JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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Confrontation
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U.S. Navy investigating how parts fell off aircraft near Atsugi
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California court to decide if SeaWorld whales are illegal 'slaves'
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Kuroki reported pregnant 2 weeks after denying relationship with Akanishi
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- Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) in Kanto region
- RCS (RCSコーポレーション), Kanto
- Salary: ¥180,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month includes performance bonus
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- Assistant Language Teacher - TOKYO - late-March start
- Interac, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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- Assistant Language Teacher - Kanagawa Prefecture - late-March start
- Interac, Kanagawa
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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That's not what you said in the last article. Still, if her suicidal talk wasn't reported to the woman supervising her then she can hardly be blamed. But with a school full of problem kids, why don't they have an effective perimeter fence on the roof? Solve this particular problem immediately if done properly. Too late for this girl though, but it's her own fault if she killed herself so I won't give her too much of my sympathy.
The758, I agree with you entirely. I come across this back home too, and recalling scenes from my past I can almost chart the way one lot of shoddy parents create the next even more shoddy parents, and I dread to think where we'll all end up.
This journalist, Ken Ko, seems to be able to sum it all up in a couple of short sentences. If only they were all that smart.
Posted in: Another question mark over Totsuka school's education methods
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Change the bit in the title about Japanese society to world society and you'd get it about right. The human race is going to the dogs, or worse. Do dogs treat each other as badly as humans treat each other? I doubt it.
I've heard of that kind of thing in other countries too. Not to mention people who beat someone up because they blinked or something, yobs who murder someone for nothing in particular, maniacs who set fire to people's homes because they feel like it, parents who terrorise teachers and make it impossible for the kids to learn anything except bad manners, and on and on. The phone problem is really just an irritation except for the way they insist on using their cell-phones while in or near the priority seats. Apparently people are too stupid to understand signs in their own language, and few people complain for fear of reprisal.
The kid eating food in the store rings a bell or two though, because although I've come across such ill-bred behaviour myself (from people who talk with a plum in their mouths no less) I suspect that this particular story may have more to it. Could they possibly be among the army of homeless people we rarely read about on here? It could even be that it was the only way they could get a meal, possibly even the first meal for days. On the other hand they could just be a pig ignorant scum-bag training her sprog how to be as selfish as possible. Who am I to guess?
Posted in: Self-centered zombies running rampant through Japanese society
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Fishy's right. Elementary kids do not ride bikes to school. For a start it's usually (always?) against the rules, plus there's no bike sheds or suchlike. So, she can't have been on her own. She probably rode on ahead of the parent who must have been with her (if for no other reason than to wheel the bike back home afterwards.) So why is there no mention of such in the article?
As for the driver, if the kid was hugging the bushes and fences along the side of the road and then wobbled out (as kids do, adults too quite often,) then of course he wouldn't see her. Especially with her being so small. Maybe he was driving carelessly, maybe we'll never know. But I hope it was quick poor little thing, at least quick enough that she didn't have time to register the pain.
Noirgaijin, I think there are so many trucks because most of them are way smaller than the ones in western countries. Well, mine anyway. But that's because the roads are so much smaller that they have to get through. It's alarming in the UK when a bloody great truck is trying to get through a ridiculously small road, and often they pull two of those boxes whatever they're called, instead of just one. Still they do it, daily. And yes, people do get killed.
Posted in: 6-year-old girl dies after being hit head-on by truck in Ibaraki
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Well, it'll be easy enough to check out their latest alibi.
If it proves to be false, they were asleep.
Or will they then make up something else? Let's see, 'I weren't asleep guv, I was just playing a pocket billiards challenge against the first officer.' You know, first past the post gets to pay for the porn flick we were planning to watch on the next flight.'
Or maybe, 'We were having an intellectual discussion on the concept of life, the universe, and everything.' Nah. Been done already.
Perhaps 'Sorry sir, the dog ate my homework.' Whoops, wrong subject.
Better leave it to them, seems they've got more practice in such lame excuses than me.
