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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By saying he had 7 hours sleep, I wonder if they mean - from the time he stopped driving the night before and started driving the next morning was 7 hours. That would mean he probably got a lot less than 7 hours.
It's a sad day for everyone but I hope the Hayase's prevail and get a princely sum - the worst situation is having a child suddenly become paraplegic and another one dead.
Posted in: Driver pleads guilty in Utah bus crash that killed 3 Japanese
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It's interesting that Shakespeare - very England centric - and Tennessee Williams - very US centric - endure without being 'Hollywoodized' for international consumption. I guess character-driven quality drama will survive whilst action-driven 'tailored' fluff will not.
Posted in: Hollywood tailoring movies for overseas audiences
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If the CEO also gives up his pension, his 'consultancy' and other perks, yes. If he retains all those,he's just bailing out but benefitting. No purpose to that.
Posted in: When a company is at the center of a crisis (TEPCO or BP, for example), should that company's top executive resign to take responsibility?
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retaltiator,
Most five-year-olds argue the same way: He did it, too! More mature five-year-olds can come up with a better argument as to why we should tolerate diverse views even if we find them woefully moronic.
Just because group A is more vociferous than group B is no reason to shake a weary head, smile, and mutter, group B will be group B. (ala "Boys will be boys")
Posted in: Rally
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Education? We don't need no stinkin' education. Find the typo:
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As opposed to the 1600s when the British East India Company manipulated the government of Great Britain and forced much of India to submit to its (the company's) control? As opposed to the Jardine Company that managed to win a war (between the UK and China) in the 1800s? Or the Dutch East India Company - the first multi-national/stock company - that dominated Asian trade in the 1600s and could mint its own money?
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What does this mean, anyway?
Posted in: A new era for universities
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Rather than guess, I did quick online search and found e-book sales have improved in ALL categories while real book sales have decreased in all categories. Also, e-book sales include books on the backlist - those that normally don't sell well after an initial release.
from engadget. com/2011/04/15/ e-book-sales-triple-year-over-year-paper-books-decline-in-every/
from nexus404. com/Blog/2011/04/15/ebook-sales-triple-in-one-year-paper-books-fall-in-every-category-the-year-of-the-epublisher-continues-unabated-as-ebooks-beat-dead-tree-on-every-front/
As for textbooks, some universities (e.g. Stanford and Duke) are requiring students to purchase a e-book reader and supplying the textbooks only in e-book form. Cheaper and more mobile than a bookshelf of heavy tomes.
Posted in: Amazon says e-book sales surpass printed books
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Henry Kissinger said it best: power is an aphrodisiac.
Posted in: Why do famous men with power and influence (Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tiger Woods, Bill Clinton, for example) risk everything with their sexual behavior?
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It's a one-way mirror; customers can see in but the ladies can't see out. And I would bet a lot of the high school girls are over 20.
How many times will the police be 'inspecting' this club before they shut it down?
Posted in: Club manager arrested for hiring high school girls to flash underwear for patrons
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If I read this correctly, this sentence:
Is probably correct except the maid's marriage ended long before Arnie made the child public.
If, as some suggest, as long as we apologize then we can do anything - adultery, for example - then Japan is ahead of that curve, eh.
Posted in: Schwarzenegger reveals he had child with staffer
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So Bing, after copying Google's results, is now going to copy Facebook's results, too? And everyone will converge on two or three most 'liked' sites while ignoring many sites with more quality. Great.
Posted in: Microsoft's Bing leans more heavily on Facebook
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Kan has been prime minister for about a year yet this article states people are blaming him for SPEEDI's failure. Who was in charge 30 years ago? The LDP? Remember them?
I guess they thought melt downs were impossible as well as tsunami and earthquakes in Japan. Oops.
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I agree with other posters that the islands are disputed only by Japan. The rest of the world doesn't seem to notice/care/give a hoot. When will Japan start bribing African nations to side with Japan (ala the whaling issue)?
Also, herefornow is correct but interestingly enough the original saying was 'possession is nine points of the law.'
If Russia gives the islands back to Japan based on Japanese logic, then Japan needs to give Okinawa back to the Okinawans.
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When an ingredient for any product or service increases noticeably, I don't complain but when they ADVERTISE a price of X but add on and add on and add on until the Actual Price is 3X, I complain. Truth in advertising should apply to airlines as well as bread manufacturers.
And JT, it's not a tax, it's a surcharge (only the government can tax something).
Posted in: Airlines say they have no choice but to pass the increase in oil prices on to passengers in the form of a higher fuel tax? Do you agree?
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Fadamor,
That particular lesson should have been learned after the Kobe earthquake where the Japanese government proved itself to be inadequate. They had 16 years to include communication snafus in 'Lessons Learned' but, of course, didn't.
I can believe no one in the government offices in Tokyo thought that maybe - despite watching entire towns washed away in the tsunami - fax machines wouldn't work. Maybe Japan has too many Michael Browns: he who did a 'heckuva job' after Katrina.
Posted in: Government red tape, cock-ups slow disaster recovery, aggravate victims
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TV cameras?
Pretty general jargon-filled essay here. Correspondence courses, distance learning, and online education have been around for at least half a century but it's only with things like Skype, video conferencing, and email that has made them more accessible to both students and teachers.
Good teachers with good teaching techniques will use the technology to their advantage; bad teachers with bad techniques will not.
Posted in: Online learning: A global opportunity for change
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Interesting logic. So that means if the police find a truckload of heroin at a shopping mall but no yakuza headquarters are nearby then the heroin couldn't possibly belong to the yakuza but to the owners of the shopping mall? Scary.
Posted in: 9-year-old boy finds hand grenade in Fukuoka rice field
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shinjukuboy,
back pain.
Posted in: Levine withdraws from Met Opera's Japan tour
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I hope it shows Gotti Sr as a killer, drug dealer, and pimp rather than as a 'good family man' as described by his daughter.
Posted in: 'Rain Man' filmmaker Levinson takes on Gotti story
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bicultural,
Since the chicken meal is included in the price of the package, I'm sure it is mentioned in the brochure. Also, if the tourists (mainly from China) want raw fish, they'll have to fork out more money for an 'authentic' Japanese ryokan. But the real money maker, regardless of where the customer is from, is the 'alcohol (sic) beverages also cost extra.'
My confusion is in this statement:
Poor service will result in loss of customers so I doubt he will push poor service regardless of the price. Or is that how Japanese ryokan/onsen operators work - low price, we'll give 'em crappy service?
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A lot - a real lot - of the ODA are contracts to purchase Japanese goods or services (perhaps at a slightly lower rate).
One of the major benefactors of Japanese overseas development 'loans' is Japanese companies. If they cut back, more Japanese will be in danger of losing their jobs or a cut in income.
Taking care of their own house first includes making sure citizens have jobs.
Posted in: Do you think Japan should cut back its ODA commitments to other countries and allocate the money instead to earthquake and tsunami relief efforts in the Tohoku region?