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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space_monkey
Basically, the entire industry became very unattractive to work in once the mandatory 250,000 yen a month pay was required to sponsor a work visa.
What amazes me is that in the west teachers make a whole life career out of it and schools have no trouble employing teachers for 30 years. Why don't Japanese education boards and English schools simply find 1. people who want to live in Japan and 2. people who want to be professional teachers and treat them accordingly with correct pay and employment incentives.
The reason is simple. Most schools are run by people who want to make as much money as they can ripping of Japanese people while simultaneously exploiting non-native visitors to Japan who have a lack of knowledge about the law and their rights, and their ability to enforce them.
Teaching English in Japan is a multi-billion dollar industry that treats the people that make all the money like dirty unwanted dogs.
I put my money on it that Dean doesn't hire any English teachers (don't call us Gaijin as you are not Japanese and it's a ridiculously stupid term that make Japanese sounds like bigoted morons) on full time contracts, paying full medical insurance, unemployment insurance etc. at a decent rate of pay on par with professional teachers in Japan.
If he doesn't then everything he says is just talk. Prove to all the readers that you just aren't just another dude trying to make a fast buck and post on this forum exactly what conditions you offer your employee's and how that pay compares to what you charge your students and what an equivalent Japanese professional teacher in Japan earns.
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space_monkey
Your stupidity is only exceeded by your idiocy.
Posted in: Managing gaijin teachers
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space_monkey
The neighbor was probably playing "Firestarter" by Prodigy.
Honestly, I think the line between sanity and sane in Japan is blurry. I have come across and least 50 people who I think were so capable of homicidal mania, while teaching English in Japan.
The ones that always freak me out are the ones that can't talk. I always wonder what is going on in their minds. You can't help but think that they are plotting some kind of sick revenge against those that destroyed their ego.
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Just imagine he raped and drugged your 13 year old daughter when you think about the case. There is no question he should face the music. If i were her dad I wouldn't care if 30 years had past. It is never too late for revenge.
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Most Japanese say "Let's be friends, I want to practice English." Why don't they say: "Let's be friends, I'll show you around, introduce you to all my friends and teach you some Japanese if you like."
Can anyone answer that for me? It annoys the hell out of me.
Posted in: The state of the language school industry
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space_monkey
hey scape65. you should work for uni-edit.net
Posted in: The state of the language school industry
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space_monkey
alcohol removed 20 years of my education
Posted in: The dumbing down of Japanese students
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space_monkey
sounds like an average typical and normal Japanese chick to me
Posted in: Bestseller by hearing-impaired Ginza hostess - truths and lies
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space_monkey
shame
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Posted in: Vroom vroom
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space_monkey
Ossan, you obviously have never skippered a boat because anyone that has knows that you need to be moving forward in order to turn.
Also if you watch the video you will quite clearly see that the crew were at immense risk of being killed: 1. from being crushed by the boat in the massive impact 2. from falling over and striking their heads 3. from drowning 4. from freezing to death in the water 5. being hit by flying debris 6. from going under the SM and being cut to pieces by the propeller
You seem to be stuck on the whole issue of the AG being terrorists. Maybe they are, but whatever they are is irrelevant in this issue.
The only thing that matters is whether the SM2 did everything they could in order to avoid a collision. At no point in any of your posts have you asserted that they did. This is the test of culpability.
Please make one post proving to all the readers that the SM2 did everything they could to avoid a collision. You haven't because you can't. This is why all your whinging and complaining about how much you don't like the AG and what they stand for is pointless.
Face the facts: The SM2 attempted murder in order to kill whales. The AG never have attempted murder in order to save whales.
You support, protect and try to defend people who are willing to murder other human beings in order to make money for themselves.
What does that make you???
Posted in: Which side do you think looks more in the wrong following Wednesday's clash between Sea Shepherd and Japanese whalers?
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space_monkey
I just liked how a crippled white male in a cloned alien body had sex with another alien in this sexploitation film.
It may spawn a new genre of porn: Blue paraplegic alien clone sex.
Isn't that what Will Smith when he said get "Jiggy" with it?
The Na'vi also mixed their tails when they had sex with each other as well as when they rode animals and talked to the tree!!! what does this mean??? Did the white male paraplegic in a alien cloned body in fact also have sex with animals and plants?
I don't know who but I am sure someone is being exploited or discriminated against somehow....
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space_monkey
Exactly, that's my point. To deliberately ram a small ship like the AG into a big ship SM in freezing waters when you are standing on the deck is akin to attempting suicide. To argue that they deliberately threw themselves in front of the SM is like saying they tried to get hit by a truck while on a motorcycle. Get real. If you honestly believe that then I seriously think you are probably on drugs. I mean seriously. The seas temperatures in the southern ocean vary from about 10 degrees Celsius to -2 degrees Celsius. At those temperatures you are unconscious in less than 15 minutes after falling in the water. And the crew of the Andy Gil were standing on the deck!!!
