JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) in Kanto region
- RCS (RCSコーポレーション), Kanto
- Salary: ¥180,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month includes performance bonus
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- Assistant Language Teacher - TOKYO - late-March start
- Interac, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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- Assistant Language Teacher - Kanagawa Prefecture - late-March start
- Interac, Kanagawa
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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fds
isn't this how godzilla was born? :)
Posted in: Ocean life can handle radioactive leaks, say experts
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fds
i wonder how many TEPCO employees were former government nuclear safety regulators?
Posted in: TEPCO to scrap 4 reactors at crippled nuclear plant; president hospitalized
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“How is it possible to stop waves of humanity with military force?” Ahmadinejad said.
if anybody know how to do it he does. he does it to his own people who are shiite even. i guess that makes it ok.
Posted in: Bahrain locks down kingdom as uprising surges
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fds
iran can complain after it give its own citizens the right to vote.
Posted in: Bahrain king clamps down; 3 dead as unrest spreads
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fds
btw, i had a friend who lived out in kawasaki and after the trains shut down he would just go down the line of taxis and ask them if they would take him home for a 5000yen. except during bonenkai season, he would inevitably find someone that would.
Posted in: Why are Tokyo cabbies so clueless?
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fds
the problem is that you tend to remember the bad experience more so than uneventful ones.
generally, considering the address/road system, i find taxis in japan are pretty good. the problem in tokyo is that you get drivers coming in from saitama who don't have a clue and just clog up the streets around the station waiting for fares.
and they end up waiting cause the fares are too expensive so nobody wants to ride unless on a expense account or out of necessity. look at HK, there are tons of taxis but during rush hours and when it rains its nearly impossible to get one cause they are so cheap that people think nothing of shelling out the money to ride.
as for the quality of the drivers, they do vary from company to company. i've found ebisu and mk are pretty good. also kojin drivers, they may be gruff sometimes but they do know where they are going and are fast.
Posted in: Why are Tokyo cabbies so clueless?
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fds
stop complaining. just do the same to china's warships and force them to create the international incident.
Posted in: Japan protests over Chinese chopper that neared warship
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fds
no more welfare. make it workfare and have them clean public toilets for couple hours a day. if they don't show up or don't do a good job, no pay. the government should get something for the money it pay.
Posted in: How-to books on living comfortably on welfare selling well
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fds
anyone want to bet that they were all drinking on money they got from seikatsu-hogo?
Posted in: 2 women, including 80-yr-old, arrested for beating man to death in Fukuoka
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fds
its only a matter of time. the only question is the severity.
Posted in: Christchurch quake may portend major seismic activity for Japan
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fds
democracy, another name for mob rule which is of course so fair and just for all?
Posted in: Bahrain locked down after 5 protesters killed
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fds
its a war and should be treated as such.
Posted in: Norwegian shipper: Kill pirates on the spot
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fds
difficult position for the u.s. how do you support democracy in egypt, iran, while supporting monarchy/dictatorship in saudi, yemen, etc.
Posted in: Egypt echoes across region: Iran, Bahrain, Yemen
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fds
notice princess masako is not too depressed to attend events in europe but always excuses herself from events with africa, s.e. asia, etc. what an embarressment.
Posted in: Japanese tabloids make hay of royal family foibles
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fds
a lot of people have the potential. when i was that age, i think that i may have even had the potential. but when push comes to shove, actually going out, planning and acting on it is another thing altogether. as for japanese getting drunk and complaining, i think all people everywhere complain, its a way to let of steam. but at least they don't go out looking for a brawl.
Posted in: How many Katos are out there, ready to explode in rage?
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fds
if they are under the age of consent, for nudes i would imagine they would need their guardian's approval. whereas if they were over, they're fair game and it could be considered "art".
Posted in: Tokyo man arrested for paying schoolgirls 30,000 yen to pose nude for photos
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fds
if its the bureaucrats' fault, they should have changed the law to make it legal to fire them.
Posted in: Hatoyama blames bureaucrats for his failure on Futenma issue
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fds
if recidivism rates for sex offenders is so high, they shouldn't be let out of jail in the first place! the gps could be offered to them as a way of allowing them out into society.
Posted in: Miyagi's mandatory monitoring of sex offenders raises potential problems
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fds
unfortunately, they probably don''t have the laws in place to do that but they should.
Posted in: Ambulance, rescue crews summoned for increasingly ridiculous reasons
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fds
unless you have access to the same ingredients, water etc. as in the home country, of course the italian, french, etc. food is not going to be the same. french lamb and chicken are much more flavorful than here and the sauces are tailored to match so of course they have to be more flavorful themselves. i'm sure if you brought a french chef here and required him to use local ingredients it would not taste like something prepared in france. but is that a bad thing? what the michelin guide does is puts a standard on food quality, service and ambiance to restaurants in japan. it can't really be directly compared with restaurants in france or anywhere else for that matter.
Posted in: The great Tokyo Michelin sham