JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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Confrontation
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U.S. Navy investigating how parts fell off aircraft near Atsugi
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California court to decide if SeaWorld whales are illegal 'slaves'
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Kuroki reported pregnant 2 weeks after denying relationship with Akanishi
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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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- Assistant Language Teacher - Kanagawa Prefecture - late-March start
- Interac, Kanagawa
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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bebert
No, Canada doesn't have an immigration problem. Of course not.
Posted in: Vancouver plagued by gang wars
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bebert
Obama's panel members have no automotive experience and very little manufacturing experience. This should be even more amusing than watching the performance of the Big 3 auto executives over the last 10 years.
Posted in: Obama auto panel meets at White House
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bebert
I love newspapers, but if they want to survive, they are going to have to become more relevant. This means not just reprinting blurbs from the Associated Press, but doing investigative reporting and increasing local content. Or they can go the porn route, like the British press.
Posted in: Can newspapers survive in Internet era?
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bebert
No, now is the time to be buying tax-free municipal bond funds and ETF's that are now returning as much as 11% and have severely lowered NAV's. Bebert has no plans to participate in Travis Obama's economy. Although, to be fair, Bebert has always wanted to see America's economy collapse and the military take over. We are on our way.
Posted in: Obama's plan to raise taxes on wealthy meets fierce opposition
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bebert
This is why Guatemalan gangs are such a menace in the United States. They are worse than the Russian mafia for brutality. And people wonder why death squads rise up in South and Central America to keep the peace. Go Go death squads!
Posted in: Guatemalan inmates tear prison teacher's heart out
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bebert
It is ironic. The American auto makers have wanted to reduce the number of dealerships, but were prevented in doing so by very strong state franchise laws. Now, this is likely to rub out twice as many auto dealers as the OEM's had hoped for.
Posted in: U.S. auto sales hover near historic lows in February
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bebert
I've heard a little about this program. They had 4 classes of Germans. Type I Germans were only supposed to breed with Type I Germans. Type 4's were allowed to marry gypsies, etc. They also exported the program to Nordic countries they occupied during the war. Heaven help you if you were a child in Norway borne to a German "Aryan" father, your life was pretty much ruined. Most Nordics, by the way, are quite narrow minded. That is probably why the anti-immigration movement isn't as strong in the Nordic countries as it is in states like France, Switzerland or Austria.
Posted in: Fertility clinic to offer custom-designed babies
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bebert
I strongly disagree. There should be a single state, with the Palestinians getting full voting rights.
Posted in: Clinton says Palestinian state 'inescapable'
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bebert
Growing so fast that they let their quality slip. Hopefully, they will recover, until then I suggest you buy Honda.
Posted in: Toyota asking for government loan
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bebert
Kinniku,
How long has the American government been asking the Israelis to stop stealing land in the West Bank and expanding settlements? Forever! And the Jews keep stealing land. You can't make peace with a people that believe they can win through attrition. Hamas will keep firing rockets so long as religious jews continue to expropriate land in the name of their evil god.
Posted in: Donor conference pledges $5 bil for Gaza; puts pressure on Hamas
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bebert
Obama needs to hide his message behind a flowery delivery. Jindal can sacrifice style because the message has substance that isn't an anathema to the American people.
The J&M media knows it has to cut down all possible populist threats down at the knees as soon as it appears, so Jindal gets the Sarah Palin treatment. Well, good for you, media. You'll one day get the Walter Benjamin treatment.
Posted in: Jindal defends message of his GOP speech
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bebert
It took Ronald Reagan about 2 years to fix the economy that Ford and Carter screwed up over a 6 year period. I doubt Obama will be able to do it in the same amount of time by raising taxes, massively increasing borrowing and spending, giving more handouts to the poor, giving more money to education (which will be sucked up by administrative and pension costs) and pumping money into boondoggles like "Green Energy." And people also seem to forget that Clinton's "economic miracle" was funded by the dot.com bubble which rivals the housing bubble - which was both a Republican and Democratic fueled disaster.
