JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Full-time English Teacher - Osaka
- Epion English Language Schools, Osaka
- Salary: ¥200,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month Depending on your ability and experience
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- Part-time English Teacher - Osaka
- Epion English Language Schools, Osaka
- Salary: ¥10,000 ~ ¥15,000 / Day Depending on how many days a week are worked
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- Core Developer - コアディベロッパー
- Midokura Japan K.K. - ミドクラジャパン株式会社, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥4.0M ~ ¥10.0M / Year Negotiable
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kanadamanada
J-pop is made with canned music and simpleton lyrics to enhance the enjoyability of mutilating it at karaoke boxes. When ws the last time the MUSIC stood out in a j-pop song you heard? Never, right? I can think of few things worse than J-pop, well, ok, C-pop, then K-pop, then T-pop. Bad, bad - all bad! I knew it was a farce when I saw Guitar wolf on TV and they started with "よろしくおねがいします". I died a little that day.
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kanadamanada
The West will rect with predictable military force. The West, afterall created this monster when they pushed for "democracy" in Pakistan. Musharraf was the only man wo could control that country to any extent. What we sould get behind is another military dictator strongman in Pakistan. In someplaces, democracy has no place. But then again, I guess the U.S. needs a new enemy...
Posted in: How should the West react if Pakistan falls under Islamic extremist control in the future?
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kanadamanada
No. Because Ishihara is a racist, and the foreign media needs to expose that fact. This is nothing more than LDP porkbarreling - the only thing they know how to do. Japan does not need any help going further into debt. If you want to know what kind of financial black holes the Olympics have become, just start checking news stories out of Vancouver. It's a stupid idea.
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kanadamanada
More money towards domestic surveillance.
Posted in: Japan planning to launch up to 100 mini-satellites
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kanadamanada
UnagiDon： It's nothing more than wishful thinking from those who have a negative view of Japan and seem to be hoping for a renewed militarism (in a time of declining defence spending) to justify their own biases. Ain't gonna happen.
Interesting how you say I am biased when I live here, do business with and enjoy the company of Japanese people. I'm one of the few who see things from more than one side. As for the militarism, it is happening right now and it began with Koizumi's shift to the right. The others you've heard say this in the past 6 years may or may not have the academic stuff to back up their opinions, but I assure you that I do. I know a thing or two about geopolitics having been a lifelong student. Aso absolutely will increase military spending after he wins the next election and he will not fail to crank up the rhetoric. I suppose Japan wants new strike fighters for self defence, right? Riiiiiiight. Strike fighters are meant for attack, not defence. The LDP is slowly positioning the public for support of a constitutional ammendment to article 9. Anyone who thinks otherwise needs to read a few more books and talk to a few more military people.
Posted in: Japan warns against U.N. inaction on N Korea rocket launch
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kanadamanada
The rise of Japanese militarism. A deadbeat national leader using the spectre of a backward and fundamentally sociopathic "enemy" for his own political gains. I've seen this before.
Aso's approval ratings are up 9% in just the last week. The Japanese government is full of very dangerous people with very dangerous ideas of how things sould be. We should not forget that Aso's family fortune came off the backs of Korean slaves used in his family's factories in WW2. They cannot be trusted with a fully capable military as they have zero diplomatic skills. Japan would quickly become the most dangerous country in the region. Watch it happen as the economy fails.
Posted in: Japan warns against U.N. inaction on N Korea rocket launch
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kanadamanada
Ms. Brain, anyone? Interesting how they've casted a woman in a man's role. O' brave producers of J-dorama, we salute thee!
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kanadamanada
Much of the new stimulus money will go to make the already rich politicians richer. When will the Japanese wake up and realise their country is being robbed by the very people they've elected?
Posted in: Japan to spend more than Y10 tril in new economic stimulus
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kanadamanada
What'd I tell ya? What'd I tell ya? The Americans and the Japanese have both backed away from any talk of a shootdown. Fact: they couldn't shoot it down if they wanted to and NK knows it. The trouble with talking about ICBMs is that so few people understand them. Even if North Korea has nuclear weapons, they wouldn't have miniaturized them enough to launch on a missile. What's more, ICBMs go to space, then the nuke comes back down into earth's atmosphere. Without a re-entry vehicle the nuke burns up. The re-entry vehicle is more difficult to design than the rocket. America's secretary of defence admitted NK is not capable of hitting N.A. with this or any other rocket.
I do love reading some of the comments made by the JT brain trust.
Posted in: Critics say Japan overreacting to N Korea rocket launch
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kanadamanada
Yeah, his mother gives him money without telling him and acted alone in channeling the extra cah through backdoor channels. This guy was the justice minister!
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kanadamanada
They aired what seemed like a 3 or 4 hour long block of a 1980s variety programming the other night, complete with "tarento" watching from the bottom corner of the screen. It probably cost all of 5 bucks to air. Quality programming - NO. The end of Japanese TV couldn't come soon enough for me.
Posted in: Is television going the way of other obsolete media?
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kanadamanada
Japan will try and use this to get a permanent seat on the security council - something that will NEVER happen and never should.
Posted in: Japan wants U.N. emergency talks if N Korea launches rocket
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kanadamanada
I'll tell you what they've got in NK: 270 SA-2 launchers, 32 SA-3 launchers, and 36 SA-5 launchers. The SA-5 can go 30Km up, in a hurry. The Sa-3 is really not for use against anythng but small aircraft and cruise missiles. The SA-2 can go 20Km up and it's important to note that they've got 270 of them to throw away. No amount of countermeasures on the RC-135 is gonna save it is the NKs REALLY want to take one down and don't mind chucking a bunch of SA--2s up to do the job. If the NKs get a spyplane on their scopes, they ought to take it down. That's their sovereign right.
