JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- 秘書及び業務サポート
- 加治金属工業株式会社, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥4.0M / Year
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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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- ALT - Mie Prefecture - Yokkaichi City - June start
- NPO法人グローバル教育推進機構（GLAD), Mie
- Salary: ¥230,000 / Month For a full working month. Some months differ.
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@tmarie - as said above, it's a pointless argument with the Zidane vs Kagawa ability comparison (if you really want to go down that route, how about you compare the Zidane that played at Bordeaux before he signed for Juventus with today's Kagawa?). Anyway, my point is that language ability has pretty much zero importance when signing a player. If you want to go 'further down the scale', how about looking at Nani when he signed for Man Utd - did he speak English? Did Thierry Henry (who was a failed winger at the time) when he signed for Arsenal? How about one of the Premier League's most successful recent signings, Papiss Cisse? Did Newcastle give a damn he can't speak English? Nope. They signed him because he has massive potential and understood that he'd pick up enough English to get by in the team. Same goes for Kagawa.
Posted in: Manchester United boss Ferguson meets Kagawa
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and for the record, if Man Utd, Arsenal, Man City are in the hunt for Kagawa - he's pretty highly regarded. Hardly a dime a dozen player.
Posted in: Manchester United boss Ferguson meets Kagawa
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tmarie - do you actually know if Kagawa and other 'Japanese players' speak English? Did Zidane not speaking Italian or Spanish stop Juventus and Real Madrid from signing him? Hundreds of foreign players go to places like England, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Portugal with no clue how to speak the language. They get on fine - as Dog says, Tevez, Aguero are two of the best players in the EPL, Fabregas couldn't speak English when he first came - he became one of the league's best players too. Same with Eto'o, Zidane, Roberto Carlos in Spain, Ibrahamovic, Shevchenko in Italy...notice a common link? Yep, talent gets them through. Having a bit of language ability is great, but they pick it up anyway after a few months of playing and training every day in that country.
Posted in: Manchester United boss Ferguson meets Kagawa
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Who cares what Takeshi is saying? He's entitled to his opinion. It's a pathetic opinion, but still, why should anyone care what this old dude is saying?
Posted in: Beat Takeshi compares same-sex marriage with bestiality
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Dog - although Nakata did study Italian and spoke English, you will find that his short-lived career in the Premier League (at Bolton ironically) was nothing short of an immense failure. Reason being, he couldn't keep up with the pace of the Premier League and was too used to Italian football, where you get time on the ball.
Kagawa has fast feet, can dribble past players, and has experience in a fast league in the Bundesliga - he will do very well in the EPL. He's a totally different player to Scholes now (he's more like late 90s Scholes), and is probably more similar to Rooney than anyone. Still, I don't see Ferguson putting two 'support strikers' like Kagawa and Rooney together up front as they need an 'out and out' striker in there like Hernandez, Owen (LOL) and Welbeck. He seems to like Welbeck the most right now. I could actually see Man Utd playing 4-2-3-1 with Carrick and Scholes in a holding role, Rooney, Kagawa and Valencia (or Nani or Young) as attacking mid/support strikers, with Welbeck/Hernandez at the top. 4-4-2 is pretty much dead now.
Posted in: Manchester United boss Ferguson meets Kagawa
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If you prefer the real WWF, gimme a hell yeah.
Posted in: WWF says over-consumption threatens planet
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Utd definitely the best move for him - Ferguson is a great mentor for younger players. I'd expect to see him playing alongside Carrick/Scholes in the centre, perhaps in a David Silva-type role.
Posted in: Manchester United boss Ferguson meets Kagawa
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I'll take one if they're being handed out, but no way I'd buy one.
Posted in: No hands
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Some great advice here. City and Chelsea have an amazing record in developing young players don't they? How many of their starting 11 came through their youth system? Man Utd or Arsenal are definitely the best options. They're basically the only big teams with a track record and managers who know about developing and mentoring younger players. Spurs could be alright too. Not only that, but there's no way he'd get into the City midfield - Utd have an opening tailor-made for him. He'd be a mug to pass the opportunity up.
Posted in: Kagawa tight-lipped on future after Ferguson visit
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Sounds as though Dortmund are not that bothered if he goes - strange, as they should be fighting to keep him.
Posted in: Kagawa tight-lipped on future after Ferguson visit
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Housewives will become a thing of the past in Japan - middle income families will no longer be able to afford this luxury. Time for many more of the talented and capable women of this country to start seriously considering their careers after childbirth.
Posted in: Housewives seeking part-time work squeezed out by surge in jobless
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People will turn their backs again. It'll be an embarrassment.
Posted in: Emperor, empress to visit Britain for Queen Elizabeth's diamond jubilee
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smith - what sort of dirty messages did you get on Mixi? You should reply as some sort of hilarious joke.
Posted in: Japanese rate Facebook's pros and cons
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Just refuse them. What's so difficult about clicking "no"?
Coercing somebody to talk with a gun to their head is one thing - being coerced to talk on Facebook chat? You're a mug. Just close the browser.
Facebook, Twitter, etc is what you want it to be. I can't fathom how it can be stressful. Be friends with who you want, follow who you want, share what you want, turn it off when you want.
Posted in: Japanese rate Facebook's pros and cons
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tmarie - the LGBT community may be denied those rights (which I obviously think they should have too), but I don't see them doing anything to promote awareness about this stuff. All I can see is a few guys dancing around in ridiculous clothes. Maybe if they actually approached the parade or whatever they want to call it with a bit more purpose, people would be more positive in accepting their message. Dancing around like morons does nothing to promote these liberties they're being denied.
Posted in: 2,500 march in gay pride parade in Tokyo
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That woman in the red jacket is a moron.
Posted in: Banzai!
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Stopping music/movie/tv show/game piracy is simple - make the legal way to download this stuff simple, convenient and at a reasonable price, and people will buy it. We'll probably never be able to eliminate piracy completely, but trying to stop it by force like with SOPA/PIPA isn't gonna work - it needs to be stopped in a positive way by improvement of existing services. People turned to piracy for a reason - they were sick of paying ridiculous prices for CDs, games, movies, waiting forever for TV shows to be released in other countries, etc. Look at iTunes, Netflix, Steam, Spotify, etc as examples for any industry - these are succeeding because the services they provide are convenient, priced well, and are simple to use.
Posted in: Politicians just don't understand copyright issues
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Terrible invention, bad it immediately.
Posted in: Cleavage cover to keep prying eyes away
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Classy
Posted in: Joyrider
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Wow, it took 16 years living abroad to look at people as individuals.
Posted in: Cultural differences, misconceptions and learning