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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The main problem is that I don't think anyone actually encourages people to think about issues like capital punishment in Japan. The population has been conditioned to trust the state to handle things on their behalf and not to abuse its power, such as by properly administering the death penalty. As long as people feel that they cannot change things, then they tend not to try, and when they don't try they are usually prepared to accept the status quo or ignore those things that they might actually oppose if they thought about them in a reasoned way.
Posted in: Amnesty International Tokyo English Network helps foreigners fight injustice
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Funnily enough, the same people who argue that McCain deserves the presidency for being a war hero are those who tried to pretend that the current President wasn't a coward and deserter during the same war...how consistent...
McCain needs a long healthy retirement, not an early grave presiding over the decline and collapse of the USA
Posted in: Film shows McCain's release from Vietnamese prison
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Blimey, she looks pretty happy, all things considered. It would take me much longer than 2 weeks to be out in public and smiling again after such a tragedy
Posted in: Miwa Asao back in public eye after sister's death
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The death penalty is abhorrent and ineffective and should be banned immediately. It is a national disgrace that Japan maintains this horrific practice, and a great shame that it is almost never a matter of debate amongst Japanese people ("shoganai" prevails, alas). Presented with the facts and rational, reasoned arguments I think most people would realise that abolition is the only decent way forward.
All power to AI in its fight against capital punishment
Posted in: Amnesty International Tokyo English Network helps foreigners fight injustice
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smithinjapan - in your original comment you correctly observed that "pain" was French and that "as usual the Japanese messed it up and added English to the mix." If you were not referring to the word "Parler" as being English, what were you talking about and how am I incorrect? You seem to be a little confused...
...anyway, not to worry, whether an intentional English pun or not, it's an attention grabbing name, so it has certainly done its job, rather like the name "Feat of Clay" that I once saw used for a porcelain company!
Posted in: Bread shop
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smithinjapan - read the katakana... clearly they are NOT misspelling "Parlour" - they are correctly spelling "parler" - "to speak" in French. (as used in different form in the question "parlez vous Francais?")
The fact that it can also be read as you have mistakenly done is, as I said before, a work of genius
Posted in: Bread shop
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What is even more amusing than the failure of various posters to realise that the Japanese use the French word "pain" (pronounced "pan") to describe bread (read the katakana for Pete's sake...), is the cleverness of the person naming the bakery in the first place. Not only have they used an descriptive and alliterative choice of French words, they have also at the same time come up with a great pun in English.
Genius
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Proud, stoic, and mentally broken, apparently. Republicans! Think how being surrounded by those 'pinko' ideas might have re-conditioned his psyche...
Can you risk a case of Stockholm Syndrome in the White House, with an Alaskan Nationalist second it line? How conservative are you, actually?
Poor old McCain, the guy deserves a nice quiet retirement. He's earned it
Posted in: Film shows McCain's release from Vietnamese prison
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Any rational person - American or otherwise - would shudder at the thought. Spare us this, please!
Posted in: Palin says she's ready to step in as president
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She's gorgeous. Pity for her I'm already taken, though!
Posted in: Ayako Kawahara waiting for Mr Right with a diamond ring
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The story's a bit ambiguous. Is it his restaurant, or did he just perform the opening ceremony? Either way, they could be selling s**t sandwiches and the obasans would still be queuing round the block...
Posted in: Korean actor Bae Yong Joon opens restaurant in Nagoya
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Sarge, are you saying Gerard Butler doesn't look like a man? If you can't make such a distinction, I hope I don't end up in the same bar as you.
Criticise the guy's acting, sure, but I don't think anyone would mistake him for a woman
Posted in: Gerard Butler
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Superlib - patriotism, the last refuge of the scoundrel, I think it was once called, with good reason.
Funnily enough we are talking about the US Army here, not the British, French, Japanese, Canadian or any other army. The U.S. Army, whose casualties are being neglected. Happy about that?
Well, of course you are - as long as they go and get turned into hamburgers to prove how 'tough' the US is and to make YOU proud, who cares, eh? Some patriot you are, defending policies that are harmful to you country.
Posted in: U.S. Army suicide rate may hit new high
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mar4eO - hilarious to hear the deluded carping on about how great the leadership of their country's been over the past 8 years when everyone else can plainly see it has been a disaster. And wanting another 4 years of it under the past-it Mr McCain would truly be the equivalent of turkeys voting for Christmas
Posted in: GOP convention opens amid talk of Palin's unmarried daughter being pregnant
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Sarge, sorry - I wasn't aware that John Kerry was involved in this election. And pro-independence is the new patriotism now? very interesting. You can all return to British rule if you like - we'll sort you out!
Kerry fought in Vietnam (while Bush was going AWOL from the National Air Guard back in the safety of the States), but at least he didn't get caught, tortured and psychologically broken like McCain did.
You have to worry about a 72-year-old man who's been through all that and then takes on more than he can handle. No - safe hands means Obama, to anyone with any sense, at least
Posted in: McCain defends VP pick
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"Life Happens" - a nice phrase for Palin to remember when she gets sent back to Alaska after taking a beating in the election.
I know McCain is clutching at straws now, but really - what a desperate choice for a running mate. McCain keels over with a heart attack and you get this crazy woman in charge of the nuclear button? Nope, even Republicans aren't going to go for that.
McCain is plainly to old for this - his judgement's gone, and the world is laughing at the GOP now
Posted in: GOP convention opens amid talk of Palin's unmarried daughter being pregnant
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mar4eO - I suppose the well-documented neglect by their government after they come back from Iraq and Afghanistan has nothing to do with it then?
Stop defending failure - if you are a true "patriot" you'd stick up for the people in your armed forces. Instead you take your cue from the discredited failure in the White House who lied to put them in harms way.
Sad
Posted in: U.S. Army suicide rate may hit new high
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All they have to do is cut out 3 of the courses from lunch and the French'll be fine...
Posted in: French businesses loath to end 35-hour week
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I object to the term "fairer sex". That's blatant sexism. If you've ever met any Aussie "sheilas" you'll know it isn't true in their case, as well...
Posted in: Australia suffering from 'man drought'
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You gotta laugh at this kind of comment. Maybe the dems HAVE been spreading rumours and lies about Sarah Palin and her weirdly-named brood of kids, but to make such an accusation, clearly referring to the campaign, and then start talking about blogs which have nothing to do with the Obama-Biden campaign is simply pathetic. They acknowledge that this is nothing to do with Obama but they still try to besmirch him with the accusation. What are the depths to which these desperate people will sink?
Pathetic, simply pathetic. I would cheer if they stuck to the issues and tried to have a debate on how to arrest America's current rapid political and economic decline, but instead they resort to playground (trans.= schoolyard) behaviour like this.
How sad!
Posted in: Palin says Democrats spreading misinformation and lies