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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Really? Were you in Hawaii when he was born? Were you in Kenya? Do you have a Kenyan birth certificate?
Amazing how a person, with no knowledge of the truth, can state these things as absolute facts. At the same time, it's hard to imagine one of these folks working overtime to prove a white person wasn't born in the States. Sad stuff.
Posted in: Obama releases full birth certificate to end controversy
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The lengths that people go to to pretend they aren't racist is pretty nauseating. He'd shown a birth certificate two years ago. Anyone harping on it since is simply a racist. Even Bill O'Reilly wanted nothing to do with the birthers.
Posted in: Obama releases full birth certificate to end controversy
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Public education is socialist. The fire department is socialist. So is the post office.
There are many successful, stable countries much more socialist than America (Canada, Sweden, Germany, etc etc).
This writer grossly misrepresents the issues.
Posted in: Fixing American 'dumbocracy'
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I wonder if Asian immigrants to the West bicker with each other as much as expats in Asia do.
Posted in: If a longtime expat starts offering you advice, walk the other way
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A Wii is a replacement for outdoor activity? No, just in the mind of writers who like to stir up paranoia. I took a two hour stroll in the sweltering heat of Okinawa today. And when I got home to my air-conditioned apartment, I enjoyed playing on my Wii for a bit. What did I not do? Sit and watch TV. TV is a thousand times worse than any video game, and games shouldn't be considered a replacement for the real world, but an improvement on the time spent in front of the idiot box vapidly watching stuff.
Articles like this piss me off to no end, since they promote ignorance, particularly among people who don't get games. Good job :P
Posted in: No Wii can't
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Wow, nothing to do with Nanking. I suppose the Nanking massacre was a good thing since Americans used nuclear bombs. No? What's your point?
Apologists and (lame) excuse-makers tire me out like nothing else.
Posted in: New film has Japan vets confessing to Nanjing rape, massacre
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The quake woke me up, it lasted a fairly long time (a minute?) It broke some glass in the kitchen, and I couldn't get back to sleep. It'll be a long day at work for me today, but at least it wasn't too serious.
Posted in: M6.9 quake jolts Okinawa Prefecture
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I was amazed by the Open Air museum there, it's the best museum I've been to in Japan. Though there are Japanese artists, it is an international museum, and I was deleted to see Henry Moore sculptures with an exquisite natural backdrop.
A lot of people don't "get" Picasso; they have my sympathy.
Posted in: A visit to Hakone Open Air Museum
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There's a clash between the modern world and the medieval worlds, but not Islamic and Western worlds. Extremist Muslims are just another type of fundamentalist, and not at all a representative of the Islamic world.
Posted in: Do you see a clash of civilizations coming between the Islamic and Western worlds?
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:D Too true.
I'm not American, but I think the Japanese government should continue with the agreement, or negotiate. The new government is bound to uphold past agreements... to a point. Why can't the United States be an ally of Japan without having bases in the country? Most allied countries don't require bases in each other's countries to have a military agreement. The cold war is over...
Posted in: Should the Japanese government stick to the 2006 agreement over the realignment of U.S. forces in Japan, which the previous government and the U.S. agreed upon?
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Same old excuse: The West did bad stuff, so people should ignore Japan doing bad stuff. Either it's okay, or it's not. Most of humanity is against landmines, anthrax, etc etc, and it's vilified. Likewise, Japan's actions in Nanking will be vilified forever in history.
Nemoflow was right on; the behavior there was medieval.
There is no comparing the fire-bombing of Japan to the mass rape and murder games of Nanking. One was warfare and one sadism. Unbelievable that people feel compelled to make excuses for it.
Posted in: Film on Japanese occupation of Nanjing wins top prize in San Sebastian
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Shintoshin, Naha has some great restaurants too, though a little less intimate. Loads of yakiniku.
Posted in: Naha: A place in the sun
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I've never been turned down in a bar, club, or izakaya anywhere in Okinawa for being a foreigner, but I never travel in big gangs of foreigners, who might be 'not invited'.
Naha is an okay city, but you need to rent a car and get out of the city. And stay out of Chatan unless you want to go to "American Village", the Japanese attempt to recreate Florida, a really ugly place. Some great food though.
Kumoji, Naha has loads of great restaurants too though.
Posted in: Naha: A place in the sun
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YES! Japan! You didn't lose!
Posted in: Australia vs Japan
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Azrael: I smoked pot daily for near 10 years, and am in perfect health, with a child on the way. Pot is a determent to success, but is in no way lethal, and in no way worse than alcohol or tobacco.
Separating marijuana and all other illegal drugs is a good idea, so people realize that some drugs are dangerous, and some are arbitrarily illegal, like pot.
Posted in: Is smoking pot harmless?
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Obama threatens trade sanctions? Since when. McCain will liberate North Korea? Sci-fi.
Neither will have much impact on Japan, but since Obama comprehends diplomacy, his presidency will facilitate trade around the world, thereby helping Japan.
Posted in: Who would be the best U.S. president from Japan's perspective?
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Pelosi can be both wrong and right at the same time. Bush is a total failure. And in the future, it will be said, "he was a total failure." Doesn't mean she'll be given credit for a job well done. Of course, anyone working in American politics today are doing an uphill battle, against a system inclined not to work.
Posted in: House Speaker Pelosi calls Bush 'a total failure'
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So America didn't have to invade Okinawa? America didn't have to fight Japan? Japan didn't have to fight the American invasion? Wise words... :p
Posted in: Okinawa
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Yeah, Voxmans opinion struck me as a little insane too. The notion that an American who doesn't promote the flag is anti-American is pretty fascistic. As long as people obsess over flags, peace will be a distant fantasy.
My experience in Japan is that people here are 98% peaceful, but unfortunately my my experience here with Americans hasn't been the same.
Here's hoping the young soldiers start buying less propaganda.
Posted in: Okinawa
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Thanks. Perhaps it's easier to cultivate that opinion living here since I'm not American or Japanese. Some people just prefer to be human.
Posted in: Okinawa