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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cptmendoza
If Muslim men feel that they have so little control over their sex drive that they need to have their women covered that must surely be their failing, not France’s. The French government have the right to create laws for their own country, as does any country and if anybody dislikes those laws they can either not go to that country or leave that country. Muslim countries have their laws and if you dislike them and feel that you couldn’t live by them you would not go there. You wouldn’t demand that they be changed to suit you. Well, you could but you wouldn’t get very far with it.
Posted in: 61 arrested over banned Paris Muslim veil protest
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cptmendoza
I can’t see what good he is doing but then I am not Japanese and don’t believe in here after type things. But I am sure that for those that do believe in such things it means a lot, and I wouldn’t feel I have the right to judge him or them.
Posted in: Praying man
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cptmendoza
I have just this moment realised where my future is going to take me. I am packing to move to the wonderful land of Australia to make a fortune. I’m going into the old business of making cigarette cases. There can be nothing illegal about a person buying their cigarettes in a ugly pact and transferring them into a beautifully designed cigarette case (made by me). Money!
I have to admit to a degree of disappointment though in the Australian man, after all these years thinking of him as the crocodile wrestler type we now find that it was the Australian women that were the real power in the country. Nicola Roxon sounds like a real hard case and knows how to keep those outback lads in their place. Maybe that was the big mistake the Australian men made, when they only had sheep and crocodiles they were THE man, they just couldn’t handle women and should have kept them out of the country.
First she takes your fags and next she will take your tinnies.
Posted in: Australia proposes tough cigarette packaging rules
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cptmendoza
The towns and villages may be in ruins at the moment but they are still home to the people that survived. They will rebuild because it is their home and for most of them it is also where they earn their living. Losing family, friends and homes if anything just makes these places that much more important to the people who survived.
Posted in: Do you think coastal towns and villages destroyed by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami should be rebuilt in the same places?
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cptmendoza
That’s it. Now we can sure that Tepco have been withholding the real details, high-speed replication of clones.
More seriously though, I just hope somebody is feeding them. I know some of the animal charities have been trying.
Posted in: Dog days
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cptmendoza
Fadamor
“describing what happened to the woman whose head was found in the garage.”
“another woman’s body was found in Nagai’s garage. The woman’s head had been wrapped in a polyethylene bag”
Fadamor, I think you could probably reason from the above that the woman’s head was still attached to her body.
Posted in: Man arrested over wife's murder in Hokkaido
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cptmendoza
smithinjapan at 05:36 PM JST - 24th September
“but realistically speaking humanity may not even be around in 14,000 years”
Well I’m sure they can always fit an automatic lock on his cell door given that there would be nobody left around to let him out.
Posted in: Philippine dad convicted of rape gets 14,400 years
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cptmendoza
JT being very American centred failed to mention that almost all the European counties also walked out, not just the US. Israel wasn’t there because today is a religious holiday and they wouldn’t have been there anyway.
One thing you have to keep in mind about Ahmadinejad is that he is quite mad, but he is not stupid, adding a few half truths and commonly held doubts into his nonsense creates all this comment, but it doesn’t alter the fact that the man is dangerous and never be have been given power. And that is not an attack on the people of Iran who, far more than anybody else, have to suffer this man leading their country.
Posted in: U.S. walks out on Ahmadinejad U.N. speech after 9/11 remark
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cptmendoza
The rest of the world’s media seem to believe that the hacker is a teenage Australian. The fact that he might also be a manga freak using a Japanese name really shouldn’t be that surprising.
Posted in: Twitter hack: Made in Japan?
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cptmendoza
How pointless trying to make comparisons between how a meat cow dies and how a “fighting” bull is killed. The killing of meat cows may not be that good, but at least it isn’t on TV as entertainment. It is the sickness of the cruel and pointless killing an animal for entertainment that is the issue.
And don’t get too clever about Catalonia only doing this as a means of acting against Madrid. That will have played a part yes, but that wasn’t what it was all about, besides some of you might be interested to know that Catalonia was not the first province to ban bull fighting, the Canneries were. And they are not nor even want to be a semiautonomous region.
