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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oikawa
Yes I remember this was more than suspicious. I just didn't believe it, with the odds of a random stranger luckily finding the one unattended youngster in a car park in 5 minutes being miniscule. One thing I'm curious about though, she parked somewhere unseen by security cameras, but what about while she was driving into the car par? Were there cameras that picked up her car while she was driving in and showed a child in the car? Were there any cameras in the car park at all?
Posted in: Oita woman confesses to lying about daughter's abduction, burying body
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oikawa
I've heard this is complete BS, that there is plenty of electricity being generated, and that the mooted cuts and power cuts that did occur were only a means of generating sympathy for the government/TEPCo at the time of the crisis, and nuclear power in general. True?
Posted in: IAEA green lights Japan's reactor tests
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oikawa
Wow. I found these two links with more info, in Japanese.
http://news.tbs.co.jp/newseye/tbs_newseye4928424.html
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20120116-00000117-jij-soci
Posted in: Body of naked man with genitals sliced off found in apartment
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oikawa
not sure about this point.. was this article conceived pre 3/11?
Posted in: Creating a Vision of Japan: Promoting Cool Japan
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oikawa
I'd be sympathetic if she and the unions stood up for what they believed in and fought the people and companies actually doing the discriminating, instead of shooting the messenger. Assuming it's not a security of information issue.
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oikawa
I think he'll easily eclipse Zidane and Ronaldo in terms of awards, but he is helped by not having much competition. A few years ago there were a lot more world superstars that would be considered for this award, i.e Ronaldo, Figo, Zidane, Ronaldinho, Deco, Lampard, Beckham, Henry, Owen, van Nistelrooy, etc, all just past their best now. Now it's just between him and Ronaldo really, because the only alternatives, Iniesta and Xavi, play on the same team as him and obviously don't have quite the same impact as Messi.
Posted in: Messi set to win 3rd straight world player honor
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oikawa
ben4short
lol. Go on, explain yourself then
Posted in: Japan is built, at some deep, invisible level, around the Buddhist law of the reality of suffering; my Japanese family and neighbors are not inclined to complain about circumstances so much as to deal, silently and efficiently, with the hands they’re dealt.
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oikawa
ben4short, that is a strange comment to make when Exixtentialism's precise raison d'etre was to be a philosophy rooted in practicality and human existence so it sounds incredibly pretentious to talk the way you did. Not to mention simply wrong.
As for the comment, it's easy to see (certainly not "invisible" with existence of the who-doesn't-know-it phrase of "shouganai") where this Buddhist principal can be mirrored in Japanese society, but the mistake he makes is exactly what Ivan says, namely problems are not dealt with, they are ignored, not necessarily silently and certainly not efficiently.
Posted in: Japan is built, at some deep, invisible level, around the Buddhist law of the reality of suffering; my Japanese family and neighbors are not inclined to complain about circumstances so much as to deal, silently and efficiently, with the hands they’re dealt.
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oikawa
Obviously not from your lack of response. I'll explain it in simpler terms if you ask me.
Posted in: Club World Cup final pits Messi vs Neymar
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oikawa
Is this successor son the one that always comes over to Japan and goes to the 'lands?
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oikawa
??? Benchmark for what?? It can't be a benchmark when there's no competition. Did you understand my post?
Posted in: Club World Cup final pits Messi vs Neymar
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oikawa
no worries Rick. the players probably weren't tired but may have looked it due to it being unnecessary for them to at all exert themselves in their 2 games
Posted in: Club World Cup final pits Messi vs Neymar
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oikawa
Hahaha! Yes Mr Kisa, terrible prediction! Football's not hard when you're winning, and Barca have been doing a lot of that recently, and I'm NOT a fan.
I wouldn't really say Europe is a "benchmark" though, when the method of winning is squad hoarding of players, guaranteeing winning, and of whom a large number of which are South Americans who would otherwise have been playing for those very South American teams. Congratulations Europe, you have lots of money, what a benchmark you are.
Posted in: Club World Cup final pits Messi vs Neymar
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oikawa
I don't see what the big fuss is, it's nothing new, simply another redesign. I think it's been done because it's not really necessary to look at people's pages, you can just look at the news feed and that encompasses all recent activity, and do everything through that.
Posted in: Facebook rolls out 'Timeline' feature to all users
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oikawa
And in other news...
Posted in: Yakuza involved in Fukushima clean-up: reporter
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oikawa
The funny thing is the Japanese are some of the biggest complainers I've ever known, face to face if they know each other and behind people's backs if they don't. The reason they don't complain about the important things is because by and large most people here have a good life so complaining would be cutting off their nose to spite their face. Interestingly after 3/11 a lot of people did start complaining quite openly, and even demonstrating, because there was nothing more important than their and their chilldren's lives.
Posted in: Accepting it as it is
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oikawa
Blair Herron
Interesting article, but that I think the prediction they're making is ridiculous. A 30% chance of something happening within 30 years is hedging their bets to the extreme, they're in a no-lose situation. They actually have no idea when and where the next big one will be, and make predictions like this to make themselves look worthy of more funding. There is no other way of predicting earthquakes currently than looking at history, and that is as accessible to anyone as it is to so called experts, if not more so because these "experts" didn't consider history before about 1900 when predicting earthquakes until recently, because "there were no records". How ludicrous...
Posted in: M5.8 quake hits southwestern Japan
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oikawa
Elbuda. This quake was so small there was nothing worth saying about it, so the conversation moved away slightly.
Posted in: M5.8 quake hits southwestern Japan
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oikawa
It probably won't be as strong as 3/11. The effects will probably be worse though.
Posted in: M5.8 quake hits southwestern Japan
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oikawa
chikyujin
No, they are just "Japanese"!!
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