JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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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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kirakira25
Dolphingirl THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! Believe it or not I am also 164 and also 46kgs!!! How strange! I have been freaking out about my weight (or lack of!) - it is SUCH a relief to know that other people are like me. I am SO sick of being accused of having an eating disorder. The only problem I have is 3 kids under 6!
I know I am underweight. I want to put on weight. But it is just not happening. I just have to accept that this is natural for me, and for other people being bigger is natural for them.
Being small or bigger is not a problem, being healthy is the issue, and as many posters have said, you can be very slim but also very unfit and unhealthy. If you eat right, get enough exercise and limit stress, your body will do what is natural for you.
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kirakira25
Yeah, you`re right Nagoyalove. When my baby wound up covered in ash I should have just apologised to the smoker for putting my baby in his way and walked away, "ne"?
Or is that another useless comment? I shouldn`t really be entitled to an opinion at all really, should I? As a "guest" who has only lived here 9 years, paid taxes, married a Japanese and got PR.
Oops, sorry guys! Now I`m venting!
Posted in: Anti-smoking 'monsters' have smokers on the run
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kirakira25
I`m an anti-smoking monster and proud of it. Have been ever since some ignorant ba#$%$d flicked fagg ash all over my 3 month old in her pram. You respect non-smokers and we will respect you. You flick fagg ash over our children, we will stamp our foot and scream at you in very bad Japanese!
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kirakira25
Miso caramel??? Hmmm....
I always think these cookies taste half-baked.
Posted in: Country Ma'am cookies
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kirakira25
Er, no. Sorry. I can honestly say hand on heart that no matter how bad my situation I would never give birth to my babies and then murder them and bury them in a flower planter on my balcony. Nor would anyone I know.
Posted in: Remains of 2nd infant found in planter on veranda of Osaka woman's apartment
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kirakira25
OK, so TWO tragic stillbirths in one person who was obviously in a position not to want them anyway??? Not a chance.
May she swing for this. I can`t begin to get my head around what kind of woman conceives a child, carries it for 9 (10) months, gives birth - and then murders and buries it. Twice. This is beyond sub-human.
Posted in: Remains of 2nd infant found in planter on veranda of Osaka woman's apartment
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kirakira25
@tatsujapan - thank you for that horrifying but good example. If I was that mother, I would have done exactly the same thing with one small extra - I would have finished the job and killed the $#$% with my bare hands.
Posted in: Man, 19, arrested for beating girlfriend's 2-yr-old son to death
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kirakira25
Anyone who is a "good" mother would a)notice bruises on their child that were unlike the usual rough and tumble ones (there IS a difference) and b)would be tuned in enough to their child to notice changes in behaviour, anxiety, fear, depression and such-like. YES, even a 2 year old.
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m not buying the whole "mother didnt know anything" either. She was just seeing what she wanted to see. She was in love with the 19 year old, pure and simple and not paying enough attention to her son.Posted in: Man, 19, arrested for beating girlfriend's 2-yr-old son to death
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kirakira25
I agree with everything this guy said, except for the fact that parents want their kids to be "shy" - I am not buying that at all. However, I wouldn`t be surprised if they actually said they want them to be "quiet", "conforming" or "fit in" i.e. not rock the boat or stand out too much.
The whole feudal Japan v modern Japan argument has some merit, but modern Japan grew out of feudal Japan, and I was shocked to hear my husband and his friends, all young-ish men in their thirties discussing the "beauty" of suicide one time. So maybe old habits do die hard.
I agree with everything Tkoind2 said - this ganbarre culture is the root of many many social issues - amongst other things. Yes, the article is confrontational, but quite frankly I think it needs to be. It is time to call thigns what they really are, because the half-hearted attempts to address the problem by the government aren`t working.
Posted in: Bare statistics mask human cost of Japan’s high suicide rate
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kirakira25
Actually HeyLars I agree with you - believe it or not!
I am not for a second condoning what this woman has done - but first of all, we don
t know if this was a live or a stillbirth. At 48cms (I believe one poster made) it sounds pretty much a full-term baby, so this wasnt a miscarriage. It seems like a hell of a coincidence though, given her circumstances, that the baby was also stillborn. My money would be on murder myself.As for her situation - it is actually NOT that unusual here to continue living together even after divorce, at least for a time. And if she got pregnant by a guy who wanted nothing to do with it, she was in a very difficult situation. Abortions here are VERY expensive - and call me judgemental but these people don`t sound the rolling-in-it type.
Also of course, there are the social issues here of having a baby out of wedlock - hence the ubiquitous "dekichatta kekkon".
I condemn him for not helping her (if indeed that is the case) but if she is proven to have murdered the child, I condemn her too. I also find it very hard to believe no-one knew she was pregnant. A 48cms fetus (as another poster said) is pretty much full-term. Someone living with you couldn`t help but notice, surely? Or is the family that disfunctional?
Whatever - a chill down my spine from this new article, for sure.
Posted in: 13-yr-old boy finds newborn baby's body in planter on veranda
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kirakira25
what kyokosmile said.
Nice to see some people here have zero tolerance for child-killers. And this wasn`t just any old murder either was it? Essentially the child was entombed alive.
