JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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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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- 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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Kentaro -- you can't be serious? (And please note I chose to ignore the completely silly and off target last sentence of your rant about "70 years-ago"). Your ignoring of the obvious, which seems to be the rule rather than the exception in Japan, just amazes me. No one is trying to bully Japan. What the international community is trying to get Japan to finally recognize is that they cannot continue to operate as complete hypocrites. If Japan wants to benefit from international trade/finances, which brought it back from destruction, then it must be willing to abide by international standards of conduct and governance. It cannot say, let us sell our products, services, bonds, stocks, etc. wherever we want, but then turn around and say how we run our companies is none of your business. So Japan has a choice. Either recognize that the world is truly global and competeing it in will require change and opening up to meeting global standards, or simply shrink and become an island/isolated nation again.
Posted in: British anti-fraud watchdog launches Olympus probe
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Expand this comment to include Japanese media being controlled by big business, as well as the state. One need look no further than TEPCO and Olympus to understand this. The kisha system is not consistent with a country that truly holds freedom of speach/the press as sacred. Instead it is consistent with a country that has things to hide.
Posted in: The case of Abubakar Awudu Suraj: A PR nightmare of Japan’s own making
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LFRAaain -- really? Don't think so. What is not ij Japan's "best interests" is continuin to support a system of agriculture that has not made sense for decades and costs over $60 billion a year so folks can pay 5 times the market rate for stables. Or does the fact that the government is borrowing more than it takes in every year in taxes not register with you? And, as to why the U.S. is pushing so hard -- could just be that the U.S. recognizes that it is better to try to force Japan to make the needed changes than have to bail Japan out in a decade or so when the whole house-of-cards comes tumbling down.
Posted in: White House, Noda differ over what he said to Obama on TPP
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Dog --yup. Same as Hatoyama saying "trust me" when he had no plan for Futenma, and Clinton having to call out the then FM a year or so back for also trying to back-slide on something that was said. Never going to change. And why Japan will never get a seat at the grown-up's table when it comes to international affairs.
Posted in: White House, Noda differ over what he said to Obama on TPP
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God speed Japan. Let's hope this report is confirmation that Japan, after struggling mightily at first, has got a good start on the clean-up efforts and can develop the plans and processes necessary to do what must be done over the next couple of decades.
Posted in: IAEA praises Fukushima clean-up
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Wow, a Japanese leader being accused of being vague. That's certainly a first. And giijinfo, you are spot on. This whole thing is likely to come to a fork in the road in the next year or so as the talks heat up. And, its entirely possible that the U.S. and the other countries are forced to say "thanks but no thanks" to Japan. They are not going to let one aging, declining country, incapable of making the changes it needs to, stand in the way.
Posted in: Noda questioned in Diet over his vague statements on TPP
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pawatan -- nice try, but it is you that is "choosing not to see". As your post states, the J-government has certainly produced lots of maps and other data. What they have NOT done, and steadfastly refuse to do, is make the logical conclusion that this land cannot be used for agricultural purposes again. (Can you not understand simple concepts/words, or do you deliberately twist what I say so you can rant?) Which this group did. It harkens back to the days after the meltdowns when the government and TEPCO released lots of data but refused to conclude, as experts around the world had already done, that they had melted-down at least 70%. You need to choose to see that your government spoon-feeds you information like you are a child because they assume you cannot handle the truth. And you defend that.
Posted in: Parts of Japan too radioactive to farm, say int'l researchers
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LOL. The LDP for generations has been aligned with both Japan Inc. (which favors TPP), as well as getting great support from agriculture (which is against TPP), due to the heavy tariffs and subsidies they showered on them -- rather than force needed reform. So they are in great part the cause of the problem, and makes them critisizing anyone on this very comical.
Posted in: LDP leader considers censure motion against Noda over TPP decision
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No surprise. Just wonder why it has to be a group of International Researchers to make this conclusion and not the Japanese government? Is it because of the J-government being lax/incompetent or possibly trying to delay bad news again?
Posted in: Parts of Japan too radioactive to farm, say int'l researchers
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smithinjapan -- as usual, spot on. In no small part beause the authorites, like the SESC, believe it is their mandate to protect Japan Inc. rather than the investors. And, as you say, that will never change, so nothing will happen when these crimes occur. Stability and employment trump everything in Japan, even any sense of right or wrong.
