JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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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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Well go on then, RUN.
Run as far away from me as you can, you dirty fool with your foul stench of stale tobacco smoke that wafts around you constantly. (JT, tobacco smoke stains clothing and everything else. Therefore, using the term dirty to describe someone producing tobacco smoke is not unreasonable.)
If not wanting myself and my kids to breathe in your foul odours makes me a monster, then so be it. I'd rather be a monster than allow you to pollute the air my kids are breathing and damage their respiratory systems.
To me, people who smoke are monsters, and the companies that get rich off them even more so.
Posted in: Anti-smoking 'monsters' have smokers on the run
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I can only compare the US news they show on NHK and the dubbed Japanese news.
Both are hopelessly biased towards their own shores and the land within them. Of course. Why not? It's normal. Japanese news is more likely to have women with shrieking voices though. Plus there's Mr No-personality as I call him, from Ohayou Sekai if I remember correctly. A voice like an unmanned drone. (Poor bloke is probably a really nice guy in reality!)
What's wrong with Japanese news focusing on the Japanese crew member Combinibento? It's normal for US TV to feature the launch of any old US shuttle as main news, or at least news. But to the rest of the world it's too routine and distant to bother us. When it goes wrong, then it's news. But you should realise that if it wasn't for the occasional Japanese crew member the shuttle launches would generate little publicity here, and less cash. Think of all that footage and publicity, do the Americans really give all that footage away free? I doubt it. The only reason they have foreign crew members is for money. Remember that. Do you think the US covers all of the foreigners' costs? I think you'll find that allowing foreigners on board is the only way they can afford to keep it going. Plus, with a bunch of foreigners on the space station everyone has a reason to want it to stay safe. That's no joke, and no small expense. Do you think Japan is the only country that doesn't give a monkeys' about the shuttle launch without a national on board?
Anyway, in this house we're constantly criticising the ABC WORLD news because most of the time there's little or no WORLD news on it, it's just American news. Americans have a reputation for only caring about themselves for good reasons, many of them can't seem to understand that America doesn't actually rule the world, and certainly don't seem to realise that people of other nations actually are human beings and have rights. Japanese news may seem to refer to all foreigners as gaijin (surprise surprise,) but at least it acknowledges that they exist and aren't in any way under Japanese control.
Posted in: What do you think are some of the main differences in the way Japanese and U.S. media report the news?
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Some people are truly disgusting.
Leaving a 2 year old and a 4 year old home alone?
Sick people. Whichever of them left last is responsible for this death, and any damage caused to the 4 year old. Why is it in this day and age that some people still think it's acceptable to leave kids unattended?
Poor little girl.
And if anyone thinks the smoke alarms currently being installed by landlords will protect them they can think again. They seem to be designed for households where lots of people smoke, so they simply don't go off at times when a real smoke alarm would. Okay for in the kitchen, but not for in bedrooms where you need the extra time provided by a sensitive smoke alarm. Yet another case of smokers' rights being put above lives. (I'm not suggesting a link between smoking and this fire though, just pointing out how useless the alarms are.) A real smoke alarm might have alerted these kids and their neighbours sufficiently to get the kids out in time.
Posted in: 2-year-old girl dies in Kawasaki apartment fire
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Saw a cop on tv about an hour ago. He whipped out his phone and started snapping pictures of a mountain of futons that had been dumped by someone. Not as unusual as I first supposed then.
But the best thing about this incident is that it will hopefully bring home to people the fact that cop plus phone = taking photos of crime scenes. Hold the upskirt jokes please. Maybe there won't be any more cops being punched for doing their job.
Posted in: Man punches officer for using mobile phone camera at crime scene
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Papigiulio, I hope I didn't offend you or anything. Still, I was just pointing it out! But you know what I mean? A warehouse fire is very different from a house fire unless there's someone in there. It doesn't mention that here though, so I guess that's not the problem.
But as I said, it's highly unlikely the cop was out of uniform, so how could this guy think he had the right to punch him? Ask him what the heck he's doing perhaps, then he can explain that he's been issued the phone to get basic initial photos to help with the investigation. Then there wouldn't be a problem. Yes I know, people aren't rational when their business is up in smoke. If it was his business premises, I don't know about that.
Posted in: Man punches officer for using mobile phone camera at crime scene
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Serve him right.
He did an unbelievably stupid thing. Not just joining the SS, but climbing onto the whaler.
He wanted publicity, now he's got it. But it's not quite as romantic as he hoped.
Serve him right if he gets out in a year or two and finds that his wife's left him and shacked up with his boss or someone. But he's already writing his book I daresay, and if anyone buys it maybe he'll be able to pay the child maintenance and live a reasonable life. Maybe.
Posted in: Antiwhaling activist Pete Bethune is facing 5 criminal charges in connection with his intrusion onto a Japanese whaling vessel. What do you think about it?
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Papigigiulio, this isn't his house on fire. It was a warehouse. Even if it was his warehouse, full of his stock, he still should have been more concerned about whether anyone was inside or not rather than how he could best obstruct a cop doing his job.
It's extremely unlikely the cop wasn't in uniform, so it's hardly believable that he thought it was some bystander taking pictures for laughs.
If you or I were standing taking pictures, then he'd have a reason to be angry. As it was a cop, one can't help wondering if there's more to the story. Was there a chance that one or more persons were inside? Even then he could hardly expect a uniformed cop to waltz in and rescue someone from an inferno.
And the jokes are very funny guys. So funny you can just hear me laughing. Har-de-har. Stupid sense of humour.
Posted in: Man punches officer for using mobile phone camera at crime scene
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I think dismembered bodies pop up in all countries though, but there have certainly been a few here in the last few years. But most of the murdered bodies we read about on these hallowed pages weren't chopped up, JT would take great pleasure in telling us if they were because it would boost the number of comments exponentially.
