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
- 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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moshiso7 at 07:05 AM JST - 14th January She doesn't look mixed at all.
Why does she have to be "mixed" because get dad's from the Netherlands? If he were born and raised there he'd be considered Dutch regardless of where his ancestors came from.
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Glyco157: She had alternatives. They're called choices. Women in Japan do have them despite so many peoples' seeming desires to portray them as helpless victims of circumstances. They have readily available health and education services and the ability to work in most types of jobs if they really want. They may not be treated with complete equality but that is certainly no excuse for what this woman did, neither us what may or may not happen in other countries. Horror tends to be relative to one's personal experience and this mother chose to put her baby, the one she should have protected through horror. She chose that! Let me say it again, she chose to do that.
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Miyaratmosphere: "Hussy"? A typo, I hope.
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Miyaratmosphere: I've read posts of yours before where you've expressed a desire to kill yourself, to just die. While I fully understand how upsetting stories like this are I find your comments disturbingly inappropriate. I would strongly suggest that if you really do feel that way then you get help in dealing with your problems. You've said you are a mother of three. I would think that the desire to live and see your children into adulthood would negate the effect that stories like this generate. However, if you make comments about wanting to die in a melodramatic, throw away fashion then I'd kindly suggest you stop doing so. It's extremely immature and very out of line on site like this. They make it difficult to take your more saliant comments seriously.
Moderator: Back on topic please.
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Kirakira25: We may agree that for darker skinned Japanese they have a genetic advantage over fair-skinned Caucasians in terms of the effects of the sun but we may part ways there. There are so many shades that fall within the category of "white" and Japanese with naturally very fair skin as well as those with nearly brown skin that any discussion about "white" vs. Japanese skins simply falls back into the stereotypes I've been railing against.
I don't know how long you've been reading this site but if it's been as long as long as I have then you know that you're giving the site and the posters far too much credit when you suggest that they know things are not one-size fits all. It's that very attitude which kept me off this site for so long and has made me decide to stay off it again. Adios!
Posted in: How to stay beautiful in Japan through your diet
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Dishdash: I've got no argument with both genetics and diet playing a role in the condition of skin care. What I have a problem with is ridiculous generalizations about the state of Japanese skin over their "western counterparts" and the endless list of generalizations aimed at making one group feel better about themselves over another.
And for the record, just because someone disagrees with you doesn't mean they've "lost their cool" nor does it mean the topic itself is a sore point. It's the presentation and poster generalizations that are sore points for me, not the topic. In case you're wondering, I've got fantastic skin, always have and don't wear make-up even though people have always assumed I do.
Posted in: How to stay beautiful in Japan through your diet
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Dishdash: If it's in the Asian genetics to have nice skin then surely Asian men would have it as well. If not then do you attribute it to non-genetic factors?
Yes, good food, staying hydrated, staying out of the sun and getting enough sleep are good for the skin. Why not just an article about maintaining good skin? Why does it have to pit one nationality against another? Open your eyes and really look around! Some Japanese have lovely skin and some look like the walking dead and most fall so ewhere in the middle, pretty much the same as the women of the 50-so e countries I've been to.
As a final note, "their Western counterparts" include women of a much greater variety in skin shades and how the sun effects it than the average woman here so let's try and stop pigeonholing people into these ridiculous and limiting stereotypes that this site and so many of its readers seem so fond of.
Posted in: How to stay beautiful in Japan through your diet
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Pocketbunny: sorry but I'm confused. Is "here where they don't get groped like they do there" japan? Is there America?
Posted in: Saitama police launch new unit to prevent groping on trains
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I don't see how you can combat bullying in schools in a society where compassion and empathy are relatively lacking. One of the basic premises of Japanese culture is that it is best to blend in, to not stand out. Even when kids "rebel" here it is nearly always with a group of like-minded "rebels" who adhere to very strict rules about what to wear and so on. I'm not suggesting that fitting in is unique to Japan but it is a stronger cultural aspect than in most places. What that ends up meaning is that kids don't want to stick up for the bullied kid, parents don't want to cause trouble and the bullied kid doesn't want to go to a teacher because that will likely mean trouble for him or her rather than the bully(ies). You see this manifest itself in so many ways here all the way from elementary school up through corporate life where people are afraid to stand up for themselves.
If that sounds like doom and gloom sorry but I see little hope for change in respect to bullying because it's simply an underlying current of Japanese life. Don't take that to me you shouldn't try!
