JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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Confrontation
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U.S. Navy investigating how parts fell off aircraft near Atsugi
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California court to decide if SeaWorld whales are illegal 'slaves'
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Kuroki reported pregnant 2 weeks after denying relationship with Akanishi
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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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chardk1
If her parents could buy her a new nose, jawline and chest (according to her high school classmates, and you don't have to be an expert to spot the knifework), I imagine they could pay for tutoring as well. Also, she grew up partly in Hawaii and speaks pretty good English. That alone will get you into liberal arts faculties of most any private university in Japan.
I'm not saying she's not cute or smart, but she is a "manufactured" star in the most literal definition of the word. Also, it's funny how according to a Japanese website I read, her career goal in high school was to be an entertainer, and now she says her goal is to be a lawyer. I guess if she were a lawyer she'd want to be a judoka.
Posted in: Singer Nana Tanimura performs in Odaiba
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chardk1
It's got some American actors in it, and an American wrote the screenplay. Otherwise, a vanity project by the Japanese to create a fake American movie so they can claim to have gone Hollywood. Sad.
Posted in: Actress Megumi Okina appears at Japan premiere of horror film 'Shutter'
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chardk1
I'm sorry, 5.5 million yen. Still outrageous!
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chardk1
You'd be nuts to buy an American car in Japan considering the premium you have to pay, and you don't get those fat American rebates. For $35,000 a Hemi 300C looks pretty good but 55 million yen for the V6?! I'll pass, thanks.
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chardk1
Oh well, I guess it can't be worse than "Hammerman."
Posted in: Kano sisters turn into anime crimefighters
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chardk1
Japanese kids. Sometimes it seems like you coddle them, they commit suicide. You are tough on them, they commit suicide. To blame teachers for this kind of suicide is to tell people "don't become teachers, you become the sphincters of this country responsible for taking all kinds of crap without any benefit to yourself." Mental health and stress are endemic problems in this country, condemning overworked, underpaid public school teachers for not being babysitter, therapist, confidante and educator to every messed-up kid is almost as crazy than committing suicide over nothing.
Posted in: 16-year-old high school student commits suicide after meeting teachers over online insults
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chardk1
So entering a country not at war with you with your military, deposing the standing government and installing a government with an ideology and personnel more in line with your own is by definition "liberation" so long as you don't colonize or annex it outright? And here my American history textbooks have been incorrectly characterizing the Soviet "liberation" of Czechoslovakia, Afghanistan et al. during the Cold War as "invasions!" To think we should be so unfair to the memory of the Soviet Union, it is downright un-American.
I can't wait for the "liberation" of China, AKA World War III. But hey, as long as you are spreading democracy it's all good right?
Posted in: McCain ridicules Obama over Iraq policy
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chardk1
The U.S. armed and supported Saddam when he was fighting the Iranians and slightly older folk will recall that in the 80's Saddam was sold to Americans by their government as the relative "good guy" much the same way as Dubya presented Musharraf after 9/11. Until he attacked a closer ally in Kuwait, America was perfectly content letting Saddam raise hell on the "the enemy of our enemy is our friend" principle. So while his belligerence toward Iran in the brutal war between these countries may indeed be proof of Saddam's evil ways, the U.S. is probably not in a position to point an accusatory finger at him in that regard.
Posted in: McCain ridicules Obama over Iraq policy
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chardk1
You have to love people who compare being wrong on the surge to being wrong on going to war in the first place, "they were both wrong, it all evens out." I guess we now live in a fantasy world where the magnitude or consequences of being wrong are irrelevant to the mere fact of being wrong. Unbelievable that anyone could have such a skewed sense of responsibility like this. Well, I ate at a restaurant that wasn't that good, I made a mistake, I guess that's the same as a decision that's killed 150,000 Iragis and 3,000 U.S. soldiers.
Posted in: McCain ridicules Obama over Iraq policy
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chardk1
Both Bush and McCain said that we would leave Iraq when the Iraqi government announced they were ready to run things and asked us to leave, because we had to respect their sovereignty.
Last week, not only Maliki but other top-ranking Iraqi government officials said they agreed with Obama and that end of 2010 seemed like a good time to have most of the US troops out of Iraq.
Bush and McCain immediately attributed this to first a "mistranslation" and then declared Maliki was just "being a politician" and could not be trusted to know what was best for Iraq.
And Obama is a hypocrite and a flip-flopper? He doesn't have any intention of keeping promises? He's more interested in political gain than acknowledging the situation on the ground? Looks like the old, washed up pot sure has no problem calling the kettle black (Let's not forget, "I voted for the Iraq War and its escalation and against every gasoline tax and oil industry regulation, but Obama is responsible for the high price of gas! Nobody but him!")
