JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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To be healthy, live in the big city
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Japan's nuclear safety standards flawed, says commission chief
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Teacher nabbed for using miror to peek up girl's skirt
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From carnivores to herbivores: how men are defined in Japan
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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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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Betzee, yes good point; not all, but many politicians just want to scrape by until the next election and not deal with real problems, for example pension benefits. But as the boomers are now outnumbered it is time to tackle that mess and the answer is quite simple, make the boomers work an extra 5 years.
Obama has gone out out a limb with the bailout but he was pushed out there on the limb and being newly elected he has time before he has to start worrying about another election.
Posted in: Obama signs massive economic stimulus bill
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I would not be surprised if the DOW bottomed out at 5000 but don't blame Obama, blame the people that inflated the economy after the tech bubble instead of letting the economy go through a normal recession at that time to clear out the dead wood. A recession delayed, is a depression earned.
Posted in: Obama signs massive economic stimulus bill
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I hate OEM versions of Windows! If the Microsoft store sells PCs that come with the Microsoft installation disk, that is where I would buy a PC.
Posted in: Microsoft to open chain of retail stores
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It is fascinating how a country that prides itself in freedom can place so much stock in 1 person. I think it is difficult to compare modern presidents with those of the past as attitudes to leadership have changed. Surveys show that the majority of Americans want to follow and not have to think about things so much, I don't think it used to be like that even 100 years ago when I believe people expected the president to follow the will of the people.
Posted in: Lincoln ranked best president by historians
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Microsoft sure needs the help in the marketing department.
Posted in: Microsoft to open chain of retail stores
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Nice photo.
Posted in: Bird in the hand
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I don't think Israel's demand is unreasonable. Seems rather fair minded.
What will be the response of the West if the new Israeli government contains extremists that urge ethnic cleansing? Will the same restrictions that were applied that were imposed on the elected Palestinian government that was compose of Hamas members?
Posted in: Israel says no truce without release of captured soldier
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If only Sony would issue a fully hackable version, I would buy a PSP tomorrow.
Posted in: Sony PSP game console sales tops 50 million units
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That was not a specific example, much like your claim that garlic is a spice; it is a vegetable. However, some people are allergic to garlic and people with asthma may have a severe attack induced by ingesting garlic. There is virtually no food, herbs and spices included that does not induce an allergic reaction in some people. I do not believe the FDA would allow any company to sell food with "secret ingredients" or else the Chinese baby food producers could claim melamine as a secret ingredient. The "secret recipe" is PR B.S.
Posted in: Colonel's secret recipe in new, safer vault at KFC
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This may sound stupid but, isn't there laws requiring companies to disclose ingredients to consumers? If one of the "secret" spices was ground up peanut and a customer died from apocalyptic shock KFC would get sued out of business for not disclosing the ingredients. If there isn't such a law, there should be.
Posted in: Colonel's secret recipe in new, safer vault at KFC
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When will the bloodshed ever end? Good question. It will be "interesting" and probably sad to what happens in Iraq over the next year. Obama has a ticklish situation on his hands. If he is going to pull out he had better do it ASAP but that still leaves him an easy target politically. To dodge those arrows, I think he needs to pull out and go on the political offensive and try and get criminal convictions of some of the former administration members because when things go down hill he can point and say it is all the fault of those criminals. If Obama stays he will be committing himself to the "empire" politics of the neocons and bucking the wishes of his supporters. I don't think even Obama has the political charisma to keep thousands of Americans indefinitely in hostile territory and expect his supporters to stay on board.
Posted in: 4 U.S. soldiers killed in suicide attack in Mosul
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So, the generals are commander in chief? The US has a huge government spending problem something has to give.
Posted in: Obama weighing 23-month Iraq withdrawal option
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How are they going to finance this?
Posted in: Senators reach deal to cut Obama's economic stimulus bill to $780 billion
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What? A broken promise?
Posted in: Obama weighing 23-month Iraq withdrawal option
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That is a heck of a lot of sex offenders. Wikipedia indicates that 5.5% of sex offenders released from prison in the US end up back in prison for another sex offense and a total of 48% of sex offenders will be rearrested for some kind of offense vs, 68% for all people released from prison.
I would sure like to know if there are any child molesters around where I live!
But I do think it is rather problematic to include people found guilty of statutory rape in with child molesters and rapists. Many jurisdictions do not have "Romeo and Juliet" laws. An male that just turned 18 that had "consensual" sex with his almost 17 year old girlfriend can be found guilty of statutory rape in many places and end up on a sex offenders list. There was a case of two 15 year old girls taking naked pictures of themselves with their cell phones and e mailing the pictures to their friends. The two 15 year old girls have been charged with possessing child pornography (pictures of themselves that they took themselves) and if found guilty will have to register as sex offenders. Not only that but the innocent people who were send the e mails by the girls were also arrested for the possession of child pornography.
I find the timing rather strange as there was a scientific paper released last week that said most of the danger children face online is from other children and there is little to fear from adult sexual predators online. This smells like a publicity stunt to make the news. If MySpace was really concerned they would block access to everyone under 18, but that would kill their business. Business is more important than protecting children from falling victim to other children, go figure.
Posted in: MySpace: 90,000 sex offenders removed from site
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The ironic thing is that there are far fewer children now and any kid that wants to go to university can go for sure and if kids want to learn, they will learn without somebody on their back. It is similar to a bouncer keeping people in line when the bar is 3/4 empty. "Oh look, there is a line, it must be a great place." Let me tell you, the beer is just as cold and the woman are just as easy across the road. You kid is just as smart no matter what school they go to. I could write a long, long list of young people I know that were forced to go to juku since grade one, 7 days a week all year and they are no better at school than their classmates (possibly worse) and in the end 99.99999999999% don't get into Todai. I could write an equally long list of kids that never went to juku and are at the top of their class, well rounded and get into "top" universities. It is incumbent upon Japan to give as good an education possible to as many people as possible and not try to ration out knowledge to a chosen few!
All, 100%, without question, EVERY child that graduates junior high school should be guaranteed a seat at a prefectural high school. What kind of idiotic country does not allow a child to get into a public high school if they have graduated junior high school in good standing but got influenza on the one f'n day that they have an entrance exam. The same idiots that run prefectural high schools, administer pubic junior high schools and public elementary schools. If the prefectural board of educatio has a problem with the quality of students entering prectural high schools it is the fault of the prectural board of education for not doing there job properly in administering the junior high schools that they also run!!@!!!
Posted in: Entrance exam competition heats up
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This is another symptom of a brain damaged country. Sexual desire is a higher function that resides in the frontal lobe. The frontal lobe does not fully develop until the early 20's. Proper brain development requires 8-9 hours of sleep every night which young Japanese people just don't get.
Posted in: Japan’s unpopular men and women boycott love
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It seems to me that about half of Obama's nominations are corrupt. Send Daschle to Gitmo; that would set a good example.
Posted in: Daschle apologizes for not paying taxes; fights to save nomination
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It will be interesting to see what happens in California when the government starts handing out IOUs to the police.
Posted in: Republicans doubt Obama's economic stimulus bill will pass Senate
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Is that flower lantana?
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