JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
-
- English Instructor (Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe)
- Berlitz Japan, Inc. (ベルリッツ・ジャパン株式会社), Kansai
- Salary: ¥125,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month
-
- FT English Teachers for Kids - Osaka
- Kohgakusha Co., Ltd. （株式会社興学社）, Osaka
- Salary: ¥255,000 ~ ¥275,000 / Month Travel Expenses, Encouragement of Japanese learning*
-
- Translator
- ZAIHON, Inc. (日本財務翻訳株式会社), Tokyo
- Salary: ¥6.0M / Year Negotiable
0
sf2k
they seems relaxed and in good humour. Akihito's love affair played well here. I wonder why they aren't 'within touching distance' in their native Japan? I find it strange that Canadians had better access than Japanese in their native country, even if it was for only 12 days.
Posted in: Imperial couple end Canadian tour
0
sf2k
the umbrella registration office will hear about this
Posted in: Two women attacked by man with umbrella in Shinjuku
0
sf2k
slicehost
Posted in: Switching to virtual servers
0
sf2k
If it does happen people can just use iTunes or tones like cellphone rings. Knight Rider themes will take over, or just the low jet engine hum?
Posted in: Gov't may add noise-making device to quiet hybrid cars for safety
0
sf2k
why not add them to bicycles, scooters, old people...? anything could take a blind person down.. dogs too. Cars while turning make no/little noise so would injure someone just as likely. Thus this is some kind of logically fart. Cars take out cyclists everyday of the week and that's sighted people. The real problem is cars, not sighted or blind.
Let's not be afraid of silence. Easier and cheaper to equip a blind person with a metal detector or even a GPS, or some other tech, than spend on every electric car to return the roads to noise.
also sighted people will have to look where their going. That's actually not a bad thing.
Posted in: Gov't may add noise-making device to quiet hybrid cars for safety
0
sf2k
friends don't let friends use IE
Posted in: Microsoft warns of serious computer security hole
0
sf2k
I should add the promenades without cars make all the difference. take the car away and the shopping street is wonderful.
Posted in: Is Tokyo really top dog in global rankings?
0
sf2k
I'm not following how using office rent statistics and pretending the conditions are the same in every city around the world is even possible given what would be local tendencies ie: the preference for Japanese only tenants. Surely other cities have various local quirks such as publishing rental rates.
Also the count of homeless people is a forbidden topic and given the recession that would have gone up not down.
Japanese cities are wonderful though, the walking areas are especially deep and I've never felt bored walking around. Mostly people take trains, but the walker is also rewarded. There are a lot of little parks and shrines hidden around that are not noticed but you can find them. When you do it adds character to a place.
Posted in: Is Tokyo really top dog in global rankings?
0
sf2k
Once the oil depletion hits hard and Japan along with the rest of the world is rocked back to deal with energy on a more serious more local level, you will find out just how safe Japan really is. Structurally Japan will be fine along with Europe. But will it blame foreigners or will it engage them? You decide.
if in the end you have to leave because you fear for your own safety or the safety of your family you will only then realize that you should have spent more time trying to improve human rights in Japan.
If possible however that human rights are of a high enough standard for you then maybe my concerns will mean nothing.
Unfortunately we cannot know until we have hindsight.
Crime is an act of frustration on some level, and how a society handles it is the question. Japan has succeeded in bottling up its frustrations and only during events will the real Japan show up.
Posted in: Japanese urged to take pride in their safe society
0
sf2k
More to the point that this is proof that these companies no longer reflect anything of their origins and will clap like a sea otter at the drop of a bag of money. Even though as a result of these actions likely someone will be detained, jailed or killed. Did that enter their balance sheets?
Psychopathic: a human psychological construct that describes chronic immoral and antisocial behavior.
Psychopathic Corporations: Profit no matter the cost to human lives no matter who your client is, either the Nazis or Communists or whatever, even if the result of your product people die. Profiting off of despair.
The delivery hasn't been complete yet. There is still time to mea culpa and pull back. Clearly they are now crossing a line, but don't want to talk about it as long as they get paid.
These companies are about to join the ranks of Monsanto, Union Carbide, 1930's IBM, and the tobacco industry.
Americans, thanks for selling out. If the least you can do, you can't even do then what future is that? What is your freedom worth? America sold out to China years ago. This just cements it.
Posted in: PC makers race to comply with China's web filter
0
sf2k
Holy smokes. Just say NO. was that hard? What's China going to do? Also this will backlash in the West, making the companies even more China's stooge. When corp's sellout, they sell all out.
Posted in: PC makers race to comply with China's web filter
0
sf2k
why not have a monthly plan? make it 500yen that way citizens can enjoy the fun of paying for their Diet's giant credit card bills. Might work and be over with in 2 years rather than ANOTHER lost decade.
oh yeah recession... well even more important to do it now so that there is ANY cash flow to do anything
Posted in: Aso vows to pull Japan out of economic slump
0
sf2k
They should put a bunch of them on the opposite coast line so the North Korean spies completely freak
Posted in: Gundam
0
sf2k
Given the number of knife attacks, which takes real committment, if Japanese had access to guns the per 100,000 rate would be much higher, as well the suicide rate would probably double. That's just by virtue of the gun, not about the society per se. Not having guns then is a major component of these statistics and clouds over many issues.
yes it is a peaceful country for those at peace and I'm glad I have had the experience to live in such a beautiful country for a time. There is much to enjoy and appreciate in Japan.
