? Can't people just look at the photographs and make the determination where the photo was taken?
Posted in: GPS digital compact camera
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Weasel
The IOC wanted to get rid of softball, due in fact that this was an American dominated and owned sport. It's good to see the monotony broken up by having the Japanese win the gold medal. Too bad that baseball and softball are going to be eliminated from the Olympics...and replaced with sports from the X-games (BMX???).
Posted in: US softball team loses gold to Japan
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Weasel
Read JT for a few minutes
Posted in: How do you deal with jet lag?
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Weasel
Well, maybe next year for Japan.
Posted in: Jamaicans sweep women's 100 at Olympics
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Weasel
Does this mean that the government will buy him a new house or offer him some extravagant prize for the gold medal he won?
Posted in: Uchishiba defends judo title for Japan's 1st gold; swimmers advance
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Weasel
The worker bees already walk across the border from Tijuana, where housing is less expensive than in the US. That hurdle has been; and will continue to be, exploited by businesses for decades to come.
Posted in: San Diego the place to invest
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Weasel
That statement is not exactly correct as it is written. True, Japan was the only country militarily attacked through the usage of nuclear weapons, but it wasn't the only country to have suffered bombings.
Even in the US, the military secretly detonated nukes in the Nevada desert in the 1957 (Operation "Plumbbob", exercise Desert Rock VII - VIII) and exposed its personnel to the effects of a nuclear blast. Perhaps it was a nit-pick, but it didn't seem to be a totally accurate statement the way it was written.
Posted in: U.S. Navy warns of possible radioactive leak from nuclear sub in Sasebo, Okinawa
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Weasel
Sounds nice. I still like Ben and Jerry's "Willie Nelson's peach cobbler" ice cream, as one of the few sweet treats I enjoy every once in a while. Odd sounding name for ice cream, but actually tastes quite good.
Posted in: Green tea ice cream from Häagen-Dazs
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Weasel
I'm still betting that those lovebirds are gonna make it after all. Yawn
Posted in: Pregnant Megumi has to contend with husband's partying
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Weasel
So how's the lunch special at the Waffle House these days?
Posted in: U.S. leaders running out of options to deal with multiple economic crises
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Weasel
First it was the airlines that pester everyone with their whining about how broke they are, and now Sony has decided to join the bandwagon too. I'm starting to wonder how long will it be before I see these CEO clowns standing in the traffic medians with signs begging for money?
Posted in: Sony to put virtual ads in PlayStation 3 games
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Weasel
Won't people smarten-up already? Doesn't Apple typically have a superior model for sale within six months anyway (and usually for less money)? Seriously, exactly how long does it really take to purchase a cell phone, what, maybe 30 - 45 minutes at the most?
Posted in: Apple fans camp out in Tokyo for iPhone 3G launch on Friday
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Weasel
I agree with a previous post, in that the total price of the ticket (including all of the nickel and dime fees that gets tacked on after the base price) should be what is advertised. This is like going to a car dealer, and the price of the car is $1000, but that's only for the tires, the rest of the car is priced ala carte.
Posted in: As fuel prices continue to rise, the fuel surcharge on airfares is also increasing. What's your view on the issue?
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Weasel
They've been selling the 2Lt bottles in Target stores in Arizona for quite some time. Didn't realize this was a breaking story.
Posted in: Ito En starts North American sales of green tea products
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Weasel
Wasn't Richard Gere an actor at one time?
Posted in: Richard Gere
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Weasel
Also, I guess Mr. Arpey missed this logic lesson in while in college (or life...), if you're going to start to charge people to check in luggage, you better wholly expect everyone on the plane to load up those tiny overhead compartments to avoid paying the $15. Brilliant. Makes me want to know what diploma mill he got his MBA at.
I suppose customers are going to feel really great knowing that they paid $15 for the AA to loose their luggage. What a deal.
Posted in: American Airlines to charge $15 for first checked bag
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Weasel
Should change the title to "American Airlines to nickel and dime their customers"
I wonder what's to come next? Pay toilets? Guess I'd better bring extra coins if I fly AA (provided that airport security doesn't take that away too), as I can already expect the flight attendants to NOT have any spare change to provide if all I have is paper currency.
Posted in: American Airlines to charge $15 for first checked bag