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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tako10
Kimoi!
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tako10
Wow, no one is really smiling, and they are kids. This place (Shirahama) is not supposed to be this crowded. If tourists are coming back, it’s a good news.
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tako10
In the political system of Japan, the people are represented by two separate, yet equally important, groups: the right wing extremists who engages in construction business (typically demolition company as their legal business), and the farmers in the courtsides who has vey strong lobbying power. I believe average Japanese people like US beef. But their opinions just do not count.
Posted in: More bull over U.S. beef
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tako10
Those Saitama cops should get trained with the Fourth Investigation Unit of the Osaka Police Department (aka- the Anti-organized crime unit).
Posted in: Being surrounded by angry junior high school students after warning them for hanging around convenience stores late at night, and that sort of thing, has become just a regular day-to-day occurrence.
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tako10
In fact, this restaurant is a tourist place. Locals usually do not eat at this place. Their neighbor (Dotonbori Street) is rather famous for tako-yaki and ramen. I personally like restaurants along the Suo-machi street (周防町筋) in Shinsaibashi. I believe Nova’s oldest school used to be on the Suomachi.
Posted in: Osaka's symbol Kuidaore doll on sale
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tako10
No problem. I will go to Wakayama when I want to see giant pandas in Japan. They have six giant pandas there. I believe the panda place (白浜パンダ館) is directly operated by the Chengdu Panda Center.
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tako10
It appears the owner’s son do not want to continue retiring daddy’s business. I wonder why they don’t sell the business to a third person to continue the restaurant operations.
Posted in: Osaka's symbol Kuidaore doll on sale
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tako10
Wow, Chinese care so much about GDP, wages, public education, scientific research, infant mortality, life expectancy, and so on. In the end, they might make Tibetan people as happy as Japanese salarymen who are the happiest people in the world. Without China’s help, Tibetans will be as miserable as South East Asian Buddhists who are always smiling. Those people are protesting because they know that, unlike Japanese and Chinese, Tibetans do not subscribe to Western values such as GDP.
Posted in: Do you support or oppose protesters who try to disrupt the Olympic torch relay?
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tako10
The song goes "Biwako ohoonseeeen......" for Kansai locals. Mmm, I sometimes cannot recognize old posters in different names.
Posted in: Sunset in Shiga
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tako10
Among the supporters of those pro-Tibet protestors included the Tibet Justice Center (aka International Committee of Lawyers for Tibet) in Berkeley CA, which is one of the oldest Tibet support group in the United States. They provide detailed report of human right abuses in Tibet that caused the grievances of the Tibetan protestors in San Francisco. Their investigations revealed "large-scale introduction of prostitution in Tibet in recent years, which is having a devastating effect on Tibetan culture." The report says "There is evidence that condoned or supported prostitution is being instituted in areas with great cultural or religious significance for Tibetans, such as the streets immediately below the Potala Palace in Lhasa."
http://www.tibetjustice.org/reports/women/v.html
This type of insult to cultural and historical significance always causes utmost outrage to the local people. It is worth recalling that an opening of an American coffee shop in the Chinese Imperial Palace (Forbidden City) caused massive anger in Beijing.
http://archives.cnn.com/2000/FOOD/news/12/11/china.starbucks.reut/
Given the absence of democracy in Tibet, those protests are the only means to make a political stand for the protestors. If this means of venting Tibetan’s anger were denied, it might cause more serious disaster in Lhasa.
Posted in: Olympic torch concludes topsy-turvy tour of San Francisco
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tako10
I guess people shy away from posting the type of opinion I’ve been posting, but I’d like to add one more. China has a lot of good models to follow as someone mentioned above. Two of those models would be Douglas MacArthur in Japan and the British rule in HK. Let me suggest the followings: 1. China should put Dalai Lama back into the Potala Palace in Lhasa, and let Dalai Lama announce the people to stop rioting. 2. Keep banning the possession of weapons. 3. Allow full Tibetan autonomy but maintain Chinese military bases in Tibet. 4. Exercise authority through the real Tibetan autonomous body rather than exercising authority directly over the Tibetan people. This requires discussions and compromise. 5. Stop Han Chinese migration and confine them to the military area. 6. Allow Tibetans to speak bad Mandarin as opposed to forcing them to speak Mandarin with perfect Beijing accent. 7. Replace Hu Jintao with somebody else who is capable of implementing democratization of Tibet as well as China itself in the long run. I do not think Hu is capable of re-uniting Taiwan either. He is a person who cannot even effectively solve the gyoza problem with Japan. There are many brilliant Chinese people. I don’t understand why he is in charge.
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tako10
Hiko-san - I’ve been watching Lou Dobbs (CNN) and feel a little sick, but I don’t think I made errors. Why you don’t know Japanese Constitution? It’s in the sixth grade textbook. Please read the chapter three. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/ConstitutionofJapan http://law.e-gov.go.jp/htmldata/S21/S21KE000.html
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tako10
Before requiring kids to study loyalty to the nation, Japan should require its own government leaders to support and uphold the Constitution of Japan. The Japanese constitution guarantees freedom of speech; forbids censorship; guarantees equality and outlaws discrimination based on race, sex, or family origin; prohibits granting privileges or authority to a religion; guarantees workers' rights, due process, and protection against self-incrimination, etc, etc. It’s very weird those LDP leaders who do not seem to uphold Japan’s own Constitution care about patriotism in education, and those who embrace Constitutional values are often labeled as anti-Japan in this country.
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tako10
I think the author should have used narrower definition of “fascism”. The Random House Unabridged Dictionary defines fascism as “a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.”
In China, Hu Jintao has more complete power than Emperor Hirohito, not to say Pres Bush. There is little doubt Hu has been forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism in Tibet. President Hu and the CCP have been controlling all industry, commerce, media, etc. in China. Chinese nationally sponsored media has been appealing to nationalism of Han Chinese, and now more and more Han people support even more aggressive oppression over Tibet. It appears Han Chinese generally believes the complete cultural assimilation of Tibetans into superior Han culture is a right thing to do. This is very similar to Japanese fascists who tried to assimilate Koreans into Japanese culture which they believed to be superior. I think it’s safe to say China is a fascist country.
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