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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Welcome to 2009, new handheld machine.
Posted in: Nintendo's annual profit down 66%
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"On the bright side, George, cellular reception in this room has really improved."
Posted in: Home alone
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"Well to be honest, hun, its a bit of a fixer-upper."
Posted in: Home alone
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Some questions about these ceremonies: (1) Is this something the couple invites their children to? (2) Do guests get a gift bag at the end? (3) Are guests expected to give cash as in marriages? An even sum of cash like 20K yen? (4) Do they show a film of all their arguments and infidelities?
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(Here I am, making a slightly tired waving of my index finger in small circles.) Whoopty freakin' doo.
Posted in: Anna Tsuchiya performs at candle-lit dinner event
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We all know they aren't working in the trenches, so why the overalls? But then again like BosoBoss, I am from "overseas" so what do I know. Perhaps it works with the locals.
Posted in: What do you think of the work overalls that Prime Minister Naoto Kan, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano, State Minister for Consumer Affairs and Food Safety Renho and other cabinet ministers wear when they attend press conferences?
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Keepin' it real, USA!
Posted in: New friends
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The taxis have gotten worse in the past few years due to the economy. More people who don't know anything about Tokyo are showing up and getting driver gigs. This is because there is less and less opportunity out there.
Posted in: Why are Tokyo cabbies so clueless?
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You'd think a photo with a title like this would actually have the prices in the photo.
Posted in: Prices going up
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Well I guess they Got to Choose which events to play. It's not always as Easy As It Seems. Fans here probably had Great Expectations of seeing them live, but will have to suffer the Sweet Pain and search out other Thrills in the Night. Oh well, their shows are Not for the Innocent; they are known to Dance All Over Your Face.
Posted in: Kiss cancels Japan tour
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What's the name of his group, the Four Eyed Peas?
Posted in: Making a spectacle of himself
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Frungy - true, the joke about a bomb is the tough one. But (much to the chagrin of all those above with no interest in US legal citations), for a good discussion on that specific issue, go ahead and google "UNITED STATES v. COTHRAN" where the court discusses several cases in which pranksters were convicted for joking about blowing up an airline, and those convictions were upheld. While your statistics show that indeed it may be irrational to place any weight on a threat to blow up a plane, the fact remains that the airline industry is extremely sensitive to such "jokes" and those jokes serve absolutely no legitimate purpose, not even humor. (I mean, would anyone laugh?) Like jraustralia said, it is certainly a silly question asked in a vacuum of facts or jurisdictions...
Posted in: Does freedom of speech include the right to yell "Fire!" in a crowded theater, yell "Shark" at a beach or joke about having a bomb on a plane, for example?
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Invest in a few more monitors. Make each of them responsible for a particular area of the room and have them constantly roaming that area.
Posted in: How can universities prevent cheating in exams by students who use cell phones to access sites in search of answers??
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What other nuggets of wisdom does this man give out? No music no life?
Posted in: Punk icon Akihiro Namba says only rock can cure Japan’s ills
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I'll echo whiskeysour's comments that this "family" schtick has gotten awfully mundane. The ad people in this country really know how to take a decent idea and run it into the ground. Take the ads for "リポビタン D" - and that whole "FAITO IPPAAATSU" schtick. Did you know that has been the sole theme of every one of their commercials since 1977? (with over 400 different such versions being made as of 2009?) One wonders how many white dogs Softbank will go through...
Posted in: Ramen on the phone
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I give Carver a lot of credit for his longevity. Not since the Maytag Repairman has a guy gone years and years and sustained a career solely on a role in a commercial.
Posted in: Ramen on the phone
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Frunky, allow me to quote the great Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes:
The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic. [...] The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent.
Thus, you are right insofar as the question is vague, and that what is said must be viewed under the specific circumstances of how the words were used. With the "clear and present danger" test quoted above, it should be relatively easy to tell whether something is permissible or not. (BTW this judge was the one who came up with the phrase "clear and present danger.")
Regarding your airport security example, oddly enough the law is clear that we do not have the same hightened expectation of privacy on borders and checkpoints as you would elsewhere. So if you threw a hissy-fit for someone touching you, you may not get the sympathy you would otherwise get if the same thing happened at a purely domestic bus terminal.
Posted in: Does freedom of speech include the right to yell "Fire!" in a crowded theater, yell "Shark" at a beach or joke about having a bomb on a plane, for example?
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She is an "actress" much like Pamela Anderson is an "actress."
Posted in: Identity crisis
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Miamum, that is a good question. Due to all the stories I have heard in the news, and on this site, I often wondered the same thing. So your question prompted me to look online. And according to an August 2007 article with Minnesota Medicine written by a Japanese MD and a western physician researching the issue, they wrote:
In Japan, as in all of Asia, there has never been a history of taking any medical oath; that is to say, there has never been a statement of ethical beliefs or commitments to “profess” at graduation. At Keio in 2004, only a small percentage of medical students had ever heard of the Hippocratic Oath. And an even smaller percentage could identify content from any medical oath.
Regrettably, the answer to your questions appears to be NO.
Posted in: Japan slowly learning to embrace organ donation
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You guys are misusing the term "right". By definition, a "right" is something you can exercise with no "consequences" - i.e., without any possibility of getting arrested. And causing panic in a crowded theater is precisely the consequence that laws against this type of speech are put into place to begin with. It seems like you are confusing "legal right" with an "ability." You are able to shout "Fire!" but you do not have a "right" to do so. Again, the question asked here was decided waaaay back in 1919 by the US Supreme Court. See Schenck v. United States Frankly I am surprised these questions are even asked on this site as there is really no controversy to discuss. (Perhaps the question is better phrased, "should" the freedom of speech include the right to scream "fire" in a theater, etc.)
Posted in: Does freedom of speech include the right to yell "Fire!" in a crowded theater, yell "Shark" at a beach or joke about having a bomb on a plane, for example?