JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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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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- FT English Teachers for Kids - Osaka
- Kohgakusha Co., Ltd. （株式会社興学社）, Osaka
- Salary: ¥255,000 ~ ¥275,000 / Month Travel Expenses, Encouragement of Japanese learning*
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- Translator
- ZAIHON, Inc. (日本財務翻訳株式会社), Tokyo
- Salary: ¥6.0M / Year Negotiable
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nisegaijin
Can it do brown rice?
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nisegaijin
speaking of Narita, I actually don't mind the travel there.
I did a Hong Kong trip from Haneda and it was very bothersome to get on monorail with suit case and stuff. It was very crowded as it was in the evening. Then I had to get on some dodgy bus to take me to the terminal. all in all very inconvenient and tedious. My airport limousine experience to narita was much smoother and more relaxing.
Posted in: Haneda international terminal
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nisegaijin
I hope the pubs will be open till late this time...
Posted in: Haneda international terminal
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nisegaijin
Screw that! if i was a landlord, I'd definetely charge reikin. Part of the reason is that maintenance and renovation costs are stupidly high. also there are too many parties involved in the whole real estate business. There is always a maintenance company, sales company, etc. too many layers to go through and they all want money!
Posted in: In the long run, 'reikin' (gift money) will completely disappear because this is a system that doesn’t make sense. Eliminating the fee will make it easier for tenants to move around.
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nisegaijin
Yeah, I like Diesel too, but I do prefer north American designs... and prices...
Posted in: Diesel power
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nisegaijin
And a very good morning to you too, JT :-)
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nisegaijin
Absolutely no. Democracy is mob rule, not too distant from anarchy. Republican is a rule of law. Law equally applicable to government and citizens.
Posted in: Do you think democracy is the best form of government?
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nisegaijin
it's a non issue, so we don't deal with it.
Posted in: How does your workplace deal with the issue of passive smoking?
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nisegaijin
no, they all suck, so why should we pay them? all of them should get wiped out and do a fresh re-start. this time without unions, government intemperance, and cartels.
Posted in: Do you think airlines are sneaky about fees for extra baggage and a range of other charges for various services?
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nisegaijin
You can get DACT headsets for a bit more with exceptional sound quality and range up to 100 meters. Bluetooth is not good for sound.
Posted in: Logicool wireless headset
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nisegaijin
@KnowBetter
Then we shouldn't listen to music at cruising altitude, or have any kind of entertainment. Your logic is not too dissimilar from your reference to punching my lights out - not hugely intelligent.
On that note, why I can't use my digicam or ebook during landings? care to explain?
Posted in: Do you think airlines are sneaky about fees for extra baggage and a range of other charges for various services?
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nisegaijin
Entire airline needs to be re-set.
But instead of moaning about high costs of this and bad service of that, we need to look at the bigger picture and try to find a root cause.
Entire airline industry is regressing. They scrapped Concorde and I can't get pre-flight champgne. Nor can I listen to my mp3 player during take off. We had a brief bright period of in flight internet but that was scrapped too. Perhaps air travel is about the only industry that doesn't make any progress.
Personally, I can see two possible causes: plain corruption and fraud -- this is pretty obvious when you look at these alliances: it's an obvious oligopoly with price fixing and cheaper services in mind.
Second cause is the government. Numerous regulations and taxes favor larger airlines meaning there will be less competition. You can't get progressive with that kind of structure.
Government should protect people from fraud, but instead they force airlines to generate it. Shame.
Posted in: Do you think airlines are sneaky about fees for extra baggage and a range of other charges for various services?
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nisegaijin
Did anyone see them in Top Gear? They are a lot of fun. Didn't know Diaz was modeling in Tokyo. Probably saw her in Lex
Posted in: Let's stick together
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nisegaijin
Looks like mother nature is taking care of business.
Posted in: 8 police stung by hornets in park
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nisegaijin
Thank you Japan, I feel a lot safer now! Well done!
Posted in: Paris Hilton leaves for U.S. after being denied entry into Japan
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nisegaijin
In reality, walkman is a lot better product than iPod. Apple capitalized on stupidity of the masses and introduced a bandwagon called iPod.
Now, I am not saying anything about iphone and ipod touch. those are really great and yet to have a rival from sony... that being said there is experia, which i would pick over iphone any day.
but as a digital music player ipod is a very poor product. with limited functionality, average sound quality short life span. And worst of all it requires this bloatware called itunes to take control over your entire music library like some corrupt dictator.
I have an iAudio player with phenomenal sound, equalizer, several surround modes, deep bass, etc for 4 or 5 years and it's working perfectly, thanks to its lithium polymer battery. And its very to use as I can just connect it via USB and copy any songs i want using windows explorer. I think sony has that feature too.
Sony has very good sound and I think a few more options for sound delivery. They could benefit from micro SD slot and upgradable battery too. Oh and ipod touch killer with built in GPS would rock the world.
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nisegaijin
Wrong http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/
Posted in: What do you think is the fairest method of income tax?
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nisegaijin
Reagan went on military spending spree, thats where the debt is from. That said, if government only needed to spend on protection and some basic infrastructure, they wouldn't need massive income tax. They could have got their revenue from trade tariffs like they did before.
The problem is that government is trying to get involved in everything else. Health-care, education, transport, wealthfare, insurance, pension, etc, none of this should be government's concern, yet those are government's biggest expenditures.
Posted in: What do you think is the fairest method of income tax?
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nisegaijin
How about no income tax at all? Income tax is invasion of privacy and direct confiscation of property. What I earn is mine and government shouldn't be allowed to monitor it, let alone take it!
Posted in: What do you think is the fairest method of income tax?
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nisegaijin
Even though I am a non-smoker, I cannot agree with such regulations. I can't see violation of human rights and over-regulation as a right solution to prevent smoking.
What can be done is: 1. Smokers are not be eligible for health-care insurance for any respiratory and heart diseases. 2. Anyone caught in second hand smoke can sue smoker for assault.
Posted in: Kanagawa's new anti-smoking ordinance a bane on businesses