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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gaijintraveller
Sorry, "their intrusive rudeness" not "there".
Posted in: What bad manners annoy you the most in public places?
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gaijintraveller
Is using machines instead of people to answer telephones generally considered bad manners? I hate these recorded messages.
Generally, in this country, apart from what appears to a westerner to be a disregard of women, people are pretty well mannered. Flashers and "chicans" on trains fall into this category. It is companies and organisations that are rude incessantly shouting instructions and disturbing people with noise. JR and political organisations are the worst.
In fact, when I think about it, the rudest people in Japan must be politicians, especially when they amplify there intrusive rudeness. Interestingly, it seems that the further to the right they are, the ruder they are.
Posted in: What bad manners annoy you the most in public places?
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gaijintraveller
Sound a bit kinky to me, but I thought that kind of person preferred women's underwear.
It could explain why bras are stolen from washing lines.
Posted in: Men's bras getting a lot of support
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gaijintraveller
What does someone say when accused of a crime even if guilty? "Not guilty."
Posted in: Bush defends his record of using military might
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gaijintraveller
Instead of offering the choice of too much work or none, why not offer less work? How many people would go for an offer of a four day week? How many would accept one or two months annual holiday?
The increase of free time for people still earning a salary could have other benefits for the economy by increasing the time in which they can spend money.
Posted in: Is taking redundancy a good idea?
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gaijintraveller
If someone broke into a locked garage to recover a stolen motorcycle and took that motorcycle to the police and handed it over to them in order to uncover bike theft, how would they be treated?
If and only if they would be treated differently in that case, this is a case of unfair treatment.
In Britain, which is where I come from, for an act to be theft, the intention to permanently deprive the owners of possession of the item is necessary. Of course, this is Japan and the Japanese legal definition of theft applies, whatever that may be. So who were the owners? The people who posted the whalemeat were possibly not the owners. Giving the meat to the police would therefore seem to me, at least, to invalidate the charge of theft, but not breaking and entering.
I wonder if they did break into the warehouse. Again, under British law, it is necessary to break something, however small it may be, for a charge of breaking and entering. Did they break their way into the warehouse? Were they really charged with "breaking and entering" or was this a mistranslation?
Posted in: Greenpeace protests anti-whaling arrests
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gaijintraveller
The fact is Japan has a low rate of confirmed HIV cases. Why is it so low? Because there is a low rate of testing.
This is known as living in a state of denial.
Compare this with the situation with mad cow's disease. It didn't exist in Japan because there was virtually no testing. Then it hit.
But surely this can only be picked up in foreign countries as we are warned when we go to Narita to leave Japan, but not when we come back.
Posted in: Local groups try to combat the rise of HIV infection in Japan
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gaijintraveller
It appears to me that the financial crisis is mainly the fault of US fiscal irresponsibility. However, the rest of the world must share some of this responsibility. The US received a lot of investment and support from other countries and their sovereign funds.
In fact, why don't we blame the Chinese as usual? After all, they did more than any other country to finance US debt.
Rather than support the old and failed by throwing money at the US, it might be better to invest more in the developing parts of the world for better returns.
Posted in: Finance minister says financial crisis mainly U.S. fault
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gaijintraveller
Has anyone considered the effect of the parking police on the food industry?
The biggest addition to the cost of eating out is the parking charge which has to paid by the customer in the case of restaurants that cannot afford to provide free parking. In the case of restaurants that do provide free parking, the costs involved have to come out of profits, be passed on to the customer or be paid for by reducing the quality of food.
Posted in: Countdown begins on extinction of family restaurants
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gaijintraveller
Usaexpat, Koizumi came from a political family and did not really want change. The only innovative thing about him was the image concocted by the LDP PR department.
Could someone of Korean, Ainu or Buraku extraction become PM? I doubt it.
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gaijintraveller
Nisegaijin asks, "What do derivatives traders have to do with a lazy bum who can't find a decent job in TOKYO?"
Let me explain. Relatively little welfare goes to those who really need it. Most welfare is, in fact, corporate welfare that goes to support companies such as the banks, mortgage companies and securities companies that have brought about the current economic downturn.
