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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kurisutofu
Japan is the perfect market with all those pervert in trains ...
Posted in: Watch this
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kurisutofu
Wow, good that the person who comment did the job for the "newspaper" ...
Posted in: British Airways, VisitBritain campaign offers Y35,000 return fare from Tokyo to London
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kurisutofu
I flew once with BA and it was nice. But then, I've never tried an asian airline ...
Posted in: British Airways, VisitBritain campaign offers Y35,000 return fare from Tokyo to London
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kurisutofu
I am going to Europ in end of February and investigated many flight companies, including British Airways. At that time, the promotion was not available yet but I could find tickets around those price or just a little more expensive ... but then, fuel tax were ven more expensive than the ticket itself!
Posted in: British Airways, VisitBritain campaign offers Y35,000 return fare from Tokyo to London
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kurisutofu
I would be interested to read them as I take train for more than an hour to go to work... unfortunately, I don't read japanese well enough ...
Posted in: Cell phone novels come of age
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kurisutofu
Before I came to Japan, I studied japanese a little in a school and the teacher "trained" us to take interviews in Japan. She told us to never use "I" or even things like "My tasks were ...". She said we should focus on what the companies we worked for taught us and why we were grateful we had the opportunity to be employed there ... At that time, I thought she only had a bad experience in her country ...
Posted in: Companies angry over thoughtless students amid economic downturn
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kurisutofu
Leasing the aircraft would probably too expensive because of the maintenance.
Posted in: JAL cuts back flights to Asia
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kurisutofu
If all the companies could do that, people living near the airports would fell better.
Posted in: JAL cuts back flights to Asia
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kurisutofu
Well, it seems the guy had his hand on her shoulder to "help her" bow ... Off course she should have left without doing that but well ... she's a japanese girl ^_^; (no offense, if one reads that)
Hearing that story made me think of a yakuza movie ... and off course, I don't know what is exagerated, I just report it as I heard it, don't know more details.
Posted in: Companies angry over thoughtless students amid economic downturn
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kurisutofu
Also, that reminds me of an aquaintance's friend's story. That made me wonder if japanese companies were in their right state of mind ... That girl was offered a job by a company. She asked some time to think about it. Her hidden purpose was to wait for another company she preferred and was interviewd by recently. It happened the second company proposed a job that she accepted right away. She needed to notify the first company that she would refused the job and went to their office, to show her respect and thank them. She went and met the OB who introduced her to the company and the 3 interviewers she had met. They were so mad about the news they shouted at her and practically forced her to bow and apologize for all the trouble she had caused to them! She had to knee down like when one needs to beg in front of each of the guys and ask for forgiveness ... She was shocked and so was I when I heard about that.
Posted in: Companies angry over thoughtless students amid economic downturn
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kurisutofu
I wouldn't ask neither in a normal interview. But sometimes you can't refrain yourself ... For example, my girlfriend (japanese) went to an interview where 3 HR people were interviewing her. The 2 guys were asking basics questions while the woman was asking questions that noone would answer correctly or where no correct answers existed. My girlfriend was trying her best to reply but as she didn't have the "right" answers, the woman complained about her attitude, her style, her look, how students nowadays are stupid, "how could she expect to be hired?!" etc ... my girlfriend left not too depressed as she had decided not to work there anyway when she saw the girl candidate before her leaving the room crying ... In that kind of situation, would a foreigner not reply to them? I would have for sure and would too tell that woman that she cannot know me in 15 minutes.
Posted in: Companies angry over thoughtless students amid economic downturn
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kurisutofu
I think young people have seen or heard about foreign companies where we don't die to work (having a word in the dictonnary for "death from hard work" is kind of a bad indicator to me) and think they should get the same. The problem is that they change their behavior and poor salarimen who has to interview them don't find how to answer to that in their manual ... so they criticize, the manual cannot possibly wrong!
Posted in: Companies angry over thoughtless students amid economic downturn
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kurisutofu
Archiebald, you found a nice company! I will move to Nagano-ken soon, I wish I could find the same ...
Posted in: Companies angry over thoughtless students amid economic downturn
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kurisutofu
Just an excuse to fire more people ... It's just a computer with a different shape. We could use our phone or PCs and if we don't and prefer talking to a human ... well now, too late.
Posted in: May I help you?
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kurisutofu
Maff, In fact, in my family, if you're alone with your 2 years-old kid, yes, you go to the bathroom with him/her. When you wash your clothes, the kid might not be on the washing machine but at least near the parent who can see what the kid is doing.
Posted in: 2-year-old boy seriously injured after being hit by train in Aichi
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kurisutofu
In my country, we never let the kids out of our eyes. Of course they are smart and sometimes manage to escape our vigilence but in Japan, I often see in supermarket, streets or festival kids wandering around without the parents paying attention to them. Once in a supermarket, a small kids was crying because he lost his mother. He was calling out loud while crying, noone helped him and after about 15 minutes, the mother arrived and said "Why are you crying?" ... I was shocked. Good there was no kidnappers ...
I hope the kid hit by the train will be fine.
Posted in: 2-year-old boy seriously injured after being hit by train in Aichi
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kurisutofu
the frequency doesn't show anything I think ... because we don't know the real frequency now and before. The media talk more about it but that doesn't mean it happens more.
Posted in: Hyogo taxi driver found stabbed to death
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kurisutofu
Japan seems to slowly catch up with other countries ... But I'm not that scared yet ... Compared to some place in Europe or America as I could hear about, Japan has still some way to go before reaching their "capacity" ...
Posted in: Hyogo taxi driver found stabbed to death
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kurisutofu
Betzee, this trend is not for every movies. The majority are not out at the same date. I don't know what is WTO and anyway, what I said is just a guess, I am probably wrong.
Posted in: The Bond ultimatum
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kurisutofu
I agree with the "hard-wired theory", like in animals but to me, being Human is also fighting the wrong animal aspect of our beings. So, we should control and live by the rules of society. All the hard-wired guys, you can live in muslim countries where polygamy is tolerated, if you don't fit society, change of it ;-)
Posted in: Monogamy vs a bit on the side: What makes a person promiscuous?