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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dano2002
Cleo,
Yes, in the case of a stay at home mom then probably you are right. But, if the sole breadwinner is non Japanese and working quite late (get home at 8 or so) then it is hard for the kid to learn English. Especially, when mom is Japanese, school is Japanese and country is Japanese.
A solid groundwork in Japanese where they live in Singapore yet ONLY speak Japanese and only have Japanese friends. Can't watch TV or go see a movie in another country.
The difference is that my child speaks both languages.
I see a very large difference in both the teaching and behavior of the kids.
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dano2002
Or, if you ever want your kid to go to US or UK Univesity.
Honestly, I think many of you that claim that Japanese schools are ok are just saying so because the cost or international schools is ridiculously expensive. I cut the budget in other areas to make it work. Plus, I called every school near my home and asked for a discount. Finally, one accepted.
Now, my son is bilingual as my wife is Japanese. If not, I wonder how he learns English? from daddy on the weekends?
In my case, i just moved to Singapore and my son was able to easily transition. Many of my transferred Japanese co-workers can not send their kids to English speaking schools so they send their kids to Japanese school here. This is more expensive that the English speaking ones.
So, those of you with kids in Japanese schools I will say this. Be prepatred to either live in Japan forever or have a really tough time for you kid adjusting. And, this is both for language and culture.
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dano2002
At our school the parents complained about the driver's age and they finally replaced him. But this took us threatening to leave the school.
Now, some older drivers may be just as good as younger ones. But, i would expect that a younger one may have common sense which most ojiisans don't. What type of fool leaves an elevated area to drive near the ocern during an tsumani warning. This is common sense 101 that these little kids probably understood more that the driver.
But i don't think it is his fault really. the school is to blame. at some point the teachers were putting the kids on the buses and no one said this is probably a bad idea?
This school should be closed, the teachers fired, and anyone responsbile jailed.
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dano2002
Yes, the fantastic Japanese way of life. A place where a middle class family lives in 60 m2. Or, you can buy a house and 1.5 hours from Tokyo and spend 3 hours a day on a train. Great.
In the US the housing bubble and greed caused everyone to lose their homes. fools who could not afford to buy million dollar homes bought to either live in or flip. then, cried when they forclosed.
Let's see how long Japan can keep it up with the strong yen. already, I heard the job market is horrible in msot sectors.
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dano2002
First of all, going to work is probably easier then spending all day, every day with little kids (no more naps).
I spend both weekend days with my kids and i am exhausted.
and, let's not pretend these fools are working to 10 PM everynight. They could go home at 6 but do not because:
In this bad econcomy business is less. so, a lot of guys are going home earlier. then, there is the other set of guys that pretend to work when everyone knows they don't have that much.
in any case, my wife is a housewife. If we cannot continue to afford it i like for her to be at home to take care of the kids (ages 5 and 1) if she wants. however, when the kids get older then i bet she will get some type of part time job so she doesn't go crazy.
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dano2002
Armen, do you mean the war that Bush and the Republican war mongers started for no reason?
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dano2002
Something seems fishy here. I wonder if this maid is looking for a big payout and planned this whole thing. Otherwise, this guy has some serious mental issues.
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dano2002
I don't think this picture = description. there is no way these are stray dogs. they are all the same breed.
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dano2002
part time or contracted workers cannot work past their alloated time or else they get overtime pay. And, no company will pay that these days.
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dano2002
CNC..so he just shot 2 nice fellows who were just following him? I find your story of the events quite hard to believe.
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dano2002
I wonder how many of you actually have kids? My point being that kids often need a good spanking. And, since they know that bad behavior may lead to a spanking, they will adjust their bad behavior. So, you don't have to constantly spank.
Now, for those who do have kids and do not spank, i would love to know how you discipline yor child? talking to? reasoning? some type of punishment?
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dano2002
Please, just mind your own business.
Posted in: If you saw an adult hitting or roughly handling a child in public, would you intervene or just mind your business and assume it was a parent disciplining his/her child?
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dano2002
You DontKnow- so part of the fake 9-11 they created a fake hole in the ground in Pennsylvania? And, the airplane and people on it are in an underground cave someplace?
Wow!
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dano2002
Techall
Asking someone to have a threesome/foursome is not rape.
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dano2002
I don't believe her story at all. I think she like one of the guys and he coerced her (via words) to be with his friends. Then, after, he dumped her. She got pissed. For me, the 5 days that passed is the key.
This same thing happened to guys I know. Except she did not claim rape (yet). A girl had a twosome and then was shocked that one guy did not want to be her boyfriend. She stalked him and caused a big stir.
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dano2002
In the past, she did not have to sell her movies overseas. The US Gross was doing OK and the overseas amounts were just gravy. However, now her US movies are doing horrible (because of bad reviews) so she needs to overseas sales to make money.
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dano2002
The largest Corporation have the highest profits in years. Why? better sales numbers? of course, not. because they slashed payroll and are not rehiring. so, tax cuts for corps and the wealthy are not indicative to spending those cuts on creating new jobs.
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dano2002
How about a related article "Pakistan struggles with image in US".
And it is funny how eveyone hates the US but wants to live there.
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dano2002
Honestly, I don't get home to 7:30 or 8 each night. Where is the time to talk to my kids in English during the week? 1 hour at night or in the morning is not enough to learn English. So, i spend the extra money to the job I cannot do myself. At least now I can spend my limited weekday time time actually communciating with my kids in English rather than studying.
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dano2002
Cleo, you are obviously here for the long haul. I am not. I want my kids to speak English so they don't end up working for 5M a year working until 10 every night just because his boss does.
So,the question is how do YOU teach your kids English? You said earlier that we should encourage speaking in Japanese because we live here. So, if your kids go to a Japanese school and you and your spouse also speak Japanese then where is the English?
I am talking about when you kid goes to a park, not friends from school.
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