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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sf2k
old boys network is in trouble if the wives get active! This is great!
Posted in: Web-savvy activist moms emerge after March 11 disaster
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sf2k
have a couple of friends helping out with aid organizations over the New Year, digging up mud or helping with supplies. If you feel like helping out, please reach out. There's still plenty to do
Posted in: New Year despair for Japan's nuclear refugees
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sf2k
It would be a positive development, then liquidate it's assets and put proceeds towards tsunami/earthquake relief.
Posted in: TEPCO asked to consider coming under temporary state control
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sf2k
if it does go through, force all officers of the company to eat whale meat as a condition of receiving funds
Posted in: TEPCO seeks extra Y689.4 billion from gov't-backed fund
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sf2k
if you're giving them that amount of money, nationalize it, so there is some kind of accountability. Why TEPCO hasn't been liquidated first is beyond belief
Posted in: TEPCO seeks extra Y689.4 billion from gov't-backed fund
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sf2k
all this presupposes that Japan for some reason can control spirits. Just open up another shrine without homage to class A war criminals then people will no longer think that Japanese worship class A war criminals. This is not difficult.
Posted in: Yasukuni shrine hit by arson attack
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sf2k
Unless there is some open financial or diplomatic penalty to this behaviour, Japan will continue to not sign this treaty, or sign a host of other treaties that G8 countries have signed either.
Equality under the law, Anti-discrimination laws and other human rights, environmental protection, third party forensic audits.... Why are these considered anti-Japanese?
For all the technology and physical wealth, Japan is really a caste system. As long as that remains these issues simply will never change. I don't see how it would.
Posted in: Girl reunited with father in U.S. 4 years after being taken to Japan by mother
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sf2k
He's talking about Japan...right?
Posted in: Girl reunited with father in U.S. 4 years after being taken to Japan by mother
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sf2k
I didn't realize it was an annual catch-and-release program
Posted in: Japan arrests another Chinese fishing boat skipper
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sf2k
With dwindling world oil supplies, crippling the 3rd largest economy isn't a bright idea in any case. Already the drums for more war are beating in America though. Intelligent foreign policy is unlikely to win out.
Posted in: Japan refuses to stop Iranian oil imports
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sf2k
his son is too young, the generals may have other plans
I guess I needed the CAPSLOCK on the article though, because I wouldn't know it was important versus other news
Posted in: N Korean leader Kim Jong-Il dead at 69
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sf2k
if this is the case currently then amounts should be measurable by other international bodies who are not in on the TEPCO coverups.
Posted in: I am concerned TEPCO will begin to slowly release small amounts of contaminated water into the ocean without notifying authorities. It would not be the first time the company has endangered the fragile ecosystem of the ocean by using it as a dumping ground.
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sf2k
Bravo. He knows he helped China with their movie but has just shown a light into a corner they didn't want. He can't be a Batman but more a Bruce Wayne. Effective. This will dog Chinese authorities for a while. Ooops he didn't mean it. Kind of a wink to the Chinese people, not the government.
Posted in: Actor Christian Bale attacked during visit to China dissident
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sf2k
books don't need lithium ion batteries, require extensive mining operations to get the lithium and a supply chain around the world just to get you an ebook in a store. IF we concentrated on reducing the paper in books then they would be even more local and recyclable. Ebooks, probably never
Posted in: Tablets, e-readers closing book on ink-and-paper era
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sf2k
No, when Peak Oil or another earthquake or tsunami hits Asia all those ebooks will not be available.
Books can be made from recycleable polymer (see the book Cradle to Cradle) and ebooks are reliant on special metals. When those special metals are no longer available then it's back to books. It's really just a techno-triumphalism waste of time. You are not making anything greener by polluting the world for ebook and tablets when books can be recycled while ebooks are not. No comparison.
Posted in: Tablets, e-readers closing book on ink-and-paper era
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sf2k
doesn't look like it can scale
Posted in: Sony generates power from shredded paper
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sf2k
if indeed that isn't the case already
Posted in: Woodford wants to clean up Olympus management for good
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sf2k
It seems Japan is desperate to keep going downwards. I wish Woodward well but ultimately Japan doesn't play well with others, and isn't a country worth investing in as this case clearly demonstrates.
Without clear and obvious governance eventually the corruption will be all that's left.
Posted in: Woodford wants to clean up Olympus management for good
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sf2k
pretty sad
Posted in: Japan using quake disaster budget for whaling aid
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sf2k
lots of pet projects to fund with extra cashola around
Posted in: Japan using quake disaster budget for whaling aid