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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isthistheend
Hey Korewa, it says the woman's ribs were broken! Hello? Don't mix apples with oranges. This is clear and unadulterated already penetrated physical violence. Not to be confused with your "equal due diligence" opinion.
Posted in: Man arrested for attempted murder after car chase and strangling ex-girlfriend in Chiba
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isthistheend
I think this case is a blatant example of the incompetency of the J-cops to take action in important cases, (where someone's life is in danger) while chasing around using endless man/women power to arrest a marginal or even steady drug user (Nori-P and husband), but not a significant dealer. The other day I read where the U.N. has issued a warning to Japan to give women more rights to the workplace. How about more rights to a safe and decent life! without fear of getting strangeled by a jilted ex.
Posted in: Man arrested for attempted murder after car chase and strangling ex-girlfriend in Chiba
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isthistheend
If drugs and Yaks are not involved (everybody on something really heavy with huge money at stake), this is a totally incomprehensible story. I think JT ought to triple check the facts of this and offer its readers a more in-depth analysis of the sick as can be UN-Wa story.
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isthistheend
Remember when "Do you mind if I smoke?" was one of the phrases that used to be taught in English classes. Nowadays, it might be something like "Do you mind if I pass on some toxic fumes to your lungs", or Excuse me while I go outside and get my fix."
Posted in: Maid-detective Saki Fukuda wants to 'clean the world of cigarettes'
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isthistheend
Well put sfip330. I know a shall we say "typical" Japanese person in his 40's who says surprising things like "Oh, we have no predjudices in Japan, especially against blacks like you have in USA", or when locating my neighorhood on the google after my return home, "Oh, all American houses look the same".. I rest my two cents on these comments, of which its just too hot today to refute.
Posted in: Jewish human rights group protests 'anti-Semitic' ad in Nihon Keizai Shimbun
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isthistheend
I agree Triumvere, though I don't respect people's "rights" to pass on 2nd hand cancer to others. But I wonder why she's gesturing like she wants a cigarette in both hands on stage in front of everyone?
Posted in: Maid-detective Saki Fukuda wants to 'clean the world of cigarettes'
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isthistheend
"Any day now, any day now, I shall be released."
Posted in: You're Bob Dylan? NJ police want to see some ID
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isthistheend
Hypothetically? Oh, you mean how would foreigners come over here and qualify like Brendan Jones etc? They can either receive an invitation from the JPGA for performance to date, or they can do the above qualifying circuit, ie. qualifying in Japan by winning at a certain authorized tournaments, the Qualifing School in Kyushu in December being one.
Posted in: Ryo Ishikawa
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isthistheend
Hypothetically, you have to be good. Like shoot what they call + nowadays. That means you are at least 2 better than par, from the back tees, at difficult courses. Then you have to win regional amateur tournaments, and after that you can think about qualifying for the japanese circuit by entering their annual Q-school tournament held in Kyushu in December. On a relavant note, I know a Japanese professional (late 20's) tall and handsome like Ishikawa-san, who tried to play a few tournaments on the Nike tour in USA. After just a few weeks, he realized there was NO WAY he'd ever be able to compete with the depth of players in the USA, and he high-tailed it back to being a teaching pro at one of the ranges here, while he tries now for the 3rd time to place in the top 50 of J'S-Q-school tournament this December. So as much as we might pooh-pooh Ishikawa Ryo for not having what it takes to make it big on the REAL stage of International play, let's give him at least 5-10 more years to develop his talent as an adult player before we write him off into the land of has-beens. Good Luck Ryo, and those that he's inspiring in the new generation. Go to the country side ranges here in Japan and you'll be amazed at how long they practice, and how many good players there seem to be.
Posted in: Ryo Ishikawa
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isthistheend
Its all is fair in love and war. As an American citizen, and after living here for so long, and experiencing the terribly hot August days, (unlike this year), I have often had deep feelings of pity/regret/anger concerning the pain and suffering that was experienced in those frightful days following the devastation of the two cities. Instead of 2, they could have at least stopped at one, is how I've often thought about it. People in the neighborhood still talk about it like it was a few years ago, in their recent collective memory. Will it end when they die? On the other hand, it was a time of War, and people's patience were a thing of the past. They wanted it ended and ended today! I've also read that Jpn and German scientists were trying to develop their own technology and would have targeted S.Francisco and elsewhere in a heartbeat, the moment they succeeded in creating the monster. So in retrospect, the victor took decisive action and the rest is up to Monday morning Quarterbacking.
Posted in: Poll in U.S. finds support for World War II atom bombings
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isthistheend
I have a Japanese friend whose son works for Goldman. He's always saying "Jewish people are sooooo clever" whenever I openly mention the religion of my birth. Each time I wish he'd just shut up. As for anti-semitism, anti-racism, anti-this and anti- that, "All we are saying, is give peace a chance" by John Lennon really says it all. God rest his soul. But for the ad to appear in Nihon Keizai means they received money for its appearance, ie. they should be stricter in their policy of allowed advertisements. Would they accept an ad from the former Aum Shinrikyo stating similar claims? Thank goodness someone spoke up about it.
Posted in: Jewish human rights group protests 'anti-Semitic' ad in Nihon Keizai Shimbun
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isthistheend
Yikes, maybe true democracy will come to these shores! Ummmmmm in about 50 years at the earliest.
