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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mareo2
I think that is more like these...
Posted in: World hopes for a 'less arrogant America'
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mareo2
Like democracy, is an imperfect solution, but is the best we have now. If everyone do what they are supoused to do, then we dont need police and prisons. Sadly, we are imperfect humans. Just because you are a good parent dont means that others are as good as you. If you made a good job, then your kids can not feel offended or disturbed with sexual education. In fact they can share your moral views with others on these isue. If your kids education is enough strong for survive comparation with others opinions, then what is the problem with help teenagers that dont are so lucky of having a good parent like you?
Posted in: Should sex education be taught in schools?
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mareo2
Hmm... If parents are to busy or avoid to talk about sex with their teenagers... then it cant be helped that teachers have to step forward and explain things like how to avoid sexual transmited diseases and pregnancy. Better prevention than abortions or death by AIDS.
Posted in: Should sex education be taught in schools?
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mareo2
Time cures everything. If both sides let the wounds to heal. But in place of waith a few decades more, can be faster, correct and convenient if the US can make a public apology for support a coup de etat against a democracy. The US can give the first step because, in my humble opinion the US started the US-Iran bad relationship. That can really start to end the Iran backlash for the US intervention. If the US can negotiate with ultra-rethoric NK for de-nuke the Korean peninsula, Bush made deals with ex-Sunnies insurgents (AKA awakening councils) that killed americans soldiers and Petraeus say that can be wise to make deals with the talibans in Afganistan. I dont see why the next US president cant visit Iran like Nixon visited China and close a deal with Iran against Al-Quaida, try to make of Irak a neutral zone and provide political and economic incentives for give up the nuclear program like Libya. The main concern of the war on terror, is destroy Al-Qaida, stop the development of WMDs programs and halt the govs support to terrorists. These is just about make the US safer, not about regimes changes and/or retribution for old offenses. Just an opinion, sorry for the wall of text.
Posted in: Iran's top leader says hatred for U.S. runs deep
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mareo2
Gold or bonds, waith until the prices start to go up, then sell them and buy properties or shares at dirty cheap price.
Posted in: Considering the turbulent state of global financial markets, what would you advise anyone with money to invest in?
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mareo2
The entire thing is a big waste of taxpayers money. In place of lose time with silly things, why they dont jail yakuzas and corrupt politicians?
Posted in: Woman jailed after 'killing' virtual husband
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mareo2
sangetsu
With all due respect:
1 - Do you are aware that these latinos, with the exeption of hafu (mixed blood), by being descendant of Japanese means that the majority of them looks like japanese? How do you can say that the truck driver is not a brazilian if he is pure blood japanese, but born in Brazil?
Ie. I know that zainichi (koreans in J) exist, but I cant recognize one only for the looks or the voice. Personally I dont know any, but maybe I crossed one on the street.
2 - The gov keep foreigners at less of 3% of the population, from these the latino community is around 300k persons in a country of 127 millions. The chance of you crossing a latino the street maybe is 1 in 423, you get better chances if you go to an industrial town like Oizumi in Gunma.
3 - I am a latino descendant of Japanese, with J citizenship, like hafus I see and think from the both sides. I worked in bentoya 16 hours a day in high season, 12 hours a day in low season, six days per week, only few days of vacation per year, loading machines with 400 sacks of 25 kgs. of flour. I sweated in a foundry shoveling sand at 50 celsius deegre. I dont think that is light jobs, because I hurted my back and now I only can do light work.
4 - I have a high respect for japanese working women because they have to work harder than men for probe that can do something equal or better than men, that women dont are only for cocking, having childs, serve tea or push butons in an elevator. Also I have a great respect for old japanese that worked hard for rebuild these country from war and make it the second economy of the world. But I have a low opinion of young japanese males that came, work a few days and vanish with out say good bye, the kind of worker that have no memories of hunger and poverty in post war japan or not suffer a glass ceiling. Like in any other rich, advanced first world country, dirty, dangerous and demanding jobs is mostly for foreigners.
Sorry for the long post and my horrible english.
Posted in: Foreign laborers hit hard by downturn in Japanese economy
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mareo2
Its called Recession. It last until the US economy improve and until then everyone have to survive the economic winter. On the big companies, first they dont renew the contract of people with 3 months or less of time in the company, next the people with 6 months or less, next people with 9 months or less and so on, these is regarless of nationality, skill, language proficience or age. Last unemployed I asked, was a 19 years old latin worker, with 9 months in a big company and good level of japanese. But I hear that in the smaller factories things are a lot worst. Everyone feel unease, lot of people have families to feed and these can be a long winter.
Posted in: Foreign laborers hit hard by downturn in Japanese economy
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mareo2
Paper: high mobility, foldable, intelectual image. Digital: Instant updates, cheaper, ecologic.
