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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leitmotiv
Celebration is indeed in order. Vaccine projects against HIV have generally been failures. A lot due to difficult biology, but also significantly due to underfunding and only modest interest from the real sources of cash for these expensive trials, namely global pharmas. They would generally rather use R&D funds to develop antivirals which customers must use repeatedly, rather than a one-time injection.
Posted in: A world first: Vaccine helps prevent HIV infection
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Ha! I'll try to care about this affont to decorum that the poor, hapless "older men" are forced to endure the next time I see all those older men on the crowded hibya line with a finger stuck into ear or nose to the 2nd knuckle rooting around for some elusive, crusty booger - right in front of everyone.
Posted in: Older men up in arms over slovenly female behavior
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leitmotiv
Man up, my friend.
This means zero coming from you.
Posted in: Kansas abortion doctor killed in church
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leitmotiv
Operation Rescue is a terrorist cell. When will authorities act?
Rachel Maddow just connected the dots last night. http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/node/28677
Posted in: Kansas abortion doctor killed in church
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leitmotiv
"If you're so pro-life, do me a favour: don't lock arms and block medical clinics. If you're so pro-life, lock arms and block cemeteries."
Bill Hicks
Posted in: Kansas abortion doctor killed in church
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leitmotiv
"Charter flights would bring healthy Japanese back home, but those infected would be asked stay abroad and foreigners would be restricted from entry."
LOL - how will that work? Charter planes packed with diagnostic kits and medical teams will fly to all corners of the globe where J-nationals are - set up medical tents for Japanese only - test everyone who shows up - allowing only negative testers on the the plane - and "asking" the rest to please wait here with the other infected masses, "please dont come home"
Also, whatever kit they use for testing better be about 100% accurate. One missed positive, and the whole plane load on the way home will catch it.
Color me doubtful.
Posted in: Japan has flu plan to block entry, spread of virus
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Even the World Health Organization calls bullsh*t on Panasonic
"WHO perplexed by Panasonic's move to repatriate staff families over flu fears" http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5jLUuqDPigXW6AMydQOD6_QtdYFLw
This is not the first time WHO has been puzzled by Japanese "strategies" on influenza public health topics
Posted in: Panasonic orders families to return home from overseas on flu fears
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leitmotiv
You mean in this case thanked - after they have presumably already thanked the US previously for putting him in power and supplying him with goods and know-how for his crimes? Honestly the level of self delusion among the warhawks around here is utterly astonishing.
Utter nonsense. SH offered to leave Kuwait in the face of US invasion - but invasion and the attendant human suffering was preferred by bush sr. - so illegal invading the US did go. Only to sell out the kurds later and let SH go genocidal bonkers on them again with his planes and helicopters while schwartzkopf stood by shrugging his shoulders "golly....look at that would ya?....whaddaya gonna do?"
Posted in: Bush dodges shoe protest during visit to Iraq
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TooFarGoon:
Honestly - cant you actually come up with a cogent argument instead of just standing there insisting that everyone who does not agree with the war must therefore support SH. That is so incredibly lame and tired and illogical. Just try.
Posted in: Bush dodges shoe protest during visit to Iraq
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Nice that you can spout the talking points of some of the hawkish think tanks funded by the CIA. But parroting things you heard does not make them true. I suggest you research your facts. It has long been alleged by many many former govt diplomats and officials that US clandestine service help SH get into power. That is nothing new – the US has done it to get all sorts of autocratic-but-pro-US dirtbags into power countless times (indonesia, iran, virtually every country in central america, etc etc). You could say its their specialty and to deny they were involved in any way with SH entering and climbing the political ladder in iraq is a whole new level of propaganda swallowing that is difficult to understand. The US did indeed give SH diplomatic cover – plus cash and equipment plus military guidance. The equipment he used for “gassing his own people” were happily sold to him from the west including the US, germany, and many others. How did he buy them? Why with the billions of dollars of credits and loan guarantees the US gave him when it seemed they could rely on him to beat the crap out of iran (who had kicked out another US dictator earlier – a different failed “democracy” experiment of the US that had gone all frankenstein and needed to be contained). How else did the US provide for that war crime other than cold hard cash and equipment? Well they were able to buy these dangerous toys because Reagan had removed iraq from the “states who sponsor terrorism” list. That is called diplomatic support. And the US intellegence was fully aware at the time of what happened and who did it. There was some feeble claims that the epicenter of all evil (at that time) Iran had partial responsibility – but the US knew full well that most or all of it was good old SH. US spy satellites at the time were focused intensely on that area – which makes it hard to claim that “the US was unaware” (LOL!!) – and therefore that US intelligence was less reliable than the accurate reports at the time of groups like Human Rights Watch (who do not maintain a satellite network as far as I know). The US basically knew because, basically, it held the receipts of the materials used. You should occasionally read something other than propaganda.
Posted in: Bush dodges shoe protest during visit to Iraq
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leitmotiv
That's wierd, they also did not thank the US for helping put Saddam in power in the first place. Nor for keeping Iraq in most favored trading status even as the US was aware that he was "gassing his own people" - effectively giving him diplomatic cover - this was later one of the major claims against him during the so-called trials of SH. I guess in your book they must be REALLY REALLY ungrateful people, those iraqis. Absolutely delusional. The shoe and insults flung at bush were methaphorically flung at you too sarge.
Posted in: Bush dodges shoe protest during visit to Iraq
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leitmotiv
Holy crap....what are you smoking? You think they should be grateful? For what?
Posted in: Bush dodges shoe protest during visit to Iraq
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leitmotiv
TheStreet.com just named Elan's CEO the "worst biotech CEO of 2008". And there was some good competition for that prize, it seems.
http://www.thestreet.com/story/10452694/1/elans-martin-named-worst-biotech-ceo-of-08.html
Posted in: Elan closing New York, Tokyo offices
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leitmotiv
"To finish off the French kitchen rocks."
It certainly does not "rock".....for a culinary city like tokyo and for the prices they charge, this food is extremely mediocre and very forgettable. Only good thing is service, which is pretty standard in Tokyo anyway. Best advice: Skip it. You can eat much better for the same price or less (not just Japanese food) within walking distance.
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leitmotiv
The Japanese workers I have seen would never get anything done at home. The need a cranky bucho staring them down all day, berating them unfairly, and generally treating them like mindless work robots. I think the majority of workers would not know how to accomplish something meaningful outside the messed up typical J-office.
Posted in: Do you think teleworking will gain wider acceptance in Japan?
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leitmotiv
LOL yes thats right....with McCaine you know exactly what you get, more Bush policies (aka endless war, devalued dollar, diminishing US allies, unaccountability, and further dismantling of US constitution). That is, at least until Palin takes over when McCain's melanoma reactivates. Then you get: http://www.palinaspresident.us/
Posted in: McCain says pundits being fooled; promises victory
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leitmotiv
You must be unhappy with both parties in the US then, after the US Govt. bipartisan socialist moves to bail out the banks with $700B+ of the future earnings of the american proletariat.
Posted in: McCain says pundits being fooled; promises victory
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leitmotiv
Rove' fingerprints are all over this for sure - just like the Don Siegelman case.
Posted in: FBI investigates ACORN for voter fraud
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leitmotiv
You mean if you make more than 250K, which will thus not apply to 95% of US taxpayers
Well it looks like you have already accepted defeat. But that title has already been given to the current WH occupant
Posted in: Obama extends his campaign into Republican states
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leitmotiv
LOL.....silly little man
Posted in: McCain, Obama get tough, personal in final debate