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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30061015, that's the point! This proble will not be fixed by using lights, unless those lights are inside people's brains to step up to the plate and confront this dilemma facing the people and our lives today. Think about it. Japan has safety the envy of many countries. Why should people take their own lives, is a paradox too deep to answer. But for beginnings, how about developing a compassionate people, a step beyond the ware-ware DAKE mentality.
Posted in: More Tokyo train stations start using lights to stem suicides
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Southsakai, thanks for the complement! By the way, tonight as I was riding home, and sitting on the row of seats where everyone sits next to each other (as opposed to single seats or shinkansen style), an lady a few years older than me begrudgingly (it seemed) sat down besides me and then hogged the narrow arm rest that exists only at that one spot in the row. I was in no mood to protest so I just gave it up, even though as I mentioned I was sitting there first. I think this is a very typcial miserliness of the J-people that is now making itself more visible with these tough economic times, which I also am enduring thank you. In conversations around me too, I hear alot of anti-western (specifically USA) comments to make themselves feel better. The ware-ware feel good type of comments. "I don't listen to USA ipods" etc. But then alot of people are studying English papers on the train, obviously hoping someday somehow to get out of here for employment in other locations. But the job market is tough EVERYWHERE nowadays except for maybe China and India. Anyways, I'd like to say, that the lights on JR are one idea, but not a very effective one for stemming suicides as has been pointed out. If we are to cure this planet and this country, we're going to really have to join forces, east and west, black, yellow, white and red, and get over this provincialism. Don't you think? Or is that IMPOSSIBLE on these islands, for another 1000 years?
Posted in: More Tokyo train stations start using lights to stem suicides
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Don't bother lining up? Go line up on the Keihin Tohoku line at Kamata and see how far that gets you. Or the Odakyu line, or the Chuo line, or the.....at morning and evening rush.
Posted in: Is chivalry dead on Tokyo trains?
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I've lived here a long time. When I arrived, it was the 80's, the economy was booming, being Japanese really meant something. Doors were unlocked, at least mine was, and I never felt threatened. Times changed and the economy tanked. But in all honesty, I don't think the real nature of the Japense poeple have changed. They've just had their options and money flow so limited that its now a matter of survival of the fittest. Those who can't see any hope down the line commit suicide. Before there were more options. Now very few, and even the gov't is being run by people who'd have to be considered odd-couple even as recent as a few years ago.Where are the Japanese leaders today? The Nagashima's of the Giants, the great Chiyonofuji Sumo Yokozuna who thought only of winning, though not being the largest physique, the great Buddhist priests of the past who taught that poverty was a noble and even to be sought after way of living. Internte world has brought information to us abundantly, but our souls are very undernourished. That is the reason for suicides in my opinion. Can Japan find its way back to its roots, some of which attracted not a few of us here, I believe. The Business leaders of today, the Keidanren and the huge coorporations also have a tremendous debt to this countries society. Why has no one come out and stood up for the common person like Boras Yeltsin on a tank and say, This far and no farther. We will stand for Japan of honor, and we will start with this building today and go forward. Something concrete is needed. Not just blue lights, though JR is desparate for something. At the same time 8 EIGHT MIllion a DAY. Its mind-boggling. They should definitely stop that music da-da-da-do-da-do-da da x 4 refrains before every door is shut. How about Kitaro music. Or Vivaldi's Four Seasons like they do at Oimachi station. It seems much better. And yes, STOP all the xxxx repeatable announcements at each station and in-between ad naseum already. Heaven help tokyo, and heaven help Japan. And let the Japanese wake-up and see what a pity their detached and seemingly non-caring attitudes has wrought.
Posted in: More Tokyo train stations start using lights to stem suicides
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Good point numbskull. My previous points notwithstanding, there is a bit of ishin-denshin left in these people. Maybe not the one's below 20, but say the one's older than 35? or so? And is this just a carping of older generation to younger one? I don't think so.
Posted in: Is chivalry dead on Tokyo trains?
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I'm with ratpack, although I can't wean myself from every xxx tidbit of this story. Sooner than later I'm going to pledge NOT to read anymore about this murderer. Its bad for one's health.
Posted in: Ichihashi's lawyers say he doesn't want any contact with his parents
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Another wonder why nothing is done to help improve this situation. It exists on every nook and cranny road in Tokyo and I imagine everywhere else of these islands except Hokkaido. Where can an improvement be made, with everyone fighting over every cm. of land? I think it'll NEVER improve. Even less quick than the Olympics coming to Tokyo, which won't be for at least 100 years.
