JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) in Kanto region
- RCS (RCSコーポレーション), Kanto
- Salary: ¥180,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month includes performance bonus
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- Assistant Language Teacher - TOKYO - late-March start
- Interac, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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- Assistant Language Teacher - Kanagawa Prefecture - late-March start
- Interac, Kanagawa
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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People at home on the weekend with a wired to the wall phone are all probably over 60.
Posted in: 70% of Japanese oppose restarting closed reactors: poll
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They should charge Y500 for carbonated drinks.
Posted in: McDonald's selling all carbonated drinks for Y100
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@ presto345 Sorry, I was being serious.
Posted in: Gay marriage backers say NY vote has national impact
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Get out of New York City now! God will, no doubt bring his wrath down upon the city. But what if God's hand does not crush New York?
Posted in: Gay marriage backers say NY vote has national impact
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It would nice for Japan to host the Olympics but anywhere other than Tokyo.
Posted in: Tokyo's 2020 Olympic bid to include quake-hit areas
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@smithinjapan Yes! How much are we overpaying for the temporary housing?
It would have been much more efficient if the government had just handed a bundle of cash to the victims and let private industry do what it does best, provide the right products in the right place and the right time and right price. I am guessing a good number would have just taken the cash and moved to Kyushu.
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Anyone else wonder what the Chinese military personal were doing on the base with Pakistan's newly acquired P-3C Orion planes?
Posted in: Pakistani troops retake naval base from militants
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hahahahaha
Posted in: Rally
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It was rusty so it had been there for awhile.
Posted in: 9-year-old boy finds hand grenade in Fukuoka rice field
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Obama is certainly beatable if the republicans get out of the baby boom trap. The next US presidential election will be the first one in a long time when the baby boom generation and older will be outnumbered by younger voters. The baby boom generation have done a lot to destroy the US. They liked cheap public education when they were in school and government services when they didn't have to pay for them and since they entered the labor force have forced via the ballet box politicians to cut taxes and government services except what will benefit them like pensions and healthcare for old people.
Now that they have left a lake of red ink and are outnumbered younger voters can force politicians to finally make the baby boomers pay their way through an increase in the retirement age, reduced pensions and higher medicare costs.
Any credible republican candidate that offers to clean up the bloody mes left by the baby boomers can win.
Posted in: Donald Trump's possible presidential bid generating a lot of buzz
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However, the earthquake has created opportunities for a lot of companies. Toyo tire must be pretty pessimistic but at the same time Yokohama tire with factories in Aichi and Hiroshima must be optimistic about taking market share so easily.
I wish there was a regional break down on business sentiment; most in West Japan are probably confident. There is likely to be a transfer of economic activity away from electricity challenged Kanto to Kanto and Kyushu.
Posted in: Japan business confidence falls
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I have a question, perhaps the JT collective wisdom knows the answer.
Why does East Japan use 50 hertz and west Japan 60 hertz?
It is probably the lowest time of the year for electricity consumption in Kyushu but there are a limited number of frequency converter stations so Kyuden cannot use its ample capacity to supply Tokyo.
Posted in: TEPCO begins power blackouts
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Sweden has the highest both the highest level of taxation in the world and the highest social spending. Union membership in Sweden is 80% and the Swedish economy grew by 5.5% last year, accelerating t0 7.3% in the last quarter.
Go figure.
Posted in: Wisconsin approves anti-union measure
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The entire country is chock full of old hovels crumbling into the street. They just set cones around the rubble and people walk or drive around. They stay like than until an arsonist burns them down.
Posted in: Rise in number of empty houses a growing problem for Tokyo
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I am surprise that there are not a lot more cases like this in Japan as so many families pour all of their time and money into the oldest child and ignore the younger child.
Posted in: 14-yr-old boy held over attempted murder of elder brother in Chiba
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Only in the backward world of some does anyone offer any support for Gadhafi, the terrorist!
Posted in: Gadhafi's son warns of civil war in Libya as death toll tops 200
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It will drag on for years and in the end Texaco will pay nothing or close to it.
Posted in: Chevron fined $8 billion in Ecuador
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The Egyptian army is hardly a rag-tag horde of terrorists; they are a professional US trained army with a well defined command and control structure.
It is not the same outfit that produced the likes of Mubarak, it is modelled on the best army in the world. The reason they never shot at protesters was because of the superior training they received from the US; never fire on unarmed peaceful protesters.
To suggest that they are anything other than sincere is equivalent to branding the entire US army as terrorists.
Posted in: Egypt military faces resistance in restoring order
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Just glue some sparkles onto band aids; instant carnival costume!
Posted in: Big fire in Rio destroys 8,400 carnival costumes and floats
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@Smorkian I guarantee you that a part time teacher does not pay out that kind of money unless he is selling the images, ergo he would need a model release.
Posted in: Tokyo man arrested for paying schoolgirls 30,000 yen to pose nude for photos