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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helloklitty
I heard this guy complain about baseball coverage. After Matsui bats, he says, they replay every pitch. Then, there was the female teacher who was waiting for a bus. She says, oh, why do they have to write it in kanji? Yes, we're in Japan and they are going to show Japanese athletes as much as possible in the Olympics. I never complain when I see Kimura Saori on the volleyball team. Wow, what a woman!
Posted in: What do you think of the TV coverage of the Olympics so far?
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helloklitty
Dear Vladimir "The Pig" Putin,
You have 48 hours to withdraw your troops from the sovereign soil of Georgia. If you fail to meet our deadline, diplomatic and economic sancions will follow.
Best of luck in the Olympics.
Yours,
W
The Russian elites are particularly vulnerable to having their ill-gotten gains (stashed in Western bank accounts) frozen.
Next, we need to rush javelins and stingers to Georgia so they can wreak havoc with the Russian advance.
The Russians have adopted a confrontational tone with the West. We can't allow them to bully a long-time ally.
The Russians may try to disrupt energy supplies, but this costs them money and its customers may find alternative suppliers in the future.
Posted in: Russia expands Georgia blitz, deploys ships
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helloklitty
Good race - broke the WR by 4 seconds. What would be a great race in your opinion?
I agree that France should stop bickering and layoff the one-upsmanship. Show some Olympic spirit - like the USA.
Posted in: Kitajima wins gold with world record in 100 breaststroke; U.S. takes relay gold
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helloklitty
I agree that spending could decline marginally, but this tax is unavoidable, unlike the income tax. I think they'll find themselves with more cash than they expected.
Posted in: It's getting colder out there
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helloklitty
Still didn't work - I tried the ? too.
Posted in: Hackers take aim at iPhones, Macs
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helloklitty
I can't recall being in a classroom without a teacher present in my high school days. Japanese kids treat their classroom like a home away from home. Come and go as they please. They're often given keys to open this and that. I'd have to say kids at my high school were better supervised.
Posted in: Student, 17, falls to death from 4th floor of school building in Kamakura
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helloklitty
It will be great to see this adapted to "Cold Case". I wonder who they'll get to play the young Miura?
Posted in: LA prosecutors argue double jeopardy not applicable to Miura's case
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helloklitty
That's the refrain from people who use cell phones at movie theaters in the U.S. "It's a free country."
No, they have taken smoking for too long. They should build higher soap boxes.
You say you don't have to (smoke). If you've smoked secondhand smoke, you've smoked. It is even worse than firsthand smoke. Secondhand smoke contains hundreds of chemicals known to be toxic or carcinogenic, including formaldehyde, benzene, vinyl chloride, arsenic ammonia and hydrogen cyanide. Just think of the harm smokers are doing to the poor driver, not to mention the next passenger. This might explain some of the erratic driving behaviors by taxi drivers.
Posted in: Life is one rule after another for taxi drivers
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helloklitty
dennis obauer: damn i need my foreign books!
Try amazon.com.
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helloklitty
It always surprises me how cheap McDonald's is. They are incredibly efficient. I'm not sure you can blame them for the increased poundage/kilogramage. Just get one hamburger, share your fries, don't order a soft drink, etc. It's overeating that is the problem, I think. About 300 yen is enough to spend at McD's.
Posted in: McDonald's Japan to raise prices by 2.5%
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helloklitty
Obama says he'd like to steal some money from oil companies and use it to write every family an energy rebate check America a check for $1,000.
This is the infamous "windfall profits tax," popularized (and proved worthless and destructive) by Jimmy Carter. Obama said nothing of what a windfall profit might be.
It happens by just showing up for class according to The Times:
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=402674&encCode=5963447391BC23737875JTBS737226611
The Boston Globe's expose of grade inflation at Harvard has left little doubt that it is a semi-rigged competition, another subsidised risk. The formal scale runs from A to F. The tacit scale runs from A to B. I learnt the latter from students and supervisors, but especially from colleagues, few of whom wish to carry the opprobrium of the low end. This is as it may be. But the presence of two standards of value, one official and one tacit, is always a sign of corruption: the one necessarily dishonours the other. It also abridges the academic freedom of the teacher. Although I never gave a final grade below B minus, I can attest to the petty harassment that teachers attract in such cases.
