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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Maria, I did read the book and I'm one of those who wasn't too impressed. She had a story to tell and I give her credit for attempting to do that but she was a bit dodgy with too many details; there is no shinkansen to Kamakura, the club is One-Eyed Jacks not One-Eyed Zacks, to name a few. Yes, better editing would have helped but so would better writing and better character development. If she did meet interesting people she sure didn't spend much time talking about them. It was mostly about her and she wasn't really all that interesting, just drunk. There are loads of debauched youth memories out there and loads that are better than hers. The only advantage that she has is that hers took place in a more unusual setting than most.
Posted in: Bar Flower: My Decadently Destructive Days And Nights As A Tokyo Hostess
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sonnoujoui: So is it fat girls in general that you don't like looking at or Western girls? If it's fat girls then why not just say that because there are plenty of them here, they've apparently just missed your discerning eyes.
SiouxGirl: You're absolutely right. The woman in the story is a total contradiction anyway. She says she doesn't care if anyone is looking at her and in the same breath adds that she likes to "show off" her fashion and body line. Well, if you want to show off them you do care what other people think so it's just ridiculous to pretend otherwise.
And what the hell is a "body line" anyway? Can we just say figure and leave it at that?
Posted in: Japanese girls go sexier in their fashion styles
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I don't think skimpy equals sexy when the girls / women in question 1) clomp around like cows because they can't or won't walk properly in their shoes or 2) when the girls / women in question are constantly fussing; touching their hair obsessively, doing their make-up, looking in every reflective surface possible. If a woman has confidence in who she is and what she looks like, her beauty will come out no matter what she's wearing. Sadly, far too many of the women I see in Tokyo are so lacking in confidence they can't seem to make it one block without checking to see if everything is perfect, every hair in place. If you find that sexy, well then you're in the right place!
Posted in: Japanese girls go sexier in their fashion styles
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She's pretty but - eat please! A tofu burger, bean salad, something. Those arms look like pins and her shoulders are non-existent. It's good that she's not overweight but a little more bulk and muscle wouldn't do anything to deter from her looks, in fact they would help them and help prevent osteoporosis.
mindovermatter: Yes, you do see more overweight young Japanese nowadays but you also see more of the other extreme. In fact Japan is considered to have some of the highest rates of eating disorders in the world. Not a day goes by that I don't see at least two or three girls who look to be on the verge of death as well as any number of young men who don't appear to have an ounce of fat -or muscle- on them. Obviously Ms. Sugimoto doesn't fall into that category but I still say she could stand another 5 kilos at least. The pose is making her look curvy but standing up straight a woman that skinny is not going to have any natural curves.
Posted in: Aya Sugimoto
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The question those saying it should be illegal need to ask themselves is - why? Making it illegal has done nothing to prevent it from being easily obtained and yes, in Japan too. The whole "war on drugs" is a ridiculous, expensive fraud and people buy into it hook, line and sinker. This war costs every time some is locked up for having drugs, it costs when governments spend millions of dollars on trying to catch trafficers and eradicate the plants. And all this money spent has done nothing to decrease the number of drug users. People are going to do them anyway, again exactly what the laughable "war on drugs" has shown us. So instead of accepting that pot is really no different than alcohol, we throw people in jail, ruin their lives, waste millions of the taxpayers dollars, and allow narcotraficantes to thrive. Why can't drugs be regulated and taxed? We do it with cigarettes and alcohol. Hypocricy and ignorance in regards to drugs have done far more harm than legalization ever will but the hypocritical and ignorant among us will stubbornly refuse to accept that truth.
Posted in: Should marijuana use be illegal?
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bebert: The librarian look works well for professional women.
Yes, but a bit ironic considering that she told the an Alaskan librarian she could support censorship. Sometimes it's not just lenses that need to be refocused.
Posted in: Palin's glasses give boost to Japanese company's sales
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Japanese taxpayers are not only paying to feed and house the foreign criminals, but as an added extra, are even paying them wages for the work they perform in prison. In most countries, the article asserts, this would be unthinkable.
Okay, first is this supposed to mean that only Japanese taxpayers' money goes towards feeding and housing foreign criminals because I'm not Japanese but I certainly pay taxes. Are my taxes earmarked so they don't go towards feeding and house criminals? And do those taxes go towards housing and feeding only foreign criminals? Are we not feeding Japanese criminals too? Who writes this tripe and why is it published here?
