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- Export/Import Personnel
- Yamato Soysauce Miso Co., Ltd. 株式会社ヤマト醤油味噌, 石川県
- Salary: 月給 23万円 ~ 25万円 相談可
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- Administration Officer
- Destination Asia Japan, 東京都
- Salary: 月給 8万円 ~ 10万円
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- PR／Translator
- 株式会社CMC ( CMC ), 東京都
- Salary: 月給 31万6000円 ~ 35万円 相談可
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- International Account Manager
- Cosmo PR Corporation (株式会社 コスモ・ピーアール), 東京都
- Salary: 年収 500万円 相談可
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- 営業アシスタント
- 株式会社 天時情報システム, 東京都
- Salary: 月給 25万円 ~ 35万円 相談可 歩合制
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crustpunker
Absurd.
"reinforcing loyalties and relationships" builds stronger cultures thus performance simply improves like magic? All this postulating on what management is, doesn't address one very simple thing.
TIME
the obligatory nomikais, the weekend bonding trips, the staying until 8:00-9:00-10:00 at a certian point contributes to stress and exhaustion. It is a very simple thing to understand
tired people make mistakes, mistakes then need to be rectified, bombs defused, this eats into productivity more than anything else here.
when projects/tasks aren't managed with regard to workers ABILITY, safety, realistic expectations, feasabile outcomes... well, I think we've all seen the results of THAT over the years here. Corners cut, rights abused, high suicide rates, no accountability and a general miasma of lethargy and fatalistic thinking in the younger generation.
"Management" in Japan is mostly for dressing up sets on the stages of the workers lives and making them believe that the unbelievably sad and poor quality of life they live is normal and should be taken pride in.
Posted in: Why Japan is winning and 'Western management' isn’t
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crustpunker
Yup, Every morning I watch at the window as the fleets of whaling boats make their traditional foray into the ocean to engage in their "longstanding cultural tradition"
but wait, I thought that this is "research" not "hunting". Which one is it? If the REASON claimed for hunting whale is for "science" perhaps the fisheries minister should be more selective with his words? It's utterly contradicting the claimed purpose of whaling no?
long tradition... 68 years or so doesn't seem like THAT long of a tradition for a country with as much history as Japan.
hilarity.
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crustpunker
Explain why you would be "happy" to do so? Will your company still pay wages commensurate with the cost of living as "Macs and gas get a little more expensive"?
The REASON people are cynical is because we see tax going up which is maybe not to hard a hit if all you buy is "gas and macs" but how about people looking to purchase a home, a car or any other myriad of big purchases?
People should consider themselves lucky if their salary/bonus stay the SAME. Many people are potentially heading into a world of skit here pretty soon...
Posted in: Voter support for Abe rises to 72%
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crustpunker
Don't worry everyone! I'm sure the statue will stand strong in the face of stiff opposition!
Posted in: Shimane town demands pants for Michelangelo's David sculpture
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crustpunker
@papasmurfinjapan- "girly men"
from Linguist, Edwin Battistella-
"girly-man is implicitly contrasted with such terms as he-man, macho-man, or manly man. These terms bring together images of physique, strength, courage, and will in an image of comic-book manliness. The controlling male stereotype is that of the muscular action-hero male as manly and of other men (non–weight lifters, nonmacho straight men, gays) as lacking courage, strength, and decisiveness. As critics of the usage pointed out, referring to someone as a girly-man requires adopting this stereotype as an instrument of either humor or derogation. And it further entails adopting the complementary stereotype that women are not so strong or decisive as men"
use with caution? or with extreme perjudice?
Posted in: What are some Japanese words or phrases that you think are very difficult to translate into English?
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crustpunker
無我- (muga) One of my favorite Japanese bands.
恋愛-(rennai) sigh.......
微妙 or ビミョー(bimyo)- not really or I'm not sure?
意外(igaiiiiiii) kinda gyaru talk? like if you say you like something and someone thinks that is surprising you get that sometimes?
