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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maplesugar
Makoto I was a little confused by your essay. In paragraph three you wrote that you didn't have confidence because you were taught to be humble and continuously improve. But then you begin paragraph four saying that "because of this" you concluded your lack of confidence was caused by a lack of physical affection. I'm not clear on the link between the ideas in those two paragraphs.
Posted in: Love without words
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maplesugar
cuddles2000, while I agree to a certain extent that there is more pressure for people to be married by a certain age here than in some other countries, that attitude is by no means universal. I know plenty of older mothers here who are happily married and happily raising children. I just don't think that we can assume that the age of the mother has any bearing on this case.
Posted in: Police arrest mother for strangling 11-year-old son in Yokosuka
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maplesugar
bamboohat, 29 isn't especially old to have a child. I'm not sure where your assumption that she got pregnant so that she could get married before she "expires" came from. At any rate, very young parents with unplanned-for children also face a lot of stress which might lead the unstable among them to abuse or kill their kids. In fact, there are unbalanced people of all ages, so I think your focus on her age misses the mark.
Posted in: Police arrest mother for strangling 11-year-old son in Yokosuka
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maplesugar
I agree too; this is outrageously overpriced for a three hour family event (yes, even for Tokyo USNinJapan2, and I've been here 9 years). At the "on the door" rate, it would be 20 000 yen for two kids and their parents. For three hours! It's disappointing because this is something I would like to do with my kid and husband, but not at these prices.
Posted in: Baby Loves Disco gets into its groove in Tokyo
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maplesugar
I was so excited to hear that Baby Loves Disco had come to Japan My excitement was diminished when I found out tickets were 5000 yen/adults, 3000/kids. In the states all tickets are $12! Baby loves disco, but not THAT much.
Posted in: Balloon man
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maplesugar
It's not surprising that foreign women - those who are actually eager to date foreign men here - have a hard time, given the open hostility and disdain that so many foreign men have displayed on this thread.
Personally I don't pick my partners based on broad cultural or racial stereotypes but on the qualities of the individual. My Japanese husband is kind, fun, gentlemanly, intelligent, trustworthy and really all I could want in a life partner (well, it would be nice if his work hours were shorter, but other than that). I'm sure that I would have found an equally fine man back home if I'd happened to be living there at the time in my life when I was ready to get married.
It's obviously mainly an issue of numbers; there aren't that many foreign guys to choose from here, and clearly many of them prefer to date Japanese women. I don't have any problem with that, but I'm not sure where the need of some to attack foreign women comes from.
Posted in: Foreign women in Japan sometimes remark how hard it is to get a date with foreign men. What are your views on this?