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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herefornow
Jean -- really? Please site just ONE survey from all of Japan that supports your theory. Or, since your theory covers "the various nations with a significant US military presence", why don't you enlighten us all with the numbers from SK.
And King, fair enough, so why don't you provide the facts to support the belief that Marines apparently now fly F-15's or Jean's rant? That's what your cohorts are stating as fact.
Posted in: Japan, U.S. discussing revised plan for relocating Marines from Okinawa
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Yup, remember when mama's boy Hatoyama -- he was two PM's ago -- told Obama to "trust me"? That he had the situation regarding Futenma under control. LOL. Now the whole plan is having to be re-done because Japan can't live up to its end of the bargain.
And, yubaru, don't confuse this issue with actual facts, it is easier for the anti-U.S. folks to just be able to say anything they want, whether it has any basis in reality or not.
Posted in: Japan, U.S. discussing revised plan for relocating Marines from Okinawa
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herefornow
ExportExpert -- nonsense. Especially in the case of Japanese companies, that don't seem capable of accurately predicting their future financials/profits -- hell, Sharp only had a error factor of OVER $3.0 billion from the projected profit to the latest predicted loss -- potential investors need S&P and Moodys desperately.
Posted in: S&P downgrades Sharp
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herefornow
Nearly 11 months since the disaster and they still basically have no clue as to what is actually going on in the plant. But they still make pronouncements and assurances anyway. A "few liters" versus 8.5 tons is NOT in the acceptable error range anymore. But the incompetence continues unabated.
Posted in: More radioactive water leaks found at Fukushima nuclear plant
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Sarcasm321 -- spot on. And, in my case, the answer was a resounding "No". And I can't wait to get me fiance out of there as soon as possible as well, so I don't have to worry about her anymore as well.
Posted in: Area near Yokohama school closed due to high radiation levels
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herefornow
Wow, copying something companies in the U.S. and other western countries have been doing for decades. (I was a summer intern with a Fortune 500 company between years of my mBA back in the LATE 70's.) Who says Japan is isolated?
Posted in: Rakuten wants people who can be active internationally with business skills and language skills.
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oginome -- sorry, but wtfjapan is correct, you don't get it. "Quality" is a relative term when it comes to people actually purchasing a product. And the price/quality ratio is critically important, especially here in the states. Respectfully, in TV's and cars, Korean products are viewed to have excellent quality relative to price, and virtually all of the pre-Super Bowl ads from folks like Best Buy, Walmart, etc. are featuring Korean TV's. Japan, IMO, has lost the relative quality game, and, with the yen in its current position, and the very high fixed costs of doing business in Japan, like bloated payrolls, corporate taxes, etc., it is unlikely they will get that advantage back. Especially with China's quality improving. So you can believe Japan's absolute quality is better, and it may just be, but it is not superior enough to offset the higher prices. Not when even "cheap" TV's last ten years or more.
Posted in: Panasonic forecasts worst-ever net loss of Y780 bil yen
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nihoncritic -- agree. But IMO, that is a mighty BIG "if". Especially since they have no really dominant products/segments on a world-wide basis to be the fiundation for the turnaround. Virtually every part of their business has become second-rate. And, respectfully, that is not Stringer's fault. Hirai and others were responsible for the day-to-day managing of the divisions, including developing new products.
Posted in: Sony is forecasting a 220 billion yen loss for fiscal 2011, its 4th straight year of red ink despite massive cost cuts and restructuring efforts in recent years. What do you think are the main reasons for Sony's decline?
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herefornow
Three cheers. Maybe there is some hope for Japan recognizing the problems with being so inward-focused. I just hope when they come back that they are not shunned by the Japanese employees who did not go overseas. That happens all too often.
Posted in: Aeon to post 1,000 new graduates to stores in China, Southeast Asia
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herefornow
Mazda can blame it on the rise in the yen all they want. But the reality is that they are beginning to show the signs of the loss of the Ford investment/management involvement. Mazda was in the red before Ford bought in and now they are just reverting to that trend. Mainly because the Japanese management is not strong enough to set a clear course for the company, but simply tries to copy what Toyota is doing.
Posted in: Mitsubishi Motors back in black; Mazda in red
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herefornow
Bout somes up so much of Japan these days -- evious, resentful, but clueless as to how to make the changes needed.
Posted in: China outperforming Japan in campus romance
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herefornow
ExportExpert -- spot on. And the Tohoku disaster just made the domestic issues more critical. And why someone staking their financial future on a turn-around in Japan is facing worse odds than playing the lottery.
And, mobo,
I don't consider that living. That's surviving.
Posted in: Overall consumption is relatively firm partly supported by reconstruction demand. But it is hard to expect to see a self-sustainable recovery in private spending.
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herefornow
LOL, Japan is protesting and planning to waste time finding cute names for some islands (see separate story), and China is drilling. Does anyone really need any more indication of where the power in Asia now resides? Get used to being an also-ran, Japan. Protest all you want. Even make meaningless threats if you will. But China knows that the Japanese economy is way too dependent on trade with China, so they hold all the cards.
Posted in: Japan protests to China over undersea gas drilling
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Munya -- spot on. And many in Japan will lay the blame on Stringer for that, and, certainly, a certain amount of it should be put on him. He is certainly no Carlos Ghosn. But, having worked with Nissan during the turn-around period, I can only imagine the resistence Stringer ran into at Sony from the die-hard tradionalists there. There were many people -- senior managers -- at Nissan who would have honestly rather seen the Renault-Nissan merger fail, simply becuase they were so resistent to taking direction from a foreigner (remember, Japan is different). Plus they knew that the banks and government would always bail them out if things did hit rock bottom. Sony and Japan's great success of the 70's and 80's has now become its greatest obstacle to re-structuring to meet the challenges of the 21st century and a global economy.
Posted in: Sony more than doubles full-year net loss forecast to Y220 bil
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herefornow
Yup, the ships are deserting the sinking rats.
Posted in: Sony's Stringer steps down as president, CEO
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herefornow
nigelboy -- horse feathers. They should have admitted they were going to be that far off well before now. None of the things you mention just happened. They are all old news. That is why U.S. companies are required to file QUARTERLY updates and projections. Leaving a profit forecast in place for ten months, that has been flawed for six months or more, is simply criminal and shows how lax corporate management and governance is in Japan -- never will be confused with "world-class". More second-rate.
Posted in: Toshiba profit dives 70%
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herefornow
Same comment I made about Toshiba. Any management that has to announce that its profit will fall by 3/4's just 60 days before the end of their fiscal year is derelict in their duties. Can them all.
Posted in: Kirin slashes profit forecast by 74%
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herefornow
A perfect example of the differnce between the U.S. economy in 2012 and the one in Japan. Despite still being hit by the effects of a lingering recession, the U.S. still manages to find ways to spawn entrepeneurs and funnel capital into these exciting and promising start-ups. Meanwhile Japan is still pouring its precious capital into zombie companies, ones in trouble, like Olympus, or even the public debt. Enjoy the ride down, Japan. Hope it does not become a plunge.
Posted in: Facebook to seek to raise $5 bil in IPO
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herefornow
Great management. They just now, on Feruary 1st, figured out that their profit for the year ending the end of NEXT month will be down 33% from their forecast. Japanese companies and boards are a joke.
Posted in: Toshiba profit dives 70%
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herefornow
Yup, and then they go to work in a hidebound company in a hidebound society. The recruiting system is just one of a thousand examples of things that refuse to change in Japan despite many signs that Japan Inc. is broken.
Posted in: Japan job treadmill grinds down workers and firms