JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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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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- FT English Teachers for Kids - Osaka
- Kohgakusha Co., Ltd. （株式会社興学社）, Osaka
- Salary: ¥255,000 ~ ¥275,000 / Month Travel Expenses, Encouragement of Japanese learning*
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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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dontknockit at 12:28 PM JST - 17th January
You seem a little confused about this “Muslim” world of yours. When those areas of the world that are now Muslim were leading the world they were not Muslim. They became Muslim and ground to a halt and if anything they have moved backward rather than forward with the rest of the world. If you really must blindly defend the practice of female subjection to a male religion then just do so, try to avoid excuses that have no foundation in fact. Bringing up the pointless points about ski masks and bandages really isn’t helpful to your argument or this topic in general. For those of us who have lived and do live in Europe it matters, Islam is welcome, but it is not welcome when it sets out to undermine the cultures that it moves into. Go and try to build a church in Saudi Arabia and see what happens to you. Even if the government allowed you to build your church (which they wont) you are very unlikely to live very long. No, I do not dispute their right to run their country any way they please, but I do dispute their right to force other counties to accept what they do not accept.
Posted in: France considers a ban on full Islamic veils
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Any company that decides to have their products manufactored in China is as guilty as the Chinese factories that do the manufactoring. China is currently polluting the planet with the most unbelieveably badly made goods, some of which are positively dangerous. The price of a product alone can never be used as the deciding factor to buy, price AND quality should determine the issue. When an importer buys cheap or a company has their product made in China they become equally responcible the rubbish that ends up on sale. For the buyer it should be simple, do not buy anything made in China, and if you can’t see where a product is made ASK, and if you do not gat an answer then don’t buy. While the fools, the criminal and lazy continue to tolerate this madness that is bad Chinese manufacturing nothing is ever going to change.
Posted in: U.S. buyers in China wary after cadmium found in jewelry
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thepaceisglacia at 05:06 PM JST - 15th January
Cuban doctors have been on site from the outset. You need to do some reading before commenting.
chubu at 08:02 PM JST - 15th January
French rescue teams have been pulling people out of the rubble, including Americans from the main hotel. Maybe you need to do some reading too.
I have every respect possible for what the US is doing at the moment, but they are not the only people sending in aid, unless you are only reading the American papers and watching the US news, who might forget to mention that the rest of the world has also been sending aid and aid workers. If your country is doing a good job then you have a right to be proud, but you do not have a right to slander other counties in the process.
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“Inayat Bunglawala, a spokesman with the Muslim Council of Britain, said the Islamic group has privacy concerns about full body scanners but is not taking a position on the issue until more details emerge.”
“We have concerns for both Muslim men and Muslim women,” he said. “They must be covered up in front of strangers. There are concerns about what exactly the scanners will reveal.”
“There are concerns about what exactly the scanners will reveal.” Yes, that is the whole point, so far the only people who want to blow themselves up have been Muslims and the airports want to reveal what they in particular are carrying under their clothes. If Inayat Bunglawala and his friends did something positive about the lunatics in their religion of peace rather than work against their host counties we might not need these scanners.
Posted in: EU nations divided on use of airport body scanners
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If you choose to mix things up just to support your argument then you have no argument, terrorists that are intent on blowing themselves and the plane up are not going to be stopped by an armed guard. But then as 9-11 incident showed there are terrorists that would try to hijack a plane and it those that an armed guard might just be able to deal with. I say might be able to deal with because even on the ground guards in places like banks don’t always manage to stop attacks, but they do most of the time.
Guards simply improve the odds in the passengers favour and as for guns, well guns can be used with half and or quarter load so as to reduce the chances of fatal damage to the aircraft. A dead innocent now and again might just be a price worth paying if it meant we never again had to risk hijackings.
Yes Tazers are a good idea, but they don’t always bring a person down, they have to make contact with the body and they don’t always do that. Making a crazed terrorist unhappy by ineffectually firing a Tazer at him might not be the best way to go.
But then half the battle is leading the terrorist to believe that he will not be unopposed, they may not be too concerned about their own survival, but they do want to succeed, stacking the odds against them might act as a deterrent, to some degree and even a degree can make a difference.
By the way, bringing a plane down with a single bullet is possible, but the chances of doing so are very low, you really would have to aim at a vulnerable part of the plane and there are not as many of those as you might think. The idea makes good cinema, but the reality is a little different, as always.
Posted in: Do you think it is a good idea to have armed guards on planes as an anti-terrorism measure?
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Apsara at 09:27 PM JST - 8th January
Apsara, you beat me to it. But then it would sometimes seem that many of our co-posters here are a little too young to remember the battles that took place over Narita. The other posters would be as well not to under estimate either the Japanese or their riot police, they might both just surprise you.
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The interesting part of this story that seems to be getting missed out is that the explosives got through Dublin airport undetected. So smuggling explosives into Ireland might be a good business opportunity for somebody so inclined and maybe that is why the Irish are so very upset. I used to like flying almost as much as getting there (wherever) now there are just some many things that can go wrong.
Posted in: Slovak security test ends with explosives on flight to Dublin
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We can and do speculate that Japan’s whaling is illegal because their claim that it is for research is highly unlikely. But that speculation would need to be proved in a court before anybody could say that the whaling is illegal and that has not happened. So the whaling ship is operating legally whatever anybody might think about whaling. The people from sea shepherd are however not operating legally. They are harassing another ship in extremely dangerous ways because of what they believe, not because they have a legal right to do so.
