JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Full-time English Teacher - Osaka
- Epion English Language Schools, Osaka
- Salary: ¥200,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month Depending on your ability and experience
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- Part-time English Teacher - Osaka
- Epion English Language Schools, Osaka
- Salary: ¥10,000 ~ ¥15,000 / Day Depending on how many days a week are worked
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- Core Developer - コアディベロッパー
- Midokura Japan K.K. - ミドクラジャパン株式会社, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥4.0M ~ ¥10.0M / Year Negotiable
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majimeaussie
One guy in our office took just over 3 hours from Shinagawa to Kanda (would have been faster to walk).
I was lucky. My usual 35 minute trip took only 40 minutes.
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majimeaussie
Why all the negativity tkoind2? What parkland is going to be lost? If you are still talking about Yoyogi park, that was one of four sites that was considered for the main stadium and it is not the selected site.
I hope the olympics come to Tokyo. It brings excitement to any city that holds them and might be what is needed to help kickstart the economy.
Posted in: 2016 Olympic bid cities await IOC evaluation report
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majimeaussie
In the Tokyo elections one of the campaigners also electioneered on a bike near our place. He always wore a bright pink windcheater (must have been hot for him) and also had a bright pink flag on the back of his bike proclaiming his name and the fact he was 28. I don't know how he went in the elections but I hope he got in.
Posted in: On the campaign trail
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majimeaussie
Actually, Nissan sales were VERY bad in China. Most other car manufacturers seem to be reporting increases of about 30 - 50%.
Posted in: Honda stays in black; Nissan reports loss
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majimeaussie
I think that like most sayings / old wives tales there is some truth to the matter. FWIW My wife and I are both talking to our baby (in Japan) in our native languages at home and between us we generally talk English (for my wife's and baby's English abilities).
Back to the issue of mastering their own language first. We have Chinese friends in Australia and with their 2 sons, the first learnt English and Chinese at the same time. The second however, had a lot of learning difficulties with both languages through primary school. After lots of attempts to discover and fix the problem, on the advice of language experts they cut out Chinese and all communication was in English. Within a year or so his English ability improved to the same level as his peers. He was then also able to learn Chinese.
I believe his case is the exception to the rule but it does explain how the saying could have started.
Posted in: Unraveling how children become bilingual so easily
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majimeaussie
Has DoCoMo really developed it? Isn't it more likely that Sharp (or one of the other manufacturers) has developed the phone and is marketing / selling it through DoCoMo?
Posted in: DoCoMo develops solar-powered handset
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majimeaussie
gogogo,
If my memory is correct it has probably happened in reverse. They seemed to do a report, a trial and then decided to implement grass at the schools. I think with the Olympic bid coming along they have gone what "green" things can we do to mekr the bid look better and decided to include this as part of the bid (when it really wasn't). But this is typical of how governments / marketing seems to work worldwide. Don't worry too much about the truth.
Posted in: Gundam promotes Tokyo 2016’s Olympic bid
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majimeaussie
Spudman,
kilometre and litre are English. kilometer and liter (which the US don't even use) are bastardised American English.
I must say I never understood why most literature talks about litres/100 km when previously miles per gallon used to be the standard. kms / litre is much easier to understand.
Posted in: Mazda launches all-new Axela
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majimeaussie
*1 This figure is based on a Mazda kilometre of 870m.
If they are going to cut and paste the article and forget to include the note, we might as well make up our own notes. Any ideas on good notes from anyone else?
Posted in: Mazda launches all-new Axela
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majimeaussie
The distributors in Japan must have already decided it will be a flop as they have spared no expense.... Kiyohara as the Japanese celebrity AND "premiere of the film at LaLaport in Tokyo"
Lalaport - real classy. Do the premiere at a shopping mall. Just out of interest which Lalaport was it?
Moderator: Toyosu
Posted in: Terminator Japan premiere
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majimeaussie
So US release is October this year? And the Japan release is April next year? I thought Sony normally released these types of products first in Japan.
Posted in: Sony unveils new PSP Go
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majimeaussie
kwatt, I am with Cleo on this one. My wife recently had a baby and so did a lot of friends and none of us have gone to the hospital without signs of the birth starting. On a practical point, who would know when to go? The birth happens when it happens.
Posted in: Mother and child die after birth in toilet in Aichi apartment
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majimeaussie
Sarge - you may find the A380 now holds that honour. I can see Obama going for 787 dreamliner in the future, if they ever get it off the ground.
Posted in: Air Force One: Obama's new 'spiffy ride'
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majimeaussie
Fuel surcharges are a great lurk for the airlines. At about half the price of the overall cost to travel it means that people using miles still have to pay half the cost (instead of getting it free like in the past) and as the airlines only pay travel agents based on "ticket price" they only have to pay half as much to them. These seem to be the biggest advantages in keeping the surcharge separate.
Posted in: Why aren't fuel surcharges on airfares coming down?
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majimeaussie
They will be even more Japanese people than before making jokes about Australia and its lawless blood lines.
Not as many jokes as the Aussies make about this themselves.
Davidattokyo - the agreement refers to laws and regulations. Until (if?) SS is found guilty of having broken these laws and regulations they are innocent and will not be stopped from using the ports by the Australians.
Posted in: Australia to allow anti-whaling ship to dock
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majimeaussie
The title is misleading. It would be as correct for it to say "Apple cuts copy protection and INCREASES prices on iTunes"
Posted in: Apple cuts copy protection and prices on iTunes
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majimeaussie
Mai & Mao Asada release a CD (Actually,it appears as though EMI, or some other entity, released it using M&M to advertise / sell it). It becomes popular after Mao uses it in her routine. So why does the title of the article attribute the success to Mai?
Posted in: Mai Asada turns classical music CD into best seller
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majimeaussie
My parents in Oz bought tickets on this service for February next year and have been saying that they are worried the flights might be canceled. Apparently, in the news in Australia they are saying the sales on this service are way down and in risk of being canceled.
Posted in: Jetstar to expand Gold Coast-Tokyo service
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majimeaussie
Great isn't it. Off to go get some terminally dead meat now for dinner.
Posted in: Kitajima gets his hands on Quarter Pounder
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majimeaussie
We need more pirates....
Sushi, as others have stated I understand that almost all scientists agree that the planet has been getting warmer. The question comes about as to what is causing this warming. There are many theories. Some such as the amount of solar output are natural issues, some such as CO2 are possibly man made (it is also argued by some scientists that the increase in CO2 is the result of the warming, not the cause of it). At this stage there is no definitive proof of the causes.
Do I think nothing should be done because it is not proven. No I don't. I believe it makes sense to take action already in case it is man made. I disagree with people stridently saying that one idea is correct (when it hasn't been proven) and that others therefor aren't worthy of consideration.
It is very easy to use analysis to make a theory meet past data. The case for MMGW is at this stage. It may prove to be correct (there is a lot of circumstantial information that indicates it may) or it may not be correct. For example, there are thousands of different financial models that can predict past financial problems, but they don't seem to do as well predicting them.
One of my favourite graphs is the graph of the number of pirates vs world temperatures. There is a very good inverse relationship. Based on this we need more pirates in the world. Maybe this is why the world temperature dropped recently with the increase in pirates in Somalia.
Posted in: What climate change? Meltdown trumps fears at APEC