JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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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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Smith,
From the article:
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Munya
Actually several thousand people (21,000 in the UK alone) who have had this operation have lived long, fruitful, and 'normal' lives - the longest-lived had this surgery in 1976.
Cleo,
I think Naruhito should take up more of the emperor's duties, like Akihito did when Hirohito was aging. But I don't think he needs to resign. There's no pressing need if Naruhito does more.
Good luck to the emperor on his rapid recovery.
Posted in: Emperor to have heart bypass surgery next Saturday
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Excellent overview of the government-initiated suicide prevention program.
It seems the over-50 age group comprises over half of the suicides (men and elderly over 60). Are the men employed or recently laid off? If laid off, perhaps they are burdened with a sense of failure - failure as a breadwinner, as an employee. This might lead to being isolated. And Isolation in this island country might be a problem - isolated from the group, isolated from society, from family.
Question:
This paragraph states that 32 billion yen can eradicate all the hunger in the world. Really? Bill Gates can stop hunger with his pocket change? The previous paragraph mentions 2.7 trillion, but that is in the previous paragraph. All the "it" in this paragraph refers to 32 billion.
Maybe if the government were to look at suicide as a financial problem - money out of a politician's pocket via kickbacks, er, donations - they would start doing something seriously about the number of suicides (more than car accidents - about 5,000; bicycle accidents - about 300; and marijuana drug overdoses - maybe 0; combined).
And, as much as the editors don't like comparing Japan to other countries, it would be interesting to see how Finland is addressing their suicide rate (down 30% since 1990 - their prevention program started in 1987).
Editors - Typos
Drop an 'e', preferably in 'toe'.
I believe we are the GKB47, not the GTB47, which, I believe, was a great little MG.
A space would be nice - maybe between the 'd' and the one?
Posted in: GKB47 and suicide
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How about comparing it with people who drink before driving? Are drunks five times as likely or less or more to cause a car crash as those who use marijuana? How fast were those pot heads going, anyway? Five, ten miles an hour?
And, while marijuana might be the most widely used illegal drug in the world, it isn't illegal in some places: Sarah Palin's Alaska, for one, and South Australia for two. (I think.)
Finally, love Hunter S. Thompson.
Posted in: Marijuana users twice as likely to cause car crash, studies show
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If this goes through, I suspect that rather than helping part-time workers get onto the health insurance and pension programs, it will result in many more part-time workers having their hours cut from 30 (or more) to 19 and their incomes drop to 649,000 because employers have to contribute to their workers' health and pension plans. Or is this provision not applicable under this new "guideline"?
Posted in: More part-timers to become eligible for health insurance, pension programs
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Humm, suicide?
Posted in: Two elderly people dead after car plows into supermarket
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You can smoke indoors all you want. If the indoors is limited to your room or in a room with no non-smokers. As for my "right" to not smoke? How is not killing myself a "right?" I'm confused by this statement.
Posted in: Japan’s 'polite' tobacco war rages on
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I hope the two employees who are yelling are yelling the same information rather than conflicting. Also, I like the guy on the right who is checking is keitai, as if that would be possible in a real earthquake.
Posted in: Earthquake drill
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Construction methods, then, should have been improved centuries ago. Here are a few pictures of bridges made out of toothpicks that can hold up to 250 kg. Toothpicks and engineering, my friends.
http://homepage2.nifty.com/SUBAL/BCPrE.htm
Posted in: Hard work
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warnerbro,
Who said anything about Tokyo? You know that's where most government bureaucrats, their political cronies, and TEPCO officers live, right? So 'outside of Tohoku' to the government means "not Tokyo."
Posted in: Should prefectures outside the Tohoku area accept tsunami rubble for incineration or disposal?
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Since the government has been saying since day one that there are no short-term health problems, I suspect that these government researchers will find 'no short-term effects' and 'the area is safe.'
Posted in: Scientists studying effects of radiation on flora, fauna in Fukushima
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Good question. Can anyone or JapanToday investigate this and give us a figure?
Posted in: Heavy snow continues in northern Japan
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I don't think Washington, Oregon, and California are going to ship the tsunami debris back to Tohoku. They'll probably test it for radiation and burn it onsite. Much like Japan should.
Posted in: Should prefectures outside the Tohoku area accept tsunami rubble for incineration or disposal?
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This is the first time I've seen 'their' in front of 'droves.' Is this a new usage?
As others have said, it wasn't the earthquake, it was the nuclear explosion, radiation, and strong yen. 'No short-term health problems' works in Japan but not in the rest of the world.
Posted in: Quake drives tourist numbers to rock bottom
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So could we say Murray got Nishikori's scalp?
Posted in: Murray ends Nishikori's dream run at Australian Open
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Utrack
Only if he reported her death. If he kept silent about it, in 90 years she could be one of those 150-year-old pensioners we've heard about.
Plus, not knowing why he doesn't have a job - perhaps a mental or physical problem - but he really should have a job doing something.
Posted in: Man held for attempted murder after stabbing mother in back
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Sounds like Asayama was trying to start his own little cult ala Aum Shinrikyo. I hope JT keeps us abreast of further developments.
Posted in: Couple held over murder in Tokyo linked to arson murders in Yamagata
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It's Me
As was said about the computer in education:
Any teacher that can be replaced by an iPad, should be.
Posted in: Apple unveils digital textbooks app for iPad
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Spud man,
I just blew up the picture with this article on my iPad 2 and the resolution was good enough to read the instructions at the top of the iPad in the picture. "Molecular Families" and "Choose a molecular family on the left to view..."
But you're right, the iPad 3 will probably have better resolution.
I wonder how many textbooks for Japanese schools will find their way on to the iPad in the near future.
Posted in: Apple unveils digital textbooks app for iPad
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If ten million a year is too cheap and Nippon paid him about six million a year, then I guess Nippon either really got a bargain or they screwed him over. Good luck in the majors, Mr. D.
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