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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irishosaru
Here we go again - an article about a Japanese boxer brings out people who know nothing whatsoever about the sport, and who think there's something stupid or unfair about Kameda fighting in Japan.
It's all about money and nothing else. Kameda can make more money fighting no-hopers in Japan than anywhere else, so he does. The day he can make more money fighting no-hopers overseas, he will do that.
And he, just like virtually every other boxer out there, will continue to fight no-hopers as long as he's allowed to get away with it.
And about this idea that America is where the big fights are - that is because that is where the money is. It's easier to make money from american TV compainies than anywhere else. And the day that promoters can make more money from TV companies in another country, they will go there.
The very reason the big fights went to Vegas was because it was easier to make money there because of TV blackout rules in bigger cities like NY.
Posted in: WBA champ Kameda to fight low-ranked challenger
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irishosaru
Got my italics all wrong there, so try again.
Courts don't rule that something is constitutional, they rule for or against arguments that something isn't constitutional.
Posted in: Supreme Court rules making teachers sing 'Kimigayo' is constitutional
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irishosaru
Very (deliberately?) misleading headline. The court did not rule that making teachers sing the anthem was constitutional.
The court ruled against the plaintiffs' claim that making the teachers sing the anthem was unconstitutional as it violated their freedom of thought.
This does not mean it could not be found unconstitutional in some other way.
Courts don't rule that something* is constitutional, they rule for or against arguments that something *isn't constitutional.
Posted in: Supreme Court rules making teachers sing 'Kimigayo' is constitutional
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irishosaru
@ Jamurai
agree with all your post except about his quality deserving a grand slam event. I don't think he's good enough to beat Djokovic, Nadal or Federer when it really matters. He's unfortunate that there are three genuinely great players around right now - he would have been a slam winner in other eras.
Posted in: Murray ends Nishikori's dream run at Australian Open
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irishosaru
If I'd been involved in the survey (was there even a survey done, the article isn't clear), my answers would have been restricted to items produced in Japan:
Brown bread. Coming from a country where I can get a loaf of about 30 slices for 120yen, playing 200yen here for 6/8 slices is just infuriating.
Apples. Almost 100yen an apple? No thanks.
Milk. Without very few exceptions, it's expensive and tastes nasty. 2 litre cartons please.
Those tiny green peppers (piman).
Honey.
Breakfast cereal. Even the Japanese-produced stuff is crazily expensive.
Posted in: Six things that foreigners feel are overpriced in Japan
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irishosaru
From reading the article, is it not the case that $2.5 million was the money to be paid to Seibu, rather than a salary for Nakajima? The failure to reach agreement within 30 days refers to personal terms between the player and the Yankees, I think.
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irishosaru
“The sales force said 50 miles per gallon, but they didn’t say if you run your air conditioning and you remain in stop-and-go traffic, you’re going to get 29 to 30 miles per gallon,” she said. “If they did, I would have gotten the regular Civic.”
But this is the case with every car, not just hybrids. all kinds of things affect the miles per gallon. Her ignorance of this, if that is what is, is hopefully not a valid legal argument. But eventually, this will (or should) all depend on what exactly Honda said in their advertising, or what a Honda representative told her directly. Was she told that the car would get 50mpg regardless of how it is driven? I doubt it.
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irishosaru
Honestdictator -
you're asking people to prove a negative? Ever heard that it is impossible to do so? Is that the entirety of your argument?
The onus is on those claiming the existence of something to provide evidence for its existence.
As a great man who recently died once said, "that which is asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence."
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irishosaru
@ the moderators: I think tmarie's point is that Tomoki Kameda fought as well as Kouki and Daiki. He beat Eduardo Garcia by knockout in the second televised fight of the night.
Posted in: Kameda retains WBA bantamweight title
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irishosaru
It has EVERYTHING to do with money, and very little to do with dubious decisions. In the only decision of the night involving a Kameda, Daiki deservedly lost on points.
