JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) in Kanto region
- RCS (RCSコーポレーション), Kanto
- Salary: ¥180,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month includes performance bonus
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- Assistant Language Teacher - TOKYO - late-March start
- Interac, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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- Assistant Language Teacher - Kanagawa Prefecture - late-March start
- Interac, Kanagawa
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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saborichan
It's not as simple as just dropping prices. There's the whole austerity / restraint thing going on which just means some people aren't willing to go on holiday now. Not to mention prices are not always inflated needlessly. Some places will take a huge profit but others won't. Those simple can't drop their prices much lower. Just because YOUR holiday browsing wasn't cheap doesn't mean it could be.
Posted in: Tourists wanted
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saborichan
Hoo-rah, pip pip , good show old boy wot
Posted in: NHK to broadcast UK royal wedding live
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saborichan
Dammit, you still aren't adressing the core issue, whether or not the speculation is true. The point laconic's getting at is that killing this one guy won't prevent this sort of thing happening again. Prevention is better than punishment. If he was to live and be a recidivist, that would be tragic, but that's so far into speculation as to be more speculative than the predictable and measurable good of social services.
This keeps cropping up in Japan, and if I had to give a reason, I'm pointing to both home 'discipline' and club discipline, where assigned leaders and even teachers brutalise kids as 'training'.
Posted in: 23-year-old man arrested over death of girlfriend's 2-year-old daughter
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saborichan
So you get paid to promote noodles, right jobseeker? I think you better find a nicer job.
Nobody in their right mind would eat instant noodles every day for a whole year. They are full of preservatives.
Posted in: Spicy noodles
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saborichan
It's a curious thing when people from different backgrounds meet up and one has to bridge the divide to the other in body language and tone. From the two photos we've seen, people all react differently.
It would be nice if the royals could be removed from their other duties and placed in a group spearheading relief efforts. They could use their clout to make companies and money move, while leaving the details to the experts.
Just showing up and sympathising is nice, but it won't put rice on the table.
Posted in: Cheer up
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saborichan
Hard work, but at least they will know people appreciate it.
Posted in: Pitching in
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saborichan
Give them a break, not all businesses can afford to give everything to charity and expect to keep themselves afloat.
Why don't we be positive and see this as a step in the right direction and credit it as such? Being suspicious and hateful doesn't solve any problems.
Posted in: Grand Hyatt Tokyo launches 'Smiles for All' campaign
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saborichan
Kids can sit like that just fine. For those interested, the global giving website is doing a collection specifically for children orphaned by the crises.
Posted in: Deal me in
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saborichan
A clever idea! Only concern is that his audience needs to be somewhat tech-savvy; there is an entry bar to possible attendees. But a very forward-looking guy.
Posted in: Site for movie fans
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saborichan
Well, to be fair, this is a bigger quake than was ever expected to hit; though I don't know how they calculated the figures. I wonder if it was just a guess figure that slipped into common acceptance?
It's certainly pretty shameful that more wasn't done sooner for the plants though. They should have been working at 100% disaster management from day one, not trying to manage things by themselves however they could. With this sort of thing, you call in the cavalry, foreign and otherwise.
Posted in: Few were prepared for nuclear crisis
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saborichan
just chiming in to say: whipsawed? wth?
Posted in: Airlines whipsawed by costly fuel, Japan disaster
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saborichan
Given the way in which Japanese addresses are assigned, and the reconstruction of a place like Tokyo, it must be near impossible to navigate.
Posted in: Why are Tokyo cabbies so clueless?
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saborichan
Sadly, Pokemon is mostly proof of what you can get when you really push a media juggernaut into action. While I've enjoyed some of the games and their growth has been a great flagship for gaming, it's also true that they represent the worst of the money-hungry studio approach to games. Right from the first game, where you needed to either find someone else to play with extensively or buy 2 copies of the game in order to finish things 'completely', as some perfectionists do. The game has always been about selling units. It's an in-joke for gamers how every damn game starts out the same: same maps, same graphics, same cookie-cutter characters; even the same text!. That's unthinkable for a movie or other entertainment product.
I'm reminded of the South Park episode lampooning pokemon characters with 'chinpokemon' like 'Shoe' .
Posted in: New video games expand vast 'Pokemon' empire
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saborichan
I'd like to hear more about their impressions of Japan, though.
Posted in: Japan hosts visit by 5 Australian World War II POWs
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saborichan
As much as I like some J-pop songs the ones that really stay with me for the lyrics are the rock songs. Not sure you are being fair either Fadamor; those people didn't exactly fade away - the hippie movement was enormous and a youthful, invigorated movement is what Japan desperately needs.
Posted in: Punk icon Akihiro Namba says only rock can cure Japan’s ills
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saborichan
Honestly, although JT is a Japanese-oriented website, I would have expected this picture to be taken by a local media worker and carried over via Reuters or something similar. I am not in Japan at the moment to see the media circus. That interview sounds pretty harrowing.
Posted in: With hope
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saborichan
Lunchbox, taj, go down to the konbini an get yourself a can of harden the ! up. The photographer is doing his/her job. I'm sure you'd be critical if there weren't any pictures because you'd say the Japanese victims are being ignored. You don't know a thing about the circumstances under which the picture was taken. What if it's by a struggling Japanese student who likes photography and was in the right place at the right time? Your contextless wailing isn't a defence they asked for or even require.
Posted in: With hope
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saborichan
It's a pretty sad day when an elected official stares out at a group of people who've come to protest and says 'well they're only 70,000, so by default everyone who isn't here must oppose them.' What sort of crazy logic is that?
Posted in: 70,000 protesters surround Wisconsin Capitol
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saborichan
I wonder if they decided cartoon versions would get more attention in Japan.
Posted in: Anti-Gadhafi rally
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saborichan
browny1.... that's quite correct. Western films took a lot from Kabuki theatre. That increasing tick-tick-tick sound in Westerns? Straight out of a kabuki theatre's clapping sticks. And some of those aspects found their way into samurai films, and in turn to westerns.
Posted in: True Grit