JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- ZAIHON, Inc. (日本財務翻訳株式会社), Tokyo
- Salary: ¥6.0M / Year Negotiable
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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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herefornow
timeon -- wrong, we read it. We are just got as gullible as you to believe anything that comes out of Kamada's mouth, or his PR machine. This is a "made for TV event", not a true boxing match, plain and simple. But I will gladly eat my words the day Kamada agrees to fight the #1 contender in his weight class, or even one stepping up in class -- outside of Japan. Then, and only then, will he become a true world champion, and not a Japanese pretender.
Posted in: WBA champ Kameda to fight low-ranked challenger
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cleo -- so what, you "trod the same path as many". But, not really. My fiance, who is a non-Japanese Asian, has lived in Japan 22 years, is a permanent citizen, and speaks fluent Japanese, still repeatedly gets stopped at subway stations by officials to show her ID. But when she is here with me in the states, she is treated like everyone else. Guess it boils down to whether you want to overlook and excuse a society where citizens can immediately identify someone as a foreigner, and then be forced to make a conscious decision on how to tteat them -- like running away from me when I stand on a subway platform -- or not. For me, ten years of that kind of treatment was more than enough. And, while your point about the well--educated young bank employee not being representative either is fair, you miss the key point -- He SHOULD be MORE open to foreigners and the outside world since he has the benefit of a superior education and a is employed by a global company. More imporantly, it is the men (mostly) like him who will be the future leaders of Japan, and who will be setting the tone for the society, writing laws, etc. I guarantee you there are dozens of like-minded guys at the Foreign Ministry and the Interior Ministry. And if that does not concern you, then I don't know what will.
Posted in: Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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herefornow
Seems like she has the better career prospects. Wonder if he'll be willing to be a house-husband.
Posted in: Kuroki reported pregnant 2 weeks after denying relationship with Akanishi
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herefornow
That's right, smile now, because any bit of individuality will be beaten out of you once you graduate and become a cog in the wheel of Japan Inc. The fact that you are all dressed identically should be the first clue about the next 40 years or so.
Posted in: Job-hunting season
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cleo -- if that were the case, you wouldn't be allowed to post here. Respectfully your situation -- educated foreign woman married to Japanese man with children living in the countryside -- is probably representative of about .0001% of the population of Japan. The reality of Japan is in the major cities where a young Japanese man, fresh out of a prestigious Japanese university, and employed by one of the major banks, told me, his his opinion, the world can simply be divided as "Japan and everywhere else."
Posted in: Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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This is laughable even by Kamada's standards. A guy who is 24 and 10!!!!! But, given how starved Japan is for sports heroes, the public will eat it up anyway.
Posted in: WBA champ Kameda to fight low-ranked challenger
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herefornow
Amazing how a well-managed company can actually succeed despite facing the same challenges others are using as excuses for missing their profit forecasts by billions of dollars.
Posted in: Nissan quarterly profit rises despite floods, strong yen
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jforce -- complete nonsense. First off, U.S. foreign policy is working just fine -- to advance its interests. The fact that some folks might not like that does not mean it has not been successful. And, respectfully, America is already great, has been for over 200 years, and posting all its military within its borders will not make it greater. In fact it would significantly reduce its ability to keep the peace worldwide.
Posted in: U.S., Japan announce agreement to send Okinawa Marines to Guam
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kchoze -- as part of your explanation, please clarify for us obvious non-economists like Dog and myself (even though I have degrees in business/economics from two prestigious universities) two things. First, how can it be a "zero-sum game", as you claim, when the debt is rising every year, which, as Dog poins out, means the share of the Japanese federal budget needed to service it every year is increasing, thus taking funds from needed social services? Second, how can it possibly be a good thing for the long-term prospects of Japan, when, as you admit, folks are too scared to spend "becuase of the uncertain economic future"? Even the population agrees Japan is in trouble, so they are not spending, which would help the economy grow, not just pay back old debts.