Posted in: Opposition DPJ says it's ready to stand up to U.S.
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isthistheend
De Mente is an old Japan hand. Of 40-50 years and counting. His writings are on the whole very entertaining. The title of this one is obviously meant to sell copies. Both sides of their brain? Puleaaaaase. Superior? Again, please let's not overdue it. The Japanese are good at what they're good at, but they're not better or worse than any other people on this earth. Or so I believe.
Posted in: Why the Japanese Are a Superior People
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isthistheend
O.K. and let's have a Gaijin only car while we're at it. The other day I was doing the Yamanote line gig which I do twice daily, a.m. and p.m. rush hours, and in the p.m. this smallish oba-san comes behind me, one of 4-5 pushing in at the last as we all do. But this oba-san came after me with first a push in the back and then after safely in, an extra elbow in the side for good measure. I protested, "hiji tsukawanai de kure yo", to which she responded "oh, sorry". This never happened to Cleo in all of her/his 35 years I'm sure, but it does happen. Yes, I'm saying I was picked out by the oba-san BECAUSE I was the only foreigner on that train, and she thinks we need to be kept at bay. It can be ridiculous sometimes. No?
Posted in: Man sentenced to prison for groping insists on his innocence
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isthistheend
The point is the Jpn DO ask about salary, and DO "go shopping" and DO ask how much everything you have in your possession costs, especially if its a new "must have" item.
Why Cleo and others deny this point is beyond me, whether spoken by a male or female is beyond the point entirely.
Moderator: Back on topic please.
Posted in: My first run-in with the police
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isthistheend
Apsara, since your husband is Japanese, then according to Cleo "I think that's a roundabout way of saying you talk like a girl/man". Total nonsense right? That's how I felt when he/she said the same thing to me above. And again, maybe they don't say it to you or your husband, but "how much money do you make" is OFTEN spoken here, just like "how much did xxx cost"comes out as frequently as what's the weather today.
Posted in: My first run-in with the police
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isthistheend
Is this the end is replying to your "nobody asks about salary" quote "your reading the wrong material". I've been asked that question point blank so many times I can feel when its coming 3 questions ahead of time. Q1 "You speak Japanese so well, your wife must be Japanese. Q2 How long have you been here. and then the 3rd one, in that order.
Posted in: My first run-in with the police
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isthistheend
Yes. The point is to WAKE UP about WHICH ENVIRONMENT YOU ARE IN! Foreigners are honored (largely on face value/tatemai) during the course of daily events, but enter most any Japanese group activity, and its Majority rules, and watch your step and your kids steps. The slapping was excessive, and should have been dealt with other than remaining seated and enduring the rest of the game in anger. Up and out. And next time, think twice about where you take your precious children. Gaijin are not appreciated (or respected) everywhere for long periods of time. At first we are tolerated, but if you step on something or ignore a red light etc. be ready for repurcussions. In that sense, this is a necessary wake up call, that we all get from time to time.
Posted in: The cheering gets nasty at a pro baseball game
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isthistheend
I think a related issue that nobody has addressed here is very arbitrary nature of roads and driving and riding bicycles here. For example, in the neighborhood where I live, it is a typical hodgepodge of street crossings, very few (perhaps one out of 5) have traffic lights. After a while (say a year or so) you realize that bicycles and even 50 cc motor cycles (like paper delivery boys) go by their own rules. Bicycles ride against traffic as if its their right, and motor cycles cut corners and proceed to turn left at lights after checking to see if on coming traffic is coming. And life goes on. Rarely a J-cop is in sight. We, and even the natives become more lax in our/their stop and go patterns. This is what I imagine happened to the Myers. But then the other part of the equation kicks in. Once your engaging with a person in "authority", whether its a J-cop or a "Senpai" from work, they by majority go ahead and ask what we (westerners) consider to be nosey, slightly arrogant-toned line of questions. Cleo stating that its not often customary for 2 people to ask about each other's salary lives in a different country than me. It happens all the time (or used to, untill the downturn), as do the questions of length of stay (nobody's business J-cop or not) place or residence, family members etc.
Posted in: My first run-in with the police
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isthistheend
Again, a relatively wierd situation here in the land of wa. I just returned from a trip back to USA, went to a ball game, had good box seat tickets a present from a friend. The surrounding seats were all home town fans, except for the 2 guys directly to my left who came from the opposing teams town just to catch the weekend series. The hometown team won easily, but the 2 guys from the other state were in no way threatened or even made to feel unwelcome. Granted, my city my be somehow different but the mood of the game was one of enjoying the grand ol game on a beautiful summer night,rather than a heat of the pennant race, "must-win" game which often seems to be the case with EACH game here. (?) The lady slapping the boy, 5-year old boy mind you, is mind boggling. They should have a) taken her name, had x-rays taken as suggested by one of the readers and b) moved immediately out of the section if for no other reason than to get the xxxx out of that hostile environment. But concerning the larger picture of being taught a lesson by the lady, I have to agree with some of the above comments that it does represent an alarming character of some people to take it on themselves to "teach" others. I've had this experience rather repeatedly in another sport in this country, where the players treat you as if you are their inferior and need to be taught every which way about how to do the game right. Some of their points are well taken, but the idiosyncracies they display over ad nauseum to show their own style does go WAY over the limit. We, foreigners, definitely need to stand up to the natives at times like these.
Posted in: The cheering gets nasty at a pro baseball game