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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azzassa
I bet it would. Would this chair repel sharks in open water?? Increase competition at a wet t-shirt contest? Come with detachable skis for towing?
Posted in: New office chairs
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azzassa
Good for that captain! Hilarious. Did they really think we supported these anti whaling fanatics? Get a job you morons.
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azzassa
This is a heartwarming story.
Posted in: Tough man Terence Lee loses street fight in Kanagawa
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azzassa
Cool idea. If they can figure out how to grow healthy veggies cheaply in urban areas, we can stop buying produce from 3rd world countries. I live in one (China) and know the veggies are not necessarily safe. Some are some aren't. I have seen a "farm" inside of a toxic dump. I just hope, but doubt, those veggies were not for sale in my local vegetable market.
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azzassa
Takao is good for a quick jaunt. Tanzawa is also nice as it is very close. But the one to go to is KamiKochi in Nagano. Take shinkansen to Nagano station and take bus from there. It's a national park so you can't even drive inside anyway. Best to take bus from station. No need to make reservation. Always busses waiting at the station. I think its the Japanese Yosemite Valley. Check out pics
http://images.google.com/images?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=kamikochi&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi
Posted in: English map & guide for Mount Takao published
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azzassa
Paris has great food too but no one cares as much about food as the Japanese. One of my Japanese friends spends about a half a million dollars a year just to introduce foreigners to real Japanese food. Takes everyone out to really understand the quality of good food. Funny because most people he takes out have no idea what he is talking about or why he does it. I've spent lots of time in Paris too and never met this type of seriously viral food lover. Good for Japan. :) Congrats to all those hard working chefs out there. Thanks for the great food!
Posted in: Tokyo crowned new gourmet capital by Michelin
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azzassa
Ease up guys and gals. I figured this out young and have always been a very bad boy. It works for me and the women who love me. Instead of swimming upstream, why not go with the flow? Girls love what they can't have.
On the flip side, the average guy likes a bitch who controls his life from what I can see in society. Many girls figure that out and act accordingly. It's all good.
Posted in: Airhead female fans can't get enough of 'cool' accused killer Ichihashi
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azzassa
Fantastic idea whose time has come. I came to Japan during the bubble and was always amazed at how few Japanese stayed at Okubo House (where I stayed for awhile). If the Japanese can accept shared housing, there will be a new boom in select areas of Tokyo. By the way, Japanese guys will do it next. Great work Kana and Yumi! :)
Posted in: Meet the brains of Tokyo's women-only housing boom
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azzassa
get over yourself blue tiger. didn't jc romero get 2 wins out of the pen in last years world series.
Posted in: Yankees beat Phillies for 3-1 World Series lead
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azzassa
Reading books on computers will definitely win out in the end. But these "reader" devices are just a step in that direction. Some kind of thing like apple is making that does more things will win out. Not a kindle. Who wants to carry and charge another device?
Posted in: What do you think of electronic book readers like Kindle and how big do you think the e-book market will get?
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azzassa
Uh, yea. These companies received bailouts during the worst modern crisis and now have their companies moving along. Now you cut the pay from what they are promised? Of course they are leaving.
If you were contracted to teach with certain goals and you reached those goals, you would expect to be paid. Especially if you helped your company during a major crisis. This is a great lesson for people who think that executives are paid for doing nothing. They will leave and try their luck elsewhere. Good for them! If Cleo were running a multi-billion dollar enterprise and his pay were cut for political reasons, I would say the same thing. Go where you are appreciated.
Posted in: Will new executive pay rules cause a brain drain?
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azzassa
so this guy, 1. steals money from his company 2. scares his mom 3. tries to steal from his mom 4. gets caught and confesses immediately
His poor mom
Posted in: Man held after faking kidnapping and demanding ransom from his mother
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azzassa
Nori-P is a drug user. In most countries she would go to NA and be done with it. Why does it seem like everyone thinks she deserves jail time? How many of you have never smoked weed?
Posted in: Noriko Sakai's yakuza upbringing in spotlight
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azzassa
As long as he killed a man, no one will get too worried about it. If it were an older woman and younger man, it would be fine.
Young girls love to mess around with older guys. It's an old story. The only ones who have trouble with it are the families of the girls. They feel justified in ruining the guys life. (or in this case ending it)
Posted in: Kumamoto man arrested after fatally stabbing his daughter’s 38-year-old boyfriend
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azzassa
"Asian appearance" is Japanese for "the thief was Chinese".
Posted in: Knife-wielding man robs Tokyo sushi restaurant of Y720,000
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azzassa
Sad story. I just got back from Izu couple weeks ago. Waves were nice so they didn't let anyone swim. The lifeguards chased me all day telling me to come in. I let them know that the only way for people to learn is to come out and try. I outswam 4 lifeguards until I finally got bored of talking to these guys and came in. It's the same every year. They don't allow people to swim so no one learns. It makes me very sad to read articles like this.
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Posted in: Woman drowns trying to save son in Miyazaki
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azzassa
These security guards are a complete waste of time and resources like many other jobs in Japan. Why would a pirater bother recording Western movies in Japan when they've already been recorded in other countries where the movie came out earlier or are already available through DVD quality leaks.
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azzassa
It's an example of one of the million things we can do to waste resources to further destroy the environment instead of actually doing something practical for it.
Posted in: Candle Night
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azzassa
People are indeed biased beings. But people who wish to defend something tend to be more biased than those who criticize, as while a person who chooses to criticize more often than not can wish to do so in order to improve something, those who defend tend to take it personally and form a shell around their own opinions lest it be changed. They take any criticism of the thing they are defending as completely false, refusing even to consider that even if it the criticism is biased, parts of it might be true and have to be addressed.
Such a person is clearly one of the latter. The title says "a generation of postwar Germans" and the article further expands to the Germans who lived in the directly postwar era of 1950s and 1960s. German people can still be contrite and still be compatible with this article.
That being said, there still seems to be a lack of acceptance or even ponderous knowledge in Japan of just how criminal their WWII government acted, and the actions they should be undertaking so that current government propaganda and efforts in social engineering are well understood and resisted.
Posted in: Pointing the finger at a generation of postwar Germans
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azzassa
The global economy is faced with "layered compression", and possibly soon to be followed by "modular infrastructural conversion", of which the most institutionalized of us, may have the most difficulty adjusting to such a change. For any of those that may intuitively know what I am talking about, I would recommend your intrinsic theological abilities, and perhaps we can rendezvous or reconvene somewhere in that area.
Nice, I see what you did there! I've taken a one year break from working and spent the whole time studying to be more capable once the intermediary shift has ended and the new zeitgeist emerges.
Posted in: Japan can do without preaching on how to fix its economy