JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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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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Hint to theaters: stop threatening viewers with prison for downloading movies. We're the ones sitting in the theater and paying for tickets!
Posted in: Film box-office revenue down 17.9% in 2011
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Most of the nuclear plants are currently shut down aren't they? And we are coping.
Posted in: The basic policy is to reduce reliance on nuclear power in the medium to long term. But when considering the economy, the question is how to cope by suddenly switching off nuclear power when there are no substitute energy sources, and if this is feasible.
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@Takuma How does one get Hulu Plus or Netfilx via VPN?
Posted in: 'Smart TVs' offer new windows onto Internet
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"Being sentenced to imprisonment or a heavier punishment for submitting a false notification required of medium to long term residents, or violating the rules concerning receipt or mandatory presentation of the residence card"
Heavier than imprisonment? Death penalty for screwing up your resident status?
Posted in: Changes coming to foreign registration, visa system
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Genji, Mabo
Lying about scientific research does not make comercial hunting of whales any more legal than lying about shooting in self-defense makes murder legal.
Posted in: U.S., Australia, NZ 'disappointed' over Japan whale hunt
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re the 12% - some of the women who have boyfriends are going out with a guy who is seeing more than one woman?
Posted in: 61% of single men aged 18-34 have no girlfriend; 49% of women unattached: survey
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@Matthew Good one : )
Posted in: Hyogo teen accused of stabbing 18-year-old boy
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Well, good thing he learned something about baseball. Would be nice to hear his comments about life after he's learned something about that (we wouldn't develope the automobile. Really? The system hasn't served us well. Really?).
Posted in: Baseball movie offers lessons in life, says Brad Pitt
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@gogogo
We may be focusing on different parts of the article. I'm referring to:
"The latest analysis also presents evidence that xenon-133 began to vent from Fukushima Daiichi immediately after the quake, and before the tsunami swamped the area."
Posted in: 20 million tons of tsunami debris drifting toward Hawaii
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@gogogo The Fukushima plant actually began emitting radiation immediately after the earthquake, before the tsunami struck.
See: http://www.nature.com/news/2011/111025/full/478435a.html
Posted in: 20 million tons of tsunami debris drifting toward Hawaii
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@JapanGal "I thought it was another wax museum picture."
haha.... so did I.
Posted in: Lips synch
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I wonder why the bombastic atheists feel such a need to proclaim themselves and put down people of faith? In all my years in Japan I have rarely been prozelized by people of religion except for an occasional call at the door by JW, but am frequently accosted by self-(and loudly) proclaimed atheists who almost invarialby ridicule my faith. Why the hatred and contempt? I can understand the atheist point of view and have held it myself and certainly don't begrudge anyone else holding it, but why the intollerance?
Posted in: Why Japanese values and morality confound us so
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Raise the taxes on cigarettes, remove all taxes on nicotine gum and patches.
Posted in: Government backtracks on tobacco tax hike
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@Nonrio
The cost of travel to and in Japan is a disincentive to visiting Japan but the radition worry is a bigger issue right now. My wife is a tour guide and her agency which caters to US tourists has closed its Japan office and are not offering tours to Japan since the nuclear disaster. My wife is virtually unemployed as a result. Tour agencies that are still operating in Japan have seen their customers fall drastically since Diichi. Until worries about radiation subside, it looks to continue that way.
Posted in: Japan to offer 10,000 free trips to foreigners to boost tourism industry
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@jared
How about directors of funeral homes? Doctors? Physical therapists? Real Estate salespersons (preying on the homeless)? Farmers (exploiting the hungry)? Granted the above (with perhaps the exception of the first) are helping the suffereing in some way, but they are still making money off of others suffering, no?
Posted in: Grief of March 11 disaster laid bare in new documentary
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Mussolini said "To remain healthy, a nation should wage war every 25 years." Is this the only way Japan can wage it's war to remain healthy? If Australia or New Zealand or Sea Shepard can manage to injure or kill a Japanese whaler will Japan have what it needs to elect its fascist politician as leader?
Posted in: NZ, Australia condemn Japan's plan to go ahead with whaling
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Hit and miss at the top. Can be passably warm or really freezing. Most time I have been up (5) it has been freezing. Better to have some very warm clothing with you.
Posted in: The world below
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Osakadaz
That is disturbing new, but posts contrary to the 'safe Japan", "safe Fukushima" continue to be posed here, so perhaps this ban is not totally effective?
Posted in: Japan to buy up and burn radiation-tainted beef
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@tmarieJUL.
hmm.... he shaved her head, right? If done while she was alive it's hard to imagine he expected to let her walk with a, "Don't tell anyone I raped you and shaved your hair off, okay?"
Posted in: Grim journey
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@marcels
haha... : D
Posted in: 16 children taken to hospital after collapsing during athletics meet