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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rokudenashi
Good for him! Nishikori supposedly has top 10 talent so hopefully he can stay focused and injury free for a while. Would love to see tennis regain some popularity here. And that soft tennis ball crap they play in the schools is not tennis!
Posted in: Nishikori wins 5-setter against Cilic in 5 hours
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rokudenashi
Bras.
Posted in: Which fashion trend do you most wish would die?
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rokudenashi
Yes, and it's nice and for those of us that do, it is a little unsettling to know that there must be a mandatory "tuck in" time so this guy can go home. Even scarier is the fact that there must be no employees on duty at night as they are all home with their loved ones.
Posted in: The Ritz-Carlton, Osaka sets the pace
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rokudenashi
Are those numbers correct JT? 19 concerts with total attendance over 1 million? I have trouble imagining they could average almost 53,000 per show so I checked a japanese report on the tour and it said that the idea of the tour is that SMAP will be the first Johnny's group to play to over 10,000,000 fans in their total career. They are forecasting they will clear 10,000,000 at the final show in the Tokyo Dome. Again, this is over a 20 year career.
Posted in: SMAP to begin nationwide tour July 31
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rokudenashi
Of those 70 million visitors, I wonder how many will be bussed in by the Chinese authorities so they can claim the Expo was a success!
Posted in: Expo pavilion
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rokudenashi
I've seen and participated in similar fire walks in the past. This is still early in the day. They will let the fire burn all the way down to the coals, then rake them out and then the monks and others will walk across the coals. It's a short walk and your feet move quickly so you never feel a thing. The monk in the photo is probably just throwing water on any embers that fly out of the fire. While these bonfires of purification are traditional, it certainly shows an utter disregard for the "natural preservation" that most of these religious groups claim to value so highly.
Posted in: Fire festival
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rokudenashi
Y'all do realize that Miss Aya was just another talentless talent 20plus years ago, right? She has always been sexier than most and probably her only real talent has been her ability to milk that for so long.
From her younger days http://torori.ptu.jp/ayasugimotousagi.jpg
Posted in: Nine for Aya
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rokudenashi
All of those reasons could apply to pigs. The reasons people don't like to slaughter dolphins are: 1. They look like they are smiling. 2. They are very social animals which like to play and cooperate. 3. We in the west have been taught to see them as very intelligent, friendly, cute and innocent. 4. It is too much effort and expense for a food source that is not necessary, not particularly good-tasting, and potentially loaded with harmful mercury.
No doubting dolphins are smart, but that is not the reason people don't like to kill them. The dolphins cleverness may actually be the source of their own problems. I wonder if the fishermen of Taiji and the Faroe Islands didn't learn their methods of hunting by watching those sentient, intelligent, emotional dolphins engage in their own favored methods of slaughtering prey.
From Wikipedia, "One common feeding method is herding, where a pod squeezes a school of fish into a small volume, known as a bait ball. Individual members then take turns plowing through the ball, feeding on the stunned fish. Coralling is a method where dolphins chase fish into shallow water to more easily catch them. In South Carolina, the Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin takes this further with strand feeding, driving prey onto mud banks for easy access."
Another touching marine documentary this past year was "Oceans". However the scenes of dolphins, sharks and birds of prey cooperating to massacre schools of terrorized fish and of orcas (a species of dolphin) slaughtering innocent baby seals were a bit much for my young daughter to take.
Posted in: 'The Cove' wins Oscar for Best Documentary
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rokudenashi
KSB - I should have been more specific. My comment was directed at bicultural's statement that only kids watch the variety shows and adults watch the news. That is quite a statement from someone who earlier chastised another poster for not knowing japanese culture. I would bet that the variety shows get far more adult viewers across japan than any news show. Just look at all the TV's tuned to Waratte Ii To Omou in the middle of the day when kids are in school.
I agree that many of the "talents" have an education and probably above average intelligence. Of course, that alone does not make them "talented" in the western meaning of the word.
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rokudenashi
bicultural - if that is really what you think (and not just acting), then I guess you don't know much about japanese culture.
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rokudenashi
Are you serious Moderator? How can you put a picture of Whitney Houston performing in Japan for the first time in 13 years, on a "news and discussion" site, and say talk of her allegedly old drug problems are not relevant?
Moderator: Because it isn't. Why don't you discuss her music, her latest album, her world tour, her popularity in Japan, her costume, what the concert was like, and so on? There is no need to rehash dirt on people, which lowers the level of discussion. Why would you even want to mention it? That is just being malicious. And with that, we put an end to discussion of her alleged old drug problem.
Posted in: Whitney Houston
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rokudenashi
Kudos to the Saitama Zoo marketing team. They been able to get people to come out in the cold and rain to watch rodents sit in a pool of water. Brilliant!
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rokudenashi
I bet there's a line for this spot to take a photo with the leaves framing the building!
November is absolutely the best month of the year in Kyoto. Unfortunately, as so often happens in Japan, the crowds at the famous spots really ruin the experience. Look at all the people just in this random photo! Much better to go on weekdays or to lesser known places if at all possible, and go by foot or bicycle! They should ban cars in many areas of Kyoto.
Posted in: Autumn glow
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rokudenashi
OK, now I can get on with my life. You're a lucky man Keishi, I hope you realize that.
Posted in: Actress Takako Tokiwa gets hitched to Keishi Nagatsuka
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rokudenashi
What a bizarre photo! As Yelnats noted, her hands are way too low. Secondly, his huge head looks photo-shopped onto that small body.
Finally, how can any of you say they are "so classy" or she is "cool" when you don't really know anything about them. Nobody does. All we know are staged random photos like this which tell us nothing about them as people.
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rokudenashi
"This should be a national shame for Japan."
This is not a Japan specific problem. It's problem wherever large numbers of people are crammed together and men think
Moderator: The discussion is about Japan, not other countries.
Posted in: Tokyo police launch weeklong anti-groping campaign on trains
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rokudenashi
"How about cyclists, those of us who ride defensively, don't listen to music players, pick our noses,"
You're kidding right? Picking one's nose while riding a bicycle is one of life's great pleasures. How can you call yourself a cyclist?
Posted in: Japan studies noisier hybrid cars to protect blind
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rokudenashi
Since this almost always seems to happen at pachinko parlors, why not make them partially liable and force them have checkers walking the parking lots looking for children left in cars alone? They make a ton of money encouraging people to get addicted and spend hours in front of those machines. Come to think of it, why not have childcare rooms at pachinko parlors where the parents can leave the kids in a safe, smoke-free place?
Or make a law saying that any child found alone in a car will immediately be cause for calling the police and the adult responsible will be fined or worse. They do it for illegal parking, keitai use, safety belts, etc.
Posted in: Baby boy dies in locked car while mother plays pachinko in Akita
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rokudenashi
A very questionable piece based on a lot of unresearched assumptions.
"While the break-even for hotel occupancy in the U.S. is around 65%, the cost of land and employee numbers/costs mean that the break-even point for hotels in Tokyo is probably more likely to be around 70%—so there appear to be a number of operators in town who are losing their shirts right now. Maybe the first closures aren’t far behind?"
A very big difference in US and Japanese hotel revenue is the high percentage the restaurant/banquet/wedding revenue plays in japan, often higher than the rooms revenue. Often japanese hotels can stay in the black with occupancy rates at or below 50 percent.
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rokudenashi
Yes, Megumi the world will end on Dec. 21, 2012. As fate may have it, my schedule is entirely free on Dec. 20, 2012. Shall I write you in to spend the final 24 hours of existence together?
Posted in: 2012