JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Core Developer - コアディベロッパー
- Midokura Japan K.K. - ミドクラジャパン株式会社, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥4.0M ~ ¥10.0M / Year Negotiable
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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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- 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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what an a**ehole. Fine him into penury.
The smoker's reaction, however, is typical in a country where the natural instinct (and people's expectation) is to look the other way. Several times I have told drunks to stop smoking when on a platform in the Tokyo subway - and rest assured I wasn't the only person down there...
Posted in: Saitama train conductor assaulted after asking man to smoke in designated area
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17? Not even old enough to properly understand the prejudices that motivated the crime he's accused of
Posted in: 17-year-old charged with policeman's murder in Northern Ireland
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Perhaps the guy had been shoved one too many times by an Obasan rushing for a seat and was expressing his pent-up anger and frustration
Posted in: Man arrested for attempted murder after pushing woman off platform at Tokyo station
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Picture of the Day need not necessarily involve cosplay, grabia idols or famous models - sometimes the real world, full of triumph and tragedy, gets a look in as well
Posted in: FedEx plane crash
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If I was a doctor and had to deal with patients who had made themselves ill through their personal habits, I might take the same view - even if I was a smoker myself.
I think it's ironic that Japan still has the world's highest life expectancy despite the percentage of smokers here. Somebody once told me that Asians are genetically less susceptible to lung cancer, but I'm not sure if that is a fact or just something someone made up
Posted in: Doctor apologizes for saying people should smoke themselves to death
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That's uncanny, I was thinking Jar Jar Binks as well... "cute" is not the first word I'd think of to describe Shizuka, no would the word "shizuka" describe Jar Jar Binks..."mendokusai" perhaps
Posted in: Ambassadors of Cute
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...and I suppose you would prove this by looking at the U.S.A.'s statistics on gun crime, would you?
preposterous
Moderator: Readers, posts that do not focus on the shooting rampage in Germany will be removed. For discussion on the U.S., please go to the Alabama thread.
Posted in: 17-year-old gunman kills 15 in Germany before taking own life
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Starviking - your comments make abundant sense. How refreshing.
Posted in: 2 British soldiers killed in N Ireland gun ambush
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Conptemptible nonsense - Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom by democratic choice, and the soldiers stationed there are from all parts of the country. This woman is simply supporting murderers, just like Noraid and all those idiots in the USA used to do. The vast majority of the Northern Irish public - protestant and catholic - disagree with her, and rightly so. The oxygen of publicity is what will finally snuff out the violent activities of these fanatics. Events this week will hopefully be their last appearance on the scene
Posted in: IRA dissident killings unite Northern Ireland
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The best way to treat these people is with the contempt that they deserve. They are not Islamic holy warriors - they are criminals, deluded believers in a load of bigoted fairytale nonsense.
If they want to die - keep them alive and in silence and obscurity for the rest of their days. To execute these people would be to do them a favour
Posted in: 9/11 suspects: 'We are terrorists to the bone'
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He should have stayed higher...
Posted in: Cocaine-carrying plane crashes in Honduras
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The sad thing about Megumi Yokota is that even if she is still alive, she might as well be dead.
Given their paranoia and manipulation, it's hard to believe anything that the North Koreans say, but you do have to wonder why they would let the other abductees go and then claim Megumi was dead if she actually isn't. I agree with the general comments about the credibility of this source. Cue another 10 years of the poor Yokota parents living in hope.
Posted in: Ex-N Korean agent says she believes abductees Taguchi, Yokota still alive
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wanderlust - both ships will have had radars and proper navigation equipment, but you need to be keeping a proper watch. It is too early to know for sure, but the collision probably occurred because someone wasn't aware (or awake) enough to avoid it.
Let's hope that those guys manged to get aboard a lifeboat and can still be found safe and well. Bow damage to one ship and the disappearance of the other don't bode well, however
Posted in: 16 missing after freighters collide off Izu Oshima island
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reach out to the Taliban eh? my advice is to reach out and strangle the b**tards one by one, failing that do what politicians always do in Afghanistan and buy them off. $$$$'s, aircon, satellite TV, landcruisers and porn is what I hear they usually go for, being the pure religious warriors that they are
Posted in: Karzai welcomes Obama call to reach out to Taliban
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likeitis: the threat from North Korea against airliners is an implied one. You are smart enough to work out what saying that they "cannot guarantee the safety" of air traffic means. If the reason was a missile test - well, they tested missiles before, didn't they, and never warned about a threat to civil aviation then...
Posted in: N Korea threatens 'war' if satellite is shot down
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Only the deluded pygmies in charge of North Korea could have enough stupidity to "demand" aid be sent on the one hand and then threaten to shoot down airliners full of innocent civilians if a few defence exercises take place. There really is very little reasoning with such people - and the irony is that by their actions, their paranoia about being threatened becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. I think it's high time that they were reminded, though diplomatic channels, of the probable consequences if they take hostile action against South Korea
Posted in: N Korea threatens 'war' if satellite is shot down
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Well, if people start using alternatives to the toilet when they are on board - who's O'Leary going to blame then?
More likely, people will stop buying his overpriced drinks when in flight - the net effect being a loss of revenue, i.e. precisely the opposite to what he's try to achieve.
This daft bit of penny-pinching may be Michael O'Leary's "Ratner" moment, I think
Posted in: Ryanair chief says he's serious about pay toilets on planes
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Is it really any surprise that the bible-thumper states are more keen on capital punishment? Not really. Ignorant, superstitious people are easy to fool and quick to support "righteous" barbarity.
Good luck to the more civilised areas of America to convince these people otherwise. There is no evidence that the death penalty has any impact on murder rates. It is merely dragging the state down to the level of the murderer
Posted in: America has a cultural divide on death penalty
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I'm sure it won't be long before some Boston-based apologist for these murdering scum comes along and starts talking about the "nobility" of gunning down innocent people in a fight that the IRA have already lost
Posted in: 2 British soldiers killed in N Ireland gun ambush
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I would rather be asked to buy something from my company than be asked to take a pay cut
Posted in: Panasonic orders 10,000 employees to buy its products by July