Posted in: Japan's current account surplus smallest in 15 years
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kchoze -- nonsense. Please explain how the U.S. economy, the largest in the world, and the one Japan, China, and all the other export-led economies count on for growth, and one with less than one-half the debt to GDP ratio Japan has, has failed, and Japan has succeeded? Respectfully you ought to be careful what you wish for, because if the U.S. economy does not continue to grow long-term, Japan is doomed. Since it cannot rely on domestic demand for growth. And please provide actual facts, not just your opinion.
Posted in: Japan's current account surplus smallest in 15 years
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herefornow
Must be a typo in this headline. Jean--- among others, were posting here a few days ago saying all countries wanted U.S. troops out. Because their presence was not required, with China not being a real threat. Guess real leaders, and not arm-chair defense secretaries, see it differently, since Australia and the Philippines are part of the plan.
Posted in: What do you think of the revised plan to realign U.S. forces in Japan by sending some Marines to Guam, and rotating others to Australia, the Philippines, Hawaii and possibly Iwakuni in Yamaguchi Prefecture?
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herefornow
If he says "trust me" to Obama then we should all officially start the clock running on his time left in office. Will mean he learned absolutely nothing from Hataoyama's failure in this area.
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herefornow
Oh, boo hoo. Sharp and many, many other Japanese companies built their success -- and billions in profits -- on the basis of decades of a strong dollar policy by the U.S., and Japan deliberately keeping the yen artificially low. If they didn't foresee this day coming, and prepare for it, then that's there fault. Didn't hear these guys complaining ten years or so ago when the dollar was at 135 yen.
Posted in: Exporting from Japan is nearly impossible as the more we sell the more we lose money.
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Godan -- not at all. That is the typical way of Japan. Just look at the nulear regulatory ministry openly pushing nuclear energy and getting support from the power companies that they were supposed to be regulating via strict safety measures. The J-government, both the elected officials and the bureaucrats, have long been an arm of Japan Inc., so one ministry working hard to make more money for a particular insustry, like tobacco, despite the obvious risk it poses to the public, is not strange at all there.
Posted in: Japan’s 'polite' tobacco war rages on
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herefornow
So what are they wasting all this money that could be better spend for? It doesn't work.
Posted in: Gov't confirms 'stealth' intervention in currency market
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herefornow
Guess its more of a "luke-warm" shutdown than a cold one afterall.
Posted in: Water temperature rising in No. 2 reactor at Fukushima nuclear plant
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herefornow
Feel sorrier and sorrier every day for all you folks still trying to make a go of it there in Japan. This is just adding insult to injury. Besides all the daily announcements of continued failures by TEPCO, new hot spots, contaminated food, and the likely raising of taxes to pay for all the incompetence, now they are forming a new party led by two self-proclaimed xenophobic old men. If I am not mistaken, Kamei was one of the guys who led the charge to make sure that foreign residents would not get the right to vote in local elections. And he was almost single-handedly responsible for getting all the postal reforms by Koizumi repealed. A vote for this party is simply a vote for more government grid lock and burying Japan's head further in the sand.
Posted in: Ishihara says he is ready to help new political party change Japan
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Talk abouit overly-simplistic nonsense. Japanese men "pledged" their loyalty to a guaranteed paycheck and retirement, without ever having to do anything, other than grow old, so they got paid more. That is not loyalty in any sense related to honor. It is simply buying into the economic model that made Japan Inc. successful, because the companies did not want to be bidding for talent among themselves. And comparing that to a U.S. naval officer is insulting and I hope her husband told her that.
Posted in: Honor and loyalty
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SamuraiBlue & Graham -- LOL. Please stop the silly naivete. You both know darn well what he is saying. He is simply stating the known fact that Japan will pledge free trade, and sign dozens of agreements saying they'll practice it, but then turn right around and pass tons of restrictive laws and/or regulations to make sure they do not have to actually do it. Actions speak louder than words, and until Japan has a DEMONSTRATED track record of truly implimenting free trade agreements, he's right to insist on saying "No".
Posted in: As advocates for free trade, we're concerned about adding an economy like Japan.
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herefornow
Spot on, and why I pulled up stakes after nearly ten years in Japan. Japan ranking last -- dead last -- out of 22 countries for entrepreneurship is terrible. Japan Inc has become one big zombie company and the nails are rapidly going into the coffin.
Posted in: Japanese entrepreneurs aim for Silicon Valley