I humble disagree about the idea that paper always means more responsible than digital, paper is less able to change the story and ask an apology if they print something wrong and damage someones carrer-life.
Posted in: What can newspapers offer that digitally delivered journalism cannot?
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mareo2
No more disposable choopsticks on the restaurants, they can wash the chopsticks. Also the disposable wet towel, they can have reusables and wash them. Less layers of packaging. In J concetrated products that save space are a must have, ie toothpaste, juice, diverse cleaners, etc... then we can buy in bulk. People need to try to go to shooping with their own bags. Reduce the amount of advertisement mail. Try to repair in place of throw and buy a new stuff. Encourage Ecology through Economy. Gov cannot force people, be a point of reference for the society. Lead the way by implement the measures in the schools and gob offices.
Posted in: What suggestions do you have for reducing the amount of garbage that gets thrown out each day?
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mareo2
J gov balance sheet is in big red numbers. Maybe he think that raise the burden on the taxpayers is fine.
Posted in: Lawmaker says Japan should invest cash in U.S. bailout
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mareo2
In J religion dont drive moral or a search for self-illumination. It keep going for tradition inertia and lucky charms/rituals. Is so soft and superficial that hardly mess in the politics or the justice system. Is present everyday, in everyones lifes, but have the same impact of the wallpaper in a room. Is interesting to be in a country that have very strict gun control, weak armed forces and no strong religion. For some foreigners must to look stupid, but I think that is another thing that help to keep low levels of violence. On the negative side, I dont think that people managing the temples like a business is better or worst than TV preachers in the west. No surprise that young people is not very religious, having priests that behave like shoopkeepers is not very inspiring. The only thing that I really can criticize is the Burakumin isue that have religious roots.
Posted in: How important a role does religion play in Japanese society?
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mareo2
Maybe in 20 years, the LDP is going to manage the economy so bad, that people is going to riot, but is going to be to late for avoid really painful measures and then the ultra-rightwingers finally are going to make a coup de etat for keep peace on the streets. Then J change the constitution, expand the SDF, build 200 nukes and blame some minority/ies and/or foreigners for all the problems. BTW we are going to see robots become common here, but a social rejection to cibernetic implants because is not natural (just like low transplants donors and plastic surgery). But at the same time we are going to se more foreigners than before, the kind that build shanty towns and some people in black vans is going to say things like "Some day we need to sorround them and burn them all". Internet replace TVs like the main source of entertaiment and news with NHK nocking our doors asking for our donation and say that if we have internet we have to pay.
Posted in: What do you think society will be like 20 years from now?
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mareo2
Maybe one of the reasons is that verbal violence is the last resource for state an opinion. Is very common that if we cant think something inteligent to say, in place of just stay quiet, we say something rude. Im happy that we can discuse controversial topics in an anonimous way. But is disapointing when the thread end looking like Trash TV.
Posted in: Why are so many people rude in cyberspace?
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mareo2
Im not a big traveller, but compared with other countries, is not like the girls have big stuff to show anyway.
Posted in: Japanese girls go sexier in their fashion styles
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mareo2
Envy, bullying, stalkers.
I still remeber when the Gov tried to convince people to use their real names in the internet.
Posted in: Japan's online social scene isn't so social
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mareo2
Just potential in medicine is interesting enough.
Posted in: Brain-controlled game expected to make Japan debut in 2009
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mareo2
Loki520
Well, Im just wondering how many americans jobs costed these bases abroad and can be uninformed to think that arming yourself for self-defense and arming yourself for keep world peace have the same price tag. Even if the host taxpayers pay part of the bases and their maintenance, is american taxpayers who pay for the extra aircrafts and tanks. If the host start to pay for the weapons and salaries of the extra soldiers to, then the US armed forces start to look just like an american private military contractor, in place of an military ally committed to defend the host country in exchange to serve as a base for military operations against other countries and some economic incentives. Again, my points is that these have a cost in tax and jobs for the american citizens. The point of expend billions in military operations abroad and lacking a national medicare that can cover every american. Is just talk about priorities.
Posted in: Ahmadinejad says 'American empire' near collapse
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mareo2
Near collapse? I dont think so. I am sure that a lower economic output is going to lower the military power. But how much depends of how much americans want to fix the economy. Is not impossible that for pride the US chose to keep an unsustainable high level of global military power at the cost of a collapse of the economy in the long term, like the soviet union. Also giving acccess to the US market in free trade agreements that can cost americans jobs, as a diplomatic card for get permision to build US military bases in other countries. After all keep the world peace have a logic cost and sacrifices.
Posted in: Ahmadinejad says 'American empire' near collapse
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mareo2
Play the clown in the media.
Posted in: How do you think Taro Aso will do as prime minister?