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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scoobydoo
Appears he taught his kid that violence was the answer and reaped the consequences. I am wondering what the argument could have been in as much as there is nothing to argue about ie dad says don't ever do that again or you will end up in jail and makes sure his kid does not get the keys again. In any case the mind boggles.
Posted in: 16-year-old Osaka boy stabs father after argument over driving car
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scoobydoo
Over by 40, over by the honey moon night for many Japanese I believe. Would help if they even slept in the same room and would help more if they even managed to pull the phone out of their hand and start talking to their spouse instead of the wireless net work. And sorry boys and girls but uhmm, errr, etoo, umm, ahh, ehhh, humf, na, ge, nee etc is not considered communication.
Posted in: Aging libidos require new techniques
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scoobydoo
Hmmmm its obscene to wear this outfit but its not obscene to do a bikini parade wearing way less than this. Isn't the whole thing about fashion and beauty based in the underlying fact we all have a need to reproduce and there are many studies that backup the idea that what we perceive as sexy or nice or whatever you want to disguise that word as, is simply our brain telling us that that person would make a good breeding partner. Personally I think its a cool and funky out fit, you would just not be able to wear it many places. Maybe some would like her to dress like a 40yo shop assistant of a handcrafts shop hahahahahahahahahahaha. Interestingly people are talking about the image of Japan but I believe that Japan is the 2nd largest producer of porn, so what is the real image of Japan? what people say or what they do?
Posted in: Barrage of complaints force Miss Universe Japan to change costume design for finals
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scoobydoo
I noticed that there are some people here who have already condemned the woman and made some pretty nasty accusations and hope she gets what she deserves etc. Since they don't know the situation isn't it a little hard to draw such conclusions. Has any of those accusers considered she may be under some very serious stress and as horrific as it may seem to those who have self acknowledged morals and believe they are pure and righteous, that she maybe in serious trouble and probably could not get the help she needed? Given the number of nasty comments I would say it would be hard to get any sensible help.
Posted in: Newborn boy dies after being found in Tokyo Internet cafe toilet
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scoobydoo
Failed FX trading is what you experience when you first start FX trading, looks pretty simple but is not only hard to do from a trading point of view but also from a mental and emotional point of view. Master it and you could be richer, don't master it and you will join the ranks of the %95 who fail, loose money and never persevere to mastery and only loose money. Sounds like this is more of a scam than FX trading disaster to me.
Posted in: High-flying FX trader comes down with a thud
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scoobydoo
Any gas can be toxic or asphyxiate in large enough concentrations, even oxygen can be toxic. Ammonia from refrigeration units used to be a concern before they changed it to other refrigerants. They could have been mixing cleaning agents, the possibilities are numerous and the reported poison may not be the actual gas. Japan, safety last.
Posted in: Two die after toxic gas leaks into Ishikawa school cafeteria
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scoobydoo
Isn't one of the basic ideas of exercise to increase the size of blood vessels and increasing blood flow? I think generally God did a pretty good job of making our bodies work as they do so why mess around with whats already good by stopping it do what its supposed to..
Posted in: Fitness regime makes light weights heavy
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scoobydoo
Another weird J crime.
Posted in: Community shocked by teacher, wife busted for filming women in toilet
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scoobydoo
No nuke weapons at all is better just like better not having guns i.e. if you have a brawl in Australia you will end up with a black eye, in the US good chance of a bullet in the head also. Anti proliferation is not the only task of the IAEA.
Posted in: Yukiya Amano and the coming nuclear duel between Iran and the West
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scoobydoo
Stopped in on the youtube mael posted. They sound like the band I heard on Kill Bill last night on tele hahahaha. They could be OK if they got some good tuition and practised to try to get some musicianship but at the moment they just clean out ear wax, kill earwigs and cause your ears to bleed.
Posted in: Feline foursome capture 'sound of Shinjuku'
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scoobydoo
Scares me what they sound like just reading this line, hmmm probably like every other J-Pop goth, rock, glam, metal, acid, punk whatever style band.
Posted in: Feline foursome capture 'sound of Shinjuku'
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scoobydoo
Theres alot to be said for having your own staff do work. Out sourcing anything is often a reciepe for problems. The contract worker is never as consciencious as the worker who is responbsible and has some ownership of the work. Loosing one client is not so bad as loosing your job if things go wrong.
Posted in: Switching to virtual servers
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scoobydoo
In this day and age it seems that the qualification is more important than the ability. Previously a degreed engineer built big machines and bridges etc but now its the prerequisite for being a cleaner. Degrees are obviously easier to get and do not carry the same weight as they used to. I have seen many teachers with more degrees than a thermometer who couldn't do any thing useful yet complain that they are underpaid. The qualification mentality is out of control, in Australia you will need a qualification to breath soon, lets hope Japan does not follow this trend.
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scoobydoo
Could be true but it is more disciplined to learn that you don't get paid when you take a sick day or get fired when you screw up at work than it is when you take a day off uni because you and your fiends were partying till late or just getting an average mark for an assignment. Real world is harsher than academic world. No disregard intended for the diligent students but I have seen many degreed English teachers also here for the party who would discredit the quote.
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scoobydoo
Hmmm, not even interested to see the pics. Sounds like good advertising to me.
Posted in: Unauthorized Komukai striptease photos highlight copyright dilemma in Japan
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scoobydoo
The large companies are all top heavy with non productive staff. Modern IT methods of teaching English are dreams for cost cutters but the bottom line is that a student needs a mentor to lead by example how to pronounce and express the language not a computer. The large companies all seem to have dubious staff practices such as, one of the above interviews people for jobs that they don't have so it is clear that paying customers are right to be careful of these large corporations. I am sure they can come up with some illegal practices of NOVA given that fact that staff knowingly accepted tuition fees the day before the bust which is tantamount to theft surely. For those who cry poor pay for English teachers, compared to the standard wages Japanese people get currently, mono lingual English teachers are paid reasonably well. What I don't understand is that many schools need a degreed individual to teach what does not require it. Maybe it relates to the depreciated value high school education.
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scoobydoo
Safety is not on the top of Japanese peoples list I have noted. Kids running around in car parks, riding bikes late at night without lights when they should actually be in bed for the night and the most insane thing grown adults do is stand directly behind a backing car to tell the driver when to stop. Squish, oops, sorry is a real possiblilty.
Posted in: 1-year-old girl killed after father backs car over her
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scoobydoo
Ahh yes must have been rape by logic since prostitution is illegal in Japan (last time I heard anyway) so he must have raped rather than not paid. None the less, any way you look at this story you gotta think something is strange. The story is a bit ambiguous because one line says adult entertainment which could be topless dancing and another line says brothel which creates a big gap in the actual business going on in what they called the shop.
Posted in: MSDF seaman arrested for rape, theft after breaking into Hyogo brothel
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scoobydoo
Agree with ironchef also, last week I made the same comment "for a country surrounded by sea, they are the worst I know of for watermanship"
Posted in: Father drowns, son missing in sea off Fukuoka
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scoobydoo
The manufactures are not getting it close to the mark in terms of savings. To solar panel your house you are looking at a 19 year investment just to break even but houses of that age are considered scrap and by that time there would be new ones you would need to get probably. Fuel efficient green vehicles cost more than the savings they are likely to return over its life expectancy I bet. Its like the lpg conversions, you have to be prepared to drive around in a heap waiting to get the return on investment.
Posted in: Incentives boost sales of green cars, TVs