Posted in: Cozy prisons coddle foreign inmates
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This kind of crime isn't new and this is why I always lock my bag to my bicycle while I'm riding. I loop the plastic coated chain through the bag handles and then the handlebars. You can also get a special net to go over your basket at any bicycle store. It's also an effective safeguard though it does tend to lose its elasticity relatively quickly.
Posted in: Motorcyclist snatches handbags from three women cyclists in Chiba
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Oh! And shall we get into her "Alaska First" ideas? This is fun! Any other great achievements of hers we can talk about?
"Officials of the Alaskan Independence Party say that Palin was once so independent, she was once a member of their party, which since the 1970s has been pushing for a legal vote for Alaskans to decide whether or not residents of the 49th state can secede from the United States.
And while McCain's motto -- as seen in a new TV ad -- is "Country First," the AIP's motto is the exact opposite -- "Alaska First -- Alaska Always."
Lynette Clark, the chairman of the AIP, tells ABC News that Palin and her husband Todd were members in 1994, even attending the 1994 statewide convention in Wasilla. Clark was AIP secretary at the time.
'We are a state's rights party," Clark -- a self-employed goldminer -- tells ABC News. The AIP has "a plank that challenges the legality of the Alaskan statehood vote as illegal and in violation of United Nations charter and international law.'"
Posted in: McCain defends VP pick
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Whitehawk: Are you serious? Look I wouldn't defend a Democratic candidate just because they were Democratic so why defend her - just because she's Republican - unless of course you do agree with some of her finer achievements, such as leaving Wasill $20 million in debt largely by pushing through her pet projects and, in contrast to her portrayal as a "maverick" fully supporting the Bridge to Nowhere until she realized no one in the lower 48 was and that Alaska had become a laughing stock because of it. Do you seriously think she is not only the best option McCain had for a VP but that she is the best possible alternative that America has for a President?
Lohttp://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/08/29/did-palin-really-fight-the-bridge-to-nowhere.aspx
— Palin didn’t back McCain in the primary. She stayed neutral in Alaska’s January primary — perhaps on account of McCain’s opposition to drilling in ANWR. “A lot of us are sitting back and waiting to see if there will be new players in there," she said in 2007. "That’s probably why that box that says ‘none of the above’ is so popular right now."
— Mayoral performance. Palin, who portrays herself as a fiscal conservative, racked up nearly $20 million in long-term debt as mayor of the tiny town of Wasilla — that amounts to $3,000 per resident. She argues that the debt was needed to fund improvements.
— Stevens and Young, redux. Palin has distanced herself from the state’s two most popular politicians, but both appeared at Palin fundraisers during her 2006 gubernatorial bid.
— The environment. As governor, Palin vetoed wind power and clean coal projects, including a 50-megawatt wind farm on Fire Island and a clean coal facility in Healy that had been mired in a dispute between local and state governments.
— And, maybe, censorship. According to the Frontiersman newspaper, Wasilla’s library director, Mary Ellen Emmons, said that Palin asked her outright if she "could live with censorship of library books.” Palin later dismissed the conversation as a “rhetorical” exercise.
Posted in: McCain defends VP pick
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SpecialReportsUS: Get a clue. Americans bought over 12 million Britney Spears albums so it's not as if you can really trust their choices after all.
As for the press loving scandals, that's another laugh and straight out of the Republican playbook. When the media went after the young Chelsea Clinton (ridiculed for being unattractive), Hillary (not "feminine" enough to be a first lady) Michelle Obama (an America hater) to name a few that was all in the name of fair disclosure and the idea of personal choices reflecting on the spouse or sibling. But when it comes back on a Republican family member in a less than flattering light it's suddenly muckraking. That's rich! Unless you can honestly say you oppose it when it's done to anyone not running, Democrat, Republican, Independent, etc. you have no room to complain now. And if you think this is a Democratic tactic I have a few choice words for you: Karl Rove, Willy Horton, the October Surprise, the Canuck Letter and Lee Atwater. I'm not saying the Democrats are saints at all but I just find it amusing how everyone (ie. Republicans) are now so "outraged" that one of their own is being dragged through the ringer. And damn straight she should be! She could end up as our president. Don't you want to know as much about her as possible or is the truth too scary to be revealed??????
