JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- ZAIHON, Inc. (日本財務翻訳株式会社), Tokyo
- Salary: ¥6.0M / Year Negotiable
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- Full-time English Teacher - Osaka
- Epion English Language Schools, Osaka
- Salary: ¥200,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month Depending on your ability and experience
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- Part-time English Teacher - Osaka
- Epion English Language Schools, Osaka
- Salary: ¥10,000 ~ ¥15,000 / Day Depending on how many days a week are worked
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as_the_crow_flies
Ossan America: try looking at a phonemic chart: http://www.phonemicchart.com/
Many Japanese are boggled by the idea of this, having learnt the English alphabet and asssuming that Japanese, having more characters, also has more sounds. Anyway, using loaded words like "rich" is a load of cods. The idea of inferior and superior languages belongs back in the nineteenth century. The writer just knows that by publishing this kind of book in Japanese, in Japan, he's digging a nice little earner. I bet he doesn't even believe this cr@p himself.
Posted in: Why the Japanese Are a Superior People
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as_the_crow_flies
Posted in: Asylum seekers find little refuge in Japan
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as_the_crow_flies
Why don't they ban overtime and employ more workers, including casual workers, to share out the work better among everyone?
Posted in: Honda bringing back overtime at Japan plants
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as_the_crow_flies
Stuff goes on in the music business that would be banned in construction in those countries. People work ridiculous hours in dangerous conditions, and there's a lot of macho bravado which makes people do stuff they shouldn't. I've been there and seen it. Nobody should have been anywhere near the stage when cranes were lifting the roof on. I hope there will be better safety standards at these kind of events to avoid this sort of tragedy repeating itself.
Posted in: Stage for Madonna's concert in Marseille collapses; 1 dead
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as_the_crow_flies
WTF? IF this is true, some women have serious issues. Makes you wonder about their potty training regime.
Posted in: Bra recycling – newest trend in eco-consciousness
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as_the_crow_flies
WEll, considering what the article tells us people were spending on - high-end restaurants, designer stuff, massages, hostesses, I'd say it's good news. People are finally seeing sense and not wasting money on useless fluff.
Posted in: All bad news from the retailing front
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as_the_crow_flies
Exactly. Think quickie 200,000 extortions and "kidnappings" - teen gangs grabbing an adult victim. Just makes the old "ore ore" trick easier than ever.
Posted in: DoCoMo to launch mobile remittance service
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as_the_crow_flies
Way to go! We should do this more!
Posted in: It's a dog's life for Richard Gere
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as_the_crow_flies
Slovenly. Love it! Haven't heard that word for decades. It used to be brandished by matronly school mistresses, darkly threatening that somehow not fixing a ripped button or an untidy desk hinted at some kind of terminal descent into sexual deviation and prostitution. It was never spelt out, but there seemed to be some kind of connection between the state of your nails and your moral upstandingness. Now they're digging it out for girls who aren't gripping their umbrellas between their thighs. Wish someone had told me earlier that we're supposed to do this.
On the other hand, I hate those yappy slappy little mules, too, maybe because it accentuates the Japanese girly walk - toes in, calves out, knock-kneed. Always makes me think of the walk of a baby that's done a dump in its nappy. And don't even get me started on Japanese likkle girly sing-song squeaky voices.
Posted in: Older men up in arms over slovenly female behavior
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as_the_crow_flies
Um yes, any hints about where this is - like prefecture, city, access?
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Posted in: The king’s road
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as_the_crow_flies
Oh and yea most Brits I know have few kind things to to say about British Rail's performance. But that's been going on for decades
Actually the rail system was privatised in the late 80s and 90s and it's since then that the service has really gone down the tubes. The problem is is not so much the trains themselves, it's the service. A shiny new train that's late because of engineering works at Orpington is still going to be late, wherever it's made. As another poster pointed out, it's going to run on a prestige, fast track line. Of course it will whizz through in half the time - it doesn't have to pass through other local stations on the way. I doubt if this is even news in the UK, as most people are interested in the commuter service that gets them into work, and they will mostly continue to be sh#t.
Posted in: Japanese-built train makes debut on British rail lines
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as_the_crow_flies
Posted in: Anti-drug poster featuring Yukie Nakama to go up at schools nationwide
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as_the_crow_flies
How do we know the other 21% didn't want him to climb to the top of Rainbow Bridge and line his shoes up on the way down?
Posted in: Poll: 71% want Aso to resign
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as_the_crow_flies
At leas the family agreed enough to let the upstairs lot use the door. Imagine if the 78-year old dad had been expected to climb in and out of a second floor window...
What is it with abandonment of bodies in Japan? Has anyone ever heard of a crime called abandoning a body anywhere else? Where does the idea that abandoning a body is a bad thing to do come from? I'm intrigued. On a different tack, if the girl had been in the house when the police caught up with her, that wouldn't have been abandonment, right? Surely the correct word when a cupboard or a refrigerator or something like that is used is stored, isn't it?
