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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jeancolmar
Actually, the emperor system as we now know it goes back to the Meiji era. But that is by the way.
Masako was born into a golden cage which put her into the platinum royal cage. I would rather sleep under a bridge than have the sort of life she is leading.
Japan's mental health services are not quite a primitive as you might think. Whatever the case, however, we can assume that the mental health care Masako is receiving in the imperial prison compound is equal to something like water torture.
She ought to get a divorce and get out of the imperial prison system, which, in fact, is oppressing everyone in Japan in one way or another and ought to be abolished.
Posted in: Crown prince seeks public understanding for ailing wife
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jeancolmar
Another random attack brought to you by your friendly neighborhood knife-wielding maniac. As I have said this sort of thing is an epidemic.
I dread the moment one these types gets on an international flight.
Posted in: 12-year-old boy assaulted by knife-wielding man in Osaka
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jeancolmar
Bush urging Americans to be proud of their nation is like Hitler urging Germans to be proud of the Third Reich.
Posted in: Bush urges Americans to be proud of country
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jeancolmar
Good riddance to Jesse Helms, racist and right-wing fanatic. The world today is a slightly cleaner place.
Posted in: Former U.S. Senator Jesse Helms dies at 86
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jeancolmar
It is good to hear that the Japanese are reading anything intelligent these days, but this Russian literature boom is a pleasant surprise. In older and more intellectual days Russian literature was popular in Japan. Two Japanese newspapers sponsored Alexandra Tolstoy's lectures on Leo Tolstoy in the late 1920s. She ended up living in Japan for three years. She taught Russian in Kobe, cycling all the way from Ashiya to save on train fare. Also Takurazuka had a number of talented Russians attached to it. Toson based his novel Hakai on Dostoyevski's Crime and Punishment.
I wonder how this Russian boom can be accounted for.
Posted in: When I see stacks of Russian literature on display at bookstores, I am overwhelmed by a feeling of how far we've come.
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jeancolmar
War with Iran, just in time for the election. I warned that this was going to happen months ago. Another Bush war seems certain now. Watch the media buckle under and watch McCain get elected as he sings "Bomb Iran." Thus Bushism will continue to rule.
Posted in: White House silent on coverts ops in Iran
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jeancolmar
It’s Nippon5 who has “issues.” He or she is one of those cognitively challenged people who think that because they have not had a certain bad experience those who have are automatically at fault.
Neither my wife nor I have had to deal with air rage from passengers. So does that make this article invalid? According to Nippon5's illogic it does.
Most of our experiences flying have been good to outstanding. Many a time the flight crew presented us with a bottle of wine.
About a decade ago the usual US airline we take was the pits, particularly one route. I pass on the gory details. Finally I got so fed up and wrote the company headquarters a detail letter on the abuse we had received and got a positive response. On our next flight we were treated like royalty and that awful route suddenly because pleasant. In our experience ground staff is far more bellicose than flight crews.
US Customs and Immigration is notorious for its rudeness and the experiences we have had a certainly not as bad as a few we’ve read about. To keep this posting short I pass on our details.
I feel that a lot of hostility we did get, particularly from ground staff, has been because we are a racially mix couple. I base this on subjective experience, so take what follows for what it is worth. When I have traveled alone I have never ever had a bad experience with air or ground staffs. On not many but disturbingly enough occasions my wife and I got sudden unexpected hostility--much of it directed at my Japanese wife rather than me. This has been almost always from ground staff, and mostly, for some reason, in California.
As I said most of our flying experiences have been positive. But this article is about air rage and that is what I addressed.
Posted in: Pre-empting air rage
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jeancolmar
That is all very nice advise, but what do you do with vicious ground personnel and, occasionally, creepy flight crew? And, oh yes, rude customs and immigration scummies?
Let me tell you, my wife and I get a lot of hostility as a mixed-race couple. The US is the worst in that regard. It is useless to complain to the airline, or so I've found with the frequent abuse we've encountered when forced to fly the Friendly Skies.
No amount of planning can help you avoid creeps, particularly racist creeps. You do develop a certain poise. You take names. You complain to the right people. Sometimes you get results but most often you get nothing at all. But you do put the abusers on notice.