Posted in: Olympus shares gain 18.51% as delisting fears ease
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timtak -- unbelievable, you are blaming the one guy you understood the concept of fiduciary responsibility and tried to protect the shareholder's for Olympus's problems. Did you follow this whole story? Woodward did exactly what any responsible person in his position, as newly appointed CEO, would do. He hired outside accountants to look into the concerns he had. Then when they reported the problems he raised his concerns with the CEO in a series of letters. Then, when he got the usual Japanese stonewalling, he demanded a board meeting to confront the issue, but got fired before-hand. Finally, when labled as "the problem", then and only then did he go public to make sure that investors understood what was really going on. And for this you want to blame him for 20 years of lying and cheating by the Japanese board? Sounds like you have adopted the Japanese attitude that it is only wrong if you get caught.
Posted in: Olympus urged to rehire ousted British CEO
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Do they teach these words in Management 101 in Japan? What a farce, and why I say again that Japan's best days are way behind it and its slide into irrelevance in international business will only accelerate because the supposed business "leaders" are clueless and completely incapable of doing anything but responding according to the way it has been drilled into their heads -- circle the wagons, keep out the foreigners, and when the crap hits the fan bow a lot and say a lot of meaningless words until the story dies down.
Posted in: Olympus urged to rehire ousted British CEO
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naruhodo1 -- maybe you should have taken Econ 102. The fact of the matter is that Japan's 60% is AT LEAST 10% below other major developed economies, like the U.S. As a result, Japan is still too heavily dependent on exports for growth, since domestic consumption has basically been flat for years, due to the aging/shrinking population. Finally, much of that spending is paying for inefficiency built into the domestic economy in Japan, which is not a productive use of capital. And why decades of pump-priming measures have not worked.
Posted in: Japan economy rebounds in July-September quarter
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Fadamor -- why don't you answer your own question? Maybe it is because it took the authorities over two months to admit/divulge that he was a police trainee, even though he resigned that same day. Wasn't that newsworthy then, too? Then how come it wasn't stated then? Also, doesn't "the man" have a name?
Posted in: Trainee cop arrested for taking up-skirt photos at station
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And this is why the Communist Party has like 2% support in Japan. What will they say if China, a communist country, joins the talks?
Posted in: Noda is putting the U.S. before Japan’s own interest.
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Wow, pawatan, pretty much what myself and other posters have consistently said for weeks. And, your admission that people, even Japanese ones, buy food on price is very telling. First off, it gives credance to the assumption that Japan has long denied equal access to its market by other countries because it knew its claims of superiority were all hogwash. But, more importantly, it implies that you are willing to force the ever-growing number of Japanese living on fixed incomes to pay up to 5 times the world price for stables like rice, because you recognize Japan's quality is not sufficiently high enough to convince them to buy Japanese.
Posted in: Food self-sufficiency a weak argument against TPP participation
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Given the above, the 6% headline is a bit deceiving. Especially since even Japanese experts do not expect the increase to be sustained. But at least this is encourgaing and stops the slide for a quarter.
Posted in: Japan economy rebounds in July-September quarter
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Yubaru -- really? Do you know the difference between figurative and literal? If not, just read above. And then ask yourself if Japan was only considering joining a trade deal with Chile, Brunei, New Zealand and Singapore if there would be the uproar about all this.
Posted in: Obama praises Noda's 'boldness' for taking risk over TPP talks
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pawatan -- The whole concept of Japan Inc., which successfully contributed to Japan's amazing economic resurgence, has, unfortunately, IMO, become a weight that will take Japan down in the 21st century. Because it has made the historically important Japanese traits of honor and personal repsonsibility virtually extinct, by convincing people that protecting these corporate giants comes before anything else. As a result, the three-headed monster that rules Japan -- the companies, the politicians and the bureaucrats -- cannot possibly inact the changes needed to insure true corporate governance. As a result, Japan will continue to fall behind, as its companies will find it increasingly difficult to attract foreign capital, and the amount of savings flowing into the banks in Japan for lending to the companies will shrink as the population and economy decline. That is not "bashing". That is just stating the obvious impact of the path Japan is following, and which you defend. Good luck with that.
Posted in: Olympus to correct 20 years of financial figures
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issa1 -- and, honestly, I found your inablity to comprehend simple concepts, or pretending to do so, equally as outrageous or possibly scary. All Japan has done is agree to join the talks. They have NOT made a decision to actually join TPP, because, TPP does not even exist right now, and, it is not 100% assured that the nine originating countries will all even accept Japan joining the talks. Any decision on joining is years away. What is it about that that you cannot comprehend? All Noda has done is try to give Japan a place at the table/a voice, so any TPP agreement would address their concerns and not have to accept an agreement that is already decided. Japan is free to walk away at any time, but at least this gives them the option of participating on terms acceptable to them.
Posted in: Obama praises Noda's 'boldness' for taking risk over TPP talks