凛として時雨 (Rin Toshite Sigure)- Another band, just cannot begin to fathom how you might put this into English.
Posted in: What are some Japanese words or phrases that you think are very difficult to translate into English?
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crustpunker
Human beings have historically expressed the rational interest to suffer in the present in order to gain (or hope to gain) in the future. Altruism, which has undergone extensive philosophical debate, might very well be rooted in forms of "pleasure" obtained by the selfless (painful) acts for the benefit of others. The pain/pleasure premise put forward by such arguments, reinforced by an impulsive reaction for gain, has become a socially rewarded pattern. This has generated a mentality where short term gain is sought after often at the true expense of long term suffering.
Today, the only real Value Theory in place is what could be called the "Money Sequence of Value".Money has taken on a life of its own with respect to the reinforced psychology moving it. It has no direct purpose in intent but to work to manifest more money out of less money (investment). This "money seeking money" phenomenon has not only created a value system disorder where this interest in monetary gain trumps everything, leaving truly relevant environmental and public health issues secondary and "external" to the focus of economy, its constant propensity to "multiply" and "expand" truly has a cancerous quality where this idea of needed "growth", rather than steady-state balance, continues its pathological effect on many levels.
Posted in: How to function optimally in Japanese work environment
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crustpunker
At my school, we have the option to order hand made (same day) bento that gets delivered in the afternoon around 11. It comes with a fairly sizeable box of rice, furikake for the rice and a packet of miso you just add hot water to make soup with and a seperate tray of the main lunch. It is usually quite healthy and has about 3 types of various vegetable dishes, hijiki, greens, moyashi, soy beans, some sort of mini-salad. some pickles, something sweet like one of those carmalized sweet potatoes or a dango, then the main dish which is usually some kind of fried thing like shrimp tempura, various types of koroke, tofu burger/hambaGU, salmon, saba, karage or a breaded fried piece of chicken slathered in a light sauce with various vegetables, mabodofu or a small pasta. it costs 310 yen. The menu rotates daily and the money gets taken directly out of salary and we recieve an invoice at the end of the month, if you do the math, you can eat for THE MONTH for around 6000 yen.
The company is called CHUOH bento.
Often, because the rice is a bit too much or when I feel full, I'll wrap the rice up and take it home and use it for dinner, just boil up a pouch of curry or something for like 200 yen or so and pour it over rice and there is dinner!
Helps offset the cost of going out for dinner sometimes. I suppose i am very grateful to easily have this option for eats. It gets delivered, I don't have to carry anything to school or wake up and prepare anything or shop specific FOR lunch items. In that way, I feel happy.
However, as I am slowly eating away at cold salmon alone in a break room, staring out the window at grey clouds and distorted nimbus crawling through a frozen blue sky, I wonder...
Posted in: Survey reveals 24% of workers in Japan spend Y250 on lunch
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crustpunker
"Teachers" first and foremost need to be recognized as "people".
Contrary to what many people complain about, teachers in Japan, like everywhere else largely just try to do their jobs well and for every 1 news story you read about some wackjob pulling stunts, there are thousands who are going in and working hard with what would i suppose would pass for "passion" here in Japan.
What I find though is that the teachers in general are NOT given ample amounts of constructive criticism and or feedback on their lessons and job performance from peers OR from management. I also think that alot of teachers aren't perhaps equipped with the emotional maturaity to hear that kind of criticism and NOT take it very personally.
I believe there is also a marked lack of training, follow-up training and teacher-led workshops. The general approach seems to be "well you graduated with a degree in teaching so, here ya go teach!" In a system like this, people who have natural affulence to the job will do OK perhaps, but those that have the potential to be good but need more direction may fall on either side of the fence.
It is like anything here. The thousands of hours wasted in useless non-constructive meetings that are mandatory could be much better spent in more proactive ways and actual teacher development.
Posted in: What do you think about the quality of school teachers in Japan?
