JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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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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- Part Time Assistant Language Teacher - Kanagawa Prefecture - late-March start
- Interac, Kanagawa
- Salary: ¥9,000 / Day per 4 class shift
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seimei
Japanese guys could learn a thing or two about respect in general from this form of gallantry.
Posted in: Is a man giving up his seat to a woman on a train or bus an outdated form of respect?
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seimei
After a 1000 years of wars, basically asians put up with each other. There will never be trust between the asian countries.
After all would YOU trust a country that sent a ballistic missile across YOUR country?
Posted in: East Asian Multilateralism: Prospects for Regional Stability
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seimei
How many sponsors can you fit onto one basketball?
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seimei
For those people who seem to be drawing an inordinate number of parallels between the show and real life perhaps we should keep in mind that some screen writer in a condo in NY wrote the lines to this "show" and now people are trying to emulate it?
Perhaps we should turn off the TV and get some fresh air along with a healthy dose of reality? Or perhaps it is an escape from reality that the avid watchers are looking for.
If I wanted to escape from reality would I choose a character from SATC?
Posted in: Sex and this city
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seimei
Phat English - specially designed hip-hop music to teach American English Phonetics
Posted in: Martial arts action actor Chuck Johnson finds niche in Japan
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seimei
Is this really about which country is better? "My country's better than your country cause my country beat your country, but total medals.. blah blah"
Perhaps we can simply congratulate Japan on an Olympic victory. They were the best on the day. Well done Japan.
Posted in: US softball team loses gold to Japan
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seimei
Altria you are the smartest of the lot, even if you have been watching too many OL "movies"
Posted in: If you had a big date planned for tonight and your boss suddenly asked you to work overtime, would you tell the boss no or cancel your date?
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seimei
Isn't it time she had an affair? It seems that's what "talent" do in Japan to boost their ratings...
Posted in: Actress Maki Horikita to appear in new TV drama
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seimei
Yeah, the one on the left. Not sure about the toe nail polish though.
Posted in: Norika
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seimei
Let me think...
Choice A - Date with stunning girlie or
Choice B - Work and talk with boss
It's a tough one...
Posted in: If you had a big date planned for tonight and your boss suddenly asked you to work overtime, would you tell the boss no or cancel your date?
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seimei
Gave it a go a couple of years back in Hyogo. TOP fun.
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seimei
I am in no way condoning their illegal activities, but when I was living in Kobe during the big earthquake of Tuesday January 17, 1995, you know who was there handing out food and blankets to the people? Not the Federal, State and Local governments, that's for sure.
Posted in: Yakuza 'misunderstood' by foreign media
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seimei
The older bosses that I know seem to be very lonely and closed off people. They feel that being commanding and surrounding themselves with younger people makes them feel good. Obviously they don't care whether or not those people actually want to be there.
Posted in: The current generation isn't as adept at dealing with workplace conflict and stress as those in their 40s and 50s, and it's difficult for them to cope with overbearing superiors who demand long hours and a high level of performance, then expect everyone to go out drinking afterwards.
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seimei
I'm totally down with the rights of the people to free speech and the right to protest and personal liberty, but in this case, where does it get them? On TV? In the newspaper?
There is no way in the next 50 years you'll get the average "kawaii" and "oishii" saying Japanese person to stand up for the country and take an active role in Militarism so, what's the goal really here? What's the end point of the protest?
Will the Shinto leaders "move" the Class A criminals out, no, will the for and against factions give up, no.
We'll see this kind of image in the news papers off an on for the next 50 years so, what about a novel approach, we just let sleeping dogs lie and get on with improving our CURRENT way of life instead of continually poking the fires of a previous era.
Posted in: Yasukuni
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seimei
kimigano - With the rate that murders go in the JT crime section, I think Japan cannot claim that title anymore.
Posted in: Man arrested for 2006 murder of 18-year-old woman in Nagasaki
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seimei
What is this obsession with affairs?
The only ones we hear about are those in high places that get caught. Hang out in the lobby of any fancy hotel and see the REALLY dodgy things that go on there.
Posted in: Edwards admits to affair he denied as candidate
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seimei
The decision to take a life by another, whether by euthanasia, death penalty or any other reason, should not be taken lightly.
The death penalty has been in existence for thousands of years and only in the last 20 or 30 are we re-thinking it's abolition.
It's interesting that as we become more global, connected and closer as a species our moral barometer seems to rise also.
For example, in Victorian England, stealing a loaf of bread was a death sentence. In feudal China, looking directly at a member of the royal family was a death sentence. In modern day Europe, blowing up 25 innocent people with a terrorist bomb gets you 17 years. (Iñaki de Juana Chaos)
As we believe ourselves to become higher beings not "stooping" to "barbarism" we are permitting these outrageous acts to continue.
In situations where there is no doubt about the guilt of an individual who has directly or indirectly caused the death of others, it is the duty of the government we have elected to protect us to be swift in enacting retribution on our behalf. We elect people to parliament in order to serve and protect us, failure to do so allows criminal elements to endanger our way of life.
In extreme situations, (Southern US States in the race wars) we find people rise up and take the law into their own hands.
Posted in: Expert says capital punishment dying out in Asia
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seimei
Ha ha ha, nice one "serindipity" the Joey is in deed screaming "kowaiiiiiiii!"
Posted in: Kangaroo
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seimei
A Japanese friend of mine has clinical depression. I've listened to her talk about it a lot, and I think that cleo is right, most people don't know they have it.
In my friend's case I give her a hug whenever I see her, she says that helps a lot. So perhaps more showing affection and caring in society is the place to start...
Posted in: Osaka suicide mother charged with murdering her own daughter
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seimei
As HonestDictator said, lets do this picture again with a 6 1/2 foot Western Red Adult Kangaroo, now THAT would be funny.
Posted in: Kangaroo