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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jason6
Saw a semi-trailer truck hit a K-car head on during the snowstorms in Kansai. The car had its front end almost ripped off, but luckily the driver inside was fine. The truck had pulled into the opposing lane of traffic to get past a stalled car and it was totally the truck driver's fault, so he just kept on driving after the totalling the car.
Actually, it was kind of amazing that he could keep momentum while going uphill, during a snowstorm, after a head-on collision. Watch out for those trucks, many of them do not care at all for other drivers and their cars.
Posted in: 68-yr-old woman killed in hit-and-run at pedestrian crossing in Yamanashi
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jason6
You know how Japanese people were laughing off the incompatibility of their mobile phones with the rest of the world's systems? Here's another example of the Galapagos syndrome in a much more critical part of the Japanese economy, exacerbated by mismanagement.
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jason6
..and just because a movie is big-budget/summer/epic/a bestselling book series does NOT mean that it should automatically be 3D.
Actually, my gut feeling is that this technology might better be suited for gaming rather than movies.
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jason6
When I'm 71, I hope to have the strength to beat my 32-year old son to death. Not saying that I will do it, it's just nice to be able to.
Posted in: 71-yr-old man arrested for beating 32-yr-old son to death
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jason6
It's all glory until you get deployed in the next war.
Posted in: Young people sign up as SDF's image soars in disaster aftermath
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jason6
DisneySea realtalk: "We are sad because you are not giving us money. Please come and give us money."
Posted in: Can Tokyo DisneySea become vibrant again?
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jason6
Another reason the executive body of TEPCO should be put on trial and punished.
Posted in: Fukushima tsunami plan based on single page
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jason6
I thought that this would be the first thing that Japan would be developing, but seems like they're behind the ball on this one too.
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jason6
There are many documented cases of toddlers and children falling several stories without injury, yet this poor baby drops 70cm and cracks his head open. Life is random.
And for baby bed designers: how bout putting some guards around the edges?
Posted in: 9-month-old seriously injured after falling from baby changing table in dept store
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jason6
YAY!! Every time I went to Tokyo, the first place I went to fill up after the long bus ride was BK. It tastes better than McDonald's, possibly cuz I miss that true barbecued meat smell.
And for all the haters out there, if you don't like it just don't patronize them. Everybody makes a choice of what they put into their own bodies and how much they exercise.
Anyways, Japanese food isn't all that healthy either, mayo on everything anybody? How about pork fat and loads of salt in ramen? A bowl of empty calorie rice?
Posted in: Burger King to open 1st Kansai store in Osaka in July
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jason6
Imagine taking a trip to HK and seeing Yui sing in the streets, relatively free of the mobs of fans she would have attracted here. Lucky!
Posted in: Japanese singer Yui eyes bigger foreign fan base
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jason6
That's a little oversimplistic in regards to this situation. The Zetas are operating with a paramilitary mindset and their objectives are both to dominate the international drug trade around that region and to cow the authorities through terror tactics. They started a new front in the war on rivals (not drugs) and will not stop until their enemies or themselves are exterminated.
Posted in: Massacre in northern Guatemala leaves 29 dead
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jason6
One gets the feeling that these people are the kind who don't wear seatbelts because it makes them uncomfortable.
Posted in: How one Japanese village defied the tsunami
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jason6
His life was short and torturous, RIP little baby. Let us hope that the parents receive the punishment they deserve (and I'm not talking about jail time).
Posted in: Parents charged over death of 3-month-old baby in January
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jason6
Do you also get the feeling that this product is already a failure before Sony launches it? I don't want to bash Sony, if only because I want them to keep on producing Playstations for a long time, but their strategies need to be rethought from scratch. Proprietary formats and inflexible IP protection schemes are strangling any advantages they get through hardware innovations, which leaves them playing catch-up with other electronics companies who don't have such a handicap.
Plus, if one looks back 10 years from now, this period of time might possibly be the beginning of the end for the company. Think about it: Japan's pre-existing economic problems, exacerbated by the disasters, their electronics divisions slowly being eaten by better competition, and now a profit center (PSN) is being threatened along with the hardware PS3.
Remember Atari. Remember Sega.
Posted in: Sony unveils tablet to compete with Apple offerings
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jason6
Microsoft is holding a celebration as we speak. It could happen to them too, but this this time it is Sony that happens to be pwned and Xbox360+network is looking good.
Ponemon? A combination of Pokemon and pwn?
Posted in: Sony PlayStation disconnects 77 million user accounts after massive data breach
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jason6
Has anyone highlighted internet addiction as being a possible cause? It's only starting to be recognized as a major problem in most countries..
Posted in: 'Hikikomori' disorder could complicate Japan quake recovery
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jason6
Time for some further relocation. I know I'd be trying to hitch rides down south closer if I found out about the much better conditions that evacuees are living in near Tokyo. Why stay when all of one's belongings are ruined anyways?
Posted in: Some comforted, some cramped in evacuee shelters
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jason6
Ganbare!
Posted in: Careful search for mementos slows rebuilding
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jason6
Right, and then Japan (plus neighbors) would have to deal with a sea-mobile Chernobyl.
This could be an opportunity for invention: robots that could withstand high radiation levels and could do the job of decontamination much better than humans. Sounds like a Japanese manga already!
Posted in: End to Japan's nuclear crisis is years, a fortune away