The Kameda setup can bring in boxers from those places to fight in Japan because they can pay them enough to get them to come to Japan. It's exactly the same reason that Mayweather only fights in the USA. And as champion, a manager's main goal is to set his champion up with as many no-hopers as possible, before the governing body forces him to take on somebody decent. It has happened everywhere in boxing as long as it has been allowed to happen.
Naseem Hamed in the UK fought a series of nobodies (Daniel Alicea, Billy Hardy, Juan Polo Perez) until he got too greedy and believed his own hype too much.
On the other side of this, the USA's pro boxing scene is at an all time low - take a look at the list of world champions and see just how few are American.
Posted in: Kameda retains WBA bantamweight title
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irishosaru
Congratulations to the All Blacks - they got the points on the board. And congratulations to France too, they showed up and bossed large parts of the game.
I'd agree that Joubert missed a few infringements at the ruck (McCaw got away with a lot as usual - the rule on bridging just doesn't seem to apply to him) but I don't think he cost the French the game. The just couldn't find the yards when they needed to.
Should be some party in NZ right now.
Posted in: All Blacks beat France 8-7 to win Rugby World Cup
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irishosaru
'Race against time' only appears in the attention-grabbing headline, which, judging by the content of the rest of the article, is also misleading.
Guess it got the attention it was after.
Nowhere in the article is anybody quoted as saying they are racing against time.
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irishosaru
What's needed isn't a higher tax rate, but fewer loopholes.
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irishosaru
Ireland 26 - 21 Australia.
You heard it here first!
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irishosaru
Stuff that I can't find at all: Soda bread, Granny Smith apples, dry roast peanuts, live cultured yoghurt, black pudding, buttermilk.
Stuff that I can't get at a reasonable price, which prohibits me from buying them as much as I'd like: bran flakes, cheddar cheese, brown bread, proper sausages, red peppers.
Posted in: Living in Japan, which food or drink item do you miss most from your home country?
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irishosaru
@Fadamor
This is not always the case - there have been numerous examples of paedophiles asking the police to arrest them, as they felt the urge to abuse getting stronger and wanted to be locked up so they couldn't do anything.
I have no problem with some kind of tagging, but there's no real reason to restrict it to paedophiles. In fact, there's no real reason to restrict it to convicted criminals. Tag everybody, and you'll see the crime rate drop.
As for making names public - we only need to remember what happened when the UK Sun newspaper (or Daily Mail or NOTW) released names and pictures of convicted sex offenders - result was that people with the same names were getting beaten up, as were people with a passing resemblance to those in the paper. And a couple of paediatricians got beaten up as well.
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irishosaru
The calf muscle basically contracts suddenly all by itself, as a result of (usually) overexercising the muscle. Not stretching enough and dehydration can bring it on also, in combination with exercise.
I used to box a bit, and after a month or so of no training, when I started training again, I used to get them at least once. The muscle just turns to rock, and the only thing to do is try and stretch the muscle and just wait. They were agonising, but none of mine ever lasted as long as Nadal's seemed to do.
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irishosaru
@ HumanTarget
How ironic that you criticise people for making assumptions about Mike based on just a few hundred words, yet make all kinds of assumptions yourself about the people you criticise, based on even fewer words.
On the article itself, I agree that going to the cinema isn't the best way to spend a date, which, for me at least, were about finding out more about the girl I was with, and having her find out about me. But seeing as you had no plan for the evening, why the fuss? In fact, the article even mentions that she chose the movie because you had mentioned that you liked it.
Posted in: A movie date? No thank you
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irishosaru
Bolt knew the rules, he broke them. His problem.
Notice how the people arguing against the rule are doing so on the basis that 'you can't disqualify Usain Bolt!'
Two british athletes were disqualified the day before, and no fuss was raised at all. But when the headline act has to go, then people are suddenly all about fairness.
Posted in: Bolt is human; his sport's rules are not
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irishosaru
What an article!
Riiiight. You're the one looking for women on the internet while pining the tragic loss of your GF, and she's the shallow one?
> I was not interested in playing the field
Really? This article suggests the exact opposite.
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