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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Yup, including mainly African countries, if I understood correctly. Seems like Japan organized a party last night with leaders of over 30 African countries, where they served tuna.
Oh, the Great Japanese Culture.
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shitamachipride, I notice you have very little counter arguments to what posters here are saying.
Have you seen that CM laterly saying 1 in 2 Japanese get cancer? Have you seen any statistics on people living in Taiji? Or is the Japanese government hiding those from the public as well?
Would that be the Japanese tradition of not eating animals? How come this tradition is not so important to you, compared to the "tradition" of killing animals in an unecessarily cruel way?
Ah yes, because you can do anything in Japan as long as you put a cheap plastic shrine on your wall and ring the bell once a day. Ridiculous.
First of all, you have not seen the movie. Period. Secondly, the movie i snot about whales, but about dolphins.
These arguments teach us that you have absolutely no idea why this movie was made. By the way, can you tell me what the sneakers Japanese wear are made of? Can you tell me whehter Japanese eat beef more, or less, than whale or dolphin?
A mobile source that needs to be killed in a brutal way, hidden from the eyes of the public. Hey, even the hunters seem to realize they are doing something that is not right, otherwize they wouldn't be hiding it like they do.
Posted in: 'The Cove' wins Oscar for Best Documentary
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Care to give me a list of all countries in the IWC who oppose whaling? You can mark the Anglo Saxon countries with a 1, and the others with a 2, and we'll get the counts and percentages.
Haa, yes, the dark chapter of "Preventing complete extinction of endangered species". VERY dark! Much darker than the chapter "Let's eat everything until everything is gone", by the Japanese.
The status of the stocks as reported by the commercial whalers, I am sure you mean?
You must be a very selective reader if you have not found a single "conservation argument" in this discussion...
... which is where the Japanese whaling clearly fails. A small detail you happened to miss?
Together with the Homo Japanicus, who is exempted from all international regulations because "it is his culture" to eat things into extinction.
There you have it. Who is hunting whales? People who are still living the way they were 100s of years ago. These people are a completely different case from the Japanese.
I did not ask "who has been whaling". I asked who IS whaling now. Japan, along with the other industrialized nations that are still whaling, are getting criticism. I think it is only normal.
Again, I asked who is whaling NOW. I know many countries have whaled in the past. In that way, in fact it might in fact be much more MY culture to whale, than it is for a Japanese person. Yet, I have changed my ways for the better. The Japanese have not.
As arrogant as telling the entire world you are whaling for "research" while everyone knows it is just to eat whale meat? As arrogant as blowing this "culture" argument completely out of proportion? Hey, whaling was a pretty minor habit in Japan until about 100 years ago, you know? Who is being arrogant?
Google for "documentary" and "North Atlantic Right Whale", there are several thousands of hits. Tell me if none of them contain a link to a documentary about these animals.
You are very badly misinformed. Even Japan admits it is hunting endangered species. If this is your point, I believe we should not pay too much attention to anything you wrote...
Very well said: "If".
All in all, not much of what you are saying makes any sense.
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Who is hunting them there? Do you dare to tell us? Also, it is not like only Americans are trying to stop you...
I am pretty sure there is someone who made a documentary on this whale. Just not one you have ever heard of. Are you saying Japan is allowed to get some whales endangered because in the past the US also made one endangered? This sounds pretty stupid to me...
This is a discussion on "The Cove" and you are talking about the Sea Shepherd... Would you kindly get your act together?
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haoushokuhaki: "So what you are saying is that there are more reported cases of people dying from mercury poisoning than say car accidents? More people dying from mercury poisoning than stabbings? Show me the proof!"
Not a very clever argument, to be frank. How many people do you know that die from radiation poisoning? How about lead poisoning? Sure, far less than people who die from car accidents, but that does not mean we should start eating lead tainted food, does it?
No matter what way you spin and twist it, these hunts are still barbaric, unnecessary, and the product it gives us is better not consumed. Hey, even the hunters themselves seem to know they are doing something that would better not see the light of the day, and thus hide their hunting from the public eye!! How could any civilized society NOT oppose it? But the Japanese are soooo stuck in their "we are victims of international criticism" role that their pride will just not allow them to admit that these hunts are wrong.
