JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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Japan's nuclear safety standards flawed, says commission chief
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To be healthy, live in the big city
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Teacher nabbed for using miror to peek up girl's skirt
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From carnivores to herbivores: how men are defined in Japan
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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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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Did a quick check at one of the more popular milblogs and in the comments section I find this about the guy:
*Suffice to say that a thorough scan of his media appearances throughout his Army career as a Public Affairs Specialist places him in Japan or Germany or other European postings from at least 2004 through his discharge in 2007. There are hints that he was in Japan in 2003, making his "service" in Afghanistan and the Philippines either fabulist, or of a very brief duration.
Do a google on his name, with ranks PVT, PFC, SPC and SGT, and you'll see what I mean. He joined sometime after June 2002, so unless he got in immediately, and did OEF in 2003, he's a liar. (No surprise if that's the case.)
PAO reporter and photographer, all good with Army and benefits for 4-5 years, until he's asked to do what looks like his first combat tour within his 8 year obligation. Then, suddenly he has to "take a stand."
I cry Beauchamp on him.*
http://www.mudvillegazette.com/milblogs/
May 16, 2008 "Lede of the Day"
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This is big news?
The armed forces have again met and even exceeded their recruiting goals.
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Bush's opponents in Congress won't even let American companies explore the possibilities in extracting petroleum from oil shale:
"...The moratorium prevents the Department of Interior from issuing regulations so that oil companies can move forward on oil-shale projects in Colorado and Utah. Allard said the moratorium has left uncertainties at a time when companies need to move forward and in the long term make the United States more energy independent.
"If we are really serious about reducing pain at the pump, this is a vote that would make a difference in people's lives," Allard argued.
But in a 14-15 vote, the committee spilt strictly on party lines and rejected the amendment."
Insane.
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/may/15/panel-defeats-attempt-end-oil-shale-moratorium/
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“The country has sort of been rotting from within, and the culprits are big business, big corporations, kind of the conservative government,” McGurk said. “‘Bowling for Columbine,’ ‘Sicko,’ ‘Roger and Me’ all could have been episodes inside the context of this film.”
Right on. Get your patriotic message out, as only Hollywood can.
Please include Spanish subtitles. It would be unfair not to inform the 12 million (and still growing) illegal aliens who risked life and limb getting to America of the grievous mistake they made in choosing the USA instead of say, Canada - or Cuba for that matter.
Oh, and aim for an October release for your "liberal" pro-Democrat crockumentary.
Because the vast majority of Americans - the ones Mikey Moore and Hollywood basically despise - reject the wanton self-pitying and the self-righteous and silly feelgood appeals for "social justice" you have been dressing up for years now as "serious commentary."
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Snowbirds!
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zurcronium : "If President Obama [sic] wants to get advice on how to fail miserably in the middle east [Middle East] , or anywhere for that matter, he can call on bush [Bush] ."
Obama is president of Canada?
I really don't get your post.
You need your head checked.
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smithinjapan : "And fortunately the 'consequences' are an advancement from a state of neanderthal to upright, decent human beings."
And yet France, the guiding light to which Canada slavishly looks to in all matters political - still denies gay couples the right to wed.
And how were things up in Canada back then , eh? No racial discrimination up there, eh smith?
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"The international system is based on respect for state sovereignty. "
And where do failed states like Afghanistan fit in your neat little scheme?
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"The Soviets learnt their lesson."
At last we are on topic. Yes, they watched and were emboldened by how Carter caved in to Khomeini and correctly guessed his admin would do nothing if they made a play for the long-coveted Afghanistan.
Obama would be Carter all over again.
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madverts : "Let's just say democracy is possible in the region - provided they elect the people we like."
No, the way you flail about I'm more inclined to believe that people like you value and point to the Mossadegh years and democracy in Iran only because you can charge it was snuffed out by the same people you insist are forcing it on Iraq. No mention of Soviet military adventurism in the region, no mention that what became BP is the main reason he was overthrown, never any context, just one preposterous straight line from Dulles to Wolfowitz.
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madverts : "Heh, even your history can't be that bad to not understand the reference to the democraticly elected government the US helped overthrow."
Quite apart from what smithinJapan was saying (the US installed Khomeini?) that was interesting to read.
I mean, from a guy who insists democracy cannot come to the region how is it Iran once had it?
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madverts : "...at the end of the day, people like you wishing to deny other human beings basic rights becuase their sexuality clearly poses questions you don't like are heading for the history books."
Read what I posted. If the people of California want to legalize gay marriage well then their state deals with the consequences.
You sanctimonious Euros make me laugh. At least posters like smithinjapan can say, with Canadian pride, I guess, that they are so broad-minded they even let gay people marry.
