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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"Double" suggests a sort of ethnic superiority, and seems rather absurd to me.
I won't be around to see it, but, someday, these types of conversations will be meaningless as all of humanity will be shaded to one degree or another.
Posted in: Bicultural jazz singer Emi Meyer explores her Japanese side
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This is another step in the right direction for Japan and the diversity of the Japanese people.
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The news right now says Daisuke Matsuzaka will miss at least one start because of his shoulder and will have an MRI soon. Bad news for the Red Sox. It's too bad the WBC was more important to Matsuzaka than his real team, the employer that he has a contractual commitment to and paid $103 million for 6 years for his services.
Posted in: Kawakami outpitches Matsuzaka as Braves win
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They should continue to teach it and students will learn the exceptions gradually.
Weird.
Posted in: British government spells end of 'i before e' rule
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**Truck bomb kills more than 70 in northern Iraq **
The surge in violence will continue as American forces are withdrawn to Afghanistan, Pakistan and others.
The competing groups have been regrouping and biding their time til most of the Americans hightail it out of the country over the next year or two.
What group will dominate Iraq in the next decade? And who will be the next Saddam Hussein to lead them?
Hundreds of billions of dollars down the drain, thousands of lives lost on the American side, tens of thousands of Iraqis killed...for what?
WMDs? Saddam connection to Al-Qaeda and 9/11? Saddam tried to kill 43's daddy? The scramble for oil? A rollback of the so-called Islamofascists? A benevolent bestowal of American-style peace, freedom, and democracy for the Iraqi people?
What a sick joke this has all been, aided and abetted by the rinky-dink American electoral system in 2000, and the brain-dead majority of the electorate in 2004.
Sickening. And now as Bush's Iraq War enters its final years, Obama's expands in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Passages from "The Quiet American" keep popping into my mind.
What a terrible shame about the many who died in this attack.
Posted in: Iraqi police say truck bombing has al-Qaida signature
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Yu Darvish is not a "kid." He's a grown man with a family.
He would be a good MLB starter right now. He has that kind of stuff. Whether he can stay healthy and wants a career in MLB down the road is another thing altogether.
Anyway, Darvish is already quite an inspiration for many "haafu" kids like Koji Murofushi was earlier this decade in successive Summer Olympics.
Recently I'm thinking it more likely he will wind up in the Tokyo Dome for the Yomiuri Giants say...around 2012.
At the least, he'll tire of Sapporo in a few years, and need to be center stage in Japan in the Tokyo market, and for his wife as well.
Posted in: Japanese pitcher Darvish to release book
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It's pretty simple: Matsuzaka has a ton of of wear and tear on his arm at age 28 from the misuse and abuse of it from HS through his years with Seibu and on to MLB, culminating in the idiotic, selfish decision to pitch for Japan in the preseason WBC, all the while ignoring the pleas of the Red Sox to follow a specific off-season training program for his shoulder-which caused him to miss some time in 2008.
I would be very surprised if he doesn't need some surgery this year, and I would be even more suprised if he ever returns to his previous form of being a dominant power pitcher. People like Dr. James Andrews in the U.S. can perform near-miracles on athletes' bodies these days, so one never knows, but I do know that no pitcher should ever be signed to a contract anywhere near 6 years in duration as Matsuzaka was by the Red Sox.
We'll see what further return they get on their investment through 2012.
Posted in: Kawakami outpitches Matsuzaka as Braves win
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**Britain to conduct long-awaited Iraq war inquiry **
Conclusion: The invasion of Iraq by the U.S., Great Britain, and a few other members of the so-called Coalition of the Willing was based on lies and more lies for the U.S. to expand its geopolitical control over a much-coveted natural resource-rich country in the Middle East, and to use it as a steppingstone for overt and covert actions to dominate as much of the region as possible for the foreseeable future.
Posted in: Britain to conduct long-awaited Iraq war inquiry
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Just say no to baseball and softball! If it's really necessary to expand the number of sports in the Games, let's give a couple of other ones a chance.
Posted in: Olympic bid sports aim to impress IOC leaders
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We keep seeing stories like this scumbag sexually assaulting young girls. It's not like this kind of crime wasn't widespread in the past; it's just being reported more accurately and commented on more frequently as should be the case.
Posted in: Chiba man admits to assaulting over 100 young girls
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Hawkeye: Thanks for taking the bait hook, line and sinker. Semantics aside, I'll just use the popular, albeit grammatically dubious expression, "It was what it was."
Sydenham: Yes, I think the Emperor should visit Yasukuni Shrine annually, even though his father strongly disagreed with the decision to enshrine certain war criminals and stopped going three decades ago.
The decision-presumably by the Imperial Household Agency-for the Emperor and Empress not to visit Pearl Harbor is a wrong one.
I shed a few tears on the USS Arizona Memorial. It would do the Emperor some good to do the same at Yasukuni Shrine and Pearl Harbor each year.
Hopefully, he will feel sincere regret for the actions of his father and the militarists who controlled Japan at the time of WWII and launched a catastrophic conflict that resulted in the deaths of millions, including so many of the Emperor's own subjects.
Americans should never forget Pearl Harbor, and they should make sure the Japanese do not, either.
Posted in: Emperor, empress to participate in wreath-laying ceremony in Hawaii
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It's a shame they don't have the courage to go and honor the memory of so many that his father sent to their deaths with his approval of a cruel, calculated sneak attack.
Remember Pearl Harbor!
Posted in: Emperor, empress to participate in wreath-laying ceremony in Hawaii
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I went there several years ago and it was a very moving experience.
Posted in: Emperor, empress to participate in wreath-laying ceremony in Hawaii
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North Korea does not have the capability to confront other countries anywhere in the world with nuclear weapons, and, even if they did possess a stockpile they could deliver to the doorsteps of their enemies, such an act would result in their prompt and utter destruction-a no-win situation.
Patience and negotiation is the way to go with North Korea.
Posted in: Do you fear a nuclear confrontation between the West and North Korea?
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They should can the whole line of products.
It would take quite the self-indulgent person to regularly drink the stuff.
Posted in: Suntory to widen distribution for canned Starbucks coffee
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**N Korea warns of nuclear war amid rising tensions **
North Korea has shown no ability to place a nuclear warhead on a capable missile and deliver it anywhere in the world against so-called adversaries.
North Korea's top people are not interested in annihilation. They simply want to bargain to get what makes life sustainable for them and the people in the military who protect them, and control the millions of poor, brainwashed subjects.
Posted in: N Korea warns of nuclear war amid rising tensions
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A very good post, Azrael.
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I'm partial to JAL because I had a girlfriend for a couple of years who worked for them.
I've never cared much for the American airlines. There are simply too many lazy, rude flight attendants working for them. You can get lucky and find a diamond in the rough here and there, but, an overall thumbs down.
Posted in: In your experience, which airline has the best flight attendants and which one has the worst?
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She needs a Mega-Mac.
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She'd be useful in a countryside garden to keep the karasu away.
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