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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mushroomcloud
This is pretty pathetic.
Posted in: Obama city residents delighted over presidential victory
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mushroomcloud
"when polls show that Americans believe China is more important than Japan and amid rising concerns in Tokyo that Washington is losing interest in Japan."
This is stating the obvious, but Obama should do his best walk on the high wire between both countries. After all, doesn't China and Japan own a huge chunk of US debt?
Posted in: Next U.S. president faces China-Japan balancing act
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mushroomcloud
Finally, I voted for a winner after 8 frustrating years.
The US is still the greatest country in the world, without a doubt.
Posted in: Obama sweeps to victory, says change has come to America
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mushroomcloud
I just voted, for Obama.
ANxious to see the results in a few hours/
Posted in: World hopes for a 'less arrogant America'
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mushroomcloud
It's interesting to note that since the Beijing Olympics is now over, you don't see too many 'western' countries making a big fuss on the Tibetan issue, as opposed to a mere 2-5 months ago.
Political theatre aside, it appears that much of western Europe, and of course the United States, would rather keep their mouths shut due to their current credit crisis, and keep an anxious eye on hopes that China's ~$2 trillion in reserves and Japan's $980 billion might indeed help bail them out one day.
Posted in: Dalai Lama raps China over Tibet issue
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mushroomcloud
"Japan deserves it and is a must for the UN to succeed as something to be reckoned to"
Other than voting in line with every US sponsored resolution, what value does Japan add?
China and Russia will unfortunately never allow Japan on the UNSC. It is simply Japan's pipe dream.
Posted in: Does Japan deserve a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council?
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mushroomcloud
What type of insecticide did this Japanese company poison people with?
Posted in: Nissin recalls 500,000 cups of noodles after insecticide contamination
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mushroomcloud
It really doesn't matter if Japan deserves a permanent seat on the UNSC, because at the end of the day it will never happen.
The 5 permanent UNSC members have no desire in diluting their exlusive veto power.
Posted in: Does Japan deserve a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council?
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mushroomcloud
It appears that these UN Security Council wannabe positions are held by small nations with little diplomatic pull. Libya, Vietnam, Burkina Faso, Costa Rica and Croatia are current temp UNSC members.
But at the very least, these seats with no veto power will advise the permanent members and serve them well.
Posted in: Japan, Iran, 5 others competing for seats on U.N. Security Council
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mushroomcloud
Just in, Japan won the temporary Security Council seat over Iran.
Congratulations.
Posted in: Japan, Iran, 5 others competing for seats on U.N. Security Council
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mushroomcloud
I saw in the US presidential debate last night that each candidate stated how the US continues to keep needing China for financial bailouts, Obama mentioned the figure of $700 billion but it is more like $1 trillion that China loaned to the US (in all financial instruments, not just T-bills). As a note, it would totally suck if China decided to pull out all of their investments in the US economy and place them in other parts of the world where people do live within their means, such as China itself. After all, Cleo wrote that China's people still eat rubbish and live in hell-holes.
What is the actual dollar figure for the total of loans/investments that Japan has tied up in the US? I assume it is more than $1 trillion.
Posted in: Aso says U.S. bank bailout 'insufficient' and causing renewed stock market plunge
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mushroomcloud
11 months and he's history.
Posted in: Aso gives first policy speech in Diet, stressing war on terror, economic recovery
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mushroomcloud
Congrats to the space leader in Asia, China. Next step will be building their own space station.
Posted in: China space mission returns to Earth after first spacewalk
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mushroomcloud
I found it interesting that the country that worships the US the most, Japan, was not rewarded with a mention by either candidate, since this debate was all about foreign policy.
Yet both candidates mentioned China. Obama did in regards to China's first spacewalk, and McCain did by pointing out how the US owes the Chinese $500 billion.
Posted in: Obama, McCain argue over war, taxes in 1st debate
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mushroomcloud
Why didn't she make the cut to go to the Beijing Olympics? Is she no more than a ditzy pin-up?
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mushroomcloud
"This is a total indictment of the utter failures of the current Bush administration. And to think hundreds of millions of dollars a month are spent on foreign wars alone, all that surplus from the Clinton years absolutely wasted.
Disgusting. Absolutely disgsuting."
rjd jr, we might have had disagreements on previous posts, but this one is spot on. I am deeply disgusted with what the Bush Administration has done with the US economy, and my tax dollars. I remember the Clinton years quite fondly; there was one small hiccup with the IMF crisis in Asia in 1997, but on the whole, the consensus in the 1990's was that the United States was clearly moving in the right direction. I am saddened, and indeed frustrated, at what the current situation is like.
Posted in: What do you think of the recent financial upheavals in the U.S. that have seen Lehman Brothers file for bankruptcy, Bank of America buy Merrill Lynch, the collapse of Bear Stearns and the U.S. government take over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac?
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mushroomcloud
"Either way, they could be selling s**t sandwiches and the obasans would still be queuing round the block..."
Dang that's nasty.
Posted in: Korean actor Bae Yong Joon opens restaurant in Nagoya
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mushroomcloud
The Japanese consumer should demand of their leaders to strive for self sufficiency in food production. From the likes of what I hear, China is essentially feeding Japan. Which means that China has Japan by the throat, literally.
Posted in: In view of all the tainted food and mislabeling scandals, what is the consumer to do?
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mushroomcloud
"A military alliance involving the US, Japan, Australia and India with other nations in between would be the ideal "Great Wall" that will prevent any possible aggression on China's part and maintain peace and stability in East Asia."
Separate military defense pacts exist between US-Japan, US-Australia (ANZUS), and Australia-Japan (signed by Howard-Abe last year), with India being the non-aligned party in this equation, even though they do not mind US-India nuclear cooperation. It will indeed be interesting to see how the security situation evolves in Asia.
"China's great advancement so far in the 21st century has been to build up their military to the point of shaking up everyone around them, putting a man into orbit which is what the US and USSR did 40 years ago, and to to become a top global exporter of manufactured products, a position which is already now on the decline."
I agree with these points, and would like to add one more, China's great advancement so far in the 21st century includes moving over 300 million people out of abject poverty.
Posted in: Australian PM calls for military buildup
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mushroomcloud
Can we use the title of this article as the justification to explain why japan as a nation performed so poorly overall at the Beijing Olympics?
Posted in: Japan's Olympic baseball team anything but harmonious