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crustpunker
AKB48 is the logical progression of the Pokemon generation. "Gotta collect 'em all"!!
clear files, badges, newspapers, anything and everything marketed for people who obsess about the collecting of things. but it's like Moomin said,
"Always better to be a collector than an owner."
I dunno, it seems to make all those "middle-aged men" happy to have this (albeit) odd outlet for their happiness in their lives. I think that it represents an eternal sadness that their lives haven't turned out the way they wanted. Empty, forlorn and largely bereft of satisfying intimate relationships, they pine for the freedom of their youth and that is what this "band" represents to them.
The true Final Fantasy.
I don't really agree with it, I think it is kinda creepy to say the least but at least it keeps those individuals focused in their obsession rather than ACTUALLY being obsessed and stalking pre-teen and teen girls. Perhaps that is a good thing?
Posted in: AKB48 singer Yuko Oshima launches new Wonda canned coffee ad campaign
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crustpunker
Many of the comments here seem to bring up an important point which is the marked inefficency of the education system WITH longer school hours PLUS juku etc.
This culture of spending insane amounts of time studying = improving your knowledge base, leads to a kind of psychosis I swear. Before exams at my HS, most of the kids will stay up until 2 or 3 a.m. studying. At a certain point, that actually becomes detrimental when you then have 2 hours of sleep and have to then take an exam. Seems like a no brainer to me that sleep is more important than pulling an all nighter each time exams come up.
I often tell my students, study a reasonable amount of time and either you know the material or you don't. Staying up and not sleeping is NOT going to help you any more than just getting a good rest and feeling refreshed to take the damn test the next day.
I wonder, HOW exactly do kids learn study methods? Are they taught efficent ways to study at some point? Including how to take organized notes or just told to "spend as many hours as humanly possible" and "write down everything on the board"?
I believe this also goes for the workplace in Japan. In my country, if an employee is working until after 8 p.m. when everyone else has finished their job at say 5 or whaterver, this would indicate to the boss that this employee is either not performing to task or needs further training. after 2 weeks of consistent late finishes, there would certainly be a meeting to address WHY this employee can never finish their work on time like everyone else.
If EVERYONE at the company is going home late all the time, this would indicate that the management needs to work on prioritizing work loads or hire more people to do the job in a manner consistent with "normal" working hours.
Though, here in Japan, I believe it isn't uncommon for many employees to pad their unfairly low salaries by purposefully staying late all the time to get more money at the end of each month. This of course creates a domino effect of everyone having to stay late because no one wants to be the first one out the door.
What a mess.
Posted in: Japan considers 6-day school week; teachers not enthusiastic
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crustpunker
rote teaching=rote learning=rote teaching=rote society=rote living.
Posted in: Japan considers 6-day school week; teachers not enthusiastic
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crustpunker
smithinjapan sums it up.
**it's the constant schooling that LEADS to said apathy in many cases; club, school, club, a rushed dinner, juku, homework. Club on Saturdays, club on Sundays, club over the holidays. **
Passive/rote learning, students largely repeating what their teachers tell them, gives them a head full of facts that are perhaps memorized but does that mean they are understood? Knowledge is not just a drawer in yer noggin' that you pull index cards out with answers written on them. Adding another day of school would not do anything other than make everyone tired.
I can tell you that as a full time teacher that regularly works on Saturdays, on those days (even though it is a half day) kids are exhausted, many are sleeping or distracted, their eyes rolling so far back in their heads that they need to visit hospital to get their retinas reattached. Also, many of the other teachers I work with sort of just go through the motions to get through the day..
Forcing more hours on kids who already have way too much on their plate won't add any sudden new level of performance. It will just add to their burden and largely be demotivational for all involved.
oh and a 40 hour work week. HA! 8:30-6:00 (though most leave around 7 or 8) Mon. thru Fri then 8:30 to 1:00 on Sat. Of course after that is club and if there are games or something on the weekend then we have to go to those too.
