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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notimpressed
true that smithy but he does look like a vulcan. I havn"t caught any of the second series of Heroes so... I guess we just have to wait and see what happens with the new hollywood version to see what they do with the accents. But will anyone understand Karl Urbans West Auckland Drawl? I have trouble getting through a particular West Auckland series called Outrageous Fortune even though I'm born and raised in Auckland. Actually Im bot even sure where in NZ Karl is from so never mind >.<
Posted in: Star Trek
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Big organisations should learn the story of the boy who cried wolf and find a new approach to encouraging vigilence. Perhaps through information rather than media propaganda. It just breeds mistrust and panic.
Posted in: Flu overhyped? Some say officials 'cried swine'
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misleading Title if ever there was one.
Posted in: Pothead simplicity
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haha, since when is it manly to join a gang to appear strong by strength of numbers. Real men stand on thier own two feet and never stoop so low as to rip off grannies or anyone else for that matter.
Posted in: Yakuza hard hit by economic downturn
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dimpled knees aplenty haha. Interesting to see so many non americans in the crew, Eric Bana from Aussie and Karl Urban from NZ. Too bad they will have to fake an American accent though. I think the girls having a alien strip party for Capt.Kirk is a great idea too. Oh and that dude from Heroes has Spock written all over him don't you think?
Posted in: Star Trek
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notimpressed
I hate to say it, but I agree with GW. I love Japan, but its letting itself down in some major areas. These terrible things are happening to often.
Posted in: Dead girl's twin sister says they were beaten and starved
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notimpressed
oh no, It just gets worse. This is the kind of stuff that really makes me give up on humanity at times. Poor baby girl...Don't you just wish you could have been there to scoop her up in time and take her home and care for her?
Posted in: Body of newborn girl found floating in Harumi Canal in Tokyo
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notimpressed
electric cars, although squashd the first time around, are coming back, and because they are an obvious an intelligent alternative. They can prouce power, distance, and everything we like about cars, except the polution and the sound, which you can always record and put on your CD player if you need it so much. The new sound to love from a car will be from turbines
Posted in: Nissan shows electric car test model in U.S.
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notimpressed
The True - Wow, alot of that zipped over my head, but what I did get is that OSX is only riding on the shirttails of windows anyway, and not developing or innovating much other than its flashy gimmicks in order to sell to mindless fanboys who really do wet themselves over the fact that they can 'pinch' thier photos. While at the same time, you need to use shift and the arrow keys to select multiple items. Yeah, and a one button mouse is such a leap forward. yup, take away the gimmicky stuff, and the sytem is crap and just a weakly little inbred cousin to the original, battle scarred windows monster. Which is at least not afraid to go ahead and make something other than a toy to scoop up our money with. Oh, and there isnt anything meaningful that a mac can do that a windows machine cant. If you cant handle windows, get back on your trike-with-training wheels-for-the-masses-mac. Fashion victims.
Oh, and I hate those mac ads with a passion.
Posted in: Behind the scenes with Windows 7
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notimpressed
Windows has seen me well for ages, despite the fact that it needs some maintenance, oh well, so does my car. Im looking forward to 7, but more so to 8, as they say it will be larger bit os. Oh yeah, and every time I ever used a mac it froze and had to be emergency shut down. One couldnt even shut down from teh button and needed the powerto be pulled. I do know how to use a mac, i was using one for deign purposes. They have thier plusses and thier drawbacks.
Posted in: Behind the scenes with Windows 7
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Problem with this is, he could have thrown hot coffe in my face and told me to get out of Okinawa, assuming im American. But hell, I have never even been to America. Point is, Dont throw cups of coffee on people you don't know. They might be an American diplomat, or even not American. They might even want Americans out of there as much as you do. Throwing coffee doesn't achieve anything except a wasted coffee duh...
Posted in: American consul general in Okinawa doused with coffee
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Another one like this? Dumbass cabbies...
Posted in: Man arrested after taking taxi from Tokyo to Fukuoka and refusing to pay Y359,230 fare
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notimpressed
fake freighters as bait, loaded with dudes to turn around and capture the pirates, take them and finds out where they are based, go there and root them out, rinse and repeat.
Posted in: Somali pirates hijack 2 tankers in 24 hours
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they are trying to get tokyoites off thier butts and to get some fresh mountain air and a bit of excercise. good idea. sports and recreation are a good alternative to moping murdering or masturbating. mind you, I wont be doing any of those except maybe the first one, while I recover from my latest snowboarding injury >.<
Posted in: Ski jumper
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hannari? Do you care about the issue at all, or just the dictionary definitions and trying to enjoy a debate? Forest for the trees, c'mon.
Posted in: Half and haafu
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why are so many people apologizing for Japans outdated mentality towards ethnicity? Why deny there is a problem, when obviously there is, why else are half kids saying so? Why nitpick each others posts instead of getting the big picture, that we would all like all humans to be treated equally. I doubt law can change that to the extent that education can. Attitudes need to change and you cannot enforce that with an iron fist, but with wise words and actions you sure can. Maybe its not as bad as some make it out to be, maybe its worse than others refuse to believe, but there is an issue, undeniably. The fact that people dwell on ones ancestry rather than the individual themself is sad.
