JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) in Kanto region
- RCS (RCSコーポレーション), Kanto
- Salary: ¥180,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month includes performance bonus
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- Assistant Language Teacher - TOKYO - late-March start
- Interac, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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- Assistant Language Teacher - Kanagawa Prefecture - late-March start
- Interac, Kanagawa
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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jerseyboy
sarcasm123...I respond to your most recent rant, but tkoind2 has already done so (Thanks). And very eloguently as well. I particularly like his question of you: "how about offering something constructive yourself?" A point I have made many times as well. One thing he overlooked, however, was to mention that JT is not the only "news" source here in Japan that will run this picture -- as you well know. If it were, companies would not spend the millions of yen needed to hire these celebs and host the press conference. They know it will get mass exposure. That was my point, and your smarta@@ reply does not make it any less valid. have a good weekend.
Posted in: Platinum
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jerseyboy
rjd_jr...Sorry I did not respond ealier to your reply. But, I guess, unlike you, I actually have a life. In any case, I'm not the only poster who is not enamored by Ishihara. There are several who think as I do in fact: "beauty fades, dumb is forever", "looks like your typical pretty Japanese girl", and, "the Japanese girl just looks silly and vapid." Besides, as you admit, you have only "been to Japan", so your opinion is questionable anyway.
Posted in: Juno
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jerseyboy
rjd_jr...Absolutely, Kurara is very attractive. But so what? Why is it "news" that Japan can parade a never-ending stream of attractive women to shill some kind of product or service on a daily basis? I agree with tkoind2 completely. This country is fascinated/obscessed with the material aspects of life, and gives almost no value to the more important things. She'd be much more attractive to me if she was wearing jeans and a polo shirt, but giving 3.15 million yen to the victims of the recent cyclone.
Posted in: Platinum
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jerseyboy
Sorry, but pathat did not "nail" anything, and probably hasn't in months. Ishihara is just one of 10,000 look-alike, Barbie-doll, hostess types you see on any given day here in Tokyo. Great eye candy, sure. But, they are all not even as "deep" as their make-up. They could replace her in this TV drama with any of a dozen other "actresses" and no one would know or care. Don't get me wrong, I love looking at beautiful J-ladies as much as anyone, but, on any scale that includes both looks and talent, Ms. Page wins in a land slide.
Posted in: Juno
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jerseyboy
MichaelJP...let's assume for a moment your rant, including bolding for emphasis, is correct. Then, if so, you should be able to answer one simple question: If Japanese females are "well ahead of their Western counterparts" with respect to shedding the concept of having to have children to be fulfilled -- Then: What have they found to replace that in their lives? It certainly is not a fulfilling job/a career, since we know Japan is decades behind in this regard. So, what is it? Are you saying that having dinner with their other non-married/childless friends or their constant shopping for that next designer item is more fulfilling than raising a child? I agree with your premise. The women here are choosing to not have children -- but in pursuit of what? And how does that benefit Japan in the long-run?
Posted in: What changes are needed in Japanese society to stop the falling birthrate?
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jerseyboy
If he is doing self-analysis, he should start with the most obvious question -- Why in the world did he cheat on Uma Thurman? As Jay Leno famously said to Hugh Grant after his daliance with the street hooker: "What in the world were you thinking?"
Posted in: Ethan Hawke opens up his life
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jerseyboy
"An English teacher who cannot speak much English" -- so, obviously, this TV drama Ishihara is in is reality-based. And what is that black thing tied around her chest. I assume it is supposed to make it appear that she actually has breasts. Another silly, fluff Japan PR event.
Posted in: Juno
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jerseyboy
sarcasm123...How predictable. You use an article pointing out the obvious shortcomings of katakana -- a non-language created simply to keep Japanese people from having to really learn English -- into a rant about English speakers. That is truly rich. Personally, as an English speaker, I could care less what the Japanese movie distributors call a movie, since I rarely rent movies, and instead go to the cinema or watch on cable. I think the joke is actually on the Japanese, since the translated title may have very little to do with the actual content. If the Japanese audience cannot understand the concept of a "bucket list", they are not going to really enjoy the movie anyway. And, Grouchy, I agree. I often times find myself being the only person in the theatre laughing at funny lines/scenes in movies, as the Japanese simply cannot understand the cultural contexts. Although I have yet to be verbally assaulted for doing it.
Posted in: Movie titles in Japan: Jack, we understand your frustration
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jerseyboy
fireant...Actually, the "more sex" suggestion is right on target. A survey I saw said 40% of Japanese marriages are "sexless" -- by definition, having sex less than once a month. Now, it is likely that a high percentage of these marriages are among the older folks, but still, there appears to be a problem in quantity here. (The average for all married couples was only like 3.6 times a month.) If men are strapped to their desks, and too tired or drunk to have sex when they get home, then the random or accidental pregnancy is not as likely. Simple math. One of my children was of the "surprise" variety. I get the sense that sort of thing does not happen nearly as frequently here in Japan.
Posted in: What changes are needed in Japanese society to stop the falling birthrate?
