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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kringis
Tsuyama is a total dump. Had to go through the place once to get somewhere else. Full of boarded up buoldings and the train station is a total wreck. The only thing that surprises me is that there was actually a shop in business there to rob.
Posted in: Thieves get away with Y100 mil worth of jewelry from Okayama store
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kringis
Why bad sports(wo)manship? For years when Australia played in the men's Pacific World Cup qualifying groups they would regularly beat teams like the Cook Islands 25-0.
Bad sportsmanship, lack of respect and lack of class are when you change your game style out of pity for another team. If one team shows another team pity and doesn't play to 100% of their potential, they are spitting on them.
Posted in: Japan routs Palestinians 21-0 in women's soccer
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kringis
I was in Paris the last time there were riots there. They make these "riots" look like a cuddly dinner date gone wrong. It's a couple of hundred kids who will get caught and enjoy a sore bottom in prison.
Posted in: British PM promises action to restore order in strife-torn cities
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kringis
I think worried meant to say:
How dare wommen live here, marry someone, and then have a happy life of compromise between cultures! In an ideal world your wife should not let you see the children, and instead run and want to hide. Its not easy to hide behind the fallacy that women run for no reason at all, but we do, all the time.
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kringis
Worried, you say this:
But it's okay for you to put the responsibility for breakdown of marriages wholly on men, which is what you're basically doing.
Some men are nice, you know.
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kringis
What's with all the scaremongering? Because Plutonium has been found in soil samples? Of course it has. The reason it's there is because of the Nuclear testing age when the Americans spread Plutonium dust all over the world.
You should all read reputable news and information sources, rather than this crap which is about as close to reality as a Unicorn winning the Dubai World Cup. It's a well known fact already that even in the worst case scenario there would be little human and enivornmental damage from this nuclear power plant; this was assured about 2 minutes after the Earthquake when the reactors were shut down, thus ending the possibility of any major disaster.
Posted in: Kan says Japan will remain on 'maximum alert' to deal with crisis
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kringis
Japanese people can't drive. I have lots of Japanese friends who simply do not know the rules of the road. The Japanese Highway Code is a nice little book that virtually everyone gets and then puts away in a drawer and never reads.
The same applies to Japanese cyclists. Kids aren't taught rules of the road.
In the UK, all drivers nowadays have to pass a theory test, which asks questions about rules of the road. The test itself is pretty easy, but at least it makes people read the Highway Code at least once. Kids in schools are also given Cycle Proficiency Courses, and although they aren't compulsory, a lot of kids take them. Japan needs things like these. It's a small country with a bad road system and a lot of cars. Better road training would lead to less accidents.
Who knows if the driver was drunk at the time. Maybe he went to drown his sorrows after the accident. Who cares whether it was his fault or the kids fault, because by all accounts it looks like an accident. The thing is, with better road training, less of these kind of accidents would happen, because people would know how to drive, walk or ride a bike in all conditions. The funniest thing I find is, and this is true in most countries I would imagine, people learn to drive during the day, and learners aren't allowed to drive on Highways/Motorways/etc. Yet the second you pass your test you can ride on the motorway at 1am. Stupid. You wouldn't send a soldier to war without training him how to use a gun, so why put drivers and cyclists on the road without training them properly.
Posted in: Man arrested for hit-and-run death of high school student in Ibaraki
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kringis
Yet in some countries the age of consent is as low as 12. What makes them more adult than girls in other countries where the age of consent is 18 or even 21?
The definition of "child" in itself is one of great debate. When does a child become an adult? Is there such a thing as a child or an adult? 50 years ago in the UK, people left school and got jobs when they were 14, now 14 year olds have to attend school. 150 years ago, 6 year olds were working in cotton mills and mines, now we treat 6 year olds as if they have no ability to comprehend even the most simple of tasks.
I'm sorry, but laws that distinguish between child and adult are bullshit, and are based purely on social norms of the time period and country in question. It's better to look at things from the perspective of: has a person been taken advantage of because of their immaturity, or did they make a conscious decision to do what they wanted. The fact that a 16 year old girl could legally have sex in the UK, but if she then went to certain states in the US and did it her partner could be charged, is nothing short of ludicrous.
I just find it hypocritical when people want to charge a 14 year old who murders someone, claiming that they were fully aware of what they did, yet in the next breath say a 14 year old can't be mature enough to decide whether he or she wants sex. For Christ's sake, I wanted sex when I was 10, and a thousand years ago when life expectancy was in the 20s, people were in their sexual prime, birthing babies all over the place, in their early teens.
Posted in: GSDF member arrested over sexual relationship with 14-year-old girl
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kringis
They dress up in a way to attract men, without realising that they're attracting men, so when the men go for them, they scare them away. Thus the men end up watching porn.
So in the end, these women suffer, because men are more interested in their AV idols. I call that justice; you get what you deserve.
Posted in: Japanese girls go sexier in their fashion styles
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kringis
Driver responsibility becomes moot when a pedestrian carries out such a stupid act. You wouldn't hold a driver responsible if a person decided to throw himself/herself into the middle of a busy road. Recent example of this was the two idiot Swedes who decided to run onto a motorway in the UK.
Posted in: Woman dies after being run over by truck driven by boyfriend in Aichi