Posted in: Japan considers 6-day school week; teachers not enthusiastic
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crustpunker
in what way is this obamanomics?
this is exactly what a majority of advanced economies would do and that is to direct money towards infrastructure projects. reinforcing schools and hospitals for earthquakes
how about building schools ans hospitals that work. not just more of them. Quality not quantity aye?
Posted in: Cabinet approves massive Y20 tril stimulus budget
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crustpunker
Never has there been such an inexcuseable lack of lethargy and incompetence as this debacle continues to fester and those affected continue to suffer. "Actions not words" indeed. Who holds those responsible for RUINING lives that have already been decimated by the disaster? We are nearing the point where the handling of this disaster is almost as bad as the ACTUAL disaster. The people of Japan and the government are like joggers running in place at a red light waiting for it to change. Forever waiting. A broken bureaucracy, a lethargic population that seems to collectively be in the throes of Stockholm syndrome/capture bonding by what the gov does to them, media that ignores the problem in most all forms of media, the relationship reminds of the cyclical nature of Ouroboros constantly recreating the same problems over and over again. Rise up Japan and take your country back. Or continue to suffer as pawns, less than pawns on a radiated chessboard....
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crustpunker
On this topic and on many others, the same overall tendency to post about what the Japanese gov. companies etc. SHOULD do to make life easier or less of a burden for the common people is well, where I think everyone starts to lose the thread.
Zichi often posts very insightful solutions along with many other JT readers, without any of us being true experts on most of these topics it is hard to say if they really would work but at least they sound like they would. I applaud you all for your research, insight and optimisim.
Here's the thing though,
the gov. the companies the top 1 or 2 % simply DO NOT CARE.
I'm sure they are made fully aware of how changing business models, regulations, rules etc would lead to happier lives for their customers and for the people of their district but that's not what they are here for. They are here to get as much as they can, any way they can and steamroll over anything that gets in the way of maximizing PROFIT. That is it.
When it all comes crashing down in a fiery mess, when we are all weeping in a ruinous frenzy about the state of modern Japan and how we can barely meet ends meet or hardly put food on the table, when it is too late to go back, only then will people realize what they should have done by making their voices heard and by tearing down a system that is rotten to the core on every level.
dire.
Posted in: Anti-nuclear parties fail to specify how energy gap will be overcome
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crustpunker
Can anyone explain how or WHO notifies commercial airliners NOT to be in the flight path of an unpredictable missile? How does that work exactly? Or does the DPRK just shoot it off hoping that a plane full of people doesn't happen to be in the way? Curious....
Posted in: N Korean rocket passes over Okinawa; U.N. Security Council to meet
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crustpunker
@tmarie-
I have never worked as a JET but from reading their misson statement, we can see that the programme exists NOT for the sole intent of "improving English levels"/racism/international education. I am not a huge proponent of the JET programme anywway and i'm not sure what the real intent of it is supposed to be but I think too many people make the mistake of thinking it is supposed to be an English programme first and foremost. Can anyone perhaps explain more clearly what the misson objective of the JET thingy is?
Posted in: Is the JET Program right for you?
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crustpunker
So, by this statement, we are then to assume that homosexuality is something inherently wrong/vile/abnormal/etc?
or is it something only girls aren't "allowed" to encourage?
what about the insane amount of dudes that are clearly homosexual or at the very least "encouraging acting/dressing like women" that we see EVERYDAY on TV here in Japan? THAT is fine though???? I can't think of any of the names at the moment but that massive fat dood always in a sparkling evening gown, that smiley massage/este guy, c'mon help me out here I'm sure you guys can name a ton of these types we see on crap TV ALL THE TIME! To a lesser extent, anyone remember "Hard Gay"? I realize he wasn't gay but how come he got a pass????????????
the amount of intolerence here in Japan is intolerable.
Posted in: AKB48 candy ad criticized for encouraging homosexuality
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crustpunker
Does "sentenced to life" in Japan actually mean being incarcerated IN prison until the charged dies? Even still, he could be eligable for parole after 10 years in the clink...by then, I bet he gets out...
Posted in: Life sentence stands for Ichihashi after he loses appeal