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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I wish there were forums like this in the 60's. I would love to read what people would've written on this topic.
Posted in: Two arrested for running members-only prostitution website
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Exactamondo sarge. I was lucky. Thank god for mangoes.
Posted in: Mango treat
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I brought a real mango to give to a girl on a date as a gift. Then I asked her what her dad did and she said he was a mango farmer. Score.
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I had never thought about it before. I have now.
Posted in: Business caters to sexual needs of disabled
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walk to work.
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Tessa I am with you. By an ipod. Walk to walk. I power walk a total of 1 hour a day. Easy peasy Japanesy.
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space_monkey
I think he is the serial killer. He looks like one. Maybe he is the next Patrick Bateman.
Posted in: Justin Bieber to guest star on CBS drama 'CSI'
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Does anyone here know that Japanese children in elementary schools were military trained with rifles? not to mention high school kids. I have seen the photos myself. Basically the Japanese government trained their children to kill then cried poor when they were killed. kinda hypocritical when you think about it. Stupidity at the extreme.
Posted in: Was the dropping of the atomic bombs necessary?
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I went to the Hiroshima Atomic bomb museum. In English on the war it clearly states: "With the bombing of pearl harbor Japan was flung into the war." implying that they were "flung" into a war against their will.
This is what is being taught in Japan. It doesn't say that Japan was responsible for the deaths of 20-25 million people so their enemies felt the need to drop an atomic bomb on them because that was the only way to stop their psychotic suicidal sadistic insanity.
R. J. Rummel estimates the civilian victims of Japanese war crimes at 5,424,000. Detailed by country: China 3,695,000; Indochina 457,000; Korea 378,000; Indonesia 375,000; Malaya-Singapore 283,000; Philippines 119,000, Burma 60,000 and Pacific Islands 57,000.
Werner Gruhl estimates the civilian victims of Japanese war crimes at 20,365,000. Detailed by country: China 12,392,000; Indochina 1,500,000; Korea 500,000; Dutch East Indies 3,000,000; Malaya and Singapore 100,000 ; Philippines 500,000; Burma 170,000; Forced laborers in Southeast Asia 70,000, 30,000 interned non-Asian civilians; Timor 60,000; Thailand and Pacific Islands 60,000.
This is how many civilians Japan had killed before the decision was made to drop the bomb.
I would like to know how many civilians deaths the Japanese government estimates they caused and how many they teach all the children in Japan at schools in their history lessons.
Any discussion about the culpability of America's decision to drop the atomic bomb on the military targets of Hiroshima and Nagasaki requires a thorough discussion about how many people Japan killed before that decision was made.
I have had Japanese people tell me that Americans are murderers for dropping the Atomic bombs so I immediately ask them how many people did the Japanese military kill before the event. I believe that most Japanese cannot answer that question.
In fact I asked one Japanese and she said 1 million people. When I told here that in fact the combination of military and civilian deaths was 20-25 million people she cried and cried and cried. She was shocked.
This topic would never be discussed in this way if everyone in Japan knew the truth about what they did. Unfortunately they don't.
Posted in: Was the dropping of the atomic bombs necessary?
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The movie "The Unthinkable" perfectly illustrates the moral dilemma in killing innocent people in order to save more lives. Tough call.
Posted in: Was the dropping of the atomic bombs necessary?
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Both America and Japanese governments sent 16 year old "children" into battle. I just watched the World at War Pacific documentary. They interviewed a marine who said he went into battle with Japanese at 16 years old!! Neither governments had any qualms about sending children to their deaths. So why would it come into the equation when they went to drop the nukes? The Americans had already firebombed numerous Japanese cities beforehand and had already killed countless innocent women and children. From the first day Americans dropped bombs on Tokyo they had established the fact that they were going to kill innocent Japanese civilians. Just watch the documentary about MacNamara called The Fog of War to see how many bombs they dropped on Japanese cities. The Japanese high command understood the stakes but still did not surrender. The people understood the stakes but kept fighting. They clearly did not care about the lives of their civilians. The blood was and always will be on their hands. To argue otherwise is ridiculous. They always had that choice and chose not to surrender in the face of oblivion. To argue that America was bad after Japan willingly chose not to surrender when an ultimatum was delivered is absurd. Ultimately the people of Japan got what was coming to them. Whether it was one life or 100,000 makes no difference.
Posted in: Was the dropping of the atomic bombs necessary?
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I once met a Japanese girl whose grandfather was a Japanese kamakaze pilot. He was due to fly on the day the atomic bomb was dropped but because it was dropped he didn't have to fly that day. Unfortunately his best friend was also a kamakaze pilot but had said he won't fly the day before so the commanding officer cut out his eyes. If he agreed to do it he wouldn't have lost his sight. SHe then told me that when her grandfather died 50 years later a blind man came to the funeral...his old kamakaze friend. She said her grandfather loved America for dropping the bomb and was so glad he could live.
I wonder how many other Japanese are secretly glad the bomb was dropped and the war ended. Who knows.
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Now i get it. This explains the previous article on JT about why so few British people are doing JET these days.
Posted in: Lindsay Hawker's accused killer appears determined to fight murder charge
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I think he in fact had learned from the Japanese how to politely criticize you indirectly. I think what he was saying is that guys with dyed blonde hair look absolutely stupid. Well that's what I think anyway.
Posted in: If a longtime expat starts offering you advice, walk the other way
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Everyone is forgetting that the companies often pay for many of the mens entertainment expenses.
Posted in: The shrinking state of Japanese salarymen's pocket money
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space_monkey
Start a business. Take all the money you need from the company as business expenses. Problem solved.
Posted in: The shrinking state of Japanese salarymen's pocket money
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I am 1/4 french 1/4 Irish 1/4 Scottish 1/4 British but I call myself Australian. Enough said.
Posted in: What do you think of the word "hafu," the Japanese term used to describe anyone who is half-Japanese?
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By bus - 4000 yen each way.
Posted in: Jetstar launches Osaka-Taipei-Singapore flights
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Everyone in Japan needs to stop reading paper newspapers and start reading the news on....the fastest internet connection in the world. Duh, Forrest management solved.
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I have heard a few stories of marriage fraud. They marry you, get access to your bank accounts and clean you out.
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