JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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Japan's nuclear safety standards flawed, says commission chief
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To be healthy, live in the big city
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Teacher nabbed for using miror to peek up girl's skirt
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From carnivores to herbivores: how men are defined in Japan
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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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
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- FT English Teachers for Kids - Osaka
- Kohgakusha Co., Ltd. （株式会社興学社）, Osaka
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- Translator
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bdiego
Always welcome new additions, but aren't there a few too many curry houses in Akihabara already? Or are they stereotyping us as curry addicts? I guess there's some truth in that..
Posted in: Tokyo Food Bar opens at JR Akihabara Station
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bdiego
Don't take it personally, Chinese are not great drivers and this helicopter pilot was no exception.
Posted in: Chinese navy chopper approaches Japanese destroyer near Okinawa
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bdiego
No and no. This is like asking if illegal immigrants can pick fruit, then asking if they should be. Can is different than should.
Posted in: Do English teachers at schools have to be native speakers? Can non-native English speakers do just as well or better?
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bdiego
Wow, that's a pretty good description of the very government they helped create the last 10 years. I sure hope none of these people voted for Bush because that would sure be ironic.
Posted in: Tea party rally blasts 'gangster government'
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bdiego
They should gas and bury him, then deny that too. The punishment for these crimes should be as ironic as possible.
Posted in: Bishop convicted for denying Holocaust
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bdiego
While I agree prices are high, for a lot of produce you simply can't buy it in the US. In Europe, it wouldn't even be available - which to their credit is because they prefer to sell local quality goods. They aren't making a huge profit on produce at the stores - it's priced high because it costs them a lot too.
That said, you couldn't get top Japanese quality grapes in the US or Europe at any price. Not a hundred dollars would buy it, but twenty will get you a perfect batch in Japan.
Posted in: Anytime is fruit time
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bdiego
What a surprise! In any case, a civil case is about a hundred times easier to win than a criminal one for the level of evidence required. GS will deny and cry and whine and plead until the last step of denial which is acceptance in the form of settlement.
That said, it's the first charge laid out and not the last. The key to getting criminal convictions is to make someone squeal and rat out their buddies.
They're not going to pursue hard criminal charges also because it would literally put GS out of business like Anderson consulting, and as wonderful that would be there would be too much collateral damage among otherwise innocent bystanders.
Posted in: SEC accuses Goldman Sachs of civil fraud
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bdiego
Yeah, don't cross the media because they will come after you. I had to roll my eyes at the weeks of outrageous and bizarre rumors that didn't even make any common sense.
Posted in: Erika Sawajiri continues comeback with glossy magazine spread
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bdiego
To call it sparring is like saying Tina Fey and Sarah Palin are sparring. Imebeciles.
Posted in: Palin, Obama spar from a distance over nuclear policy
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bdiego
If they're against taxes, they should love Obama.
I remember when wanting to be the world police and deficit spending used to be a liberal idea. Seems conservatives have been loving it the last 10 years. Face it, both the GOP and Democratic party are wildly liberal, the only difference being the GOP for some reason thinks they're actually conservative because they like to shoot abortion doctors and bash gays. Nice.
Posted in: Palin rallies tea partiers with anti-tax message
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bdiego
Azzassa, this author and most people recognize that Japanese public daycare is actually excellent. It's one of the only things the Japanese government does right. That's why he wants to get his child in, in front of poor working mothers who have no choice. I don't blame him for trying, of course.
Posted in: Daycare blues
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bdiego
As bcbrownboy pointed out, putting a one year old child into day care is a matter of last resort. If you can't take care of your children, don't have them.
More importantly as others here have pointed out, clearly you are less deserving than the full time workers you listed. It's perplexing to think you should be put in front of them when they clearly need it more than you and your wife does not need to be working part-time going to school. She wants to. There are definitely a lot of people using daycare who have no choice and barely get by. I hope you appreciate this.
Sure, why not give you more points for your situation. It just shouldn't put you ahead of more deserving applications. Everybody thinks "I deserve better than my neighbor", and you haven't yet made the case that you are more deserving. Just that you should have gotten more points and still gotten rejected.
Posted in: Daycare blues
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bdiego
The decline of Japan happened when they joined WWII. It recovered after WWII ended. Ironic for a right winger to be opening his mouth on this.
Posted in: Now hear this
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bdiego
Movies look great, but take forever and a half to load up. We've taken a step back in convenience, but a step forward in quality. BD sucks and ruins playback, please stop using it.
Posted in: What do you think about the Blu-ray disc format?
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bdiego
And I'm all for free speech, but these groups invariably resort to harassment and even violence to achieve their goals. Cursing at school children with megaphones and blocking public walkways is not free speech.
Posted in: Right-wingers vow to block release of 'The Cove' in Japan
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bdiego
Japanese should be angry, that a few right wing fascists are trying to terrorize everyone into submitting to their convoluted views on what Japan is.
Posted in: Right-wingers vow to block release of 'The Cove' in Japan
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bdiego
Air volume refers to how much air is blown per second. They kind of assumed you'd know that.
Posted in: Fan automatically adjusts air volume
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bdiego
Mizunaga was quoted as saying, “I didn’t think cops from Tokyo would head all the way down to Fukuyama.”
I think the fact that Mizunaga lives in Fukuyama and has done this for 30 years may have something to do with it. All the complaints finally caught up to this guy.
They need to make special laws for special people like this, to ensure career criminals hand back to society all the money they've stolen their whole life.
Posted in: Veteran pickpocket caught red-handed stealing wallets on bullet train
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bdiego
Green cars are reserved seats, slightly nicer but not by much. I believe it may help on busy days so you can have a guaranteed seat instead of having to stand if the other cars are full.
Posted in: Veteran pickpocket caught red-handed stealing wallets on bullet train
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bdiego
This is similar to the oil sufficiency of the US, and asking Americans to stop driving cars. Yeah good luck with that. At least Japan here has an excuse - there's simply not much land and you can't ask people to stop eating like you can ask them to stop burning millions of barrels of oil.
Posted in: Japan's food culture is an endangered species