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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If I was an American voter, I would want Obama's health care law repealed too. I would not want to pay twice as much as other industrial nations with no better outcomes.
Posted in: Republicans in charge take aim at health overhaul
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jianadaren No, not close the border just put up as many roadblocks as possible on everything except oil and make crossing the border even harder.
Posted in: U.S senators urge Canada to stay in Afghanistan
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Canada needs to keep the border with the US open to trade; they will stay.
Posted in: U.S senators urge Canada to stay in Afghanistan
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Shaving forearms has struck me as a little strange.
Posted in: Things Japanese girls do that make guys go, 'Huh?'
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I can't see Hooters lasting long in Japan once the novelty has worn off but one never knows.
I think they will have trouble competing with family restaurants, izakaya, hostess clubs, or "health" clubs.
Posted in: Girls, girls, girls
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So the Pentagon is issuing the warning because it does not want to root out gays because it knows they are valuable members ; so just let everyone serve openly.
Posted in: Pentagon warns gay troops to stay silent for now
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Just for the record; IT IS NOT THE WORLD'S LONGEST TUNNEL!!!!!!!!!
Several water tunnels, which are as large (Die Hard: dump trucks) and more impressive feats of engineering are much, longer.
Posted in: Swiss celebrate digging world's longest tunnel
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It should be Chile's national shame; lax regulations and a a long history of preventable mining accidents with no union to force mine owners to improve safety caused this.
Posted in: Last trapped miner pulled to surface in Chile
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He jumped on the skylight. It should seem pretty obvious to an 11 year old that jumping on a skylight is dangerous but perhaps he has grown up in an atmosphere with a mother telling him what things are dangerous. With somebody saying "abunai, abunai" he never developed any skill at being able to think for himself.
Posted in: 11-year-old boy playing on roof falls to death
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Sherman I agree, that is why the fathers around here take a cooler full of beer which turns it into a nice day of drinking and chatting.
Posted in: Let's dance
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Looks like 5 months in jail was all it took to straighten out that Bethune bloke.
Posted in: Sea Shepherd, whaling protester Watson take their feud public in NZ
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@saborichan It doesn't matter if it was shot with a spy satellite, there is nothing, absolutely nothing wrong with this image.
Taking a picture of a child is not "creepy." Anyone who would have a privacy issue over this image had better buy a cabin in the mountains.
Posted in: On parade
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@ngeorge There is plenty of sex and pregnancies in Japanese junior and senior high schools. Don't be fooled. The average age of loss of virginity is exactly the same in Japan as in France and only a few months later than the UK.
I do appreciate you looking at the brighter side. I would say that the low level hard nose kids in Japan that quit school or struggle though the end of high school are a lot better off than similar young people in most countries.
Posted in: Japan fattens textbooks to reverse sliding rank
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The relaxed curriculum was sabotaged by the old men that were dead set against it. People like Mimizuka sitting on boards of education across the country did everything they could to make sure the system failed.
Hiroaki Mimizuka is idiotic, his opinion is just that, an opinion based on bias with not one bit of research to suggest that adding more class time will help students. Show me some facts. (He can't)
Posted in: Japan fattens textbooks to reverse sliding rank
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@limboinjapan The general rule, backed up by quite a bit of research, is 10 minutes a day per grade; so 10 minutes for grade 1 and 60 minutes for grade 6.
Posted in: Japan fattens textbooks to reverse sliding rank
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Yes, Japan is falling behind South Korea in suicides, let's ramp up the pressure on the kids to see if we can get more suicides.
Canadian school children typically start school at 9:00 am and finish at 3:30, have about 1 hour of homework, don't go to juku, have two months of summer vacation with no homework and score higher than Japanese children.
The problem with the “pressure-free education" is that more parents sent their kids to more hours of juku.
Posted in: Japan fattens textbooks to reverse sliding rank
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Michael Jackson’s death was everyone's fault but his own. She should sue herself for giving birth to him; if she hadn't he would not have died.
He dug his own grave.
Posted in: Jackson's mother sues concert promoter over his death
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@Beelzebub Ha, good story.
A good date spot is a hike in the mountains, it shows you are vigorous and healthy and that is the most attractive quality in a mate.
But not too long of a hike, you want her to have some energy left for later.
Posted in: What date spots do you really hate?
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Microsoft really needs a credible hand held gaming devise. Kids with a DS go for the Wii, kids with a PSP, and there are some, get into a PlayStation.
Posted in: Microsoft's Xbox ready for bigger battle in Japan
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Let me tell ya, if you are walking around in a veil in a Western country you are attracting attention to yourself; the opposite of what you want.
Posted in: French bid to ban veils worries allies, tourists