JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Financial Advisor
- Select Asset Management KK, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥100,000 ~ ¥999,999 Paid Training Commission Based
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- Corporate Business English Trainers
- ACT Systems, Inc.（株式会社アクト・システムズ）, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥269,500 ~ ¥280,000 / Month
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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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plasticmonkey
@mikehuntez--The Dutch are not the ones doing most of the dope smoking; foreign tourists are. I do agree with the rest of your post though. And the Dutch are starting to get more serious about their "tolerance".
Posted in: Dutch detain 12 Somalis on terror suspicions
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plasticmonkey
It's Christmas time. I thought Christians were supposed to feel joy. Almost all these BDLJapan people look miserable. Their trucks look not much different from the right wing thug-mobiles. The voice over the PA is monotone and carries not one ounce of good cheer.
People are allowed to believe what they believe, and say what they say, including me. I have never insisted that these people be barred from proselytizing, or that religion should be wiped out as was tried in the Soviet Union and China. But I don't like the idea that these BDL people can spread their joyless monotone message and everyone else is just supposed to shut up about it. That's one-sided and it is not productive. I believe in good honest debate, and there has been some on this thread, which I'm happy about.
Posted in: Waiting for a sign
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plasticmonkey
@Mocheake--I understand Christianity very well and I don't believe it. I believe it is nonsense. That is my right to say, as it is your right to express your belief. I am not 'trampling' on these people. I find standing on a street corner and telling people they're going to hell extremely insulting and arrogant, especially when it comes from a pre-recorded message delivered over a megaphone. Would you be happy to hear the same sort of thing from a group of Muslims? Hari Krishnas? Satanists?
Well, if that happens, then you can gloat all you want with your true Christian spirit and be glad you got with the winning team and didn't end up in hell with people who didn't sign on the dotted line. As for me, if there really is a God who is that simple minded and obviously sadistic, my sense of morality will refuse servility to him.
Happy Holidays!
Posted in: Waiting for a sign
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plasticmonkey
These people are all over Tokyo. They belong to BDLJapan and they're really creepy. It's all about using the prospect of hell to scare people into believing Jesus. Brainwashed miserable weirdos who use their kids to hold up signs and speakers and put a damper on the Christmas spirit.
Posted in: Waiting for a sign
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plasticmonkey
I have no problem with selling this. People were laughing at the Nazis with Hogan's Heroes in the 60s. The holocaust was a horror, and nothing to laugh at. But the symbols that attracted ordinary and reasonable people toward fascism, that is laughable, and ought to be laughed at. We humans take ourselves far too seriously. We're idiots and way too big for our britches. Don Quixote is selling a costume, not a uniform. Nobody's glorifying it. As Bobbafet pointed out, does anybody complain when someone wears a Conquistador outfit? It's pathetic that anyone has to apologize for this, but I understand why they have to.
Posted in: Retailer Don Quijote pulls Nazi outfit after complaint
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plasticmonkey
This is what you get when you mix antirational religion, crass commercialism, and a gullible populace -- 77 graduates of Kiddy Land’s Santa Claus Academy marching through Harajuku.
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plasticmonkey
She has been chosen to be very popular. And all the sheeple say amen. BTW what is a 'national wife'?
Posted in: Nao Matsushita to play detective in Fuji TV drama
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plasticmonkey
i.e. even the cookies couldn't keep them together
Posted in: Leah Dizon to split from husband of two years
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plasticmonkey
Tiger: "I thought you said your driver was bigger than mine."
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plasticmonkey
I think he likes her. This relationship is going somewhere.
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plasticmonkey
I'd love to live like the French, and now these protesters are making socialists look like a bunch of whiners. Stop it already, and let us envy you.
Posted in: French strikes hit airlines, trucking, gas pumps
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plasticmonkey
The most natural and indigenous things in this picture get taken out. Oh the irony. Whatever happened to the "I want to live with many animals" sentiment in Japan?
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plasticmonkey
Klein2, well said. June Cleaver was the passive/aggressive every man would love in his dream/nightmare. She was all clean and cool even when Ward went a little hard on the Beaver.
Posted in: 'Leave It to Beaver' mom Barbara Billingsley dies at 94
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plasticmonkey
Why couldn't they just catch and rehabilitate this poor brute? It could have become a productive member of nature.
Posted in: Bear shot dead after entering Yamagata junior high school
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plasticmonkey
What a bold statement. Go Kan! I'm going to think about possibly going to bed now . . .
Posted in: Kan says freeing Chinese Nobel winner 'desirable'
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plasticmonkey
Congratulations to the Japanese people. They deserve to give themselves a hearty media slap on the back, over and over and over.
Posted in: 2 Japanese, American researchers share chemistry Nobel Prize
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plasticmonkey
I want the Austin Powers jumbo!
Posted in: Delta upgrading Boeing 747-400 fleet with new interiors
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plasticmonkey
Excuse me, but is this journalism? How can this be reported as though it were undisputed fact?
Posted in: Tokyo metropolitan government launches Bureau of Sports
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plasticmonkey
i.e. people with Japanese blood were done wrong -- Yukie really does have her work cut out for her. Let's hope there's a good weepy background score.
Posted in: Yukie Nakama masters a few tricks
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plasticmonkey
It's refreshing to see someone succeeding mostly on her looks. I'm tired of all these talented stars in Japan.
Posted in: Full speed ahead for Saki Fukuda