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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jonnyboy
stop applying your opinions to others. in actual fact, most japanese are completely unaware of whether foreigners are happy or not, owing to the fact that the vast majority of them have a grand total of zero interaction with the non-japanese minority.
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jonnyboy
i'm wondering if the intent was sexual. sounds more like childish voyeurism. i might be wrong, though, but i have a little trouble understanding how people can get off on watching common ablutions
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jonnyboy
most shops won't allow motorcycle riders to wear their helmets inside. this is grounds to disallow the burka as well before you even get into religious debate
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jonnyboy
jackson was basically bought by an investment company, which paid off his debts and set him up for the 50 concert deal, which would only have been the beginning of a plan to generate maximum income from him. i wonder whether a criminal investigation might be in order to ascertain whether or not they had been exploiting him
he certainly took a LOT of bad business advice in the later part of his life
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jonnyboy
@nigelboy - my point is that, whether it's true or not, the notion that japan is a "safe country" is political at its heart. otherwise what would be the point of saying it?
Posted in: Japanese urged to take pride in their safe society
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jonnyboy
another problem with the whole "japan is a safety country" is that it's yet another nihonjinrin-inspired tactic of social control. another countries are so dangerous and japan is so safety ergo there is something pure and unique about the japanese spirit ergo if you're japanese you have to stay in japan and stay away from anything dirty, dangerous and foreign
there are lies, damned lies and statistics. i spent 22 years living the uk, supposedly a hotbed of violence and murder, yet was never a victim of crime... statistics mean nothing if you happen to have the misfortune of choosing to do a little electronics shopping in akihabara on the same sunday some lunatic from the countryside decides to go on a knifing spree
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jonnyboy
it seems that you believe the propaganda that the whole of japan is a disneyland-esque paradise of smiley happy cartoon characters who would never think about breaking out a frown, let alone dismembering a debtor or gangland rival and dumping the body parts in a sewer
which is probably what has happened here
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jonnyboy
quite true. i often feel that the reason i'm so safe in this country is because people are more likely to be frightened of me rather than vice versa. there seems to be little violent crime in japan, however murder and violence within the uchi (families, workplaces, schools) is constantly reported on this site. i think the nature of violent crime is rather different in japan but by no means rare
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jonnyboy
i suspect this too. people don't want to be meiwaku by standing up for themselves and going to the police. or they don't believe the police will do anything
Posted in: Japanese urged to take pride in their safe society
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jonnyboy
bear in mind that japan has less than half the population of the US. there are still a pretty constant stream of unpleasant crimes here
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jonnyboy
if wonder if, were his 20-year old daughter accused of a crime, he would still be happy to have her case decided by a bunch of old men. the whole point of a jury system is that you are judged by a group of your peers, not by high-and-mighty judges who have no understanding of the simple lives of normal people who have to struggle to get by
Posted in: It doesn't suit the Japanese temperament. I would not want my own 20-year-old daughter, for example, to have to examine disturbing photographic evidence from a rape-murder.
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jonnyboy
when you have a stiff, largely age-defined social hierarchy with those at the top (the oldest) having absolute power over those at the bottom (the youngest) this sort of thing is inevitable. elevate some women and younger people into positions of authority and there might be a chance of changing things. as for now the only people with power to change things are exactly those with the least reason to do so (ie. dirty old men)
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jonnyboy
freedom and democracy are such a lot of effort, aren't they. sigh it must be so much easier in north korea
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jonnyboy
if it bleeds, it leads. good news is not news.
etc.
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jonnyboy
can't say i was particularly impressed with the one episode i watched on a plane a while back. seemed thoroughly generic, reminding me of a medical Cracker (main character is a genius, but such an a-hole). hugh laurie has done such better work before...
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jonnyboy
myspace is dead. whilst it was the first site to bring the social networking "revolution" to the world, it was never the best and is now looking horribly dated
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jonnyboy
it is about the smallest factor. most of the reasons the japanese fail to learn foreign languages are to do with the japanese social practices, its concept of communication (if you could call it that) and the stifling restrictions of the japanese language itself
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jonnyboy
cue slagging off of english teachers
i'm well aware that there are bad eggs in the eikaiwa industry. however, if there is an industry where one can work, or whose services one can receive, without the possibility of finding unqualified imbeciles then please could you all tell me what it is because i believe one does not exist.
as has been pointed out in the past, sadly, most eikaiwa students do not really want to learn the english language, what with the hard work involved and necessity of having goals and motivation. in fact, many students study casually with the desire to experience a little "internationalisation" without having to step outside of nice, safe nippon. if you are actually strongly motivated to learn then there is no reason why you can't learn at any eikaiwa. at the end of the day a person is the master of their own education. a teacher if nothing but a facilitator and a guide
as for the poor language abilities of the japanese populace as a whole, surely the responsibility for correcting this matter (if there is such a thing) exists in the hands of the ministry of education. if private language schools exist at all it is because of the inadequacy of existing language teaching provisions
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jonnyboy
if you believe that "group responsibility" is, or should be, applied in japan then yes, aso should at least reoongnise the sins of his family. after all, the only reason he is prime minister is one the coat tails of previous family successes. stands to reason that you can't have the pros without the cons.
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jonnyboy
doesn't the japanese legal system already discriminate between murder and premeditated murder? if so, surely the former is applicable in this case? or does murder in japan have to be premedidated and if so surely all man slaughter therefore must be involuntary? it makes no sense
furthermore shouldn't someone be asking questions about the school that taught this boy to drive? as is often noticed, most driving schools seem to be rackets designed to extract the maximum income from students with little or no attention paid to producing safe and capable drivers
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