Posted in: Obama backs some drilling, tapping oil stockpile
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helloklitty
He strikes me as intellectually dishonest.
Let's set the record staight: He made a spectacularly incorrect prediction about the surge in Jan 2007, and in July 2007 and November 2007, he claimed it was not working. Later, in 2008, when the surge was clearly working, he suddenly decides that he has been supporting it all along. Yeah, that sure does strike me as intelligent, too. Maybe no one will notice he's lying....
It's interesting how you assess intelligence. How about answering this question: Was the surge a "tactical adjustment" or "strategic shift"? McCain could answer this. BHO could not.
While not actually intelligent, Obama is indeed stubborn. His oppostion to the surge was indisputably mistaken. He's sinking in quicksand. He can't admit his mistake (which is a forgiveable mistake) which calls his character into question as well as his ability to recognize reality.
I thought he was going to be something new. I thought he was going to speak honestly and candidly and eschew "spin." He actually embodies the "old politics". The hype is a mirage. He has become the man he preached against.
Posted in: McCain ridicules Obama over Iraq policy
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helloklitty
Merely mentioning "crime" or "welfare" allows politicians to manipulate white voters' sentiments. These "allusions" are examples of playing the race card. You don't think anyone would actually be stupid enough to play the race card without making an allusion (although Obambi was stupid enough to actually say, while pretending to be McCain, "and did I mention he's black?")
Posted in: Racial politics hit Obama-McCain campaign
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helloklitty
Thanks for supporting my opinion.
Thanks for clearing that up.
You just admitted that he alluded to race, however, here's another Obambi quote from a few weeks ago in which he said (DIRECTLY) ...they will attack his lack of experience but also added, "And did I mention he's black?"
I'm not crazy about a black president who leaps at the chance to shout, "Racist!"
He would benefit obviously by painting McCain as a racist, which, last time I checked, a fairly big negative for a presidential candidate.
Posted in: Racial politics hit Obama-McCain campaign
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helloklitty
She and her friends had been waking up the neighborhood with their fireworks. Apparently, she's as strong as the Terminator - she suffered no injuries.
Posted in: Two hit-and-run cases reported in Saitama, Tochigi
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helloklitty
Should we give him a breathalyzer test?
I hit and ran when on my bicycle. Some drunk ran into the road around 10 p.m as I was cycling home from karate. I took a hard fall so I didn't feel guilty about lifting his wallet (containing 60,000 yen) and buying myself a new bicycle.
Posted in: Two hit-and-run cases reported in Saitama, Tochigi
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helloklitty
This would be the worst thing for blacks as they would have no one to blame for their problems anymore if BHO gets elected.
Obama's spokesperson, Robert Gibbs, says that when he was talking about currency presidents ($1-Washington, $5-Lincoln, $2-Jefferson, $20-Jackson, and $50-Grant) he was saying that McCain will try to paint BHO as far less experienced as those "experienced" currency presidents.
Facts: Washington had zero experience as a politician. Lincoln had had only two years of experience 15 years prior to taking the office of president. Jackson had been a senator and a representative for less than a year each. Grant had held no political office whatsoever before relocating to the White House. Only Jefferson, a Sec of State and VP - 7 years total, had more experience than Obambi.
So what BHO was really saying is, "McCain will point out that I'm black to scare you." This is a textbook example of playing the race card - something he learned from Jesse Jackson perhaps before JJ threatened to cut his n---- off.
Posted in: Racial politics hit Obama-McCain campaign
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helloklitty
You expect forgiveness for this scumbag?
Posted in: Ex-gangster shot to death in Fukuoka
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helloklitty
No, they aren't.
Posted in: Hunter dies in suspected bear attack in Hokkaido
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helloklitty
You can ride Segways in Sasebo, Nagasaki at the Dutch theme park.
Posted in: Toyota unveils next-generation scooter