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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dbung10
nice picture, makes you feel happy for them both.
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dbung10
He doesnt have to conform to the wills of society. Unless he is representing his country at an official event (getting on the plane at Narita to the olympics), in which case he does have to conform to the will of the organisation that paid for his ticket. If he doesnt, it shows him up as a spoilt little brat.
stevecpfc - I agree with everything you said. Real sportsmen will behave with respect to the people that support them, watch them, play with them and play against them. A little rich boy that wants to prove how 'cool' he is will untuch his shirt, losen his tie and think he's fighting the system.
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dbung10
@scotch
Please tell me where I was addressing you? Im talking about snowboarders here, not you. Snowboarding aint an 'alternative' sport or hobby anymore. Its in the Olympics! It couldnt be any LESS alternative. If you are going to enter the Olympics, accept that you are mainstream and go along with the protocol. If you dont want to, give up your spot for someone that does.
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@hoserfella
Thank you thank you thank you. So glad someone said this. If you want to snowboard because you like it / are good at it then great, good luck to you. But to think its in some way cool, and that you are a rebel cos you dont tuck your shirt in? seriously sort it out. You know what, the 'coolest' guys and girls on the slopes nowadays are the skiers. They arent doing it because its fashionable, they are doing cos its fun. They usually havent spent thousand of mummy's yen on designer gear, they just do what they wanna do.
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dbung10
I may be wrong here - but dont uniqlo usually make a point of using sort of 'normal' looking models - i.e. not super hot or extra kawaiii...? It sort of fits with their image and is a decent marketing strategy methinks.
Posted in: Jeans please
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dbung10
Cute kid, funny expression, terrible shirt.
He is putting the girl back down on the floor, its an action shot. Maybe he doesnt know how to hold a child, but you cannot infer that from this photo. Its not a photo of him holding a child, its a photo of him carefully putting one down, you can tell by the way he is looking at the floor so that her feet have a safe place to go, and the fact that he is in between kneeling and crouching.
Or, if you are a particuarly miserable person, you could attack the guy as 'not being able to hold a child' and then extrapolate to all japanese salarymen not knowing how to hold children even if they have their own and then turn this into complaining about J guys. Also, I can see a woman in the background, she is probably pretty so if you like we can complain about how vapid and vain all japanese women talentos are. Oh, and look at the lack of ethnic diversity in the picture. man, this guy is just a big racist baby hater. He is the leader of japan so that means japan is racist and hates kids.
Lets just be nice about the picture.
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dbung10
Tabehodai doesnt mean buffet.
Posted in: How well founded is Japan's gastronomic pride?
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dbung10
It is very difficult for companies in Japan to fire an employee when they are full time and permanent. Employment laws heavily favour the employee. Thats why you cannot fire someone for not doing their job properly. I used to work in an office of mostly japanese staff and their fear of answering the phone when the receptionist was away was comical.
Posted in: Bosses uptight over newbies' ignorance of phone protocol
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dbung10
Im pretty sure that Lehmann brothers staff, and many others - did bleed along with the rest of us. I agree that there is a lot of greed in the bansk and there are many there that deserve punishment that they will never receive. Its not just the bankers though, 'the rest of us' spending more money than we have on credit helped bring about the sub-prime crisis which started all of this off. We ALL need to be a bit more responsible.
Posted in: The punishment of banks: To whose benefit?
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dbung10
no, it isnt just you. Give me the imperial palace or gaienmae jogging set any day over these 'models'.
Posted in: Tokyo Runners
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dbung10
Haha, thats a nice way of putting it.
Japan: So China, we raped and murdered thousands of people in your country and would rather not apologise and kind of deny it happened to the extent it did if thats ok?
China: No, we hate you. Also, the general population's hatred of you as a people helps us keep everyone in line.
Japan: So we should or shouldnt apologise?
China: Publicly we will demand an apology, but really, as long as you dont apologise and the government and people have a common hate figure, that works well for us.
Japan: Cool, we can also kind of 'save face' here too, right, by not really apologizing?
China: Yep! Works well for everyone doesnt it. If its ok with you, we will keep bringing this up every couple of years or so.
Japan: ok - should keep some journalists in a job as well, and they can pretty much just copy and paste....
Posted in: Japan, China still at odds over 'Rape of Nanking'
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dbung10
@seppinho. - none of 4 adjectives used in your sentence apply to this picture.
Posted in: Tokyo Runners
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dbung10
As Suzu1 mentions above there is plenty of coke coming from Mexico now too.
Yes legalizing coke and taxing it may solve these problems, but right now that isnt the case. So if you buy coke, you are funding cartels that machine gun down groups of children. It isnt a victimless crime.
Posted in: 13 young students murdered at party in Mexico border city
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dbung10
@johnnyreb. I would agree with you if this was some bizarre local law that they had broken, but Im pretty sure that taking a group of kids out of the country without documentation and therefore no real way to trace them is pretty much frowned upon in every country in the world.
Ive just seen an interview with the lady that is the apparent spokeswoman for the Christian group. Arrogant and creepy as hell.
Posted in: Haiti detains 10 U.S. Baptists for taking 33 kids across border
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dbung10
Foreigners, Japanese, I dont care - I hope they live out the rest of their lives in pain, the majority of it spent in prison. scum.
Posted in: 3 pedestrians killed by car in Nagoya; driver, passengers flee
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dbung10
So here we have a group of people believing in an omnipotent and benevolent God, visiting a country that has just had a couple of hundred thousand people suffer a horrible and needless death.
As if this wasnt annoying enough, this group then decides to steal some of their children and plans on sending them to a country where there is a good chance that they will become involved in underage prostitution, with a client base of dudes from the states, that probably go to church every week.
Anyone else annoyed with Christians right mow? Come on guys, if you wanna do your little church club thing every week where you sing about some made up stuff to make you feel like you have some meaning in your life then go ahead. But please stop foisting your beliefs on others and acting like you have moral superiority to others that gives you the right to do stuff like this.
Posted in: Haiti detains 10 U.S. Baptists for taking 33 kids across border
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dbung10
Taking an 'intoxicated' girl up to your apartment is one thing. dragging a girl that was too drunk to stand up into your apartment is a whole different thing entirely... Although Im sure he just gave her a glass of water and slept on the couch.
Posted in: Hideaki Ito spotted with heavily intoxicated woman
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dbung10
Still think that your Friday night line of coke is a harmless and 'victimless' crime? This is where it comes from.
Posted in: 13 young students murdered at party in Mexico border city
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dbung10
Im with KyokoSmile on this one. We all have a duty to look after those who cannot fend for themselves.
Really? what are you basing this on?
I agree. Its also pretty easy for the female too...
A 'fair bet'. So you assume that most guys would leave girls that they got pregnant to fend for themselves? You must really hate guys.
Agreed that she was probably scared and alone. Confused? not sure why she would be confused. No desire for the baby to die? Well she didnt seem to have much desire for the baby to live either. It would have been a 'piece of cake' for her to call an ambulance, or get someone from the supermarket to do so.
again, what is this 'confusion'? where are the 'lack of options' she had options, and she chose to leave her baby alone, in a toilet, to die.
Posted in: Newborn baby found dead in Fukuoka supermarket toilet
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dbung10
They look happy, its a happy picture, Im happy, lets all be happy and smile at the happy people. This is nice. Its Friday too.
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