Posted in: Man dies after being dragged by car for 160 meters in Yokohama
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You have to be very selective in riding trains in Tokyo. If you get on the wrong line at the wrong time, its like your going into a rugby scram ass first. Elbows, no space yielded as you try to move to the center of the seats to make room away from the doors as all the announcements tell you to do. Then when you get there, you realize that's where most of the space actually is! This is a terrible "habit"/"custom"/ what's the word? Junnama says it right when he says "it doesn't mean they plan to change anything". And that too is a problem.....for us. I sometimes (oftentimes/all the times) think that J-people DON'T WANT change for the better. A friend who lived and died here said once before his death, "Japanese like the recession better" than prosperous times. After many years I think he was right. They seem to feel most alive when they are suffering. As if its kind a kindship with reality. Still it takes an enormous amount of patience to go along with this mentality. So why the xxxx are we still here? Another habit concerning the trains is the way on crowded platforms or hallways leading to platforms, they'll all walk like elephants not in any hurry to make the incoming train, but just going slow enough to block anyone coming from behind. They drive like this on the tollways too, for your information. On the "fast" lane, they won't go any faster (and sometimes slower) than the limit. So I think this is Japan. Real Japan......don't budge for nobody....and after 45 years of completely being screwed by the LDP, they finally made a switch. But for how long is anyone's guess. Tomorrow, I'll just breath deeply, count to 10 and try not to smell the bad things around me. Its a work day. As bad as women have it on the trains,men have it bad too.
Posted in: Is chivalry dead on Tokyo trains?
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The Emp should be bowing, with face to tatami....hey, just joking! But someone must not have briefed the tall Obama how such a photo op would look. It looks kind of funny, no? Still I find myself doing similar things in this land, like bowing to strangers who greet me, etc. Afterwards I say, "why didn't you just wave?" But living here a while does things like that to you.
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And yes, I believe there must be many "sirgambles" out there who taught Ichihashi at Nova. Why don't we hear more from them? That would be something to make a good book of.
Posted in: Ichihashi transferred
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Its hard to collect my feelings about this xxx and his dastardly crime. When I talk to J-people and try to tell them how much it meant to the gaijin community that/and when he got caught, it wasn't quite commnicable. This wasn't just another murder, but with the escape and all, and the uglyness of this still 20's year old man, and the killing of a English teacher, a lovely 22-year old at that, it just wreaked from day 1. Of course he doesn't look like many "expect". He's had numerous surgeries, hes been on the run, and his xxx face is half covered, his hair is long. People's appearances change under such conditions. I think he's going to end like Miura, long hanging in their and then finally hanging himself...or at least we can hope it ends along those lines. Sitting around in prison is just a waste. And don't give me that "everybody's done something bad in their lives" line. This was senseless, cold blooded Murder and then doing everything in his wits to escape capture.
Posted in: Ichihashi transferred
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Whatever you eat, its working Miss U. Keep it up, write a cook book and come visit Tokyo soon.
Posted in: Former Miss Universe Japan Kurara Chibana expands her horizons
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bdiego... "People go crazy there all the time." What do you mean? He already IS CRAZY! Only CRAZY people commit such dastardly crimes! And then fugitive for 2.5 years with plastic surgery and the rest. Come now. Surely this man is already crazy!
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We are "celebrating" the capture of that torturer and murderer! Now that he is captured, I would like NEWSPAPER and on-line companies to show BOTH faces, before and after. This after face starts to look like a beagle and might draw false sympathy from the Mark Chaplains out there. The former face could never create such a dichotomy.
Posted in: ICHIHASHI ARRESTED BY POLICE IN OSAKA
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And to all a good night!
Posted in: ICHIHASHI ARRESTED BY POLICE IN OSAKA
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I'm sure this will go on into the hundreds of contributors, but while still below that, I have to say that the plastic surgery Ichihashi had, changed his almost evil looking mug into one quite civil. Whoever did it is both a good technician AND an accomplice to a fugitive. Whoever performed the surgery must be brought out and or is this not possible according to law? My point is that without a doubt the dr. must have know the mug he/she was working on was that of criminal Ichihashi. There is not another with anything near those looks! And don't forget that when entering the trial and criminal proceedings. We need to remind ourselves what the real Ichihashi mug was, to never forget the absolute hideousness of his dastardly crime. He is not that civil looking kind, hard-working gent he now appears thanks to the surgery. Its quite shocking, actually.
Posted in: ICHIHASHI ARRESTED BY POLICE IN OSAKA
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Thank goodness, thank goodness, thank the goodness of all the efforts by the police. I hope the plastic surgeons get grilled good and long and regret that they didn't bring this to light sooner. But thank goodness AT LEAST he's been caught!!!!! Whether it takes whatever it takes, we can rest assured that at least we can sleep a bit easier tonight. Amen, and amen again.
Posted in: ICHIHASHI ARRESTED BY POLICE IN OSAKA
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I'd contact JT monitors IMMEDIATELY, they'd certainly know what to do!
Posted in: If you saw someone you thought was murder suspect Tatsuya Ichihashi on the street, in a restaurant or on a train, for example, realistically speaking, what would you do?
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Guy; "What an arse!" Girl* looking over at coach on the side, "Its easy to choreograph, but I'd like to see YOU try this routine!"
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Glad we got to see the rest of the photo. I thought, "Wow, what balance and defiance of gravity, no wonder them Chinese and Koreans win all the metals."
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