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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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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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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- 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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Yes, exactly, there are no "good guys", they just go round and round. What one side considers "collateral damage" are the loved ones of the other side. What will another Israeli into Gaza accomplish; nothing, just more death and resentment leading to bigger more powerful missiles leading to more Israeli attacks leading to more Palestinian attack blah blah blah.
Posted in: Israel moves closer to Gaza invasion
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Well then I will assume you only see one side; ignore the Jewish terrorists, yes they do exist, consider them just lone nuts even though they tend to be well funded "settlers" that are funded from individual Americans and that you consider all Palestinians, including children and Palestinian people that are working for and desire peace to be terrorists that need to be killed because of a few rotten apples. Does that sum it up?
Posted in: Israel moves closer to Gaza invasion
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I agree so you must agree the Palestinian are indeed justified in their attacks.
Posted in: Israel moves closer to Gaza invasion
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So VOR, the next time an Israeli settler takes a pot shot at a Palestinian farmer the Arabs are justified in using whatever force necessary; is that what you are saying?
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I don't pay that much attention to everything that goes on over there but I think they tried "Stop firing rockets and there will be no invasion and the borders will open up again" but the borders did not open thus they ended the cease fire.
Posted in: Israel moves closer to Gaza invasion
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I read an English version of Mao's Little Red Book, it too looked good on paper. reality is a bit different. At least Ahmadinejad and The Pope have one thing in common; they hate gays.
Posted in: Iran leader's Christmas message decries bullies
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It will never end, there are too many nutters on both sides.
Posted in: Gaza truce recedes as rockets hit Israel
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Hey! Introducing "shaken" under the guise of "safety" might do the trick and get cars moving out of the lots again.
Posted in: Bush gives $17 bil loan lifeline to GM, Chrysler
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Do you mean " why are Japanese people so obsessed with the constitution?" The "group" is defending the constitution.
Posted in: Group seeks to scrap Google's Street View
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GM should have been forced to close when they bought all the streetcars and closed them.
Posted in: Bush gives $17 bil loan lifeline to GM, Chrysler
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It might have been worth mentioning the name of the mysterious "group." It is The Campaign Against Surveillance Society and a mention that the spokesman for the group, Yasuhiko Tajima, is a constitutional lawyer and that the group concerns itself with more than google.
Posted in: Group seeks to scrap Google's Street View
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My wife's grandfather was a guard at Yoshikuma. One day after the war a long line of jeeps arrived in front of his house. He thought that the Americans were coming to arrest him. Instead they came to deliver food and candy as thanks for the "good" treatment shown to the POWs. Mt wife's grandfather turned down the food saying that all he had done was treat then fairly and that didn't deserve a reward. But my father-in-law still talks about the candy and how impressive the Americans were.
Posted in: Gov't admits POWs worked for Aso family's mining company
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Wow 80 posts! Unlike most of his presidency, Bush handled the incoming shoe well. It is a fitting end to the Bush administration and the the republican party that has sunk down to a rump party only supported by uneducated rural whited men.
Posted in: Bush dodges shoe protest during visit to Iraq
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BS!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Presently, Japan’s copyright law makes an exception in the case of downloads for personal use."
IT IS NOT STEALING AS IT IS ALLOWED BY COPYRIGHT LAW!
Posted in: Creative industries get ready for an offensive in copyright war
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Should it be illegal to download a copyrighted image to use as a screen saver on my PC at home? I bet the photographer above has in some respects used the IT of other photographers but considers music down loaders to be thieves. If a photographer sees an image in a magazine and then copies the lighting effects in his or her own image it is the moral equivalent of downloading music.
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The Transamerica building is copyrighted and selling images of it is against US copyright law.
Moderator: No further discussion on buildings or overseas copyright laws, please. The topic is about Japan.
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Unagidon, you don't know what you are talking about. If you sell an image of your daughter playing soccer and the adidas logo is visible you can be sued. But just taking that image for your own use and having it on your ipod should be legal. I do not believe that people are thieves for having a picture of their daughter's soccer uniform on their ipod. Downloading an image of a soccer uniform with the adidas logo should not be made illegal or considered illegal or immoral. The same for music and video. If I record a movie it should not be illegal. If I rip a DVD, convert it and put it on my ipod it should not be illegal. If I rent a CD and copy it for personal use it should not be illegal and is not stealing.
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Yes that is a good point about Google Street View. Since Google is making money by selling the images, Google is "stealing" intellectual property. Since Japan is considering changing copyright laws, Japan needs to consider all intellectual property rights not just those of the music business. Taking an image for personal use should never be considered copyright violation and the same for other intellectual property like making a copy of a book for personal use or music or movies.
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Oh, so you agree that downloading music for personal use does not violate copyright law in Japan and that people who do are not criminals?
But under most current copyright laws in every country architecture is intellectual property. Go ahead and sell a picture of The Atomium in Brussels or the Transamerica Building in San Fransisco and you will get your AXX sued off.
Bridges are exempt from US copyright law but morally selling an image of one is the same as selling bootleg CDs.
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Well, actually just as one needs a model release, one needs a property release if not by law in all countries, than certainly morally because architecture is indeed intellectual property. If anyone is selling images without a property release it is pure and simple theft and they should be considered a criminal and locked up; no different that selling bootleg copies of a CD.
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