JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Full-time English Teacher - Osaka
- Epion English Language Schools, Osaka
- Salary: ¥200,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month Depending on your ability and experience
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- Part-time English Teacher - Osaka
- Epion English Language Schools, Osaka
- Salary: ¥10,000 ~ ¥15,000 / Day Depending on how many days a week are worked
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- Core Developer - コアディベロッパー
- Midokura Japan K.K. - ミドクラジャパン株式会社, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥4.0M ~ ¥10.0M / Year Negotiable
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shinjukuboy
Of course, he would not commit suicide. To the end he believed that what he did was right.
Posted in: U.S. vet who caught Tojo speaks out
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shinjukuboy
It impresses me that even after the obviously horrendous treatment by Japanese soldiers during the war, only a little over 2 decades later, his family hosted a Japanese student in their home. It reminds me that for decades the Pearl Harbor survivors and the Japanese pilots who bombed them meet every few years to play baseball together in Hawaii or Japan. I get the impression there may be hope for the human race. It is truly crappy that Japanese companies involved won't get involved, but I guess they will say "Well, I wasn't there" or they want to avoid the negative PR.
Posted in: Unusual bond heals wounds for American WWII POWs who will visit Japan
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shinjukuboy
sarahsuz25, if all this is true, then it looks like it the the press that is looking for a story that will generate headlines and viewers and readers. Maybe the problem is the press trying to find a simple story that lots of dumbed-down people will easily understand and then it is the press taht makes money. Maybe the attention given to this guy is a just symptom.
Posted in: Pressure builds on Florida pastor who wants to burn Quran on Sept 11
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shinjukuboy
My reading is that this pastor has an ego soooo biiiig that he wants a lot of media attention for his church of 15, and the price that has to be paid for his 15 minutes of fame is the deaths of US military in Afganistan and Iraq, which will inevidibly follow in the wake of his Koran burning.
Posted in: Pressure builds on Florida pastor who wants to burn Quran on Sept 11
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shinjukuboy
Now lets not be skeptical. Paris Hilton has more purses than Emalda Marcos has shoes. Of course, you can't expect her to remember all of her purses. She could have easily been confused. Another article said she thought the bag of cocaine was a gun. Yeah, I can see how your could mistake those two.
Posted in: Purse, cocaine not hers, Hilton tells Vegas police
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shinjukuboy
For 20 years the US blithely criticized Japan for its actions after the burst of the bubble in 1990-1991. Now the same thing happens there, and look how fast they pulled out the Japanese play book. What happened the "constructive destruction", let the banks fail, etc. etc. etc. mantras they preached to the Japanese? Nope, took out the Japanse playbook real fast.
Posted in: America feels ready to snap
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shinjukuboy
Everyone please note that according to this information, it is only THIS quarter that China exceeded Japan. You can't say China's economy is larger than Japan's until the end of the year, which they may if they exceed Japan for the other 2 quarters.
Posted in: China overtakes Japan in 2nd quarter as world's No. 2 economy
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shinjukuboy
First, who is Justin Beiber? What is CSI? And what does this have to do with Japan?
Posted in: Justin Bieber to guest star on CBS drama 'CSI'
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shinjukuboy
First, of course, most of the participants probably "look" terribly "normal" (like me). That won't sell pictures (especially if it is me). It is the photographer who searches out the most flamboyant looking ones for their photos. That gets comments! They do the same thing when reporting the San Francisco or NY gay pride parages.
I see Lady GAGA is in this year! She is our latest gay hero, of course, for those of you who don't know (and really, I don't think she is a boy). Go to any 2-chome bar and you can see the Lady on the TV.
Posted in: Gay pride
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shinjukuboy
love X
Posted in: X Japan makes U.S. debut at Lollapalooza
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shinjukuboy
Those of us who have been around a while remember that Japan Tabaco used to run a hospital in Minato ward called the Senbai Byouin ("Monopoly Hospital"). They could make money getting people sick and make money trying to cure them. They were getting it both ways. The hospital was pretty mismanaged (maybe it got stuck in hypocracy) and they sold it to a university.
Posted in: Aqua Squash
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shinjukuboy
MistWizard, well, at least it wasn't deleted this time (thanks JT - it is a legitimate point). Whether certain people like it or not, there is a link: historically, many leaders of the early gay liberation movement in the 60s, both white and black, were veterans of the civil rights movement in the south. They were the "freedom riders" who drove into the south from the north to promote integration, and then applied some of the same techniques to the gay movement in the 60s and 70s.
Posted in: Schwarzenegger calls for same-sex weddings
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shinjukuboy
The main reason straights are so down on homosexuality is that it is the one "sin" they will not commit. All those other sins like pornography, adultry, self-abuse and all those 10 commandments etc., they commit every day.
Posted in: Schwarzenegger calls for same-sex weddings
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shinjukuboy
Back in the 50s when the courts were dismantelling all the jim crow laws (laws that segregared blacks, for you younger people), supporters of segregation would have called the judges "activist" for ramming integration down their throats, if they had had the word "activist judge" and the like. The same with sex discrimination. Or age discrimination. And now gay marriage. Sometimes the courts have to do the unpopular thing and force the masses away from evil.
Posted in: Schwarzenegger calls for same-sex weddings
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shinjukuboy
OK, this is completely off topic, but since Jackie Chan is standing there, whatever happened to his movie "Shinjuku Incident"? I live in Shinjuku, and it has not played in any theaters here (unless it was for one day, and I missed it). I wanted to see all the familiar places in a movie.
I liked Karate Kid, back when I was a kid. As they said, "Best Kid" is a kid movie, not "Valley of the Dolls".
Posted in: Karate kid
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shinjukuboy
Dear Ford,
The answer is simple. Make cars that appeal to Japanese drivers.
Shinjukuboy
Posted in: Ford bullish on Japan with new Asian investments
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shinjukuboy
This is a good thing, or the unintended consequences of a good thing. The drug war is getting intense because, according to a news story I read recently, cocaine use has dropped 75% in the US since the 80s, and these cartels are fighting for the last bit of the remaining market. I'm afraid of what it may be like when it drops to 95%.
Posted in: Car bomb used in attack on Mexican police
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shinjukuboy
The driver for 3D will be the same as other technilogies: pornography.
As soon as 3D pornography becomes available ...
Posted in: 3D television: a new device, a new language
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shinjukuboy
You said it Beelzebub.
And boring in 2D will be boring in 3D.
Posted in: 3D television: a new device, a new language
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shinjukuboy
This is China's era or "rising expectations". The Chinese government should really have tried to share the wealth. One thing the government knows: when Chinese are unhappy, they have a revolution.
Posted in: Companies brace for end of cheap made-in-China era