JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Full-time English Teacher - Osaka
- Epion English Language Schools, Osaka
- Salary: ¥200,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month Depending on your ability and experience
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- Part-time English Teacher - Osaka
- Epion English Language Schools, Osaka
- Salary: ¥10,000 ~ ¥15,000 / Day Depending on how many days a week are worked
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- Core Developer - コアディベロッパー
- Midokura Japan K.K. - ミドクラジャパン株式会社, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥4.0M ~ ¥10.0M / Year Negotiable
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realteacher
The USA was going to adopt metric, I think in 1982 or sometime around then. I remember from the 4th - 6th grade we were learning it.
Then the jackass became president, slashed the education budget so he could build penis enhancements... er, missiles, and announced that the metric system would cost USA manufacturers too much money to convert over.
Bush 1 just wanted us to read his lips. (?)
There were overtures to change during the Clinton years but his penis got in the way as well, for other reasons.
Junior Bush was too stupid to even understand the system and now we have Obama who wants to redesign the wheel (education).
Why don't we have it? Trouble at the top tier.
Posted in: Why doesn't the U.S. adopt the metric system?
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realteacher
The grisly images would probably make cigs even more appealing to teens.
Posted in: Philip Morris fights Australian cigarette package rules
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realteacher
Here we go again... the never ending revolving door. Koizumi- Abe- Fukuda- Aso- Hatoyama- Kan- ?
Is it a pipe dream to wish for a politician with enough Chutzpah to ignore the meaningless media muppets in Japan and start acting like a real leader?
Posted in: Kan could resign before August if 3 policy goals achieved: Okada
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realteacher
Well duh, they cannot afford it and they don't live in a society that expects it.
Who comes up with these lame questions anyway?
Posted in: Why do some women in Japan wear long black gloves during summer?
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realteacher
How many tasteless(?) jokes for new events can we come up with? I suggest these 2:
Tsunami surfing
Hazmat suit relay race with radioactive batons
Posted in: Tokyo's 2020 Olympic bid to include quake-hit areas
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realteacher
Time to start gathering up email addresses and contacts of IOC members and their staffs. Going to have to resend a whole bunch of stuff that I sent years ago slamming S.I. for his xenophobia then just wait for him to open his big dumb mouth again. This should be fun.
Posted in: Ishihara wants Tokyo to bid for 2020 Olympics
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realteacher
start converting the geothermal power from onsens into something productive... like electricity.
wasn't there something written about this awhile back?
I think maybe it was on the BBC site.
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realteacher
Interesting how all the posts here say the same thing but we all got "thumbs down" reactions. I even got 2... woo-hoo I'm winning! Except tkoind2??? The J-trolls must be out.
Posted in: JOC head says Tokyo nearing decision on 2020 Olympic bid
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realteacher
As long as Shintaro "I hate foreigners" Ishihara, or one of his hand-picked cronies for that matter, leads Tokyo, the foreign community will do exactly what we did for the 2016 bid: bombard the IOC with every article, speech, and/or piece of evidence that illustrates that mans absolute contempt for foreigners.
I'd love to see the games in Japan, but not with that fool taking credit.
Posted in: JOC head says Tokyo nearing decision on 2020 Olympic bid
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realteacher
Typical xenophobic response from a man who probably wears a broken cross on his arm when he's not filling his students heads with nationalistic jingoism.
Posted in: Hatoyama does not have a clear sense of what relying on China would really mean, or whether it is even actually desirable.
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realteacher
Interesting how every few years we hear about how the lost tribes popped up in yet another place. How many were there? Seven? Damn, they were busy little beavers weren't they? There was a debunked book printed a few years back talking about how they were in the Amazon. It's simply amazing to me how religion, Christianity and Judaism specifically are continually trying to justify themselves by spouting historical inaccuracies in a vain attempt to illustrate their importance in cultures with whom they have little or no influence. Blah, it's all a bunch of religious propaganda.
Posted in: Rediscovering Japan, Reintroducing Christendom
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realteacher
Here's a scoop that I hope JT will pick up on. I happen to know a journalist in the Yamanashi area and they said that the dude was marrying the sister of his wife. Now that's keeping it in the family. Imagine what dinner will be like tonight....
