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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ablestmage
The article states "biannual" but I think it means "semiannual".. Biannual means it is held every two years. Semiannual means it is held every half-year, as a semicircle is half of a circle, not two circles. There is a spring/summer event of this same title, also.
Posted in: 13th Tokyo Girls Collection to be held Sept 3 in Saitama
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ablestmage
As an intelligent teacher, he could have recognized his own problem ahead of time and realized he wasn't brave enough to seek counseling on his own, so planted the device with the intent of being discovered. His confession could actually be a cover story to hide the fact that he may have been trying to peep on a specific girl, and out of respect for the particular girl he claimed it was generally "girls" instead.
Posted in: Teacher arrested over videos of elementary school girls in toilet
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chotto -- I can't think of any reason a grown man would even actually shout "pervert" (which is a word generally used by women to describe men). A grown man getting groped would probably first think, "Ooh.." and then wonder if the groping-person was a girl, and whether she's cute or not. And then he would marry her.
Posted in: Man arrested for allegedly molesting schoolgirl in Saitama
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ablestmage
My jaw tumbled southward at TWENTY SEQUELS.
Posted in: Nikkatsu revives successful porn genre of ’70s and ’80s
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ablestmage
Seems like it was more of a signal to someone that someone trying to deter identification. Why put the suitcase (and how big is this suitcase, btw?) in plain view, why not bury it 30 ft below ground if they didn't want it discovered?
Posted in: Headless body of woman found in suitcase in Kanazawa mountains
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ablestmage
He must be on a pretty tight schedule. I wonder which direction he'll be flying in from -- is crossing the Atlantic shorter, or the Pacific, to Japan from Italy?
Lancestar: There are arguably no actors, ever, then -- because no personality trait can be made from scratch. All stories are also ultimately combinations and twists upon previous stories. Your comment is also therefore not a real comment, because all of the words have been used in great works of literature before you used them here.
Posted in: Johnny Depp to spend 15 hours in Japan for 'Alice in Wonderland' premiere
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ablestmage
I think most of this is a perfectly legit misunderstanding. They weren't smuggling kids -- there was no secret sneaky-by going on, the parents of the kids knew about it and wanted them to go to a better life, and all 10 have been cooperative. Also, we're talking about Haiti, the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere, here. I'd be surprised if the government there even knew how to officially identify its own citizens, much less keep any migration or visa data.
They're not religious nutjobs trying to kidnap children, as far as anyone can tell. Had you actually read the article, they'd been planning to go to Haiti long prior to the earthquake on humanitarian reasons and for creating a Haitian child welfare center, which clearly fell through. I think labeling them bonkers speaks more disturbingly about the name-caller's failure to mete due process of law and assert guilt without actually investigating the matter at hand.
@meloveulongtime - Skirting the law is to obey the law. If you drive 44kph in a 45kph zone, you're skirting the law. If you drink up to .1 within the intoxication limits of public drunkenness, you're skirting the law. To skirt it is to respect the line that's been drawn and not break it.
Posted in: 10 U.S. Baptists charged with kidnapping Haiti children
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ablestmage
Heaven knows that thing is gonna tip over once it puts four 2-litre bottles of Root Beer in that little hand basket ^_~
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ablestmage
Uh, XML is plain text. A Canadian company has a patent on editing plain text? And since when do US courts (in Texas, even) have jurisdiction on Canadian patents?
Posted in: Court bans sale of Word; Microsoft has fix ready
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ablestmage
Someone over there at JapanToday needs to go back to journalism school. There aren't just 11 members of AKB48. They're divided up into team A, team B and team K. One team alone may have 11 in it -- with well over thirty total. Also, the headline doesn't match the story. So was it 200 fan letters, or 200 letters and bills mixed?
Posted in: Man steals 200 fan letters destined for girl group AKB48
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ablestmage
I'm not sure "stem" is the word the headline writer should have used. Stem means both "stop" (such as to remove stems from cherries) and "start" (an event that stems from committee suggestions).
Posted in: More Tokyo train stations start using lights to stem suicides
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ablestmage
I bet he was thinking, "This isn't quite how I dreamed this would happen. Can we get less cameras?"
Posted in: AKB48 drop in on Tamori
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ablestmage
Hephat -- Mikitty is very very widely known for being a nickname for Miki Fujimoto, a self-given name prior to her Hello!Project involvement, and she is by FAR not a nobody. She has a decent fanbase even in the US (me included), where none of the H!P products have even been in release.
Posted in: Mikitty promotes Mixi’s New Year Card greeting service
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ablestmage
I wonder how many gals from AKB48 or Hello!Project signed up..
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ablestmage
USD $28k for a month? I think I'll take one of those tube-compartment hotels instead.
Posted in: Home away from home
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ablestmage
grr. "wouldn't" immediately jump, I meant. can't edit my own comments.
Posted in: Woman on minibike injured after run-in with rope tied across road
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ablestmage
Unless this is a familiar form of deterrent, I would immediately jump to the conclusion that it was meant for foul play. That's certainly an option, but may not be the genuine reason. Until other details come about in this particular case (rather than anecdotal experiences of commenters), it'll just be a mystery.
Posted in: Woman on minibike injured after run-in with rope tied across road
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ablestmage
Glad to see AKB in the news, but that's not even close to all of them and doesn't comprise "the pop group" as the caption notes. "A few members of AKB48.." would have been a bit more accurate, as there's loads more than that. You don't have to just be cute, you've got to sing well enough and be coordinated enough to perform daily shows.
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ablestmage
I suggest sharp objects in the back pocket (or wherever groping is common). The perp would then probably yelp from the sharpness, and get caught red handed, as it were.
Posted in: What is the best way to deal with the groping problem on trains?
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ablestmage
Could have easily been a murder-suicide planned to look like an accident.
Posted in: 3 family members die after falling into feed silo