JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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To be healthy, live in the big city
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Japan's nuclear safety standards flawed, says commission chief
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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Teacher nabbed for using miror to peek up girl's skirt
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From carnivores to herbivores: how men are defined in Japan
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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
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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
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kyoken
Luckily they didn't use alive fish ... think of the implications that would have.
Posted in: Fishy protest
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kyoken
Here is a nice tool for everyone opposing the Google data collection: http://www.googlesharing.net/
Posted in: Google search accelerates with 'instant' results
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kyoken
To set the numbers straight: Japan has 30.000 suicides a year and is number three worldwide measured in suicides per 100,000 people per year.
China with 250.000 suicides per year, in other words --on average one Chinese takes his/her life every two minutes-- takes the record.
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kyoken
Or do they? With insufficient workers to support the pension system, the older generation will need to work even after the age of their retirement.
Some will be lucky to work as lower paid "advisers" in their old company, but many will have to compete with the young freeters for the lower paid jobs on the market.
Hence it is understandable why the older generation gets all choked up with these "lazy young people". Its a reflection of their fears to have worked hard a life long and now having to face a dooming future to work until death in a low paid job to make ends meet.
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kyoken
There is in fact something wrong. Currently the Japanese industry obviously does not need much of the younger workforce as it employs only 30 percent of the available pool.
On the other hand we hear the big fear that the industry will face a dramatic shortage of workers in the near future when the older population retires (I recently read that newer studies show that already in 10 years one working person will have to support one retiree).
As there is an abundance of 70% of the working population under 35 as quiet reserve to fill the void (plus an unaccounted number of well educated women currently registered as "Housewifes") the nation has nothing to worry about.
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kyoken
Drugs and girls and the promise of a good time. I think it's time for a new campaign; one similar to the tobacco industry with pictures of lung cancer on the cigarette packs.
Let's start by taking one of the numerous pictures of drunk salaryman sitting in their own piss and put the punch line "makes you forget your hardships at your miserable job" on top.
Posted in: Keiko Kitagawa hawks beer in TV ads for first time
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kyoken
What the world has to learn is that not politicians rule the world, but banks. Hence we are looking at the wrong people for help out of this malaise.
Posted in: Japan needs a prime minister who can offer robust, principled leadership over a sustained period, win support for economic policies that would help pull the world out of recession and maintain a strong alliance with the United States.
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kyoken
The point of the photo --based on its subtitle-- is that "the Halloween season at Tokyo Disneyland" has started.
Posted in: Halloween starts early
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kyoken
A Disney advert is not worthy the title picture of the day. Except if Disney is paying for it.
Moderator: The point of the photo is that the Halloween season is starting 52 days before Halloween.
Posted in: Halloween starts early
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kyoken
That the report states only one example, that of the British infected with NDM-1, supports your understanding.
Posted in: Medical tourism brings with it the risk of a superbug spreading across the nation in an instant.
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kyoken
"[...] the growing popularity of medical tourism--including the growing number of people coming to Japan for medical checks and treatment--is one cause of the increasing frequency of superbug outbreaks. Some of the dozens of British people infected with the NDM-1 enzyme had undergone cosmetic surgery in India, where such operations are relatively cheap [...]"
(Original: http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T100907004913.htm)
Posted in: Medical tourism brings with it the risk of a superbug spreading across the nation in an instant.
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kyoken
If the Japanese Government really thinks they need the US for protection, well there is some land nearby that doesn't fulfill the hopes of prosperity and could be used for the military instead: Minato Mirai 21.
Posted in: Stop negotiating this nonsense on Futenma
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kyoken
We are not dissing the documentary. The documentary is dissing the the people in Taiji by singling them out and using graphic pictures. That is what we try to highlight.
Your questions are speculative and imaginary; personal freedom brings with it that you must decide what is good for you and your family, but you must not go out and praise your ideas, taste and fears as evangelism that need to made law. There is no grand daddy anymore that protects you and you must not act as grand daddy to others.
Posted in: Dolphin activist Ric O'Barry won't swim off into the sunset
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kyoken
You make this sound like it is a bad thing.
Posted in: Dolphin activist Ric O'Barry won't swim off into the sunset
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kyoken
What exactly does this mean, this "living the right way" elitism propaganda? Who defines it? Based on what grounds? And how does it affect our lives if there are no dolphins around, no whales, no snails ...?
Posted in: Dolphin activist Ric O'Barry won't swim off into the sunset
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kyoken
That's also my experience. Only if you start pushing hard the moral argument and claim the Japanese per se are so bad because of this issue, people revert to the defensive "its our culture".
Posted in: Dolphin activist Ric O'Barry won't swim off into the sunset
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kyoken
Condolences to his family.
Posted in: Moto2 rider Tomizawa killed in crash in Italy
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kyoken
Why always the wrong women wear pants? Those who's ass looks like in a potato sack when wearing pants.
Posted in: Who cares about hemlines? Women's pants again on the radar
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kyoken
Is he really running around with guns as his homepage claims?
Posted in: 'Nippon Civilian Police' skirts a fine line between vigilance and vigilantism
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kyoken
Huuh, now I am afraid enough to kill this account and post here only from my accounts made anonymous by TOR.
Posted in: 'Nippon Civilian Police' skirts a fine line between vigilance and vigilantism