JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- 秘書及び業務サポート
- 加治金属工業株式会社, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥4.0M / Year
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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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- ALT - Mie Prefecture - Yokkaichi City - June start
- NPO法人グローバル教育推進機構（GLAD), Mie
- Salary: ¥230,000 / Month For a full working month. Some months differ.
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oikawa
Disillusioned
At first I agreed with you (even gave you a thumbs up!) but then I thought about how big my daughter was at that age, then imagined if she was a boy, and concluded she could quite easily have scaled our balcony if she'd been determined enough, purely by scrabbling up the surface.
Then I went out and looked at our balcony and it was even worse. At one end there is a drainage pipe in the corner about 10cms from the balcony wall, and the pipe is attached to the wall with hooks at two intervals along it's length! Perfect climbing assistance. That is a virtual ladder right there. Added to which there is the air-conditioning box on the ground, next to the apartment wall but still good leverage to jump from, and I conclude there is certainly one balcony wall right here that a 3 year old boy could easily climb over on his own, and is certainly not "child" climb-proof.
Posted in: 3-year-old boy dies after falling from 5th-floor balcony
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oikawa
tallgaijin
yes, sorry, 2500yen a day. typo. like i said it wouldn't even be worth it for pocket money. 2500an hour would be great for students or part-timers though
Posted in: TBS treats its extras like slaves
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oikawa
Where's the motivation to stay for 2500 yen an hour? I'd rather be homeless. It's not even worth it for just for pocket money for students let alone survive on it. And if I really wanted to see a famous moron I could just wander round the corridors and bump into one, sod the "contract". Doesn't make sense. Probably yet more BS from the weeklies.
Posted in: TBS treats its extras like slaves
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oikawa
Also, this was the US and the worker did not even get disciplined, let alone fired.
Posted in: FAA probes near collision between JAL, UPS planes over Hawaii
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oikawa
Ch1n4Sailor
I think the point you're missing is that 3.2 km is completely different depending on whether the aircraft were for example flying parallel with each other, in which case I would agree that wouldn't be too much cause for alarm, or if they were flying head on towards each other, in which case the distance would be covered in a matter of seconds by two jetliners and would probably be irreversible. Seeing as it has been called a near-miss I think it's assumed it was nearer the flying towards each scenario.
Posted in: FAA probes near collision between JAL, UPS planes over Hawaii
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oikawa
What is normal is that that is this person's life. It's very simple but some people take a long time to get it.
Posted in: Rainbow Pride
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oikawa
The wonders of imagination know no bounds.
Posted in: Gang robs 66 residences to get money for maid cafes, AKB48 concerts
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oikawa
Woah. In the bath for that one. Quite an experience.
Posted in: M5.8 quake jolts Kanto; no tsunami warning issued
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oikawa
irishosaru - how on earth would they have known your wife's, wife's sister's, mother's, and aunt's names? That's a much more advanced scam than an "ore ore" call. They wouldn't need to just say "ore" then, they could make it even more believable by saying "It's Satoshi" or whatever. Anyway your case sounds more like a vicious personal targeted attack to me. Much worse.
Posted in: 'It's me, send money' scam creator tells his story in new book
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oikawa
timeon, thanks for that article, very interesting. like it said and i said before most private schools have better results because of the nature of being private, picky and exclusive, with the weaker ones left behind. it has nothing to do with the sex of the students. I'd like to see them exclude all the girls from a public inner-city school in NY or London and see how well the boys that are left do then
Posted in: From late primary school to middle school, girls develop faster than boys both physically and mentally. So it's inefficient for boys and girls to take the same classes together because their mental ages are different.
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oikawa
Johanes Weber said it all. Intellectual age and emotional age are completely different. Even then "from late primary school to middle school" is such a short time it hardly seems worth worrying about. Of course girls mature physically a little earlier than boys. So what? In addition, I would hazard single-sex schools have a higher progresiion rate to University firstly because they are private and reap all the benefits that can entail, and secondly because the kind of parent that would send their kid to a private school would do so because they were serious about their child's education, and it's that attitude that leads to higher University admission rates for children of those parents. I don't think it has anyting to do at all specifically with being in a class without boys or girls.
Posted in: From late primary school to middle school, girls develop faster than boys both physically and mentally. So it's inefficient for boys and girls to take the same classes together because their mental ages are different.
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yasukuni
absolutely. and to think it was in fact only one person who even mentioned homosexuality in the first place. one person in a nation of 120 million... Good copy editor JT!
Posted in: AKB48 candy ad criticized for encouraging homosexuality
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oikawa
Smith
I might even pay your NHK fee for you.
Start a petition. Lesbians on NHK!
Posted in: AKB48 candy ad criticized for encouraging homosexuality
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oikawa
How can he be arrested? Officially nothing goes on in Soaplands apart from the "free love" that is generated by the woman and man during the "massage", unlike other places where sexual contact is an official part of the business.
Posted in: 'Soapland' manager arrested for hiring 13-year-old girl
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oikawa
Down boy
Posted in: Karasia
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oikawa
timtak
That's exactly the point though. You can't have it both ways and talk about "the cultural aspects of rape" and discuss ways of consent and norms of behaviour being different and then say he knew it was rape. The 3 points you made are then completely irrelevant. They'd only be relevant if there was genuine confusion on the part of the man.
Posted in: Life sentence stands for Ichihashi after he loses appeal
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oikawa
timtak, you can't make the points you did but then go on to say he thought he could get away with "raping" her.. you can't say on one hand that he thought he would get away with rape but on the other hand say he didn't think it was rape If it's rape it's rape, if someone is saying jokingly "no no you naughty boy" but is actually willing then it's not rape. simple
Posted in: Life sentence stands for Ichihashi after he loses appeal
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oikawa
At Gusto they should count themselves lucky they got some soup with their needle.
Posted in: Needle found in soup at Gusto restaurant in Tochigi
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oikawa
Smith, what is the relevance of different recording methods? The facts are easily attainable now about past events. Like you say though, governments and power companies spread the lie that is was "unprecedented" to defend their interests, and as I said in my first post it is sad, and very worrisome how easily people believe continually perpetuated lies.
Posted in: NHK tsunami documentary wins Peabody Award
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oikawa
Ah_so
You too..
Firstly we are just talking about the size of the tsunami here.
Did you miss the article which even appeared on this website I think where a woman spoke of surviving 3 tsunamis along that coast, including the last one?
Did you miss reading about the 1933 earthquake and tsunami which recorded 28 metre high waves?
Did you miss reading about the 1896 earthquake which produced 38 metre high waves and killed 27,000 people?
Posted in: NHK tsunami documentary wins Peabody Award