JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- 秘書及び業務サポート
- 加治金属工業株式会社, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥4.0M / Year
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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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- ALT - Mie Prefecture - Yokkaichi City - June start
- NPO法人グローバル教育推進機構（GLAD), Mie
- Salary: ¥230,000 / Month For a full working month. Some months differ.
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isthistheend
The good and bad comments points out just how hard the restaurant business. Its only as good as the workers, and they must love their work and be rewarded appropriately (good salary) and be ready for the fight day in and out which the busenss demands. The passion of the founder, met by ambition and teamwork of the workers.
Posted in: The pizza man
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isthistheend
Cheers. And like I said, so glad we don't have any race problems on these shores. These are the days of "twist" the words till they support whatever one's own opinion is. A far cry from what the words mean, as adaydream aptly points out.
Posted in: Obama campaign: Wife never used the word 'Whitey'
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isthistheend
Hello? Chicago more rude than Tokyo? woe is the olympic bid of 2016. May I ask which part of Chicago? The whole lot?
Posted in: How would you compare people's manners in public in Tokyo with other cities around the world?
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isthistheend
O.K. I'll admit the USA is the worst country in the world. That's why everyone wants to get a green card to live there. Like Mark Twain said 150 years ago; "Democracy is the worst form of government.....except for all the others."
Posted in: Anti-Americanism at record levels worldwide, report shows
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isthistheend
the race issue? Glad we don't have anything like that on these shores!
Posted in: Obama campaign: Wife never used the word 'Whitey'
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isthistheend
Right on chardk1. You forgot to mention how you you have to take whatever clothes you were wearing at the time to the cleaners the next day. the stench is pervading. Chalk up 700 yen or more to your bill if happen to be your wearing a business suit.
Posted in: Izakaya: The Japanese Pub Cookbook
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isthistheend
I'm sure its going to be the next big hit....for at least a season. Then they'll add a new variation and make the customers feel loved and cared for. At least they limit the size of the dessert. People sure don't need to gain more weight. Has anyone seen the latest commercials on the trains by the main fast food chain? Say it ain't so Joe...far from parfaict. After all this, its no wonder the "perfect diet" craze made/continues to make millions
Posted in: Tully's first parfait
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isthistheend
thank serindipity and gurepu for your comments. Concerning the trains wouldn't it be nice if they limited the number of dolls allowed on bags and if the natives were made aware by an announcement that "foreigners might be on the trains that we ride, so please refrain from talking about Eego and their countries" while on the train. Peace be with you.
Posted in: How would you compare people's manners in public in Tokyo with other cities around the world?
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isthistheend
thank serindipity and gurepu for your comments. I was just censored beyond recognition after I detailed very specific examples of what we all experience everyday on the trains and at the companys. O.K. I'll try again and see if this goes through. Lets try to limit the number of Mickey Mouse dolls allowed on school bags, and let's try to speak out in Japanese everytime someone says something negative about our native language or country. Will this make it through? Peace be with you.
Posted in: How would you compare people's manners in public in Tokyo with other cities around the world?
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isthistheend
Yesterday I felt a strange and somehow more comfortable walking around Tokyo than on previous days. Almost like a collective pressure bubble had burst after a storm, and people were more humanized. Prior to the recent catastrophe, I was getting bumped daily by every group of person you could name, and on one particular occasion was attacked with straightarms to the chest from one guy in Shibuya trying to make a point of taking "right of way" as he darted out of a train. Yesterday, I felt, "well to xxxx with them", I'm as exhausted as the next bloke, I have paid plenty in taxes recently (a whole month worth of salary), there's a seat available, I'm going to sit, and I'm going to close my eyes and rest till my stop comes. I just stopped caring about being so yielding to everyone. Just fitting in with the flow of the hordes. And again, for whatever reason, the masses seemed to soften up in reflection as to what happened.
Posted in: Violent game launch canceled after Akihabara rampage; gov't discusses regulations on knives
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isthistheend
Yes this is a great discussion. The parts about returning at 5 and reuniting with the family. Well if you live in a nice well-to-do residential area, where you can go out for a walk and not be gassed out by cars, then yes. How many of Tokyo's 23-wards provide this type of environment. O.K. outside Tokyo? Well... Are we just confining our discussion to Tokyo? The trains have become one very uncosy place to be, and I don't mean just crowded. Damn unfriendly, and shall we say quite touchy. The youth, bigger and fatter than before, are none to shy to throw their weight around, we all know about the young ladies applying the make-up, and the bags that we all carry around "as protection" certainly seems to another element to reconsider. I'm really sorry to say all this, and of course the obvious retort is "if you don't like it leave" but try explaining any of this type of emotional stigma to people "back home" and they'd look at you like you were........nuts! The solution? Pray for the youth, and pray for humanity. Its all we've got, but its not going to be easy. Did anyone notice in another English newspaper today about an editorial where happiness quotient was more valuable to Japanese than gross domestic quotient?
Posted in: 16-year-old boy arrested for barging into ex-girlfriend's high school with knife in Kitakyushu
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isthistheend
Japan has a growing number of alienated, hopeless people who are detached from society around them and no longer capable of empathy or compassion..
I'm afraid this is becoming true now from the crib on up, or was it always this way? The problem is deeper than we foreigners can express. And the Japanese don't want to hear our opinions about their hikikomi or worse problems. So it just becomes survival of the fittest, plain and simple....or you can go do some volunteer work elsewhere. Oh I know. Let's get Bobby Valentine to become PM, that would fix everything!
Posted in: Akihabara
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isthistheend
JT readers. Tell me, how long before this is going to happen to one of us. And I'm not ignoring those wonderful women who've been removed from this earthly plane by the perverts. Not only are the looneys increasing, but it feels like its now more than ever before they're increasing AND they're itching for a fight on the local trains. How much longer till WE start blowing our stacks? That's a question I'd like to here from some of our "I'll take it only so far and then"....members. thanks for your thoughts. And one more, I was looking for the "button" you push when you see strange people or objects in a train, but couldn't find anyone on the Yamanote line I was riding. What do you do in such cases. You know, the elbow forcefully in the back, the cosmetic applying-elbows to the wind OL, the farter, well that one we have to just suck it up but....
Posted in: Suspect says he decided to stage Akihabara attack a few days before