JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Corporate Business English Trainers
- ACT Systems, Inc.（株式会社アクト・システムズ）, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥269,500 ~ ¥280,000 / Month
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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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lostrune2
tmarie,
Just a tidbit: they're not rank #1, but they did win the WWC.
Posted in: Bolt is human; his sport's rules are not
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lostrune2
Another big difference:
Iraq: population 34 million, covering many areas of the country.
Libya: population just 6 million, mostly in cities along the Mediterranean coast.
That will allow Libya to move things along faster.
Posted in: Iraq an example for Libya on how not to overthrow a dictator
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lostrune2
Ha, yet another election blaring so soon?
Posted in: LDP calls for Noda to hold general election after budget is passed
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lostrune2
Now, the issue is whether consumers will associate this ad with the sushi delivery shop. There have been ads that became famous; yet consumers did not associate it with what the ad was trying to sell. Like recently that famous Super Bowl ad featuring the kid Darth Vader using The Force on his dad's car - consumers did not connect it with Volkswagen (yes, that was a VW car, if ya don't remember).
Posted in: TV commercial of the week: Gin no sara sushi delivery shop
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lostrune2
The DQ games, ha!
Posted in: Robles disqualified from 110 hurdles at worlds
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lostrune2
Most likely Algeria would eventually turn them over to the new Libyan government or to the Hague Court. Algeria has enough problems fighting its own Islamist insurgency - the last thing Algeria needs is more headaches from Libya or Europe and certainly not from yet another armed group within its borders from Gadhafi's heirs. From the pacifist point of view, it's best when this Libyan civil war ends as soon as possible.
Posted in: Gadhafi's wife, 3 children flee to Algeria
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lostrune2
We can't pick our relatives, hahahah.
Posted in: Obama's uncle held by immigration officials after being picked up on drunk driving charge
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lostrune2
So, the rats are fleeing the sinking ship. But is the captain going down with the ship?
Posted in: Gadhafi's wife, 3 children flee to Algeria
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lostrune2
NYC metro area was spared the worst, and they were also well-prepared, so there's hardly any news out of it, and that's the way it should be. There was raining for hours and hours even before the large slow-moving hurricane even got close, saturating the ground several times over, combined with high tides. But even so, the rain fortunately was not so heavy, and the wind, while strong, the strongest gusts were not the sustained kind. So there was flooding but not as heavy, and wind damage was pretty much limited to trees and wire posts.
After the eye finally passed over with its strongest gusts yet, the weather pretty much cleared up save for some leftover backside wind, so residents could almost immediately begin the cleanup process. Some people lost electricity; others had spotty TV and internet; but the cellphone networks stayed intact, so people were able to maintain contact and follow the events by mobile web. All in all, it wasn't that bad.
Unfortunately, it was New England that suffered the worse of it. The heavier rains fell on New England, where hurricane eyes go even rarer than NYC, so they were less able to cope with it. Yet still, people were back to work the next day.
Posted in: Irene charges into New England; New York escapes worst
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lostrune2
Notice the Japan LLers didn't cry. Now that's something older J-ballers should play. There's no crying in baseball, haha!
Posted in: California beats Japan 2-1 to take Little League World Series
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lostrune2
Bolt didn't need to be so precise at the start. He has enough speed that even a slow start wouldn't cost him. In the absence of his rivals, he would've won this race easy if he had more discipline.
Posted in: Yohan Blake is 100-meter world champion after Bolt jumps gun
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lostrune2
The hurricane has graded down to Category 1, but the main issue may not be the gale force wind as much as that, since it's so huge and it's so slow-moving that it's expected to dump a lot of rain for a lot of hours, completely saturating the ground several times over a large area, compound that with the upcoming new moon a.k.a. high tides, winds blowing onshore pushing all that storm-surge water into already-saturated land, with nowhere for all that extra water to go but accumulate - thus flooding low-lying areas like downtown Manhattan and of course the underground subways.
Then of course, if they also lose electricity...........
Posted in: Hurricane Irene shuts down New York
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lostrune2
The world's most extensive subway system, open 24/7, shutdown entirely for the first time against a hurricane...... Must be serious....... Well, though I don't think it'll be as bad as expected, as people say better be safe than sorry...............
Posted in: Hurricane Irene shuts down New York
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lostrune2
Hey, we don't have multiple 3rd party proofs that man landed on the moon yet too, hahaha.
Posted in: From JFK to 9/11, conspiracy theories thrive
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lostrune2
At last, calm is opening again for the people of Tripoli. And hopefully, a better future for all the peoples of Libya than what they had under a dictatorship. Nobody wants to live a life under the fear of any dictatorship.
Posted in: Tripoli calmer as Gadhafi's men pushed out
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lostrune2
Nobody should be using a hospital to stage assaults. A hospital is supposed to be a sanctuary for anyone who needs it. Those who use it for assaults, for shame and should be incarcerated.
Posted in: Tripoli hospital horror as patients die untreated
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lostrune2
Mexico already beat them before, so if anything, Mexico won't be a surprise to them again. It's Japan who has to come up with some surprises.
Posted in: Japan reaches Little League World Series final
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lostrune2
People followed Apple's direction because they followed Jobs. He could create demand where before there was none. When Jobs becomes deceased, it'd be interesting how fervent the following will remain to be. Remember what happened the first time Jobs was not with Apple - people weren't as enthusiastic about following Apple's direction. If that happens, that's when Google takes over.
Posted in: Steve Jobs resigns as Apple CEO
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lostrune2
Steve Jobs is still there as Board Chairman.
But remember what happened that time he was kicked out and left the company. Apple went downhill without him there. He can't be there forever. Apple would have to learn to fend for itself without him starting soon.
Posted in: Without Steve Jobs at the helm, can Apple still deliver?
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lostrune2
This is the danger of a parliamentary system........
Posted in: Kan resigns; says he did all he could, given difficulties he faced