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sn00z3: Thanks but I wouldn't have gotten into Toshimaen 3 times if I had a tatoo, at least not if I had one visible while in a swimsuit. I went because my sons wanted to but I've since convinced them that we can find better and cheaper ways to cool off, like our local natatorium.
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Funny place that Toshimaen. You can't go in if you have any tatoos because of the yakuza association and wanting to maintain a family atmosphere and all, which I get. And yet you can buy alcohol, drink to your heart's content and smoke as well. It's not so much that the water at Toshimaen is dirty, though it is, it's the whole atmosphere that I find somewhat disgusting. By 2:00 the trash cans are overflowing and the crows are diving in. There are always a few a#$holes who are loud and aggressive. I've been there 3 times and twice the police have shown up to haul off some young thugs. So much for the family atmosphere. Getting back to the cleanliness, I understand that with so many people it is tough but they could try just a bit harder. The filters around the pools, especially the donut-current pool, smell of mold and there seems to be absolutely no rules about people with any and all skin diseases entering the pools. Yuck!
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disillusioned: Do you think she was visiting him at his house hiding the remote or do you think it more likely that he was living with her? If it's the latter, as I suspect it is, the solution for a 49-year old man is relatively simple, grow-up and move-out if you don't like the way mommy treats you!
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Apsara: What are you talking about? Read the first paragraph more carefully and you'll see "since her husband's arrest for drug possession"
Posted in: Noriko Sakai's disappearance big news in Asia
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What's the difference? Your typical 18 year-old Japanese isn't going to vote anyway and your typical 18 year-old Japanese can already drink because they never get carded. The only positive change I can see with this is that 18-year olds can be charged as adults for crimes.
Posted in: A Japanese government advisory panel has proposed lowering the adult age to 18 from 20. What do you think about it?
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There's nothing wrong with the way any of these women look! Healthy people should have "a little meat on their bones". Stay here long enough and you'll start to think that the self-imposed, malnourished look is normal. It's not! Japan has some of the highest rates of anorexia and bulimia in the world so all those wan looking gals that you think are naturally thin are more likely than not simply under eating. At least these gals have attractive curves and don't look like they'd blow over in a strong wind.
Posted in: Saving the planet
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ambromofo: Not only is that a ridiculous comment but it shows how sadly narrow your world is. The first real vegetarian I ever met was a beautiful black woman from Brooklyn who grew up pretty darn far from middle class.
Posted in: Saving the planet
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"Ordinary" as in he'll work until 8 or 9 p.m., then go out for drinks with the mates and drag himself home, drunk and exhausted at midnight. "Ordinary" as he makes about $50,000 / year, gets two bonuses and at least 10 personal days of which he'll take maybe five? Somehow I don't think that's the "ordinary businessman" she's going to marry but if he is, good luck!
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Japan's got one of the lowest rates of autopsy, forensic and medical, in the industrialized world. I've no doubt a change in that would bump the murder rate up a bit.
Posted in: Murder rate rises in Japan but total number of crimes falls
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sabiwabi: And on what are you basing your opininions? I've got loads of friends who teach at universities in Japan and they've said quite the opposite. Attendance is rather miserable and it's difficult to reprimand the students or fail them, even at the better universities due to the way universities look at students as customers rather than students who bear some responsibility for what they learn. As for whether or not other students would have recognized a disgruntled student that would depend on whether or not they'd taken classes with him, when he was a student, if they hung out in the same circles, etc. Either way, this is an awful story and I hope the killer is caught a.s.a.p. My condolences to the man's family.
Posted in: Professor stabbed to death at Chuo University in Tokyo
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Bags poking in my ribs whilst on the train especially when the girls holding them refuse to use the overhead racks.
People leaning on me whilst on the train like I'm some kind of damn post.
People who fall asleep and tip a bit too much towards me whilst on the train.
People who don't have the good sense to move over whilst someone is trying to sit down.
People who play their Ipods so loud everyone has to listen to the crappy, tinny sound leaking out of them.
People who pack themselves up near the door then get all pissy when they have to move so the ones behind them can get out.
People who won't move their feet so you can spread yours out a bit to better balance yourself. They act like it's a challenge or something rather than you just trying not to fall.
People who put bags on seats and take up good sitting space or on the floor so they're in everyone's way instead of tucking them behind their legs.
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