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jerseyboy
What????? The guy averaged about 4,300 visits a day, or over 500 times an hour, to these sites, based on 20 work days a month/8 hours per day. And he was only demoted, and his name was witheld????? He could not have possibly been doing anything else but viewing these sites. Any bets that a fair share may also have had kiddy porn involved. Yup, things will never change here.
Posted in: Civil servant demoted for accessing porn sites 780,000 times during office hours
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jerseyboy
What a scam...Put clear Red Bull in an IV and charge 2,000 yen per dose. Why didn't I think of that?
Posted in: Drop-by IV drip service helps stressed Tokyoites
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jerseyboy
Is the emperor the only one not required to clasp his hands in that gay manner? Incredible that this is news. But I guess Akishino's PR machine had to get in high gear after his brother was photgraphed last week jogging. Tit for tat.
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jerseyboy
typo ... GInko. Sorry. I falied high school typing.
Posted in: Anti-terrorism drill in Tokyo
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jerseyboy
Sorry, but I don't think this was a drill at all. This poor guy was simply trying to remove his money from Shin Genko bank, and Ishihara decided to make an example of him. And they did it at lunch time so all the other TMG employees would get the message.
Posted in: Anti-terrorism drill in Tokyo
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jerseyboy
sarcasm...It would take me all night to respond to your sheer lunacy. (And I have much better things to do this evening.) Your imagination really ran wild this time. But, in short, and as usual, you did not refute a single one of my points, you just tried vainly to bury them in an avalanche of bullcrap. And LFRAgain, your post made some sense, until the last paragraph. Which is just the usual, "if you don't like it here leave" nonsense. Since Japan chooses to be homogenous, and therefore us foreigners stand out, one must assume that we will be potentially considered a greater risk to society, and therefore subject to questioning by police at their whim. And this is a country that desperately needs immigrants in areas like health care, and wants to attract more tourists. Good luck.
Posted in: Roughed up by the cops in Shinjuku
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jerseyboy
rtrhead1...I'm sure Brooke Shields and the countless other mothers who have suffered from post partem will appreciate your enlightened view. (I believe Brooke even admitted to having thoughts of hurting her child.) On what basis can you and Tom Cruise pass judgement on these ladies?
Posted in: Mother attempts suicide after strangling 3-month-old son in Tokyo
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jerseyboy
Unreal. Over 70% of the callers to JR wanted JR to provide better and safer facilities for prams, and JR turns around launches a campaign pointing the finger at the mothers. And asking them to fold their prams, even though only a few calls were aimed at that concern. Am I missing something? I guess it is a lot cheaper for JR to launch this campaign than to actually make their stations more pram-friendly.
Posted in: Pram safety aboard trains a growing problem
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jerseyboy
NotJohnWayne...You are really not serious with that argument are you? You think just being a foreign woman in Shinjuku station at 11:30 on a Friday night is probable cause? Where is the "strange conduct"? Or, even the "reason to suspect" them? Simply because some foreign women work in "adult entertainment" in this area, you can therefore assume any foreign woman must be doing it? If I see an attractive Japanese woman walking through Ginza or Roppongi late in the evening, should I automatically assume she is a hostess? Or, if a J-guy happens to cut down a street with some gay bars on the way to the station, should one conclude he is gay? What you are saying is that blatant stereotyping is OK when it applies to foreigners, but not Japanese. Wow, you really have become Japanese in your thinking. And, sarcasm, I hope your snide -- doesn't rise to the level of sarcasm --remark was not aimed at me. I have not once in 7 years here been asked to show my ID, so I don't perceive myself as the "victim" of anything. Which is the whole point. How come I can walk into a convenience store early on a Sunday morning in Roppongi to buy a paper un-deterred by the J-cops, while they are making a black guy unload his pockets? (This happened just two weeks ago.) He was a victim -- not me. Why, becuase his skin is not the right color? How can you defend that kind of thinking?
Posted in: Roughed up by the cops in Shinjuku
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jerseyboy
blvtzpk...very good point.
Posted in: Mother attempts suicide after strangling 3-month-old son in Tokyo
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jerseyboy
rjd_jr...As usual, I will disagree with you entirely. You too, NotJohnWayne. Here is my 2 cents. The basic problem here, which causes this kind of incident and many others like it, is that J-cops don't need any real "probable cause" for stopping someone and demanding their ID, or even to search them. Other than that they are visually assessed to be non-Japanese. (Which is obviously very easy here.) In many other civilized countries, such blatant racial profiling is illegal. But here, it is standard practice. I often wait for my fiance in Roppongi station, and see this sort of thing all the time. Plain-clothes cops stop the Thais, Filipinos, Brazilians, Africans, etc. -- but NEVER the Japanese and not generally the caucasian foreigners. My educated guess is, NotJohnWayne, that at 11:30 on a Friday night, there were probably a lot of J-women in Shinjuku station dressed "provocatively". How come these two got singled out? Your argument confeniently ignores that.
Posted in: Roughed up by the cops in Shinjuku