Posted in: Pilots were working on laptops when plane overflew Minneapolis destination
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Another thing they don't mention (in addition to whether the woman understands Chinese and whether the man made his demand for money in Chinese or Japanese,) is how he got in.
I'd bet she left the door unlocked.
If so it's really partly her own fault. But even if that's so I still feel sorry for her, and hope she recovers as quickly and well as possible.
Posted in: Woman attacked, robbed in her Tokyo apartment
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As for white-supremacists, I've never heard anyone use that term about the BNP but it's not too far off the truth. They're a bunch of racist, lazy, mostly unemployed @?!$heads. That's not any particular insult, I just haven't decided what I want to call them today. Some people call them the National Front, some call them skin-heads, some call them racist scum etc. White-supremacists sounds like an American term, but as I said it's not far off.
Posted in: White-supremacist fringe party invited to take part in BBC program
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Biginjapan,
That's not what the person said. Telling top chefs that if they don't appreciate Michelin and all it's trappings then they're not fit to cook food is insulting. Anyone can say what they think of a restaurant's food, even you or I. But we don't put it in a book, make money from it, and let our egos inflate to horrendous proportions with our wallowing in our own superiority. It's a personal taste, you know that. You probably love some of the foods I loathe. That's good, and probably natural. So what difference does it make if someone else thinks so-n-so's ramen is better than someone elses?
BTW, OneForAll, allegedly McDonalds is not the same everywhere. I don't just mean the menu items either, but some allege that better and sometimes larger and higher quality articles are incorporated into the meals, instead of the usual standard you find in the US, Japan, UK etc.
Posted in: Prominent Kyoto restaurants say no to Michelin
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Arrogant idiot.
Actually, I've heard of French restaurateurs refusing the Michelin ratings too. This is after having them for a few years, and finding that they no longer have true control over the direction their business is going, and can't create new dishes that the regular old clients would like because the toffy nosed new guys are too snobbish.
Is it legal for a guide like this to add restaurants to it's book when the owners have specifically said they don't want to get involved? Good on the owner who'll change his phone number to avoid creeps wanting to book a michelin rated restaurant, I hope his business goes from strength to strength.
Ben4short, many Japanese apparently know nothing about French food. It seems that when in France they are so desperate to eat at Japanese restaurants they rarely try real French cuisine. Tough luck to them, what's the point of going to a foreign country and not trying the food? Robs you of half the fun that does.
The758, surely if people are going to describe their creations as Japanese food they should be at least similar to real Japanese foods? Look at French toast for example, never heard of in France by any name but on school menus over here. Gotta keep up the standards, look at Parma ham, Melton-Mowbrays, and even the Italians are getting hot under the collar about pizzas. It's just because when foreigners make a product and name it after an existing product it should be very like the real thing, not some limp and feeble impersonation.
Posted in: Prominent Kyoto restaurants say no to Michelin
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Only if he wants to.
But if he wants to show the world (or just Japan) what he'd do to Japan if it got
then he can always demonstrate his determination on anthony39. I'm sure he'd be glad to help. After all, he's obviously a concerned citizen.
Posted in: Should U.S. President Barack Obama visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki when he comes to Japan in November?
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Twins are often like this. Even identical ones are often at each others throats to the point that the parents are scared one or both will do something irreparable like this. (Perhaps that should be especially identical ones?)
To us foreigners it makes no real difference whether the one stabbed was born first or second. So why kick up a stink about it? I don't know the accuracy of Yelnats comment that they both have the same given name, no offence meant to Yelnats himself but the papers are quite capable of making mistakes. As we all know. Damn stupid thing to do though, I wonder if such idiocy as naming more than one kid identically is legal here?
Anyway, I want to know exactly what mental disabilities the younger girl has. That is definitely relevant to the story. I'd also like to know if she was entirely unprovoked, as I know well what human beings can do to each other (even without weapons.)
Posted in: Younger twin stabs older sister after argument
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That's the first sensible thing I've read today. And how refreshing that they didn't just terminate the contracts of the 'more than 100'. But maybe they don't take staff on for a couple of months trial like in the UK, leaving people being chucked out for any old reason at the end of their few months. I hope those useless children (because that's how they behave) actually learn something useful from this experience. If not, maybe they could be sent en-masse to some war/quake/typhoon-torn country and learn how to build them decent homes.
