JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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Confrontation
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U.S. Navy investigating how parts fell off aircraft near Atsugi
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California court to decide if SeaWorld whales are illegal 'slaves'
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Kuroki reported pregnant 2 weeks after denying relationship with Akanishi
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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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- Assistant Language Teacher - Kanagawa Prefecture - late-March start
- Interac, Kanagawa
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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keshii
To me, the issue isn't whether it's good for the environment or not. The issue is whether people's convenience and economic payoffs are 'more good' than any good that would be done for the environment.
Posted in: Do you think curtailing convenience store hours would be good for the environment?
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keshii
Does anyone else think that the Japanese girls' obsession with being a "princess" has gone too far yet?
Posted in: Tokyo Disneyland Hotel offers girls chance to be 'princess'
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keshii
This is definitely an "only in Japan" story, isn't it? For one thing, I can't imagine any elderly burglar in the West being willing to sit down for tea (or coffee, or otherwise) during a robbery. And of course, it's quite common in Japan to keep huge amounts of money at home. I certainly wouldn't have had enough money in my wallet or in my home to pay the guy off like the woman did in this story. Makes you wonder if the story is supposed to be an anecdote, or something that the government wants us to take example from? "Be more Japanese" perhaps?
Theguynextdoor, My guess is that knives have become popular because the public doesn't have easy access to guns.
JeffLee, where do you live in Japan? I have only rarely seen security systems beyond key and bolt locks on doors. In my neighborhood in Tokyo, our neighbor across the street leaves the front door (directly facing the street) open for hours on end in the afternoons. Not that I recommend this, of course...
Posted in: Housewife brews up plan to escape from robber: tea and conversation
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keshii
Addicted and Japanophile1, Japan is acting as the host for their guests. Rule number one of hospitality is make your guests comfortable, and if they don't find futons comfortable, then it's a failure on the part of hospitality to give no options but to sleep on the floor.
Posted in: Tatami rooms don't agree with G-8 visitors
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keshii
No one else has mentioned this, but I go to Starbucks for the atmosphere. It feels exactly the same in Japan as in America when you're inside... which makes it a perfect, safe place for me to teach English to my students. The moment they step inside a Starbucks in an English speaking country, I think they'll feel just that much more comfortable. So, for me, even the price hike is worth it.
Posted in: Starbucks Japan to raise coffee prices
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keshii
Yet another story about a Japanese man perving on schoolgirls. I wonder why we never seem to hear about any unwanted lesbian attentions? Or heaven forbid, stalking!
Also, I'm curious about what age of students this teacher is in charge of... And whether or not he'll keep his job, which he probably will.
Posted in: School teacher arrested for peeping up student's skirt in Oita
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keshii
He got stabbed at 1 am, but I wonder how long it took before he recieved medical attention, since, after all, he was stabbed in his apartment and the 17 year old ran off to a bookstore somewher. The long time he spent bleeding out is probably why he died, even if the hospital did do their job to the best degree possible. But as Spidey suggests, it's a bit sketchy, isn't it?
Posted in: 17-yr-old man held for stabbing colleague to death in Gunma
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keshii
Way to go, representing Japan, Hiroko. Instead of seeing children suffer and thinking of helping their physical needs, you want to smile at them?
The only time a smile has healing powers is in a Magical Girl anime.
Posted in: Reaching for the universe
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keshii
The last line of the article is my favorite. So there's been several similar stories to this one recently, of wanna-be samurai being chased out of convenient stores with dustpans? This reminds me why I love Japan. It's just crazy sometimes.
Posted in: Man with samurai sword arrested for robbery in Osaka
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keshii
I tried simulating a purchase from Tokyo to London in that time slot, and the price was nowhere near 50,000 yen.
Posted in: British Airways offers early bird Y50,000 fare to London and 50 European destinations
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keshii
This is illegal? But how is it any different from all of the magazines that I can buy in the convenient stores?
Posted in: 25-year-old wife arrested for selling nude photos of herself
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keshii
You guys need to be taking this story more seriously. There are some serious criminals on the loose right now... None of your fruits are safe.
Posted in: 5,000 peaches stolen from orchard
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keshii
Internet on an airplane? Wow, that almost makes Homeland Security's new mandate of photographing passengers in the nude worth it.
Posted in: American Airlines to test in-flight Internet access for passengers
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keshii
Am I the only person offended by this article stating it as fact that Western women sweat more? (These pads are "...clearly designed for a lighter flow of perspiration..."
Of the smelliest people in Japan, though, I think the salaryman wins hands down, and not the ladies, Western or otherwise.
Posted in: Don't sweat it
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keshii
Or at least try to simulate real stars in honor of Tanabata, rather than hosting what seems to be the Japanese equivalent of Christmas in July...
Posted in: Tanabata
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keshii
How did they manage to get as far as a hotel room? If the girl was protesting against being obviously taken to a hotel, wouldn't the hotel staff at the front desk have done something about it or raised alarms? It would seem that she had been quite willingly accompanying the teacher...
Posted in: Teacher, 38, arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting 11-year-old girl in Ibaraki
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keshii
If only Hilary was still running against Obama, you just know that she would have had only Muslim women in full garb sitting behind her at her next televised appearance.
Posted in: Muslim woman said she could not sit behind Obama at rally because of head scarf
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keshii
That bodes well for some very, very lonely and successful nerds... though I suppose they could just find a real woman to marry for money just as easily by then.
Posted in: In 2050, your lover may be a robot
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keshii
ANOT SUSAGAMI, I hope you and Romulus take this message to the streets of Japan, because this almost more than any other 'cultural barrier' makes me nervous about getting into a serious relationship with a Japanese man.
Posted in: Japanese missing out on orgasms, Durex survey shows
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keshii
Fair Dinkum, I have one word for you: Chobitsu.
Posted in: In 2050, your lover may be a robot