Poor woman, whoever she was, however old, and however she actually met her end.
Posted in: Headless body of woman found in suitcase in Kanazawa mountains
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“everlasting sprout”?
Are they trying to tell us something?
Perhaps they ought to just say it outright, as the name and pic combined just leave my mind in a total blank.
Posted in: Everlasting sprout
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You left out the most important part JT.
Right-wing Israeli politicians have said that Britain is a dog that isn't loyal to Israel. As dogs are normally only loyal to their master one can only assume that right-wing politicians in Israel feel that Britain is merely it's pet. I wonder what they think of America then? I notice there were no US passports included in the fakes. Personally I feel really hostile to the Israeli politicians right now, calling my country a disloyal dog, who the hell do those losers think they are? If only Britain would treat them the way they deserve, and America too, they would have all sorts of embargoes and what-nots to make their arrogant lives difficult.
Also, the same right-wing politicians commented that Britain was wrong for expelling that man because Britain should refrain from judging Israel for it's actions in it's war on terror. This is basically a confession that they were involved in some way with the assassination. Why else would they suggest that the expulsion was in any way linked to any Israeli war?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article7073250.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=797084
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I think Google doesn't stand a chance. It may as well give up. But it's a shame for the Chinese people who are basically treated the way everyone else in the civilised world was until around 50 to 150 years ago. (It varies of course from country to country.) Few rights, and even those are withdrawn when the powers that be feel like it.
Kronos, if you think the Chinese government is the only government in this world that commits those cybercrimes then you should think again. It's happening far closer to home than you would like. And they get away with it too. Makes you sick when you think what they'd do to us if we got caught out committing similar crimes.
Posted in: What do you think of the ongoing dispute between Google and China?
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Oh dear.
Oh dear oh dear oh dear.
Oh dear oh dear oh - you get the message.
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Force them.
It's the only way.
Make it so companies are legally obliged to force men to take paternity leave. And make it paid (of course).
Posted in: What is the best way to get more men to take paternity leave?
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Unbelievably tacky. Although it could potentially be much worse, so mustn't grumble too much.
Glad I'm not going near Ginza in the near future though.
Posted in: Larger-than-life Erika Sawajiri returns
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And next? The useful mobile phone holder for bicycles, so that the young and trendy can have their hands free while they watch TV and ride into the path of that truck. (Or maybe it just means they'll be able to watch TV on their phone and hold an umbrella at the same time?)
Really, I'll be surprised if some people don't actually watch programmes on their phones while riding, as they always seem glued to that little screen instead of the road.
But what sort of programmes are they making? 5 minutes long? What's the point? I'd rather watch bits of something more worthwhile here and there, and gradually work my way to the ending over a few days. 5 minutes? Sounds like kids programmes. But then many young adults behave like kids, so what the heck.
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They're sorry for the diplomatic fiasco, but not for what they do.
Typical.
Posted in: Israeli apology gets cool reception in Washington
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Blimey, if, as I suspected they might, coca-cola dumped Asashoryu/ Fantarou because of his alleged antics then how long will it take them to dump this lot? They all (or some at least) seem to have potentially dodgy past histories, one is already banned from NHK, one seems to have had the necessary surgery to become a major porn star (although naturally I wouldn't suggest that that was the reason and risk upsetting the wonderful mods on this site,) and god knows how many of them have (or had in the past) drug problems.
This doesn't look like a stayer to me, certainly not for the ads (I saw it a couple of days ago actually, we didn't take much notice except for the lack of Fantarou,) and as for the band itself? Who knows.
Once they get dumped by Coca-Cola, just wait for the court case over the name.
Posted in: DJ OZMA, Akebono, Megadeth's Friedman form new band "FANTA"
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You mean he could have shut it off at any time but chose not to because of his speed? How surprising.
And yet it managed to go back to normal in time for the investigations. Lovely.
If he's genuine, this means that if he'd put it in neutral and turned off the engine at the beginning when it went berserk he would have been ok. He'd even have been able to restart the engine and it would probably have been fine to drive, although no-one would blame him for pulling it over and taking a break. So why did he continue for such a long time? And why didn't he think of using the hand brake by himself? Is it really such a hard thing to contemplate when you want to stop at all costs?
Posted in: Mystery over runaway Prius in Calif deepens
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If JT had known that this thread would degenerate into a JT-moderator bashing session, would they have asked a different question I wonder? Perhaps they should sit up and pay attention to those of us who think they're over-zealous, because if we get so sick of it that we stop using the site they're going to lose money.
I'm pleased to hear that the people who posted death threats were arrested though, and I'm also pleased that you don't get that sort of thing here, mods or no mods.
Posted in: What do you think of 2channel, Japan's biggest Internet forum, where anonymous netizens post anything, including death threats?
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They say she was frightened by some rowdy behavior. But knowing what children can be like I wonder whether it wasn't much worse than that.
If you think children are automatically respectful of people like her, you only need to check out what happened to prince Charles. Sometimes being told to call your classmate sama instead of chan is enough to cause hostility, and having all those miserable cameras pointing at the poor kid just makes the difference more obvious. I bet some of her classmates hate her guts, in the jealous, she's got more stuff/attention than me sort of way. They probably do really nasty things to her when no-one can see. Kids are like that. Her mother's infamous problems won't help her either. Kids are cruel.
The question is, is it really a good thing to force a child to suffer torment just because he or she is in the royal family? And moving her to a girls' school wouldn't help. Girls are just as bad but in a different way to boys.
Posted in: Many people won’t want such an unhealthy family to become emperor and empress. If Aiko’s problems continue, this will only put more pressure on the crown prince.