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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champon
Sad isn't it - a man owns 3,000 pairs of knickers that aren't his.
I - a mere woman - own about 7 somewhat holey, tattered pairs of same...
Posted in: 3,000 pairs of stolen panties found in home of underwear thief
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The Vintner's Luck is one of the best books I have ever read, I re-read it about once a year and it never fails to move me. I look forward to seeing the film.
Sourpuss - in the book the angel's wings are an integral part of the story, so they have to be there.
Posted in: Niki Caro talks wine, whales and how to enjoy a full-bodied life
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My husband and I have a joint Postal Savings Account - but they are unable to use both names on the account details, so it is my husband's name only and I cease to exist - I just get an extra card, but only in his name.
Bit like the health care card system.
Posted in: What do you think of the banking system in Japan? What are the pros and cons?
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champon
To those who have had the ill-mannered staring treatment from children - a VERY hard evil-death-stare usually gets them to turn into mumm's skirts, never to look in my direction again.
As for general manners - well, we can only blame the parents can't we. When I was young I had to stand on busses or trains to let adults sit down. My mum said I had young strong legs, I didn't need to sit down.
Now I am middle-aged I have to stand on trains in Japan while the ankle-biters take up their only-half-paid for seats. Isn't that why the tickets are half price - because they should sit on laps or stand?
And who is so ignorant that they let them do it? The parents.
Posted in: Do you think children of past generations had better manners than kids today when it comes to gestures like saying "please," "thank you?"
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champon
Mikanojo, you have just proved to me once and for all that the Japanese also do not have a sense of irony!
Posted in: Things Japanese girls do that make guys go, 'Huh?'
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champon
Eyeblack - the first sensible comment!
FAR too many people on this earth - no need to encourage more breeding atall!!
Posted in: Japan entering the age of living alone
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champon
Patrick Smash - Boo hoo, you chooses yer bed of roses...
As for my mum? a dose of brandy kept me in the land of nod - and all those around me.
Did me no harm.
Posted in: What's the best way to deal with screaming or badly-behaved children at airports and on planes so that they don't drive other passengers crazy?
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champon
Ono: "...it might be like we’re all going to live as long as we want to. And also John might come back."
Fruitcake.
Posted in: Yoko Ono reflects on John Lennon's 70th birthday
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champon
Ever worn a suit?
Only once – at my wedding.
That's what I like to hear! At last an interesting and inspirational person is profiled.
Posted in: Diesel power
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champon
As my father used to say: "The world is full of damn foreigners".
Posted in: In your experience, which country's tourists are the least well-behaved whenever you have seen them out and about?
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champon
I don't know if Terri Lloyd talked to anyone before writing his piece, but from my experience, most Japanese want to get the hell out of here and are desperate to find work abroad.
But there is a huge difference between wanting to leave and choosing where to emigrate, and being posted somewhere when you don't want to leave your family.
100% of the Japanese I have met abroad, who have voluntarily left Japan, said they would never return (gimu/giri being the main factor).
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champon
'Mayonaka no Yaji san Kita san' if its pop culture you're after.
'Merry Christmas Mr.Lawrence' if you think there's ever a hope in hell of understanding the Japanese mind.
Posted in: What books or movies would you recommend to anyone wanting to gain an understanding of Japanese people's way of thinking and culture?
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champon
'trapped' by the gates - they are made of flexible bamboo. A needless death by someone who probably never 'crossed a line' in her life.
Posted in: 67-year-old woman killed by train after trying to cross tracks
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champon
Autumn
Posted in: Yahoo to upgrade e-mail, search results this fall
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champon
Well we will always have the wonders of nature to marvel at - far more amazing than anything man can dream up.
Posted in: Where has the wonder of innovation gone?
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champon
I couldn't have put it better myself, sk4ek.
And at the other end of the scale we have the bitter older guys who couldn't get into the police force and will become, as title says, 'Vigilante' bully boys.
But then the Japanese police are pretty good at being bully boys anyway, legally hamstrung or not.
Posted in: 'Nippon Civilian Police' skirts a fine line between vigilance and vigilantism
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champon
there are many good stylish pieces of footwear out there. A good pair of well made leather brogues are very confortable and much better for your feet than plastic moulded crap. As for 'fashion' shoes, if you mean high-heels, the less said the better.
Good point Sourpuss! And the list goes on; Birkenstock, Trippen, Rocket Dog...
Posted in: Walk this way
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alladin, exactly - well said!
But let's remember that in Japan it seems to be the norm to drag one's feet when walking, or at least making the act of walking look like the most extreme effort.
And as I expected - another nasty cheap looking piece of footwear has hit the shelves. Minimal drag, minimal style & elegance.
Posted in: Walk this way
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“We were a couple in name only,” is what Ms A told Furuuchi. “I never got a word out of him.”
That would be a run-of-the mill Japanese marriage then.
Posted in: Centenarians aren't the only ones disappearing
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"The train continued to approach the boy for 30 meters after the driver activated the emergency break", and the boy continued to play on the console while waitingt to be rescued.
Not an unlikely scenario in modern Japan.
Posted in: Boy falls onto train tracks while looking at handheld game console