JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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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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- 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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jonnyboy
it certainly ain't only the taxi drivers. this seems to be an unwritten "rule" that's followed pretty widely over here. big pet peeve, especially when you consider how narrow so many streets are. hazard lights good way to make absolutely sure you see that they're blocking the whole road
Posted in: Why I hate driving in Japan
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jonnyboy
a major selling point of credit cards was supposed to be that they're international. except in japan, of course
Posted in: Visa launches Tokyo Shopping Guide
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jonnyboy
women spend their whole lives being brainwashed into wanting their perfect fairy-tale wedding day. nice idea, until the next day when they wake up hitched to some idiot for the next 50+ years of their lives, having never thought of doing anything else with their lives...
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jonnyboy
step away from the bong, young man
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jonnyboy
i love the richard dawkins post that, according to the pro-life crowd...
abortion is murder, therefore abortion should not be allowed contraception also prevents the possibility of the "gift of life" being passed on, therefore should not be allowed therefore abstinence also potentially prevents the "gift of life" being passed on so in fact all pro-lifers ought to be anti-abstinence and we should all be copulating 24/7 so as to make sure no opportunities for the "gift of life" to be passed on are missed!
sounds like fun to me!
Posted in: Kansas abortion doctor killed in church
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jonnyboy
the marriage obsession continues. anyone would think this was india
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jonnyboy
as far as society is concerned, yes! get married in your 20s means you're out of everyone's hair for the remaining (50+) years of your natural life. stop troubling everyone else with your existence
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jonnyboy
a lot of americans don't seem to realise how overwhelmingly popular clinton was (and still is) overseas
Posted in: Bush, Clinton appear on stage together in Canada
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jonnyboy
with regards to the question, i'm not sure what to answer. i would say no if i believed that shareholders were thoughtful enough to sit between the executive and the rest of the company and objectively pay what was warranted. however, we've seen all too much in recent years that they are incapable of doing this for various reasons.
Posted in: Are you in favor of government-imposed caps on executives' salary packages?
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jonnyboy
the assumption you are making is that individual profiteering is the only reason for running a business. how about providing some kind of product or service that is genuinely profitable to society at large? people will sniff at this, but it's happening all the time. just look at all the programmers making freeware on the internet for a good example. at the end of the day i'm sure most of these guys would be happy to continue doing what they do for the benefit for the people around them, but sadly they have bills to pay; ie. if it weren't for others running business for profit their time would be freed for the benefit of others
Posted in: Are you in favor of government-imposed caps on executives' salary packages?
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jonnyboy
i bet the girls didn't get paid...
Posted in: 'Beautiful Women Clock' debuts as iPhone touch application
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jonnyboy
well hot air certainly blows out of his mouth
Posted in: It is difficult to read world opinion or which way the political wind blows.
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jonnyboy
so... dull and talentless? :p
Posted in: Kusanagi returns to showbiz after arrest
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jonnyboy
okinawa has topped the world longevity ratings...
Posted in: A steady increase of Japan's longevity reflects good medical care, nutrition and successful economic development, and that alone is a good thing. What we really have to look at is whether we can live long in good health, and peacefully.
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jonnyboy
the longer the wait, the more the "gambare" points with the folks at the office. whether or not the donuts are any good is beside the point. i'm sure there were people who were genuinely disappointed when the queues at shinjuku southern terrace started to approach something tolerable
i managed to upset a student a while back when i failed to pretend i didn't think her two hour wait for donuts was a waste of a percentage of her life. and to think part of my argument was to support good ol' homegrown mister donuts? can't win, can you
Posted in: Anyone for doughnuts?
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jonnyboy
that's true. and then there would've probably been a risk of one of them becoming akina's stalker
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jonnyboy
i disagree. seems to me that the j-cops are very good indeed at pretending to be police officers. i guess they were all busy giving directions to obasans :D
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jonnyboy
this is true. but doesn't japanese tv have closed captioning that could be turned off and on as desired?
Posted in: Idiocy versus intelligence on Japanese quiz shows
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jonnyboy
is it me or is this headline poorly written?
**Malaysia men who call wives ugly had better look out **
Posted in: Malaysia men who call wives ugly better look out
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jonnyboy
i wonder why the US is so obsessed with having "militarily experienced" leaders. is the suggestion that this would make them more careful/thoughtful about sending the country to war? recent evidence seems to quite clearly contradict this. the president is a civilian leader. he is, in fact, not supposed to be able to send the country to war without the consent of congress. or does it have something to do with the fact that the lion's share of the US budget is funnelled to the pentagon through his office? perhaps they prefer to have someone sympathetic shovelling that lucre their way
Posted in: National security adviser: U.S. safer under Obama