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
I guess you've never heard of batteries or UPS, uninterruptable power supply?
Anyways, I'm also skeptical of this HD's security, although it would defeat low-level corporate espionage attempts. If they use military-grade encryption, this would present a significant cost and time barrier to the thieves. And if the information is truly overwrite-erased and encrypted during power-down...
Posted in: Toshiba announces Wipe Technology for self-encrypting disk drives
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jason6
Tokyoapple: They're only trying to help. There have been incidents where Canadians have killed people when they were mistakenly called Americans.
Posted in: UK offers etiquette quide for Olympic visitors
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jason6
How American-centric of writers to include only the 6 Americans killed in Afghanistan and not the 4 other equally valuable members of that team. RIP.
Posted in: 6 Americans on medical team killed in Afghanistan
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jason6
Wow, these prudes never stop amazing me. Go home and do some knitting or something, will ya? Let the adults have a discussion without your "tsk, tsk"ing, please!
Maybe it was just "fan sabisu", but it got kinda corny when she had herself drenched in water. Isn't pure bondage interesting enough? What's next, kabuki with a happy ending? Boxers singing self-written songs after a match?
Posted in: Minako Komukai puts on bondage show
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jason6
Have you seen some of the more advanced models? They have remote controls that link to the bulbs themselves, making any fixture in your house controllable by your hands. The settings include dimming, light warmth/color and timing. Incredibly complex for a lightbulb! It was round 6000yen when I saw it 3 months ago.
Posted in: Bright lights
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jason6
I'm sure the legions of sex-related service industry members (males and females) in Japan would have something to say when Yumimoto, LoveUSA and my2sense rant about their "disgusting" and "perverted" lives. True, some may be there against their will, which is a shame considering the large amount of people who would gladly do the job. Imposing your own values on others and insulting them while you do might make you feel better about yourself, but your moral structure is irrelevant.
And what about all those poor women can't find a proper job so they are forced to prostitute themselves? There are just as many men who are in the exact same position but they don't even have that ability, you should pity those fools even more!
My final point: there are women all over the world who would consider a job at McDonald's, Lawsons or cleaning toilets to be beneath themselves and would rather be a stripper, escort, pink worker, or Playboy bunny. You may try to twist the logic around, but they are there by choice.
Posted in: Two arrested for running members-only prostitution website
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jason6
Expats here for the short-term would probably see no value in LEDs anyways. The usable life of these things runs on the order of 5-10 years, that's why it would save you more money in the end.
Posted in: Bright lights
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jason6
The firing of the low-productivity worker was good old detective work, but other ones seem to be on the other side of legal to me. And then they describe the entrapment scenarios of snapping operatives leaving love hotels with their targets.. that is pure wrong on so many levels! Two wrongs don't make a right and I'm surprised they're still around, despite the vendettas against them. They probably protect themselves through secrecy more than their clients.
Posted in: New breed of corporate head choppers set up errant workers for decapitation
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jason6
I have a lot more laundry to do now that my clothes and face towels are sweat-soaked by noon and threatening to stink by evening.
I only eat/drink/relax in stores with air-conditioning, limiting my time in the places that are without. I even have started loitering (and therefore trial-shopping) in places with really good air-conditioning, like departments stores, pachinko parlors or game centers.
Posted in: How has the hot weather affected your spending habits?
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jason6
Any bets on how long it'll be before there are mass drawings of the prophet Mohammed in protest?
Posted in: Far from ground zero, opponents fight new mosques
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jason6
Japan's just way too easy for crooks. All the policemen are either checking up on gaijin and grannies riding bicycles or committing some kinda perverted crime themselves.
Posted in: Apaches on the warpath in Tochigi
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jason6
just do it. too many corporate salarymen playboys jetting their mistress girlfriends around on the company dough. now you know why the economy's going under!
Posted in: Companies scrutinize traveler booking behavior to contain costs
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jason6
Maybe they can put a Japanese twist to it: a tiny Sadako pops out of the clay pot they are romantically making together and makes them die of fear?
Posted in: Japanese version of 'Ghost' to be made
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jason6
Mr. Fukuda went Ibaraki on his brother.
Posted in: Ibaraki man arrested for fatally stabbing brother
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jason6
Ban the sale of sexualized depictions of children, real and virtual. What's on sale at your local convenience store could land you in jail for years back where I'm from.
Posted in: What can be done to stem the rise of child abuse in Japanese society?
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jason6
1) At some point, the Chinese government will start seeing value in enforcing a comprehensive set of civil/construction codes that will limit casualties and damages in situations like this. Their list of priorities is long, but I hope it ranks above their military escalation and conquests.
2) Have you ever heard of a 6 story building being torn in half by flood waters???
Posted in: Asia flooding plunges millions into misery
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jason6
Double standards are a way of life in Japan. You've got the "valuable" foreigners from the right countries with economic clout who have the language/cultural skills as well as potential network capabilities and you've got the "expendable" foreigners from the third-world countries of little strategic importance to Japanese companies. Ironic, but China and India are on track to leapfrog Japan's economy and these expendables will become valuable overnight. But for the moment, karoshi and scorn is all that they will get.
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jason6
tsurubushi: that makes me curious, has anybody ever attacked (verbally, physically, or stealth) a black sound truck before? was there a violent response? i've always considered getting up in their face and yelling a few of my remarks at them thru my own speakerphone myself, but i don't want to get nicked by police as a gaijin in this country if they start a fight..
Posted in: It’s time to get rid of sound trucks
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jason6
I've read the comments and all I can say is, OUCH! I wonder if the author is reading this? If you are, I hope you get the message and I'm sure your boss has been notified of this too, seeing you used your name and everything LOL.
Posted in: If a longtime expat starts offering you advice, walk the other way
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jason6
I know the war(s) were a controversial precursor to the bomb, intricately related and, furthermore, Japan in its role as aggressor lead some to feel that the bombing of civilians was justified..
BUT, consider this for a second: The ceremony is for the victims of the atomic bomb. No matter how politicized and partisan we get, the civilians of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had no decisions on the war and were as much victims as the civilians of Nanking, or Stalingrad, or Poland, or any other place.
Furthermore, this is a memorial ceremony for the people who died in the bomb. Take a walk in a cemetery. Now tell me, on the gravestones, have you ever seen the following in an epitaph?
I'm pretty sure you haven't. This is basically what the poll has asked the organizers of the ceremony to do. A memorial is a show of remorse for what has happened and respect for the deceased's memories. If you don't agree with it, then don't attend the ceremony!
They're not asking for universal acceptance of the past motives of the Japanese nation, just for remembrance of the people that have sympathy for the innocents who had their lives taken away, just like any memorial.
(By the way, if they have tried to include a revisionist history or any politicized interpretations into the memorial, please excuse my ignorance of that.)
Posted in: Do you think that ceremonies for victims of the A-bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki should include references to the victims of Japan's acts of aggression before and during World War II?