JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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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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- Translator
- ZAIHON, Inc. (日本財務翻訳株式会社), Tokyo
- Salary: ¥6.0M / Year Negotiable
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jason6
Saving is good, ignore the corporate cheerleaders and make one's own future a little more secure.
Japan as an economy has weakened and everybody's gonna have to get used to living a little less comfortably, same as America.
Posted in: The effects of a frugal Japanese society
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jason6
Ridiculous egghead economists. I'm not going to sacrifice my health for the nation's.
Posted in: Eat a carrot, hurt the economy? Sometimes
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jason6
Murdoch is probably more interested in the market capitalization value of MySpace, which is much less than the original price he bought it for by now..
Posted in: Once-mighty MySpace deepens Facebook integration
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jason6
Get females to perform the enhanced rubdowns to males, get robots to do the same to females. Problem half-solved!
Posted in: Scanners and pat-downs upset airline passengers in U.S.
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jason6
I think the US prefers Mexico to be weak, in a Machiavellian "keep your friends close, but enemies closer (and weaker)". Otherwise, they have the resources to wipe the ground with all the gangs in a year or so.
Posted in: Reputed drug kingpin killed in Mexico shootout
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jason6
This is great. Going to be using this to bug my Romanian friends for a long time!
Posted in: Mom in Spain happy that her 10-year-old daughter gave birth
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jason6
Conspiracy theorists aside, I wonder how soon these terrorists will try attaching bombs to the exteriors of planes?
Posted in: Mail bomb plot just narrowly averted, officials say
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jason6
Ah, they're just nostalgic for the good old days of lifetime employment, proper salaries and stable work/family lives. Who wouldn't be? They see all the vestiges and past evidence of that left being possible; their parents lived that life and have probably passed that desire down to their kids.. but the problem is that that world doesn't exist anymore.
I'd hardly blame it on the world outside of Japan, more like corporate greed. The executives of Japanese companies see the insane profits that foreign companies make by downsizing, outsourcing and getting rid of/reducing benefits for full-time employees and they start getting ideas. These ideas have now fully blossomed and you see the dichotomy happening: faithful workers in a faithless employment system (you can't even call it a proper job, as most of these poor souls are hired out thru Hello Work style temp work).
Anyways, this happened in America too, albeit much earlier than Japan, although the labor force had unions to protect them somewhat (whereas Japan has had nothing at all). The companies stopped caring about the workers and now the workers have responded (it's now normal to hold 10 jobs over an average Western worker's career). This will happen in Japan to, it's just that they're going through an adjustment period and the economic troubles of the time (possibly caused by this very change) are slowing the process.
Posted in: Japan's young generation pursues stability over promotion
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jason6
You really think so? I doubt you'd ever bring a knife to a gun fight.
Posted in: Alcohol more lethal than heroin, cocaine: study
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jason6
Keven Federline had redeeming qualities? Are you referring to his dancing or his rapping??
Posted in: Leah Dizon to split from husband of two years
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jason6
Hilarious, mindovermatter thinks that the first amendment right applies only to soldiers.
When has a border dispute situation not been distorted by a nation to benefit themselves? Japan should just relax, this supposed snub has been scripted a long time ago, scheduled to happen after a border incident that was in my opinion initiated by China. The captain of the fishing boat might not be an agent provocateur, but there's no doubt that China was spoiling for a fight against Japan (and by extension America) to test its growing power in the Asian region. If Japan appeases now, they can expect that all of their standing disputes with China will soon be lost.
Posted in: China says Japan distorted facts in island dispute; no meeting between Kan, Wen
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jason6
Obama and his adminstration are far from being perceived as hawkish, no way he would be able to play the same cards as Bush. If anything, this news might benefit the Republicans.
Posted in: Authorities thwart terrorist attacks aimed at U.S. via cargo planes
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jason6
It's good for lazy people. My girlfriend has it and it takes a little over an hour for our small daily loads. Of course, we do save energy and money by drying on the balcony when it's sunny, but it's awesome when the humid/rainy seasons and cold weather comes. It's great if you are considering living here long term.
Posted in: Washing machine with built-in dryer
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jason6
I would get that reading measured by an independent authority outside of China before claiming it to be truth. The Chinese government has a little bit of a reputation for distorting facts and there is a well-documented culture of cheating and copying in all aspects of life there.
Posted in: China lays claim to fastest supercomputer title
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jason6
I've only been here a few years, but those costumes are played out cliches every Halloween. Looks like they ran into Don Quixote 5 minutes and grabbed whatever was in the bins by the front door before going to the club.
Posted in: Trick or treat
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jason6
Sell your work, sell your soul.
Posted in: Hikaru Utada advises fans not to buy her album
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jason6
It is uncompetitive because the government has not deregulated it (like most other first-world nations) so we have these dinosaurs still charging us whatever they fees like for piss poor service (possibly in collusion with the others). They would be destroyed by the international banks if the market were ever unprotected by the government.
Posted in: What do you think of the banking system in Japan? What are the pros and cons?
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jason6
Sep Blatter needs to go.
Posted in: Bidding for next 2 World Cups turns into a circus
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jason6
Are we preaching religion or talking about politics here? Are Americans that simple-minded that we need storytime to explain to them what just happened in the last decade?
Posted in: All signs point to Republican victories: polls
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jason6
Using his reasoning, we should all head to Miyazu and beat this child-man.
Posted in: Couple who put 6-year-old girl in washing machine overnight had history of abuse