JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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Confrontation
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U.S. Navy investigating how parts fell off aircraft near Atsugi
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California court to decide if SeaWorld whales are illegal 'slaves'
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Kuroki reported pregnant 2 weeks after denying relationship with Akanishi
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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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sydenham
now there's a word you don't hear enough these days.
Posted in: Speak up
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sydenham
a lot of pathetic comments here, akin to the "why can't the Japanese be more like us?" type, especially regarding keitai wallets and 1 seg tv.
if you have to ask those kinds of questions, you'll never understand the answer.
i'll buy the iphone when it has more than 100 GB of storage, and improves on the Japanese peripherals I'm now used to, like 1 seg and keitai wallet. until then, though, i'll stick with my 160GB ipod.
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sydenham
yokomoc, i agreeee.
Posted in: Walkman outsells iPod in Japan
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sydenham
Another fine example of tax-payers' money being well spent, lol. Cut and paste conspiracy.
Posted in: UK police to review Rolling Stones guitarist's death in 1969
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sydenham
This photo makes me thirsty.
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sydenham
Ahh, the Roma. In Montreal it started out as one Roma woman on crutches begging for money. Soon there were at least a dozen of them cruising the same street all doing the same thing with the same crutches and bandaged legs and some with young babies, sometimes in groups. Occasionally, i would catch a couple of them walking perfectly well, crutches strapped to their backs, making their way from the Metro to that one profitable strip of Sherbrooke Street West.
That was just my first of many exposures to the "Roma." I have serious doubts about whether all the righteous indignation against how they are treated is actually justifiable.
Posted in: Madonna booed at Bucharest concert for defending Gypsies
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sydenham
more details:
http://www.masslive.com/sports/index.ssf/2009/07/daisukematsuzakabostonreds.html
he's embarrassed and is making an ass of himself. sounds to me like he is a winner, but a whiner, too. He also needs to lose some weight. He is an embarrassed ass of a weighty winning whiner.
Posted in: Red Sox upset by Dice-K going public with comments
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sydenham
shawth, i forgot to add my main response to you:
i agree about English food being bad, except for their Indian stuff.
Posted in: Most expensive, most livable … with Tokyo, it’s all about who you ask
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sydenham
shawnth, read xrc's post, s/he makes an excellent point.
it is rather odd to compare western food in Japan to western food in western countries, and then base one's argument about how livable Tokyo is on this ridiculous comparison.
how overpriced and inauthentic is Japanese food western countries? I know in Montreal(my hometown), half of what passes for Japanese food is actually overpriced, Canadianized, fusion Chinese-Japanese food. The other half is just plain bad.
but just because you can't get good Japanese food in Montreal doesn't mean the food in Montreal is bad altogether. au contraire!
Posted in: Most expensive, most livable … with Tokyo, it’s all about who you ask
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sydenham
hereandthere, agree. i have 2 kids and sometimes wish I had a leash for them. for their safety.
Posted in: Tight leash
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sydenham
Potsu, I did a double take on this too.
I mean I thought "besides Hamamatsu, Yoyogi, Shinjuku gyouen, Hibiya, ok and the palace, Ueno, Kasai Rinkai, Rikugien, Shiba all those Teiens," and then the list started to grow. The big rivers have their green spaces too, not just concrete embankments.
But I think it's really if you include the western part of tokyo that really puts it over the edge. Like Showa kinenkouen, Tama, Chofu and all that.
Posted in: Most expensive, most livable … with Tokyo, it’s all about who you ask
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sydenham
“Professor, give me my credits,” exclaimed another.
No.
Posted in: Burger King adds 'angry' burger to Japan menu
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sydenham
An agreement was reached. The police dropped their disorderly charge in return for Gates to not use his self-described magical powers of professorship on them.
In effect it was free-go for ego.
Posted in: Charges dropped against black Harvard scholar
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sydenham
JoeBigs,
When in doubt, go with the simplest answer. A woman saw a black man trying to shoulder his way throw a door in her neighborhood. She thought this was suspicious and called the cops, and after the man refused to identify himself, they arrested him on suspicion of breaking and entering.
Forget conspiracies, this is a misunderstanding, from start to finish. Is racism involved? Maybe, but who is to say that a gut reaction is racism?
Posted in: Renowned African-American scholar Gates arrested; claims racism
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sydenham
lordomni
Pardon me for asking the obvious, but did you even read the article? They ran a red light. This is HARDLY needless harassment.
Have you ever been stopped by cops in your own country? It's their business to throw people off their game to see if anything else is at play here. salary, weather, whatever, it's all fair game.
Perhaps you think someone who runs a red light should be asked "and how are you today?"
Farcical. And BTW, you should have called the police on that drunk. Your friends don't know what they're talking about.
Posted in: My first run-in with the police
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sydenham
Thon, gotta agree with Cleo.
as i said above, if a cop doesn't ask questions about what color you think the sky is, they aren't doing their jobs. you might be drunk, among other things, and it's their job to find out.
Posted in: My first run-in with the police
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sydenham
yeah, this story is a little much. a guy watches a complete stranger slap his kid, but doesn't press charges AND stays to watch the rest of the game. not credible.
if it were me, that woman would have gotten punched, or been in police custody. probably the latter, but you never know.
Posted in: The cheering gets nasty at a pro baseball game
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sydenham
sk4ek, i wouldn't worry about it too much. I've never been stopped here in 12 years, and I've ridden a bike and diven a car for 10 of them. If anything, I'd say I'm well overdue. either that, or I'm just the best bloody cyclist/driver on the planet... I think I'll go with the former.
Posted in: My first run-in with the police
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sydenham
been done before...in most eikaiwa schools across the land.
"ok, Mika. Let's pretend you're a student and I'm an English teacher. I'll pretend to ask you for a date, and you pretend to fend off my advances, which I'll pretend to ignore, due to cultural and linguistic miscommunication, and if it works out, we'll pretend, for the manager's sake, that we're just teacher and student, which is what we're doing already anyway, so hey! Do you live alone, or shall we use my 30 yr old 4.5 jo apartment right next to the rapid train line?"
Posted in: MIWA program combines English education with drama
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sydenham
ok mistersmarmy, i'll field that one.
to see if you need to be taken to the station to have your visa situation examined a little more closely. if you can't come up with an answer pdq it might be because you're deserving of such scrutiny. why do folks at immigration and customs in the US or Canada ask those types of questions? same reason. to throw you off your game face.
Posted in: My first run-in with the police