Posted in: McCain defends VP pick
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blue tiger: I certainly hope you're joking or you've lost any respect I had for you over some of your previous posts. To think that women are so simple and narrow-minded that they would vote for Palin because they no longer have the option of voting for Hillary is as stupid as someone saying they wouldn't vote for Obama because he's black. I don't know a single woman who would vote for Hillary based purely on her gender and since Hillary and Palin's political views are polar-opposites, why in the world would Democratic women in particular vote for Palin? You're thinking is clearly in line with what McCain assumed and I think he's going to be bit in the ass with that assumption. Most of the women I know see his selection of Palin as cynical, politics as usual and stupid. I see it as a good way to alienate undecided female voters who might have considered voting for McCain and for that I do praise him because I loathe the thought of him being President.
Posted in: McCain picks Alaska Gov Sarah Palin for running mate
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kimigano: It's just a juvenile prank. Time to lighten up.
I hope you're joking. The man in question is 33 years old, far beyond the age of a juvenile and what he did is a crime not a prank. Perhaps you misunderstand the difference between the two concepts.
Posted in: Police officer quits after being arrested for stealing female cadet's underwear in Chiba
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This might sound like a trivial matter, after all they're just underwear, right? But if you read a few true-crime stories you'll be surprised at how many serial rapists and killers started out as "petty" criminals caught for stealing panties, masturbating in public or peeping in windows. The problem is that the need to increase the thrill they get from doing those things escalates until they become very dangerous. Very often though they've been let off with nothing but a slap on the wrist for those "minor" crimes because the police arresting don't see the inherant danger in those types of crimes, believe them to be nothing serious and don't understand the psychology of sexual / fetish criminals. As funny as it may be to have a good laugh about it on an anonimous website, it is an issue that ought to be taken more seriously by the people in a position to prevent it.
"Other serial murderers have started their horrible carreers, for instance, and simplified, quite early in their lives as stalkers - also known as "Peeping Toms", escalating into burglary, fetish theft, rape, and eventually murder. By the time the first serious crimes occur, they are generally in their early to mid-twenties."
http://www.criminalprofiling.ch/introduction.html
Posted in: Police officer quits after being arrested for stealing female cadet's underwear in Chiba
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Wearing a black one-piece dress
Aren't all dresses one-piece? Why the need to explain what a dress is? Please stop perpetuating bad English!
Posted in: Ryoko Shinohara back in public 3 months after having baby
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I imagine no charges were pressed because he didn't profit off of his endeavors - kind of like what the judge gave as a reason for the light sentence in the case of the cop who was running a teenage prostitution ring. Seriously though, when are we going to see Robocops replacing the criminal, Keystone cops we're currently paying for?
Posted in: Police officer quits after being arrested for stealing female cadet's underwear in Chiba
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Sorry but at the risk of being flamed I have to say that though these women might look okay your typical Japanese woman / girl looks far better in a skirt or dress than in jeans, especially tight ones. There are too many women who are way too skinny, flat-bottomed, bow-legged, knock-kneed and pigeon-toed for jeans to be in any way flattering. That's not to say that Japanese women don't have physical attributes because they certainly do, nor that they are any better or worse than their western counterparts in terms of physical attractiveness. It's just that when I look around and see a typical women here in jeans I usually think she'd look so much better either in really loose pants that add some curves or in a skirt. A women ought to dress in looks best on her, not what the industry is telling her is fashionable. All styles definitely do not suit all body types.
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AlliedForces at 10:33 AM JST - 22nd August roomtemperature; Anyone who does not support their country 100% is a pinhead!!
Ahh...not really sure what you mean there. So should I support my country 100% when an athlete from my country has been found to have doped? Should I support my country 100% when an athlete from my country acts in a manner contrary to good sportsmanship? Should I support my country 100% when someone from another country has a more compelling story and is equally or perhaps more deserving of a victory?
Posted in: US softball team loses gold to Japan
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proffessor: The shoes are probably more comfortable than having to deal with all the stupid questions she's going to be asked at the press conference!
Posted in: Hancock
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nisegaijin: Yes, I am aware of the utter nonsense and failings of Prohibition and as far as I'm concerned the "war on drugs" is about as ridiculous. Legalize them, tax them, control them. There will always be those among us who need a fix. For some coffee will be enough for others the occassional drink and yet others prefer a different kind of escape. I see absolutely no reason why alcohol should be legalized and pot should not. I for one, would much rather be around someone who was high than someone who was drunk. Drunks are very often violent and unpredictable. Potheads are usually too mellow to cause much trouble.
Posted in: 8 people arrested for use of illegal drugs in open-air live concert in Gunma