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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societymike
Why would she dissapear when her husband is arrested? Only thing I could think of is either.. a.) hiding out to avoid embarrasment b.) hiding out because of guilt in her possible role of drug possession c.) killed by husband or his associates because of her knowledge of events
Posted in: Noriko Sakai's disappearance big news in Asia
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societymike
She is saying the secret to a happy romance is being happy and positive, even if you are not someone who is in love, like she is.
Posted in: Jessica Michibata in the pink
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societymike
haha.. wow, hints of a real 2001 Space Odysee and Terminator in one article.
Posted in: Cyberdyne shows off new robot suit in Tokyo
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societymike
i don't have a problem with her body.
Posted in: Jessica Michibata in the pink
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societymike
It's the internet, information is free and everywhere, get over it "news agencies".
Posted in: News providers are criticizing the Google News site for linking to their content without sharing advertising revenue. What do you think about the issue?
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societymike
True. Non-US citizens in the US Military do not get access to sensitive information and do not even get security clearences and in some cases a weapon.
Posted in: U.S. sailor gets life in prison for killing Japanese taxi driver
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societymike
Agreed, the police are absolutely bored. These guys drift in shut down areas at night with no traffic or people. Who cares!! yes, it's illegal, so they get fined, whatever. Sometimes the cops do take the cars and make the owners get them legal, but it's easier and cheaper just to get another car, they are a dime a dozen and cheap.
But to call them "gangs" is just the equally bored media finding new words to draw attention to something so petty and small. These guys are not "gangs". They are "teams" or "clubs". They hang out, go to events at tracks, drive together at night, but they are not gangs out robbing or being huge menaces to society.
Posted in: Drift gang leader, 19 others arrested
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societymike
I think this was awesome and the teacher should not have apologized. If it was my kid being a little smart ass, I would expect him to be disciplined. I support the teachers decision. People are waaay too weak these days.
Posted in: Teacher gets pay cut for putting chalk in yawning student’s mouth
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societymike
Just don't ask them to think outside the box!!
proof - go to McDonalds and order and "set", then ask for a variation, like "no pickles or onions" then try to substitute your drink for something of equal value, it's hilarious!! About half the time you can get the manager involved.
Posted in: Why the Japanese Are a Superior People
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societymike
To expand on what you said souryeki, Japan pays for new infrastructure built on the bases and the Japanese government employees who work on the bases. The US pays for everything else including maintanence and improvements to infrastructure. In essence, Japan is "renting" US forces for defense which actually saves Japan billions since Japan doesn't have to build up her own military.
FYI, the US Military has been trying to downsize in Japan for years, in fact, they have tried to close quite a few bases and stopped when Japan requested they stay for defense and local economy reasons.
Anyway, I see this new attitude as both good and potentially bad. Good because they might just have the balls again to do something good and reform their Government, however, it can be a bit scary when you start thinking of japans history and the fact that the party is using words like "Ally" in this day and age. It's as if they think the cold war is still going and they still see clear "sides" to choose from.
Posted in: Opposition DPJ says it's ready to stand up to U.S.
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societymike
Those girls look like they've been eating too many hamburgers.
Posted in: Saving the planet
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societymike
cleo and cliffy, If you could (or did) do it over again, would you do it the same?
We are about to have twins in a few months, wife Japanese, I'm American. We are both fluent in each others languages. I was thinking she would speak mostly Japanese and I would speak mostly english to them, but now I'm thinking we should both speak each language occasionally. However, after reading some things here and elswhere, is it more important to teach them as much as possible before they are 12 months or concentrate on later years, or both...?
Posted in: Unraveling how children become bilingual so easily
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societymike
i enjoy sitting with the girl making Gyoza, but to tell you the truth, i would enjoy this machine for when i'm making them on my own. I don't make like 10 at a time, I like to make 50+ at a time and freee the rest, I don't want to have to keep going back to wrap more or do a bunch by hand, it gets old. This machine could speed up the process.
now for a machine that goes out and selects the ingredients, prepares them, and mixes them for me and we'll be set!
Posted in: Make your own gyoza
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societymike
so basically you should be seeing...
"im hungry" "im hungry" "im hungry" "I wanna play" "im hungry" "im tired" "im hungry" "im hungry" "i wanna play"
and repeat...
Posted in: Bowlingual
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societymike
I don't think we lose this ability as adults, it just becomes harder to "find" or "access" in our brains. I've come across a few multi language people in my time, like 5 or more (a couple up to 14) languages at a time and they ALL agree 100% that after the 4th learned language, learning any additional languages becomes SUPER easy. Up the 4th language, you always fall back on the most recent learn language, this is true for any adults. (for example, my first language is English, but I self taught Italian many years ago even though I have forgot 90% of it) when I was learning japanese, I sometimes brought up the Italian word instead of the english word when I couldn't think of the Japanese word. I went to Thailand and each time I tried to speak the Thai word, I accidentally spoke the Japanese equivalent. Same thing now that I'm learning Korean, I always fall back on Japanese, i almost never think of the enlgish word first. This phenomena is the same in most adults for the first 4-5 languages learned. Somehow, when learning the 5-6th language, you stop falling back on previously learn languages, your brain tends to remember the new word much easier. Native accents in that language become MUCH better as well.
My close friend and his wife speak 14-15 languages. The first 4 are fluent but accents are not correct where as the later learned languages have near perfect accents. The brain is awesome.
Posted in: Unraveling how children become bilingual so easily
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societymike
I would still buy one, that's a pretty cool idea. Having one on my desk at work would be sweet.
Posted in: Toy show
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societymike
Hit and run can be for car accidents as well. A co-worker almost got kicked out of Japan for a hit and run he had with a parked car.
Posted in: 3 killed in hit-and-run on Hokkaido highway
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societymike
what? seriously? helmets for bike riders is stupid. a silly foam helmet won't help you against a 2-ton CAR
Posted in: 2 girls riding a bike hit by car in Chiba; one dies
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societymike
also missed "Mr. Baseball" Tom Sellick?
Moderator: "Mr Baseball" was not set in Tokyo.
Posted in: Filmed on location in Tokyo...not quite
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societymike
I need to see some of this "evidence" on an internet video hosting site.
Posted in: Community shocked by teacher, wife busted for filming women in toilet