JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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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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- 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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bamboohat
What happened to the dude driving? OK? Injured? Dead?
Posted in: Wipe-out
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bamboohat
how does apathetic mean expecting people to take responsibility for their actions?
Posted in: Club hostesses hold first protest over working conditions
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bamboohat
otaku's dream come true.
Posted in: Tokyo Anime Fair
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bamboohat
places that don't use wig wearing robots that stare at you
Posted in: Open wide
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bamboohat
may she forever be tortured into pure insanity by the memory of his crying voice while he begged for his mother not to kill him.
Posted in: Trial ends for woman who killed son by putting him in garbage bin
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bamboohat
At Times??
At Times?
how about all the time????
Posted in: Japan comes out big winner at U.N. conservation meeting
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bamboohat
This is ridiculous. Most normal places will just give free dental service in exchange for letting some students practice on you.
To spend all the time, money, and effort to build a robot for this purpose is a bit misguided. But then again, I guess by focusing on building useless expensive robots that can bow to prime ministers and get international press, Japan can pretend they are making real progress.
Posted in: Open wide
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bamboohat
Jesus what a sad and lonely way to end what could have been a promising life.
Posted in: Body discovered on beach in Nagasaki Pref may be missing student
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bamboohat
Um, dude, you mean the one that has been remade every which way?
I get what you're saying, and what he's saying, but usually when you make a statement like "this story hasn't been told in xx years" it usually means "this story" or any other story like it, not some tale that has been told every which way umpteen times.
Nevertheless, I love Del Toro (even sat through three hours of spanish Che, with Japanese subtitles) and will see this when it comes out.
Posted in: A wolf in Del Toro's clothing
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bamboohat
Good to hear that somebody was paying attention. I hope the injured guy recovers.
Posted in: Road rage spat turns into hit-and-run in Osaka Pref
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bamboohat
Um, dude, there's been plenty of wolfman movies recently.
Posted in: A wolf in Del Toro's clothing
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bamboohat
Wow. They are going to film this TV movie in, what, one to two months?
Posted in: Sakaguchi, Yada to star in Japanese version of 'Die Hard'
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bamboohat
Was this guy busy?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIE3dIzypXI
Posted in: Sakaguchi, Yada to star in Japanese version of 'Die Hard'
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bamboohat
a strawberry not so short cake
Posted in: Sweet anniversary
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bamboohat
@tokyoguyjean
100 Internet points for you
Posted in: Mari Yaguchi offers Japanese beef at low prices in Roppongi
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bamboohat
Sorry, but the numbers just don't add up. The number of unemployed people in the U.S. is about 14.7 million. If every single Toyota employee in America lost their jobs, that number would increase from 14.7 million to 14.9 million (according to the numbers in this article), with a corresponding change in unemployment from 9.7 to 9.8, not a huge shift.
On the other hand, if Americans stopped buying Toyotas en masse, Toyoya's market share would drop by a whopping 16%. Hardly a drop in the bucket.
It's foolish to begin with to even argue that any target market needs the jobs more than the product maker needs the buyer in the same target market.
But the unnamed writer of this nationalistic fluff piece needn't concern themselves with actual data.
Posted in: U.S. needs Toyota more than Toyota needs U.S.
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bamboohat
What you're more likely to see happen is people will start treating health services as "right" and not a service that they have to worry about paying for. Then you'll have people running to the emergency room for every sneeze and sniffle demanding to be seen because health care is their "basic human right," and they've already "paid their premiums."
All this will do is to over tax an already overtaxed system. Granted the system needs to be fixed, but handing over control to the U.S. government, an entity who has increased spending an average of a dollar fifty for every increase in tax revenue, this isn't such hot idea.
All will do is make a bad system worse. The government will get more power, and the average joe on the street will get less service.
I predict disaster, ever increasing deficits, an overall reduction in the quality of service, and a repeal of this law by whoever succeeds Obama as president in 2012.
Posted in: Obama calls on Democrats to pass health care bill
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bamboohat
The media sure love Obama and his health care plan. Every day the news can't wait to tell us "It's Just about To Pass," "It's one step closer to passing," "victory is in sight," etc etc.
Unfortunately, this bill is so filled with waste and inefficiency, and many of Obama's promises regarding health care reform have been taken out, that it's likely to do nothing other than make a bloated inefficient system more bloated more inefficient.
Good going Barrack.
Posted in: Obama calls on Democrats to pass health care bill
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bamboohat
It is a really strange concept, JT, but people usually take their holidays when they have time off from work. Maybe Japan will eventually figure out a way around those pesky laws of time and space.
Posted in: Why do most Japanese take their holidays at the same time, such as Golden Week, Bon and New Year?
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bamboohat
Good thing this old guy sucks at murder.
Posted in: Elderly man stabs three at Fukuoka retirement home