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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pawatan
Maybe it reversed! Losing 3 in a row at home with a 2-0 lead sure sounds like a choke to me.
Posted in: Hawks blank Dragons 5-0 to take Japan Series lead
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pawatan
Yah, it's was a train joke in response to train joke.
Posted in: Nozomi Ohashi sparkles at Takashimaya Nihonbashi Christmas event
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pawatan
Nah, that's her brother HAYABUSA.
Posted in: Nozomi Ohashi sparkles at Takashimaya Nihonbashi Christmas event
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pawatan
Wow, billyshears! Where did that rant come from?
9 players total hit over 300. Last year 27 qualifying players hit over 300. The ball was changed between last year and this year, so I don't think the skill levels have gone down!
??? Do you just not like how people play in NPB or something?
All of them, though it's unlikely many were taking them to begin with - it's not the drug-riddled US, you know!
Posted in: Hawks blank Dragons 5-0 to take Japan Series lead
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pawatan
billyshears
Nah, it was down this year but mostly the power numbers. Last year was an outlier in the other direction, so many guys hit well.
Posted in: Hawks blank Dragons 5-0 to take Japan Series lead
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pawatan
More like Chunichi is showing exactly how ancient they are. They've got some, ahem, "veteran" players on that team.
And just curious, why wasn't anybody posting pro-Hawks stuff when they were down 2-0?
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pawatan
herefornow
What are you talking about? Don't confuse your incessant negativity with my realism. I am pro-Japan on many (most) things but if there is something to criticize, I criticize. I don't know the last time you said anything positive about Japan, especially since you left.
I didn't say anything in my post that was different from what I had said before. And I notice your rant about Japan not doing anything regarding rice shipments from Fukushima was posted after the government had already banned shipments.
So know you are freely admitting that the government has been releasing information? You were recently claiming that they had not done so. But this conclusion was reached months ago, anyway - food shipments were banned, it was just reversed later. Clearly this was not the best idea.
Posted in: Gov't eyes Fukushima rice ban after high level of cesium detected
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pawatan
herefornow, if you bothered to remember what I wrote weeks ago - and I know you read it, you love to read what I write, apparently - you'll see how I mentioned that it is impossible for any food testing regime to catch all bad food as the food is sampled from larger lots, not all can conceivably be tested. It's not reasonable to expect a perfect record in catching contaminated food, and it's a good thing that further tests were conducted and the contaminated food was caught.
But really, the clear answer is that food shipments from anywhere near Fukushima Daiichi need to stop (and the farmers losing their income compensated) as there's just too much contamination to risk ship.ping food. Use the fallout estimated the government provided months ago as a basis to decide the areas to be banned.
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pawatan
They still don't work if you click on them, which I would assume means you still haven't read them. You gotta cut and paste in your browser.
You may not have a say in the matter; that's what's meant by injustice, you know. As you eloquently stated earlier in these comments some may lump all foreigners together - who's to say you won't be mistaken for an overstayer, detained, treated badly? Who's going to speak up for you and your rights then?
Posted in: The case of Abubakar Awudu Suraj: A PR nightmare of Japan’s own making
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pawatan
tmarie
Sasoriza's links work fine. You should read them, you most likely don't know about the issues already and could learn something.
Really? An article in the paper, investigation complete, is that it? I sincerely hope you or your family is not the victim of injustice either here or anywhere else and you get to learn what it's like when nobody in authority will listen or care.
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pawatan
They are quite frequently a bit too eager to do their JOB that people get killed. You don't see this from professionals such as the FBI, who deal with very violent criminals but somehow manage to not kill people. But keystone cops like those in Oakland and frequently in Japan do manage to end up with a body count.
PLEASE tell me how a cuffed and restrained man being deported can resist enough to require such violence to further calm down that he ends up DEAD. Is this not even a bit suspicious to you? Or is it just cops = A-OK, full stop?