The whole argument that the AG deliberately got rammed is ridiculous.
Unless the AG were suicide "kamikaze" rammers!!
Maybe some Japanese people don't understand that the concept of "kamikaze" is totally abhorrent to western people and hence you virulently believe the AG desperately "wanted" to be crushed at sea on a fanatical suicide mission against the bow of an gigantic Japanese Whaling ship on tiny boat in freezing Arctic waters.
Posted in: Which side do you think looks more in the wrong following Wednesday's clash between Sea Shepherd and Japanese whalers?
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The question is not whether the AG deserved to be rammed but whether the SM deliberately attempted to ram the AG and murder the seamen on board.
To answer the question of the AG propelling forward, this was clearly done at the last minute probably when they realized the SM's intent to ram them and they probably were trying to move forward and turn away at the same time. There is no way that such a small ship in those waters, cold and rough as they are, would deliberately try and ram their tiny expensive boat into a fast moving ship ten times their size and risk death from injury or exposure to such cold waters.
To those trying to convince the readers of this forum that the crew of the AG deliberately wanted to die are wasting their breath. No reasonable or sane person is going to believe it for a second. Why you continue to blurb out such rhetoric makes as much sense as Japan deliberately foregoing a big chuck of their hard earned global goodwill by hunting a few whales that everyone adores on the other side of the world and furthermore lying about their intentions.
Some people on this thread just don't get this and are clearly trolls with agendas.
Posted in: Which side do you think looks more in the wrong following Wednesday's clash between Sea Shepherd and Japanese whalers?
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kwatt - why don't you? instead of posting rubbish and telling other people what to do.
My old man was a patrol boat captain and in this capacity was a certified judge who could hold court at sea and prosecute people in international waters, as well as a policeman with the right to arrest and detain. I just showed him the videos and explained nothing about who they were in the slightest. He said after viewing the videos its black and white that SM2 was in the wrong. That was his professional opinion. Take it or leave it. I don't care anymore. I am done on this issue.
Posted in: Which side do you think looks more in the wrong following Wednesday's clash between Sea Shepherd and Japanese whalers?
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space_monkey
My dad was licensed as a certified judge in his capacity as captain of an Australian patrol boat. He could hold court at sea with himself as judge. He also carried a police badge and had all the powers of a police officer. He had to sit legal exams to do so. He was not a soldier, not a politician, not a marine lawyer. He was a military captain, judge, and policeman combined. That's the whole point of patrol boats. He patrolled the seas where this event took place for 5 years.
You should take your own advice.
Posted in: Which side do you think looks more in the wrong following Wednesday's clash between Sea Shepherd and Japanese whalers?
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I am no maritime expert but my father was in the Australian navy for 25 years and captained patrol boats and was second in command of the biggest ship in the Australian Navy. I just showed him the two video's of the collision. He immediately said that the SM2 was completely in the wrong as they deliberately steered their ship at the AG, it is black and white. And that any single court of law will condemn the SM2. He said the basic rule of the sea is that a captain must do anything they can to avoid a collision and that the SM2 clearly did not.
Posted in: Which side do you think looks more in the wrong following Wednesday's clash between Sea Shepherd and Japanese whalers?
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I have seen that video.
The crew were being hit by water cannons and sound cannons. There were most likely disorientated.
Just because the AG were moving doesn't change the fact that the SM2 deliberated altered their course at high speed to deliberately collide with the AG.
Don't get me wrong I agree the SS are ridiculous in principle...but attempting to kill 6 people and then blame them is just plain wrong.
Nothing can justify it. Nothing.
I have been sailing for 20 years. What they did is just wrong.
Posted in: Which side do you think looks more in the wrong following Wednesday's clash between Sea Shepherd and Japanese whalers?
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The AG crew were standing on the boat. They were being attacked with high powered sound weapons and hoses. The AG crew were probably blinded or disorientated. Unless the AG were deliberately trying to commit suicide I doubt it was their intent to ram a the Japanese whaling ship as they were largely standing still. The SM2 deliberately turned to run over the AG. Then SM2 attacked the AG more with hoses after they had already run over their ship.
This is clearly attempted murder.
Irrespective of whether the SS is right or wrong it is clear now to everyone in the world that the Japanese whalers are prepared to kill anyone who gets in their way in order to hunt whales.
Posted in: Which side do you think looks more in the wrong following Wednesday's clash between Sea Shepherd and Japanese whalers?
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caller: hello police? there is a gaijin on the train. dispatcher: sir, what is he doing? caller: sitting there. dispatcher: sir, so what?? caller: I am too afraid to sit next to him and that is the only place available to sit. Can you send the police to ask him to stand up so I can sit down?
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