Posted in: Married man arrested for torching hotel before bogus wedding in Yamanashi
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realteacher
So who is this wannabe, whose talent has more to do with who he knows and not what he knows, and why is he sporting a previously used band name? If memory serves there was a LA punk band in the late 70's early 80's that called themselves "X", fronted by Exene with John Doe on guitar, but I can't remember the other members. What's next, the "Beatles" with Jonu Renin, Palu Mac, Joju Hayshin, and Lingo?
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realteacher
Sorry, JSA, not SWA... oops, must have gotten carried away by my aryan roots. ;-)
Posted in: The latest incident again taught us that it is difficult for those who do not hold the spirit of Japanese people to be bearers of the Japanese culture
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realteacher
Why does JT continue to put this drivel on the site? "those who don't hold the spirit...." sounds like a watered down Ishihara rap on foreigners... again.
WAKE UP FAT BOYS OF SWA, your sport has gone international, and without the interest of foreigners, sumo would in all likelihood die in the next decade. The last couple basho's I went to looked like a gathering of westerners anyway, at least so far as the crowd went. The vast majority of Japanese spectators were old geezers and their paid for dates.
Posted in: The latest incident again taught us that it is difficult for those who do not hold the spirit of Japanese people to be bearers of the Japanese culture
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realteacher
Actually I think this cow/bull painting thing started in Chicago, then NYC (Wall Street/Bull market) jumped on it. Now it's in Japan???? Uh.... why?
Posted in: Cow Parade Tokyo Marunouchi 2008
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realteacher
buddha4brains, um.... did I mention anything about America should have won?
Ummmm.... No, you didn't.
Oh good thanks.
Failed to motivate???? What? Did they need 300,000 yen yakiniku? Give me a break, it's the Olympics, how much more motivation do you need?
Post-mortem on why they lost??? Sounds like typical whining and excuse making to me: Darvish did this and Hoshino did that, and... and... and you blew it J-baseball, get over it, move on.
Oh yeah, and buddha4brains I'm not an Amerophile. Just tired of hearing all the excuses. Japan should relish their victorious athletes not dwell on what might have been.
Posted in: Japan's Olympic baseball team anything but harmonious
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realteacher
Anyone of any quality in Japan goes to the MLB. MLB players do not make a habit of playing for J-baseball. The only foreigners that are playing in Japan, sorry to say, couldn't make it in Triple-AAA back in the states.
As far as Castro goes, his personal feelings were reported in the Japan Times the day before the championships, also I believe I read the same article in the New York Times, and I'm almost positive that's where I read the follow up on his disappointment towards the silver. It was not very long or extensive. The main point being that as he felt removing baseball was a western (where exactly do you think you live Fidel? I guess he meant capitalist or European.), anti-Cuban decision, the Cuban team must win the final gold to preserve it's dominance in the sport.
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Posted in: Japan's Olympic baseball team anything but harmonious
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realteacher
Waaaahhhhhhhh!!!! We lost, now let's make excuses.
I've got news for J-baseball fans. If you think Japan actually won the World Baseball Championships, guess again. Remember, the Cubans were not going to get visas to enter the US. Do you really think the Americans were going to allow the Cubans in AND say it was OK for them to win? NOT!!!!
Also, if you read the news at the time, Fidel took the loss in stride because he knew what the deal was. After taking home the silver this year, he was, shall we say, P'd-off.
J-baseball = over rated. You don't see it in the states, but you sure get to see MLB. Hell even when Matsui wasn't playing you still get Yankee games.
So get over it Japan. Your team blows.
Posted in: Japan's Olympic baseball team anything but harmonious
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realteacher
In just about any other civilized society, they would call you a whore, slut, harlot, or prostitute. Me, I'll call you a sleazebag. And Tokyo wonders why the WHO keeps slamming them for high rates of HIV and child prostitution. I'm sure little Miss Ho-Bag started before she was 20.
Posted in: It’s fun. I like seeing the underside of life. And the money’s very good. I meet different targets every day. I’m not so keen on the old ones and I sometimes get to like the young ones. I sleep with all of them.