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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flatearther
Ick! Really not an attractive picture. How about pictures of really attractive men once in a while? This is just...icky.
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flatearther
@Miyartmosphere- Hold on a minute! Do you have any facts/evidence to back that up? If you met an abusive guy, I'm sorry, but that could happen anywhere and does not mean all men are abusive. Japan does have problems, but most men I've met here and my ex were not abusive men, nor did they condone such attitudes! Abusive men are not a majority in this country, please try not to make blanket statements.
Posted in: 8 ambassadors urge Japan to solve global child custody disputes
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flatearther
@nisegaijin- Couldn't agree more. Would really love more details on the location.
Moderator: The attack happened in Higashi-Azabu.
Posted in: Man slashed on Tokyo street
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flatearther
A fetish doesn't have to be criminal, you know. Fetishes are normally healthy, just not for this guy, apparently.
Frankly, I don't care what he does in his private life, he can enjoy putting on a bear costume and covering his gf in honey, as long as he leaves teenage girls alone.
This case is more about the harassment than anything else. No matter what you may like, it's never okay to give someone unwanted attention. Leave me alone and stop calling mean just that. I don't care if she's wearing a uniform, kimono or a burlap sack, if a girl says leave me alone she means it!
Posted in: Agriculture ministry employee with uniform fetish caught making harassing phone calls
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flatearther
I saw his routine on TV last night. Nice stuff. I hope JT runs more picture of this guy from now on instead of the creepy looking bodybuilders.
Posted in: Uchimura good as gold at world gymnastic championships
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flatearther
Reading through the article, it seems like the author is advocating for more and better sex education in Japan (if there is any at all) which can only be a good thing. Most Japanese people seem to be disturbingly uneducated on things such as safe sex, yet know exactly where they can go for porn and fuzoku. I'm not saying things are better in other countries, but they are different. Most American men don't really visit prostitutes and if they do, they use condoms. Here, it's just not the same. I'm not going to judge, but I do think they should at least be protecting themselves and their families/future families.
Sex and business should never mix, that can only lead to trouble. That kind of behavior is something that will have to change if Japan wants to pull itself out of the financial slump. There's a big pool of female labor talent going to waste right now because women here just get sick of putting up with the harassment, meet a nice guy and get married. I think the author was trying to connect all these points to the conclusion that Japan needs to start teaching sex education and gender equality at an earlier age. You can usually get a pretty good idea of a society's values by how it treats it's least respected residents (usually women). I know I've learned a lot about Japan that way.
Posted in: Let’s talk about you-know-what
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flatearther
This is no surprise. Before I moved here a year ago, a lot of my friends warned me about AIDS and STDs in Japan. Sex education here is deplorable and despite what the article says, it's not just the homosexual community that you have to worry about. My advice? If you're having sex with anybody, use a condom.
Posted in: HIV/AIDS continues steep increase in Japan
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flatearther
@nishikat- He's on the level. The transplant WAS a sweet deal, but it's a trade-off the FBI is fully capable of arranging for reliable info. The FBI has a LOT more pull than any Japanese law enforcement organization does. They've been cutting sweet deals with crims for years to get relevant info, sometimes it works and sometimes they get scr#wed on the deal. That was the case with Goto.
Posted in: Reporter's look at yakuza gets personal
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flatearther
I can't wait to get my copy, I've been reading this guy's work for years and he's really good at getting info on these sleazy people.
@BuddhismTech- You live in Tennessee, right? To be honest with you, you won't learn much about crime in Japan from where you are. The street stalls are quite common (personally I'm a fan of the crepe vendors) and they DO pay protection money. It's not a sleazy/sexual thing as you assumed at all, more of a mom and pop place that as the poster stated, is forced to pay protection money. The modern Yaks are a mix of Michael Douglas from Wall Street and Al Capone. They have fingers in every pie, from big companies to those little stalls and they are far more dangerous than any American criminal organization I've met.
Posted in: Reporter's look at yakuza gets personal
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flatearther
I really don't think it can be compared with "blaming the victim" to wonder exactly what parents/schools here teach kids about safety and stranger danger. I read so many cases in the news here about children willingly going off with strangers that it really makes me wonder. When I was young, not only my parents but my school gave regular lectures on safety and strange people. I don't have kids, so I don't know if Japanese schools offer the same, but I would be interested to know. These kids did nothing wrong, it's the nature of children to be trusting. That's why it's an adult's responsibility to teach them to be cautious around people they don't know. If you think that can compare to blaming a victim, you're sadly misinformed. We are responsible for our own safety in this world, that's a fact. As an adult, I know that if I leave somewhere with a stranger, I am taking a risk with my life and body. To know this fact and act appropriately is called prudence, and it is not knowledge you are born with. Children (in EVERY country) must be given the skills to protect themselves. It's irresponsible to not protect a child, it's irresponsible to not warn them, and in a country with such a low birth rate, it's practically criminal to ignore the lack of education they are given in these matters, IMO.
