JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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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
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- Kohgakusha Co., Ltd. （株式会社興学社）, Osaka
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- Translator
- ZAIHON, Inc. (日本財務翻訳株式会社), Tokyo
- Salary: ¥6.0M / Year Negotiable
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solarbuster
Tatanka if they offered the same money, I would ask for more. Then take the money and enjoy Beijing
Posted in: Japan struggling to fight shortage of skilled engineers
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solarbuster
I have seen many young students doing 2 weeks work experience in engineering. They come full of the glamour of being an engineer, after getting their hands dirty in the workshop and going home tired after just doing a little of the work and seeing what engineers actually do in the first few days, they are very happy to join the engineers in the office. Even here students soon wilt when faced with filling in reports under supervision and accompanying engineers going about their daily work by the end of their 2 week period most have decide engineering is not for them. Engineering is a hard life at any level and the rewards are very poor. This is why many engineers move into sales or easier jobs with the same money or more money. Japan is just finding out engineers with their higher mathematical and management skills have no problem finding work in other fields paying higher salaries. They don't have to put up with poor management inherient in Japanese companies, in some cases they just move overseas seeking a better life style.
Posted in: Japan struggling to fight shortage of skilled engineers
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solarbuster
Where do people get the idea that punishment is a deterent. Locks are only to keep honest people out they are useless against thieves. People are incarcerated to give them time to consider if it is worth doing another criminal act and to give society a break from them. This is in no way a deterent or there would be no repeat offenders. The death penalty is the ultimate solution, again it is not a deterent but it does protect innocent people which is why we have laws in the first place. We shoot animals if they become dangerous to society because it is too high a risk not to, the same logic should apply to people. To use dangerous people or animals for research is too dangerous, researchers should not be exposed to those kinds of risks. When we start exploiting criminals we become criminals. Exploitation is often why we have criminals in the first place so how is more exploitation going to solve any problems? Lady if you can not control your emotions and think in a logical manner, please don't think at all. A historian of all people should understand how dangerous and clever sociopaths are considering many "great leaders" were sociopathic, how are people less inteligent going to learn from them?
Posted in: Our approach to reducing crime should not be killing those who harm us. On the contrary, in the interest of learning what makes them tick, we should keep violent criminals alive and conduct thorough research on them.
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solarbuster
The Japanese are not praying for war criminals, at a Shinto shrine they seek to honour ancesters and family it is their responsibility to do this. Under the Japanese concept of death once a person is dead the spirit nolonger retains the evilness or faults that is in the living. In dying war criminals remove the shame inflicted by their actions on the whole nation and are honoured as ancestors. They have accepted responsibility by giving up their lives and removed the shame inflicted upon the nation, They are not honoured for their evil deeds. This does not say that the Japanese nation condones what the war criminal did it is a resposibility under Shinto teaching. This concept is complexed and very different to Buddhist thinking. Japanese politicians themselves cause more confusion because like the average Japanese they may appear to be Shinto on Monday, Christian on Tuesday and Buddhist on Wednesday. However, at the Shinto shrine they are Shinto and honouring Shinto concepts not war criminals. If a few not so bright ultra rights think otherwise there is nothing any one can do about it, every country has its idiots they should not be seen as representing Japan and the Japanese should have the balls to see that these people do not represent them.
Moderator: Stay on topic please.
Posted in: The Catholic Church and Yasukuni shrine
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solarbuster
Nelsiton sorry if this has touched on a sore point but try reading history with an open mind and you will see that this is the truth. That is why I used grass house instead of glass house, people in glass houses can see out those that live in grass houses can not.
Posted in: The Catholic Church and Yasukuni shrine
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solarbuster
If some one wants to honour the dead at Yasukuni it is their business, not that of some interfearing priest from a religion that has committed more atrocities in the name of God throughout the world than any other. He certainly needs to remove the mote from his eyes and realise people in grass houses should not throw stones.
Posted in: The Catholic Church and Yasukuni shrine
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solarbuster
GM plants are modified so weed killer does not kill them, this allows the farmer to spray weed killer directly on the plants he will harvest and sell as food. Great for the farmer saves him lots of time but what about the consumer who eats the sprayed plants? This benifit is also short lived as cross pollenation is producing super weeds so this means more gentic modification, stronger weed killers and more profits for the chemical company.
Posted in: Monsanto to promote GM soybeans in Japan
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solarbuster
Society has always had crazies and always will, however Japan is changing no longer do Japanese have a job for life. No longer are people staying in their own community and this is the biggest problem. The system of support that came from living in small units with one person as a community leader is breaking down as young people seek the same independance as Westerns have. This means stress levels rise and people who have border line mental problems succum to the extra pressures. They are no longer protected from harsh reality by friends and neighbours who have always made allowance for their "strange" behaviour. The school yard bullies are no longer stopped from picking on them by older kids because parents no longer teach their children that they have responcibility towards the community. These "strange" people turn inward and fantasy takes over their lives. To make matters worse when they do some crazy act the law sends them to some doctor who puts them on medication and then pushes them back into society with no one making sure that they keep taking their pills. Some of these people put back into society are so dangerous that parents after spending years pleading with authorities the lock their children away, have tried to kill their own kids or asked some one else to do it for them. A massive amount of money and a completely new way of handling mental health issues is needed along with new laws to bring mental health services up to scratch. Until this is done the problems will continue as more and more people with border line mental illness tip over the edge of no return. Not through fads but by the ignorance and fear of mental illness of politicians who keep throwing the problem in the too hard basket instead of providing better services to society.
Posted in: What do you think is causing the recent spate of random stabbings in Japan and how can society address the problem?
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solarbuster
Stop the crap the KluKlux Clan is still going strong in the US and the Nazi Party in the UK. They are no different to the idiots in Japan, every country has these extremist bigots, rednecks or whatever you want to call them including China
Posted in: It’s time for emperor to rev up his own sound truck
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Drought is causing shortage and some countries have stopped exporting rice causing shortages but intercompany buying and selling plus greed by monopolies is having the greatest effect. Companies within monopolies trading under different names sell to each other at inflated prices to avoid taxes and maximise profits. Stopping this by not allowing business entities to own other smaller entities would be the best approach and make these price ripp-offs visible to both government and public.
Posted in: What is causing the global food price spike and what should be done about it?
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solarbuster
Possibly the question is wrong; for the Japanese to live in parts set aside as European Areas they had to be considered "White" not "Western". In South Africa Japanese were also considered "White" in their papers and Chinese always "Coloured". Japanese were not considered as Westerns but as Westernized Asians. If you look at some Japanese they are much whiter than some Europeans, so even though the decisions on colour were political the logic for them to be classed as "Whites" was there.
I know some Chinese were also "White" but you could not have convinced the "White" powers ripping China off that they were. In short it was politically racist but expedient to keep the Japanese as allies.
Posted in: Why is Japan considered Western and China not? There is no map of the West.