Posted in: A farewell to bullfights in northeastern Spain
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cptmendoza
It’s reassuring to see that nobody is holding the whole of the Spanish people responsible for bull fighting. Very few Spanish people want anything to do with this so-called tradition. Yes there is a vocal minority and there is an even smaller group that actually are aficionados who will go every chance they get. They are the throwbacks that exist in all countries and not people that should be taken seriously. Sadly in Spain they tend to come from the old power block and in some cases do still have some power. Privilege is not entirely dead in Spain and some names do still wow the simple minded.
I am not a Catalan and it is almost innate in me to reject almost anything that is Catalan, but this banning of bull butchering for public “entertainment” is a seed that I hope grows throughout the whole county and through France (yes there is a part that still has bull fighting) and Latin America too.
Posted in: A farewell to bullfights in northeastern Spain
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cptmendoza
Pukey2
My Japanese is a little tacky or some such word to that effect and I am still at war with the Kanji memory battle, little by little. I will however ask the cake and pie eater of the family to get me some details and get back to you. When it comes to shopping she is the expert.
Cleo,
My mum once told me that the art of pastry is added to by the temperature of a the bakers hands, how true this is I don’t know, but if true then I seem to have been born lucky. What might help is not blind baking the base, putting the filling in and the top on and then baking for a little less time. What might also help is folding the dough to four or eight as you would if making puff pastry. Margarine that contains salt is always the better too. And yes it does make great meat pies, even if you can’t eat them.
“The expense makes it a bit of a special-occasion luxury, but then so do the calories.”
If things work out well you will never get a chance at getting any calories, good pies are always magic, they just disappear seemingly all by themselves, or so I am told.
Posted in: Bake my day
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cptmendoza
Cleo and Nick
Having lived in the UK I got to love what can be done in the name of a pie. Sorry Nick, not a potential customer because I make my own and I don’t use either butter or animal fats. I use margarine, no, not that stuff in the tubs, but block margarine which is not that easy to fine but can be found, just don’t assume all those blocks in the supermarkets are butter, they can sometimes be margarine. My prime veggie pie is cheese and onion and usually I need to fight people off with a stick to even get a little of my own pie. My Japanese wife refuses to learn to make pies (or any of my other weird and wonderful dishes) but then eats everything in sight, so I suspect that it is isn’t that the Japanese avoid strange foreign foods I think it might be they just want somebody else to do the cooking.
Nick, I like what you are doing and can understand the joy of making something special and getting paid for it. Best wishes.
Posted in: Bake my day
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cptmendoza
Klein2 at 11:18 PM JST - 29th June
“Did anybody read the article? 13 comments and everyone thinks that the dispute is about parking tickets?”
Did you read all the posts? I never said a word abut parking tickets because I read the article. I wanted the cars impounded at the gates to London. And it is not a tax, it is a charge for being allowed to drive in central London, much like a toll charge, or do the Americans not pay those either?
Posted in: U.S. Embassy tops list of unpaid London traffic toll fees
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cptmendoza
Sarge at 08:30 PM JST - 29th June
Sorry but we seem to be losing something in the translation. I have no idea what a beef pot pie is, but I get the general impression it is one of those pies that only has crust on the top while the contents sit inside a pot. If so then sorry, that’s not we are dealing with here. This is a pastry case the same as you would think of using for apple pies, content goes in there with a pastry lid and then baked. Sounds simple but a good pie of this kind is a work of art and that means you never (never) buy one of these wrapt in cellophane, those mass produced things are a crime against piedom. By the way, as much as I hate to admit this, the British do make the best pies, meat and fruit. Granted they can’t compete with the Irish when it comes to sausages. Germans for beer, French for cheese, Austrians for deadly chocolate cake. Sorry all the Spanish can offer is beautiful women.
