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
will they include the twist in the tail about the yakitori seller who feeds little hachiko kun?
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jonnyboy
this calls to mind a debito article from the japan times about all those rural communities which are dying out and in desperate need of a injection of youngsters, but it will never happen because no-one wants to move there and then have their family discriminated against for the next 10 generations
so at least when it comes to discrimination japan is an equal-opportunities employer
Posted in: Old Japanese maps on Google Earth unveil 'burakumin' secrets
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jonnyboy
it's like anything over here; if a certain "critical mass" is reached everyone will feel obliged to partake
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jonnyboy
it can't because it is so deeply insecure about itself, but doesn't realise that dealing with your problems openly and head on is actually the way to self-assuredness. but unfortunately the dominate policy is "hear no evil, see no evil..." and just sweep it under the carpet and pretend that everything is already sunny and perfect.
Posted in: Old Japanese maps on Google Earth unveil 'burakumin' secrets
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jonnyboy
and crocodiles thought they were immune from the effects of the global financial crisis. how wrong they were!
Posted in: Crocodile dumped outside pet training center in Chiba
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jonnyboy
wheel them on..... ok, now please wheel them off
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jonnyboy
i imagine the problem is the same for a lot of popular culture coming out of asia; artists just don't do their own thing so you either get a poor imitation of a western style, or a tacky take on "traditional culture"
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jonnyboy
vs. making a habit of getting a good night's sleep? not at all
Posted in: How useful are face masks in helping combat the spread of flu and colds?
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jonnyboy
n is for nepotism
Posted in: A politician who does the people good is a good politician, regardless of whether he or she is a second-generation politician or worked his or her way up to become a lawmaker.
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jonnyboy
@LFRAgain - KILLER post, every sentence! round of applause most definitely due. you are wasted here, my friend!
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jonnyboy
vs. overworked, over-medicated, under-rested people. the japanese must be one of the most sickly nations on earth; constantly sick with minor coughs and allergies. vs. 1918 i wonder about the state of the nation's immune systems
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jonnyboy
i'd like them to be useful. whilst i'm a little suspicious of "loyalty" cards (companies should be working to secure my business, not vice versa) i do hear about people using the cards to their advantage. only problem is there are so many schemes and i'm uninformed about how to make best use of them
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jonnyboy
i shouldn't have stayed with docomo as long as i did. three cheers for commercial competition on the rare occasions when it does benefit the customer
Posted in: DoCoMo announces new customer satisfaction initiatives
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jonnyboy
she looks great, but i seriously doubt there is much more to her than meets the eyes
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jonnyboy
so, a stick with a hair-do?
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jonnyboy
when you consider the hoo-ha about whale hunting it makes me wonder what will happen in a few years when tuna stocks get dangerously low and some kind of international ban has to be enacted. scientific research tuna sashimi, anyone?
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jonnyboy
i don't think it's any surprise that immigration has a tendency to "fail" as quoted here; there is little political incentive to do it "rightly" and tolerance is a hard lesson to learn when for the vast majority of human history people haven't often had to deal with people who don't look like them. the point is, however, that the world is not getting any bigger and it is imperative that we all get used to the idea of living close to people we don't (initially) want or understand
Posted in: The United States had been a failure on the immigration front.
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jonnyboy
which came first? the chicken or the egg?
Posted in: Model Tsubasa Masuwaka and Miss Japan Marino Miyata to host new kids show
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jonnyboy
asian popstars have the whole "idol" mould whereby music is just one part of the package that they sell. this doesn't really fly in the west, in fact its rather frowned on for an artist to work in multiple fields. so in asia a signer can hope to capitalise when they come to be seen as an idol whereas in the west the have to stand up as a singer alone.
Posted in: Why do Asian pop stars have a hard time succeeding in the U.S. market?
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jonnyboy
i would be interested to hear their wives' angle on this. it seems to me that disconnecting men from the house's actual expenditure is a good way for the wife never to learn the value of the family's income, but perhaps i'm wrong
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