JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Financial Advisor
- Select Asset Management KK, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥100,000 ~ ¥999,999 Paid Training Commission Based
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- Corporate Business English Trainers
- ACT Systems, Inc.（株式会社アクト・システムズ）, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥269,500 ~ ¥280,000 / Month
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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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I believe he used to be a Nova teacher, I met him in Osaka years ago, he has come a long way. I saw him last night hawking Kirin coffee on a TV ad. Good on him, he should milk it for as long he can, perhaps he can pull out some more hits and not be a flash in the pan.
Posted in: Mix master: Jero breathes new life into enka
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Well I dont know about the statistics, but haven't you all noticed a good many foreign gals in Japan are 25+ in the BMI stakes? J-ladies are much more feminine and have much less attitude, so if you want to have a enjoyable relaxing time who are you going to date? I have known many foreign girls who got angry about it, I guess the truth hurts...
Posted in: Foreign women in Japan sometimes remark how hard it is to get a date with foreign men. What are your views on this?
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shingo yosh!
Posted in: Fujitsu launches 1st train simulation system with variable-speed playback of HD video
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what a loser on so many levels and he kept his job, guess that makes him a winner at one thing. I guess he is now the office joke, though being such a loser in the first place he probably already was...
The thing that amazes me the most is how sloppy he was at it, no proxy, no erasing his tracks just a amazon river flow of porn....how sad
Posted in: Civil servant demoted for accessing porn sites 780,000 times during office hours
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.....yes it a great shot slightly tarnished by two large concrete bridges and one large electricity pylon, I guess is hard to get a clean shot with a pristine background.
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yeah it is:
–adjective. donated or given by a private, corporate, or government benefactor on condition that the recipient raise an additional specified amount from the public: a challenge grant.
so there.
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When are parents in ANY country going to learn........
3-4 and year olds yes but these two were 7-8, at that age they can have a bit of freedom to play. When I was 7 or 8, I was playing near creeks and rivers, climbing trees, swing from vines, climbing small hills and little cliffs...all unsupervised - shock horror my parents were terribly negligent weren't they? Some of you posters need to get real, sometimes accidents happen and can't live you whole life in cotton wool.
anyway this is tragic and my thoughts go out to the family.
Posted in: 8-year-old girl drowns while trying to save brother in Kagoshima river
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I am lucky that I have never experienced this, helps being tall, well built and intimidating looking (so Japanese people tell me anyway). I have had few try to shoulder barge by, I just tense up and hold my ground and let them bounce off. Mostly trouble stays away from me, thankfully.
can we call this incident 'train rage'?
Posted in: A punching bag on the Odakyu line
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I have never read it, but I decided to just today, I just downloaded a copy and will read on my PSP on the train.
Posted in: German historians want Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' republished
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Lord of the Rings.....99% of Japanese people seem to think its "Road of the Rings".
While some of the titles are amusing, often confusing, I can handle it.
Sarcasm 123 is correct, Japanese movies, especially Miyazaki's anime get weirdo titles in English: Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi became "spirited away", Hauru no ugoku shiro becames "Howls moving castle", Majo no takkyûbin became "Kiki's Delivery service", Tenkû no shiro Rapyuta became "Castle in the sky", probably a good thing in this case as laputa is "whore" in Spanish.
The thing that I really dislike is dubbed movies - fukikae (anime is an exception, you can get away with it in animation)
But for non animated live action movies I dislike them in any language, I won't watch a dubbed movie in English, I will only read the subtitles and listen to the original language, even if you don't speak it you can get the feeling, the mood much better and the background sounds are not affected. Dubbed movies are just plain awful. They are for children who can't read Kanji.
The star channel irked me greatly when they changed their second of three channels to a dubbed channel with the majority of movies only dubbed and few prime time ones in bilingual.
Posted in: Movie titles in Japan: Jack, we understand your frustration
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excuse me?, please tell you aren't an English teacher. Its transitive and intransitive verb as well as a noun and an adjective.....
–verb (used with object) 11. to summon to a contest of skill, strength, etc. 12. to take exception to; call in question: to challenge the wisdom of a procedure. 13. to demand as something due or rightful. 14. Military. to halt and demand identification or countersign from. 15. Law. to take formal exception to (a juror or jury). 16. to have a claim to; invite; arouse; stimulate: a matter which challenges attention. 17. to assert that (a vote) is invalid. 18. to assert that (a voter) is not qualified to vote. 19. to expose an organism to a specific substance in order to assess its physiological or immunological activity. 20. Archaic. to lay claim to.
–verb (used without object) 21. to make or issue a challenge. 22. Hunting. (of hounds) to cry or give tongue on picking up the scent.
though I will agree, it's rather unnatural sounding in the caption, a nice example of Japlish.
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I wear long sleeves at the beach these days, long sleeve T-shirt and long sleeve rash guard T-shirt when swimming...family history of melanoma, a tan is not worth dying for.....
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cool!
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At 150-250 ppm the olfactory nerve is paralyzed after a few inhalations, and the sense of smell disappears, often together with awareness of danger
If you suddenly happen upon such a suicide. there is a small possibility you could not notice. Perhaps you force you way into sealed room and get immediately hit with a strong whiff of it, perhaps you have a shocking cold and cant smell anything, or have damaged olfactory system in the first place. The rotten eggs warning is not a 100% guarantee. A four year old boy might be curious to see what stinks so bad and go check it out.....
Posted in: Hundreds flee homes in Otaru after man kills himself by inhaling deadly gas
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Suicide, if you are going to do it, then at least chose a "better" way to do it. H2S is nasty stuff and those killing themselves are gunning for the the 1000ppm, one breath and your gone, easy way way for the chicken suicider to take themselves out. Unfortuneately they also have the very real possibility of taking out plenty of innocent bystanders. get a rope, a razorblade, jump into a lava river.....there are few things worse than the the 'selfish' suicider: the train jumpers, the hydrogen sulphides et al.
I knew a woman, many years ago who topped herself back in my home country by eating weetbix laced with cyanide, she didnt leave a suicide note or warning so her neighbour attempted CPR without knowing she had committed suicide by cyanide and got rather ill from residue cyanide in her mouth.
Posted in: Hundreds flee homes in Otaru after man kills himself by inhaling deadly gas
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what this article fails to mention is that docomo will send 10 billion yen in fiscal 2008 on implementing this new logo. 10 billion.....money better spent discounting the price on their 50,000yen 905 series phones or on cheaper calling rates...
Don't good plans and prices, good coverage and good handsets do that? who made this guy CEO?
Posted in: DoCoMo unveils new corporate logo
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that aint a burger....THIS is a burger! http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/2443/burgerdp5.jpg
Posted in: Big burger
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the popular posts should have a drop down box with a choice of time frames, 1 days, 3 days, because 7 days is too long. The story that is #1 may have had no new posts for 2-3 days yet is still #1 because of a flurry of comments 6-7 days ago. Thats old news, Personally I think the default for "popular posts" should be for today, any chance of a change? or a poll to see if other agree?
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...but if a gorgeous young woman does it, then it's all good :-)
Posted in: What behavior by train passengers bugs you the most?
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indeed, it would have made my day had I been there, dont mind me...carry on!
Posted in: Porn producers arrested for filming at McDonald's in Saitama