JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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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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- FT English Teachers for Kids - Osaka
- Kohgakusha Co., Ltd. （株式会社興学社）, Osaka
- Salary: ¥255,000 ~ ¥275,000 / Month Travel Expenses, Encouragement of Japanese learning*
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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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kirakira25
I agree. If she wants to promote road safety, what about also bringing up talking on cellphones, jumping red lights, drunk-driving, not strapping kids down safely in child seats, speeding, driving erratically - these are the real issues for road safety here.
Posted in: Aiko Kaito promotes road safety
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kirakira25
Can`t even come up with a word to describe how I feel about this low-life.
Posted in: Naha man arrested for abusing wife, 8-month-old daughter
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kirakira25
not anymore.
Dear Yukio:
Definitely a blanket ban on smoking in public and raise tobacco tax
Actually enforce the laws with stiff penalties especially for talking on cell phones, speeding, jumping red lights, drink driving, hit and run, and unrestrained kids in cars or on bikes without helmets, racial and sexual discrimination.
Dual nationality for PR
s and half-Japanese children, and let PRs woth dual nationality vote.De-regulate retail and allow more foreign competition, especially with food.
Deliver the promised help for young families
Revise the education system to teach English properly, and allow the poor kids a little more freedom.
A ban on unpaid overtime and a cap on the working hours per week - and enforce it properly.
De-concrete all the rivers.
Make child exploitation (lolicon etc) a criminal offence.
Should that read "Dear Yukio" or "Dear Santa"??!
Posted in: For you personally, what changes would you like to see the new DPJ government bring about in Japan?
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kirakira25
I wish with all my heart I could disagree with the comments made above - but I can`t. Things are going very, very wrong there.
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kirakira25
That
s it!! Thank you!! I couldnt figure out who she reminded me of!Scary, on so many different levels.
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kirakira25
I agree. "Most people start commuting by 5am"? Utter rubbish. Especially in the case of 13 year old kids.
Posted in: Father dies trying to stop son's hydrogen sulfide gas suicide
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kirakira25
He was arrested based on his description? I would love more details on that! Obviously he is not an average height average build straight black hair and black-eyeed guy.
Obviously also not an economics undergrad. What kind of moron hits on a child for $500???!
Posted in: Univ student arrested after trying to blackmail two 11-year-old girls
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kirakira25
I was thinking the same thing - if a kid of 13 is up at what would have been around 5am taking a shower - no wonder he was tired!
Very sad, and as I said once before recently on another thread where the two 13 year old girls jumped off a car park - what kind of society is it where so many young kids feel like they have no other options?
I feel for the Mother in this case - losing both her son and her husband in one very pointless fell swoop.
Posted in: Father dies trying to stop son's hydrogen sulfide gas suicide
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kirakira25
I just also wanted to make a comment that "students were briefed about the incident over the PA system"??? Am I crazy or is that just totally impersonal? What about teachers taking the kids in groups and discussing the problem with them and asking for their opinions, and if anyone has anything they want to say about it. What about discussing feelings? What about taking the opportunity to have an open discussion about the issue?
Oh yes, as per my previous post I forgot - Head. Sand.
Posted in: Bullying blamed after two 13-yr-old girls jump to their deaths
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kirakira25
This topic is of serious interest and concern to me as my daughter will be starting elementary school from April.
I am not trying to pre-empt trouble before it even starts and I really hope she settles into school with no problems - but a big concern for me is that I went to a parents meeting recently, and listened to a speech about the new school from the principal. At the end they asked if anyone had any questions. Of course, no-one moved a muscle - except me! I put my hand up and asked what their policy was on dealing with bullying and what support services are in place to deal with both victims and their tormentors.
The short answer (because I got a very long speech with very little substance in it at all) - they don`t have a bullying policy and there is not a problem with bullying at that school.
They may be right - I sincerely hope so - but what REALLY worried me most was the reaction of the other parents because I had had the nerve to even ask such a question! They stared, they whispered, they gave me a very wide berth as we left the auditorium - I seem to have been automatically marked out as "trouble" before we have even entered the school.