This spending bill is largely Pelosi's and Harry Reid's. But Pelosi's seat in "San Francisco" is safe, whereas Obama's Presidency is not. Smug Democrats should look back at the Clinton experience and learn from history the dangers of over reaching. You lose the Congress in 2010 and it doesn't matter how black Obama is, he'll face massive resistance.
Posted in: Limbaugh, Pelosi take flak in White House-Republican battle
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bebert
I agree. Immigrants from the Third World come to the West, legally and illegally, and are surprised when they go to jail for beating their wives, running cock fights or committing female circumcision on their daughters and are angry when they get arrested and go to jail. If you can't follow the host rules, stay in your home country.
Western countries could use a little corporal punishment, but their constitutions are constrained by laws against cruel and unusual punishment. Since when is it cruel and unusual to banish someone to a deserted island for five years or drug someone and throw him out of an airplane into the ocean (like Argentina) as a form of capital punishment? I'm sure there is very little crime in Brunei, which is not the case in the West.
Posted in: Brunei defends whipping 400 immigrants
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bebert
I agree. Her over-the-top, roaring lion parts reminded me of some of Toshiro Mifune's wilder moments. I like her as an actress and a model, not so much as a singer/rock star.
Posted in: Anna Tsuchiya introduces documentary on orphanage for Japanese-American children
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bebert
Here is something to laugh at. Fourteen of the Fifteen states that are going to be hardest hit are states that went for Obama and almost all of those are blue states like Connecticut, California and New York who are also raising state taxes. Much of that money will be going to red states with large poor populations like Alabama and Mississippi (ha-ha-ha), but that have maintained some internal spending discipline and aren't raising taxes. The people who will be hardest hit will be 6 figure types: doctors, lawyers, small business owners, not the big money 7 figure hedge fund guys or the trust fund types. So hard work will be punished, not sinecures or inheritance. An Atlas Shrugged mentality will develop - "Why bother trying"
The more radical the change, the bigger the backlash.
Believe me, no one is laughing harder than those of us who want to see the whole system collapse - or at the very least, the economies of the East and West coast.
Posted in: Obama draws battle lines to reshape U.S. society
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bebert
I agree with an above poster. During the 1980's there was a lot of jingoism in wrestling, with the "bad guys" being Russian, Iranian, Arab and (oddly) American religious conservative characters. So the Iranian flag deal made sense.
"Birth of a Nation"? Really? You have to go back 90 years and pick a film that repeatedly makes the list of the top 100 films of all time to find racism in Hollywood? Try reading the book "The TV Arab" by Jack Shaheen to find some racist anti-Arab films from the 60's, 70's and 80's by our ever so tolerant Hollywood. Then pick through a bunch of films in the 1990's and this decade where the bad guy is a white Southerner or European with a German (Nazi) accent. One reason I like Japanese films is they don't pick their bad guys from the stock character cookie cutter of liberal Hollywood bogeymen.
Posted in: Iran angered over films 'The Wrestler' and '300'
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bebert
I guess I had to add this. This is another example of a Westerner (and very likely not a Christian) taking umbrage at the Japanese sense of identity. I wonder if Mr. Sharp's people have a sense of identity that needs scrutiny. The irony is that the article celebrates the Ainu people, while taking a contemptuous view of the Japanese. Go back to Brooklyn, Mr. Sharp.
Posted in: Tokyo’s thriving Ainu community keeps traditional culture alive
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bebert
I wouldn't say a population of less than 50,000 is exactly thriving. But to be positive for once, hopefully JT will post an article announcing the release of their first CD.
Posted in: Tokyo’s thriving Ainu community keeps traditional culture alive
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bebert
It is never enough.
Posted in: Vatican: Bishop's apology on Holocaust not enough
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bebert
That's not a pullout. When the United States removed all troops from Saudi Arabia, that was a pullout.
Posted in: Obama says Iraq pullout by Aug 2010