JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- 秘書及び業務サポート
- 加治金属工業株式会社, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥4.0M / Year
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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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- ALT - Mie Prefecture - Yokkaichi City - June start
- NPO法人グローバル教育推進機構（GLAD), Mie
- Salary: ¥230,000 / Month For a full working month. Some months differ.
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bipedal
Cloud computing is the term for this kind of service. So it's not mighty original of Apple to dub theirs "Cloud" (plus it looks more like fun to me). By the way, the name of the Microsoft/Fujitsu child is also pretty ugly: FGCP/A5 (short for The Fujitsu Global Cloud Platform service).
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Leave aside the apparently still debatable fact that our emissions hurt our planet. What I find incomprehensible is why we don't seem able to cooperate to reduce emissions seeing that the pollution we create hurts each and every one of us. We have polluted the air we breathe, the food and water that sustain us. Do we not care about our children's and grandchildren's health? Perhaps we could at least agree to cooperate for this pretty "selfish" reason.
Posted in: On climate, the elephant that's ignored
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bipedal
Procrasturbation at its best.
Posted in: U.N. meeting OKs two-part climate deal
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bipedal
No, he is seeking refuge in a country known for harbouring sex offenders (remember Polanski). Ah, the hypocrisy...
Posted in: WikiLeaks founder turns to Switzerland for help
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bipedal
There is something morbidly disturbing about this statement.
Posted in: Japanese grappling with high cost of death
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bipedal
Double standards and "forced democracy" all over again. How can democracy consist in forcing your views on others is beyond me. As always, some people take things out of context and thus inadvertently exaggerate their significance. A Nazi costume in Donki is not what it looks like to a person in in the US or Europe. And "guilting" people and making them apologize for things they don't really see the sense in apologizing for will not make the world a better place. If Jewish people are so concerned with Anti-semitism in Japan they should institute an educational centre here; now that would actually be productive. But I guess nowadays people are just concerned about the "veneer": as long as it looks OK on the surface, then the world is a brotherly, liberal, wonderful place... NOT.
Posted in: Retailer Don Quijote pulls Nazi outfit after complaint
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This is funny. Kan's making a face as if he's admiring Obama's backside :-). Nice catch.
Posted in: See you later
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“There are things happening in the rest of the world that this model didn’t account for,” said Julian Morris, executive director of International Policy Network, a London-based think tank. “The increasing demand for meat in Asia is substantial, ongoing, and might counteract any reduced demand in developed countries.”
Precisely. Plus, whichever country exports meat, can just as well export dairy products (including perhaps "artisanal" ones).
Posted in: Eat a carrot, hurt the economy? Sometimes
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I would take this article with a big grain of salt. Perhaps young Japanese people are not ambitious, but I wonder if they can ever be, at least in the "Western" sense of the world. As some readers noted, in the Japanese context, work commitment, rather than work mobility (within or across companies), may be a better indicator of business vitality.
Also, it is a specious argument that high-quality research in Japan is predicated on conducting research abroad, visiting a particular class at Harvard, or obtaining a PhD from a US institution. Even though academic exchange is desirable because it may stimulate the generation of new ideas, I cannot see how it is either a prerequisite or a guarantee for high-quality research.
Posted in: Japan's young generation pursues stability over promotion
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I wonder: seeing that tax revenue is so important for the USA, why the moronic immigration policy? For instance, how does lobbying for illegal low-skilled Mexican immigrants bring better tax revenue plus less burden on the judicial, healthcare, and educational systems, than encouraging foreign professionals educated in the top US universities to work in the US? Chinese and Indian scientists seem to be leaving the US in hordes because of president Obama's immigration lunacy (which is bizarre coming from a person with his background). In a country like the US, economic and immigration policies are necessarily intimately interconnected; it is only commonsense to adopt some classification of immigrants to distinguish skilled from unskilled labour. But then I guess big corps interests won't be served properly by virtually free disposable labour from poor and vulnerable Mexican people: Some resemblance to China in this respect.
Posted in: Fixing American 'dumbocracy'
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Wouldn't it be wiser not to identify yourself, at least when talking to passengers?
Posted in: Flying high
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@Nagoyalove: Well, I have lived in the Netherlands for quite some time and so am quite familiar with Dutch people and their ways, so I dare say it is not much of a generalisation I'm making when I say this is one more rudeness on top of all the arrogance. Unlike you, I'm putting this slogan into the right - Dutch - context. Use Google translate to go to any Dutch football forum and you can witness similar "manly" I'll-make-you-into-a-hamburger comments. Never heard a Japanese promise to make Dutch into olieballen or frites, though LOL.
As for the "being able to laugh at themselves": well, this IS a laughable statement for your part. I've heard so many Dutch people in all spheres of life admonish people around them to "not make fun of them" even when nobody was even trying to make fun of them at all. I find the banner in the picture offensive, especially at an int'l venue.
Posted in: Dutch roll
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bipedal
This is quite arrogant, but I am not surprised, being painfully familiar with the Dutch and their rude manner - evidenced in their game in this match too. I think they played rudely and clusmily and did not deserve to win, but were lucky. The Dutch remain what they are...
Posted in: Dutch roll
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bipedal
They sell these horns here in the Netherlands as well, only they sound more like a sick elephant to me. Extremely obnoxious, thank god here they only blow them when the Dutch team plays. Seems like good business for the Chinese plastic industry, and the hearing-aids industry, in a month. I pity the fans who attend and the players!
Posted in: Constant drone of vuvuzelas killing World Cup atmosphere
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@borscht These data are kind of old (1993?). Note, they list Czechoslovakia.
Posted in: Talking trash
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bipedal
Wow, their prices are high - almost 1000 yen for a ball of mozarella, come on. Plus, I don't see much variety. Why does normal food have to be expensive?
Posted in: On-line shopping site brings Italian food, lifestyle products to Japan
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bipedal
Drab picture. Those cobblestones make for a hell of a bumpy ride, I can almost hear the teeth-chattering.
Posted in: On time
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bipedal
LOL Next release of this gadget: "slight" electric shocks that get progressively stronger if you don't wake up. Sit up!
Posted in: No nodding off
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bipedal
I had the same experience as timeon; I studied Japanese for basically a year to reach university level proficiency in reading, speaking, and listening skills.
However, this was a full-time commitment, and although it was numbingly hard, I don't think it qualifies as a comparison with these poor nurses' situation. If anything, my experience underscores how bizzarely unrealistic it is to expect these nurses to become proficient so fast.
Plus, there is good scientific evidence that spacing out learning enhances memory for the material:
http://www.jstor.org/pss/40063054.
Add exposure to natural Japanese and you can have nurses proficient in Japanese in a decent time period, about a year for full-time learning I guess. Unless, as some people have pointed out, the hidden strategy is to recruit "disposable" nurses. Oh, my.
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Seems to me that North Korea is the only country that has nothing to lose by launching such an attack, and that all other countries (South Korea, the US, China) do not have enough to gain (as compared to other non-military strategies). Thus, on the motive side, NK seems like a good candidate to have launched the torpedo.
As for capabilities, I am not sure if and how "backward" NK's military power is, because apparently they have been able to get hold of some sophisticated equipment, procured courtesy of... EU states, say Austria!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/news/2010/03/100311kimryul_hs.shtml
Now, how can it be possible to "contain" or "isolate" NK if they freely enjoy shopping in Europe? The mind boggles.
Posted in: N Korea warns of war if it is punished for S Korean ship sinking