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 teacher took him to a staff room and called police. Hmmm... I wonder what else he did while waiting for the police?
Posted in: Man disguised as schoolgirl arrested for trespassing in Ibaraki school
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nandakandamanda
Er, the problem with the usage here of U.S. slang 'gas' for gasoline is that in an article like this it becomes unclear whether this car will be a gasoline/petrol-electric hybrid, or really a gas-electric (as in LPG) hybrid...
Nowhere in the article does this difference become clear. Which is it that they are working on, I wonder? :8(
Posted in: Honda to sell new affordable gas-electric hybrid early next year
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nandakandamanda
Thanks guys, for the insider information. I've now got some new recipes in my notebook. Any more?
Posted in: Hydrogen sulfide gas suicides raise specter of terrorist attacks
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nandakandamanda
Well, I think London Hearts is good stuff. Pity it's on at the same time as that other educational program/programme, yes? You got it!
On the other hand I absolutely forbade either of my children ever to watch Crayon Shin Chan. Some of the kids in my classes who grew up on a diet of that... yuck, say no more.
Posted in: PTA says 'London Hearts' is worst TV program
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nandakandamanda
GW Agree all the way. No respect for living creature nor environment. I get so disgusted that I start imagining the sea/river/lake taking revenge on the fishermen. Wrote my feelings re Japanese fishermen on JT before but got moderated, so I'll leave it like this...
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nandakandamanda
When I was a kid I killed a tortoise by throwing it against a rock until it split open. In the woods, together with the kid next door. I wanted to know what was inside. He told his parents, and I got the blame. I locked myself in the bathroom to escape my father's wrath, but the maid promised me that if I unlocked the door I wouldn't get beaten. As soon as I opened the door I was grabbed, taken to the bedroom and caned, "in order to learn the sanctity of life". My biggest memory of that day was that adults are liars. The secondary lesson? It took me many years to realize.
Posted in: Two teenagers accused of killing 8 swans in Ibaraki lake
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nandakandamanda
Even if what you say is not 100% true, Jyan Bon, it sounds about 90% true. Thank you for your explanation of the reality in Myanmar. It sounds like a very cruel system.
I am glad the aid is moving now.
Posted in: More aid finally reaching Myanmar's cyclone victims
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nandakandamanda
Jmorgan. Please use the Preview button before posting or even better, ask a friend to check your post's spelling as it is quite difficult to understand what you are wanting to say. Are you saying that in your opinion it takes "gaman", like extreme patience or self-control, to live in Japan?
Posted in: Four found dead after inhaling lethal gas made from detergent in Takayama
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nandakandamanda
My older daughter I hit twice and do not regret it.
Once when she was seven she ran over a busy road in anger without looking either way. I caught up with her and explained that I wanted her to listen to me and learn, and that I would enforce the message with a hard slap on the back of her hand. Just once, and not in anger.
Another time she was angry over being refused something trivial (after watching J TV), and she pulled a kitchen knife out of a drawer and threatened her mother. I explained that she should always leave room/margin for error even in the heat of anger, so that in the future she would never look back and regret something she might have done in a fit of passion. I didn't think the message had really sunk home, so I told her I was going to reinforce the message with one sharp deliberate slap to the back of her hand.
I have never had to hit my younger daughter.
Posted in: What are your views on parents hitting young children as a means of punishing or disciplining them?
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nandakandamanda
Some friends of mine were on a train in Tokyo last Friday. A couple climbed on board, but the 'female' didn't look quite right, they said. When they reached their destination, to their amazement, two blokes got off the train. Only in Japan, they were thinking...
Posted in: Ichihashi reportedly seen in Tokyo's gay area
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nandakandamanda
The company that sells the most cars.
Posted in: Which company or alliance makes the best cars?
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nandakandamanda
Strictly speaking not a rifleman as rifling had not yet been invented. A musketeer, an arquebusier, an artilleryman or just a plain gunner might be closer. They should really wear earplugs, but then they wouldn't hear the captain's orders. 射手"shashu" (shooter) or uchite in Japanese.
Posted in: Battle reenactment
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nandakandamanda
When the matchcord touches the priming powder in the pan, most of the force of the blackpowder explosion pushes the main charge out of the barrel. At the same time, depending on the size of the touch hole, quite a pillar of flame and smoke blows back up from the pan. In this case it looks as though the wind has blown it back to cover him.
If you were to criticize the gunners there, you'd have to say that the near one is holding the gun dangerously low. The far one is trying to fix the matchcord to the serpentine, but he doesn't seem to know what he is doing.
To give them their due, it takes quite a bit of courage to fire one of these Tanegashima matchlocks.
Posted in: Battle reenactment