Posted in: Bake my day
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cptmendoza
Sarge at 10:33 PM JST - 28th June
You have simply never lived in a civilised pie country. But don’t worry re-education is possible, and enjoyable. Lots of meat pies.
I can only wish the man lots of luck, food is always a difficult business to make work and the Japanese are so crazy about their own food.
Posted in: Bake my day
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cptmendoza
Diplomats have immunity and diplomatic cars are covered by the same immunity. The first cannot be arrested the second cannot be impounded. But the British do have license plate recognition systems all over the UK and most especially in London. So, simple solution that doesn’t break the diplomatic rules. Ban any car that has outstanding charges against it from entering London. Once the diplomats find that they have to get out and take a taxi or bus (a bus! No way) then maybe the charges will get paid.
Posted in: U.S. Embassy tops list of unpaid London traffic toll fees
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cptmendoza
BP secured the rights to the seabed for drilling for oil. They then contracted three (or more) American companies to do the actual work. One, Cameron International designed and built the failsafe valve that should have but didn’t stop the blow out. An other was Halliburton that did the foundation work for the rig on the seabed and finally there is Transocean who were contracted to do the actual drilling and extraction. BP had 8 administration people on the rig out of a crew of 126. Yes BP are the owners and therefore the liable party when something goes wrong. But they are not the company that made a useless blow out valve, they are not the company that was actually doing the drilling. So why are the America people both in the US and here on this site only talking about BP’s guilt? I accept that given that BP are the owners they should be held responsible in law, but the American press and Obama are not the law and have avoided in every way possible looking at who actually was responsible for the original accident. We have seen the other oil companies being made to face some serious questions about what they are doing. But we have not seen any of the 3 companies involved being put before the American people to answer for their actions and their failures. If I fault BP for anything at this time it is that they are still using Transocean in the effort to stop the oil. My own hope is that BP sues all three of these companies for every penny they have (in the American courts) and destroys them. Them the wonderful Obama can try and explain why all these poor oilmen have lost their jobs.
It is really wonderful reading how so many Americans are pointing the finger at BP and asking why they are taking so long to stop the oil. Why are they not asking why BP, Transocean, Halliburton and Cameron International are taking so long to stop the oil? Why does Obama only talk about BP, why is only BP being made to sit and listen to this talking head?
BP is 40% owned by US shareholders and we have above a silly person talking about America not doing business with BP again, would this not seem like many people have no idea what they are talking about? Galileo proved that the Earth was not the centre of the universe so why do the Americans still believe they are?
Posted in: Obama accuses BP of recklessness in national TV address
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cptmendoza
Vulture states need to determine how just how big their greed will be. The more oil the more money, no matter the actual level of clean up.
For those that seem to think that the British are complaining about BP having to pay compensation, no, you are wrong. The Brits are complaining that the Americans are hiding from both sharing the responsibility and paying their share of the compensation. And your newish leader for lack of a better description is working very hard to keep the heat off the American companies while demanding unequal arrangements to protect only Americans in the Gulf. This oil well might not have been very tight but wait until you see what all future contracts with American companies look like. All the expresident’s men got to keep their money this time but I cannot help but wonder who is ever going to do business with the Americans that currently hiding to avoid their guilt? I also note that no Americans have tried to defend their own. Perhaps it’s not possible.
Posted in: BP deploys deepsea sensors to better measure spill
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cptmendoza
We see a lot about how much money the State vultures are demanding from BP but we never see anything about Cameron International the company that made the blow out preventer that didn’t prevent anything. Nor are we hearing anything about GWBush’s friends Halliburton who did the cement work on the sea floor or Transocean who are the people who were actually operating the rig at the time of the accident. BP own the rights to the oil and leased it to Transocean. Of the three companies 3 are American and one used to be British but is now global. And maybe because BP is both global with more money and not American this may account for why the vultures are looking to rip it apart. How much can we expect the others to pay? When can we expect the American media to present a balanced story? Oh, sorry, I forgot, the American press don’t do balance do they?
Posted in: BP deploys deepsea sensors to better measure spill