JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- 秘書及び業務サポート
- 加治金属工業株式会社, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥4.0M / Year
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- 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
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- ALT - Mie Prefecture - Yokkaichi City - June start
- NPO法人グローバル教育推進機構（GLAD), Mie
- Salary: ¥230,000 / Month For a full working month. Some months differ.
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smartacus
What's that munchkin second from left wearing?
Posted in: Harajuku style
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smartacus
I enjoyed this interview. It's different from the business usually profiled here and I actually learned a lot about roses.
Posted in: Flower power
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smartacus
I'm surprised the Halloween season is so long in Japan. 52 days - that's longer than the Christmas season. But then I suppose that this year, the Xmas decorations will go up around mid-October, when the weather is still warm.
Posted in: Halloween starts early
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smartacus
pamelot
I had a herniated disk and tried acupuncture and a chiropractor but nothing worked. The pain got so severe that I couldn't sit or work without extreme pain. So I had to have surgery.
But acupuncture (and physiotherapy) was good with post-op rehab.
Posted in: What do you think of alternative health care methods such as homeopathy, indigenous medicine, acupuncture, mind-body medicine and so on?
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smartacus
I think a lot of these have a role to play in treating many ailments and in recovery or post-op rehab, but I don't think they can compete with conventional medicine in emergency cases like heart attacks, strokes, etc.
Posted in: What do you think of alternative health care methods such as homeopathy, indigenous medicine, acupuncture, mind-body medicine and so on?
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smartacus
Strange how they campaign together. They are supposed to be rivals.
Posted in: Friendly rivals
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smartacus
Japanese women love their boots, even in 35-degree heat.
Posted in: The Best of Beauty
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smartacus
I find it very interesting that all the conspiracy theorists on this site are also Holocaust deniers. Tells you a lot about their mindset. As I said before, they deal with truth and logic. There is even one guy above who claims there were no passengers on United Flight 93.
Posted in: Do you believe that Al-Qaida was responsible for the events of 9/11
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smartacus
That's normal for successive Japanese governments.
Posted in: There's been no coordination between airport construction and other means of transportation, including trains, and no grand design for where to position airports.
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smartacus
I don't see anything wrong with the photo. It certainly doesn't imply a plane crash to me. And whiskeysour, if you are trying to link it to 9/11, then your post is in bad taste.
The photographer probably waited for a while until he could get that shot. Maybe it is meant to symbolize all the troubles that JAL has right now.
Posted in: Flying high
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smartacus
Threads like this are always interesting. Just like conspiracy theories about the JFK assassination, Roswell, etc, they always bring the loony conspiracy theorists out of the woodwork where we can all see them.
As for my own views on 9/11, there is no doubt in my mind that Al-Qaida agents were responsible, even though some readers above absurdly claim there is no Al-Qaida.
Here is why I find it difficult to believe in a conspiracy.
What motive would U.S. government operatives have for orchestrating 9/11? Certainly not to attack Iraq two years later. They had their motive for that already prepared, that he had WMDs. What other motive was there? Just to attack Afghanistan and remove the Taliban? That is not enough motive for a 9/11 plot. Might it have been to introduce draconian security laws? To what end?
If it was a conspiracy, how could such an intricate plot stay secret? How come no one has come forward to say they were part of the cover-up? I don't mean on blogs or conspiracy websites, but I mean going public. There must have been hundreds of people involved if it was a conspiracy and I find it hard to believe that they all had no conscience and didn't mind one bit that they would be part of a plan to kill 2,000 of their fellow citizens.
If it wasn't Al-Qaida operatives, who piloted the planes that hit the Twin Towers, the Pentagon and crashed into a field in Pennsylvania? Was it part of the "plot" that passengers would battle the hijackers on United Flight 93 and crash it into a field in Pennsylvania instead of the Capitol building, which was presumably the target?
What about the calls from passengers on board the planes describing the hijackings? Were they part of the plot?
Anyway, truth and logic never work with conspiracy theorists, so this argument can go back and forth like a tennis ball.
Posted in: Do you believe that Al-Qaida was responsible for the events of 9/11
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smartacus
She needs some jail time to straighten her out. If not that, then her cell phone should be confiscated for a year. That would be a fate worse than death for someone like Paris Hilton.
Posted in: Purse, cocaine not hers, Hilton tells Vegas police
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smartacus
The Knife for Life sounds interesting, sort of like a bottle keep at a Japanese bar.
I like the Ritz, one of my favorite hotels - as long as someone else is paying for me.
Posted in: Ritz-Carlton, Tokyo to debut 2 new restaurants in September
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smartacus
When are they going to give her some prison time?
Posted in: Paris Hilton arrested on cocaine charge in Vegas
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smartacus
I don't wish to speak ill of the dead but what on earth was that woman thinking? She invites two strangers she meets in a bar to come back to her home and then leaves them drinking while she goes to take a bath. What did she think was going to happen?
Posted in: Man gets 20 years for killing Japanese woman in Bali
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smartacus
It looks like Kan is trying to make a humorous remark in English and Willard is wondering what he is doing sitting there and when should he respond with a compliment.
Posted in: Meeting of minds
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smartacus
I wonder what he would be charged with, in a case like this. Is manslaughter applicable? Or reckless endangerment of life?
Posted in: Drunken man arrested after man falls to death off train platform
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smartacus
Nice photo. Congratulations Ai-san.
Posted in: No. 1
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smartacus
There have been books written about this subject. I fondly recall Coca-Cola's "I feel Coke." Of course, everyone knows about Pocari Sweat. Not too long ago, I saw an ad for a "babyshitter."
Posted in: What are some of your favorite examples of the way English is misused in products, advertising and pop culture in Japan?
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smartacus
I think it is a nice natural photo of Kuroki. Some of you may be used to seeing her on glossy magazine covers. I think this is probably how she really looks.
Posted in: Lots of legs