JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Corporate Business English Trainers
- ACT Systems, Inc.（株式会社アクト・システムズ）, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥269,500 ~ ¥280,000 / Month
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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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Rumsfeld has writing skills? That is one of those things I didn't know I didn't know.
Posted in: Rumsfeld reveals pre-war Iraq strike plan in memoir
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We all know there is plenty of work for a stripper in the Philippines.
Posted in: Philippines confirms fugitive stripper Minako Komukai arrived in Manila
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Thank you, paulinusa. I was a little confused by this branding since "Ghana" doesn't exactly convey a sense of pleasure, indulgence and elegance that so many chocolate companies normally try to associate with its products.
Posted in: Sweet hearts
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Oh, he was going "commando" alright!
Posted in: Senior Chiba police officer arrested for indecent exposure on train
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Tagline fail. Is "g.u" pronounced "goo"? To sell underwear? Lemme guess, their mens line of underwear is sold under the tagline, "tread marks."
Posted in: Bra wars
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Note: If the most recent school on your resume contains a "専門" in the name, you best save up for that Yaki-Imo truck and learn how to drive reeeaaaal slow.
Posted in: Job-hunting
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I agree with Bill Gates. Maybe it is a Japanese thing for fans to expect a tournament to be canceled. I personally cannot imagine fans being pleased in any way if the World Series or Super Bowl, or any part of a season of any sport, were outright canceled due to say, a steroid scandal. In the end it seems the fans and serious athletes are being punished. Don't fans have the ability to turn the channel if they don't want to see it?
Posted in: Do you agree with the decision by the Japan Sumo Association to cancel the March tournament because of the match-fixing scandal?
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Looks like a big game of Cops & Rubbers is about to begin...
Posted in: Thieves in Malaysia steal $1.5 mil worth of condoms from Japanese company
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Sadly this is a sport where the scandals outshine the wrestlers' personalities or whatever titilation the sport offers viewers. Sports like Yakyuu, baseball, basketball and of course football have personalities, celebrity althelets and are of course a joy to watch, so scandals will never bring those sports down. Sumo just does't have any of that going for it anymore, so I categorize this one as a "dying sport." Firing Asashoryu didn't do it any favors either.
Posted in: After the latest scandal on match-fixing, can anything save sumo or is it a dying sport?
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Still don't understand why the intersection was closed for 2.5 years due to this one incident.
Posted in: How many Katos are out there, ready to explode in rage?
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Before trial, the accused is merely the accused. No conviction = not a criminal. In that case they should be allowed to publish to the same extent a free, non-incarcerated person is allowed to.
Posted in: Do you think Tatsuya Ichihashi, the suspect in the killing of British teacher Lindsay Ann Hawker, should have been allowed to write a book for publication before his trial?
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Is this last line intended to mitigate this lunatic pedophile's culpability?? As if his students' parents would feel some sort of relief? "Oh in that case, carry on. No need to fire him." Insane.
Posted in: Tokyo man arrested for paying schoolgirls 30,000 yen to pose nude for photos
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GW, prisoners over there publish books all the time and in fact the ACLU (like it or now) has successfully sued state governments in court to ensure that prisoners continue to get that right. And while prisoners lose certain rights (i.e., the 4th amendment) they most certainly do not lose the entire protection of the 1st Amendment or the 8th (against cruel/unusual punishment). Don't mean stray too far off the subject of Ichihashi, but suffice to say that incrimination does not automatically take away all rights of expression. Heck even an imprisoned MLK wrote the infamous "Letter from Birmingham" 50 years ago...
Posted in: Do you think Tatsuya Ichihashi, the suspect in the killing of British teacher Lindsay Ann Hawker, should have been allowed to write a book for publication before his trial?
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It is pretty funny. One the phone with a friend overseas, I was asked, "is Egypt all over the news in Japan like it is in the US? What do they think of it?" LOL!!! I see more of Saito the slugger, and, for some reason, a morning variety show spent most of the morning discussing My Chemical Romance and Nick Carter. I don't get it. Poor head of the foreign correspondents association is right. Absolutely nothing is happening here and Japan has epically failed to make any difference in the world or even domestically over the past several years.
Posted in: Japan is blocked and paralyzed by the politicians and bureaucrats who don't have the political will and courage to restructure the country. There is no new energy. There are days that you can't sell any story to your editors back home.
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I think anyone should be able to write whatever they want. Seems overkill and perhaps unlawful to say one cannot write something. Whether or not they are permitted to profit from the publication is another question altogether. But "writing" something for publication? How on earth can a judge constitutionally bar you from doing that?
Posted in: Do you think Tatsuya Ichihashi, the suspect in the killing of British teacher Lindsay Ann Hawker, should have been allowed to write a book for publication before his trial?
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The Japanese are unbelievably susceptible to hype to a shameless degree.
Posted in: New star
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Gee thanks. Had no idea how long 4 hours was.
Posted in: Job seekers flop at impressing potential employers
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I just Google Image searched her and, Hot Dang!
Posted in: Hawaii has a winner in hula dancer Aureana Tseu
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I will assume "roughly handling" was intentionally chosen in this question to avoid confusion with the term "violently handling." As such I would assume it to be a parent and I would ignore it, continue slipping coins into the BOSS vending machine, and be on my way. No kid is in danger from "rough handling."
Posted in: If you saw an adult hitting or roughly handling a child in public, would you intervene or just mind your business and assume it was a parent disciplining his/her child?
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Oh man, that is a good one. I would love to be there when it happens at a dekichatta-kekkon...
Posted in: How to not make a fool of yourself at a Japanese wedding