JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Financial Advisor
- Select Asset Management KK, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥100,000 ~ ¥999,999 Paid Training Commission Based
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- Corporate Business English Trainers
- ACT Systems, Inc.（株式会社アクト・システムズ）, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥269,500 ~ ¥280,000 / Month
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- English Instructor (Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe)
- Berlitz Japan, Inc. (ベルリッツ・ジャパン株式会社), Kansai
- Salary: ¥125,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month
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neverknow2, "bakusetsudan" means "explosive theft group" and it is based in Hong Kong. Apparently this syndicate is suspected in robberies going back to the 80's. "Bakudan" means "bomb" I guess.
Posted in: Thieves get away with Y50 mil in Ginza jewelry store heist
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Can't help but think there's a connection from "Platonic Sex".. that is, sex without emotional attachment.. and not having anyone emotionally attached to have been there when the poor girl died alone and wasn't found until a week later.
Posted in: Ai Iijima died of pneumonia; no foul play, say police
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yikes
Posted in: Japan's economy is falling off a cliff. There's nothing out there to drive growth.
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Salarymen seem to be pretty rude on those trains, but maybe that's just because there are so many of them. It gets me when some of these oafs won't give their seat to an obachan. That said, I once sat in a reserved seat accidently, and no one said a thing. Luckily there was no disabled person waiting for it.
Posted in: Tokyo Metro
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That isn't too far from the "baby hatch" is it? Kumamoto city is pretty close to Fukuoka. It's a shame the mother and whoever couldn't think that far ahead to head a few miles south.
Posted in: Newborn left in Kyushu Expressway rest area toilet
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wuzza, give it a rest. YOU GUYS LOST. If the IRS isn't prosecuting, then I don't care. Playing "your party's scandals are worse than my party's scandals" is lame. Especially since Tom Daschle's taxes didn't get 4200+ US Troops killed.
Posted in: Daschle apologizes for not paying taxes; fights to save nomination
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meh. this is not upsetting. he's still likely to get through.
Posted in: Daschle apologizes for not paying taxes; fights to save nomination
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If the truck is big enough, and if it was a side-swipe, yes.
Posted in: Trucker arrested for hit-and-run of 72-yr-old newspaper deliveryman in Saitama
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I love Sumo. It's the only sport I like! Weird, yes. Idiosyncratic, yes. I could care less about that football game over the weekend.. my superbowls are in January, March, April, May, September, November. The simplicity is probably what does it for me.
Sumo and modern Japan are walking on two separate paths. Modern Japan appears to prize pop culture cutesy, wide-eyed anime, cuddly animal mascots, and leading men who are practically dainty and effeminate in many respects. Look at the faces of the leading men in the movies, from the 1950's, 60's and 70's.. and look at today (Seriously, could a Toshiro Mifune or Bunta Sugawara make it today?).
Conversely, Sumo is made up of hulking bruisers. The faces on some of these 25 year olds remind me more of men twice their age. The closest you get to an 'idol' is Kotooshu!
So, a change in the public relations strategy is needed, at home and abroad (where sumo is known to too many people as 'fat guys in diapers'). Take a lesson from the Soccer boom, and take it to the people. Sumo is a populist sport, whether the JSA realizes it or not. Instead of "we are preserving tradition", the new mission should be "we are FOR Japan!"
And then you have the match-fixing allegations: I know Japanese people who, if you say, "Sumo" to them, they will reply, "yaocho". Sumo has to be purged of this completely, no one should be above suspicion and no one should be beyond reproach.
If they're going to have foreigners in the system, accept the fact that foreigners are not Japanese! And if that means allowing Asashoryu's fist pump, then that is what it means. Sumo might be preserving some Edo ideal, but it's not 1850.
Start protecting and grooming the athletes. Train to build strong athletes instead of merely weed out the weak. Someone like Yamamotoyama ought to be on the operating table getting a rubber band around his stomach, NOT held up as a sight gag (supposedly, Konishiki has had this type of life-saving surgery). A human isn't supposed to look like that.
No more of this idiotic "Yukatas-only until you're an Ozeki". If the pay stinks until you're in Juryo, the training conditions are 150-years out of date, you run the risk of blowing out your knees before you're 25 AND you're not even allowed to wear Nikes out on a jog, why the heck would any young man sign up for that.. when he can have more dignity slopping up O-Den at the 7-11?
Disband the Yokozuna deliberation council, which uses intangible aesthetics and uneven logic in making decisions.
Accept the fact that Sumo is preserving a cultural relic.
Posted in: What should the sumo association do to boost the sport's popularity and public trust in it?
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Not terrorists in any sense of the word.
Posted in: Whalers 'on the run' again, say activists
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SO.. staying in Switzerland for 8 or more hours will cure senility?
Posted in: Media criticize Aso for mistakes during Davos speech
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Yeah.. it didn't work now did it? He's got to live with it now.
Posted in: High school boy commits suicide in Saitama park after argument with father
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Now, there are some gop senators beating their chests and declaring that the Economic Rescue Bill will need 60 votes to get past the senate, meaning they're threatening a filibuster. However.. republican governors are in Washington this weekend lobbying FOR the bill. The state coffers are running dry, and they need help. So, even if there is a filibuster, I don't know how difficult it would be to peel some gop senators off of the block. Arnold, Sara Palin, Charlie Crist (fla) and Jim Douglas (vt) all are putting the screws on Mitch McConnell. House republicans could afford to do as rush limbo told them to do, but Senators have a much more diverse constituencies. Do they want to go back to the voters and say "I obstructed this bill just like a porcine talk radio guy told me to"??
President Obama has been all for infrastructure improvements such as strengthening the power grid. Besides, this is private industry. Shouldn't government get off the back of business, isn't that what you guys are al about?
Yeah, that was definitely in the news 2 or 3 weeks ago. You still talking about that?
Posted in: Obama prepares new economic rescue plan
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Sorry, poking and petting my food isn't "freedom of speech", it's icky. Ban the tourists. Heck, "Respect the Emperor and Expel Foreign Barbarians!" (from tsukiji) if that's what it takes to keep my sushi clean.
Posted in: We understand that the sight of hundreds of frozen tuna looks unique and interesting for foreign tourists. But they have to understand the Tsukiji market is a professional place, not an amusement park.
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"Hey, I can see Sarah Palin's house from up here!"
Posted in: Ski jumping
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add these to notginger's list.. "pixote", "calcutta"
Posted in: What are some of your favorite feel-good movies?
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just in time for the depression, good timing! seriously, I hope they can employ people.
Posted in: Park Hotel Group opens sales office in Tokyo
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How are tourists misbehaving?
Posted in: We understand that the sight of hundreds of frozen tuna looks unique and interesting for foreign tourists. But they have to understand the Tsukiji market is a professional place, not an amusement park.
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Since Michelle Obama is not a wall street CEO, and her former employer is about as far removed from this story as possible, would bashing the first lady be considered "off topic"? Just wondering.
Posted in: Obama calls executive bonuses 'shameful'
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The check in lobby at O'Hare is a joke with You Knighted Airlines. They laid off most of the lobby staff.. and there's no one there to tell me how to use the computer. Once past security, it's okay. At Narita, Kansai and Chubu, no complaints at all. Except for pushy non-Japanese in those FaSiDo duty-free junk shops.
Posted in: What behavior by passengers or staff at airports annoys you the most?