One of my relatives (hubby's relatives actually,) is a junior high teacher, and is frequently frustrated, not just by the attitudes of the students which were fostered in a feeble-minded elementary school, but by the attitudes of the parents. Me, Mine, Want, Do it my way, My child needs more, Give lessons suited to my child. Not to mention the fact that they yak away non-stop and leave their keitais on high volume when visiting the school during class-time. Very rude and ill-mannered, not to mention unbelievably stupid and irresponsible.
Posted in: New breed of employees can’t communicate and wilt under pressure
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Pawatan, they know everyone gets all hot under the collar and posts about it. It's not like they actually care or anything, but they know many readers do.
Speaking of whom, where are they all? You know, the ones who are always accusing most J-men of being sick paedophiles? Where are they so they can start blaming all Brits for it too?
When I saw the pic at the top, I thought "here we go, if that was a J-artist they'd be screaming that it was proof of Japan's paedophilic tendencies." So I wondered what would be happening on this thread without the not-so-subtle aspect of anti-Japan racism to egg it on.
Not a lot, is the answer.
(I think he's sick in the head btw, if anyone's interested.)
Posted in: Is there more to controversial art of Trevor Brown than meets the eye?
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On a larger scale, this is the bit that concerns me,
The trouble being that the kids everyone on here's talking about these days did originally live in Japan, for most of their lives, but the convention doesn't care about that, they only care about the country the kids are living in at the time of the application for custody/access.
Personally I think that's morally wrong, although if the worst comes to the worst I might regret saying that. Frankly whoever wrote this article in the first place is guilty of deliberately misleading people. Or he or she was in too much of a hurry to proof-read it carefully.
Posted in: 8 ambassadors urge Japan to solve global child custody disputes
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Thank you dbung10. I wasn't thinking quite so literally I'm afraid!
As for Ratpack's free haircuts, why not obligatory shaving of heads, faces, and maybe chests etc. too? Hell if they want to put people off using their flights they may as well do it properly. ;-)
Posted in: ANA asks passengers to go to toilet before boarding
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How grotesque.
Regardless of their motives for firing her, how incompetent they must be to release such a foul image by accident.
Pathetic company of pathetic people producing pathetic products for people so pathetic they think it's all worthwhile.
Posted in: Model in altered Ralph Lauren ad for Japan speaks out
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I agree with Maria's comments on recycling too. Shocking that they weren't already doing it, everybody else recycles bottles and paper cups ffs.
Although I fail to see what using the loo has to do with airline carbon dioxide emissions, but I try to use the loo before boarding as I don't think you're supposed to use them on the tarmac because surely they empty downwards? Or maybe the ANA loos are different?
Posted in: ANA asks passengers to go to toilet before boarding
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Instead? I thought the idea was for the two airports to share the load of international flights? Theoretically reducing the urgency of adding new runways or terminals when (or if) the industry picks up again. And also keeping Narita free of 1 and 2 a.m. flights while Haneda gets all the noise.
Posted in: The comment was a bolt out of the blue. It gave me the chills. It was like being defrauded.
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Horrible thing to do, but I don't think anyone would mistakenly swallow it. It's 5 c.m long.
More likely she would have injured her hands while trying to peel it, as it wouldn't escape notice beyond that point. But that brings us back to betterdays' question, was it a sewing needle or a syringe needle?
Posted in: Needle found in mandarin in Yokohama store
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Besides, if a quarter of the G8 countries allow (in effect) child porn, what use is the group of 8 anyway?
Posted in: Japan and Russia are the only two G8 countries that do not ban civil possession of child pornography.
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But surely the G8 only consists of 8 countries?
I want to know how many countries there are in the world that do not ban civil possession of child pornography.
Then I'll be really interested.
Posted in: Japan and Russia are the only two G8 countries that do not ban civil possession of child pornography.