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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blvtzpk
Was this a Japanese police officer, or Tony Soprano?
Posted in: 5,000 rally in Sapporo ahead of G-8 summit; 4 arrests made
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blvtzpk
A train in the picture? Golly gosh, it's all about timing! So hard to do!
Posted in: Yakitori
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blvtzpk
Enough said - end of matter
Posted in: Chestnut beats Kobayashi in hot dog eating contest after tie-breaker
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blvtzpk
I just LOVE the traditional Scandinavian decor!
Still, I wonder what the man is thinking (or who he's envisaging) as he 'whomps that sucka'.
A thought bubble would appreciated!
Posted in: Stress relief
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blvtzpk
RazzleBerry? Pinkberry? Catchy names! So why didn't MY Frozen Yoghurt franchise, Dingleberry, get off the ground. Any ideas???
Posted in: Hip new frozen yogurt retailer hopes to be Japan’s next big thing
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blvtzpk
"What's the 'G' stand for?"
"G"
"Hmph! It was a genuine question!"
Posted in: Hip new frozen yogurt retailer hopes to be Japan’s next big thing
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blvtzpk
You bring it to Japan, put a spin on it, and play on people's ignorance, naivete, and nationalism.
You have now finished Marketing 101. ;)
Posted in: Hip new frozen yogurt retailer hopes to be Japan’s next big thing
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blvtzpk
Yo Yo Yogurt! Check it out, dawg.
Posted in: Hip new frozen yogurt retailer hopes to be Japan’s next big thing
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blvtzpk
I'm sure both are ecstatic with your call. But are they talented? You neglected to say, which is obviously an error on your part.
Posted in: NEC phone
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blvtzpk
Better leave that to the press agencies around the world...
Posted in: Murder suspect arrested in Obama
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blvtzpk
Better to that to the press agencies around the world who get ahold of this. The Daily Show anyone?
Posted in: Murder suspect arrested in Obama
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blvtzpk
Lost his job, out of work, unmarried - my guess he'll be heading to a blue plastic sheet tent in Ueno park.
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blvtzpk
Hmmm. Sounds like a bit of homegrown terrorism. Do they have his fingerprints on file?
Posted in: Man drives car loaded with gas, kerosene into city hall in western Japan
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blvtzpk
Well, apparently Biyudenmania just passed you by! Get with the program!!!
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blvtzpk
Razor: Oblivious to ironic quotation marks? ;)
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blvtzpk
"Very nice and obviously talented"
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blvtzpk
Stitching up the opposition, apparently.
Posted in: Fish shop owner arrested for putting sewing needles in fish at rival supermarket in Osaka
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blvtzpk
To study a language successfully for communicative purposes, you need to be interested in communicating and willing to communicate in that language. Now, as some have noted here, there is little need for English to communicate in Japan - life can be lived comfortably without another language, just as in many English speaking countries. English gives some people here an advantage, but not like it does in some other places where the language can be a passport to a more satisfying or better life. Such is generally not the case in Japan.
However, if some huge crisis befell Japan, and the population actually needed the language to communicate with others over the long-term, the uptake of English (or whichever language was most utilitarian) would be phenomenal - of that I have no doubt. At present and for the foreseeable future, however, English in Japan is just an affectation, a school subject burden, a nod to internationalization. It is only taken seriously as a language in which to communicate by a relatively small few, and will remain that way until there is a pressing need for it.
Posted in: Why don't Japanese speak English better than they do?
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blvtzpk
So hard to limit it to 5. Sigh...but all these are worth repeated viewings:
The Simpsons Fawlty Towers Alan Partridge series The Bob Newhart Show/Newhart It's Garry Shandling's Show
Posted in: Name your top 5 TV comedies.
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blvtzpk
Uh-huh, uh-huh....
...but which one's your obviously-talented favorite?
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