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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nandakandamanda
The TV news are saying she was drunk after the bonenkai and feeling ill, so she leaned forwards over the track.
Posted in: Woman standing on platform dies after being hit by passing train in Fukuoka
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nandakandamanda
Make love, not hate.
Posted in: Woman taunted for being a lesbian, gang raped in San Francisco
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nandakandamanda
People like this make life difficult for the rest of us... grrrrrrrrr
At least the owner has broken the law regarding firearms, so the Police will not have to make up some further law to show that they are making life safer and better for everyone. They can charge him under the Juho-Token Ho Law. (Act for the Control of the Possession etc., of Firearms & Swords.)
Lock your car, stupid.
Posted in: Shotgun stolen in Ibaraki
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nandakandamanda
The whalers (being a political group with an axe to grind, not representing "Japanese" people as a whole, but bringing the good name of all Japanese into disrepute)) should fire Natto and Sho-chu bombs back, IMHO.
Posted in: Sea Shepherd intercepts Japanese whalers in Antarctic waters
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nandakandamanda
Looks like there might be a hinged metal flap hanging over the slot to stop the change from bouncing out. Put your finger in there and then your brother pulls you away... ?
Posted in: 2-year-old boy loses part of finger in game machine in Nara
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nandakandamanda
Well, if Honda and the other teams could have had some of that 80 million dollars Ferrari gets paid extra every year, (according to Bernie Ecclestone last week in reply to Montezemolo above) then maybe they could have stayed in.
Mods, if you think this comment is off-topic, please include the news about the huge kickbacks to Ferrari and how the other teams could really be using some of it.
Posted in: F1 plans to scale back spending
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nandakandamanda
The blurb says it means to make flowers bloom, Sakasu...
They definitely seem to be confused, though, as the general populace is getting it constantly wrong.. Do the check.
Posted in: The Rink at Akasaka Sacas
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nandakandamanda
There is a lot of confusion among Japanese people who keep calling it Sa-kasu, when it's not. (Google 赤坂サーカスand see!) Get it right, folks.
Sacas, pronounced Sackass, is correct. Luckily we don't have to think 'circus', because the rink is square, and the Japanese language is able to create original and meaningful English when English is blatantly/patently lacking.
The rink itself looks OK though! ...;8)
Posted in: The Rink at Akasaka Sacas
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nandakandamanda
I hope Sanma appeared with his plastic hammer and beat them both on the head. That would have really made for a meaningful dinner.
Posted in: Aso has dinner with Beat Takeshi
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nandakandamanda
"Valentine violated a court policy that prohibits people from wearing any headgear in court, police said."
Whether she violated it or attempted to violate it, is one question.
"Valentine,... told the bailiff that she had been in courtrooms before with the scarf on..."
Sounds like she is no stranger to coutrooms (as an insurance underwriter?), but it doesn't mention where those courtrooms were or what their particular laws/rules were.
Sounds a bit like, "I've parked like this before (in no-parking zones in other towns) and no traffic warden said anything."
Posted in: Georgia judge jails Muslim woman over head scarf
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nandakandamanda
You should read some of Beat Takeshi's column in the J XXX Weekly. Sexist as they come, a bully and a sadist too from what I have seen of him over the years.
Birds of a feather..., IMHO.
Posted in: Aso has dinner with Beat Takeshi
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nandakandamanda
Er, according to the article, she never entered the court, and her headscarf was never removed. How could she have felt stripped of anything?
They arrested her for what...contempt of the law... plus the expletive?
Posted in: Georgia judge jails Muslim woman over head scarf
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nandakandamanda
な～んだ (Nanda!).
Maybe fear of 'Kinjo Meiwaku' (annoying the people next door) will motivate you to leap out and pounce on it with a cushion.
Posted in: Moving alarm clock
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nandakandamanda
The article mentions Santander. Anyone know anything about this?
Posted in: Nomura: $306 million exposed in Wall Street Ponzi scheme
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nandakandamanda
ptolemy, one of the reasons kids get beaten up to within an inch of their lives here is exactly because they try to leave. It is considered traitorous. The guy might just have been trying to do the right thing... especially with that girl in the background.
Posted in: Youth found dead in vacant lot in Shizuoka; police suspect bike gang involvement
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nandakandamanda
What they do is part of growing up here. For the most part they go on to get regular jobs and lead 'honest' lives. They 'graduate' from these gangs as soon as they reach the legal age where they could then on be prosecuted as an adult. It's all calculated, and the game has been played out again and again. Some of the groups even have their own lawyers. They have links above them into society, and people who keep an eye out for them. Many of their graduates continue to maintain links and they can be found in all walks of life.
If the Police intervene actively , two major outcomes are on the cards. One is that someone will end up getting hurt or killed. The same thing has happened repeatedly in the UK where the cops then get prosecuted for chasing someone 'to their death'. Injury or death are seen as escalations of the lower level problem which is somehow tolerated by the population at large. The other outcome is that the youth may end up with a criminal record, which could affect his/her job-worthiness in a traditionally hermetic Japan. The Police make a conscious choice to watch and let them grow out of this phase in their lives, without marking them legally or physically as far as possible.
Please understnd that I am not defending them in any way. The above are the reasons I have been given, and it was only my own laziness and lack of time that prevented me from writing out this long explanation as to why it is not simply laziness on the part of the J cops.
Posted in: Youth found dead in vacant lot in Shizuoka; police suspect bike gang involvement
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nandakandamanda
It's as clear as mud.
This Cosworth engine is... optional? If you don't sign up by Thursday (yesterday) then you will have to build a Cosworth look-alike?
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nandakandamanda
"Just lazyness on the Polices behalf."
Maybe that's your point of view, but in my opinion your opinion is just laziness.
There are several reasons why the police take the position that they do, and laziness is not such a large part of it.
Posted in: Youth found dead in vacant lot in Shizuoka; police suspect bike gang involvement
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nandakandamanda
He probably wanted to leave the gang.
Posted in: Youth found dead in vacant lot in Shizuoka; police suspect bike gang involvement
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nandakandamanda
Soochi "No one in their right mind would jump from granting a terminally ill patient's request to die to killing the elderly in order to pay less taxes." I work with the terminally ill and the elderly and trust me, they would and they do.
My father was euthanased by a London hospital in collusion with my step-mother, without his knowledge, and I am very, very bitter about it. Perhaps I have allowed this bitterness to leak into my post above. Apologies.
Just to make sure this post doesn't get moderated, I would like to agree with you asking why there was no furore in the other countries mentioned. Is that something wrong with them, then?
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