JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- ZAIHON, Inc. (日本財務翻訳株式会社), Tokyo
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- Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) in Kanto region
- RCS (RCSコーポレーション), Kanto
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- Assistant Language Teacher - TOKYO - late-March start
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jonnyboy
what i meant to say was
29 years old and 4 months pregnant
Posted in: Pregnant actress Megumi Okina to marry 'ordinary' businessman
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jonnyboy
Posted in: Pregnant actress Megumi Okina to marry 'ordinary' businessman
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jonnyboy
this whole thing does rather shout to the world "look how shallow our culture is". this is the problem with japan; you can have stuffy traditional culture, or plastic popular culture. would be wonderful if they could combine the two into something that is dynamic, modern but still meaningful and unquestionably japanese. seems unlikely
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jonnyboy
i don't have the statistics to hand, but i seem to recall the percentage of japanese travelling abroad always being in single figures. i think some people are surprised about this but the reason might be that when the japanese do travel they are quite visible (large tour groups of flap-jacket wearing cameraphiles) and also that this country does have a large population (128 million), but in actually fact the vast majority of people have never been abroad
Posted in: More Japanese shunning the outside world
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jonnyboy
japan continues to believe that, in its dealings with the outside world, it can continue to have all the pros and none of the cons. it seems like this has been its approach since the meiji period; we want your technology but we don't want your social system. but the same as you can separate a society's language from its culture, you can't separate a society's culture from its technology. the further back you look into european culture (for example), the more it looks like japan; rigid social system, group based culture, etc. yet as time went on this system was forced to change, mostly by advances in technology. japan has undergone the same technological revolutions but has stubbornly refused to allow its social system to adapt and evolve in appropriate ways. i'm not saying the japan should now have the same social model as the west, but if there hadn't been such a resistance to any kind of social change then japan would definitely now have a system more suited to the environment within which it now finds itself. instead it has a medieval system which is ill-suited to dealing with a fast progressing and shrinking world
Posted in: More Japanese shunning the outside world
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jonnyboy
the problem is not with IE as such, more with the aggressive way that microsoft began pushing it on customers. bear in mind that the vast majority of windows pc users are blissfully unaware that there are operating system options for pcs outside of windows. many don't even understand what an operating system is. when IE first appeared on windows it was accessible through a desktop icon that said "the internet", thus another attempt to detach consumers from the idea that they might have other options.
microsoft having domination of the browser market has allowed them to force further proprietary software onto users and tried to erode the "free and open" spirit of the internet. the internet is far too important to be controlled by commercial interests. by all means they should be allowed to operate on it, just not to have the vice like grip that microsoft has tried to have over it
Posted in: Microsoft to let PC users turn off IE web browser
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jonnyboy
shouganaika - i wonder how familar you are with japanese culture. do you have any single japanese friends in their late 20s or early 30s? marriage is pretty much all they talk about because it IS a big deal. they may want to stay single but their parents expect them to get married because if they do not do so they they will be seen by society at large as failed parents with failed children regardless of whatever else they might have achieved in their lives
this is very much still the case
Posted in: SHIHO announces marriage to former judo champion
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jonnyboy
perhaps people subconsciously known that japan's place in the sun is over. it will surely be replaced by china, and also korea
Posted in: More Japanese shunning the outside world
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jonnyboy
japanese has far too many homonyms for this to work, it seems.
Posted in: Aso's reading blunders spark study spree
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jonnyboy
in japanese culture you are never an individual, you always represent part of some form of group.
Posted in: Half and haafu
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jonnyboy
that certainly is a collection of girls
Posted in: Tokyo Girls Collection
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jonnyboy
the answer to this question is; the impossibility of death in the mind of living. it's impossible for a living person to imagine death, so we imagine there must be an afterlife.
Posted in: Do you believe in life after death?
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jonnyboy
i shouldn't overlook the irony; he was a university student after all. what would be especially ironic is if he was the sort to be outraged by all the recent weed-smoking uni student "scandals" before embarked on his ill-fated drinking binge. tut, tut, eh? goes to show that scaremongering about illegal drugs does nothing to correctly inform people about dangers. weed is illegal so it must be horribly dangerous, right? alcohol is legal so it must be safe as houses, right? sigh
Posted in: 19-year-old college student dies after drinking party in Aichi
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jonnyboy
alcohol: class A drug. effects include aggression, loss of bodily control, vomiting. overdosing can lead to death or serious permanent liver damage
Posted in: 19-year-old college student dies after drinking party in Aichi
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jonnyboy
perhaps i'm using the wrong term. what i'm thinking about is having race/ethnicity as a very active part of how one deals with others, whether positively or negatively. as such i think it's fair term to apply to most japanese; the intent may be positive, and it may be negative, but there's no denying the japanese are intensely conscious of race & ethnicity, at least in comparison to other cultures
Posted in: Half and haafu
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jonnyboy
japan. you have to remember that other societies define themselves more by a cultural genus rather than race, the uk & usa being good examples. that's not to say that people aren't ethnocentric to a certain extent and at times downright rascist but the degree is a great deal less. after all, you have to bear in mind that different hair colours is evidence of different racial origins. is this ever an issue? basically not. skin colour? yes, sometimes but considerably less than in japan.
Posted in: Half and haafu
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jonnyboy
this is tragic, but it could have been worse; he could have smoked some marijuana
at least he died pounding his liver with alcohol; the japanese way!
Posted in: 19-year-old college student dies after drinking party in Aichi
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jonnyboy
notimpressed - good post. whether or not japan is xenophobic is a matter of opinion but i think it's basically undeniable that this is an intensely ethnocentric society
Posted in: Half and haafu
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jonnyboy
we have nothing to fear from islam; they hate each other as least as much as they hate us
Posted in: Taliban militants blow up 16 shops selling music in Pakistan
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jonnyboy
i wonder how she thought of the name
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