JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) in Kanto region
- RCS (RCSコーポレーション), Kanto
- Salary: ¥180,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month includes performance bonus
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- Assistant Language Teacher - TOKYO - late-March start
- Interac, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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- Assistant Language Teacher - Kanagawa Prefecture - late-March start
- Interac, Kanagawa
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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sowhatnow
America's train system will very likely involve bullet trains that will be able to adjust quickly to changing demographics of the train users. Unlike Japan, people relocate and pursues new oppurtuniites in differed cities consistently in this country. This in turn leads to a consumer base which in turn we must all expect to be inadequate and insufficient to use the complex system of a Japanese high speed bullet train. Here in California, I just don't think the up to the secod train system would work. People will always be late to their trains. People will always complain and nag. Train system will have to support that kind of an overall 'dumb'ifued society.
I'm sorry but people are just anal enough like they are in Japan...
So...a flexible robust system that allows customers to be somewhat late to their train, a gutsy train system where a certain level f human error will not lead to a major catastrphy, and a quick speedy train system that can somewhat compensate for the tardiness of the society would be likely to succeed (at least here in California)
we just don't want to have the hustle and bustle Tokyo lifestyle here. Sorry.
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sowhatnow
Completely random, but did you know Jack Daniels have a bbq sauce now and it goes well with Daikon?
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sowhatnow
Always try to figure out your commute so you're going against the traffic. It's the same here in the US. Ease the stress factor, and you will ease your pain and tension. Sometimes I wonder driving towards the sunrise on Venture Highway in LA is any better than being in a rush hour Tokyo commute. At least on a train, you're only worries are being body slammed by 100 other people. On the road, you're consistently a second away from 65 mph head on collision.
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sowhatnow
Engrish is an official language in Japan now, isn't it?
Posted in: What do you think about the way English is used in the branding and marketing of products in Japan?
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sowhatnow
Engrish is an official language in Japan now, isn't it?
Posted in: What do you think about the way English is used in the branding and marketing of products in Japan?
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sowhatnow
my goodness. put on a shirt for sakes.
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sowhatnow
dude, please go back to your family and take care of your kids, man. i hate overgrown fathers in japan working like ghosts to loose track of more important things in life.
Posted in: Furniture importer sells a lifestyle
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sowhatnow
'tis a bit creepy, but gothic's all about blackliciousness. oh well.
Posted in: Marui shop attendants
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sowhatnow
hurray to JT for bringing back some classy looking models to top page.
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sowhatnow
Capitalism is share of wealth. True, the world can use a little bit more of the wealth that Americans have accumulated in the last few decades but not at the expense of our own wealth. Sorry, but US is not ready to pour our own money to revitalizing the economy of another nation so that other nations can bring their own banks and businesses to the US to enrich their economy. No, that's not how global economy works. It works in a way where we stop loosing our money first. US is at a major turning point since last November because for many of us half of our money that we accumulated through our hard work and time has been eliminated due to the crash. Just remember, we have the market and we have the power to steer this economy back to upwarding spiral. The only thing is our nation is now so diverse and so used to the riches we've accumulated, we can't turn back. So the question is yeah, how are we going to turn the economy upwards so that everyone will be getting a 20% raise after they change their job or 6% return on home equity and 10% returns on stock dividends, not to forget 3% return from Savings and CDs. When all that's back to normal, you'll see the opportunities for foreign businesses. You could understand why "Overseas T bonds" are just that, "overseas".
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sowhatnow
omigosh.
Posted in: High School Musical
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sowhatnow
all i gotta say is the kids do look tight. As for good parenting...they're celebrities for god sakes. You've gotta give them at least a benefit of a doubt that they'll be able to pretty much pamper and spoil each one of them to the fullest. As far as what they're going to become in the future, you never know. They might become the next leaders of politics, or the next action movie stars, or the next pop idol. I'd say so be it. If a mutt from a family in hawaii can become a president, then I'd say these kids should deserve all the flash and news in the world. i'd hope they'll continue to be trained well in manners and academics. I can see them as the next Trump family, don't you?
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sowhatnow
omigosh. you guys are lame. it's Britney Spears.
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sowhatnow
health and wealth for all things equal including fiscal discipline, mental discipline, spiritual discipline, and physical discpline. seriously, can i ask for any more?
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sowhatnow
no they won't. i'm assuming it's the toyota Mississippi plant JohnBecker-sama is talking about. People aren't buying cars in the US because they just can't get a line of credit any more. new graduates coming in to the market just can't get a loan right now because none of them has credit score of 750 or better. seriously, who does?
Posted in: Nissan announces additional production, job cuts in Japan
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sowhatnow
Dude, stuff like that just doesn't happen any more. BTW, 11,000yen isn't bad for a band that's gonna likely charge up worth of $250 (probably more) in the states. Rock on.
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sowhatnow
people love the blame game, when it all comes down to it is themselves. who is the instigators of these "carry" trades anyways? i'm more interested in that.
Posted in: Sony profit plunges 72% on strong yen
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sowhatnow
to me, japan already seems like their regulating prostitution by setting whore houses like Deli Heli and massage parlors all around metropolitan tokyo (and actually all major cities like Nagoya, Osaka, etc.) I've been to smaller cities like Sendai and Hakata, but walking around city in the middle of the night, i got the feeling that working of sex is part of their lives in japan.
Posted in: What runaway girls do to survive
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sowhatnow
she probably goes to Japan just to get some shopping done. I can't imagine her partying around with bunch of otaku's around.
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sowhatnow
but then again, it's free market policy right? if you buy more, you get it at a cheaper price. so let's think of it from supply and demand curve. US oil demand is going to keep growing at some steady, oh i dunno, let's just say 5% rate. we all know that China and India's demand is growing at a much quicker rate of, let's just for the sake of the talk say, 10%. The question is, when is Asia's demand going to meet or surpass those of the United States? I'd say, that's what people have to look at as far as long term energy policy is concerned.
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