Yesterday they (SS) claimed that the sea shepherd boat was stationary at the time of the collision and that they tried to go in reverse but video taken from the Whaling ship show a bow wake coming from behind the SS boat, not something that would happen from a stationary boat or a boat going in reverse. That bow wake shows that the SS boat was moving towards the whaling ship. That is not to say the whaler didn’t “help” matters along a little with a slight right turn so as to bring about a side swipe, but that was only possible because the SS boat was moving forward.
So, sea shepherd had no legal right to harass anybody and they put themselves in a dangerous position. They alone are responsible.
Your opinion, my opinion or anybodies opinion on whaling doesn’t come into it
Posted in: Which side do you think looks more in the wrong following Wednesday's clash between Sea Shepherd and Japanese whalers?
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Gitmo taught the US something, don’t take prisoners back to the US, or better still, simply don’t take prisoners. Killing people may give the US a bad reputation but since they have that anyway what is there to lose?
There is something else that might be worth thinking about in relation to released Gitmo prisoners returning to al-Qaida, how many might have been turned and are now working for the US? Not very likely I know, but also not impossible either.
Posted in: Former Gitmo detainees help al-Qaida grow in Yemen
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You attack Sarg and tell him to grow up while you express such incredible naivety by hoping that NK could possibly mean anything new. Whenever NK say anything it is a lie by token of the fact that they said something. Nothing meaningful has ever been said by NK yet you persist in believing in them. Maybe it is you, my friend, that needs to grow up and see NK for what it is. And yes I am sure Sarg can look out for himself without any help from anybody.
Posted in: N Korea calls for end of hostile relations with U.S.
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Well if this is what rates as world news today then we should all be extremely happy. Just think about it, if nothing more serious has happened in the world today then we have almost reached world peace. Sorry about the poor dog, but if that is the worst that has happened I can live with the idea of one dead dog. What an incredibly happy new year we are all going to have, granted you could read other newspapers and a quite different take on what they see as being important today, but why depress yourself?
Posted in: Calif man kills dog, streaks, pours coffee on head
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DickMorris at 03:41 AM JST - 30th December
Park is an off the wall religious nutjob, why should anybody make any effort to try and get him out? He went in there by his own insane choice so this has nothing to do with Obama or anybody else. I agree that Obama the messiah is a waste of space, but at least attack him for something that he is or can be responsible for otherwise you invalid anything of worth you have to say.
Posted in: N Korea says it has detained American missionary
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What proves beyond any doubt that he was mentally ill is the fact that he thought he could get away with smuggling 4 keys of heroin into China and not get executed if caught.
Truth is it was nothing but a stupid last minute excuse that didn’t work.
What most people here have tried to do is take a side, the Chinese are bad, the Chinese were right. The reality is that the Chinese are savage to their own so why expect them to act differently to anybody else? This was a drug smuggler that thought he could talk his way out of a death sentence, he failed and I for one couldn’t care less. That does not however say that I believe China is right in it’s easy use of the death sentence.
Posted in: China executes British man convicted of drug smuggling
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What utter drivel some of you have written, a year two years from now you will be hard pressed to remember this nonentity’s name. She is hype pure and simple and only the simply gullible are blind to this. What you are looking at is a fat badly dressed woman who has a passable voice. This is a version of the Emperor’s clothes and you don’t want to be seen as the one that points the finger of ridicule.
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Bholder at 09:35 AM JST - 25th December
The Vatican is a state, and as such could have (and did have) all the organs of any state. Being the meanest money grabbers known to man they may now use the Italian systems that are in place around them, but legally they could if they wished use their own courts to prosecute this woman.
She is by the way the same woman that tried this last year, maybe next year she will succeed, third time lucky.
Posted in: Pope knocked down by woman at Christmas Mass
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Britain has more than enough charities and there are social services departments to take care of the needs of all social misfits, advocating shoplifting is the first step on a slippery slope. It is obvious that the church is still attracting the weakest minds, if they don’t believe in damnation they believe in total forgiveness. The man’s a cretin.
Posted in: British priest: Shoplifting by poor sometimes OK
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Monkeyz at 08:02 PM JST - 23rd December
Thank you.
Posted in: NYC victim's mom: EMTs were 'inhuman' not to help
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It really is incredibly bad journalism (reporting) to assume that all readers are of the same nationality and will therefore understand what an EMT is. Yes it can by reading the story be guessed at, but is that the best way of writing a news story? I can guess what an EMT is, but still do not know for sure.
Posted in: NYC victim's mom: EMTs were 'inhuman' not to help
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Isn’t this the guy that stopped 13 other people from being able to pray with their families, by phone or any other way? My heart bleeds for him……
Posted in: Fort Hood suspect prevented from praying
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Stolen by a team of low life criminals doubtless to be sold to a even lower life NeoNazi who would claim the Auschwitz camp was nothing more than a work and relocation camp, but still wants the sign all for himself. Well these were not drunken students as I at first put forward but they come a close second. Don’t they seijichuudo9sha ?
Posted in: Polish police find stolen Auschwitz gate sign cut into 3 pieces