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
@Steve:
Maybe people who are paying this money expect to be allowed to take photos of their food. They did pay for it after all.
As for the question: This is a country with justifiably world-famous cuisine, so it comes as no surprise that food plays a greater role in the social interaction of its people. You'll find more Japanese people talking about (and taking pictures of) food than you will find Irish people doing, because Irish food isn't worth talking about or taking pictures of.
Just as it's not uncommon to see people from other countries taking pictures of beer or wine they're drinking and put them on facebook - the things we take pictures of are in many cases the things to which we attach some kind of cultural value, and in this case is an experience which Japanese people want to share with others.
Posted in: Why do so many Japanese women take photos of their food at restaurants and post it on Facebook or their blogs?
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irishosaru
Whatever about you, it's pretty clear what she was to you - a Japanese teacher you didn't have to pay. By the way you treated her, she was certainly not a friend.
And then you compound things by writing an article on the situation, accusing her of 'betrayal', and talking of 'ugly double standards', when the only double standards have been displayed by you.
Posted in: Was I a date, a friend or just a potential English teacher?
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irishosaru
I hope confidence in the law is shaken to the point where the law is abolished. It's shocking that a country (any first world country anywhere) still practices this blatant measure of revenge.
Posted in: Recently, the death penalty has been handed down in lay judge trials. If executions continue to be delayed because of politicians' personal views, public confidence in the law will be shaken. Executions should be carried out within the set period.
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irishosaru
This isn't the first time this has happened. Marc Vivien-Foe, the Motherwell captain of a few years ago died in the same way. So did a teenage GAA player in my native Ireland. It's not that they died despite being so fit, they died becsuse they were so fit. There are some quite mild abnormalities with the heart which, when combined with extreme fitness levels/training, can result in death. Footballers aren't the only people to have the abnormalities, but only pro sports players tend to subject their bodies to enough physical stress to make an otherwise unproblematic abnormality become a problem.
Posted in: Former Japan soccer player Matsuda dies of cardiac arrest at 34
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irishosaru
minimum weight - also known as strawweight.
Tiny tiny guys, but the division has produced one truly outstanding fighter in Ricardo Lopez.
Well done Ioka - he won the title away from Japan, which is something of a rarity.
Posted in: Ioka defeats Oleydong for WBC minimumweight title
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irishosaru
@davidattokyo
And that's my point. They've already decided that hunting will resume. So, therefore, the results of the research will show that it is sustainable to do so.
Why use an 'if' when a 'when' will do, eh?
Posted in: Battle at sea
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irishosaru
Sorry, the above quote is messed up for some reason. The quote from the ICR page ends with the words 'will be sustainable'.
Posted in: Battle at sea
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irishosaru
From the ICR homepage:
Lol at this - they've already decided the outcome - that commercial whaling will resume because it is sustainable - without the research. I'd consider the ICR research on whales about as objective as William Morris research on the dangers of smoking.
Posted in: Battle at sea
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irishosaru
This happened to my wife (before we got married). She was at home when the call arrived, and it was a woman pretending to be her sister. They were suspicious, and asked a few questions to prove her identity. The criminals knew her name, her sister's name, her mother's name, but when asked what her mother's maiden name was, they immediately hung up.
Posted in: 81-year-old man foils telephone fraud attempt
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irishosaru
Well done to both of them, especially Hasegawa who is a quality and durable fighter.
Posted in: Hasegawa wins WBC featherweight title
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irishosaru
What does the 30% refer to? Is it that 30% of girls asked had that opinion of guys preference? (In which case 70% didn't, so it's hardly a majority who have that misconception)
Or does the 30% refer to the % of guys whose answers conformed to the stereotype?
Anyhow, seeing as no percentages are given for the answers which give rise to the apparent misconceptions (“shape is more important than size.” is presumably the comment of only one respondent and how many others agreed with him?)it's difficult to say what the misconceptions were.
Posted in: Common misconceptions about the opposite sex in Japan
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irishosaru
Man has bad experience in McDonalds, concludes Japan is bad.
Posted in: In Japan, the customer is not king
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irishosaru
I think that the hike may cause a few people to quit, but not many.
However, hopefully the real difference will be people not starting to smoke in the first place, due to the higher prices. I'm still not sure the prices are prohibitively high though.
That said, I don't see how this price hike can do any harm, even if all it does is get the govt more money.
I'm disgusted though that tobacco companies have been able to add as much as 70yen extra per pack, and will be able to blame it on the government's price hike.
Posted in: Japan hikes taxes on cigarettes by 40% to curb smoking
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irishosaru
Sounded interesting and intelligent until he mentioned 'my people', then he lost me.
Posted in: The Lyon's share of office furniture
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irishosaru
"She waited 5 days? Must have been consensual!"
Honestly, has the thought never occured to you that she spent 4 days refusing to leave her apartment because she was too afraid? That she had to be convinced by family/friends to do it?
Posted in: 3 firemen arrested for alleged gang rape of woman
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irishosaru
Greed.
Posted in: Why is politics, which could and should be a noble profession, conducted so badly?
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irishosaru
The worst film of all time is some film-student failure that only a handful of people ever saw.
I'm going to go for a film that had big money behind it and big names in it, a film of whoch we could have reasonably expected some kind of quality and/or entertainment, but from which we got neither.
My vote goes to Pearl Harbour. Honestly one of the poorest films I've ever seen.
Posted in: What are some of your candidates for the worst movie of all time?
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irishosaru
@ yabits
There is a scene from Fahrenheit 911 where he talks to police/security outside the Saudi embassy, who basically say 'no comment' to all his questions. Then he asks them if the Saudis give them any trouble or not, and they say they can't comment, to which he replies, 'I'll take that as a yes.' It was a blatant piece of manipulation and a very very poor scene indeed.
Posted in: What are some of your candidates for the worst movie of all time?
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irishosaru
My stance would be to ban all religious clothing and symbols, and then ban the religions themselves.
Posted in: In some countries, there are moves to ban or restrict the wearing of religious clothing and symbols such as burqas, veils, head scarves, skullcaps, turbans and crucifixes in public places like schools, recreational facilities and so on. What’s your stance?
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irishosaru
How is it that in these situations, rhe parent always manages to kill the child all right, but only manages to wound themself?
They should kill themself first, and make sure they've done it right, before moving on to the child.
Posted in: Mother fatally stabs son, then tries to kill herself