JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) in Kanto region
- RCS (RCSコーポレーション), Kanto
- Salary: ¥180,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month includes performance bonus
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- Assistant Language Teacher - TOKYO - late-March start
- Interac, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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- Assistant Language Teacher - Kanagawa Prefecture - late-March start
- Interac, Kanagawa
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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ninjaboy
Have to fully support the comments made in the article. Customer service in a country where "the customer is God" has long since vanished. Nowadays, it seems to be the same everywhere in Asia; "we got our salary, so who cares what the customer thinks?"
Posted in: Why are Tokyo cabbies so clueless?
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ninjaboy
The question in the headline is so easy to answer ...
Just say "I love you" to your Japanese girlfriend. She'll freak and run away and you'll never see her again.
Posted in: What makes Japanese women say, 'I never want to see that jerk again!'
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ninjaboy
It was the beginning of the end a long time ago. Back in my student days in the 90s, and again while working in local government, the warning signs of a dying country, culture, and people, were already evident, but scarcely taken notice of. - Lethargic office workers who arrived late every morning with hangovers. - A postal and banking system reliant on too much manual labour. - Government departments that struggled to justify their very existence, let alone their budgets. - A myriad of meaningless rules & regulations that only serve to keep a communist-style government in power. - An outdated education system that creates a nation of malleable workers who do not question authority power.
Japan will die and no-one will care.
Posted in: China overtakes Japan in 2nd quarter as world's No. 2 economy
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ninjaboy
Can’t wait to see what travesty of J-justice will occur here. There will be no justice for this poor girl’s family.
I already have a good idea what will happen because the law in Japan works something like this ... If a women accepts an invitation to enter a man’s apartment, but get raped, the man will be spared from full punishment because she herself voluntarily accepted the invitation to enter the premises. Now, if a man accepts an invitation to enter a woman’s apartment, but SHE gets raped, the man is, once again, spared from full punishment because she voluntarily extended an invitation for the man to enter.
This case is going to last forever.
Posted in: Lindsay Hawker's accused killer appears determined to fight murder charge
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ninjaboy
"Tonkatsu Don" -- made up name?
Posted in: Man's body found at tonkatsu restaurant
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ninjaboy
The reception of a traffic safety association ..? Now there's a place brimming with cash.
Posted in: Knife-wielding man attempts to rob police station in Miyagi
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ninjaboy
Excellent article. It goes without saying that the state of English teaching in Japan has been in a sorry state for many years. I attribute this, among many other reasons, to Japan's eikaimwa schools preference for low-cost, not necessarily experienced, 'tourist teachers.' Most language schools just need a foreign face at the front of a classroom to promote an image, and let's be honest, any language school can fish one out of the vast ESL pool at any time. Most eikaiwa only have an eye on profit to stay in business, so what does it matter to any school with regard to the quality of foreign teacher? Most tourist teachers start on the JET Programme which, aside from being the biggest farce of all time, offers an easy route into Japan for grads who have no clue about what to do with their lives after graduation. Most, including myself at the time, treated the JET Programme as the 'graduation holiday.' After spending almost 13 years in Japanese-style schools (inc. a Japanese university) I spent the entire year sitting at an empty desk because my host institution didn't know what to do with me. In spite of my education and experience I decided to train to become a professionally qualified language and business teacher. Today, I am not a low-cost, inexperienced, 'tourist teacher.' But that makes individuals like myself still not required in Japan. The exodus to Japan the article speaks of during the 80s has reversed today with many trained professionals preferring to move out and sell their knowledge and skills to other countries who give a dam about the quality of education for their students. China, for example (where I work now,) is filling-up with experienced and qualified ESL teachers. There is no way I could the job I do now in Japan. And why would I? The Chinese are not short-sighted and recognise what professional teachers have to contribute to the organisation. We give lectures and seminars, or design entire courses in English/business communication and culture. We train students and professionals alike in ways that improve their lives, and in a country like China, it gives one a tremendous amount of satisfaction. Chinese education has its faults, but colleges, universities, and business training centres are years ahead of Japan.
Posted in: Back to the 'eikaiwa' drawing board
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ninjaboy
Japan has done it's upmost to 'dumb down' the entire population - like any communist power would do. The media is a powerful weapon for the management of information and I've found that all Japanese people generally believe anything they're told, simply because they saw it on TV or read about it in the papers. The government has created a subservient population of people with genrally low IQs who lost all their critical, logical, and intelligible thinking skills. When people start to think it gives them ideas and ideas are dangerous when the mailable populace starts to question. The result is, indeed, an Orwellian society that is structured and ordered.
Posted in: The Japanese media and its Orwellian nature
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ninjaboy
He's lucky to get away with just accepting a fridge. I was often told that 'gift-giving' by members of organised crime syndicates to various high-ranking police is quite normal. It always has been in just about every prefecture. And they are gifts (usually cars or holidays) because gifts of the financial kind arouse suspicion straight away and the transaction is traceable. It has, and always will be, a normal custom in Japan.
Posted in: Police capt in organized crime unit warned for accepting fridge from gangster
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ninjaboy
Ha! The fist's up the other one now!
Posted in: Magazine airs anxieties over China's burgeoning economic clout
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ninjaboy
Waiting for an hour to go through immigration is hardly 'efficient.' Shanghai Pudong Airport is, in my opinion, the best airport I've ever been through. From stepping-off the plane and walking through to collect my suitcase usually takes less than 15 minutes. And it keeps getting quicker every single time.
Posted in: Narita ranked third in airport quality survey
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ninjaboy
No more yakiniku for me!
Posted in: Ehime man arrested for killing mother, putting body in freezer
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ninjaboy
Nice to see more people growing marijuana plants in the urban area.
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ninjaboy
One of the most interesting, yet heartbreaking, stories to appear on JT. It's certainly an accurate and sad reflection of the situation in Japan today.
I can see many Chinese department stores moving in and/or taking over prominent and prestigious retail premises in the future to cater more for ever-growing Chinese customers.
Shanghai & Beijing department stores, by contrast, are thriving hubs of activity all day long with customers spending what I can only describe as a phenomenal amounts of money on brand-name goods. Lets hope the Chinese can save Japan.
Posted in: What it's like for department store staff in a recession
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ninjaboy
These incidents are (sadly) becoming so normal that it's almost worth not considering it as news-worthy anymore ...
Posted in: Man slashes two women on Sapporo street
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ninjaboy
What is needed are thick glass panals with sliding doors that run the entire length of the platform. Only when the doors to the train and the platform are aligned will they open. Works only in stations where, I assume from reading the article, most of these suicides happen.
Posted in: More Tokyo train stations start using lights to stem suicides
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ninjaboy
Its been a dream of mine for almost 20 years to visit this place. Just never seem to get there !
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ninjaboy
Quote: "Police suspect all were under the influence of drugs at the time of the crime. Yet another incomprehensible act of violence over a meaningless argument."
... Just another typical day in Japan
Posted in: How a meaningless argument ended in murder
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ninjaboy
I work in China and we have the same problem here. Even the most gifted graduates with dreams of joining a foreign company/working abroad usually end up working on the assembly line with a screwdriver. They totally lack the creative and imaginative input large companies demand of their employees to stay ahead of the competition.
Many more large companies in China (esp. Hong Kong) are being criticized for recruiting foreign talent out of necessity.
I can't help wondering if many of Japan's large companies in the future will solve this problem the same way.
Posted in: New breed of employees can’t communicate and wilt under pressure
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ninjaboy
Shouldn't this picture be with the lead story "Hatoyama's Cabinate Takes Shape" ???
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