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
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- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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WhatJapanThinks
Come on people, if you went to a foreign country could you tell the difference between a real and a fake badge? Wouldn't you also think there may be a chance that they could steal your passports?
Their point 5) especially is most valid; even just a card in a few languages explaining who they were would be much better.
Posted in: Roughed up by the cops in Shinjuku
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With apologies to Monty Python...
Fukuda Morning, gentlemen.
Doctor Morning!
Obstetrician Morning, Mr. Fukuda.
Doctor Morning, Mr. Fukuda.
Fukuda Oh, very impressive. Very impressive. And what are you doing this morning?
Obstetrician It's a birth.
Fukuda Aahh. What sort of thing is that?
Doctor Well, that's when we take a new baby out of a lady's tummy.
Fukuda Wonderful what we can do nowadays.
[ping]
Aah! I see you have the machine that goes 'ping'. This is my favourite. You see, we lease this back from the company we sold it to, and that way, it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account.
[applause]
Thank you. Thank you. We try to do our best. Well, do carry on.
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WhatJapanThinks
I forgot to add - there's an ad on telly for half-fat mayonnaise, with the selling point being that you can use twice as much of it...
Posted in: Beware those 'zero-calorie' labels
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WhatJapanThinks
tokyoalex: excellent point - if I were Coke or Pepsi I'd get my lawyers to write JT a strongly-worded letter!
How about just reading the nutritional label that is on all these products? Seems a remarkably simple solution to me.
Posted in: Beware those 'zero-calorie' labels
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Hero? All he did was force its jaws open and get it off her hand, according to that story. If he'd wrestled it, or got it off her head, I could see the label being appropriate, but...
Posted in: Oregon police officer pries jaws of 12-foot python open to rescue pet store owner
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WhatJapanThinks
That's a good trick, using these non-functional devices to connect to the internet! Presumably they meant a demonstration model, although all the shops I've been in have had the SIM card removed or been otherwise disabled.
Moderator: The story has been corrected.
Posted in: Man arrested for posting threat to kill schoolchildren on Internet
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WhatJapanThinks
Scrote - hehehe! I was trying to work out how to get syrup into my comment, so well done!
Himajin: wifey always describes male-pattern baldness as kappa-joutai.
Posted in: Aderans maps out plan to fend off Steel
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WhatJapanThinks
Altria, a bald move to be sure, but Steel Partners have the kappa-bilities to pull this off; they just need to slap heads together.
Posted in: Aderans maps out plan to fend off Steel
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WhatJapanThinks
Because they saw the adverts for them on Japan Today.
Posted in: Why do people join cults?
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WhatJapanThinks
That Wikipedia article is pretty crap (and wrong in a number of places). Takarazuka is just the Japanese equivalent of Mills & Boon/Harlequin Romance, although most Western observers read far too much into it, and I say this as both a fan and as someone with inside information.
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GW, no, they continue with normal studies too (including English), although at a reduced level to accommodate the theatre-related lessons.
And it is an ongoing business - there's five troupes, each usually working on a cycle of a 4-6 week show at Takarazuka, 4-6 weeks of the same show at Tokyo, 4-6 weeks of a different show at a smaller hall at Takarazuka, and 8-12 weeks rehearsing, etc.
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WhatJapanThinks
Ahh, finally see them - my other PC has Flash disabled, so I didn't get them
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keech2: do you get them in the top left between the title and the comments? All I ever see there is an image ad for a Kyoto Ryokan.
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keech2: what Scientology ads? I don't see any, but I've got some of the ads blocked. Are they Google ads? Are you in the USA, not Japan?
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WhatJapanThinks
northlondon, you are mistaken. From the time he was born until he made the choice (just like all dual nationality children in Japan have to make the choice between the ages of 20 to 22), he was both Japanese and Iranian. Once he becomes an adult, because Japan does not recognise dual nationality, according to the law he has to choose one or the other.
Oh, and here's a note from the British Embassy in Iran's web site:
Does that make Iran even more right-wing than Japan?
Posted in: Yu Darvish makes his mark on and off the field
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WhatJapanThinks
9 out of 10 for capturing the scene. 1 out of 10 for picture quality.
Posted in: Battle reenactment
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WhatJapanThinks
redacted - Zimbabwe left the Commonwealth over four years ago:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3299277.stm
Posted in: Mugabe deploys troops as Zimbabwe general strike looms
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sarcasm123 - that's the point, the writer here pulled the 700 number out of the air - his timeline is all mucked up too, as the other "local" family was in Hyogo, not Chiba.
Here's health officials backtracking from over 2,000 to 10:
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20080215a1.html
Posted in: Gyoza scare offers insight into Japan's culture of eating
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WhatJapanThinks
Does Sarah Jessica Parker actually wear fur? I can find a statement from her on the PETA site saying she doesn't, but another site saying that she does.
Anyway, ecological fur means plastic-backed real fur? Only in Japan, to use a cliche!
Posted in: Japanese designer adds recycling, polyester to luxury in 'ecological fur'
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timeon - therewas a recent post on Japan Probe about this:
http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=4171
It's the new charcoal briquettes, perhaps.
Posted in: Son dies, mother injured by hydrogen sulfide gas in Okayama