JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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Confrontation
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U.S. Navy investigating how parts fell off aircraft near Atsugi
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California court to decide if SeaWorld whales are illegal 'slaves'
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Kuroki reported pregnant 2 weeks after denying relationship with Akanishi
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- Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) in Kanto region
- RCS (RCSコーポレーション), Kanto
- Salary: ¥180,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month includes performance bonus
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- Assistant Language Teacher - TOKYO - late-March start
- Interac, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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- Assistant Language Teacher - Kanagawa Prefecture - late-March start
- Interac, Kanagawa
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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Fair to middlin'
5 medals-no golds-after one gold in 2006 and only two medals in 2002.
Then again, any reasonably competitive country should benefit from the ever-increasing # of medal events in successive Games and win more medals overall.
Japan has got a lot of work to do to be better at the 2014 Winter Olympics.
Posted in: Japan won 5 medals at the Vancouver Winter Olympics. How would you assess the results?
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I used to like Masami Nagasawa back in her CM days, especially the Calario ones.
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Mao Kobayashi bids farewell to pinup days
There's a pretty substantial permanent body of evidence for the interested to view for years to come.
Posted in: Mao Kobayashi bids farewell to pinup days
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I prefer Naoko Tokuzawa.
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I don't care much for the appearance of Tokyo Tower, and the view is anybody's guess on a particular day or night. but it sure is a good place to take a girlfriend.
Posted in: Tokyo Tower vs Tokyo Sky Tree
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Akio Toyoda scored considerable points back in Japan with his televised "otoko noki" act.
I'd say he showed enough of the required regret and remorse for what has happened.
Toyota tried to get too big to be #1 in the world and forgot about some of the controls that helped make them a leader in quality and customer satisfaction.
And they really screwed by worrying about how many millions they could save with limited recalls to deal with only a part of their problems from a couple of years ago
They will recover after a down period, and many thousands of Americans whose jobs depend on Toyota's success certainly hope so, too.
Posted in: Cultures collide with Toyoda testimony
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Incidentally, sailwind, the U.S is broke if you haven't realized it, and we continue to try to remake the Middle East to be what we desire utilizing borrowed time and money. I can't see any conceivable way for us to keep occupying one country after the other in that part of the world after a few more years.
There are other ways to fight the war on terrorism without using the 9/11 tragedy for a decade or more for imperial adventures in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and who knows where next. Perhaps Iran?
We have a long and generally failed history post-WW II from Indochina to the ME at present of sticking our collective noses into geopolitical situations that we don't understand and, for the most part, have no real bearing on the defense of the U.S.
We never learn. I thought we had learned the lessons of Vietnam, but our conduct over the past decades proves otherwise.
I served in the U.S. Navy as you did. However, I don't feel the need to toe the company line with our ME policy in order to feel patriotic.
We have too many problems at home and continue to largely ignore them at our own peril.
Posted in: U.S. Marines, Afghan troops clear last pockets of resistance in Marjah
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sailwind wrote:
The leader in Kabul cannot create a viable, centralized state that subsumes the control of local leaders in the large numbers of tribal areas in Afghanistan. We don't have the money or forces-with or without our NATO allies-to stay in "cleared" areas and control them. Staying for much longer than another year or two in most areas of the country will ultimately have our forces viewed as occupational ones anyway.
The Afghan people, with all their diversity within the modern borders of their nation-will have to determine their future. We cannot do it. And what we think is best for us in our never-ending role as world policeman is not necessarily what they will do-not by a longshot.
Posted in: U.S. Marines, Afghan troops clear last pockets of resistance in Marjah
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These pro cheerleaders look good, but there are a lot more better looking women in Japan than in the U.S. in all age groups.
Posted in: American cheerleaders show Kansai their moves
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**U.S. Marines, Afghan troops clear last pockets of resistance in Marjah **
They'll be back in a couple of years in force. And the local leaders will find down the road that the drug trade is once again more lucrative when the U.S. payoffs dry up.
