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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cleo
It isn't generally known that the way electricity rates are set is by adding together overheads (personnel bills, general office admin, fuel, etc), and the value of assets (power plants, etc). Thus the more nuclear power plants TEPCO builds, the higher the 'cost' of electricity. Nuclear power is not cheap for the general consumer; it merely makes big profits for the companies.
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cleo
If all the tipsy sararimen were as cute as that puddy, there would be no problem.
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cleo
It's indigenous to Europe and large parts of Asia, and is recorded in Japan during the Jomon period (16500-3000 years ago), so it's hardly exotic here. The two varieties of wild boar in Japan have been separated long enough to have evolved into separate varieties from those found in mainland Asia.
It has no natural predators because people killed off all the wolves, bears and other large meat-eaters.
Cruelty is cruelty, no matter how good the victim might taste.
Posted in: Wild boar killed in Matsuyama residential district
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cleo
If you'd bothered looking at the link and if you read Japanese (which you'd have to do to fill in the form anyway) you'd have seen it's the form that's been in use since June 2009. It came to my attention when my son recently renewed his Japanese passport.
Posted in: What I wish for my children
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cleo
Over 800 km from Fukushima to Matsuyama.
Posted in: Wild boar killed in Matsuyama residential district
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cleo
According to Wiki, he attended international school in Switzerland until the age of 15 or so, when he 'disappeared'. During his time at school he was apparently chaperoned the whole time and avoided communication with unfamiliar people. I don't think 'worldly' is quite the right word.
More likely the military will think that he is weak and keep him in 'power' so that they can manipulate him. That could cause instability. Then again he could rebel and try to prove that he was not weak, which could have untold consequences.
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cleo
The poor thing must have been terrified.
Posted in: Wild boar killed in Matsuyama residential district
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cleo
When you next renew your Japanese passport you will be asked on the application form to state whether you hold the nationality of any other country, and if so, to name the country. Tick the いいえbox and you lay yourself open to charges of obtaining a passport under false pretenses. (Up to 5 years imprisonment, up to 3 million yen fine. And your passport becomes invalid)
http://www.seikatubunka.metro.tokyo.jp/issuance/index.html
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cleo
They don't fish in Chinese waters. They go into Russian waters and get arrested/shot at/sunk.
Posted in: Japan's coast guard arrests Chinese fishing boat captain
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cleo
According to asahi.com, the father of the person who called 110 told the paper he'd been living there for 30 years and had never seen a wild boar before, so it would not seem to be the case that Matsuyama city (the sow was caught in Kayamachi 6-chome, not far from Matsuyama Castle park) is actually being overrun by wild boar or that the farmers in the area (what farmers?) are having their crops destroyed. This was a fluke. It should have been returned.
Posted in: Wild boar killed in Matsuyama residential district
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cleo
Assuming that they do need to kill the animal (not a given) why do they need a 'hunter' to kill it? If it's already captured, surely a vet would be more appropriate and more humane?
Better still, truck it out to the mountains and let it go.
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cleo
I don't care if the tourists copy sutras or not. The people I took there thought it was a bit of a lark. What I do mind is the temples using it as a means of tax avoidance. Dotobock, who's in favour of whaling, appears to agree that the 'scientific' research is a scam (the only way Japan can take whales is if they call it research). When their backs are against the wall, the pro-whalers, both here and in the Diet, start jabbering about 'food culture' and 'tradition' - they know the research is a scam.
Posted in: U.S., Australia, NZ 'disappointed' over Japan whale hunt
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cleo
Someone doesn't know the difference between efficiency and efficacy?
If the research has little to no efficacy then there's no point doing it.
Dunno if they still do it, but the last time I was in Kyoto some of the temples were having their tourists sit down and copy sutras, as a way of getting round the tourism tax. They claimed their visitors were there for religious reasons - see, they're devoutly copying sutras before they go off taking photos and gawping at the statues, that proves it's religious, not commercial - but they, the tourists (including the foreign ones who could barely write their own name in kana, never mind write out and understand a sutra) and the tax man all knew it was a con.
Just like the 'scientific' research - see, they're taking data before they cut the meat up and freeze it for the shops, that proves it's scientific, not commercial. And we all know the data-taking is no different - and no more efficacious - than the tourists copying out the sutras to get around the law. It's a transparent con.
Posted in: U.S., Australia, NZ 'disappointed' over Japan whale hunt
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cleo
Sea Shepherd concerns itself with life in the ocean. (There's a clue in the name of the organization). Glen Innes appears to be some 150 km from the coast.
Greenpeace is an environmental group, not an animal welfare group. They might be interested in rotting bodies causing a pollution problem, but not with the 'poor animals' themselves.
I think the people you need to call are the Australian RSPCA.
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cleo
I wonder how many of the 900 million or so people around the world who go to bed every night with an empty belly would agree with you.
Posted in: N Korean leader Kim Jong-Il dead at 69
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cleo
I agree with Smitty. Rejoicing over a death is pretty low.
@HonestDictator
Maybe if he had it would have been better. As it is, his feeble-minded son will take over and things will continue as before, with perhaps the military having an even bigger say in things than before. The ordinary people of North Korea will see no improvement in their lives and will probably see set-backs, as the state expects them to endure even greater austerity to pay for the funeral of the Leader.
So, he's dead. It's neither good news nor bad news, just news.
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cleo
You're not seriously suggesting that you weeing while some old cleaning lady mops the floor in the background is on a level with a female rape victim being subjected to a very intimate internal examination by a male doctor?
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cleo
You're missing my point, Nessie. How censuses of marine animals are made is not the problem.
The problem is that they say they need to kill them to find out how many there are, and then they justify how many they try to kill by saying there are enough for them to kill that many. If they know there are enough for them to kill so many...they don't need to kill them because they already claim to know. If they want to claim they need to kill them to find out how many there are, then they're admitting they don't know how many there and and so they don't know how many they can kill sustainably. Round, and round, and round.
Censuses of people are only done once every ten years - but they need to do a census of whales every year? Why do the pro-whalers think whales are more important than people?
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cleo
What does it matter what Japanese women in general choose to do, so long as you and your lady sort out what works for you?
Of course it isn't, diddums. Much better for the woman to put up with the risk of blood clots, experience pain with insertion of an IUD, have heavier periods, and pump herself full of hormones, just so you don't need to put a mac on.
I for one would not believe any man who told me he was on the pill.
Or keep it in your pants. Doesn't sound like you're much into considering your partner's needs, so she wouldn't be missing anything.
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cleo
'Rehiring' means keeping people on in the same job but on a yearly or six-monthly contract and a drastically reduced salary. Re-hirees are also likely to be given menial work way below their level of competence and with lousy working conditions.
Since it's now 65, shouldn't that be lowered to 60?
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