The United States has always talked about a free market, but never believed in one. Why should an American company be allowed to set up a business in a developing country but an uneducated food stall operator in that country not have equal access to set up in America.
The poor do need help. If they are not given help, we risk them helping themselves. Helping themselves to what is not theirs is what I mean by that, but luckily there is not too much of that in this country.
"Rich people become rich because they work hard and do important things," is not true either. Most rich people inherit wealth. Many others, but not all, become rich through some kind of dishonesty.
Although Nisegaijin claims to support a free market, I doubt he approves of labour having the freedom to organise and unionise and force decent wages and conditions out of the system.
Moderator: Back on topic please. The subject is Japan's working poor.
Posted in: Japan's burgeoning class: Working poor
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gaijintraveller
It depends where you live. In the countryside there is not much work and most pays about 700 per hour. If the person did not go to university, his choices are limited.
Anyway, let's just forget about useless people who have an IQ lower than a drunken pigeon. Let's just throw money at bankers and those in such useful work as the securities business instead.
I trust Nisegaijin doesn't think those promoted capitalism through the derivatives market deserve to end up on the street.
Posted in: Japan's burgeoning class: Working poor
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gaijintraveller
If the police really want to stop people being disturbed on trains, they will crack down on unnecessary and disturbing noise regardless of who causes it.
Most of the unnecessary and disturbing noise is created by JR with its unnecessary announcements and irritating music.
I am also willing to bet that on the night of the Halloween party most of the disturbance will be caused by the police excesses. They may even go as far as to stop a train.
It seems that they and JR have gone to a lot of trouble to publicise the event and make sure that everyone who travels on the Yamanote knows about it.
Posted in: Tokyo police, rail authorities hope to scare Halloween pranksters
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gaijintraveller
No trader or investment banker worth his money has anything to worry about. He would have invested a portion of his ample salary wisely and would be able to live off that.
Posted in: Wall Street layoffs could surge past 200,000
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gaijintraveller
Sounds more like a "hands-on" attitude
Posted in: Kagoshima police committee to prevent scandals after cop busted for sex in patrol car
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gaijintraveller
He was arrested for shoplifting. Why wasn't he also arrested for assault, which, I would have thought, is more serious.
Posted in: Ex-police officer arrested for shoplifting in Chiba
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gaijintraveller
GW, I had bought a Lumix for my girlfriend and one for my son about a month earlier. At that time they did have English menus, and the shop had told me (at that time) that Lumixes had English menus. I assumed that one month later not that much would have changed.
Blocking English menus is a new idea of Panasonic's. Neither the shop nor I were aware of this change. Most cameras did easily switch to any number of languages.
Harry Gatto, I got a Fuji f50fd.
I was thinking of getting a Lumix FZ18 or FZ28 for myself, too. If anyone working for Panasonic reads this, I hope they notice my use of the past tense. I soon stopped thinking about that and got another Canon DSLR instead. It has English menus and I have downloaded the English manuals. The software CD included English versions.
Posted in: Panasonic's new compact SLR camera
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gaijintraveller
Yes, easily. I was not referring to manuals but menus. You may well be able to download a manual for a Panasonic camera and find a section the tells you how to change the language displayed on the LCD. I recently purchased a Lumix DMC-FS20 in Japan believing, as reviews I had read stated, it had English menus. It did not. Panasonic were most unhelpful when I called them and asked how I could get it to display English, basically saying f off, there is nothing we can do about that and as a customer, we do not care about you. Fortunately, the camera shop I bought it from gave me better service and a full refund.
Intentionally blocking a feature in the models sold in Japan is what I call crippling them.
Posted in: Panasonic's new compact SLR camera
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gaijintraveller
Sounds good, but does it have English menus or is the language choice blocked on the model sold in Japan?
Panasonic's PR tells us how great it is, but what are they hiding? Recently they have been selling purposely crippled models in Japan.
Posted in: Panasonic's new compact SLR camera
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gaijintraveller
But surely his strong name recognition will work against him.
Posted in: Aso elected LDP president