But then again, like much of what comes out of Canada it is more of a reaction against what we in the States are doing than it is what ordinary Canadians really want.
France and UK allow for gay marriage?
No.
Garsh - are they shtoopid, ignorant "fundies" or are they "latent", or both?
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smithinjapan : "Bush seems to believe that the government of Iran (whom the US helped install after overthrowing the former leader, only to have it fail AGAIN) are a bunch of terrorists, as well as that of Syria, and anyone else who doesn't agree with him. "
The US helped "install" the Khomeini gov't? It was the US that put up the exiled Khomeini in a swank Paris suburb so he could foment his glorious Islamic revolution that, 29 years on, has reduced Iran to a nearly third world nation despite the fact that it sits on more oil than it could ever use??
Tell us more, professor.
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Sorry madverts, but from a judicial point of view it is quite clear that these 4 judges are imposing their beliefs on the people of California, who voted only 7 years ago against any amendment recognizing marriage between anyone other than a man and a woman. And if I recall correctly it was a healthy 61 percent who said no to gay marriage.
IOW - 4 judicial activists have decided - in a ruling affecting more than 1/10th of the US population - what shall constitute marriage in the state of California.
I can understand if Cali were 2 states - a North and a South - that the northern half might be able to pass a referendum allowing gay couples to be recognized as married. I'd even argue that the rest of the country should, for educational reasons alone, respect the law, but no such scenario exists or is even in the cards.
I know, I know, you think you understand our system.
But you don't.
"Heh...you can imagine that hearing this from someone who supported invading a sovereign nation to force the American way onto a people that didn't want it sounds pretty damned hilarious."
Sorry. I really don't follow.
Iraq has nothing to do with the coup these 4 judges pulled off.
Nice try though.
"It's all about dignity"
http://www.moonbattery.com/
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"Heh, there's nothing like a good old thread about gay marriage to get the latents in an uproar."
Good point there, madverts.
I'm originally from a city with a large gay population. Had lotsa coworkers and even bosses who were gay - back in the Reagan era no less! Your observation reminded me of a chef I once worked with, an ex-jet mechanic and Vietnam vet. Explaining his orientation to a newcomer to the coast from one of the Rocky Mt states, surprised at the clout gays had in the city's business circles, he said he knew he was on the other team so to speak when he realized one day that for years he had been wondering if the guys around him, friend or stranger, were "latent."
Posted in: California's top court legalizes gay marriage
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I have no problem with civil unions.
But for the record - my chief objection to gay marriage is basically what I think is the Hayekian one - a great deal of knowledge (not to mention economic wisdom) is transmitted generation to generation by the institution of marriage. I see little benefit and tremendous risk in altering so dramatically one of the fundamental - some would say the most fundamental - institutions and customs in any society.
I also have questions and fears regarding the legal ramifications of this California ruling once immigration is added to the mix. With a few amendments to strenghten it, perhaps from a federal bench packed with "progressives" under Pres. Barack Hussein Obama, does it not open the door to a whole new type of bogus "green card" marriage?
Marriage is basically a "sacrament" in every culture. Your antipathy to religion makes your demand that marriage be made legal for gay couples seem pretty absurd.
Seems to me you haven't really thought out your position - or maybe you have another you are too timid to openly advance.
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Hodedo : "Has anyone on here ever gone to a theater in America? If so, how many foreign movies did you see playing?"
The West Coast city I am from shows all kinds of foreign films.
I really have no idea what you are talking about.
Posted in: Why do moviegoers in English-speaking countries tend to avoid foreign movies with subtitles, while in Japan, for example, it's just the opposite?
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superlib - an excellent point:
Sushi, I'm not going to get in your way. If you want to trade Iraqi lives for my pocketbook then go right ahead. That position, along with your support of Karl Rove and your tireless campaigning to get undecideds to vote for McCain makes me wonder if you're a closet Republican, tho.
I often wonder the same.
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Hodedo : "This whole issue can be boiled down to people who hold Judeo-Christian "values", whatever that's supposed to mean, get all butt-hurt when someone else wants to do something that may not line up with their bronze age sky God myths."
Perhaps you can point to a Hindu or Buddhist country that allows for gay marriage.
Even more remote a possibility - can you tell us of an Islamic country that even recognizes the right of homosexuals to live?
Is there an atheist utopia we in America have not heard of where gay couples can wed?
How is it where you come from?
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sushisake 3 : "American has lost and needs to get the heck out."
Who won? The Iraqi people?
Or was it Al Qaeda?
Surely it can't be both.
Awaiting your always insightful dodge.
No,sorry - opinion. I meant opinion.
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