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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billyshears
I tend to think that by "letting the cat out of the bag", he has made certain the yen won't dip below 76 yen to the dollar again! Who's going to dare buy the yen at 76-yen level when they know there's a huge intervention imminent?
Posted in: Azumi under fire for revealing forex intervention level
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billyshears
Do you really believe that? It sounds like a sweeping generalization based on shallow thinking.
Posted in: Azumi under fire for revealing forex intervention level
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billyshears
Why waste billions of dollars (with the vast majority of that money spent on American advanced warfare technology and armaments) on something you'll never use?
Posted in: Japan 'should watch' China's naval reach: report
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billyshears
Surely the Chinese government is not to be trusted (like any administration which spends a huge amount on an unnecessary military build-up while it still has millions of peasants living in near-poverty), but that remark smacks of deluded racialism.
Posted in: Japan 'should watch' China's naval reach: report
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billyshears
So this teacher represents ALL the teachers who don't want to stand up and sing the kimigayo? And how did you find then post links to right-wing fascist blogs?
Posted in: Supreme Court rules making teachers sing 'Kimigayo' is constitutional
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billyshears
You're right, the despicable Chinese government tries to brainwash their children with anti-Japanese propaganda in their "history" textbooks because it suits their purpose to create a common enemy . However, two wrongs do not make a right. Japan is supposed to be a democracy (with all that being a democracy entails).
Posted in: Supreme Court rules making teachers sing 'Kimigayo' is constitutional
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billyshears
Yes, you can go on and on with links to rightwing (右翼= fascist) propaganda blogs!
Posted in: Supreme Court rules making teachers sing 'Kimigayo' is constitutional
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billyshears
That is the ex-candidate for President who was basically laughed out of the race for the GOP nomination. He was referring to the myth of the American dream perpetuated to keep the poor poor and stop them moaning. However, you just cannot compare a country with tremendous resources (where there really should be enough for everyone) and which has virtual full self-sufficiency to resource-poor, 37% self-sufficiency Japan.
Posted in: More part-timers to become eligible for health insurance, pension programs
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billyshears
This anthem actually has to be sung more than once a year, but this might have something to do with believing in the principles of freedom of speech and fighting for those principles, even if you are forced to forgo a basic human right once a decade.
Posted in: Supreme Court rules making teachers sing 'Kimigayo' is constitutional
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billyshears
That's exactly how the Chinese and North Korean communist parties deal with their unfortunate people.
Posted in: Supreme Court rules making teachers sing 'Kimigayo' is constitutional
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billyshears
They know exactly what they are doing. A right-wing, nationalistic attempt to manipulate and instill the youth of Japan with "national pride" while managing to override any basic human rights involved and without having to give a detailed explanation of their "judgement". Absolutely shameful. And now Japan is even copying the Americans by singing the national anthem before baseball games...how sick is that?
Posted in: Supreme Court rules making teachers sing 'Kimigayo' is constitutional
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billyshears
I can guarantee you that Japan does as much as any other country in this matter. In most American states, for example, over 70s actually have to commit an accident before being re-tested! As a matter of fact, statistically the two safest countries in the world to drive are Japan and the U.K. In the U.S., you are 3.5 times more likely to have a fatal accident than in Japan.
Posted in: Two elderly people dead after car plows into supermarket
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billyshears
Lawrence Nitz, a political scientist from the University of Hawaii, conducted a three-year study of Hawaiian traffic records and found that drivers over 75 were far more likely than other motorists to be cited for certain offenses, including failing to yield to pedestrians, backing up unsafely and failing to stop at a flashing red light.
Posted in: Two elderly people dead after car plows into supermarket
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billyshears
Why have a blanket rule like that? Some over 75-year-olds can still drive safely. Just introduce a driving/eye test every 2 years after 70. It's a moot point anyway because as the politicians in many countries know the wrinklies make up the largest percentage of voters. Look at "grey power" in the U.S. for example. They have the same problems with elderly drivers, but senior citizens created an uproar when it was suggested the over70s take another driving test.
Posted in: Two elderly people dead after car plows into supermarket
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billyshears
Hi Jack! Well now you know...by the rules here pedestrians have the right of way. Give some people a rule and they adhere to it without deviating from it whatever the circumstances (or even considering its implications). Sorry it took you 30 years to find out though!
Posted in: Woman killed in hit-and-run involving three cars
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billyshears
I think it may be a relevant point that most of the street lighting here is inadequate. Crossings not controlled by traffic lights are a disaster waiting to happen at night (even more so when it's raining). And Basil is correct in a certain respect. Japanese people here definitely have a tendency to cross roads without looking properly for traffic because of the rule that they always have the right of way. Anyone who has witnessed schoolchildren walking in (the middle of ) the street will know that the mindset for this rule is induced from elementary school age.
Posted in: Woman killed in hit-and-run involving three cars
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billyshears
He might be an arts and crafts teacher just had a rough day with some "monster parents" and their pesky offspring.
Posted in: Woman, daughter attacked by man with scissors on Aichi street
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billyshears
LOL "nearly daily basis"!
Posted in: Woman, daughter attacked by man with scissors on Aichi street
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billyshears
Apparently there were no other people around. And where I come from in Chicago, it is generally the same story: most cross to the other side of the street when something is going down. Mind you, the one fortunate aspect in Japan, given the simmering urban stress and tension in this society, is that guns are not freely available.
Posted in: Woman, daughter attacked by man with scissors on Aichi street
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billyshears
I think you are wrong because as an "average person", I realize taxes need to be increased for various reasons. The problem with consumption tax is that it is a regressive tax meaning that the lower one's income the bigger the burden. That aspect needs to be dealt with and maybe what the average Japanese citizen isn't clear about is the necessity of zero-rating some daily essentials (like food, children's clothing, electricity and gas). I think this is done in parts of the EC, so it could be done here too.
Posted in: Diet debate begins on consumption tax; Tanigaki says Noda lied to public