JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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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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- Assistant Language Teacher - TOKYO - late-March start
- Interac, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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- Assistant Language Teacher - Kanagawa Prefecture - late-March start
- Interac, Kanagawa
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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Maybe they will both talk about all the suffering and misgovernance each brought the world.
Posted in: Kissinger, Nakasone, Schweisgut to appear on BS Fuji Prime News
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Nicky Washida asked if there's a suicide hotline in Japan. Yes, a guy I know coordinates a Catholic-run 24 hour line. They get very dedicated volunteers who train once a week for a year before handling a case on their own. The trouble is, most of these volunteers are women and they eventually leave because most of the callers are male telephone-perverts rather than potential suicides. The volunteers get sick of continuous hot-breathing and sexual one-liners and stop going to volunteer.
Posted in: 'Family' of skeletons found in Sendai house
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And with this going oN, I'm supposed to shiver with "warm biz" because we need to save electricity? No bloody way!
Posted in: Kobe Illuminage
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All politicians should drink a bottle of this every day. The world would be a nicer place
Posted in: Lawmaker drinks decontaminated water from Fukushima plant
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It's important to note that the vast majority of this debt is owed to Japanese people. This makes the Japanese situation different from the USA and Greece, who owe most of their massive debts to foreigners.
Posted in: Japan's public debt to hit record Y1,024 trillion
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Also can, a? Good lah!
Posted in: Apple's tongue-tied Siri faces 'Singlish' rival
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This is the worst year I've seen in my 20 years here for my graduating uni students to get jobs. I have almost no kids landing full-time jobs. Usually by this time of the year all of them that want a job have found something.
Posted in: Japan's jobless rate falls to 4.1% in September
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To respond to a couple previous posts since that's my part of the planet--- yes, you cn dive there. This is the island of New Britain, which, together with neighbouring New Ireland, has some of the best dive sites in the Pacific for WWII wrecks. No, the sub will not, and should not, be removed to Canberra. Papua New Guinea has a law that states that all WWII artefacts are the property of the PNG government and cannot ordinarily be removed. Fair enough, too. No one asked the Papua New Guineans if the Japanese, Americans, and Australians could use their islands for war games. A WWI sub? Unlikely. There was virtually no fighting when the Australians invaded and took over the territory from the Germans at the beginning of WWI, so it is unlikely that the Germans would have lost any ships. WWII, on the othe hand, saw massive bombing by the Americans and a huge buildup of war toys by the Japanese. Lots of damaged ships and equipment everywhere.
Posted in: Probable WWII Japanese submarine found off Papua New Guinea
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Oil?!? I'm so naive-- I thought the altruistic Americans and Europeans helped the revolution because they wanted to spread peace and democracy throughout the world. I had no idea it was just so they could grab Africans' oil more easily. Live and learn....
Posted in: Japan pledges support for Libya's nation building
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Yes, the team from Kamaishi should be strong enough to ignore taunts like this. But the effects of taunts like this go far beyond the playing field and can hurt a lot of people dealing with severe emotional issues that most is willmthankfully never have to face. So it was correct to penalise the offenders with the big mouths. No one in Japan should be so thoughtless as to make remarks like this
Posted in: Rugby team in Japan suspended over quake taunt
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I'm all for an automated system, having used the one at Heathrow for EU citizens for the first time this summer. No humans. I just put my passport down on a reader, looked into a camera, everything must have looked ok, and in less than a minute, the gate opened and I was on my way. Fastest airport immigration I've ever been through.
Posted in: Japan eyes simpler immigration procedures, including automatic gate
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This is as much a result of the US dollar sinking in value as it is of a undervalued Chinese yuan. The US peso, I mean dollar, has dropped against almost every currency in the world, from the yen to the yuan to the euro and even the Papua New Guinea kina.
