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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northlondon
I have always been very proud of our history of freedom of speech and the right to demonstrate and kick people out of power. A poor example of this is Japan, where the Japanese do not protest against poor policy and laws.
Posted in: Thousands of UK students protest tuition fees hike
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northlondon
Bebert61 and trulymadlyfukai, neither of you have a clue about the history of the British education system. The UK always prided itself on being able to provide a university education for very little cost (it was never free). Over the years this social education system has been hijacked by governments wanting to use this budget allocation for other expenditure.
This is how they want the system to work. They want more students to graduate from university as the defacto standard for professional careers. If you want to be a British lawyer, doctor, banker etc you need a good degree. What do you need to do to obtain a degree to start your career ? That's right, you need to attend university. Therefore, why should any student bright enough to obtain university entrance have to then pay a lot of money for their start in life ? If university is required before you can embark on a professional career (in other words, before you can start earning a salary) then it should be regarded the same as school (i.e without tuition fees).
I understand that in the US every graduate has always had to pay a lot of money to obtain their degree. But then we always regarded the US as a selfish expensive example of a capitalist society gone very wrong. The UK can now look forward to that sad path.
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northlondon
Is that a knife in his pocket ?
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northlondon
The UK needs to do what it used to do in the past (and what the Germans still do successfully) and that is to encourage decent, lengthy apprenticeships for craftsmen. Apprenticeships that will produce very professional carpenters, engineers, house builders etc. Instead of this false requirement for students to go to university when a lot of them will still not find work anyway and where a lot of students are not cut out for a university degree.
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northlondon
Kua Aina beats all the others by a long, long way. Absolutely no contest. It's like Meisa versus Becky..
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northlondon
I've never used a train or a bus in Japan, not when there's cheap taxis to get you anywhere.
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northlondon
Some other useful sentences for the driver:-
'I'm a full-time salaried Tokyo taxi driver. Please teach me how to get to Yoyogi from Akasaka.'
'You from America ? You English ?'
'Unless you direct me otherwise, I'll take you straight to Roppongi.'
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northlondon
Like I said, if any sport has a playoff format where a team finishing 3rd (or 8th !!) in the regular season can win a championship, then it runs the risk of the end of the regular season becoming a total waste of time for paying customers. In that case, what is the point in having a regular season ? In English football there are cup knockout tournaments and season championships. Although that is now being meddled with for TV money, with promotion playoffs (absolutely ridiculous, where a team finishing 6th can be promoted over the 3rd place team) and the UEFA Champions League where around 60% of the teams competing are not 'champions' with some of them finishing 4th in their season. Playoffs were devised to increase TV revenue and they distract from the statistic of the best team winning over a season.
Posted in: Lotte Marines win Japan Series
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northlondon
lost, even in the Major Leagues, the only teams to make it into the playoffs are the 3 Divisional Champions in the National League plus only 1 Wild Card team, and the 3 Divisional Champions in the American League plus their best Wild Card team. Worst case scenario is one of the 2 Wild Card teams winning the World Series, but their season record will probably be better than some of the Division Champions in the playoffs. What you don't get in the Major Leagues is a Chiba Lotte finishing 3rd in the regular season and being given the chance to win the Series.
Probably best not to use the Soccer World Cup as a comparison for fairness in sporting tournament formats, as it is run by some of the biggest crooks in sport and it is a knockout competition, not one that lasts for half a year.
Posted in: Lotte Marines win Japan Series
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northlondon
Completely disagree with that statement. A team (Chiba Lotte) only needs to be hot for a couple of games in a row against its 2 rivals in the League Climax. The season lasts from the end of March until the start of October, which is a totally different achievement to a team only getting hot in October.
As we all know, the Climax Series is just devised to be a TV moneyspinner resulting in a farcial end to the season where the best teams 'over the season' are not getting their achievements recognised.
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northlondon
Exactly. Japanese baseball needs to be split into 3 Divisions with 3 Champions plus the best Wild Card going into the Playoffs. Worst case scenario would be the Wild Card team winning the Series but that would be a pretty decent team who may have a better season record than some of the Divisional Champions.
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northlondon
If it weren't for Bobby V, Chiba Lotte would'nt have the squad they have now. You can't diss Bobby V, he turned the whole franchise around, business development and all.
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northlondon
I'm pretty sure that woman with the kids is a schoolteacher.
Posted in: Anti-China protest
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northlondon
Just out of interest, is she a schoolteacher ? Can anyone read her name badge to check that ? She's certainly dressed like one and the girl in the kimono has probably been to a Shichi-Go-San celebration.
Posted in: Anti-China protest
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northlondon
There is far too much slating, bickering and exchanging of personal opinion on East Asian history going on here. This article raises two important points and that's it. 1. That a mother takes her 3 young daughters on a political rally denouncing China, and 2. Why it is always the Chinese who are criticised for these politicial rallies when this kind of thing goes on here too.
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northlondon
Someone who has never studied World Economics in 2010.
Development and investment ?? A puppet for a politicial leader arrives on a media show and gets pictured with a family who get heaps of food piled on their table for the press.
Posted in: Russia flexes muscles over island spat with Japan
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northlondon
You really have lost everything when you take your young children out on a political rally denouncing another nation, especially when your daughter is still wearing her Schichi-Go-San kimono ! We always give the Chinese criticism for these kind of rallies, but I cannot recall seeing any Chinese mothers demonstrating with their 3 young daughters. And they are still dressed up in their Shichi-Go-San formal clothes !
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northlondon
This proves one important fact about Japanese history in 1945, despite it being a very sore subject for Japanese people. That it was a true blessing for Japan that the Americans decided to keep a presence and administer Japan after their surrender. Here is the alternative people. The Russians would have continued the Pacific War and ended up turning Japan into another North Korea or Vietnam. There would have been no economical miracle, no domination of the global automobile or manufacturing industries, no 2nd largest economy in the world. Just a poverty-stricken bleak landscape run by ex-KGB puppets like Medvedev (actually Putin, who pulls Medvedev's strings).
Posted in: Russia flexes muscles over island spat with Japan
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northlondon
For Y10,000 I'm taking the tree home.
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northlondon
Errmm, Christmas Day is 25th December.
The guy with the black leather baseball cap turned backwards looks like a ramen chef.
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