JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- 秘書及び業務サポート
- 加治金属工業株式会社, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥4.0M / Year
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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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- ALT - Mie Prefecture - Yokkaichi City - June start
- NPO法人グローバル教育推進機構（GLAD), Mie
- Salary: ¥230,000 / Month For a full working month. Some months differ.
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kibousha
I don't understand, how could a foreigner receives welfare ? She's not a citizen, non-citizen with non-skill work, couldn't the government just deport her ? Unless the wife is a Japanese ...
Posted in: Tabloid blasts growing numbers of foreign welfare chiselers
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kibousha
I get the feeling that instead of solving the problem, most are happy with "let's squeezed as much as possible before the whole think sank under!" mentality.
Posted in: We perceive this change as a golden opportunity for growth. In the 1980s and ’90s, Aeon set families that were the massive majority in terms of population as its main target. Now the elderly are going to be the engine of consumption.
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kibousha
When will big corporations learn ? Piracy does NOT equal lost sales! People who pirate are not going to buy your products in the first place. If your product is not pirate-able, it will not got bought by pirates! I'm not saying that as an excuse to pirate, but I think any sensible corporations should keep that in mind to make better policy combating pirates.
For example, Microsoft's stand on piracy, "if people want to pirate products, it better be our products, when the country is strong enough in economy & ip rights, it will be too dependent on our products, and then we can cash in on them".
Posted in: Software piracy costs record $63.4 billion in 2011: study
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kibousha
So far so good for my 2 year old. She was afraid of people and refused to play in a crowded park before, now she can't wait to go out and play. Also, no one speaks Japanese at home, and she's picking up Japanese like a vacuum cleaner.
Posted in: What do you think of the quality of kindergartens and daycare centers in Japan?
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kibousha
The only thing Sony does well is its entertainment division outside of Japan. Sony Santa Monica Studios, Naughty Dogs and the likes are the only thing that keeps the Sony brand afloat. Sony Japan is just a bunch of old jijis still basking on the success in the 90s, no longer care about innovations and the future as much as they care about the safety of their position and the guarantee of a big fat retirement paycheck.
... no, wait, this is actually the state of the majority of Japanese corporations.
Posted in: It's a Sony
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kibousha
Japan is still Asia after all, saying no is usually regarded as "bad", "non-sociable", "too good to be my friend ... eh?", that kind of things. So, most people just say yes and ganbaru the crap out of themselves.
Posted in: Japanese rate Facebook's pros and cons
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kibousha
"Japanese is a written language first" ? ... "some monks a million years ago" ? Not sure if trolling, but I find it hardly believable that any culture in the world would think "let's invent a writing system before we can communicate with each other".
Kanji is Chinese's invention, and Japan-China cultural contact happened much later than the first civilization ever recorded in Japan. So, I really doubt Japanese didn't communicate with each other until they encountered Chinese culture.
Though I have to agree, reading Kanji is just much faster than romaji or hiragana.
Posted in: Why you must learn kanji
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kibousha
Japan, please get over your "We're a homogeneous country, we're unique among nations" pride already. You've opened up your country for globalization for more than 100 years already, grow up!
Posted in: Cultural differences, misconceptions and learning
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kibousha
There was a show about guessing with of the 10 gay guys are boyish/girlish, then between them are actually a couple kissing in front of camera, no one seems to be complaining about that
Posted in: AKB48 candy ad criticized for encouraging homosexuality
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kibousha
Japanese youths today care more about stability and securities than exploration of new things, inventions, etc. You can't be a leader in economy if you base it on inventions/innovations of your grand fathers.
Posted in: Japan 'no longer a rich country' by 2050: think tank
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kibousha
Yes, because the alternative (burning fossil fuel) is not an alternative at all.
Posted in: Do you think some of Japan's nuclear reactors need to be restarted in order to avert a possible power shortage?
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kibousha
My 2 year old couldn't be separated from the ipad about 6 months ago. She doesn't seem to care for it anymore now.
Pretty sure when books finally got mass printed, parents were not happy either, took away children's time to do chores/housekeeping/helping the parents ran their business, etc.
Humans and xenophobia/technophobia never cease to amaze.
Posted in: Concerns grow over children using tablet computers
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kibousha
By realizing that overtime is unhealthy, unproductive, and unsustainable. Once you realize this and stop trying to burst productive or profit for the short term, then things will start to get better.
Posted in: What is the best solution for reducing unpaid overtime work?
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kibousha
Mathematics should be studied by everyone, especially very useful is statistics and probability, it helps humans as an illogical beings to make a logical decisions based on data and facts and not on emotions and gut feelings. What is the probability that your son got into trouble and someone on the phone claiming to be a doctor asked you to transfer money to a bank account ? Statistics showed that you are probably being scammed. How about the probability that a Nigerian prince who lost his crown and want to go out of the country with millions of dollars, but can't afford an airplane ticket ?
Posted in: The education ministry is concerned at the falling aptitude of high school students for mathematics. Is this a big problem and what can be done about it?
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kibousha
The only BOOK OFF store I know that carries english books is in shirokanedai
Posted in: My favorite English bookstores in Tokyo
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kibousha
Interviews are so 20th century, have the person do some simple paid work for a week or so, see how she works with the team, and things she accomplished, let the team have lunches with her, get to know her. But then again, in the world of corporation, an employee is not viewed a person, more like a paid slave.
Posted in: Job interviews - 'Fools using a foolish method to pick fools'
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kibousha
oberst,
exactly my thoughts. This is not only happening to electronic companies, it's happening all over industry that Japan was good once. The game industry is another example.
Posted in: Panasonic forecasts worst-ever net loss of Y780 bil yen
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kibousha
Harmless fun !? I don't care about middle age jijis who think one day they'll won a lottery to date one of those AKB48 girls. I'm more worried about the effect it has on other girls. Ask any 7 year old girls in Japan about what they want to be when they grew up, chances are they want to be an idol. Not to say this is caused solely by AKB48, but they are the newest benchmark for "cute" idols in the history of pop culture that idolizes cute idols beyond anything. You still think it's harmless fun ? wait until your own daughters want to be an idol too ...
Posted in: Do you think all-girl groups like AKB48 are being marketed as sexualized little Lolitas or is it just harmless fun?
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kibousha
Only six ? Everything except for computer parts imho. To add a few more, rent, software licensing, transportation fee.
Posted in: Six things that foreigners feel are overpriced in Japan
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kibousha
It is a mean to control the masses, one culture told the masses that if they suffer in life, they'll have eternal happiness in the afterlife, the other told the masses that suffering is part of life and the only way to cope is to ganbarimasu. It seems that the later works much better during disasters, the negative side effect is that corporation or those in power use it for their own advantages, as we can see from all the corporate's corruption/scandals gone public lately.
Posted in: Japan is built, at some deep, invisible level, around the Buddhist law of the reality of suffering; my Japanese family and neighbors are not inclined to complain about circumstances so much as to deal, silently and efficiently, with the hands they’re dealt.