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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champon
'...flew into a rage...'
Flew into a fit of pique more like.
Children in charge of children.
Posted in: Man held for arson, murder after 11-year-old daughter dies in blaze
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champon
And lets not forget those great Japanese pop bands:
Glay
Bump Chicken
Mr.Children
to mention but a few
Posted in: What are some of your favorite examples of the way English is misused in products, advertising and pop culture in Japan?
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champon
And the apartment building near me called "Gland"
Posted in: What are some of your favorite examples of the way English is misused in products, advertising and pop culture in Japan?
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champon
"I am the running horse, light in the thinking in which it scampers"
How I wish I'd bought THAT T-shirt when I saw it.
And WHAT WAS the original before translation??!!
Posted in: What are some of your favorite examples of the way English is misused in products, advertising and pop culture in Japan?
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champon
Another case of 'grow-up Japan'. This is a menu for dummies. Are people so stupid as to need such huge pictures to help them choose. Obviously yes.
Menu too big, and I hazard a guess that the lights are too bright, the music too loud... altogether an unpleasant experience - apart from the food.
Posted in: So many choices
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champon
"I don't think I write very good"
Enough said. Publishers don't tolerate poor grammar very WELL.
Posted in: I Write Like erupts online; authors scratch heads
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champon
100 yen shop is as far as I can walk in this heat, so doing pretty well this month.
Posted in: How has the hot weather affected your spending habits?
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champon
Daisy is upstaging the bride big time!
Posted in: Alpine wedding
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champon
You don't need a brick to drop on these vile vehicles. May I suggest a plastic carrier bag filled with water - it's very effective - or so I've heard...
Posted in: It’s time to get rid of sound trucks
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champon
All my favourite ingredients in one - Itoen make good drinks
Posted in: Yuzu drink
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champon
....and any clothing related to doing sports - worn when NOT doing sports. Cheap. Nasty. Distinct lack of taste.
Posted in: Which fashion trend do you most wish would die?
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champon
High-heels!!! Only one woman in a thousand can walk with grace in those objects of torture. That's leaves the others to stumble around in an ungainly and definately un-sexy way.
Posted in: Which fashion trend do you most wish would die?
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champon
...the ordinance ultimately might see Japan’s widening gap in income disparities soon extend even to those on society’s bottom rung, as people with IDs, cell phones and access to information will further distance themselves from their peers who do not.
My husband lost his job, without a mobile he couldn't register or apply for for temporary day-work. Without my help he couldn't keep his phone. In Japan no mobile phone = no chance of work.
Posted in: New ID requirements for Net cafes unlikely to deter cyber-crimes
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champon
Ideal summer fling - with the hot but of stuff I married - else, why would I?!! And I ain't wishin' for a motorbike accident.
Posted in: What would be your ideal summer fling?
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champon
In this heat??!! He could have picked January and made it a more pleasant experience....
Posted in: Man stays with murdered woman for week after death
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champon
2-stroke engines are stinky and noisy (but so are the rest of Japanese cities) but they can do 40-70km to the litre, unlike stinkier and noisier cars (hybrids I don't know)
Posted in: Quiet hybrids: An end to their sounds of silence?
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champon
I suggest all hybrids have an attendant walk in front of them thus ensuring they remain at a safe 6.4 kms per hour in the country and 3.2 in towns. Said attendant will also walk 50 metres ahead of the vehicle, bearing a red flag, signaling the driver when to stop.
Or have we been there before...?
(The 'Locomotives on Highways Act' (Red Flag Act) was passed by the British Government in 1865).
Posted in: Quiet hybrids: An end to their sounds of silence?
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champon
Kirakira25, you are most welcome.
But I think I meant to say 'SMALL willy syndrome'!
They probably drive big red sports cars too...
Posted in: Will Tokyo Sky Tree's completion bring down 'skyscraper curse' on Japan?
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champon
I have never understood why men (and it usually is men who are behind these projects) want to build ridiculously high buildings in areas prone to earthquakes. Or is it tall poppy (big willy) syndrome??
Posted in: Will Tokyo Sky Tree's completion bring down 'skyscraper curse' on Japan?
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champon
Bicycles are classed as light vehicles, so the policeman was correct to shout 'dame'. He didn't mean 'use the pedestrian crossing' but that he should do a two-point right-hand turn as 50cc scooters also have to do.
Posted in: Confused by Japan’s cycling laws? You aren’t the only one