JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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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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- Full-time English Teacher - Osaka
- Epion English Language Schools, Osaka
- Salary: ¥200,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month Depending on your ability and experience
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- Part-time English Teacher - Osaka
- Epion English Language Schools, Osaka
- Salary: ¥10,000 ~ ¥15,000 / Day Depending on how many days a week are worked
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papasmurfinjapan
Wow, it almost makes me feel guilty about not paying the NHK fee.
Posted in: NHK to broadcast live programs shot with an ultra high sensitivity camera for first time in TV history
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papasmurfinjapan
Why did they even start?
Posted in: Sharp to stop sales of Galapagos tablets
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papasmurfinjapan
People "catch" fish too, do they not? To grab something that is trying to get away from you is to "catch" it. I see no problem with the English here.
Posted in: Japan says it has caught 195 whales in northwest Pacific
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papasmurfinjapan
They are researching how whale tastes, so that makes everything okay.
Posted in: Japan says it has caught 195 whales in northwest Pacific
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papasmurfinjapan
"Booth babe?" lol.
I wonder if that's what they write on their resumes.
Posted in: Are you game?
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papasmurfinjapan
@ Elbuda Mexicano
Filling out immigration papers to enter Thailand is hardly the same as having the gender X stamped on your passport. Immigration papers are for domestic use, so countries are free to ask whatever questions they want on them. A passport is a document for international use, and obviously needs to conform to international standards. My question is, how many other countries offer "X" as an option on the passport application?
What happens when you visit another country and the immigration official didn't get the memo that in Australia they now have gender X as well as M and F? Wouldn't that lead to more discrimination?
Posted in: 'X' now a gender option in Australian passports
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papasmurfinjapan
Perhaps in 10 years you'll be able to buy this for 10,000 yen and plug it into your iphone. It would be a cool toy.
Posted in: Hitachi unveils headset to study brain activity
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papasmurfinjapan
@smithinjapan
I think the point is when you look like a girl but your passport says you are a man (think haruna ai), immigration gets a bit suspicious - maybe they think it's a fake passport, the person's a nutter etc..
If the passport says they are transgender, then the hope is that the immigration process should go much smoother. Perhaps that is how it will work when entering Australia, but I wonder how other countries will treat Australia's decision to use X on the passport instead of the accepted global norm.
Posted in: 'X' now a gender option in Australian passports
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papasmurfinjapan
Are they happy being labelled as "X"? Why not "T" for transgender?
I can understand this for people born with gender identity disorder, but does it also cover those who simply make a conscious choice to convert to the other sex?
Posted in: 'X' now a gender option in Australian passports
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papasmurfinjapan
It just made everyone more paranoid.
Posted in: Ten years after 9/11, do you think the world is a safer place?
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papasmurfinjapan
It's a typo. They left out the question mark. Japan? Next!... my odds are on South Korea.
Posted in: 'Cool Japan'
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papasmurfinjapan
Well it's definitely "Japan", but it ain't "cool".
Posted in: 'Cool Japan'
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papasmurfinjapan
Did she actually have anything to do with the creation of the book, or was she just hired by the publisher to be on the cover so it would sell more copies?
Posted in: Actress Yuko Takeuchi releases cookbook
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papasmurfinjapan
I don't know what "salaryman" this article is talking about, but I don't see how a typical salaryman earning 5-6 million yen a year could ever afford to spend that amount on schooling.
Posted in: Salarymen families assess pros and cons of international schooling
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papasmurfinjapan
Only half?
Posted in: Half of world's PCs use pirated software: survey
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papasmurfinjapan
No offense, but the media really milks 9/11 for every last drop of sympathy don't they? Yes it was a tragic loss of life, but there have been many, many more tragedies in recent history, the latest in Libya and South Sudan, that the world will never commemorate because to the media and no doubt much of the world, dead Libyans and Africans are just not as important as dead Americans.
Posted in: 9/11 leaves a legacy of psychiatric trauma, stress
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papasmurfinjapan
@ Oracle,
I'll just reiterate what I said before - it seems nothing I believe or say will change your views (not that that is my purpose) that this man's desire to - let's quote the article this time - commit "sexual acts" with a 15 year old is entirely natural. I find it unnatural due to the fact that he, bar some mental illness, is an emotionally mature man whereas she on the other hand, as a pubescent 15yr old is most probably not fully emotionally developed. Two immature kids fooling around is one thing, an adult taking advantage of a girl (regardless of whether or not it was her advertising herself - kids do foolish things) is another.
If you have no problems with that, then fine. Like I said, it is a moral choice. Whether it is against the law or not is beside the point, but you should be aware of the consequences. I'm not sure if you have a teenage daughter, but if you found out she was doing "sexual acts" with a 50yr old, I doubt you would treat it the same as if she was doing it with a kid from her school.
Posted in: Teacher arrested for paying junior high school girl for sex act
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papasmurfinjapan
I'm sorry if you interpret my post as saying such. I said I find it unnatural that a 50yr old man deliberately seeks out a minor for sex when no doubt he could have chosen from hundreds, if not thousands of women who are over the legal age online offering their services. Now if he was legitimately looking for someone "of age" and was genuinely fooled by the girl, then fair enough... but I find that hard to swallow, if you excuse the pun.
I have no problem with a 15yr old doing whatever she likes with a 16 or 17 year old boy. I think you will find statutory rape laws take the age difference into account. If you can't see a moral difference between two teenagers having sex, and a 50yr old man having sex with a teenager, then there is really nothing I can say to persuade you otherwise. It is a moral judgement, which not all people agree on.
Unless I am mistaken, the original article said he paid cash for sex. They seem to have updated the article with different wording. Whether it was actual "sex" or "fellatio" or whatever, when it occurs between a 50yr old teacher and a 15yr old girl, it is all inappropriate, is it not?
Posted in: Teacher arrested for paying junior high school girl for sex act
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papasmurfinjapan
It's one thing to be attracted to teenagers. It's another thing to have sex with them when there are no doubt plenty of other women of age willing to offer their services.
Posted in: Teacher arrested for paying junior high school girl for sex act
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papasmurfinjapan
True, but I think most prefectures set their their own age of consent. I'm not sure what Kanagawa's is. Isn't Tokyo's 17?
Posted in: Teacher arrested for paying junior high school girl for sex act