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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bebert
I don't believe the terrorists are disappointed that they "only" got to murder Hindu's. In fact, whoever orchestrated this attack is probably quite satisfied with the results of this operation. Americans and Brits do make for high profile hostages. I just still don't understand why they didn't search out Israeli passports. Perhaps they have a stereotype that all Israelis travel abroad under false Irish or New Zealand passports.
Posted in: Indian comandoes end siege of Mumbai hotel
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bebert
For more support - Honda and Mazda didn't get too heavily invested into the mid to large SUV and pick-up market. Those segments have seen the greatest sales slips with the rising gas prices and collapse of the U.S. home building and construction industry. So the data makes sense.
Goldman & Sachs just estimated a U.S. market of 11 million vehicles in 2009, down from an estimated 13.4 million sales for 2008 and 16 million in 2007. Bad news for the entire industry - U.S., Japanese and European.
Posted in: Toyota, Nissan production falls; Honda's rises
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bebert
Oh, no, no, no, what a misguided way to view such an award.
I recall a scientist in America who won the award in mid-life. He was giving evidence in the O.J. Simpson trial and being interviewed by the media. The press was questioning his current lifestyle - living in a beach house with his mistress, drinking, surfing and taking LSD. Each time the interviewer would challenge him on an aspect of his personal life, he would respond "Yes, but I have a Nobel Prize."
So the Nobel Prize is also a talisman of invincibility of sorts.
Posted in: Japanese Nobel laureate shrugs off prize
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bebert
This tactic has always "worked" (Tet Offensive, Luxor attack, 1990's Algeria, that school in Belsan, Russia) so it is surprising this doesn't happen more often. Give credit to European and American intelligence services and fundamentalist incompetence.
One question: those holding Israeli passports were allowed to go free?
Posted in: Gunmen kill 101, take hostages in Mumbai attacks
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bebert
I'll second Yukiko Ueno for powering through and winning gold at the Olympics this summer. No Mao Asada?
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bebert
$50 a barrel isn't a bad price historically, but it is closing down some oil sands and deep sea drilling projects. Oil prices will recover with the global economy in about a year. So Russia and Venezuela will be fine long term, as opposed to the U.S. - which only drills for more and more debt.
I wouldn't be so optimistic about an Obama government if I were Russia. He is staffing his cabinet with former Clinton cabinet members and the Clintons were just as hostile to Russia as Bush has been. In fact, it was Clinton who supported all of the thieving, gangster Oligarchs that Putin had to put in prison or drive into exile.
Posted in: Venezuela's Chavez welcomes Russian warships
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bebert
There is no shortage of perverts anywhere in the World. It's just that some countries do a better job of arresting and convicting this twisted strain of humanity than others. This crime will reveal his others and hopefully he'll get some re-education time in one of Japan's prisons.
Posted in: Janitor arrested for filming elementary school girls’ toilet in Chiba
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bebert
Public execution does give them martyr status, so any execution would need to be countered with some fate that is offensive to Islam and degrading to the criminals. I don't know enough about Islam to offer creative solutions - but menstrual blood seems to freak out fundamentalists more than acid does.
Posted in: Afghan teacher wants acid thrown on her attackers
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bebert
A 15% VAT tax and a 45% income tax. Oh what a joy to be an Englishman.
Posted in: Britain to lift top income tax rate in 2011
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bebert
In defense of the martyrs, they were mostly poor Japanese peasants looking for something better. They can't be blamed for seeking hope. Christianity has a very seductive message for the downtrodden. And yes, the Dutch were far worse than the Catholics.
Posted in: Japanese Christian martyrs to be beatified
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bebert
Since they are not making any effort to do it with good scripts, why not try a gimmick?
Posted in: Hollywood moguls see cinema's future in 3D
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bebert
Some of the methods used against the Christians were dreadful and the martyrs have my sympathy as human beings who suffered horribly, but in hindsight it was for the best that Christianity was snuffed out in Japan before it got out of hand.
If this sounds cold, you only need to look at the Roman era. Christians were persecuted, but not viciously enough, especially considering they were such a terrible menace to the public order (rioting, smashing statues of other religions, etc.) When they finally came to power with Constantine's conversion, they were hyper-intolerant of other religions and within a few decades they made the practice of pagan religions punishable by death (as dictated by the Emperor). The same could have happened in Japan.
A Shinto/Buddhist Japan is preferable to a Christian one. Luckily, Japan's leaders could foresee the threat this religion posed to Japanese civilization even if they were cruel to those who chose to follow the way.
Posted in: Japanese Christian martyrs to be beatified
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bebert
If the pirates really wanted to put the pressure on and make even more money, they would threaten to pump half the oil out into the sea all along the coastline, creating an ecological disaster. This way, they could roll some wealthy, Western environmentalist -who could care less about the lives of the captured crew- for another $25 million.
Posted in: Somali pirates warn against any attempt to retake oil tanker
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bebert
Obama -heavy smoker.
NYC Mayor Bloomberg - raising taxes, cutting city services, firing city employees, but he's got $250 million to piss away on a personal pet peeve like smoking. Some leader.
Posted in: Tobacco treaty signers close to adopting health measure
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bebert
There is a plan to reach viability, it's just not one Mrs. Pelosi is going to like.
American factory labor costs for the Japanese and the Big three are roughly the same for working employees. If the Japanese pay a few dollars an hour less in wages, this is more than made up with annual bonuses. The big difference is the Big 3's health care and pension obligations for retired employees. The Big 3 are already offloading health care onto the unions and forcing white collar retirees who reach age 65 to go onto Medicare. The final step is to do what some airlines have done: declare bankruptcy and dump the pension obligations onto the U.S. Government at 30 to 50 cents on the dollar. Not pretty.
This is a doomsday scenario for the Democrats and the United Auto Workers' Union, so the loans are going to get approved. All of this outrage regarding corporate jets is just for political show. The Big 3 are in the driver's seat. I just don't understand why they are not asking for more money. If GM and Ford are burning through $2 billion a month, an extra $7 to $10 billion probably won't carry them through more than 6 to 9 months. There is no promise the recession will be over by then.
Posted in: Democrats delay auto bailout vote
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bebert
The U.N. refugee official probably has a few scenes requiring someone intimidating. Perhaps a Middle-Eastern guy gets hit with a rolling pin or frying pan in one scene.
Posted in: NHK casting for foreigners for drama
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bebert
Not really. I've heard her recent U.S. tour is a flop with canceled shows and half empty arenas.
Posted in: Janet Jackson to tour Japan next February
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bebert
Mazda, still profitable. Ford - practically bankrupt, but they still managed to find the balls to pay bonuses to their executives this year.
Posted in: Mazda buys back chunk of own shares from Ford
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bebert
Zawahiri is just calling it as he sees it and judging from Obama's cabinet picks to date, calling it correctly. If the gullible leftists are going to abandon anyone, it will probably be Obama, once they realize Obama isn't going to stop the wars, restore Constitutional protections eviscerated by Bush or alter U.S. policy on Palestine.
Posted in: Al-Qaida warns 'house negro' Obama
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bebert
Good job, India. Now the question is will President Obama and the United States finally step up to the plate and show some leadership?
Posted in: Indian navy sinks suspected pirate mother ship