Posted in: U.S. Marines, Afghan troops clear last pockets of resistance in Marjah
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The Germans raced a better tactical race than the Japanese and squeaked out a gold medal in the end.
Japan finishes with 3 silvers and 2 bronze medals. If you follow the gold medal count determiner for the medal standings, Great Britain had a superior Games with its one gold medal for just one overall medal. Japan also finishes behind Australia, Belarus, and Slovakia using this system.
And to think that Japan's miserable failure at Torino in 2006 would also trump this year's overall performance because of Shizuka Arakawa's one gold medal.
Both ways of counting medal standings-gold medals and overall medals-should be considered equally important.
Posted in: Mixed emotions for Japan after women's team pursuit silver
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Short-track speedskating: too many collisions and DQs. A marginal Olympic sport.
Posted in: Ohno earns bronze in relay, disqualified in 500 in wild night of short track
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Kim Yu-Na: A beautiful woman and a skating superstar. Congratulations on the gold medal!
Congratulations also to Mao Asada and Joannie Rochette on their well-deserved medals.
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The long track speed skating is the "pure" skating sport.
The short track is there for entertainment and to increase the number of medal events years ago to raise the number of days of Winter Olympics coverage for the networks broadcasting them.
It is a marginal Olympic sport at best.
There are always going to be problems with accidents in this so-called sport, and someone is going to get screwed over at times, depending on your point of view.
The Koreans take big chances in their pursuit of short track golds. Sometimes you win, sometimes you bite the dust.
Posted in: China wins women's short track 3,000-meter relay after S Korea disqualified
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The simple fact of the matter is that short track speedskating is a marginal Olympic sport at best.
The Koreans take a lot of chances with their skating style. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.
A "deliberate" call on the part of an Australian referee to give the Chinese a gold medal. Dream on.
Posted in: China wins women's short track 3,000-meter relay after S Korea disqualified
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**Figure skating gets more attention than Toyota's problems in Japan **
As it should.
The average person can't do anything about the Toyota safety scandal.
But out of the scanty good news Japan gets from these Games, most Japanese can take immense pride in their top-notch female figure skaters.
Posted in: Figure skating gets more attention than Toyota's problems in Japan
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As the Japanese see their economy decline and their population with it, China will increasingly be the target, and Japanese attempts to lead in Asia through various organizations will be rebuffed by China as well.
Japan knows that China will almost certainly dominate Asia in the 21st century, and Japan will have to kowtow to the Chinese as the years pass.
Posted in: Magazine airs anxieties over China's burgeoning economic clout
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"anxiety-tinged headline"
"hordes of tourists"
"the fate of Japan’s corporations, its real estate, its food supply—even its women."
"purchases are raising national security concerns"
"Not even Japanese names are safe from the onslaught"
"With marriage becoming increasingly globalized, this represents a new and ominous portent for already beleaguered Japanese males."
This article=Yellow Journalism by the Japanese about the Chinese.
The Japanese are just as capable of this as the American press was a century ago to effect immigration law changes to exclude Asians and foment attacks on those already in the U.S.
Most Japanese don't want Chinese in their country other than in strictly-controlled, subservient roles, and things will probably worsen as time passes.
Sounds like history is repeating itself to some extent across the Pacific in the 21st century.
Posted in: Magazine airs anxieties over China's burgeoning economic clout
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China is merely reasserting its dominance vis-a-vis Japan as was true throughout much of the thousands of years of their recorded histories.
The Chinese have long memories and Japan will still be held accountable for its conduct to the Chinese in the first half of the 20th century.
Three decades of ODA as war reparations by another name is not enough.
What goes round, comes round, Japan.
Posted in: Magazine airs anxieties over China's burgeoning economic clout
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The U.S. invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan will eventually be regarded by most as colossal failures.
We cannot win. No matter what things may look like in 2010, even with rosy assessments and positive future projections galore, the U.S. will lose.
It is just a matter of time.
Posted in: NATO air strike kills 33 civilians in Afghanistan