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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saborichan
People need to accept that food costs money and doesn't come for free - especially in a country without acres and acres of farmland. 380 yen is very cheap; if people adapt to food that's too cheap they will get used to poverty they don't deserve.
Posted in: Yoshinoya's dilemma: Whether to lower prices or not
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saborichan
I hope he does give his stuff to Microsoft. And he can watch his readership evaporate.
Posted in: Murdoch: From media villain to champion
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saborichan
I've had mostly good experiences with camera use and purchasing in Japan - but I didn't think anything was especially cheap. Mind you, I'm from Australia and wasn't deeply in to cameras when I got my first, a three megapixel some years ago.
Posted in: Buying a camera in Japan? Think again
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saborichan
Of course you're a guest. If push really came to shove, Japan could remove the US bases at this point. If they really, really had a reason. So yes, so long as they maintain the relationship, you're a guest and you should act like it.
Posted in: Will the U.S. Marines charge ashore at Kansai airport?
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saborichan
Looks utterly useless, though 500m sales is under 10000 units of this ridiculous thing. Does that shelf even have edges? Won't everything just fall off??
Posted in: Be seated
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saborichan
Wow, some of you people are about as enlightened about gaming as a teetotaller on the topic of cocktails. If you don't know anything about it, why post? Sure, addictive things are bad, and games have been proven to be addictive. But in moderation games are an excellent way to relax and a social tool, too. These people who pee in bottles? They're a myth. Or if they do exist, they're so anomolous as to be not even worthy of anecdotal reference.
I grew up playing video games and am playing one with a dozen friends across the sea right now. They aren't people I've ever met, but we chat on voice programs and share part of our lives. I'm in a long-distance relationship and I play games with my partner whilst chatting too. And I can say without qualm that video games were a way for me as a shy, bookish primary school kid to connect with others and make friends when I was horribly clumsy and terrible at any game we'd play on the school playground.
This article is a sham, because the author has barely bothered to reference anything other than a few abberant cases. It's precisely this kind of 'journalism' that makes gamers, in our lexicon, facepalm.
All you haters should go check out this charity: http://www.childsplaycharity.org/ It was started by gamers to bring video games to sick kids in hospital. A bright spot for kids with terminal diseases who need distraction from their suffering.
More on topic, I do worry that addictive gaming will be worse in Japan where seeing someone about psychological problems is basically a no-no. And I teach waaaay too many kids with underdeveloped social skills. 'What do you like?' '....''....''geemu' . That wouldn't be a bad answer except that the stigma against gaming is still strong here and it makes them less likely to use games as a social nexus than overseas.
Posted in: Compulsive Internet gaming addiction on the rise
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saborichan
For all the smirking you naysayers are doing, the ball has already started rolling on climate change. It's believed and you won't stop it now. Environmental groups have been emphasising our destruction of the world and the finite number of fossil fuels for years, and they've finally been heard. Of course, it took a spike in oil prices for it to happen, but it did. Now that people have felt what it's like to be affected, they're getting behind environmental causes.
It doesn't matter whether climate change is as man-influenced as it's being said. The truth is that we need different energy sources and pollution is creating many problems for us. So before you jump into your inappropriately oversized (for Japan) 4WD and head off to whatever Skeptics Cigars'n'Brandy or whatever it is you have, take a look at the writing on the wall and start expecting more rhetoric on the issue. I don't know if anything will really happen, but your eyerolling and tutting won't change anything. You're the minority now - the new 'hippies', except there's not much to like about you.
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saborichan
He seems quite well for having lost his wheel.
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saborichan
It's funny. I don't think the average Japanese is nearly as affluent as people imagine.
Posted in: Visit Japan Campaign launched
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saborichan
its.
Posted in: Visit Japan Campaign launched
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saborichan
It's not racist, unless English-speakers are a new race I haven't heard of?
It IS oriented to one particular group, but then judging from its education approach, Japan ought to have basic English speakers as it's greatest second language here.
Posted in: Visit Japan Campaign launched
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saborichan
The boy was up three floors in the air. He was playing on a ledge, not hanging on to it. And she told him to stop it, but he continued, and then she put herself in line for injury catching him. She's a hero, and he's a damn fool. There's absolutely nothing better she could have done. Leaving the place to tell someone would have been more disasterous. She was too far away to pull him in by herself, obviously. And this is a classic sign of gakyuu houkai where the teacher has absolutely no control.
Just a lucky, lucky boy, who gets a second chance now.
Posted in: Woman catches 10-year-old boy who falls from 3rd-floor window
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saborichan
We get taught to be careful of redbacks from childhood, and funnelwebs doubly so. I wouldn't expect them inside a house, but anywhere with nooks and crannies in gardens and suchlike, sure.
Posted in: Venomous Australian redback spiders invading Japan
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saborichan
Japan does have some crazy roads and oddly placed lights, but basically being very careful every time you are on foot is vital. I see people run red lights all the time; when I go through an orange that I'm unable to stop for, I usually see one to three cars behind me follow through too, which is pretty unacceptable. One I can let go, the second and third are just being lazy and downright dangerous.
Glad the kids are ok, relatively.
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saborichan
A mini-heart attack every morning, wonderful.
Posted in: Gong! Alarm clock
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saborichan
Yep, it galls me to find myself run through a yellow as it appears and watch the next three drivers behind me follow through the ensuing red.
Posted in: 15-year-old girl killed after moped collides with truck
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saborichan
holy crap! worth the CAPITALS
Posted in: ICHIHASHI ARRESTED BY POLICE IN OSAKA
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saborichan
"A woman is captured not noticing a poster of blah blah...etc"
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saborichan
Yeah. This is a bad idea for anyone who needs to customise their PC. Your various devices like a mouse, webcam, or printer come with a CD of software. And if your PC breaks down and you need to start from the Boot CD - What on earth do you do??
Posted in: PCs shed pounds and CD drives, gain touch screens
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saborichan
Exactly, bamboohat. You can't go making titles based on What Some Guy Said.
Posted in: Yokozuna Hakuho spends Y1 million for night in Ginza