Posted in: China slams U.S. after Senate passes currency bill
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Where can we find out which localities and/or prefectures have been asked? I live in a cash-strapped rural area and am sure the offer would look attractive to some bureaucrats in city hall here. If our area even considers such a daft idea, I want to publicise this in the newspapers of the various overseas sister cities that regularly send student groups here. That kind of foreign pressure and shame would (sadly) be more important to these guys than the opinions of the people who live and vote here.
Posted in: Hosono asks 43 prefectures to take debris from Tohoku
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RE locked iPhones-- When I was in the UK over the summer, there were places everywhere advertising to unlock iPhones. I had mine unlocked, and put in a UK SIM card right away to use it there. Came back here and put in my Softbank SIM with no problems at all. A colleague did the same on her trip to Australia. It's one way to get around this locked iPhone monopoly game the companies try to pull here.
Posted in: KDDI to sell new iPhone in Japan, ending Softbank's domination
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I'm reading this in Singapore, where the temperature is always like Japanese august. But as I walk around, I'm almost never in the sun. There are trees and canopies everywhere and from the air, it looks like a jungle with skyscrapers. Japanese have few trees, and the ones the do have are savagely pruned. People don't plant big trees in their gardens, just skimpy little trees that don't cover the road or houses with shade. No wonder the cement is so hot! Plant green stuff and the temperature goes down. Lucky Singaporeans to have the British set up such a nice shady and green city. Japanese urban planners could learn a lot.
Posted in: Heatwave kills four, sends 900 to hospital throughout Japan
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Japan is the perfect place for Turkey to buy nuke plants. Turkey is just as earthquake prone as Japan, and so they can learn how to place plants precisely on top of fault lines so as to have the maximum damage. A pity Turkey doesn't have tsunamis like Japan though. But I guess Viet Nam can make up for that. I hope the Vietnamese learn from the Japanese how important it is to place plants right on the coast and not inland where tsunamis won't affect them. And, of course, they must learn how to make seawalls that are low enough to allow maximum destruction.
I see one major problem though--how will they educate Turks and Vietnamese to be sufficiently passive when the plants blow up?
Posted in: Japan to continue nuclear plant exports
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It's so interesting to compare modern Germany's role in Europe with "modern" Japan's role in Asia. Germany lost a quarter of its prewar territory in the war, with millions of its citizens expelled from lands that had been German for centuries. Today there are no territorial disputes and it has joined with its former enemies in what is basically a borderless Europe. It acknowledges the crimes it committed and pays large sums of money annually to the Holocaust survivors. In contrast, Japan has territorial disputes over tiny rocks with three of its four neighbours (the fourth, the USA/Saipan having dropped two atomic bombs on it). It refuses even to acknowledge crimes committed in WWII, much less pay compensation. And the thought that Japan could lead the way to an Asian Union like Germany has to a European Union is unthinkable. Germany is an example to the world of redemption. Japan is an example to the world of, uh,.......
Posted in: 3 Japanese lawmakers give up and return home from Seoul
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Oh yeah, and they sell only imported Thai and Brazilian rice.
Posted in: Radiation concerns for Japan's beef supply intensify
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I'm lucky that in my area, far from Fukushima, there are Brazilian supermarkets where all the beef is Australian and all the fruit juice South American. And I can buy eggs and veggies directly from local farmers.
Posted in: Radiation concerns for Japan's beef supply intensify
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A few people here have asked how to check if a kindergarten has adequate supervision or not. One thing I did was visit the head teacher unannounced at a time when there were classes in session, saying, of course, that I understood s/he was busy, and that I could either wait or make an appointment for later. What I wanted to see was whether the children were starved for attention or not. In some places I visited, the kids were so hungry for adult attention that they swarmed around me, holding on to my hand and trying to follow me to the office. In other places the kids would look up, maybe say hello, and then go back to the more absorbing task of pouring sand into a bucket or chasing their best friend. The former places got ticked off my list. The latter places stayed on because those kids obviously had enough TLC and supervision from their teachers.
Posted in: 3-year-old boy drowns in kindergarten pool