JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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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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- 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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moonbeams
Telepromter, Adaydream, etc, first I ask you to realize that you guys just jump into these threads to bash the otherside. You're essentially the same in that respect. You think your side is perfect and blame all the problems on the policies and choices by the otherside, all the while when real people are being murdered.
You must unite.
First, you must let go of this self righteousness that engrosses your stance. See the other side as humans like you. Acknowledged that we are all flawed.
Then work together to find the roots of these problems. There are so many more factors at play that you cannot possibly give all blame to one side.
Just to list some with my limited knowledge:
ethnic differences, Shiite, Sunni, Kurd; Sunni minority controlling majority with iron fist; US propping up Sunni minority to counter balance Iranian Shiite majority; 1991 gulf war; oil, Bush family; Clinton's continued bombing of Iraq, Cheney, Haliburton; Bush's grudge, false intelligence, 2003~ REAL WAR, real responsibility, now passed to Democrats
See, both sides are at fault here and both have responsibilities. Sure, the Republicans started this, but the Democrats inhereted it twice, now. I remember Clinton's bombings and sanctions that hurt the people of Iraq.
Let's factor EVERYTHING into the equation before we go off blasting people on the otherside just because they are on the other side. It's so childish and absurd. Not to mention completely disrespectful to the people who are living and dying in this war.
Posted in: Iraqis celebrate US pullback but bombing kills 27
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moonbeams
Being that the assailant was disguised and on a bicycle, I don't think it would be too far off to suspect that this assault could have been committed by a schoolmate with an obsession with her.
Posted in: Hooded assailant cuts high school girl’s hair before fleeing on bicycle in Miyagi
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moonbeams
I don't "agree" with rain when I want to hang my laundry, but you can't change nature.
Posted in: US church creates stir with gay exorcism video
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moonbeams
So the world can read them. Now remember, their is more to the world than the US.
Posted in: Republicans call Obama timid on Iran
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moonbeams
Whites are 9% of the population. Blacks are only 79% of the population. The article does not mention race, so I would assume to add the 9% with the 79% and another 12% and then multiply by 0.25 to get the number of offenders.
Posted in: 1 in 4 South African men surveyed admit to rape
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moonbeams
Well, I don't see why any natives would subject themselves to the invective posted in the comments or a half translated article when they can read in full in their own language, but as a fellow foreigner, I'll take a stab at this question.
The reason is that it seems like that is that you read this site and this site collects these news articles. These things do happen everywhere, just check the local news of other population centers.
Posted in: Woman jumps to death from bldg; 1-yr-old daughter found dead in bedroom
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moonbeams
Good post.
Sad post.
Posted in: Photo ops
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moonbeams
My Spidey sense says that the "father" followed from behind.
Posted in: Man assaulted and robbed by family posing as hitchhikers
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moonbeams
I think Dr. Kevorkian is a hero.
Seesaw, there is a word for it called, "euthanasia."
We shouldn't force people who are suffering with each breath, each beat of the heart, things we take for granted, to continued a prolonged existence of pain. That is inhumane, I think.
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moonbeams
Smith, I'm no fan of Teleprompter but I've got to say that you seem to spend an unhealthy amount of time here picking fights with people and putting words in their mouths.
Posted in: Dear Leader will give way to Commander Kim
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moonbeams
No, because I did before and encountered the ghost. He was physical, not translucent, touched me, I could feel him and he vanished when I tried to get him off of me.
Until that moment I did not believe in ghosts, nor would I believe this story.
Posted in: Would you move into a house or apartment if you knew that a murder or suicide had once taken place there?
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moonbeams
I just want to chime in here for Ichya. Having also grown up in a small town in FL, I also do not recognize this man's name. However, I've seen his face in an interview somewhere, but could not remember where or for what. I don't listen to music published by VA and I am very familiar with Jack Kirby.
Posted in: Sushi
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moonbeams
I eat raw garlic. Garlic has a compound called allinin that turns to allicin after 10 seconds exposure to the microbes in the air. Allicin has a short life and must be consumed immediately. It's natures best defense against foreign objects entering your body.
Just mince a clove of garlic and eat it over a salad.
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moonbeams
If you put it that way, it's 2 more years of milking us.
Posted in: Proposed resident registry card for foreigners creates Big Brother concerns
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moonbeams
This one will drive many (foreign) companies crazy. I hope it passes.
I don't mind carrying my card on me. I just put it with my driver license in my wallet. Everyone carries a license, credit card, or some kind of ID, so carrying a foreign registration card isn't so bad, with one exception. I don't carry it while running. I would rather get asked to show my card by police than to have the thing fall out of my pocket while running in the pitch dark night.
Posted in: Proposed resident registry card for foreigners creates Big Brother concerns
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moonbeams
Smith, I read this that the Taliban were already in the school (hence "ambush") so the students had to say Taliban. The boy who answered "I don't know" was stuck between honesty and an instinct for survival.
Posted in: Afghan-U.S. patrol ambushed at school in 'Valley of Death'
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moonbeams
I also care very much. Suu Kyi is the finest example of a human being on the Earth. She is a personal hero to me. There is no one whom I respect more than her.
Her illegal detention must not be kept of the world's daily consciences.
Posted in: Suu Kyi charged over American house intruder
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moonbeams
Condolences to the victim and family.
I can't help but notice that it's almost always men killing women, men killing their families in these recent crimes. I say this is as a man, there are some really immature people in our gender and something needs to be done about this ASAP.
Posted in: Gunman in wig kills student at Connecticut bookstore
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moonbeams
they laid landmines. idiots
Posted in: Pakistan expects 500,000 refugees to flee Taliban fighting
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moonbeams
It's a known tactic to the police that criminal gangs coerce witnesses to reporting that they were attacked by people who spoke strange Japanese, in order for the trail to go cold.
Posted in: More details emerge in Aichi double murder, including cat's death, mysterious assailant