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
EACH of the roads had poor lighting.
Sigh.
Posted in: Shimane police search woods for missing university student
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saborichan
It's amusing to see the pot-smokers lining up to defend cannabis. To say that smoking marijuana has not caused any deaths is tautological by your own given proofs. You've noted it's a drug like alcohol, which affects judgement. Alcohol gets people killed. There's absolutely no way you can say with any authority that pot doesn't make people do stupid things that get them killed, too.
Is cannabis resin even usable for much ?
Posted in: High school student caught with cannabis resin
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saborichan
PR for PR
Posted in: Getting the right message out
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saborichan
Aaaand on your left, you'll see the gathering place for men who like to shoot off their mouths about topics they don't know a lot about .
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saborichan
"I do" is hard.
If they did vows, shouldn't they be in Japanese since they're kind of important? The speaker should know and feel them!
Posted in: Mikitty embarrassed at exchanging vows in English with hubby in Hawaii
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saborichan
I wonder if Japanese moving has different matters for insurance and procedure than abroad.
Posted in: On the move
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saborichan
Why does the first kid have a head like a deflated volleyball ?
Posted in: Day of the Dolphin
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saborichan
Denden, he went to school because if he didn't turn up, there'd be a house call or a visit by about 9:30 or 10am.
What a chilling thought to think you'd spent the morning with someone who'd just done such a thing !
Posted in: 13-year-old Shimane boy in police custody after admitting to killing father with fishing knife
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saborichan
Hm. I have not been interested in getting an iPhone since my current 4-year-old phone has a built in dictionary. Is the iphone better for dictionary use?
Posted in: Longman Dictionary of 100,000 Words available both for iPhone/iPod touch and Android
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saborichan
I can see the problems with my skin by getting close enough, I don't need a scope...!
Posted in: Your skin, scoped
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saborichan
On the one hand, I'm happy to see this. It means J-women are starting to shed the pathetic masks they are forced to wear for men; the docile, quiet, agreeable masks that weird out foreigners very quickly. Part of me suspects these men are just unhappy to have someone -else- talking and complaining so that they themselves can't have their turn to b--ch. These complainers certainly sound like the type, after all.
As for where to direct your eyes ... Read a book, or, um, treat the person's legs as what they are: not yours ! Which means there's no reason for you to stare unless you're a creepy perve.
On the other hand, I have seen my share of blissfully ignorant mewlers who treat a train carriage or waiting area like their personal space, lounging over it and generally making a nuisance of themselves. While I agree that 'kids these days' need to learn some manners, it doesn't mean that J-women should continue with the simpering compliance to ossans and their sketchy, sketchy ways.
Posted in: Older men up in arms over slovenly female behavior
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saborichan
ay hole
Posted in: 72-year-old man arrested for hitting 8-year-old girl with car in Chiba
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saborichan
I get the idea, but it also sounds like putting all your eggs in one basket. What if that computer has a hardware issue? Aren't all your servers going to crash spectacularly at once?
Posted in: Switching to virtual servers
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saborichan
So sad when you think the kid might have lived a happy, healthy long life. If the child was highly disabled or the mother had been given some concrete reason to expect ongoing hardship, I could understand the depression, but this just seems so hasty an action.
I'm sure hormonal imbalances after birth mess with a person a lot.
Posted in: 22-year-old mother held for allegedly suffocating 16-day-old son
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saborichan
This is the 2nd article today featuring _ where there should be -
Posted in: Citigroup sells NikkoCiti Trust to Nomura Trust
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saborichan
Yeah, my father always respected Sony televisions and other products when I was growing up, and we had a workhorse Betamax that actually made a near-retirement old TV useable again in the kitchen. But as I've grown old enough to be making purchases myself, Sony has less and less of that aura for me.
Posted in: Sony struggling as Walkman hits 30th anniversary
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saborichan
If it were that easy, they wouldn't worry about scamming so much.
There could be all sorts of reasons. Maybe the people scam the money and withdraw it immediately, so it can't be undone. And they might use bankbooks of deceased people, or accounts that people have forgotten they have and didn't realise they've lost the books for, etc.
I'm sure the criminals have a good reason to persist in these crimes.
Posted in: Fuji TV’s Aiko Kaito appointed captain for a day of efforts to prevent bank transfer scams
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saborichan
Great, nothing like chocolate or other candy snacks to stave off hunger for a real meal.
Posted in: Munchies for the office
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saborichan
If someone else can link more details from other news stories, let us know!
Posted in: 16-year-old boy dies after fall from window at Ehime school
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saborichan
Unfortunately, the blossoming of a subculture into a recognised steretype doesn't always help its members very much. Japanese might use the word otaku, but as far as I've heard it used amongst kids, it's a fairly derogative word. It brings to mind images of anti-social types who are 'KY' and can't quite guage social settings and their rules. And deciding to embrace the labels and proclaim oneself a proud otaku is probably something you only see after kids escape the cauldron of vicious rumour and oneupmanship that is school.
Posted in: The Otaku Encyclopedia