JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Financial Advisor
- Select Asset Management KK, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥100,000 ~ ¥999,999 Paid Training Commission Based
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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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Why oh why do Japanese news stories include completely irrelevant paragraphs like this.
Posted in: Yokohama man fatally stabbed by wife's boss
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To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish...unless you're Mr. Woodford. It must feel quite good!
Posted in: Olympus admits hiding losses dating back to 1990s
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Aren't there enough fish in the ocean for the Chinese to stay near their own country?
Posted in: No China protest yet over fishing boat captain's arrest
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Well if the above results are any indication, here comes an onslaught of "thumbs down"... But I honestly can't see why this girl ever got so popular (and I was here when she hit her peak at 17-18). She is not particularly gorgeous (huge forehead), she is not a particularly great singer (compared to the average J-Pop ladies out there) and her songs are standard J-Pop fare. I am sure she is a nice woman and all, but she seems to have enjoyed such immense status as "one of the greats" when she doesn't seem to have deserved it.
Posted in: Namie Amuro ends concert after 6 songs due to throat ailment
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Wow, 160,000 yen in rice stolen. Someone alert CNN!
Posted in: 600 kgs of rice stolen in Yamagata
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US high schoolers are taught about the 442nd (at least my class was over 20 years ago). Surprised to hear they have not been honored like this yet.
Posted in: U.S. Congress honors Japanese-American soldiers
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A bit bummed at all the "never seen a drunk" comments. As someone who plans on attending a college festival this weekend, I was sort of hoping alcohol would be served. Makes watching the bands a little more tolerable.
Posted in: Boy stabbed during college festival in Tokyo
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And Sonoda expects the public to drink the cool-aid.
Posted in: Lawmaker drinks decontaminated water from Fukushima plant
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Get a room already!!
Posted in: International marriages
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I guess she took it literally when someone suggested she wear a hot costume on Halloween.
Posted in: Woman sustains burns after Halloween costume catches fire
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Yeah but this way JT gets a few dozen posts about legs. It's how they get paid.
Posted in: A salute to the future
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@ka_chan
they are loosing their cyber defenses. See how I used that word correctly there?
Posted in: Panasonic to trim TV business, cut 1,000 jobs
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Yeah, but the rats laughed the whole time.
Posted in: Reefer madness: Marijuana throws brain regions out of sync
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@bentheredonethat
Uhhh, OK, then it does not give "the reasons why mother some mothers 'sell'..." Can you identify any such reasons in this article? This is lousy journalism seeing as how not a single mother was even interviewed. But then again Shukan Asahi isn't exactly The New Yorker.
Posted in: Why some mothers 'sell' their children for dirty deals
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Not really. There is a big difference between "having the death penalty" and "having a mandatory death penalty for drug offenses." At least Japan and the US limit capital punishment for murder and treason. Personally I am against capital punishment but at least I can comprehend why a country would have it -- when limited to crimes that have actually caused a victim's death. But carrying a (subsequently confiscated) meth-filled Samsonite into an airport? Yeah, that's pretty backwards.
Posted in: Japanese woman sentenced to death in Malaysia for drug smuggling
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I agree. If Malaysia has any respect for its own (twisted, in my opinion) laws, it will hold firm on what "mandatory death sentence" means and execute this woman. There are many Malays executed each year for less serious drug offenses than this woman's, so she should not be treated differently simply because she is a citizen of a richer nation.
Posted in: Japanese woman sentenced to death in Malaysia for drug smuggling
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They not only don't serve it, they have never heard of it. My wife requested decaf when she was pregnant and got blank stares. They had no idea it even existed.
Posted in: Japan's coffee culture
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Not once in this article is the question in the headline ever answered. If the answer is "for the money" -- gee thanks, never would have imagined that in a million years!
Posted in: Why some mothers 'sell' their children for dirty deals
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Abandoning a newborn in a combini is against the Lawson. Authorities suspect the baby was dumped there sometime between 7-11. It would be ironic if the baby was left at a Family Mart...
Posted in: Newborn baby found in convenience store toilet trash can
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I see. In that case it would seem more appropriate for "campaign" to be in quotes, not change, since it is a sham campaign...but what do I know.
Posted in: Kagawa starts campaign to 'change' name to Udon Prefecture