According to this and other news reports this was systematic abuse that continued over a period and was obviouslt to satisfy some sadistic thrill of the father/mother/both.
It makes my blood run cold that these two will be free by their 40`s to live their lives, move among us, and - yes - reproduce again.
Posted in: Trial ends for woman who killed son by putting him in garbage bin
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kirakira25
Imagine. A two year old little boy wakes up at night, it
s dark and scary, Mummys not home, only Mummys boyfriend who obviously doesnt love him and won`t protect him from the scary monsters. No wonder he cried. And for that he gets, not a reassuring cuddle and some comforting words, but beaten to death.My soon-to-be 4 year old woke up crying for me last night. He`d had a bad dream and my heart went out to him, poor little mite. Anyone who could see a little boy frightened and crying and not instinctively want to comfort him has to be sub-human in my book.
RIP you poor little mite.
Posted in: Man, 19, arrested for beating girlfriend's 2-yr-old son to death
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kirakira25
SSGNash - spoken like a true parent who cares about their daughter.
It was not this guys place to teach young girls how to have a sex life and I find it VERY hard to believe that parents signed consent forms for their young daughters to receive sex education from an older male ENGLISH teacher privately in his home. If they were dumb enough to do that then quite frankly they are accessories to the crime as far as I am concerned.
If he was asking parents to sign these consent forms then how can anyone possibly say it could all be an overreaction and we don`t know exactly what was going on - obviously something was.
Please - any English teachers out there - correct me if I am wrong and let us all know if it is within your remit to teach sex-ed to 9 year olds. I certainly don`t consider it within mine. I DO however consider it within my remit as a mother.
Posted in: Sleazy English sensei avoided suspicion for years
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kirakira25
Sorry heyLars but if a man of his age tried to pick my elementary school age daughter up off the street and take her back to his house without my knowledge or permission - yes, I would freak out. Period. I make no apologies for that!
If being paranoid means there is no way a strange man could ever take my daughter home like this, I`ll take the paranoia accusation and be proud of it, thank you.
He did it over and over and no child is dead? Oh OK, that makes it alright then! (sarcasm) And after all, he was trying to help them have a better sex life in the future - so his heart was in the right place, heyLars?
You are right that we don
t know exactly what he did or didnt do - but he`s obviously done something.Posted in: Sleazy English sensei avoided suspicion for years
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kirakira25
"...because I WAS female and a Mum"???! Sorry - would just like to point out that I still am!!! Haven`t slept in months.....;)
Posted in: Sleazy English sensei avoided suspicion for years
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kirakira25
What I can`t understand in all this was that the kids parents - and at elementary school age they were definitely "kids" - allowed them to go to this mans house unaccompanied.
I am NOT suggesting that all English teachers teaching at home are dangerous before anyone jumps on me - far from it! I teach at home myself and have had kids here unaccompanied many times.
But as a parent of an elementary school age daughter, I wouldn
t let my daughter just go to some guys house who I dont know on her own. I would want to check out this person first and make sure everything was OK. It doesn`t sound like much of a check was done on this guy by anyone, and that is how he has managed to get away with it for so long.It
s a tricky one - how do you know if someone is OK or not? The parents of my former students all trusted me because I was female and a Mum. But even that doesnt necessarily mean anything does it? There are some real weirdos out there. And conversely, how do you prove to people as a professional teacher that you are reliable and trustworthy?The other poster had it right that even with police checks this kind of thing isn`t necessarily prevented. There have been several incidents in the UK (sorry mods but I am just saying this to make the point) where people have passed police checks only to be found to be abusing children.
So as a parent, and as a teacher - what do you do?
Posted in: Sleazy English sensei avoided suspicion for years
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kirakira25
Well THIS is interesting, VERY interesting!!! Not the article itself, but all the comments.
My husband is from Tennoji-ku, and he is always telling me how posh he and his family are!!! I believed it - how would I know any different? But whenever we go there I don
t get a good vibe from the place, and it doesnt look all that posh to me. He seems to have a bit of a chip on his shoulder because I come from a "good" area in the UK.Well well well!
Posted in: Man's body found in Osaka apartment building
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kirakira25
If we all knew who he was in the first place as the writer claims, then none of this would be news.
We don`t know him, never did. Yep, he screwed up his personal life pretty spectacularly and pretty publically. But he never claimed (as far as I am aware) to be a perfect human being. Only a fabulous golfer. The media made him into everything else.
I think his golf and his personal issues should be kept separate. Let him get out there and play, and see how he does. The turmoil in his personal life is a separate issue.
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kirakira25
I`m afraid so. My friend went to Chef Mickey with her 3 year old the other week and was stunned by two women in their late twenties, no kids in tow, wearing the ears and screeching and whipping out cameras every time Mickey or one of the characters came past them.
She went right up to their table in the end and said to them "You know Santa Claus doesn`t exist, right??!"
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kirakira25
I would love to say I have my eyes on my kids all the time - but the 3 year old is a little monster hellbent on escaping my evil clutches! I suppose I could say there but for the grace of god go I, but I still think in general kids are shockingly unsupervised here.
Posted in: Man arrested after 2-year-old boy kidnapped from supermarket