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
ptolemy, does the person on the right look like a man?
Posted in: Model Shiho named aroma ambassador
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nandakandamanda
This is the link to the Hattori case, BTW. Again a tragic result of several overlapping factors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshihiro_Hattori
Posted in: S Carolina shooter feared 12-year-old trick-or-treater was robber, police say
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nandakandamanda
He told Ms Pee to run with the 7,500 bucks. That gives me a clue as to his mental state.
As a man 'with multiple drug convictions', he would have been naturally super paranoid that his family could be a potential target anytime.
Many people are not aware of what time of year it is or what festival is being celebrated. (Those who are deeply into computer games for example.)
The daughter is pre-Hallowe'en. It's evening and suddenly you see a bunch of strange people in masks approaching your door and it's OMG, Grab the money and run!!! Don't worry about me. I'll take care of the rest! ... ... ...
Posted in: S Carolina shooter feared 12-year-old trick-or-treater was robber, police say
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nandakandamanda
They are caught in a trap. Narrow-mindedness in religion is an easy mental trap to fall into. Others, usually innocent like many of the people in Bali, often get dragged in and die as a result. In this case these three lazy religio-centrics have also brought their own deaths upon themselves.
Not much of it left, but is it now now time to grow up and ask for help from 'the One Power that is keeping us all alive' to see the truth and help their young followers not to fall into the same trap. For the sake of the future. Please. Not for the sake of some narrow-minded interpretation of a 'Holy Scripture'...
Posted in: Bali bombers await firing squad
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nandakandamanda
What false accusations? If they happen, then I know how the accused must feel. "Boy, I wish I HAD groped her, since no-one believes me and I'm going to get done anyway."
Posted in: What do you think about the false accusation of groping against men on trains?
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nandakandamanda
SumoBob, you are right, but many of the police cannot be bothered to get the name of the card right. If they demand "passu-po-to, ...PASSU-PO-TO!" don't say no and try to head home for it. Everyone should be very careful to quietly show their Gaikokujin Toroku-shomeisho.
Posted in: Tokyo police, rail authorities hope to scare Halloween pranksters
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nandakandamanda
I have been assured on many occasions that the family often gets sent a massive bill afterwards. For stopping a train and disrupting the services or jumping off a motorway bridge and wrecking cars, you can completely bankrupt your own family. Common knowledge years ago, maybe it's time to re-educate the populace about how not to inconvenience others. In Edo times they seemed to manage it all right.
Jumping 'straight to hell' into the caldera of a volcano such as Mt Aso in Kyushu is quite common, a friend told me the other day. Not seen supporting figures myself, though.
Posted in: Man jumps to death from station platform in Yokohama; two women injured
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nandakandamanda
When the police cracked down on drunken revelry in the London tubes a few months ago and banned open cans of beer, it was all over the news here. I think the J police have taken their cue from that...
Posted in: Tokyo police, rail authorities hope to scare Halloween pranksters
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nandakandamanda
In an ideal world, just as you can use antler from deer as a carving material, so you should be able to use ivory without causing the death of any animal.
CITES prevents the movement of ivory across international borders but allows sudden massive shipments, and then again blocks the movement of the resultant small carved objects... if they are "ivory of illegal origin". Thus, in Africa, in China, in Japan, local artisans are allowed to work and produce, but MUST sell only nationally and not to tourists or abroad, right? Or is it OK if they are of legal origin? Or is CITES avoiding the issue?
Hmmm... so it's like we have blood diamonds, and now blood ivory? Conversely we are aiming for certified legal diamonds and certified legal ivory, correct?
Posted in: Japanese, Chinese bidders take part in 1st auction of ivory in decade held in Namibia
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nandakandamanda
When religion becomes political. Too much money, no imagination.
Posted in: Soka Gakkai boosts advertising on TV
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nandakandamanda
Guess how they pronounce Triumph?
Wait for it...
The correct pronunciation of the company name is Torimpu！ http://sankei.jp.msn.com/economy/business/081022/biz0810221459006-n1.htm
Posted in: Triumph Image Girl 2009
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nandakandamanda
JPYuki: "Was he wearing a life vest?"
Er, they found him lying on the sea bed. What kind of life vest would sink you, and then keep you down?
Posted in: Japanese tourist dies snorkeling in Australia
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nandakandamanda
US supply Japan?
Japan supplies US ships in the Indian Ocean... with whose petroleum products?
Posted in: Palin backs shipping Alaskan LNG to Japan
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nandakandamanda
In the (pre-war) Imperial flying boats the passengers could wander up and down stairs, go to the dining room or the lounge, and even have their own cabins to change for dinner, sleep, etc., I believe. Flights to South Africa would stop on Lake Victoria to let the passengers enjoy the scenery. A different pace of life.
Have we really 'progressed' in our fabulous modern age?
Now it's hell. Constant body and luggage checks, pressure selling, bad air, cramped conditions, fiddly paperwork, restricted movements. Terrorists in their mistaken idealism have guaranteed that everyone's lives are a misery. Sometimes I imagine that convicted criminals could be condemned to fly constantly round the world for a period of several days. That would drive them mad. They might even make the resolve to go straight. Much, much worse than prison.
The blatant rudeness I have experienced by KLM staff pales by comparison.
Posted in: Airline complaints: Which bothers you the most?
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nandakandamanda
Must be tiring standing up. Don't they have seats on them, or better still, beds?
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nandakandamanda
There is a hint of a big Y in this story, the diagonal slash on the cheek...
Posted in: Residents gripe about billionaire neighbor in Hawaii
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nandakandamanda
The poor, kind and gentle pirates say they only want a little money and never take lives, but the Russian sailor died from the unbearable stress of the situation, one source says. Who is responsible for his death?
His blood is on YOUR HANDS, thieving pirates! Anything to say now?
Posted in: Somalia says world can use force against the pirates
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nandakandamanda
PPS If you were unable to get off the Japanese page to the English Home Page, try this: http://www.japaneseweapons.net/
Posted in: Edo era firearms
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nandakandamanda
PS The weights above are very approximate and may be considerably off.
Used this site: http://www.japaneseweapons.net/hinawajyu/index.htm
but it is rumoured/rumored to have some inaccuracies in the Japanese and English pages. Treat with a pinch of salt.
Posted in: Edo era firearms
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nandakandamanda
Smythe. Most of the long guns they are firing weigh 5-10 kg, but the one you see at this end of the line looks like a 6-10 Monme Samurai gun, a Shi-zutsu, which probably weighs a bit more.
As part of the display some groups will fire larger 'hand cannons' of 20, 30, 50, or sometimes 100 Monme, which can weigh over 30 kgs.
PS Although we think of diameter of inside of barrel, Monme is the unit of weight for the ball. (Rather than 'caliber' or 'bore'.)Thus a 10 Monme gun would fire a lead ball of 37.5 grams, (.70 caliber?) and 100 Monme gun shot would weigh 375 grams.
Posted in: Edo era firearms