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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poollymook
65 years old is not elderly! Is that word (elderly) being used as an excuse for her complete and utter stupidity?
Posted in: Elderly woman transfers Y29 million to man posing as son in trouble
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poollymook
Maybe she thought she was Mary Poppins. I lived in Niagara Falls and you just do not do that. I'd love to have typed in all caps for that but you get my message. It just does not happen. If locals had been around, they'd have told her to get the hell down. Unfortunate stupid accident. Darwinism at its best.
Posted in: Niagara Falls search for Japanese woman turns up man's body
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poollymook
Just get them to swim over and they won't have to worry about the extra dose of radiation once they reach dry land! As for food and whatnot, I'm pretty sure irradiated J food is still a heck of a lot healthier than most of what them 'Mericans stuff in their mouths.
Posted in: If someone you know was wondering whether or not to visit Japan in the near future, but was worried about the nuclear crisis, would you encourage them to come?
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poollymook
Really? I've had people hand me money here in Japan PLENTY of times! The Japanese are famous for that. Over the course of my first few years here I had received a total of at least 350,000円 from a variety of my adult students for a variety of reasons...from: "You're going home for Christmas? Take your family out!"...to..."enjoy your trip." etc. No funny things going on, just kindness of people. Believe it or not...
Posted in: Donors hand envelopes with cash to evacuees in Ishinomaki
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poollymook
Lilas is how her name is spelled. It's the lilac flower (in French).
Posted in: Sawajiri's mother says Erika apologized to ex-husband's parents for divorce
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poollymook
Haha! United is a joke! This musician wrote some songs about his bad experience with the airline. They broke his guitar and gave him the runaround. Crap service is right!
http://www.davecarrollmusic.com/music/ubg-videos/
Posted in: UAL, Continental shareholders approve airline deal
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poollymook
The Seibu Shinjuku sen is absolutely bonkers during rush hour heading into town! The punk was more than likely talking i Hiroshi's ear.
If you are going to talk back, pick your fight well...that's all I have to say! Oh...and the guy on the phone is a wanker.
Hiroshi-1 Wanker-0
Posted in: Man punched in face by fellow train commuter over phone manners
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poollymook
It takes two to tango...the are both cows.
Posted in: Uno Kanda announces separation from husband
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poollymook
He would have been drunk and beat up if it'd been me he made tumble!
Posted in: Pair sustain minor injuries after tumble down Ginza subway escalator
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poollymook
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betterdays...couldn't agree with you more. Especially considering he's a man and police officer, hopefully a bit 'bigger' than the average bear. I'm a woman and even I don't consider 5 beers and 500 mls of sake to be all that much! Hell...a lot of the guys I know can down a whole case (24) of beer and still function!
Posted in: Iwate police officer beats girlfriend after drunken birthday celebration
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poollymook
hey, I thought I had 8,400 yen on my card...what the...??! oh yeah, this Relet thing...
Posted in: Pocket balance
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poollymook
Had something like this happened to me on a train, I could not for the life of me imagine reacting in that way. Additionally, I have trouble believing the purported reaction of her fellow passengers:
Most passengers could care less about what others around them are saying and/or doing. A woman fainted in front of me two days ago and myself and a Japanese woman came to her help. The other passengers were walking over and around us to get off the train! This story sounds like a complete fabrication to me. An uninteresting one at that!
Life coach? Sounds like she needs to sign up for some of her own lessons!
Posted in: Train shame
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poollymook
...If I had a million dollars...
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poollymook
I don't know if meth is an issue here...
i just think it was a stupid mom not thinking (as many 'people' in this country...BTW, no comment on being Japanese or whatnot...) of anything else but right 'now.'
Let's get a proper education system going on in the schools that calls for people actually having to make decisions and choices ON THEIR OWN, through true learning and experience as opposed to having them all made up for them a priori!
This educational system is lacking! Let's try to get a bit pro-active here and take responsibility. Does anyone in the Japanese government even read this board!?
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poollymook
The mom is sick, that's beyond doubt but we do not know her circumstance. Whether she be on drugs, not had a meal in a couple days, or in want of the latest LV bag...
The bottom line is, the Japanese governemnt NEEDS to start taking steps to providing real assistance to families, especially single parent families; i.e. those most in need. Ready access to affordable and reasonable day-care, to mental health professionals (I'm under the impression that visits to the psych. are NOT covered under Jp. Public Health Insurance...is that correct?), to more woman's shelters, to 'soup kitchens', to more subsidised housing for the elderly and home-care.
Every time something like this happens I give my head a shake and wonder why the government does not take real action as opposed to their cockanany bandaid solutions (one example is the recent article here or in JT...sorry if my details are not spot-on but something about offering suicide counselling at HelloWork stations...by whom? average joe civil servants? qualified health professionals? Get the pros. in hospitals where people can have conselling paid for by the government.)
How do they expect the declining birth rate to even start to recoup? Never in a million years with the current lack of social programs.
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poollymook
I really doubt that the woman had an intial poor reaction! To me that smells of someone prone to panic. Her reaction of "catching" the boy shows quick thinking and a degree of calm...not something a frantic person with a case of the screaming meemies would do.
Why do posters have to read into things and make up little scenarios? Let your imaginations run wild!!
Posted in: Woman catches 10-year-old boy who falls from 3rd-floor window
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poollymook
Absolutely no excuse! "I didn't know there were lights"...right! How about lifting your head up and looking straight ahead to see three little kids a few meters in front of you. What a lame duck excuse! Throw the book at the ol' geezer!
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poollymook
5Speedracer5...are you kidding me?
"drop 10000 yen a person on a dinner for the sake of art,"
What kind of 'art' are you talking about? Sounds like you've got velvet Elvis on your place...since when does 10,000 yen in Tokyo buy anything even closely resembling 'art'?
Posted in: Tokyo crowned new gourmet capital by Michelin
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poollymook
Okubo and Shin Okubo are both within Shunjuku Ward. Has anyone stopped to think for a second that the victim MAY have been a Chinese national too? Duh...
Posted in: Woman attacked, robbed in her Tokyo apartment