What do you see when you look at someone? A person first? or thier ethnicity? If its the latter, then you also perhaps need to look at your attitude to race etc, as does Japan. Being of mixed race, race has become a non-issue to me in how I deal with people, untill they bring it up.Therein lies the problem. Other people making a deal about your ethnicity, when you would prefer to just be. When you live the life as a mixed race person, you can either try to cling to one or another identity, or settle into your own, as an individual. I guess that is hard In Japanese society, but an individual can do it.
Hanami tried to shoot down one piece of my post above by talking about how Japan has a hierarchy of races? Well, yo missed the point and focused on something I didnt say as well as I should. The point is there is no hierarchy of race except that created within society. In this case Japanese society. It is wrong, and we should not excuse it. That mindset is what fuelled Nazis, fascists, and he Japanese Imperial army, surely no one considers it still acceptable. Shed that racist hangover Japan, even if you have improved, you got a long way to go, and it isnt going to disapear by sweeping this or any other race issue in Japan under the carpet.
Posted in: Half and haafu
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notimpressed
a few points: why is it so important to fit in anyway? dare to be different, stand out from the crowd. take the ball and run with it. Of course Japan IS really into conformity, and is fearful of change and anything out of the ordinary, but we don't have to be. why try to force your roundness into a square hole? sounds uncomfortable. Sometimes you just have to smile and laugh inside at these poor sods, they can"t help it if they ar estuck in the past. You are the future, hybrid beauty, which just maybe even makes the questioner feel somewhat an inadequate and outdated model.
also, it has to be acknowledged that it is not as easy for everyone to deal with a situation as well someone else may be. not everyone is as strong, or has been raised to bounce back. It isnt quite as easy as even my first statement makes it out to be. every person and experience is differnt.
next, i am of mixed race, but to add to that, my mother is from Australia and my father is from NewZealand. I dont care, it means nothing, but to Japanese, they hear that andsay, oh so your haafu then? so it doesnt only apply to half Japanese. It seems like another bastardised english usage, where the full meaning and connotation has been lost in translation. not the first time. except in this case it is being used in a question to people who often understand the english meaning clearly, by someone without any idea of how it could be taken. It is also representative of a peculiar habit of Japanese where they ask rather personal questions to someone they do not percieve as Japanese, while they would never dream of being so forward with a fellow countryman/woman. So perhaps at the very least, it does show a measure of ignorance, insensitivity, double standards, and an unhealthy facsination with the ethnic background of someone they hardly know, instead of the person themselves. Why not start with some more apprpriate questions like what do you do for fun, how is your day ..I dont know, anything other than diving into a persons genetic history.
When growing up in NZ I was always taken as Half or part something, other than white, and the result was often immediate inclusion in either group, while at other times it was the exact opposite. I loved it, hated, got used to it, got over it.
the mentality is different here though. back home, a lecturure told a story once: A maori elder noticed she was still single etec, andasked why diesnt she marry a nice maori man and have kids, because they need more Maori children. not halfs. if they were maori, in any %, they were still maori in his eyes. I liked the thinking at the time. I would however, prefer that there were no racial distinctions at all personally, as I was raised to think that way.
But Japans attitude to ethnicity does need an overhaul, for the sake of haafu's and fulls, and for others alike. To say that its ok to distinguish humans by any category is unacceptable to me. idealistic or not, the human race is the only one we have or need, Im just waiting on the rest of the population in Japan and elswhere to figure it out.
Someone started it before: Imagine theres no countries, no religeons too...
Please forgive my typos, I dont want to check as there will be too many due to my current injury , and I thought typing was hard before >.<
Posted in: Half and haafu
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notimpressed
nice conclusion to the whole tirade of opinions BAYANI98 What we think and say aloud, and actually do, are different within our own cultures and even more so when in comparison with others. It seems here that perhaps its only wrong if you get caught. Although I do think that the effect of law changes over time, do reflect in a change in attitude from the average person.
Posted in: 27-yr-old police sergeant arrested for having sex with 14-yr-old girl
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damn the cut and post on JT, it put it all in one sentence. my bad>.<
Posted in: What do you think are some of the worst music band names ever?
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NEAR BAROMOTER ACT VIOLENTLY ABOUT SPARK/SPARKS THE PAN THE SNUFF ROLL THE POWERNUDE GLEAM GARDEN FIVE SNATCH RUBBER MOSH PLASTIC TREE (SOLD OUT) VOODOO HAWAIIANS STRAY PIG VANGUARD THE AUTOPSY REPORT OF DROWNING SHRIMP OUTNAUTS VIOLENT PARTY CALCIUMS EX-A$$HOLE(profanity filter blocking this one) CHOKE-SLEEPER G-FREAK FACTORY LOWBROW & TOTAL FAT URCHIN FARM FOR PETER, FOR WORSE ROBO AFRICA Lump of mind No people Spank the age HOCKIE HOCK THE OFF-BEATERS ROCKY AND THE SWEDEN ATTRACTIVE RED SHOES MR. ORANGE RUNT STAR THE SNUFFROLLS COOLER KING MCQUEEN DOPING PANDS MILK CROWN IN THE SOUP
sorry stole these from a list that goes forever, all Japanese band names. I actually think some of them are great/ hillarious.
Posted in: What do you think are some of the worst music band names ever?