Here is something you might try if you are abused on board. Call the purser and explain what happened and get the abuser in front of you to apologize. Then ask for a favor--nothing big, but a small favor. Don't say you'll report the incident to the airline because that will turn to entire cabin crew against you. But do it anyway, mentioning, of course, that something nice was done for you if that were the case.
As far as dealing with US officialdom, it's best to avoid the US entirely if you can. At least until Obama become president.
Posted in: Pre-empting air rage
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jeancolmar
All this proves is that most criminals are stupid.
Posted in: 18-year-old arrested for killing friend's mother in Mie
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jeancolmar
Well, Wai Wai really was trash. But it was interesting trash. What gets me is that the Mainichi is severely punishing those responsible for Wai Wai. As if those in control did not bother to read their own website.
It is a pity to see Wai Wai go because it told you a lot about what normal Japanese were reading and what was on their minds. Maybe Japan Today will pick up the slack.
Posted in: What do you think of the Mainichi's decision to cease publishing its WaiWai tabloid tidbits section on its English online site following complaints that it portrays Japanese society in a negative light to the world?
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jeancolmar
The opening line of *Dump Truck should be, "What a dump!"
Posted in: Porn actress, producers arrested for filming in rear of dump truck
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jeancolmar
Not a bad article, except "verisimilitude" is misused.
Posted in: Akihabara becoming increasingly weird
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jeancolmar
Lucky school girl. I'll say it again. There is an epidemic in Japan. Madness is catching.
Posted in: Man slashes schoolgirl with knife in Nagoya
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jeancolmar
Meanwhile, Israel is getting ready to bomb Iran. Reading the news with headlines in the passive voice it sounds as if its inevitable like the coming of summer. Iran is not bothering anyone at the moment. In fact Iran thus far been the victim of aggression. I find both Obama and McCain wishy-washy. But I trust Obama over McCain in dealing with American-Israeli issues with Iran. Anyone who even "jokingly" sings about bombing Iran or anyone has no business being the president of the most powerful nation on earth.
Posted in: McCain, Obama both say Iran is other's weakness
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jeancolmar
Golly, is it true?! Bush actually lied the US into a war with Iraq?! How shocking!
You know this is what I and many others have been saying since that damn war started. This is old news. The only thing interesting is who is saying that Bush and his crew are liars.
But just watch. The stupid Americans will vote in McBrainless and it will be four more years or more of the same old doo-doo.
Posted in: Washington's culture of deception
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jeancolmar
I and others in a sense wrote McC.'s book long before he did, while he was still believing in Bush and repeating his lies. Well, here is the truth from within the belly of the monster.
Posted in: McClellan says he believed in Bush as war started
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jeancolmar
Beelzebub, you are quite right. Of course the two-party monopoly is not going to let it happen. The US is dominated by industries that will remain no matter who is in the white house. Besides big oil, there the military industry, the medical industry, the insurance industry, the war industry, the auto industry, the gun industry and the prison industry. The place will continue to be a world troublemaker while refusing to properly care for its people, unless they are in prison.
As for Chucky, the author of this scatter-brained piece, the least said the better. Except that in his own dumb right-wing way he has stumbled on a terrible truth, namely that whoever becomes president has to do the system's bidding.
Posted in: U.S. presidential candidates 3 peas in a pod
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jeancolmar
Thank you mosci one.
Found another typo--"unless" not "unlike" they are in jail.
I Love the line that McCain is not a Myan type of guy.
Posted in: McCain says Iraq war can be won by 2013
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jeancolmar
There is no question that the regime in Burma has got to be overthrown and the military scum responsible for outrages against their people should be given fair and impartial trials and if found guilty executed as humanely as possible so that they cannot ever have a chance to get back into power.
This has to be done by the Burmese people themselves. Any outside military threats like Bush's and Brown's is going to make matters worse. As soon as there is threat of invasion the Burmese will rally around their government. Patriotism is like that, and everyone has it.
The best we can do is support human rights in Burma.
Posted in: Bush, Brown turn up heat on Myanmar
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jeancolmar
Pronoucements like these show that McCain is a doddering idiot, a Vietnam Era fossil, a Cold War dinosaur. Worst than that he is an extension of George W. Bush's and the Neocons' destructive view of foreign policy.
Yes, by 2013 all will be well. In your dreams.
Posted in: McCain says Iraq war can be won by 2013