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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cleo
Training to work in a dead industry is dumb. Or do you also admire people who demand public subsidies to work as chariot grease jockeys, entrail readers and henge builders? That it's high-risk as well as dead-end only makes them dumber.
And what criminal charge was thrown at Cat Stevens or John Lennon? Pacifism? Peace-lovin' song lyrics? (Never been on the defendant's side of any criminal charge, but if the charge is being anti-war and/or anti-mindless cruelty, I plead guilty.)
The FBI as an organisation is not a joke. With the weight of the US government behind it, it can do a lot of damage and upset people's lives. It's 'definitions' of what makes a terrorist (♪give peace a chaaance~♫) are a joke.
Posted in: Confrontation
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cleo
AmericanForeigner has it wrong again! You're supposedly a happily married man - it's OK to accept giri-choco in the spirit it's given. Take them home and share them with your wife. When you come across a lady offering you chocolate with 'true feelings' and she isn't Mrs AF, she's the one you need to refuse.
Posted in: My frugal Valentine: Romance in a recession
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cleo
How very, very sad. I can understand people stuck in boring jobs, or confined to bed, etc., being bored - but if they're retired and sprightly enough to get out to the games centre, there are so many other things they could be doing. What a waste of a retirement. Time to be bored when you're stuck in an urn under a rock for all eternity.
People who get bored probably have no imagination.
Posted in: We're bored. We have nothing to do. I don't have anything to say to my husband anymore. It's much better to come here than just sit in the house watching TV all day. We need some excitement, too.
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cleo
The 'hunt' aka commercial whaling has been no-go for over a quarter of a century. Whalers who after all this time still haven't realised they're in a dead industry, and especially those who trained after 1986, are probably far too dumb to be trained for anything else.
Lots of people have, including Cat Stevens. FBI (the people who hounded John Lennon for being 'anti-war', remember) definitions are a joke.
Posted in: Confrontation
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cleo
All the time the harpoon vessels have spent dogging the SS ships is time they have not spent killing whales. True, SS has not been able to catch up with the factory ship and sit on its tail, the manoeuver that successfully brought the whaling season to an early end last year; but the whalers have been operating at no more than one-third capacity. SS are claiming that the harpoon ships have spent a total of 64 days following SS ships (as of 9th Feb); at an average of 8 whales per harpoon ship per day, that's over 500 whales that the YM, YM2 and YM3 have missed.
The factory ship meanwhile has been moving fast to try and keep out of range of the SS drones; if they're moving fast, they're not stopping much to pick up dead whales. When the whalers finally head back home and the number of whales killed is announced, and the icr is wailing once again about the obstruction of their 'perfectly legal research' we'll know how successful SS has been this season. Possibly not as well as last season, but every whale short of the 'quota' is a whale saved.
Word also has it that, as further proof that the 'research' excuse is paper-thin, the whalers have returned to last year's 'survey' area (apparently they're supposed to alternate areas in alternate years in order to get 'balanced' survey results), thus showing clearly that simply killing as many whales as possible is much more important to them than getting valid research data.
Posted in: Confrontation
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cleo
The vacuum storage bags come in large sizes, big enough to a duvet in. Or a body.
Does your computer have no dictionary?
Posted in: Man attempts suicide after police find mother's corpse hidden in vacuum bag
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cleo
No need to play Polyanna, Munya.
But surely this is a good point for Akihito to step down, enjoy the rest of his life and let his sons take up the slack.
Posted in: Emperor to have heart bypass surgery next Saturday
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cleo
Sorry, but your argument doesn't hold up. If I object to unlabelled GMO, does that mean I mustn't eat anything because I don't know if it's got GMO in it or not? (That's the whole point of the protest....) Or if a local textile factory has been found to have been pouring pollutants into the river the police can't prosecute because the police uniforms are made from cloth produced by that factory?
These people aren't protesting about electricity. They're protesting about a particular source of electricity that politicians and power companies have assured them is safe, clean and cheap - and that has been shown spectacularly since 3/11 to be not safe, not clean and not cheap. Now they know the truth is the time to protest the evils of nuclear energy, is it not?
Saying people shouldn't complain now about stuff they didn't know about/weren't aware of before because they believed the politicians and power companies is like saying parents shouldn't complain when they find out radioactive beef and milk has been served in school dinners because, well, they didn't complain when the kids were eating those radioactive dinners. Why would people complain about the unthinkable before it becomes plain that the unthinkable has happened and will continue to happen if people don't speak up?