However, the fact is that the U.S. would be flying UAVs through the valleys and only poking their heads up to get the quick pics they need then it's straight back to the flight deck or to SK. No lives at risk and almost no chance of a NK shootdown if flown at night. If JT wants somebody to write a decent article about the reality on the peninsula, they can get in touch with me. Some editorial content wouldn't be bad now, would it?
Posted in: N Korea threatens to shoot down U.S. spy planes
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kanadamanada
Here in Sapporo, the regular analog signal is much better than the 1-seg, which is weak and spotty at best. Totally useless technology outside of Tokyo, is my guess. Isn't the real market for this the train commuters in Tokyo? I can't be bothered to turn on my TV to watch one channel, let alone get a phone that can receive two!
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kanadamanada
Why's he still talking through a translator???
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kanadamanada
"A little boy who was caught doing to the family cat what these family men do to seals (in their hundreds of thousands) would be sent away for psychiatric help." Not everywhere, he wouldn't, and that's an important fact which seems to fail you. You want to impose your morality on those of us who have been doing these things since before this sort of morality was made profitable by Greenpeace then Sea Shepherd, then the IFAW. We hunters don't try and impose our morality on you. We don't want you to eat meat. Fact is, we pretty much laugh at you. You don't see any anti-anti-hunting organisations, do you? Those involved in such things would seem pretty silly and I don't know many hunters who would be interested because for the most part we just don't care what you think and we'd rather be out harvesting our meat.
Now if you want to come on an internet forum and refer to men you've never met as "thugs" for killing animals you've never seen and have only read about - honest working men from my home performing a traditional hunt that goes back generations, well then I'm going to have something to say and it's not easy to talk your way around me because I know how both sides work. We've all got canine teeth for a reason, and it's not for eating apples.
What the cute and cuddly arguement has to do with it is the fact that you are so emotionally involved in your arguement "There is not a single good word that can be said in defence of these butchers, who club animals and leave them suffering on the ice, skin them alive and conscious, and throw live animals on deck using a hook through the eye socket. God, this makes me angry. May they all rot in Hell. " that you have no objectivity, whatsoever. You have no understanding of natural systems wand your misuse of the word "endangered" to further your agenda only proves this.
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Posted in: Canadian seal hunt begins
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kanadamanada
That William Walles company has a good scam going with those wallets. Seal fur is pretty cheap, actually. I don't see anything more frivolous about that wallet than any other leather wallet, to tell you the truth. It's just a matter of taste and manipulating a market into thinking something is desirable. I could make one of those in about 15 minutes with my rudimentary leatherworking skills and flip them on Yahoo auction for a nice score. Thanks for the idea! You see no differenc between a whitecoat and a beater, but there is a clear difference. You don't see it because there are no beaters on the posters and you probably have never seen a picture of a beater until right now when you google it. Whitecoats are far cuter than beaters and it's the cute that gets the candy for Sea Shepherd and IFAW, oherwise they'd have pictures of endangered pygmy shrews and other endangered uglies getting equal billing. http://endangered-ugly.blogspot.com/
Posted in: Canadian seal hunt begins
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kanadamanada
Oh Cleo, this is getting good now. As for your 1st comment I would answer simply, "No. It's becaue they're doing their job." You really did put your foot in it on that one.
As for your second statment, I'd call this debating. If you and I thought the same way, you'd fine this far less interesting than you do and you'd have to find something else to make yourself feel different.
Your 3rd statement - yes, I can hear your voice loud and clear in my head, droning on with Sea Shepherd inspired rhetoric. I've got pics of myself with dead seals on the ice, if you 'd like to sea them. Dead rabbits, too. You probably wound't be interested in the dead moose, becaue they're really not cute at all and I don't see them in any posters.
And with your fourth statement you do admit that your life is more valuable than that of an animal. This was all I was looking for with my statement. Thank you.
Oh yeah, I forgot that you still haven't told me why the anti-sealing organisations still use pictures of whitecoat seals in their propaganda when the hunting of whitecoat seals off Newfoundland has been banned for over 20 years. Why is it you don't have an answer for this? Can't find anything on the IFAW website about that?
There's nothing frivolous about fashion if that's what you're into. Some people take it very seriously. Like how some people take BBQ seriously. Or veganism. Or activism. The best part is everyone thinks they're right, but not everyone can BE right.
Posted in: Canadian seal hunt begins
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kanadamanada
Cleo, I mentioned that in recent years there haven't been charges laid for skinning seals alive, which is what you had referred to. Nice try to dodge around the jab again.
DFO officers are law officers and as such have some integrity. About DFO officers' impartiality you said "Gosh yes, you'd expect them to be 100% unbiased. Not." and then do a 180 as you googled yet another tidbit from your IFAW friends and tell us how "Apparently the Canadian government claims to have laid more than 200 charges against sealers since 1996; why would they be doing that if there were no violations?" Well, Cleo, why would they be doing that if DFO officers were acting to support and protect the hunt, as you've asserted? This is a complete and utter failure in logic, right here. By the way,last year's charges were split between equipment violations and not checking for blink reflexes in HEADSHOT seals which had been hauled out of the water with their faces blown off - dead.
My life is worth more than that of a cute animal. That's why I eat them.
Posted in: Canadian seal hunt begins
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kanadamanada
The best part is how, after arresting him for punching a 50 year old woman, the cops let him hit her again, back at the koban. HANDCUFFS you morons! HANDCUFFS!!!
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