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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majimekun
Here is another photo that illustrates the event in a much better way : http://cache.20minutes.fr/photos/2012/02/09/japanese-college-students-watch-diaporama.jpg
Posted in: Job-hunting season
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majimekun
Immigration is a very bad idea because qualified workers don't really want to work in Japan after the Fukushima event and the prospect of even bigger earthquakes occuring within the next decades. Which means that only uneducated/unqualified people would accept to work in Japan. And as a European, I know how bad it would look after a decade or two. Most people who thumbdown anti-immigration comments here do so because they have no idea how it is to live in a country where the culture is going into the drain little by little. I think it's important to protect cultures that have managed to remain quite intact over the centuries. A world with countries all looking alike would be a very sad world don't you think?
Posted in: Japan's population to shrink two thirds by 2110
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majimekun
I think that japanese humour is mostly visual, which is why they can come up with very funny CMs.
Posted in: How to be funny in Japan
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majimekun
The problem is that TV reflects the culture of a country. Which is the reason why I've never encountered swear words on japanese TV and I'm really happy about that. Just going outside in France is a real pain. People use these words instinctively for any purpose, friends even call themselves "b a s t a r d s" ... I just hate it. It feels like being surrounded by agressivity all day long and I don't like to be shown even more agressivity at home in front of my TV. It feels so good when I'm in Japan. Being far away from the agressivity of my home country is the most pleasurable thing ever. Just for that, Japan is heaven on earth.
Posted in: How do you feel about the use of swear words in TV programs?
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majimekun
Yeah, I've never seen a stone age country able to steal a state of the art piece of technology from the country that spend trillions of dollars on military research. Some people really lack humility :)
Posted in: What can be done to ease tensions between Iran and Western nations?
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majimekun
tkoind : I agree with you that everything converge toward conflicts.
And you forget a few other points that could have negative impacts :
Posted in: What can be done to ease tensions between Iran and Western nations?
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majimekun
One thing I often hear from people is the fact that Iran can't be allowed to have nukes because it can't be trusted.
My comment to this is : what country can be trusted?
Look at the US. GW Bush, president of a so called "trustable country" was the first to put in place "pre-emptive wars". Note that the guy was a christian.
Now that a mormon might get the keys of the oval office, I'm not too happy with the prospect of having another US president with holy ideals leading to som kind of holy pre-emptive strikes or whatever.
That's why I think that Iran has every right to own nukes, because it's not less trustable than the US or any other country.
Posted in: What can be done to ease tensions between Iran and Western nations?
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majimekun
denuclearize the whole world OR allow Iran to own nukes
Double standards from western countries create too many problems.
Posted in: What can be done to ease tensions between Iran and Western nations?
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majimekun
I'm a French citizen and believe me, Paris is becoming a third world's capital due to the amount of immigrants who don't simply know to behave and who are babies factories.
I whish Japan never takes this route which is nothing else that a collective suicide.
In the subway filled with graffiti and smelling like a perfect mix of urine and fecal matter, I often find myself being the only on white person around. African people yell on their newly acquired mobile phone in the subway whenever they can (almost always), north africans throw their rubish on the ground even when a rubbish bin is only 2 meters away, romanians kids rob people openly ... only the asians seem to be civilized enough.
The problem is that such environments push people toward extremism in most european countries. It's going to get very ugly very soon.
Posted in: Why are Japanese averse to immigration?
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majimekun
Plasticmonkey is totally right.
Posted in: Three North Koreans, one dead body found in small boat off Shimane
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majimekun
Well, in Japan, I've often seen mothers riding their bicycle with two kids and not breaking before a crossing. Everytime I see that (and I see it quite often), I'm left speechless and feel like running after them in order to slap them on the face. They literally cross the road or even turn without paying attention to cars
It's true that most japanese seem to be in a mental bubble when they ride their bike or just walk. They never pay attention to their environment.
The heiwaboke syndrom at its best.
Posted in: Mother cycling with 2 daughters run over at crossing; both children die
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majimekun
Maybe it's only me but I don't see anything nearly sexual in the japanese lolita style. It's not even childish to my eyes. The reason being that these clothes are so from the past that my brain fails to associate them with childhood. If kids did wear such things on a daily basis, I would, but it's not the case at all. Even modern dolls don't wear that stuff.
Posted in: Japan's 'Lolita' style: cutesy and disturbing
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majimekun
Collective amnesia isn't a "Japan only" issue since most of the religious people in the world have forgiven or are simply ignoring the wrongdoings of their own religion. The ones who are not victim of this amnesia are atheists. Actually, the ones who make a clear separation between religions and sects are also victims of amnesia since every religion started as a sect : one person implanting beliefs in others' minds.
Posted in: Aum's reincarnation still recruiting new adherents
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majimekun
I think people should pay great attention to the news during the coming months/years because it could save their life someday. The worldwide instability will obviously end badly and you better anticipate where you want to be when it happens.
Posted in: Read all about it
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majimekun
Is this really common Japanese? I mean, why adding "おなかに" when "赤ちゃんができました"would suffice since it's obvious that a baby always starts in the belly?
Posted in: Kumi Koda announces pregnancy to fans during performance
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majimekun
Way too many political weird changes for 2012. Another "president" for North Korea, another one for the US, same goes for the French, then the macho Putin back into his presidential job in Russia, ... added to this the muslims and their charia taking over the whole arabic world, plus the climate change, plus the financial crisis and the possible explosion of the euro zone. The whole thing is a perfect receipe for mass instabilty leading to more conflicts in my opinion.
Posted in: N Korean leader Kim Jong-Il dead at 69
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majimekun
Well, all the reactions above is what make me sick in the actual human society. People always marvel at tiny lazy steps when much more could be done. I'm sorry to insist but these guy should have gotten a real salary paid by the city. I don't see what's so difficult about it.
The "it's better than nothing" attitude is what's killing our human society, it's what make things never happen in the end. Same thing happens with global warming, financial crisis, etc. We can't radically solve problems because people are happy enough with tiny steps.
A radical mentality change needs to happen everywhere in the world ... otherwise, we are doomed.
Posted in: Homeless people run tourist information booth in Sapporo
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majimekun
Am I the only one person here who finds the concept stupid as hell?? 1. Using homeless people without paying them is what I call exploitation 2. Do these homeless speak English?? (not all tourists are japanese you know)
Posted in: Homeless people run tourist information booth in Sapporo
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majimekun
I guess the part in bold explains the high figure. In the US, merely chatting up a girl is considered as an "attempted rape". Over there, they get angry just for being called "girl" instead of "woman".
Posted in: 18.3% of American women have been victims of rape or attempted rape at some time: study
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majimekun
Something worth reading regarding the F35 : Trillion-Dollar Jet Has Thirteen Expensive New Flaws http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/12/joint-strike-fighter-13-flaws/
Posted in: Japan likely to buy Lockheed Martin's F-35 fighters: media