A bit like being in favour of money but opposed to getting it by robbing banks.
('JT heavyweight', ey? Maybe need to go on a JT diet...)
Posted in: No nukes
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cleo
The one who gets the gold is understandably happy; the one who gets the bronze is glad she didn't come fourth and get nothing; the one who gets silver is always a bit sad that she didn't quite make it. (Though really Mao-chan and anyone else who gets a silver medal has really done very well indeed.)
Posted in: Ice queens
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cleo
Looks like 'seriously' has taken on a new meaning.
So, 655321, would you say that people who object to Nike sports shoes being made by children in sweatshops should therefore refuse to wear any kind of footgear or play any kind of sport? That people who are concerned about the next earthquake, instead of quake-proofing their houses, should not live in a house at all, but just sleep out in the open in readiness?
I hope those who think nuclear power is a good thing are ready to store their share of the nuclear waste for the next ten thousand or more years. And my share too, cos I don't want it.
Posted in: No nukes
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cleo
Maybe you haven't noticed that even with most of the NPPs off line, there is still plenty of electricity? And yes, people are 'refraining from using electricity' to help - shop lighting is reduced (making a much more pleasant environment), vending machines have their lights switched off, and at home people are using hot water bottles instead of electric blankets. Are the same people who insist we need nuclear going to take responsibility for the lives disrupted by Fukushima, for the health problems that will be appearing 10,20 years down the road, for the removal of the glowing mess that is now Daiichi? How?
Posted in: Thousands in Tokyo march against nuclear power
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cleo
I'm not anti-contraception. I'm all in favour of it. It's common sense for people who don't want babies not to make them in the first place than either make them and abort them, or make them, birth them and abuse them. What I don't understand is why it should be free (=paid for by somebody else). Why not make botox, boob jobs and penile enhancements free, too?
Posted in: Obama compromises on birth control policy
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cleo
I wonder how much they got in political donations from the smaller clinics.
Posted in: Gov't to hike some medical fees to relieve overcrowding at large hospitals
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cleo
Seize as an intransitive verb means (of moving parts) to become stuck or jammed. Saying the plant (as a metaphor for a machine) is set to seize would be fine; production is perhaps straining the metaphor a bit past its limits.
Posted in: Dutch workers down tools at Mitsubishi plant
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cleo
I'm pretty sure there are signs around that pool saying 'Do not approach the monkeys'......
If there aren't, there should be.
Posted in: Getting warm
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cleo
Yes, it's a very common term meaning to 'put your tools down', ie stop working.
Posted in: Dutch workers down tools at Mitsubishi plant
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cleo
Chu-hai is a nice light refreshing drink for summer, but not all chu-hais are equal; some contain a high level of fruit juice, others rely on chemical flavourings for the taste. Suntory says this new line is in the luxury range (the price would suggest differently though...) so hopefully they're not chemical concoctions. I'll be checking these out when they're in the shops.
Posted in: 3 new flavors of 'chu-hai'
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cleo
tmarie, when you go into the tax office, ask the nice man behind the counter about 'aoiro shinkoku'. In addition to the income/tax receipts, pension and health insurance payments you also need to submit a balance sheet. In addition to the extra deduction, you may also be able to deduct expenses - travel costs (if your employers don't cough up), stationery, books, etc. If you prepare lessons at home on your own computer, you can also claim a bit for electricity, heating and a percentage of the cost of your computer when you need to buy a new one. The tax season is upon us already so you may not be in time this year, but I recommend you ask about it and see if you're eligible to do it next year.
Posted in: More part-timers to become eligible for health insurance, pension programs
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cleo
They were working in an abattoir, killing animals. Why would you imagine they had not received proper training or been informed of the rules regarding the slaughter of animals?
Mod, my previous post was deleted with the comment 'Please repost without the reference to whales and dolphins'. I see that ihope2eatwhales and Cletus are allowed to post long comments with plenty of reference to whales. (It's surely the only reason ihope2eatwhales is even on this thread) I'm not saying their posts should be deleted; I'm saying it's not fair do's.
Posted in: Australian abattoir shut down over animal abuse
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cleo
tmarie et al, if you work for three separate companies and are a seishain at none of them, you might want to consider seeing if you're eligible to send in a blue tax return. That would give you an extra ¥650,000 you can deduct from your taxable income.
Posted in: More part-timers to become eligible for health insurance, pension programs