And for the people like Sarge and McCain who are patting themselves on their backs for the "success" of the Surge . . . violence decreased in 2005 too, before it flared again in 2006 and 2007 requiring the Surge and an escalation of the war after FIVE years of being there. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that sending 30,000 more troops to Iraq would make the U.S. Army presence stronger there. But one would think that five years after "mission accomplished" we should be able to expect a better plan than "let's send more troops."
Posted in: McCain ridicules Obama over Iraq policy
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chardk1
Really, you want to cling to that old saw? Saddam was one of about a couple of dozen unsavory dictators. Are you saying we should go to war with every sovereign country which has a leader that we think is despotic, untrustworthy and undemocratic? So by your logic if McCain became President and declared war on Pakistan, Afghanistan, North Korea, Iraq, Cuba, Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, Azerbaijan and half of Africa, drafting every American male into the army and bankrupting the country, not to mention violating all kinds of international laws on the sovereign rights of nations, he would be doing the right thing and those who criticized this suicidal act would be unpatriotic enemies of freedom. This is a pretty apocalyptic view of spreading "freedom and democracy."
Seriously, what kind of logic is this? It's bad enough not to take any responsibility for costly, mistaken decisions but to turn around and accuse your opponents of being seditious enemies of freedom is just appalling.
Bush and McCain criticizing Obama for not having the best plan for getting out of Iraq is like Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling criticizing the Enron bankruptcy trustee for not getting the most out of the liquidation. Who flushed it all down the toilet in the first place? It is just so unbelievably nervy.
Posted in: McCain ridicules Obama over Iraq policy
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chardk1
I don't much care for Hashimoto but the man has a right to stay in shape and maintain his health, he has seven or eight kids for crying out loud.
What Japanese call "karoshi" is not caused by "overwork" it is caused by a combination of poor diet, no exercise, smoking, drinking AND overwork. It's stupid to pretend that Japanese men just work too hard and disappove of people taking obvious preventative measures.
Posted in: Weighty issues for Osaka Gov Hashimoto
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chardk1
I can just imagine being the sales manager. "A purchase order for eight reactors from a J.I. Kim in Pyongyang . . . what the??"
Posted in: Hitachi, GE developing mid-size reactor
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chardk1
I enjoy bashing Dubya as much as the next guy, but let's not lose sight of the fact that it's a good thing for the American President to be making prudent and rational decisions. Now that both sides have "flip-flopped" hopefully we can return to a culture that understands that flexibility and adaptability are GOOD qualities, has kept mankind from extinction and should not be dismissed simplemindedly as "flip-flopping." One of the stupidest and most corrosive memes of the past several years if you ask me.
Posted in: Bush agrees to time 'horizon' on Iraq troop cuts
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chardk1
I don't know why this should be surprising to anybody, think about the number of great professional jobs available in the U.S. to immigrants who do not speak English, have little understanding of its culture and skills tailored for some other job market.
Be prepared to put in the time and effort to become proficient in Japanese language and culture, develop skills specifically sought for here by Japanese or multinational companies, and still possibly struggle to find a job you like. If that sounds unacceptable, don't bother coming.
I know a lot of Americans trying to deal with the Japanese spouse who maddeningly prefers to take a lemming-like path to destitution in Japan than "suffer" through a good life abroad. I am sympathetic as it really is a frustrating no-win situation, but you want to be careful about giving in as it rarely works out all that well in the long run if you already have a successful career in your home country.
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chardk1
I'm really surprised at this news, generally rock musicians make the best husbands.
Posted in: Pregnant Megumi has to contend with husband's partying
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chardk1
McCain can't be too happy about Bush delivering this glum message a week after his own chief financial advisor said that all of America's economic problems were just psychological. Gramm is wrong and McCain has admitted it, but the timing could be better for McCain's campaign.
Posted in: Bush finds few encouraging things to say about U.S. problems
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chardk1
I heard the Giants only lectured Nioka for creating a scandal with an announcer from a rival media conglomerate. "If you must cheat, cheat Yomiuri TV" was the exact quote I think.
Posted in: Mona takes the fall, while Nioka gets off
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chardk1
Nioka is a bum, there is no doubt. Wife and little baby waiting at home and he's boozing and hitting on everything that walks into the bar. You know it's not like this was an atypical Saturday night for him. However, you have question Mona's judgment. It's all well and good to say Japanese press are too nosy or whatever, but it's not like she's nineteen years old, she should have more sense than to agree to split off and have a little private nijikai with a married man even if she didn't intend that it lead to sex.
Posted in: Mona takes the fall, while Nioka gets off
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chardk1
What is this assertion based on? The man was a Constitutional Law professor at the University of Chicago, and by all accounts he is thoughtful and well-spoken. If you have read Dreams of My Father you know he is an intelligent and sensitive man. You may not agree with his politics or feel he is the right choice for President but an "empty suit" without a "coherent thought"? What the heck is that all about? If you want to bash someone at least bash them for their actual faults.
Posted in: Obama revels in a presidential race with many contrasts