However given that there is such little outlet for complaints and justice, much of that safety can only ever be a facade of what is in place in other countries.
much of the Hamai-san's complaints can be rectified with a publication law that mandates the statistical margin for error 19 times out of 20. Or building up standards of media to remove overexaggeration, but that would end many news channels as well as political motives.
Is Japan safe? Of course it is, but hardly to the extent that would be suggested.
Posted in: Japanese urged to take pride in their safe society
0
sf2k
i wouldn't characterize is as a safe society, but an insular discriminatory society that views anything other than Japanese as below their interest. With few outlets of experience, the youth of Japan I find to be crude and rude, although not a majority. If women actually reported abuse all his happy statistics would come to a crashing end. It's appalling the amount of sexual abuse women take as if they have to take it. But such the standards in Japan for women are so low, they can't even fight back. That's nothing to be proud of.
Posted in: Japanese urged to take pride in their safe society
0
sf2k
Yes of course I taught English in Japan. English industry was always a joke. It only takes 2-3 years of study time to learn a language. If the The Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) were implemented it would be even less than that. Finally? the milk and honey will be replaced by actual skilled and qualified teachers. It had to happen sometime. I'm more amazed it has taken this long... with lots of delays to follow no doubt.
Article Unavailable
0
sf2k
did each kid come back the next day and clean up their mess, or did the city have to dump it all in landfill?
Posted in: Candle Night
0
sf2k
Actually airlines in Japan are not fueled from Japan but from Middle East imports. Japan isn't alone in this, and is the fate of all of us. Note that there is zero jet fuel replacement (in equivalent megajoules per gallon) so as oil becomes less available eventually they will just make airlines implode irrespective of their national origin. It's just a matter of time.
On a side note, given the amount of kerosene in use in Japan for general heating, there will also be a domestic competition for the making of jet oil fuels instead of kerosene or vice versa? I think people given a choice would want heating oil. As stocks go down this will be a challenge.
Dozens of airlines go under every year according to Wikipedia, so for a major carrier to go down won't be long now. Given the costs in Japan for imports that might make for a telling comparison.
Funny enough, it will be the airlines themselves who will beg to be taken over by the government, and in all but the USA that will probably happen.
Oil is dropping by 3-5% per year. (IEA Paris Nov '08) Eventually airlines have to cut down under the pressure at some point.
Before the next decade ends, (Not long now) it'll be trains for continental travel, then planes over water or back to ships. Japan and Europe are okay here, with genreal trains and shinkansen/TGV currently taking up far more percentages of personal travel than in North America since they are not taken over by the car.
Trains can also be electrified reducing the need for diesel oils. With oil dropping, any system electrified will be out of the demand/supply loop stabalizing services. Thus a drop will encourage more electrification.
I wonder though about Australia and New Zealand given their remote locations. Are thus more likely to have gov't controlled airlines as a matter of public need.
Anyway, it doesn't matter, once the airlines go, Peak Oil will be well underway and should be considered the canaries in the coal mine.
You have seen End of Suburbia documentary right? Go rent it or bittorrent it now. You'll be glad you did.
Posted in: Meltdown 101: Will airlines go bankrupt?
0
sf2k
this is the correct stance to take I think. The coverings have nothing to do with freedom or respect and are reflective instead of an ancient cultural anthropology of subservience to men, and not religion. Burqas are not in the koran for example, just the action of being modest. This then became defined differently for men and women.
Don't forget we don't live under Shria law either, which is also a male dominated law, and brutal to women. Custody and justice is quite different and old-style which is why Shria law is not allowed in western countries.
Indonesia does a nice balance, not accepting the full burqa (is it law there?) but instead first being a modern moderate muslim and mixed country. That's the way to go.
Many people wear a funny hat. That seems to work fine just fine. People still complain about funny hats, but at least you see the face, you see the person. Eventually people don't see the hats anymore and just the person. As long as we can see the face, everything else is negotiable.
The word face takes on many meanings in many languages but they are all basically similar. Face is not only what we see but what we save, or have. Things have face value, save face, faceless, face up to something, and on and on. Thus the very action to hide face is in most societies a sign of anger or threat or denial anymore than if I wore a balaclava ski mask to work. we as a western styled society do not view it as respectful to ourselves nor to others.
Go ahead and be muslim, be religious, do what you need to do, but the burqas go too far inside a western society preventing women from engaging fully in society and in that way I agree with Sarkozy.
Posted in: Sarkozy says burqas are 'not welcome' in France
0
sf2k
this is nuts. Google is now Borg.
Posted in: Google tricycle snaps views from walkways