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pawatan
smith
Well, I wasn't referring to the Fire but to other Android pads. Iconia Tab, Eee Transformer and the like. ASUS has a new Tegra 3 based Transformer pad launching soon that looks like it could be a real game changer. Fire is kind of a different beast. Personally I like the Android phones much, much better than the iOS phones, but of course it's personal preference.
ITunes has been in a lot of households for a long time but it has some critical flaws, such as your related device being tied to that machine, only running on Windows/OSX (no Linux!), lack of support for many file formats. Amazon MP3 market has eroded a lot of iTunes's dominance in the countries where it is available (Japan doesn't count, the MP3 market on Amazon Japan is awful) so it's not inconceivable that Google could further erode that.
In the end more choice is better than less, ne?
Posted in: Google opens music store in challenge to Apple
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pawatan
THIS. Companies are just completely missing the boat with their region blocking. It just impedes sales, and determined people can still get around it.
Though I wouldn't say Apple is particularly original. In design, sure, but in the electronics they do a really good job of marketing high priced stuff that has the same functionality as cheaper stuff.
Posted in: Google opens music store in challenge to Apple
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pawatan
Wow, those free Busta Rhymes tracks are a game changer! Apple should be quaking in fear.
Posted in: Google opens music store in challenge to Apple
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pawatan
kaketama, nobody has ICS yet. I'm sure it will be pushed out over the next few months as the source is already out. I'm waiting for the ICS-based modded roms :)
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pawatan
I am not upset at the author because a detailed recitation of the known facts isn't necessary for the piece he wrote. I'm already aware of the scant known facts about the case. I'm sure some others are not, but information can be found with a few clicks on google to read some stories from international sources. But there isn't that much known - again, the point.
I'm not sure how long you have lived here or how many local friends you have made, but personally I haven't had any problems with people recognizing that I am a unique individual, not a a part of some collective gaijin hive. I'm sure there are plenty of people I don't know who will make all sorts of assumptions about who I am or any other foreigner is ("ah, you are a teacher, right?") but that can't be helped. I don't see how the DEATH of a foreigner in police custody (for whatever reason) affects that at all.
Posted in: The case of Abubakar Awudu Suraj: A PR nightmare of Japan’s own making
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pawatan
Wow, tmarie, give it up. I think you are stalking me now.
...only because it HASN'T BEEN INVESTIGATED. You seem to be skipping over this point. It's like asking over and over again why Mr Suraj just doesn't go back home to his country of origin now, completely neglecting that he's dead.
...And JT is investigating this case? Wow, that's news to me. Please give a link to an original piece of investigative journalism on this case or any other case by JT. This site has articles from external sources (mostly international when it comes to news) and opinion pieces. It's not an investigative news source, and you are very well aware of that.
Yes, this man made me look bad by DYING. I am ashamed to be seen in public now!
Posted in: The case of Abubakar Awudu Suraj: A PR nightmare of Japan’s own making
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pawatan
Wow, tmarie, give it up. I think you are stalking me now.
...only because it HASN'T BEEN INVESTIGATED. You seem to be skipping over this point. It's like asking over and over again why Mr Suraj just doesn't go back home to his country of origin now, completely neglecting that he's dead.
...And JT is investigating this case? Wow, that's news to me. Please give a link to an original piece of investigative journalism on this case or any other case by JT. This site has articles from external sources (mostly international when it comes to news) and opinion pieces. It's not an investigative news source, and you are very well aware of that.
Posted in: The case of Abubakar Awudu Suraj: A PR nightmare of Japan’s own making
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pawatan
Ben, that is exactly the point. Perhaps the man reacted too violently. Who knows. With the seeming lack of concern by the police and domestic press towards this issue we will never know.
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pawatan
Of course not, and neither does anybody else. That is exactly the point. His death is irregular yet there is no investigation, no domestic reporting on the issue. Shouldn't there be an investigation at least?
Few weeks? No. Few days? Yes.
And you can't NOT pin his death on them. No investigation, remember. Just a dead guy under suspicious circumstances. Don't you think this is a problem in Japan?
The international news. Not the domestic. Not in a police investigation.
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