I'm not blaming the children for their ignorance, I'm blaming this man for his criminal behavior and to a lesser degree, society for not giving these children the tools to deal with this situation. This could have easily been a situation where none of these children ever came home again. That's the tragedy here.
Teach your kids to say no, teach your children to not go to a stranger's house and if some person tries to kidnap them off a street corner, teach them to scream as loud as they can and fight. Most importantly, teach them that it is NOT normal for an adult person to want to be their "friend", because it's not normal. As a 30 year old woman, I have no desire to befriend a strange child. Were I a 30 year old man, that would be even more abnormal, and that's true in every country.
Give children the knowledge they need to prevent this kind of stuff from happening! Stop sweeping it under the rug with that lame excuse of "Oh, it happens in every country." Sure, of course it does. That doesn't excuse us of our responsibility to prevent child abduction through stiffer penalties for offenders and education for the children. Again, this is simple prudence.
Posted in: Man arrested for abducting four young girls for 17 hours
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flatearther
Really? Love these deep, important articles and the completely non-shallow international pissing contest that inevitably follows. Who has better skin? Who cares? When we're 80, it all looks the same. Eat healthy food because it's better for your whole body and stop with the comparisons. There are bundles of ugly people in Japan, just like there are back home (wherever that may be).
Posted in: How to stay beautiful in Japan through your diet
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flatearther
Don't parents in this country warn their children about strangers with candy? That's the oldest trick in the book!
Posted in: Man arrested for abducting four young girls for 17 hours
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flatearther
I've never heard the expression "I can be bothered" used in lieu of "I can't be bothered" and I'm a native Californian. I'm not trying to be rude, but where exactly are you meeting your "native" speakers? Here in Japan?
Posted in: Which words or expressions annoy you the most when you hear them repeatedly used by other people in conversation?
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flatearther
The phrase "long time no see" certainly is English. Whether it's proper English or not is in question, I suppose? Well, I've heard people use it in just about every English speaking country I visit, heard it used in movies from the 1930's and have a Japanese-English dictionary that translates it into sashiburie (forgive any misspellings), so it is very commonly used. The problem with English is that it's a LIVING language, which means it evolves. This is why slang exists, this is why British slang and American slang are different. So, it is English.
That being said, I really don't know what you're holding against the phrase. It's one of my favorites, being that it's usually accompanied by a smile and a hug at the airport.
Posted in: Which words or expressions annoy you the most when you hear them repeatedly used by other people in conversation?
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flatearther
I agree that the mayor of Hiroshima and the victims do deserve it more, they are some of the most vocal and determined activists out there. The trouble is that so few people know or care about their work. Obama has high visibility and uses/used it to bring attention to these issues, which is one of the factors to account for when evaluating a candidate. For that matter, what about the millions of people who work for peace?
There are people who would be better candidates out there, absolutely. As you pointed out, they have no reach and no media to bring attention to them. Factoring in that criteria, Obama was the best candidate.
I may just be more jaded than you are, but I can't think of a single more deserving human being who gets as much attention as he does who could have been awarded this prize. That's a sad thought, but it's true. Ask your average American 30 or under about the mayor of Hiroshima some time. If you're lucky, they MIGHT know that there was a nuclear bomb dropped there. Visibility like that does not earn prizes, but I don't really think he cares about that.
Let Obama have his prize, but let's raise the bar a little. Obama, come to Japan and meet the mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Posted in: U.S. President Barack Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize
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flatearther
The handle is sarcasm, thanks for being the first and only so far to get it, but I can't think of anyone else this year who does deserve it more. I really enjoy Smith's posts and was just wondering if he (or anyone) could throw out some names here. Granted, I think giving him a Nobel is a little premature, TIME's Man of the Year prize was a little more reasonable, IMO. Were there any better candidates,though? I respect him as a president and like him as a person, but he essentially won by default in this instance.
Posted in: U.S. President Barack Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize
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flatearther
He's been working on nuclear proliferation issues for YEARS. At least do some research before you insult the man. I think the committee did a good job this year, I can't really think of anyone who deserved it more. If anyone would care to enlighten me on exactly who did deserve it more, please go ahead.
Posted in: U.S. President Barack Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize
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flatearther
The word Engrish. Is there a Japanese equivalent for it? Jalish or something? For those people who speak awful broken Japanese, mixing up kowaii and kawaii, shrieking out domo ayreegahtoo, etc. yet they babble on about engrish this and engrish that.
Posted in: Which words or expressions annoy you the most when you hear them repeatedly used by other people in conversation?
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flatearther
Kawaii, hands down.
Posted in: Which words or expressions annoy you the most when you hear them repeatedly used by other people in conversation?
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flatearther
Eight years she wasted on this guy and she can still wish him the best? Wow. She has way more class than he ever did, obviously. Looks like she dodged a bullet here.
Posted in: Rie Hasegawa wishes ex-boyfriend Ishida all the best