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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ebisen
I'd like to go there to meet my friends :) - will surely not miss flying Thai Airlines, as it's always judged among the best. Once landed in Bangkok but it was Air India (read 100 kg stewardesses and 45 year old first generation 747 stinky as hell)... So hopefully my next flight in to Bangkok will be on better terms.
Posted in: Flying high
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ebisen
I've hit so many a person during my cycling career in Japan that I stopped counting - hilarious is that they usually apologized for it, although I was obviously too fast for that sidewalk :)). Fortunately nobody got hurt in the process, and now I'm a very good driver which brings me to:
Don't cycle on the narrow roads if you can, people!! - use the sidewalk whenever possible and even when not possible... you can't imagine how one feels as a driver overtaking bicycles with less than 50 mm (that up to 2 inch) to spare!! - usually I slow so much I'm travelling at the bicycle's speed - far too dangerous...
Posted in: Confused by Japan’s cycling laws? You aren’t the only one
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ebisen
In this picture alone you have more than 1000 people - consider a 7mx7m square enough to hold around 80-100 persons in a crowd. Rock-Star like Welcome - I believe they truly deserve it
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ebisen
When we built our house, together with the house-maker sales guy, we did a complete tour of the neighbourhoud (read about 20 houses), saying hello, apologizing and leaving a tower and a pamphlet. The entire thing (bags of towels, etc) was prepared by the house maker, but I could bet it was still paid by us :)...
Posted in: Navigating the intricacies of Japan’s gift-giving protocol
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ebisen
OK - I'm taking back all the teasing and the bad things I said about this team - they played very nice and the goals were really world class. Japan has indeed become (to my great surprise) a strong world power in football...
Posted in: Goal!
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ebisen
Come on!!! This happens everywhere near a golf course. I have a friend who lives near one and once got a ball through his windows. This never got into the news!!!
Posted in: Camp Zama introduces strict penalties for over-enthusiastic golfers
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ebisen
Adobe Flash Player 10.1! (read - a lot of free goodies)- something Steve Jobs would not allow it's properly brain washed customers to use
Posted in: Verizon: Droid X smart phone coming July 15
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ebisen
Come on JT, how much is Apple paying you? Not a single article on other even smarter phones like the HTC Desire and Sony Xperia? HTC Desire is soo much better than the IPhone but unfortunately it is not receiving some well deserved publicity...
Posted in: iPhone pre-orders trigger long lines
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ebisen
Klein2 - I swim just in the middle of Kujukuri, where the Sotobo-line would touch the beach if it wouldn't curve towards South. It is a very nice black sand area - that's right one could easily walk 50-70 meters into the sea with no problems but if the wind is in the right direction, and on high tides you can find very strong currents even if from the shore everything looks nice.
It must be the gulf shape of the outside of the Boso peninsula, causing the water to "funnel" into Kujukuri beach
Posted in: Woman drowns while trying to rescue child at Chiba beach
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ebisen
xpompey - even better if it would use the "Bujalani" in the same time with the vuvuzela - like this - blow the vuvuzela and balance a Lajubani on top of it to see if it cancels the sound out...
Posted in: Good form
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ebisen
This is so more interesting than a moon landing... I tracked the Hayabusa's progress since even before it's launch, so it feels good it' finally back home. Let's hope for some nice results out of it...
For all that care, this guy made a nice graphical description of Hayabusa's Odyssey. It had some really bad moments as one can see. It's here: http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00002535/
Posted in: Space probe returns to Earth from 7-year trip to asteroid
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ebisen
Kujukuri can have extremely strong currents and eddies, especially on high tides. I live nearby and very often swim in there (not yesterday but last week) and sometimes the current fells like a strong river parallel to the beach - not for the beginner swimmer...
Posted in: Woman drowns while trying to rescue child at Chiba beach
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ebisen
Thorny issue here... Of course he will pay for killing his wife, but this will probably not solve anything. I'd say that this kind of mercy killings are the signs of a failing society.
Posted in: Elderly man arrested for allegedly killing sick wife in Hachioji
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ebisen
chotto - LOLs what would the alternative be?
Answer: Android!! - well at least MY HTC Desire phone it's way over any iCrap... Hey Apple fans, how about watching a Flash page or playing a Flash game on the iPad?
Posted in: Waiting for iPad
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ebisen
societymike, hosrefella, you are both wrong - a modern (built in the last 10 years) car engine spends less than 5-10 seconds worth of fuel for startup, thanks partly to stronger starter motors, improved injection strategy and reduced friction.
If you are to idle the engine for more than 30 seconds you should just stop it...
read here - a very informative article: http://hiroshimagab.blogspot.com/2006/08/idling-vs-cutting-engine.html
I can't give my own data, but I indeed KNOW what I'm talking about, working exactly in this field...
Posted in: It’s time to penalize drivers who leave their motors running
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ebisen
Frungy - if your car (any car you can buy in Japan) is made in the past 10 years, if you are to idle it for more than 30 seconds it would be better to just shut the engine off. I KNOW what I'm talking about...
Posted in: It’s time to penalize drivers who leave their motors running
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ebisen
I just hate the fat truck driver idiots sleeping inside their trucks with the engine idling all the time. Nobody here seems to notice how bad this can be for the environment...
Posted in: It’s time to penalize drivers who leave their motors running
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ebisen
It is difficult to define "best" but if we talk about "technologically advanced" and "running on time" it is for sure Japan (although TGV and ICE are not THAT far away).
Japan's latest shinkansen train types are the most efficient and silent, and could be the fastest in a very reliable way, should the track allow it...
Every time I had to use the ICE there was a more than 5 min delay for a route not longer than 150 km.
Posted in: Which country has the best high-speed rail technology in the world?
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ebisen
I wonder if milk is good for growing rice...
Posted in: Grow-Your-Own-Rice bra
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ebisen
Oh brother - go see it in 3D in an IMAX cinema - nothing beats this... in 2D is just another SF movie...
Posted in: 'Avatar' sells 6.7 million DVDs, Blu-rays in 4 days