JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Corporate Business English Trainers
- ACT Systems, Inc.（株式会社アクト・システムズ）, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥269,500 ~ ¥280,000 / Month
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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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YangYong
All those Londodn detractors: I have just watched every 'pass on' event from Atlanta onwards and they are all just that, an eight minute slot not filled very well; the Brits did OK and it is the third time London will hold the summer Olympics, no other city can lay claim to that. We shall see but I will put my money where yours is never going to be; on the table for a great Olympics in 2012. The London bashers are all from France anyway, so your bleating doesn't count.
Posted in: Curtain comes down on Beijing Olympics as baton passes to London
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YangYong
I didn't recognize them with their clothes on.
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YangYong
Yes, he'll vaccum seal the uniforms after each show and sell them online. Japan, has a market for such things.
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YangYong
A really comforting 'sayonara' play, no more rounders in the Olympics, fantastic, in fact I am going to buy a few rounds to celebrate the end of the ball and base game. Good riddance to an awfully boring game.
Posted in: U.S. downs Japan for baseball bronze
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YangYong
Forgoing the 'rat' there's only one race, the human one. Stop being so neo-Darwinist.
Posted in: Ainu rise up from the margins of Japanese society
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YangYong
Get a proper job, contribute as a man to society; not as some bullying low-life snivelling take all dog.
Posted in: Yakuza 'misunderstood' by foreign media
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YangYong
That extended roar that came out of his hole was just too animalistic in its aggression. You could never imagine Spitz engaging in such a Neanderthal display; footage of his '72 victories shows him reaching to shake his opponent in the next lane by the hand. He's still a boy is Phelps, even though Spitz was younger when he got 7 he was more of a man.
Posted in: What do you think of American swimmer Michael Phelps' long victory yell after he wins a race?
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YangYong
Absolutely incredible opening. Full 10, although it could be a 100. I want one of the suits with light on, cool.
Posted in: China opens Olympics spectacularly
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YangYong
That was SOME opeing last night, wow. To have carried a flag at that opening is a must for any scrap book. Ms Fukuhara is huge in China, probably why she was chosen.
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YangYong
DS; Do you actaully do any thnking for yourself, can't you figure out a game plan? Jeez louise! OK, I'll feed you one:
A-san: Hey, what's that? B-san: It's a leaflet from the American planes, says, 'Watch Fuji-san on August 6th' for a demonstration of some new kind of weapon...
See where it's going?
Posted in: Hiroshima mayor hopes next U.S. president will back ban on nuclear weapons
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YangYong
Nordon: What when a 'rogue' State that has them provides them to a group who couldn't have got them? What then? A big hole in your argument and us. Stop the bomb, it's immoral that we have to live under its shadow.
Posted in: Hiroshima mayor hopes next U.S. president will back ban on nuclear weapons
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YangYong
'There is no such thing as Eastern Thought', PAH! Tell that a Buddhist or a follower of Confucius BUT There in lies the rub; the Japanese do not make things 'crystal clear' –as Westerners ‘think’ it--; --if you’re Japanese you’ll get it-- this going back to my point about the West not understanding the East. It's not a stereotype; people in the East react differently to situation, position and age. For example: A South Korean Airline’s 747 crashed in Guam, why? Two atomic bombs were dropped on an Eastern nation, why? If YOU want to question the statements of those that were there, those that were in power, then so be it, dear me.., come on. The only digging I am doing is to re-fill your holes.
Posted in: Hiroshima mayor hopes next U.S. president will back ban on nuclear weapons
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YangYong
So someone else quotes the National Archives --wow, what a surprise-- and that –in your mind-- discredits the facts and proof? Eh? What. No. The facts stand. So, NO ground invasion needed. NO millions of American troops dead AND if you don’t get it; that Eastern thought is different to Western, i.e. 'No' means 'yes', 'maybe' means 'certainly', then get studying. It’s one of the reasons the West has faired so poorly in Asian theatres of War, they just don’t get it. See?
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YangYong
How you can dimiss the National Archives of the US as 'not proof' of fact is beyond rational discussion. Let's get this straight: As an adult you not only want to be told where the proof is but to be led to it, shown it and fed it? Well, ok, here from the National Archives --drum roll-- online:
"Even without the atomic bombing attacks," concluded the United States Strategic Bombing Survey of 1946, "air supremacy over Japan could have exerted sufficient pressure to bring about unconditional surrender and obviate the need for invasion. Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts, and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Survey's opinion that ... Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated."
You know how Iraq and it's stockpile of WMDs was a lie, well, wait for it, past administrations lied too! But no, you know better! Phff. Enough. Keep on at the self-deception or break on through, your choice.
Posted in: Hiroshima mayor hopes next U.S. president will back ban on nuclear weapons
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YangYong
Sarge, also: The Israeli prime minister. The South African President. The Leader of North korea and soon to be that country next to Iraq.
Posted in: Hiroshima mayor hopes next U.S. president will back ban on nuclear weapons
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YangYong
Bamboohat, maybe a tweak of that day's title from 'invading' to 'attacking' i.e. the US.
Posted in: Hiroshima mayor hopes next U.S. president will back ban on nuclear weapons
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YangYong
Again… I direct you to the National Archives in Washington DC, USA. The facts are there. Surprisingly ‘’Peace overtures” have been known to lead to peace, it's called process, a peace process. Plus, your understanding is so a-typical of a classic 'Western mind', --most likely American-- no empathy or --in extreme cases-- even understanding of other approaches, thinking, idea of decision, other than that which you are culturally baptized, i.e. the ones of your nation. BTW –just in case you didn’t get it-- that’s the reply to your rather manic ‘BUT they weren’t surrendering’, rant. Anyway, as you've been told, get yourself to the flesh, feel it, touch it smell it at the National Archives. An epilogue: The Atomic bombing of two cities is, in my view, inhumane. The myth of 'We need the bomb' is equally beyond rational minds. You are free to drink the spin but the clock must not be allowed to strike 12.
Posted in: Hiroshima mayor hopes next U.S. president will back ban on nuclear weapons
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YangYong
DS. Wrong? The facts, evidence, quotes, letters, notes* ad nauseam *are there in the The National Archives in Washington US. You obviously did not read the original post or are afraid of the truth and simply paint out the window.
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YangYong
The National Archives in Washington contain US government documents that chart Japanese peace overtures as early as 1943. None was pursued. A cable sent on May 5, 1945 by the German ambassador in Tokyo and intercepted by the US dispels any doubt that the Japanese were desperate to sue for peace, including "capitulation even if the terms were hard". Instead, the US secretary of war, Henry Stimson, told President Truman he was "fearful" that the US air force would have Japan so "bombed out" that the new weapon would not be able "to show its strength". He later admitted that "no effort was made, and none was seriously considered, to achieve surrender merely in order not to have to use the bomb". His foreign policy colleagues were eager "to browbeat the Russians with the bomb held rather ostentatiously on our hip". General Leslie Groves, director of the Manhattan Project that made the bomb, testified: "There was never any illusion on my part that Russia was our enemy, and that the project was conducted on that basis." The day after Hiroshima was obliterated, President Truman voiced his satisfaction with the "overwhelming success" of "the experiment".
Posted in: Hiroshima mayor hopes next U.S. president will back ban on nuclear weapons
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YangYong
Even without the atomic bombing attacks," concluded the United States Strategic Bombing Survey of 1946, "air supremacy over Japan could have exerted sufficient pressure to bring about unconditional surrender and obviate the need for invasion. Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts, and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Survey's opinion that ... Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated."
Posted in: Hiroshima mayor hopes next U.S. president will back ban on nuclear weapons