Posted in: 15-year-old girl arrested for abandoning mother's body in Okinawa home
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as_the_crow_flies
"quoted by police as saying he liked his colleague’s wife and wanted to see her in her home environment."
Did he mean "natural habitat?" What a creepy character. Scareeey, when you start to think about it. How could he have gone to abuse his position in some other more serious way if he hadn't been caught out?
Posted in: Cop busted for trying to sneak into colleague's house to spy on wife
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as_the_crow_flies
Many foreign workers on these kind of temporary contracts are hourly paid in the range of 600 to 700 yen an hour for women and 1000 to 1200 an hour for men. Some are employed on a daily basis. The only way they make a living wage is by doing 4 or 5 hours of overtime every night on top of an 8 hour shift, and that gets them about 200,000 yen an hour. Some are being thrown on the street out of company dormitories, along with families, some are living in their cars. Months of falling pay and overtime hours mean most have burned away any savings they had on daily living costs. Some are having to take their children out of school. Others started buying a house a few years ago, and have been repossessed and ended up with nothing to show for all the money they paid in. Young, mostly single westerners without children in eikaiwas are really just a small part of the picture.
Posted in: Temp workers bear brunt of recession in Japan
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as_the_crow_flies
“Even with a part-time job at an izakaya (pub), Chinese manage to send money back home,” a Japanese journalist based in China warns.
The point being? Chinese migrants' ability to save is higher than Japanese. What is the journalist "warning" about?
“So the Chinese who come to Japan to study bring their families over. Anyone can find work as waiters or in convenience stores, or as a janitor, so if a Chinatown can be established, they’ll wind up bringing in their whole family one at a time, including by illegal means.”
Migrant workers bringing their families? Bad! Bad! Naughty! Naughty! Negative! The Japanese migrant workers children I work with also have this nasty habit. Except they don't take their family to China and other places "one at a time", they do it all at once. Shock! Horror! Negative!
Posted in: Nippon by the numbers accentuates mostly negative news
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as_the_crow_flies
To get people to do their part in recycling, by reducing the amount of waste they generate, reusing as much as possible, and recycling everything that can be, we need to see where our efforts fit into the whole picture. If we know what the city is going to do with our washed, dried, folded milk cartons, or how having a little plastic collar left on it affects recycling an empty soy sauce bottle, we're more likely to feel the effort is worth it. This is where Japanese systems shoot themselves in the foot. They make it so complicated, and nobody up and down the line actually seems to know the reasons for the rules. One UK local authority reckoned that for people to follow a recycling system it should have no more than 3 different categories of waste. The rest would be down to professional recycling workers or machines. When I move to a new place in Japan, I try very hard to learn the new set of recycling rules, which generally clash with whatever I learnt to do in the previous place. I search out and study the badly translated leaflets or stand at the building's trash cage and read the notices. Most in my building don't follow the rules. I agree totally with what the author says. Dealing with the way they do it here puts you off being green. And when are they actually going to go after the businesses and stop them generating most of the trash? Each customer goes out of a bakery with more plastic around their 10 or so purchases than our household throws out in a week. Like someone said above, totally band-aid green
Posted in: It isn’t easy being green in Japan
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as_the_crow_flies
> maybe the editor failed to say they fired the warning shot into his knee > A warning shot in the leg? Huh? I've seen double speak on these Kyodo reports but this is mad?
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Posted in: Man arrested for wielding knife at Roppongi Hills
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as_the_crow_flies
I was under the impression that Japan already accepted asylum seekers from Myanmar, but whoever wrote this seems to suggest its a first.
Unprecedented in Asia? As far as I know, when the US withdrew from Vietnam, there was a massive flow of refugees, who ended up all over the world, though I think Japan's participation in granting them asylum was likely pitiful. Don't have any figures to support that, though. Reading between the lines of what The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres said, well he probably means that any increase in granting asylum on the part of Japan is a good start, and we hope they get up to speed before too long, considering their pitiful contribution so far. A poster from the UK to put Japan's policy in perspective by comparing it with the UK. The number of applicants actually granted asylum in the UK in 2002 was around 100,000 requests, just over 75,000 of whom were granted asylum. That's a 75% acceptance rate. Japan's response is somewhat more ketchi, meaning a lot of asylum seekers are in limbo, and in poverty because they're neither allowed to work, or receive any funding while their application is being reviewed, which here takes an average of 6 months. Imagine being turned down, imprisoned and deported after that. The nearest year I have figures for is 2003, when they had 70 asylum applications. Policy on accepting refugees is generally measured in relation to a country's population, as a fair way of comparing different countries' offers. So again, using the UK as a point of comparison (and it's by no means the "top" country in terms of accepting refugees, I just happen to have figures for it) the UK , population around 60m, in 2002 had 1 asylum application per 7,968 of population, while Japan, population then 127m, had 1 application per 535,800 of population.
Posted in: Japan's decision on Myanmar refugees sends message