JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Financial Advisor
- Select Asset Management KK, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥100,000 ~ ¥999,999 Paid Training Commission Based
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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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medievaltimes
Great marketing. Have to agree with redninja and Taka.
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medievaltimes
In 600 years, religion as we know it today will not exist.
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medievaltimes
Angelo and Shi -
--I give up on you grasping my point on eliminating customers = eliminating your own job.--
I agree with this 100%. If a company doesn't have customers it is difficult for them to survive. And your point is?
--However following your logic that the company owes nothing to its employees, on the contrary, what do we owe to companies? Since it is our own tax dollars they get bailed out from time after time as market cycles repeat themselves. It is tax money taken from the employees so the company owes their employees. --
The workers owe nothing to the companies except the work they were hired to do (read above posts). Yes, tax money DOES get taken from not only the employees but ALL the citizens of the country. Again, that's the way business and government usually works. If you don't like it either go into labor policy or move to another country. Welcome to reality.
--They could not survive bad times without government (employee tax dollars). So your logic would be only viable in the stone age.--
My logic is quite current. Just pick up a newspaper within the last couple of weeks (and check the newspaper archives in previous recessions).
--You don't think a company owes its workers any favours? How about job security for the SALARY WORKERS that have been let go?--
No I don't. Salaried workers and temp workers have different job security but BOTH can be let go (see above). Sure you might get a 6 months salary package etc. but again the article states these were temp workers...usually comes with the territory.
--A more altruistic redistribution of excess salaries would have kept more people in work meaning more expendable income to the consumer meaning a less damaging knock-on effect to other manufacturers and service providers.--
You are living in a fantasy land. By all means, start YOUR own company and feel free to pay YOUR own employees whatever salary you want. Again, if you don't like your job (salary, work conditions, you feel more valuable etc.) take yourself elsewhere.
--I'm questioning the morality of diminishing a worker's access to basic needs when such unecessary excess is prevelant in other areas of the company.--
Nobody forced these people to work for this "immoral" company that "diminished" worker's "basic needs". (By the way, who are you to define what somebody else's basic needs are.) Again, if you don't like how the company runs, don't work there. Or if the company is soooooo bad be thankful you are not there anymore.
--Bill Gates is a bad example because of his growing reputation as a philathropist, however he is famous example of wealth and clearly demonstrates my point: Money is a human invention that regulates consumption. Could Bill Gates possibly consume goods and services proportional to his wealth? Would it make him proportionally happier than those on a $100k salary?--
Let me get this straight. You are telling other people how they should spend their money?!? Get real. It doesn't matter if you/I/anyone thinks Bill spends proportionally to his wealth. That is HIS money and he can do whatever he wants with it....just like you can do whatever you want with YOUR money. And by the way, Bill's happiness is not for you to define. You can define YOUR OWN happiness however you want...and Bill will define his.
--One more thing to you about your statistics of who can become CEO. Anyone.--
I suppose anyone COULD be a CEO for some amount of time. But some are better at it than others...don't you think?
Posted in: Union workers protest massive wave of job cuts
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medievaltimes
It's well documented that the bureaucracy will even refuse the release of documents related to complains against the government by a citizen, again, citing "privacy concerns", even though the person asking for the documents is the complainant themselves!
See:
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20030708zg.html
Very well put.
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medievaltimes
Shichiman and Angelo - I hear what you are saying, but it does not reflect reality.
The article states most of the workers are temp contract workers. Ahhhh, that pretty much means low job security, don't ya think? The economy is bad and the company needs to streamline, so they let some people go. That's what usually happens in business. This should not be suprising. Mechanical engineers that have a background in physics are different from assembly line workers.
--"The needs of society must be reflected in how companies are operated."--Well, what the society "needs" in your opinion, might be different from other peoples opinions. And companies are pretty much free to operate how they want to. If you don't like the company, don't work for them.
Try this instead...Since you work FOR someone, the company if free to let you go at any time they see fit (cost cutting, streamline, disciplinary action etc). And you as the worker are free to leave the company any time you see fit (better salary at competitor, don't like work environment, want to change careers, want to retire early etc).
Simply put, life (or companies) do not owe you any favors. It is up to you (and everybody else) to make life decisions, and that includes choice of job.
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medievaltimes
Shichiman - You are living in la la land as well.
First of all, if you read the posts nobody said anything about them not being able to protest. By all means, go ahead and protest.
While some CEO's salaries might be inflated a bit much, think of it this way...Take 200,000 random people...how many do you think are qualified to be vice presidents of human resources/microbiologists/security guards/chemical engineers/janitors/parking attendants of a multi-million dollar company? Some people's jobs ARE more disposable than others. Get it?
Your argument of "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" assumes everyone is the same. We are NOT all the same. We have different skills, different levels of education, different work experiences, different salary demands etc.
The company can fire you at any time...and you are free to leave the company at any time to find work elsewhere.
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medievaltimes
Angelo - You are living in la la land.
Posted in: Union workers protest massive wave of job cuts
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medievaltimes
Becuase that's why they call it "working FOR someone".
It's true a company can let a worker go. But it's also true that the employee is free to say bye bye to the company as well (better salary/working conditions/security/benefits/opportunity for advancement etc). It's a two way street.
Again, it's up to each individual what line of work they choose for their career. It's their responsibility.
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medievaltimes
Ninja's stats are a bit old...per wikipedia.
A study done by the Socioeconomic Research Department at the Nomura Institute of Research showed that in 97 percent of book stores and convenience stores surveyed in 1996 sold “pornographic portrayals of children in either photographic or cartoon form”[7]. Moreover, as of 1998, Japan was the source of 80 percent of the commercial child pornography available on the Internet[8]. Actually, it was not until 1999 that Japan joined the international community in banning child pornography, not out of moral concern, but more so because of the bad publicity the country was receiving[6].
Posted in: Police bust child porn ring
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medievaltimes
Kazuko is in denial.
Shiuu is right. And Vickman, it doesn't matter if shiuu has a job or not...that's missing the point. The point is most people's jobs are not guaranteed.
In order to survive, a company has to make money. If there is no company, there are no jobs to be had.
Job security IS NOT the same in all fields of work. Some have more, some less. Nobody is irreplaceable...and if you are irreplaceable best to start your own company.
It's up to each individual to decide on the type of job they want. That is their responsibility.
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medievaltimes
Can someone confirm for me? Is it true it is against the law to have child porn only if there is intent to sell? Meaning posession of child porn is not a crime in Japan?
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medievaltimes
Really? I've looked pretty closely. It's pretty easy to see. Lots of Japanese men have a thing for young girls.
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medievaltimes
Understatement.
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medievaltimes
Younger Japanese I talked to said she was beautiful. Older Japanese said she was too proud, too assertive, selfish and "not Japanese style".
I say good for her.
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medievaltimes
Thanks for the laugh Japan Today!
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medievaltimes
What a moron.
Posted in: Angry Ford dealer in South Carolina blasts Japanese imports in ads
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medievaltimes
If they just "do their best" everything will work itself out.
Posted in: Gov't to boost moral education for young people
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medievaltimes
His rationale for doing this is very telling. It's the same thing over and over again.
Posted in: 24-year-old man arrested for flashing high school girl in Tokyo
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medievaltimes
Good for her.
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medievaltimes
Its called parenting.
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