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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taj
(Oops, I mean MacGuire.)
Posted in: Remains of infamous Aussie bushranger Ned Kelly identified
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taj
Makes me think of the painting of Paddy Gallagher in the TV series, Shameless .
Posted in: Remains of infamous Aussie bushranger Ned Kelly identified
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taj
Marcelito,
Money from those billions was used to buy refrigerators, tables, television, cookers, water heaters, bathtubs, for thes thousands of houses, Jobs to return, but most of the industries in these coastal towns were directly impacted and will take time to get back up and running. Oyster beds, fisheries, etc.. You need the ports and marinas rebuilt. The processing plants. Boats need replacing. These things take time as well as money.
And some donations are being directed towards just such projects and purchases. Buying a new tractor, refurbishing a fishing boat, etc., but those tend to be smaller scale, project-based initiates, as opposed to the big lump of money that came in to the Red Cross. There's more pressure there for that to be spread "fairly" so it is easiest used for things everyone needs - like a fridge. Buying one fishing boat for the fisherman's association of a small village to share is something done by, say, a Rotary club in a sister city.
Why do you assume bureacracy is sucking up money? Do you personally wish to discourage people from giving?
Posted in: Last shelter in Iwate closes; 3,700 evacuees still in shelters in Miyagi
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taj
I think a major part of the problem is that Japan is a mature market. Tesco, Walmart, Carrefour, etc., needed to come in offering something new and exciting, and didn't. Here they need to adapt to the (broadly east asian - not just Japan) tendency to shop daily and eat fresh. AND somehow do it better than the companies that have been doing it for the past 50 years. Being "foreign" isn't enough. In China, sure that might bring in the newly affluent, who want to live large.
Posted in: Britain's Tesco to sell network of 129 small supermarkets in Japan
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taj
What's with the four medals in the photo? I see Gold, Silver, Bronze and ??? Sponsor?
Posted in: London Olympics to be broadcast in 3-D, Panasonic says
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taj
Agreed, about the long ordeal. I'm glad that something could be worked out so that the people would move into the temp houses. Food availability and distribution was a hold up in Yamada, I believe, but I stand to be corrected. Heda?
Posted in: Last shelter in Iwate closes; 3,700 evacuees still in shelters in Miyagi
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taj
kids these days. no concept of "afternoon delight".
I tells ya, it has nothing to do with sitting on a stone with all your clothes on!!
Posted in: Afternoon delight
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taj
"Iwaki hip-hop artist Daikia Tamura" => Iwate hip-hop artist Daiki Tamura.
The www.super-deluxe.com website has this wrong, so it must be wrong info from the promoters.
Posted in: Singer and Pride promoter Lenne Hardt to host gala benefit for Tohoku
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taj
Does that include Soka Gakkai?
Posted in: Until the entertainment business, which is an influential force on society, gets together and cuts all ties with organized crime, celebrities will probably continue to be taken advantage of by gangs and wind up suffering from the same problems again and again.
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taj
My image is that the majority of the world's 45 million blackberry users have them as a company device. Will their corporate BB accounts allow for this music?
Posted in: RIM launches BlackBerry Messenger music-share
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taj
Alex80, Are you a 50-something housewife?
Posted in: Korean TV drama DVD rentals exceed Hollywood, Japanese films
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taj
(PS: I do it, too. So does my Brit male friend. So do lots of people.)
Posted in: Why do so many Japanese women take photos of their food at restaurants and post it on Facebook or their blogs?
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taj
Why limit the question to only one gender? Both genders do this. A LOT.
Posted in: Why do so many Japanese women take photos of their food at restaurants and post it on Facebook or their blogs?
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taj
pure gold bars - in garbage bags? and no one noticed the weight?
OUCH!!
Posted in: Australian man throws $50,000 of jewels out with rubbish
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taj
Hmmm. The demographic that watches Korean love stories (ladies in their 50s and 60s), corresponds with the demographic that hasn't yet figured out free downloading,...
Not so very surprising.
;-)
Posted in: Korean TV drama DVD rentals exceed Hollywood, Japanese films
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taj
That really makes me laugh, Nessie.
Posted in: Koshien: The most emotional sports tournament in the world
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taj
Thanks for the article and the summary, Laguna.
Posted in: American man, Japanese wife settle dispute over son, 8
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taj
smithinjapan:
**** spirit away?
Is that what it's called when it's a foreign father does it? "spirit away"? It's only when it's a Japanese woman that it's "kidnapping" or "abduction"?
Posted in: American man, Japanese wife settle dispute over son, 8
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taj
"I see the young hostess as a do-gooder who just happened to neglect telling the mother that her daughter is safe
Sure. IF her story holds water.
But the investigating officers may have reason to believe that her story about finding the girl wander outside doesn't match with what they neighbors saw, etc.. Who knows at this point.
I see now that hatsoff has also addressed this. We just don't know. Too soon to be reaching for either a hangman's noose or a medal to put round this young lady's neck.
Posted in: Missing 4-year-old girl turns up safe; 21-year-old hostess arrested
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taj
Where's the Kraft Dinner. That, and a Cadbury Fruit & Nut bar,... Some Clorets.
Yep. That'd fill my Christmas stocking!
Posted in: Nihon Kraft Foods Ltd