There seems to be a very definite culture of burying ones head in the sand and hoping anything unpleasant goes away in this country - I wonder if that`S how things have managed to get to the point that they have with this particular issue.
Posted in: Bullying blamed after two 13-yr-old girls jump to their deaths
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kirakira25
My God, what a sad ending to a sad life. Your family members don`t even want to claim you even after you die.
Posted in: Tokyo police open 2 bureaus for missing persons throughout September
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kirakira25
Whoever is to blame aside, I struggle to fathom any understanding of a culture where so many young kids feel that there is nowhere to turn, nowhere else to go and no other option but taking their own lives.
If any of my kids ever committed suicide (God forbid) I would absolutely feel like I had failed them as a parent.
Posted in: Bullying blamed after two 13-yr-old girls jump to their deaths
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kirakira25
This is not some spoilt brat 19 year old who can`t keep her knees together. This is a woman who obviously has serious social and possibly mental problems too. Hardly surprising the pregnancy ended in tragedy if she has been living rough all through her pregnancy with no access to medical care. I think it will be a miscarriage of justice in this case if she ends up in prison - BUT it sounds like a life behind bars is going to be preferrable to the one she has been enduring to date.
Posted in: Woman arrested for dumping unwanted newborn on Gunma road
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kirakira25
Image over substance, every time.
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kirakira25
Just for my tuppence worth: I really couldn`t care less what my kids are called - haafu, mikusu, daburu or anything else. (Most people enquiring ask me if they are "haafu?" or "Papa wa nihonjin desu ka?") What I care about is the intention behind it. I have never to date felt any racial prejudice against my kids. HAVE felt a lot of envy though! I hope that continues, but even if they do have problems in the future, at the end of the day they have the golden ticket outta here that they can choose to cash in any time they want. So if a kid laughs at them for being half, I tell them to laugh back twice as hard for being only one nationality. Kawaiso!
I can`t honestly say I like "daburu" though - getting a little too close to schizophrenia for my taste!
Posted in: Marie gives the lowdown on being 'half'
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kirakira25
It
s true - a friend of mine was in his car - completely stationary - at an intersection when he was hit from behind by a kid on a bike whose brakes didnt work coming down the hill behind him - and HE was the one arrested!Posted in: Driver arrested after colliding with girl on scooter, then fleeing in Kanagawa
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kirakira25
Words fail me
Posted in: Baby boy dies in locked car while mother plays pachinko in Akita
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kirakira25
International marriages do bring their own unique challenges and stresses. It
s a fact. It doesnt mean a non-international marriage is any less stressful, but being raised in two completely different cultures with two completely different ways of thinking does cause some communication issues and problems from time to time. The trick is how you both deal with it. We have found that, right from the beginning, going into the marriage knowing there are going to be problems and being willing to do whatever it takes to make things work has been the key. Many friends of mine in "single culture" marriages whose marriages have failed have said it was partly because they had unrealistic expectations of how marriage was going to be so when things got difficult they weren`t prepared for it.Posted in: Mao Inoue and Jonathan Sherr to star in 'My Darling is a Foreigner'
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kirakira25
I have a 5 year old and a 3 year old - no way would my two voluntarily leave home and walk 3 kilometres. It
S bad enough trying to get them to walk to the supermarket with me. Im sorry but there is something weird about all this.Posted in: Two young children found walking along expressway in Fukushima
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kirakira25
I notice how incredibly easy it is for anyone and everyone to criticise the Scottish justice minister, when none of them actually had to be the one standing up nin front of millions of people directly in the firing line making the decision and shouldering the responsibility for it alone.
Whichever decision he had made it would have been controversial. He was damned if he did and damned if he didn`t. I admire his bravery for being the one to stand up and make the decision, regardless of the decision itself.
As for the Libyans waving Scottish flags when the guy arrived back home. I agree that the "hero
s welcome" was totally tasteless, but why cant people see it for what it was - a gesture towards the people of Scotland for their humanity, and not the finger-slipping gesture everyone is trying to turn it into.I think the Scottish have made themselves and the west "the bigger people" in this whole sad spectacle - dignity and humanity. I don`t think that is appearing "soft" to terrorists at all - quite the opposite in fact.
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