JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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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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- 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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saborichan
What did they always say about Manuel from Fawlty Towers? He's from ...? someplace...
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saborichan
Quite a good summary of the Japanese situation... Don't forget though, that Japan CAN change very rapidly when the situation is right...
Posted in: For Japan, 2010 was a year to forget
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saborichan
What an atrociously random article. To suggest that Japan's rise was 'luck' and not at all due to massively long work hours since the 50s where everyone grimaced and bore the pain until the affluent late 70s-80s arrived. China isn't doing things 'better' than Japan did; it's going to hit the same hurdles if its currency gets adjusted. An interesting discussion to submit, but a woefully amateur article.
Posted in: How Japan can turn the tables on its economic decline
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saborichan
I don't know if Japan's game quality has gotten any worse - I can't think of a way to say it's so, everything has only grown in sophistication - but that's true of the competition too. American game producers are far better than they used to be, and very much hold their own against Japanese producers. Japan, in its usual inward manner, has continued to make great games, but only a fraction of these ever make it to import for other countries. There are so many Japanese games that are just too culturally focused on Japan to translate effectively. So Japan has slipped relatively, but not because of being 'bad'; just not being cutting edge outside of a few overachievers.
Gaming in America and the west in general has made a shift too, to being more mainstream, whilst gaming in Japan is solely focused on consoles and still has that otaku tinge to it. Japan's gamer culture is slipping behind the American model, even if that model is full of stoners and abusive teenagers behaving awfully online. It's still becoming a wider market and more mainstream, and that includes Social Gaming with the new models of micropayments (where you generally get a game for free but pay for extra goodies in-game).
Nobody is quite sure where social gaming will wind up. But if Japan can get on board with things like Android and other widespread use handheld device OS, it might take off there too.
Posted in: Is Japan’s social gaming boom an explosion or an implosion?
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saborichan
Good for you, Utada. I hope the strange path she's taken since being a teenager doesn't stop her from finding another passion. Love your work.
Posted in: A global goodbye for Hikaru Utada
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saborichan
People seem to be ignoring the fact that people bring the information -to- Wikileaks. That's why they are a wiki... made of leaks. And that means that it's not just Julian releasing this data, but people in positions of privlege who decide that something is immoral or being kept from the populace against their better interest. And that's why they bring these documents to Wikileaks. Not because they want to sabotage their own countries.
Do you really think someone would do this just out of some immature anti-government rhetoric? No. It's because they think it's the right thing to let everyone know the data.
The governments can crush Wikileaks if they want - it will just resurface somewhere else. Dont' think they don't have 100 backups of everything.
Posted in: WikiLeaks loses major source of revenue
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saborichan
What's creepy is how most of the posters have no problem with the content of this article... Shouldn't it say something about where to see the best looking men as well? I know plenty of westerners are ready to criticise Japan's slow gender progress, but they turn around and admit to their perving here, even if they aren't dumb enough to shoot photos.
Posted in: Which of Tokyo's commuter rail lines have the best babes and worst habits?
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saborichan
Indeed, hime... I was just telling some people about my time in Japan the other day, saying that the kids considered it a subject and not a language.
Posted in: English course for 2-3-yr-olds
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saborichan
I'm torn: people keep telling me kids should study a language as early as possible, on the other hand, I've always had disdain for this sort of brain-cramming...
Posted in: English course for 2-3-yr-olds
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saborichan
Businessman to the end!
Posted in: Sneak thief's book provides new revelations into larceny
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saborichan
my2sense, it's not 'mite' and if you think it is, you're one of those people who is just waaaay off when it comes to getting an Aussie accent down.
Posted in: Crowe and arrow
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saborichan
Best fascinatist?
Posted in: Crowe and arrow
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saborichan
I don't think it's a bad question to ask - she's obviously been asking it of herself and he's feeding her a chance to explain herself to her fans.
I love the fact that she's had such an international experience and so is removed from the 'omg i wanna be a housewife, /cutegiggle/' mindset that a lot of unambitious J-girls can get into.
Posted in: Utada: 'I don't want to be a helpless adult'
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saborichan
There's no question that these kids are mostly set for life, money-wise. It will be a challenge for them to find things to do with themselves though, to satisfy their own growth. When people have made you into a star and a cause celebre at age 10, you can almost only go downhill.
Posted in: Harry Potter stars sad to say goodbye
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saborichan
I'm a internet addict and I never saw the point of myspace. Hated it, in fact; go to someone's page and get blasted with a massivel long page of slow-loading pictures and videos, AND music that starts automatically at high volume. Ugh.
Posted in: Once-mighty MySpace deepens Facebook integration
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saborichan
My local bakeries only ever contained sweets - sugared bread, cinnamon whirls, etc. Could never find a decent loaf.
Will this product be super thick too? or cut into manageable pieces?
Posted in: Low-calorie sliced bread
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saborichan
right purty
Posted in: Matsumoto Castle
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saborichan
Prince is a curious character. It's bizarre that he thinks the internet is now a dead space, when actually it's more alive than ever. It's now completely normal for people to use social networking on their phones and laptops on the train ride home, and iTunes is getting in on that action with a new service called Ping that basically is facebook for your playlist. Like this song, let everyone know, etc. Great in theory, though I abhorr iTunes and the way it refuses to let me arrange names for my files, but instead wants to source them itself. If anyone knows how I can command itunes to sort files by Folder name and file name rather than metadata I can't easily access, let me know!
Posted in: After The Beatles, who remains an iTunes holdout?
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saborichan
He may just be clapping his hands together.
He looks a bit like an uncle or something though.
Posted in: 24 hours a day
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saborichan
I think the posters here have it right... You won't win back the google crowd, me included.
Posted in: AOL cracks open door to new Project Phoenix e-mail