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Yeah, and if people in Taiji say they have never heard of what is supposedly happening just of their coast, they must be right! Right?
Wrong.
Posted in: Anger and defiance in Taiji after 'Cove' wins Oscar
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＞Of course, we must all remember the saying: Think globally, act locally. It's all fine and dandy to start throwing stones at those way over on the other side of the fence, but to do nothing about the travesties within your own backyard?
That is EXACTLY where Japan fails all the time: no criticism within the country. Only outward criticism. You can do anything here, just call it culture and you can get away with it.
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From the fact that they are doing this hunt where no one can see it, I would say that it is even not acceptable in their own standards.
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"Is it your culture to correct all others?"
If it is, then according to Japanese rules you are not allowed to criticize it. So, what are you trying to do now? Criticize us?? But but but... "it is our culture" :P
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Anyway, Japan will soon have to learn that just labelling all criticism as "Japan bashing" or "racism" won't do anymore. Just covering all freaky things up under the label "culture" is a thing of the past too.
I say get these kind of things in the news all over the world. Let people know that the is NOT Japanese culture to start with, and that it is barbaric. We will see how Japan will react under such bad publicity.
Secondly, I think the Japanese media have to get their act together. Why does it take a foreign team to expose things like this? Is there nobody in this country brave enough to give some criticism on Japanese "customs"?
If so, Japan is doomed.
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Haa, yes, the experience of going to a clothes shop, how thrilling!
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I agree. Many of these joggers have bad attitudes.
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Any sports where the final decision is made in a subjective way. That includes about half of the sports we see in the winter Olympics though...
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Ahem, let's think about it for a minute. You say Toyota is in trouble because of the US Goverment's actions, I say it is because of Toyota's own (lack of) actions.
To see who is correct, let's suppose one of the 2 possible actions did not occur, and see how it affects the outcome of this case.
Suppose Toyota did not what it did. So in other words, it took the correct actions right away, did not try to hide anything, and did not stall things. Result: minor crisis for Toyota, but public sees Toyota does the correct thing. Within a few months all is back to normal.
Suppose that the US Government did not what it did. So, in other words, they let Toyota keep ignoring the problem. Result: more more accidents, more deaths, ending in a big mess for Toyota, and loss of trust for years to come. Pretty close to the mess Toyota is in right now, but even worse.
And you are telling me that the US government's actions were wrong?? Compare the outcome of 1 and 2. If only Toyota had done what it should have done. But, you know, the victims were just some foreigners...
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I do not think the "left" was necessary here. We all know which one is crashing :P
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I strongly disagree. If my home country (and many other countries) would do things the way you say they do, they would have only a few minutes coverage for the entire Olympics.
I heard the name of the 2 Japanese skaters more than 20 times this morning alone. I heard the name of the guy who won gold only once, and that was not even in a sentence mentioning he was the guy who won it...
Posted in: What do you think of Japan's TV coverage of the Vancouver Winter Olympics so far?
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Then why in gods name does it seem as if that foreign competitor is also trying to hurt its own business? Toyota could have done the right thing from the very start. Yet, it chose to hide and twist things. If Toyota had done things correctly it would not have been hurt very badly, yet because of its own conduct it has lost a lot. The conclusion for me is clear: Toyota is to blame, NOT the US government.
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If the Japanese are going to target an entire country because of the actions of 1 single man, I think the correct conclusion is that Japanese are idiots. IF.
Posted in: Antiwhaling protester to be brought to Japan for questioning
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I really could never understand arguments like these. HELLO? Because one country has a better economy than another does not mean it is right. This is the same kind of stupid reasoning I see from guys saying "but we have a bigger army than you!". How old are you? 10?
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I bet they are really confused no how to treat this case. No matter what they decide, it will end up getting more and more attention. Attention will lead to people looking for the truth, and the truth is Japan's biggest enemy regarding this issue.
I would be surprised if they bring him to Japan. The way of the least attention is what they are looking for now. Perhaps they will drop him off at some small insignificant island nation?
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