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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bdiego
Damo are you auditioning for Captain Obvious? This is Spa we're talking about, of course they're focusing on a few individual cases. It's like saying People magazine only focuses on famous people. - Captain Obvious
Posted in: Telephone fraudsters' ill-gotten gains don't last long
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bdiego
Sarge, that would mean the space station would be intelligent, self aware, and capable of murder. Which is exactly why people in 1968 didn't have a clue about the future, not unlike ourselves today.
Posted in: Spaced out
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bdiego
"See it's like a capsule hotel, but really high! I mean really high, higher than the tallest building you can think of!"
Posted in: Spaced out
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bdiego
In case someone missed it, these are stories told by a comedian. The delivery gets thrown off in translation. I'm sure it was much funnier originally. =)
Posted in: New neighbors and the trouble they can cause
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bdiego
This article is surprisingly thoughtful for a Spa article. Thieves that carefully save money are rare precisely because those kind of people rarely need to steal. It's people who value money above morals. And in kind, if they happen upon money they waste it, flash it around, and attract the attention of people just like them.
You can tell a lot about a person by the kind of people who want to be their friend. And it goes without saying that if you didn't earn your money, you're not going to take good care of it either.
Posted in: Telephone fraudsters' ill-gotten gains don't last long
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bdiego
Nothing against indecency, but doing this on tombstones where other people's relatives is something else.
Posted in: Photographer charged over nude photos at cemetery
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bdiego
maxtheit you do know that opium literally killed millions of people and set back Chinese civilization for decades? Not surprised based on your other ridiculous comments. You should at least educate yourself here.
Posted in: Would legalizing drugs drive the crime out of the business?
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bdiego
Yes, but so would legalizing murder. That said, if you're asking about organized crime then that's also true to a degree. But there's a big difference between legalizing say marijuana versus crack cocaine, heroin, etc.. Even legalizing opium would be a disaster let alone heroin.
Posted in: Would legalizing drugs drive the crime out of the business?
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bdiego
tkoind summed it up very well. Nothing wrong with foreigners trying to set a good example, but this article is really about bashing an entire group of people for what one person did on a pile of bad assumptions. All indications are Melissa would have no interest correcting a Japanese who did the same in public because if it happened by definition it's "the Japanese way".
taiko you'll have to forgive Junnama as he's not a native speaker and may be confusing sarcasm with other concepts. Overt snobbery is right on mark. Sarcasm would invalidate the entire point of the article if she didn't actually believe what she wrote.
Lastly, there's no reason to believe this person even lives in Japan. I speak from experience and lots of people I know, and I'm puzzled why you think a couple arguing in English with a baby in Ebisu would be Japanese residents.
Posted in: Dear Angry Western Guy
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bdiego
Captain Obvious here. To be fair most posts are made without much thought. The fact is, it probably wasn't a coincidence that his brother got together with his ex-wife. He knew her while they were married. This is actually the equivalent of one of your lifelong friends getting together with your ex wife.
It's a world away from someone you "know" getting together with your wife by coincidence.
Posted in: Man arrested for stabbing brother in love triangle with ex-wife
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bdiego
smithinjapan I'd like to see you try that for 8 hours a day standing behind the gate counter with another job to do. Didn't think so.
Posted in: Man saved after falling onto tracks at Shinjuku station
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bdiego
The first guy was either drunk or thinking of suicide. It's hard to tell if someone really intended to "jump down" because when you're drunk it'll look like that. Plus the guy injured his head and had enough time to be rescued. We just don't have enough information to tell either way from this article.
Posted in: Man saved after falling onto tracks at Shinjuku station
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bdiego
This is like threatening to murder all the children at your local schools if anyone testifies against you in court.
That said, North Korea says this every time. Come on, 3 year olds learn pretty quick not to throw a tantrum with idle threats.
Posted in: N Korea warns of war if it is punished for S Korean ship sinking
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bdiego
BTW there aren't any real protesters left, they gave up or went home - most of them weeks ago. What you have left is people with weapons attacking burning and looting, mostly against civilians.
Posted in: Bangkok burns after protest leaders arrested
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bdiego
Wow, these people really deserve each other. Burning down Bankok is not my idea of an effective protest strategy. Attacking news outlets that don't report the way you like is just dumb and counterproductive. They seem to think violence against anyone who disagrees is okay. Which makes their complaints all the more ironic.
It's amazing that someone can demand "Democracy" and decry "violence" with a grenade launcher and torch in his hands.
Posted in: Bangkok burns after protest leaders arrested
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bdiego
Yeah, the asylum strategy is definitely possible as that's the only way to get through US immigration check at LAX without a passport. If you are a legitimate refugee, they will take you however you managed to get there.
Posted in: Disruptive passengers force Delta Air Lines flight to return to Japan
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bdiego
Captain Obvious here, but they never passed through Japanese immigration because they are stowaways and never left the plane after it went from Shanghai to Narita. The liquid they had was probably to keep them hydrated for the long flight to America. They managed to get on - with or without passports - because security in Shanghai is lax. Come on, give Captain Obvious a break here this should all be obvious now.
Posted in: Disruptive passengers force Delta Air Lines flight to return to Japan
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bdiego
BTW the ironic thing is this stereotype is also true for Japanese men who marry Russian or Chinese mail order wives. Just goes to show you Japan is pretty much the same as all the other 'Western' countries in this department.
Posted in: Dear Angry Western Guy
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bdiego
I hardly wanted to read after word three: Western. Without fail this is not surprisingly an article about foreigners because that's "Western" right? It's a tired cliche, but most foreigners in Japan are not western, they're Asian. So why not just say angry foreigner? Oh wait, because this article's main point is prejudiced - only Western foreigners are like this right? Although you may have made some deserved observations about this guy, there's quite a lot of assumptions and this article simply reinforces overblown stereotypes.
I've seen my fair share of rude foreigners - mainly for the same reason Japanese tourists are less reserved when they travel abroad (anonymity). But angry husbands? Hell 10 out of 10 I've seen in Japan were other Japanese.
I totally know the stereotype you're talking about, and it would certainly piss me off to see any guy berate his wife especially if it also had the effect of reinforcing stereotypes. But going on about how he's violating the "Japanese" way and should know better being married to a "Japanese" wife is pretty narrow minded considering plenty of Japanese husbands have no problem berating their wife in public. Not withstanding all the assumptions made there.
You also seem to hold everyone in Japan - especially foreigners who marry Japanese - to follow some pretty backwards concepts of what it means to be Japanese. This isn't the 1980s.
Posted in: Dear Angry Western Guy
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bdiego
And here a few weeks back was a commentator boasting about giving flight attendants hell. Please, any time you have 400 people in close proximity on an airplane that can't stop or land we all need to just chill. You're not the only one who feels uncomfortable if we're talking the back of the plane.
"At least one plastic bag" suggests there may be other plastic bags or other objects found. Well, the point is they locked themselves in a bathroom for an hour being outright dicks.
Posted in: Disruptive passengers force Delta Air Lines flight to return to Japan