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
dammit - wtf? they did nothing illegal or something... as long as it's legal to get married once you're 16 and her parents agreed, I don't see what's the fuss about? It's never written anywhere that he statutory raped her at 13 or something, so what the hell??
Posted in: Takahashi's bond with wife 24 years younger is stronger than ever
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ebisen
tabana - how about trying to make more sense in your comments? What jail and what children?
Posted in: Takahashi's bond with wife 24 years younger is stronger than ever
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ebisen
nisegaijin, sorry but your comment is not acceptable. I think the plane had nothing to do with it, the atmospheric pressure inside should be just the same as at 3000 meters, and that's not dangerous for children. It seems to be just SIDS... Very very sad for the parents.
Posted in: 1-year-old Japanese boy dies on flight to Hawaii
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ebisen
As a (glider and small planes) pilot I've broken two (cheapish) watches at less than 6g in aerobatics. So this is very useful actually.
In case of a crash - expect forces of many tens of g therefore this watch will probably not survive also, but G-Forces are tested by dropping them from the 10th floor on cement ground and they should survive it with no problems...
Posted in: Casio's Pilot watch
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ebisen
Except for sashimi and sushi, I took doggy bags everywhere. Chinese, Italian, Indian, you name it, I did it.
Just ask for "mochi-kaeri" - 持ち帰り - I doubt any restaurant would refuse you (except eat all you can types)
Posted in: Doggy bags slowly infiltrate Japanese dining scene
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ebisen
KyokoSmile - probably he won't want to marry her though ;) - anyway he's a real hero, risking his life to save somebody...
Posted in: Man saves woman from train after she falls onto tracks
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ebisen
She's finally over her drug problem. The rumors were that she was just a few hours away from death at some point. I'm a big fan, although I couldn't go to this concert. She has a very very good raw (as in not computer-processed) voice. I wish she'd sing more acapella style...
Posted in: Whitney Houston
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ebisen
This is so much better than the stupid giri-choco custom. I'm a male and I don't want to eat anything given out of obligation. J-Consumerism at it's best, fuelled by stupid ads just in order to increase spending.
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ebisen
One of the really talented guys, with something in their heads as well. He's actually quite interesting to watch... I guess it's his intelligence..
@slizzer - LOLs about loosing the afro - you really think it has around 2 kilos?
Posted in: Papaya Suzuki shows off sleek new form
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ebisen
Although FedEX is not our main corporate delivery service, whenever I used it, their service was of the highest quality. It never disappointed and basically I can't think of anything I could complain about...
This kind of says it all...
Posted in: Fast movers
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ebisen
Angelo - show me where someone can become the CEO of a company so huge as Hitachi in less than 20 years from joining as an apprentice?
Posted in: Hitachi returns to profit, replacing CEO
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ebisen
It's exactly the same to what happened to Schindler in Japan. One accident caused by poor maintenance by some Japanese company caused Schindler's name to be in bad media for weeks afterward. Amaizingly how did the Japanese not felt wrong about that...but now feel bad about the Toyota's name next to bad press.,,
Posted in: Japanese ask: Is U.S. backlash on Toyota a ploy to boost American auto producers?
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ebisen
sharky1 - if they were arrested then definitely they broke some laws.
Posted in: Five 'adults' arrested for disrupting Coming-of-Age ceremony
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ebisen
at 7.9% interest rate he'll pay more than double back to the state... a very good business for the bank lending him that money and very very far from a charitable/goodwill action.
JT should think deeper into before portraying this in such pink colours, as this guy is going to pay through his ears the next 10 years...
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ebisen
All of you commenting bad about this one, guess what...
It DOES MAKE A DIFFERENCE - regardless if you're Japanese or foreigner... I had the chance to try their previous model (in one of the stores) and indeed, exactly the same rice tastes better from a 100.000 cooker than from a 40.000 Yen one. And if the list price is 110.000 Yen for something selling only 12.000 units a year, you can be sure that the production price is not much lower anyway (sometimes they will sell it at a direct loss, only for the positive marketing and image received). Carving the pot could take a lot of manual work and the materials don't seem cheap either...
Posted in: Steamless rice cooker
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ebisen
Bholder
Hell Yeah - you don't ever want to know what kind of prisons they had/have in Vatican, and how many people were tortured and killed in those dungeons.
Posted in: Pope knocked down by woman at Christmas Mass
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ebisen
holly sh*t... Just imagine driving at more than 100 km/h and some crazy guy jumps out of some random car in front of you... I drive A LOT in Japan and this is one of those nightmare scenarios...
Posted in: Man jumps out of car to death on Kanagawa highway
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ebisen
Use the OpenOffice people... I always have hard time understanding any IT manager in smallish companies justifying payments of up to 1000 USD/workstation just so that someone can write simple Word files and save them as PDFs.
OpenOffice does this (and much more) for free, and without any break of patents or code-stealing. It is hard to understand why isn't used more, except people's laziness as a big factor...
Posted in: Court bans sale of Word; Microsoft has fix ready
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ebisen
Some security responsible will surely get his backside kicked by a Godly boot...
Posted in: Pope knocked down by woman at Christmas Mass
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ebisen
majimeaussie
"In technical terms, gluons are vector gauge bosons that mediate strong color charge interactions of quarks in quantum chromodynamics (QCD). Unlike the electrically neutral photon of quantum electrodynamics (QED), gluons themselves carry color charge and therefore participate in the strong interaction in addition to mediating it, making QCD significantly harder to analyze than QED." - I don't pretend to have written this - it's from Wikipedia..
You have to study particle physics for a few decades to even start judging the meaning of the names they give to particles... but this is just to give you an impression of "how smart" is "VERY smart"
Posted in: Atom smasher ramps up collisions before year-end